Marion Brown

i think i'm confident in remembering georgia fawn to have a especially soft and engaging familial atmos, to that end. with a stellar lineup, so thats the listeners own expectations coming into it too. but yeah perhaps foisted by that dedicated to my son side. cant find it right now tho grr

(not yet no, am super broke, holed up at home digging for reggaeton)

yeah and it def is a v similar deal in classical composition where many of my very faves are the pieces where the composer writes with a performer/ensemble's and their idiosyncracies in mind. or someone like feldman, who wrote some of his best stuff as attempts at portraits of his artist friends.

(let me know if you'd like (or are able to) to go to the marclay sometime - i did a thread on this but have not gone)

Found a used copy of the Get Back reissue of the Marion Brown Quartet LP on ESP yesterday. Really, really liking it. As dlp9001 says above regarding Why Not, it "balances free with tune nicely." Just enough of both to keep me really interested. Plus, I love getting lost in sidelong pieces that justify their length. I've meant to check him out for a while and I'm definitely interested in finding more now. Plus, it has a great cover:

http://www.totalshutdown.com/espdisk/1022d.jpg

The only one I've ever heard is Three for Shepp, which is really really good.

Definitely want to check that one out as I'm a big Shepp fan as well.

i love afternoon of a GA faun (not FAWN), geechee recollections, and sweet earth flying, and im stoked to hear the ESP-disk albums. i think im maybe warming up to a full-discography project, cause everything ive heard him on is high-quality.

just listened to VISTA, which is great, but slows into too-smoothness occasionally. burton greene s/t on ESP (w MB) is on its way to me, and im sweatin the two MB ESP LPs bad right now.

im not sure what to do about porto novo and reeds/vibes and some of the other non-impulse! non-esp shit. any opinions?

very sad news:

http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/564

Rip, Marion.

so long marion

So sad. One of my fave musicians. His playing on Harold Budd's "Pavilion Of Dreams" is lovely.

listening to amina claudine myers's POEMS FOR PIANO, a solo piano tribute record to marion from 1979. nice impressionistic versions of MB songs, got me wondering about a few records i havent heard yet:

http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/ser1001.jpghttp://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/ser1001_back.jpg
1977 solo saxophone, the only record on his SWEET EARTH label besides the aforementioned amina claudine myers one

http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/rvj6024.jpghttp://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/rvj6024_back.jpg
1978 passion flower

http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/rvj6066.jpghttp://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/rvj6066_back.jpg
1979 november cotton flower

anyone heard these?

Great covers, would definitely buy those if i ever saw them cheap.

Governor Deval Patrick declares September 15 Marion Brown Day in Massachusetts.

so cool. now we need Pat Patrick week.

Yeah, definitely.

Whoops, just noticed Marion Brown Day was last year.

Still, it should be celebrated every year.

you could take a personal day every year.

sheffield needs to have a derek bailey day asap

not that long ago i picked up a sweet euro CD twofer of Geechee Recollections/Sweet Earth Flying - pre-internet, in the uk these albs were really elusive - now you can buy em new for less than the price of a packet of cigarettes

Yeah, Impulse! put out that twofer in the US in 2011.

"Sweet Earth Flying" is sweet indeed.