Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium

Contents

• Track One / Formation of a Freak 1
• Track Two / "News of My Death, Greatly Exaggerated," Quoth the Record 5
• Column One / 2000-2003
• Philly Joe Jones, Philly Joe Jones 15
• Paul Gonsalves, Cookin' 16
• Takashi Furuya with the Freshmen, Fanky Drivin' 18
• Carsten Meinert Kvartet, To You 20
• Melvin Jackson, Funky Skull 21
• Gloria Coleman Quartet featuring Pola Roberts, Soul Sisters 23
• Elmo Hope Ensemble, Sounds from Rikers Island 24
• Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Brotherhood 26
• Morris Grants Presents J.U.N.K. 28
• Tom Stewart, Sexette / Quintette 30
• Kenny Graham and His Satellites, Moondog and Suncat Suites 31
• John Coltrane, Cosmic Music 33
• Andre Hodeir, Jazz et Jazz: Jazz Experiments; Triple Play Stereo, Pop+Jazz=Swing; Bill Russo Orchestra, Stereophony 35
• George Davis Sextet, various acetates 37
• Staffan Harde, Staffan Harde 39
• Art Pepper, Chile Pepper 42
• Jack Wilson, The Jazz Organs 43
• Craig Harris, Tributes 45
• Quintet Moderne, The Strange and the Commonplace 46
• A. K. Salim, Afro-Soul / Drum Orgy 48
• Tristan Meinecke, home recordings, 1939-43 50
• Chico Hamilton Quintet, Sweet Smell of Success 52
• Lehn-Strid, Here There; Klapper-Kuchen, Irregular 54
• Bill Leslie, Diggin' the Chicks; Thornel Schwartz with Bill Leslie, Soul Cookin' 55
• Tony Scott and His Buddies, Gypsy 57
• Herbie Mann, Great Ideas of Western Mann 58
• Track Three / Freek, Not Snob 61
• Column Two . 2004-2006
• Afreaka!, Demon Fuzz 69
• Contemporary Sound Series 70
• Beaver Harris / Don Pullen 360-Degree Experience, A Well-Kept Secret 72
• Mike Osborne Trio, Border Crossing 73
• The Three Souls, Dangerous Dan Express 75
• Steve Lacy, Raps 77
• Halki Collective, Halki Collective 79
• The Amran-Barrow Quartet, The Eastern Scene 80
• Charlie Parke acetates 82
• Tommy "Madman" Jones, A Different Sound and Just Friends 84
• New York Art Quartet, Mohawk 86
• Paul Gonsalves / Tubby Hayes, Just Friends; Paul Gonsalves All Stars Featuring Tubby Hayes, Change of Setting 88
• Anthony Braxton, New York, Fall 1974 90
• Herbie Fields Sextet, A Night at Kitty's 91
• Air, 80 Degrees Below '82 93
• Guy Warren with Red Saunders Orchestra, Africa Speaks-American Answers! 94
• Barry Altschul, Another Time, Another Place 96
• The Korean Black Eyes, "Higher" 97
• Rufus Jones, Five on Eight 99
• Johnny Shacklett Trio, At the Hoffman House 100
• The Mad-Hatters, The Mad-Hatters at Midnight 102
• Klaus Doldinger, Doldinger Goes On 103
• Max Roach, Solos 105
• Dick Johnson, Most Likely . . . 106
• Phil Seaman, The Phil Seamen Story 108
• Paul Smoker Trio, QB 109
• Khan Jamal, Drumdance to the Motherland; Franz Koglmann, For Franz / Opium 111
• Track Four / Brand New Secondhand: Record Collector Subcultures 113
• Column Three / 2006-2012
• Walt Dunn, seven-inch singles 123
• Leonard Feather, The Night Blooming Jazzmen 125
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Modern Jazz Expressions 126
• Archie Shepp, Plays the Music of James Brown; Cozy Eggleston, Grand Slam 128
• Black Grass, Black Grass 129
• Yoke & Yohs seven-inch 45
• The Bill Dixon Orchestra, Intents and Purposes 132
• Orchestre Regional de Mopti, Orchestre Regional de Mopti 134
• The Jihad, Black & Beautiful . . . Soul & Madness 136
• Milford Graves / Don Pullen, Milford Graves & Don Pullen at Yale University 137
• Heikki Sarmanto Sextet, Flowers in the Water; G.L. Unit, Orangutang! 139
• Ernie and Emilio Caceres, Ernie & Emilio Caceres 141
• Maarten Altena, Papa Oewa 142
• London Experimental Jazz Quartet, Invisible Roots 144
• Sunny Murray, Big Chief; Solidarity Unit, Inc., Red, Black, and Green 146
• Dick Wetmore, Dick Wetmore 147
• United Front, Path with a Heart 149
• Joseph Scianni, Man Running 150
• The Residents, The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles 152
• John Carter / Bobby Bradford Quartet, Flight for Four and Self Determination Music 153
• Johnny Lytle Trio, Blue Vibes 155
• Orchid Spangiafora, Flee Pasts Ape Elf 156
• Noah Howard, Space Dimension 158
• Baikida Carroll, The Spoken Word 159
• Randy Weston, Blues 161
• Charles Bobo Shaw Human Arts Ensemble Concere Ntasiah 163
• Lee "Scratch" Perry, Double-7 164
• Eddie Shu / Joe Roland / Wild Bill Davis, New Stars-New Sounds 166
• Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley, Ailanthus / Altissima 167
• Unidentified Kenyan Highlife Band, seven-inch test pressing 169
• Track Five / Specialty of the House 173
• Track Six / Anything Can Happen Day: Sun Ra, Alton Abraham, and the Taming of the Freak 221
• Column Four / 2016
• Le Sun-Ra and his Arkistra, "Saturn" seven-inch single; Tom Prehn Quartet, Axiom 243
• Track Seven / Run-Off Groove 247
• Acknowledgements 249