Want List [2LP]

Various Artists - Want List [2LP]

This double-LP set is a loose sidecar to Want List (Pre-Echo/Soberscove, 2026), a novel by John Corbett that follows the exploits of a record collector named Anthony "Tone Arm" Armstrong and his friend Comfort "Pinch" Rollins, a member of an international tape-trading cartel. Some of the tracks on these characters' "want lists," including the Don Cherry Trio recordings of central concern to the narrative, are reproduced here, many of them for the first time on record. Side A opens with three legendary tracks waxed by Don Cherry with a trio in 1961 and presumed lost in a fire in the '70s. On Side B, two previously unreleased Peter Brötzmann tracks, both from his revolutionary period at the end of the 1960s, carry their own mythological status: The first recording is from a traumatic television appearance in 1967, when Brötzmann's free jazz trio was confronted by its mainstream counterparts, the Klaus Doldinger Group. The tracks on Side C come from Sun Ra's tenure in Chicago in the 1950s; the first is probably the earliest recording of Ra's signature piece "Saturn." Side D closes with saxophonist Tommy "Madman" Jones, Phil Seamen, and Mats Gustafsson. All but one of the Jones tracks here focus on his funkier material. Some of these records are unimaginably rare -- physical copies of the first cut, his version of "Don't Explain," are, as the aerospace engineers used to say, unobtainium. The ultimate track on the record is the only new one, recorded by Mats Gustafsson specifically for this project on the prehistoric stone flute that features in the final moments of the novel. Produced by John Corbett. Compiled, edited, and mastered by Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago. Double-LP, Gatefold Jacket.

Tracklist
A1. Don Cherry Trio - The Idiot (Ornette Coleman/4:58)
A2. Don Cherry Trio - Black Elk Speaks (Don Cherry/7:19)
A3. Don Cherry Trio - Harlemite (Cherry/8:41)
B1. Peter Brötzmann Trio - Untitled (Peter Brötzmann/6:38)
B2. Peter Brötzmann Nonet - Machine Gun (Brötzmann/14:17)
C1. Le Sun Ra and His Band - Saturn (Sun Ra/2:18)
C2. Sun Ra - Save the Bones for Henry Jones 'Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat (Danny Barker-Vernon Lee/1:43)
C3. Sun Ra - It's a Good Day (Peggy Lee-Dave Barbour/5:34)
C4. Sun Ra - Hurry On Down (Nellie Lutcher/1:24)
C5. Sun Ra - Invitation to the Blues (Doris Fisher-Allan Roberts-Arthur Gershwin/2:11)
C6. Sun Ra - Memory/It Makes Me Feel So Good (unknown/3:05)
C7. Sun Ra - Strange Love (unknown/1:40)
D1. Tommy "Madman" Jones - Hush Now, Don't Explain (Billie Holiday-Arthur Herzog Jr./4:36)
D2. Tommy "Madman" Jones - Reddy Freddy (Tommy Jones/2:19)
D3. Tommy "Madman" Jones - Blues for the B's (Jones/2:54)
D4. Tommy "Madman" Jones - Manha de Carnival (Luiz Bonfá/4:14)
D5. Tommy "Madman" Jones - Snowfall (Claude Thornhill/2:31)
D6. Phil Seamen - Phil Seamen Story (excerpt) (Seamen/3:24)
D7. Mats Gustafsson - The Stone of Günter. The Stone of Time. (Gustafsson/1:07)