9 August 2025

What a long, strange trip ...


Photo © Roberto Masotti / Lelli e Masotti Archivio.




This blog is now in its 15th year, started back in February 2007 by Sotise, our correspondent from down under. Bundles of people have contributed over the years, some gone, others holding on and yet others joining and putting their distinctive mark on the contents and direction of the blog. Currently we have about half a dozen active posters and some very generous followers, judging from inputs to our contributions section, but we're always willing to recruit more. Potential authors can get in touch with us c/o our Blogger email addresses. We've had contributors from three continents, with a preponderance of Europeans overall.

The emphasis has been on the free/improv/experimental side of jazz, but with excursions into contemporary and classical music, from Europe and beyond. There are no rules, however; the blog is whatever the posters make of it, and we'd like to keep it that way. We focus on posting out of print material with the objective of drawing attention to music which otherwise might have remained out of sight and out of mind. Due to spam and some past experiences of personal attacks, we 've had to institute a moderator system, so comments may not appear right away, but they will be published.

With these few words, heading on ...

4 August 2025

....NEW LINKS FOR OLD POSTS

Hi , Heres a new section, which will feature links to the Original posts of things that are just being, or have recently been re uploaded..
the Contributions and request sections are too cluttered, making it difficult to keep track!
comments will be disabled for this section!

Please help us out, if you see comments asking for a re-upload, and you have the files!!
(preferably use only file hosts accessible to free users,do not use these files to make money!)
Please do not ask us to re upload records which are generally available, or have been recently reissued, whatever the format!!

Surely it goes without saying that all views expressed on this Blog , be they impressions  delusions
reveries, political statements, opinions are ours and ours alone , Music stimulates the imagination, so switch off y'r TV, listen ... make up your own minds.

So here goes, I'll start with a few I have recently re uploaded

Update August 21, 2025 -
We've shortened the list (again) for users' convenience:


Marion Brown - Solo Saxophone 
Terumasa Hino Quintet - Live in Berlin 1971
Daunik Lazro / Ninh Le Quan / Michel Doneda – Concert Public (Vand'Oeuvre, 1988)
Dave Douglas New Jazz Meeting - Karlsruhe 1998 
Jacques Thollot - Châteauvallon 1978
Manfred Schoof Groups - Nürnberg 1970 & Willisau 1980  
Bernt Rosengren med Flera - Improvisationer (SJR, 1969) 
The Promenaders - Beginner Studio 1981
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy - Aachen 1990
Reichel - Knispel - Niebergall - Waisvisz - Köln 1974 
Abdelhaï Bennani Trio - Yallah (JaZt Tapes, 2009)
Dyani, Temiz, Feza – Music For Xaba (Sonet 1972)
Louis Moholo-Moholo - London Jazz Festival 2010
Lol Coxhill & Fred Van Hove - Bremen 1991 

LOL COXHILL & FRED VAN HOVE "BREMEN 1991"

 


Lol Coxhill, soprano saxophone
Fred van Hove, piano

1. LC Solo  19:29
2. FvH Solo 21:45
3. Duo      23:15

Recorded on May 12, 1991 at the Schauburg, Bremen, Germany.
(fm)