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"The Resonance Ensemble, an international New Jazz group, began in 2007 as a co-presentation by Ken Vandermark and Marek Winiarski. Aft...

80/81 a short lived super-group born within the German label ECM, for which recorded the homonymous (and fine) double LP in May 1980. This R...

YUSEF LATEEF ROSCOE MITCHELL DOUGLAS EWART ADAM RUDOLPH Walker Art Center McGuire Theater Minneapolis, MN 6 December 2008 Some more Yusef La...

This was the first and only time that i had the chance of listening David Izenzon live : after ten years of retirement he was starting playi...

Some more Mingus from his 1975 autumnal European tour : here H.Lawson replaces Don Pullen on piano. Rec. live in Berlin, Germany, on Novembe...

Here's one for Doug Schulkind, chum, boundless music enthusiast, radio DJ, miner of the blogosphere with a weekly column on the WFMU blo...

For completing the documentation about the "lost" quartet by K.Wheeler, here is a recording that i've taped just a day before ...

I thought I'd follow up on the recent spate of Don Pullen (and George Adams) postings with this set from a live concert in 1975. Here w...

This wonderful quartet was on tour during summer '78 and unfortunately (at my knowledge) didn't leave any official recording. So i h...

This was the first European concert for the ROVA S.Q. and i think, that i was really lucky to be there, that evening, with my tape recorder....

The particularity of this recording is the absence of Malachi Favors (severe absence), nevertheless the performance conserves a sure interes...

Back in the early days of this blog, there were a few postings of this band, basically from bootlegged cds in limited circulation. The comme...

Source: TV recorded to VHS/PC and digital conversion into PAL format. Quality: A- George Adams: ts, fl & voc* Don Pullen: p Cameron Brow...

Someone will notice that this recording was taped the same day of that i've posted on June 29 (Don Pullen/Joseph Jarman/Don Moyè - Live ...

The other side of Sam Rivers : compositions and arrangements for large orchestra. Rec. live in Turin, Italy, on November 20th, 1979 (mics re...

"I remember trying to explain my concept of M'Boom to people at the record companies, and all anybody knew was that each man had a ...

A duo active between the end of the seventies and the early eighties, that sometimes turned to trio with the addition of Austrian trumpeter ...

Here's a very interesting item supplied by "inamorata" who agreed to write a little intro to this record: Carman Moore (feat. ...

A little (and tardy) homage to the late Rashied Ali : a solo performance during the 8th Moers Festival. Rec. live at the 8th Moers Festival,...

After Riccardo's post of Leena Conquest in Rome, I thought we definitely should have some more Leena Conquest in Rome. Bit of a toss-up ...

An original project for the "Ceglie Jazz Open Festival", that gathers together some of the best Italian composers/improvisers with...

A wonderful recording that "Ilario" sent to me some days ago : for the outstanding sound quality i've thought that the wav for...

This post was somewhat inspired by my earlier Michael Portal posts and by the fact that he participated in the original recording of this mu...

Two important exponents of the first-wave of European free improvisers, here performing a duo set of great interest. Rec. live in Lovere, It...

Continuing in the "shorts" series, here is a great Duo at the peak of its creativity. A request : the day before this recording, S...

Another short recording by a late Master. Rec. Live in Florence, Italy, on July 2nd, 1979 (mics recording) Leroy Jenkins ,violin & viola...

Here's something to remember Rashied Ali by, who died on 12 August. This is a fairly recent concert in Burghausen, Germany (in Ober-Baye...

If you have already listened "Blue Boyé" and "Roi Boye", then, you could image what a kind of magnificent music Hemphill...

One of the founding members of AACM, Kalaparusha, in the Seventies was a kind of legend among European avant-garde jazz followers. The first...

Continuing with the Portal series, we're now up to 1978 and a concert in Kleve in Germany. A different line-up from the earlier Portal U...

Here's a contribution from "guairao", dropped in our general section - solo piano by Ran Blake. RAN BLAKE - Breakthru (1976).f...

Continuing with George Lewis, here is a nice solo trombone performance. Creative music of course, but even technical mastery of the instrume...

This is (with the exception of George Lewis replacing Anthony Braxton) the same lineup that recorded, some months before, 1-OQA+19 for...

From "Ilario" collection something more bop oriented : one of the first occasion in which the two Freeman (father and son) are tog...

Continuing our Michel Portal series, here is a fairly short piece recorded in Köln in 1977. His input here is more as a player and less as a...

Perhaps the best concert for alto saxophone i've never attended. Rec. live at "Piazza dei Cavalieri", Pisa, Italy, on July 10t...

For "jazz flute" lover(s) here is a very good concert by one of the finest groups (in my opinion) of the late seventies. The highl...

This was dropped in the comments section by Sotise: Kris Wanders ...was an original member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, was a close friend ...

We had a request from Yelizev for "jazz flute" so I thought that might be a good pretext for posting Nicole Mitchell on this blog ...

Wonderfully recorded by my dear friend "Ilario", this Muhal's concert remains among the best things i've never listened by...

My second and last contribution at the musical story of M.Portal : a single piece, since the concert devoleped as a long (very long) medley....

Just a little help to kinabalu for covering a bit of ground in M. Portal's musical story : this is the first of two concerts, by the gre...

I've posted a set of the Michel Portal Unit from 1974 before , so fast-forwarding to 1976, here is a set live at the Willisau Jazz Festi...

Thanks to IS i've met again (after many years) an old friend of mine : "Ilario" "I" has recorded all the Roman conce...

A brief but intense set by one of Greatest of the European scene. Rec. live in Florence, Italy, on July 6th, 1978 (mics recording) Lol Coxhi...

One of the rare performances in duo by these two Greats of the AACM. Rec. live at "Sala della Guardia", Verona, Italy, on May 20th...