Julius Hemphill and BAG recordings

Regarding Tim Berne: I heard a year or two ago, probably from his e-mail list, that he wanted to reissue Dogon A.D. on Screwgun, the way he did with Blue Boye. Remember that not only was he a student of Hemphill's, but Dogon was the album that pretty much turned him on to playing jazz in the first place. I talked to him about it, and he said some small label owns the rights and he was in negotiation. He wouldn't have even been able to get the original masters, apparently they just owned the legal rights and he would have mastered it from vinyl.

Sadly, the deal fell through. But I was psyched that he just went ahead and posted it on his site. If the album's out of print, it should be fair game, and it's great that he just got fed up and said, "People should hear this."

http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1J914IBRRSCCB1OTF2ZBHO5LME

I recently read _Point at Which Creation Begins_ the history of the BAG, whence Hemphill and Lake and Parran and Shaw et al. The original issue of Dogon A.D. was on mbari Records, which may be controlled by the Hemphill estate.

More later, but thank you, thank you, thank you.

Hello, ILM. Been a while.

I discovered the BAG record "In Paris Aries 1973" in a pile of moldering vinyl donations to the library I recently 9at the time) started working.
It sparked a serious interest in that whole scene. I found PINT AT WHICH CREATION BEGINS in the library catalog and ate it up. Fell hard for DOGN AD and discovered Art Ensemble of Chicago and the AACM all over again. Turned out that a few of the players in BAG attended the University where my library is located.

A few months later, we hired a new director. In getting to know each other, I mentioned the BAG record and my growing interest in St. Louis jazz.
Turns out our new director was in grade school with Joseph Bowie and used to attend BAG events in the city. Discovering this music felt fated. Apparently, the BAG documentary is now streaming online as part of a program through St. Louis's New Music Circle.

Just wanted to share that.

I have a long podcast interview with Tim Berne, which includes a lot of discussion of his time working with Hemphill, that will be online on Friday.

I'd love to listen.

Pint At Which Creation Begins is a pretty badass Chris Barber record afaicr

The Tim Berne podcast interview is out. Here are some ways to listen.

Osiris: https://bit.ly/3kq9B0r
Apple: https://apple.co/3nme99Z
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3pn4zp3

here's a link to the BAG documentary. $10 to stream through nov. 22

https://www.cinemastlouis.org/sliff/black-artists-group-creation-equals-movement

Thanks for the link to the film, also for the Burning Ambulance podcast link.
It is a lot of content to dig into.

Thanks for the link to the film, also for the Burning Ambulance podcast link.
It is a lot of content to dig into.

DC saxophonist Andrew White recently passed. He played with Julius Hemphill live and on a few albums

http://www.camjazz.com/labels/black-saint/andrew-white/8024709052926-fat-man-and-the-hard-blues-cd.html

Fat Man and the Hard Blues is a great album. I was listening to it just last week.

There's an amazing Hemphill box set out this week from New World Records: The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony. Seven CDs of previously unreleased material in all kinds of configurations: trios, quartets, quintets, an entire disc of Hemphill duos with cellist Abdul Wadud...it's on a level with the Holy Ghost Albert Ayler box from ages ago in terms of "holy shit!" factor. Mine just arrived in today's mail; I'm gonna be swimming around in it for a while. Get yours here (physical or digital), if you're interested.