It's $6 on Amazon.com/MP3....
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I just sold this on ebay for $7.
On CD? It's selling on Amazon for nearly $100 used and about $50 for a good condition used copy.
MP3s aren't available on Amazon.co.uk, though. I suppose I can wait until I'm in the States again to buy it then!
― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
damn, i am totally going to sell my cd of this
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
hey cool, i didn't realize ask the ages had it's own thread. one of my all-time favorites, and certainly the most accessible and (i think) impressive sharrock album. may be a kind of heresy, but i love "who does she hope to be", so simple and lyrical, a real surprise given the band's exploratory tendencies. i tried to make the case during the 90s poll that it's one of the decade's underappreciated classics, but there were few takers, iirc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jks0N05l4OY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpBGhnCkhu0&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmBFD5h9jR0&feature=related
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
On CD? It's selling on Amazon for nearly $100 used and about $50 for a good condition used copy.Yeah, cd. Prices on Amazon never reflect the actual market.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost to contenderizer: Why would that be heretical? "Who Does She Hope to Be?" is gorgeous.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
not muscular/skronky enough. kidding, really.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp I've sold similar free jazz cds on ebay before and the difference between a $5 sale and a $30 sale is luck. There aren't enough people searching for this stuff.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I bought this at Barnes & Noble for $9 in 2002.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I got $40 for mine in Oct '05, but I was selling my CDs just ahead of the bottom falling out of the used CD market.
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey, most of the time this is my favorite jazz record
we should recommend this one to ilxor
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
and lj, but i think he already knows it from that 90s thread
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
My MP3 player's not that huge so every so often I have to clear space. This one never leaves.
― Brakhage, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
someone buy my cd for 50$
― jaxon, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
no way is this alb better than 'black woman'
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been trying to find a copy of this for a long time too but thanks to this thread i just went fuck it and got it 'elsewhere'. first listen and it's certainly a different beast than "black woman" but a beast nonetheless
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 3 February 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
o hey, "someone's" selling this on discogs for ONLY 20$!
― jaxon, Thursday, 3 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
man, i love this album so much. got mine for $6 in 2005 when i found one in the record store where i worked, and begged my boss to sell it to me for mad cheap. thanks sandy!
― 69, Thursday, 3 February 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
btw if anyone wants to help me start a campaign to press this shit on vinyl, im in.
― 69, Thursday, 3 February 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
*enlists*
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 February 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
all we need is a screenprinter and a kickstarter
― 69, Thursday, 3 February 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i got screenprinting gear, but v low tech like speedball yo. would proably want someone who knows what they're doing. dunno nothing about having vinyl printed or rights acquisition. or are we talking about an "import"? webs of mystery. you know anyone who's pressed vinyl?
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 February 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, cool -- don't recall if it's been brought up in that thread or not. i know sharrock in general's come up. i can't find a damn thing by him in the local shops but i'll def keep an eye out!
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 4 February 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this is my fav. jazz record too fwiw
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 February 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I got deeply into this album about 6 mo. before he died. At the time, I was in music school and lived with a bunch of jazz majors -- most of whom were suspect of free practitioners like Sharrock and Sanders tho probably only outright hostile to the latter due to his propensity to revert to pig-squealing noise in lieu of chord substitutions or modality even.
My memory of Ask the Ages was strong tunes and arrangements, great Pharaoh solos, but that Charnette seemed maybe a little out of his league. Listening again for the first time in, er, ages, I'm not hearing any problems with Charnette and loving the tunes. Whoever called the title track from Here Come the Warm Jets on "Once Upon a Time" is spot on.
Also dug out Last Exit for the first time in eons. Despite the ridiculous press releases touting them as drunken marauders pillaging towns across Europe, I've always loved most of these records. Not sure the ever topped "Line of Fire" from Cassette Recordings -- 20 minutes that captures the best of each member: Brotzmann in full ale-swilling blare, Shannon Jackson rolling and grooving, Sharrock doing his thing supported by Laswell, whose playing on these records is better than anything he did. He just fit in perfectly between Sharrock's chordal stabs and Shannon Jackson's grooves.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 1 July 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
still sounds like one of the flat-out best america albums of the 90s, with little competition
― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Monday, 1 July 2013 12:30 (ten years ago) link
^ add n to x
Spotify has Ask The Ages, also Pharoah's much earlier Tauhid, where Mr. SS is the beep-beep roadrunner, goading the leader's sunrise-on-the-Nile song into a water buffalo bellow (if the Nile didn't have such critters before, it does now). He's also the team provocateur on the first two tracks of Pharoah's Ipzopho Zam, then, on the 28 minute-and change title track, comes up with what I think of an African-Caribbean riff--rippling, tensile, succinct--which turns out to be his iteration, or maybe invention, of the group theme (gliding and boiling through sunburst saxes, lattices of percussion, bass, keys, Leon Thomas yodeling in tongues, but also in tune, and not too much, honest!). Spotify doesn't have that one, but they have a bunch of others Sharrock played on, incl ones they list, and others here (with a few more in Allmusic, like a couple more Herbie Mann albums)http://www.sonnysharrock.com/info.asp?pgs=discography
― dow, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
He's also the team provocateur on the first two tracks--emphasis on "team" here: mostly discreet, sometimes sneaky--listen on headphones.
― dow, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
Last Exit's stuff really holds up, especially the live albums—Iron Path, their only studio record, is a little tame. When I interviewed Laswell a year or two ago, I briefly brought up the idea of assembling a Last Exit box, and he said it could definitely be done, and that there were plenty of other unreleased recordings, but that it would be very labor intensive to find and organize the tapes. I think if I ever launched a Kickstarter project, that would be it—a massive Last Exit box with as much unreleased stuff as could be unearthed.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 02:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah man--still a lot of incredible Sharrock here and there in the Interweb universes---recently heard Pharoah with Sonny and the dual-drummer combo in Japan: robust vocal intro (not Leon-style yodeling)maybe Sonny, who was a singer way before starting over as a guitarist. It's wordless at first then, "My mother's son/My father's son", and onto the guitar (sounds like another guitar behind his solo; Nicky S., perhaps?), sax, bass drums--9 minutes rolling like 3.
― dow, Thursday, 4 July 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=469038this was upped to Dime a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't work out how to find this thread and post to it at the time,Has search engine actually started working again, just did this today with google.
Lovely set with 3 of the 4 players from the lp but Pheroaan AkLaff on drums instead of Elvin Jones.Very good set, a bit less droney than the lp, more upbeat not so old -timey. Extended versions of several of the lp tracks plus a 17 minute plus upper and Lower Egypt
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
Whoa would love to hear that! I'm not on DAD unfortunately.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=3370
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
I was hoping the tread-revive was due to an impending vinyl reissue.
I've been listening to ATA in the car this week. It's beautiful. I really didn't dig it when I got it in the late 90's during my first furtive forays into free jazz because it sounded tame to me compared to Tauhid or Izipho Zam or whatever shreddin' Sonny I'd heard at that point. It sounded like a Santana record to me back then, which was a bad thing (I've since come around on Santana, too) and I traded it away. I picked it up again on the cheap a year or so back and now it sounds perfect to my old ass. Dude left us too soon!
― Cannonley Adderall (InternationalWaters), Friday, 24 March 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
have also been listening to this a lot the last 2-3 weeks, coincidentally. Great record, tho I think of it less as "free jazz", than an extension of mid 60s Impulse/Coltrane quartet sound. Will have to check out that live set.
― Dominique, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
an extension of mid 60s Impulse/Coltrane quartet sound
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 25 March 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
I'm seeing that Hive Mind Records is doing a vinyl reissue - double LP, 45rpm, edition of 500. I feel like I'll look forward to this and then look forward to paying exorbitant prices to a flipper. Still, sounds pretty cool.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
Kinda surprised I never once popped into this thread over the years just to say 'masterpiece.'
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:05 (five years ago) link
i have it on cassette, sounds great. will happily dub it for you if you’d like xp
and yeah. masterpiece.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:19 (five years ago) link
is there a link to some info about this new vinyl release? if it's that limited i don't have much of a chance but a guy can dream.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtwQ-YDAv6e/
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
hivemindrecordsComing soon2 x 12” 45rpmFirst time on vinyl for Sonny Sharrock’s final album, which features Pharoah Sanders on sax, Elvin Jones on drums and a young Charnett Moffett on bass. The whole lovely package was produced by Bill Laswell and originally released in 1991. We feel the 45rpm pressing was the only way to give the album the sound quality it deserves.Limited to 500 copiesAvailable soon.#newvinyl #newrelease #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylcommunitypost #jazz #jazzvinyl #sonnysharrock #pharoahsanders #elvinjones #elvinjonesjazzmachine #charnettmoffett #billlasswell
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:30 (five years ago) link
thank u
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
I never know where they come up with a number like 500 - is that all these labels feel like they can be sure they'll sell? Is 1000 too big a run?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 04:26 (five years ago) link
having run a small reissue labeli do have an answersitting on 80 units at $7 eachafter you sell the bulk of itand are still not in the blackit’s hardthe margins are so slightdouble your order (500 vs 1000)and your cost goes way downbut who wants to buy those 580 rex
so. i’m drunk, maybe have a better answer in the morning
labels that manufacture mystique and purposely run short are garbage
the point is get music to people
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 05:59 (five years ago) link
Or a licensing thing. Hopefully there will be digital on bandcamp as well but there's also a good chance they don't have the digital rights.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 07:13 (five years ago) link
I highly doubt that a Sonny Sharrock reissue is going to crash the Hive Mind Records website the minute the presale goes up. Those 500 copies will be around for a while.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 07:48 (five years ago) link
I'm guessing Laswell still maintains the digital rights- he did a CD reissue a couple of years ago. Neither reissue looks like they're going with the low-budget but very beloved (by me) original artwork, for reasons unknown.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 07:59 (five years ago) link
also can I just say that A) I adore Sonny Sharrock and B) the more I think about it this is one of my favorite albums ever
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 08:00 (five years ago) link
Could have sworn there was a thread about Sonny Sharrock and The Savages---anyway some Sonny thread where there was a query and we agreed that it was the Black Woman/WKCR line-up---however, the knowledgeable Mike Rubin, who once ran worthy printzine Motorbooty, thinks otherwise, as he says in the xpost amazing Linda update:
Released on the Vortex subsidiary of Atlantic Records, the trailblazing “Black Woman” failed to find a larger audience. A few years later, the couple put together the Savages, a working band that could play out regularly. The group included steel drums and Latin percussion and gigged at downtown venues like the Tin Palace and lofts like Studio Rivbea, said Abe Speller, the band’s drummer. The Savages recorded a soundtrack to Sedat Pakay’s 1973 short documentary “James Baldwin: From Another Place” and performed a live set in 1974 on WKCR, which are the only surviving souvenirs of their existence. Speller recalled the band holing up to rehearse before entering a studio in December 1977 to record a four-song demo tape, but the group failed to score a label deal and eventually fizzled out.
― dow, Monday, 25 March 2024 17:50 (four days ago) link