Reform ART unit Featuring The Americans - West East Suite

 RAU - 121610
Vinyl, Limited Edition of 95 copies
Released 21 Sep 2017

A1 - Songs Of July (Including <Witchi Tai To>)      
5:11
Bass Guitar – Dill Katz
Double Bass – Bleda Elibal
Drums – Brian Abrahams
Oud – Rabih Abou Khalil
Percussion [Tomback] – Mohammed Thamassebi
Piano – Paul Fields
Santoor – Levent Tarhan
Saxophone, Voice – Fritz Novotny, Jim Pepper
Vocals – Leena Conquest
Composed By Novotny, Pepper, Fields

A2 - East        
6:21
Clarinet – Fritz Novotny
Drums – Andrew Cyrille
Composed By Cyrille, Novotny

A3 - Pannonica. Pannonia
8:53
Percussion – Glen Hahn
Piano – Burton Greene
Soprano Saxophone – Fritz Novotny
Composed By Greene, Novotny, Monk

B1 - Ghana
6:30
Reeds, Percussion – Fritz Novotny, Walter Malli
Brass – Clifford Thornton, Franz Koglmann, Joseph Traindl, Sepp Mitterbauer
Keyboards – Giselher Smekal, Paul Fields
Bass – Heinz Jäger
Drums – Walter Schiefer
Composed By Thornton, Novotny

B2 - Double Three
12:32
Alto Saxophone – Anthony Braxton
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Fields
Soprano Saxophone – Walter Malli
Clarinet – Fritz Novotny
Double Bass – Heinz Jäger
Drums – Walter Schiefer
Composed By Braxton, Novotny

A1 — recorded 1990, July 6 at Vienna Town Hall (Rathaus, Wien)
A2 — recorded 1984, April 15 at Jazzforum Mödling
A3 — recorded 1982, November 27 at Podium Thürnthal
B1 — recorded 1978, October 1 at Krems Town Hall
B2 — recorded 1978, September 30 at Krems Town Hall

All titles released 1978 and 1999 on the millenium CD recorded by Granit Records

ITARU OKI / KAZUKO SHIRAISHI / KEIKI MIDORIKAWA ‎– ヒト科の熊 = A BEAR OF THE HUMAN FAMILY (OHRAI RECORDS, 2003)

 

1.  カボーゾ・ワルツ = Capoozo Waltz
2.  ロバの貴重な涙より = From The Precious Tears Of The Donkey
3.  今晩は荒模様 = Tonight Is Nasty
4.  鯨たちに捧げる = Dedicated To The Whales
5.  わたしとわたし = I And I
6.  モナリザ = Monalisa
7.  卵のふる街 = Falling Egg City
8.  サックスに入って出てこないアル = AL In The Saxophone
9.  月のセンチメンタル・ジャーニー = October Sentimental Journey
10. 鳥 = Bird
11. ハドソン川のそば = Hudson River Side
12. ヒト科の熊 = A Bear Of The Human Family
13. スミコのサマータイム = Sumiko's Summer Time
14. 今日のユリシーズ = Today's Ulysses
15. ノンストップ = Non Stop
16. ヒップが飛ぶ = Hips Fly To The Moon
17. テネシー・ワルツ = Tennessee Waltz

Keiki Midorikawa, cello
Hiroshi Funato, double bass
Kazuko Shiraishi, poetry reading
Hutch Hamamoto, trumpet
Itaru Oki, trumpet

Recorded between May 2002 and February 2003

Ohrai Records ‎– JMCK1015

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RECENT & UPCOMING RELEASES XX

 

A treasure box of unreleased recordings with/by Julius Hemphill will be issued through New World Records these days.

Julius Hemphill with
Malinké Elliott, K. Curtis Lyle, Abdul Wadud
Baikida Carroll, John Carter, Olu Dara
Nels Cline, Allan Jaffe, Jehri Riley, Jack Wilkins
Jerome Harris, Dave Holland, Steuart Liebig, Roberto Miranda
Michael Carvin, Alex Cline, Jack DeJohnette, Philip Wilson
Ursula Oppens, Daedalus String Quartet
Ray Anderson, Marty Ehrlich, Janet Grice, John Purcell, Bruce Purse

7 CDs with music from 1977 to 1986. More informations you'll find at the label's website.

And finally a CD of this fantastic CT quintet has been given to the friendly listener by Fundacja Sluchaj.

CT with Tristan Honsinger, Teppo Hauta-aho, Harri Sjöström and Paul Lovens recorded in 1998 at Tampere Jazz Happening, Finland.

Then we have a collaboration of Roscoe Mitchell with three Polish musicians which is available since November 2020 from Bocian Records.

The only musician I knew before was - apart from RM - the reed player Jerzy Mazzoll whom I remember from some concerts with Peter Brötzmann. 

 

Two more RM are due for release or already available (not listened yet nor did I found a source for obtaining.

Roscoe Mitchell / Gerald Oshita / Thomas Buckner - Soundscape 1979 / Unreleased Historical Recordings (ScienSonic)
Marshall Allen / Roscoe Mitchell / Scott Robinson / Milford Graves - Flow States (ScienSonic)

And some other recent CDs/DL/LPs I would like to recommend.

 Borah Bergman, Perry Robinson, Steve Swell and Ray Sage ‎– Quartets​Trios​Duos (Mahakala Music)
Agustí Fernández - Selfie (Sirulita)
Georg Gräwe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra ‎– Fortschritt Und Vergnügen  (Random Acoustics). This CD is distributed by Trost Records in Austria.


....a personal favourite of 2020

Ikue Mori, Satoko Fuji + Natsuki Tamura* ‎– Prickly Pear Cactus (Libra Records) the CD you can get from the label or f.e. at the Downtown Music Gallery

Of course there are some other mailorders/shops in the US, Canada, Japan or Europe which will fulfill your requests.

And at last but definitely not least I would like to point to the recent batch of No Business Records CDs and LPs (and mostly also as download). New and old music by a.o. RED Trios's Celebration Band (!!!), Sam Rivers w/ Holland, Daley and Barker (!!!); Derek Bailey + Mototeru Takagi; Masayuki Takayanagi with Nobuyoshi Ino and Masabumi Kikuchi (!!!); Mats Gustafsson + Sabu Toyozumi; Nate Wooley with Gotesmana, Mockunas and Barry Guy. Mr. Guy has also a recent solo recording on the label.

CDs 

LPs

JOHN RUSSELL / SABU TOYOZUMI / KEMMY NISIOKA / SHUICHI OYAMA / OSAMU NOMURA / MACHIKO KITAYAMA / NOBUHIKO NARUSE - SANGERAKU (MAY 2ND, 2004)

 

1. Sangeraku Part 1
2. Sangeraku Part 2

John Russell, acoustic guitar
Sabu Toyozumi, drums, percussion
Osamu Nomura, percussion, marimba
Nobuhiko Naruse, dance, song
Kemmy Nisioka, piano, bell-tree
Shuichi Oyama, saxophone, hand-made percussion 

Recorded at Kanagawa Art Hall, 30 May 2004

May 2nd ‎– OM5-0006

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JOHN RUSSELL - R.I.P. (1954 - 2021)

 

 Photo Andy Newcombe

 

Sad: I learned an hour ago that John Russell has died yesterday.

I was lucky to see him in May, 2010 in Munich where he held a workshop and gave a concert afterwards.

I remember him as being an open guy with a great humour. Between two sets we've talked outside the club (we're both smoking a cigarette) and he told me several jokes - not only about musicians. Will miss him not only as a singular guitarist and musician. Still cherish these memories of a human being which impressed me not only with his musicianship.

R.I.P.

ITARU OKI / KEISUKE OHTA / JEAN-FRANÇOIS PAUVROS / YASUHIKO TACHIBANA / MAKOTO SATO ‎– JAN-KEN-PON (OHRAI RECORDS, 2003)

 

1. Marée D'Équinoxe
2. Sisyphe
3. Au Long Du Canal
4. Le Désert Est Au Fond Du Verre

Yasuhiko Tachibana, bass
Makoto Sato, drums
Jean-François Pauvros, guitar
Itaru Oki, trumpet
Keisuke Ohta, violin, voice

Recorded at L'Espace Japon, Paris, 10-11 February 2001.

Ohrai Records ‎– JMCK-8001

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Wide Fields - Live at the University

 Granit 84402
1984
tape    

Paul Fields - violin, keybord, alto sax
Hannes Groysbeck - electric bass
Fritz Novotny - reeds
Franz Scharf - electric guitar
Stefan Stupetzky - tenor sax
Robert Steiner - drums

side A
Wide Fields (Fields/Novotny)                 8.29
Pannonien Impressions (Novotny)           6.21
Jackies Bag (Novotny)                5.26
Tango Infernal (Fields)                1.36

side B
Time Out (Novotny/Fields)              17.02
Rock'in (Fields)                   6.08


recorded April 1984

Bobby Few October 21, 1935 - January 6, 2021

 

From early sessions with Albert Ayler to his most recent recordings with Waclaw Zimpell and his own discography, Bobby Few was a singular voice in the free jazz area. Still lyrical in the middle of the stormy twin team of Frank Wright and Noah Howard, his music was the real reflect of himself, a quiet guy, peaceful. Trained in classical music and gospel, his touch on the key was immediately recognisable.

Here is a breath taking performance in solo. I have added to the file an interview that I’ve realised for radio campus Paris in May 2017, it is the original conversation in english before an editing and translate with addition of music for the program in french.

1 Continental Jazz Express

2 Beautiful Africa

3 China

4 The Journey Continues

5 Like A Waterfall

6 En Route

7 Continental Jazz Express

Recorded in live performance at the Vision Festival, New York City, on May 27, 2000.

Boxholder Records BXH026 cd

R.I.P. Zusaan Kali Fasteau

 sad
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2021/01/kali-z-fasteau-1947-2020.html

I remembered her listening to this tape that she passed me some years ago
here is for you also

Zusaan Kali Fasteau - Bliss

flying notes
1986 FNCS #6001
cassette

KALI FASTEAU: Composer, Nai & Shakuhachi Flutes, Voice, Soprano Sax, Cello, Sanza & Berimbau.

ITARU OKI & RAYMOND BONI ‎– 天海 - TEN-KAI (OHRAI RECORDS, 2007)

 

1. 天海 (Ten-Kai)
2. ストップ・シューティング・・・・・シェア (Yehudi Menuhin Was Right: Stop Shooting.....Share)
3. 織姫 (Orihime)
4. 燃島 (Moejima)
5. ブラザー・ビッグ・ジョー・ウィリアムス (Brother Big Joe Williams)

Raymond Boni, guitar
Itaru Oki, trumpet

Recorded at Gallix Recording Studio, 10 July 2006

Ohrai Records ‎– JMCK-1031

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Three Motions - Playing games

1979
Granit 79403 - Austria
RAU 1009-3
tape

Paul  Fields - keybord, violin, alto sax
Walter M. Malli - drums, soprano sax
Fritz Novotny - reeds, percussions

side A
Tales of Malli (with Clifford Thornton)        7.00
Playing Games     part 1        13.00
Playing Games     part 2        9.30

side B
Playing Games     part 3        14.55
Playing Games     part 4        7.00
Playing Games     part 5        8.13

recorded live october 1979 at Wiener Konzerthaus
Playing Games by Fields/Novotny
 

Eddie Prevost and Philip Wachsmann - Montage 1

 

EDDIE PREVOST  percussion

PHILIP WACHSMANN  violin, electronics

01 Montage 1   40:54

Montage Gallery, Leicester.
15 Feburary 1995

Reform Art Unit - Suite for Clifford

MC: GR 78402 /RAU 1008
CD:  GR 78003

in Nickelsdorf
12 September 1978

Clifford Thornton - Valve Trombone, Percussions
Fritz Novotny - Soprano Sax, Flute, Percussions
Paul Fields - Violin, Keyboard, Alto Sax
Walter Malli - Drums, Soprano Sax

DAISUKE FUWA, DAISUKE TAKAOKA ‎– 低音環境 / TEION KANKYO (CHITEI RECORDS, 2004)

 

1. Naadam
2. You Don't Know What Love Is
3. もっとキスしてくれ
4. 股旅
5. 火男
6. Nardis
7. 仙頭

Daisuke Fuwa, bass
Daisuke Takaoka, tuba

Chitei Records - B 29F

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The best way to start 2021 from a deep low: "Bass Environment"