Otic Records
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Price:		 Dwight Andrews
Mmotia: The Little People
Otic Records
LP
$20

Engaging & open music from Dwight Andrews (soprano & alto sax; bass & contrabass clarinet; alto flute; Indian wood flute; percussion), Nana Vasconcelos (percussion, flex-tone, corpo, voice, bottles, beads, atumpan), & Nat Adderley (piano). Sealed original pressing, shows some mild storage wear / rubbing. Hear it on YouTube.
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Price:		 Bobby Naughton
Nauxtagram
Otic Records
LP
$20
Bobby Naughton (vibraharp), James Emery (acoustic & electric guitars), Cleve Pozar (percussion & marimba), & Wes Brown (bass). Lively '79 session, with something of a Cleve Solo Percussion vibe on the Naughton/Pozar duo track, Duality. Sealed original pressing, shows some mild storage wear / discoloration. Hear it on YouTube.
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Price:		 Bobby Naughton
Solo Vibraphone
Otic Records
LP
$15
Lovely live set recorded in Italy on July 3, 1979. Hear some of Biotic. More clips are available over here. Sealed original pressing, shows some mild storage wear / discoloration.
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Price:		 Bobby Naughton / (Wadada) Leo Smith / Perry Robinson
The Haunt
Otic Records
LP
$50
"The Haunt, a 1976 trio recording led by vibraphone player Bobby Naughton with Leo Smith (before the trumpet player appended Wadada to his name) & clarinetist Perry Robinson...with a focus on harmonic interaction. Robinson’s distinctive clarinet playing suffused with an abstract, structuralist sense of melody & swooping lissome phrasing has never quite gotten the attention it deserves. Smith, at this point, was honing & documenting his thoughts about ‘new world music’ in writings & recordings on his Kabell label & this highly personal refinement toward the placement of sound in silence provided the perfect balance to Naughton & Robinson.

"The recording kicks off with the title tune with each of the musicians placing motivic, freely melodic kernels with congruent, countervailing trajectories. The balance of the timbres of clarinet, trumpet, & vibes proves particularly effective in Naughton’s open sound-forms. Each of the members imparts complementary shadings to the overarching ensemble sound while standing out within the collective. While it is great to hear Robinson & Smith in this context, Naughton’s harmonic sensibility & deft attack are a particular standout. The leader’s four other originals provide provocative structures for interaction, from spirited, darting angularities to spare, resonant abstract lyricism. In each, all three seize on the core materials, digging in while keeping an astute ear to the fundamental group balance of the pieces. Particular standouts are the spiky 'Slant,' which gets two readings, as well as the free sonorities of 'Ordette' which flows organically from group statements to solo sections with ruminative poise." -Michael Rosenstein, Point of Departure.

Sealed 1977 pressing, shows some mild storage wear / discoloration. Hear it on bandcamp.