- The Dream Syndicate with La Monte Young, Day of the Holy Mountain (disc 2)
- Fennesz & Jim O’Rourke, It’s Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry
- Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke, Indeed
- Henry Kaiser / Mari Kimura / Jim O’Rourke / John Oswald, Acoustics
- Jim O’Rourke & Mats Gustafsson, Xylophonen Virtuosen
- Reed Trio, Last Train to the First Station
- Bill Cosby, Badfoot Brown and The Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band (1972)
- Grateful Dead, Europe ’72 (disc 2)
- The Verlaines, Bird Dog
- Full Up: More Hits from Studio One (Heartbeat)
- Autechre, Chiastic Slide
- John Zorn, Bar Kokhba (disc 1)
- Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (Numero Group) (disc 3)
Serial rapist Bill Cosby made two jazz-funk LP’s with this same title, in 1971 and 1972.
The 1972 one is pretty good, but 1971 is better. Better musically, and better because it doesn’t have a so-so blues singer on it and doesn’t have Cosby popping up in the middle to deliver an anti-drug rant. The 1971 one has no vocals at all, just two side-long instrumentals. The second side is excellent. The first side, “Martin’s Funeral”, in reference to Martin Luther King Jr., is sui generis, utterly mesmerizing and unlike anything you’ve heard. I wish someone else had made it.
Not sure if Cosby got royalties from the 2008 CD reissue on Dusty Groove, but regardless, you can just listen free on YouTube. Cosby composed and arranged and plays some keyboards. The best-supporting-musician award goes to the guy hitting the big bass parade drum: Danny Rey, better known as Big Black.
I finally was persuaded by your passionate advocacy, along with the note above, scrapped my scruples and got hold of an mp3 of the 1971 'Badfoot Brown ...' album. You're right, 'Martin's Funeral' is something else: incomprehensible but extraordinary, and completely addictive to boot (I now understand why it's shown up almost daily in your recent listening lists!) Thanks for the tip!
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