Julius Hemphill and BAG recordings

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.