Zappatistas - Live at Frankfurt Jazz Festival Oct 2003 (FM Recording)

Zappatistas is a Frank Zappa tribute band, composed of a group of British jazz musicians led by guitarist John Etheridge, who is perhaps best known for his work with Soft Machine in the 1970s. Since then, he's played with classicist violinist Nigel Kennedy, and other former Soft Machine stalwarts such as Elton Dean and John Marshall, and with Stephane Grappelli. I don't know too much about the other band members, with the exception of Annie Whitehead, who runs her own band and is considered as Britain's finest female trombone players (though I must admit I couldn't name any others).

I'm no particular fan of Frank Zappa, but I saw the Zappatistas live a couple of years ago at a local club and I thought they were tremendous. Unfortunately, they have made only one recording, which I think is no longer available. Also, their gigs are few and far between, as I expect the musicians don't want to become typecast into a tribute repetoire. I obtained this recording from a bit torrent, originating from a German FM broadcast. It was an old torrent file, only 2 seeds so it took over a week to download it, but well worth it as this is a rare example of the band's recorded work.

Considering that Zappa was thought to live much of his life under a drug-induced depression, much of his music is "jolly". There are some really good tunes in this work.


Personnel and setlist:

Zappatistas - 2003/10/03 concert : "Cool Rats - Hot Licks!" at the Jazz Festival Frankfurt, Germany

John Etheridge: guitar
Steve Lodder: keyboard
Annie Whithead: trombone
Teena Lyle: percussion
Simon Bates: tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, flute
Paul Jayasinha: trumpet
Rob Statham: bass
Mike Bradley: drums

1.Radio Intro 01:44
02.peaches en regalia 07:37
03.Big Swiffty 10:13
04.let's make the water turn black 03:49
05.sofa#1 02:29
06.eat that question 02:38
07.sexual harrassment in the workplace 04:19
08.king kong 06:42
09.Introduction to the band 04:40
10.sleep dirt 06:33
11.harry you're a beast / lumpy gravy 07:53
12.oh no 01:47
13.I am the slime 08:59
14.we are not alone 05:35

Some of the tracks finish a bit abruptly - tracks 6,7, and 8 are a medley which have been split up a little inappropriately, though hopefully this will not spoil your enjoyment too much.

FM recording ripped at 320 VBR. Thanks to "boomboom" on dimedozen for initial seeding.

http://rapidshare.com/files/48139139/Zappatistas.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/48141570/Zappatistas.part2.rar.html

JIMMY LYONS-featuring KAREN BORCA- RIFFS RECORDED IN 1980 AT DREHER PARIS, FLAC AND LAME

heres an album i like by a quartet which was an active working unit for some years.
jimmy lyons of course was a mainstay of cecil taylor's units for 25 or so years.
and im sure that fans who have the ayler box ,are already familiar with the high level of creative empathy produced by this group.

heres a short ,almost curt review from amg
by Scott Yanow
For one of his very infrequent recordings outside of the realm of Cecil Taylor, altoist Jimmy Lyons teams up with the talented jazz bassoonist Karen Borca, bassist Jay Oliver and drummer Paul Murphy for lengthy and rather adventurous versions of "Theme" and "Riffs #1/II" plus the brief "Riffs #1/I" which serves as a prelude to the longer "Riffs." It is always intriguing to hear Lyons stretching out without a piano and this set helped make listeners aware of Borca's brilliant playing on the rarely utilized bassoon.

its hard to go wrong with jimmy lyons, unfortunately on this the recording balance is far from perfect, the sound quality is at times muddy , though its certainly better than that achieved on the mamoth 3 lp set push- pull which i regret having sold because of the poor sound quality.
if anyone has that please post it either here or elsewhere.

this wont dissapoint any lyons fans, despite its technical shortcomings.
buy jimmy lyons and karen borca discs
its an easily aquired taste thats well worth cultivating!

CHECK COMMENTS FOR LINKS.

MANY THANKS TO YANN ONCE AGAIN FOR HIS HELP WITH THE MOST RECENT BATCH OF VINYL RIP'S

Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Release (1968) 192 LAME

BOROMIR SAYS ' For sol then, how about Mike Westbrooks's Release, which is about the only one of his that's OOP, It's a longtime favourite of mine. ITS A VINYL RIP,at 192 kbps (that was the norm a year or so ago).

Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Release (1968)

http://rapidshare.com/files/45382422/Release.rar.html

personnel

Mike Westbrook: piano John Surman: Baritone sax Mike Osbourne: alto Bernie Living: alto Nisar Ahmed (George) Khan: tenor Dave Holdsworth: trumpet/flugelhorn Malcolm Griffiths: trombone Paul Rutherford: trombone Harry Miller: bass Alan Jackson: drums

Most of these players went onto well-documented careers, but there are two enigmatic characters among them:-Bernie Living, who has a style similar to Kaoru Abe, and George Khan, who, to me, has more than a passing resemblence to Albert Ayler. I think both of these guys became lost to rock - Living was last heard of in a Manfred Mann band, and Khan in a jazz rock group called Sold Gold Cadillac. I can find no trace of either of them after the early 70s. What a waste of talent !

thanks for this b,it looks great!!

buy mike westbrook albums, hes one of the major composers in postwar jazz, and the british scene.

WALT DICKERSON - SOLO LIVE , NEW ENGLAND THEATRE, WORCHESTER. MASS., DEC. 10, 1979

heres a great sounding audience recording, by master vibist walt dickerson

dickerson deserves to be much better known than he is, having recorded the acknowledged masterpiece "to my queen" in 1963

with andrew hill and andrew cyrille ,he went on to make lots of great records.

the first dickerson album i ever heard was the wonderful trio "life rays" on soul note, again with longstanding collaborators lisle atkinson on bass and master percussionist andrew cyrille on drums.

i thought i did'nt like jazz vibraphone at all until i heard walt's message, and a little later bobby naughton's essential contributions to leo smith's 'go in numbers, he budding of a rose and spirit catcher'.

i had heard gary burton, and later bobby hutcherson and didn't really appreciate them at the time.

here's a bare bones bio from wikipedia

Walter Roland Dickerson(born April 16, 1928 or 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz vibraphone player most associated with post-bop.
He graduated from Morgan State University in 1953 and after two years in the Army he settled in California. There he started to gain attention leading a band with Andrew Hill and Andrew Cyrille, but it was his later time in New York City that earned him full notice. In 1962 Downbeat named him the best new artist. In NYC he also worked with John Coltrane and Sun Ra acted as his sideman. From 1965 to 1975 he took a break from jazz, but later he worked again with Andrew Hill and Sun Ra.

there is no dickerson website, fan site and otherwise precious little about him at all.

the wikipedia bio falls short, and even the post bop tag seems an easy catch all.

dickerson is unique and has a very original style, its percussive , luminous and conceptually very abstract.

this is a wonderful concert, the sound quality is superb for the day, (almost soundboard quality).

buy walt dickerson discs, there are now quite a few available on soulnote/blacksaint, prestige/ojc, and steeplechase.

i'd especially recommend, gemini, peace, and life rays.

see comments for both mp3 and flac links.

cheers

RICHARD GROSSMAN TRIO- WHERE THE SKY ENDED (RECORDED LIVE BETWEEN 1989 AND 1992)

RICHARD GROSSMAN TRIO 'WHERE THE SKY ENDED' hi there heres some. shit hot free improvised, piano trio music by one of my favourites, richard grossman , a californian resident who died of cancer in 1992. id describe his pianism as , somewhere stylistically between paul bley and howard riley. this is a trio that worked together on and off for nearly 20 years, and the empathy is stunning.

heres a little bio from the ninewinds website.

Richard Grossman was born in New York City in 1937, and died of lung cancer in Oct, 1992. He grew up in the South, and began playing jazz piano professionally while still in high school in Philadelphia. In the mid-and late '50's, he was part of the now-legendary Philadelphia jazz scene, working with most of the local players, including Lee Morgan, Jimmy Garrison, Henry Grimes, Odean Pope, Reggie Workman, and many others. His early piano work had been in the post-bop tradition, but, by the late '50's, he was listening to Ornette Coleman, as well as composers like Schoenberg, Webern, Cage, and the European avant-gardists. In1963, Grossman began working with free improvisation. He led the New Music Quintet in 1964-65, and produced the first Philadelphia concert of free jazz in May, 1965. While jazz-based free piano improvisation remained his basic mode of expression, Grossman had a varied musical career, composing tape and electronic music, playing amplified cello, electric bass, vibes, percussion and electric piano in various new music and free jazz contexts. He also led the rock band, "Duck Soup" from 1972-78 in Philadelphia and San Francisco. After 1978, Grossman lived in Los Angeles, playing concerts of solo piano improvisation, and also working in duo, trio and quartet settings with Vinny Golia, Alex Cline, Ken Filiano, John Carter and many other artists n the Nine Winds Records label. He was featured in several live radio concerts on stations KPFK and KCRW, and gave workshop-lectures and concerts at UCLA,Westmont, and Santa Monica Colleges. He was on the faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, teaching jazz and improvised music and producing concerts. THIS WAS RECORDED LIVE BETWEEN 88 AND 92 ITS A BIT CRUDE(THE SOUND QUALITY) BY HATS PRESENT STANDARDS MORE THAN ADEQUATE THOUGH, IVE RIPPED THIS AT 256KBS MP3

personnel is ---------grossman-pno ken filiano-db alex cline-drums this is similar territory and just as good as, the riley,guy oxley group from the early 70's tracklist is included along with full scans in the 2nd file

SEE COMMENTS FOR LINKS

PAUL SMOKER- GENUINE FABLES 1988

"What Paul Smoker produced on his horn was unheard of in these latitudes; his complete command of his instrument allowed him to play whatever extravaganza he would think of, harmonically as well as in terms of dynamics. Styles, modes and techniques of every era of the history of music -- Baroque and Bebop, Structuralism and Storyville, Blues and Berio...To the widely discussed question about the future development of the jazz trumpet, Paul Smoker's musical concept could definitely constitute a far-reaching answer." -- Jazz Podium

PAUL SMOKER- GENUINE FABLES- 1988 SMOKER-TRUMPET, ELECTRONICS RON ROHOVIT- DB PHIL HAYNES- DRUMS

TRACKLIST 1)TOTAL ECLIPSE 2)ST LOUIS BLUES 3)TETRA 4) LAURA 5) FABLES OF FAUBUS 6) HELLO YOUNG LOVERS

SEE COMMENTS FOR LINKS

BUY PAUL SMOKER DISCS

VISIT SMOKER'S HOME PAGE HERE

http://www.gerryhemingway.com/smoker1.html

an historic meeting CECIL TAYLOR ,ANTHONY BRAXTON,WILLIAM PARKER, TONY OXLEY- LIVE IN LONDON 8TH JULY 2007

BOROMIR SAID "I've recorded the Cecil Taylor concert and upped it to RS. Here's the link http://rapidshare.com/files/43864666/CT.rar.html 53 mins, ripped at 256 kbps. There's a duet with Taylor and Oxley, before Braxton and Parker come in. So far I've only listened to the duo, which is very good - Taylor in fine form (I hope I'm that energetic at 80), Oxley quite subdued, perhaps under orders. I've only skimmed through the quartet part to check recording quality so I'll defer judgement on that until I've had a proper listen.

buy cecil taylor ,anthony braxton ,william parker and tony oxley cd's

anyone for whom rapidshare is no good can go here(church number nine comments) ,for a sendspace link, posted by kike

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36764298&postID=1193810260512012517

THE ALAN SKIDMORE QUINTET- TCB(1970) LAME

"BOROMIR"SAYS
"Here's a post for the blog. My favourite British tenor player:- Alan Skidmore Quintet - TCB 1970 Alan Skidmore: tenorMalcolm Griffiths: tromboneMartin Taylor: pianoChris Laurence: bassTony Levin: drumsMike Osborne (alto) and John Surman (soprano) guest on the last three tunes Vinyl ripped at 256
http://rapidshare.com/files/42732686/TCB.rar.html Scans are attached.



Alan has played with all sorts of people in his career, including Stan Tracey, John Mayall, Mike Gibbs, Georgie Fame and Van Morrison. He was a member of the much-acclaimed saxophone trio SOS, along with Surman and Osborne.Sadly, I don't think he has recorded as much as leader as his rich talents deserve. I'd rate him as up there on a level with the top American tenor giants.Nowadays, I suspect being semi-retired, he plays occasional Coltrane tribute gigs, and in the company of veteran British altoist Pete King, Charlie Parker tributes. I was lucky enough to catch one of his Trane gigs a couple of years ago, which was tremendous. I recall a particularly beautiful rendition of Naima.

THANKS BOROMIR.
BUY ALAN SKIDMORE DISCS
and check out his home page here
http://www.alanskidmore.info/

CECIL TAYLOR- PRAXIS (REC1968, SOLO) FLAC, AND LAME

this one comes to us courtesy of 'glmlr'
who ripped this from his own vinyl, and sent me a copy.
'glmlr' says ' to you, and any other CT lovers who may not have succeeded in finding a copy of this record. It didn't have a wide circulation.
this is a clean rip, the original recording is good,though not state of the art by todays standards.

this one has certainly slipped under the radar,i did see a copy once over 20 years ago alas i was new to the music, and found the prospect of a double album of solo C.T, rather daunting so i passed it up.

this billed in the taylor sessionography as having been released in 1982, pretty much one continuous performance divided into four parts, each filling out one side of an lp.

heres some info from cecil's online sessionography.
PRAXIS Italy, July 1968
1. Praxis part I 18:37
2. Praxis part II 19:14
3. Praxis part III 19:15
4. Praxis part IV 19:00
Cecil Taylor: piano
Praxis Praxis (Greece) CM 104/105 (lp) 1982

sparse is'nt it
buy cecil taylor discs
find cecil's sessionography on the saturnweb discogs site.


links

here are the correct file links

FLAC,you need all 4 to extract

1) http://rapidshare.com/files/42455429/_PRAXIS.part1.rar
2) http://rapidshare.com/files/42480474/_PRAXIS.part2.rar

3) http://rapidshare.com/files/42490654/_PRAXIS.part3.rar

4) http://rapidshare.com/files/42498083/_PRAXIS.part4.rar

MP3 224 (YOU NEED BOTH TO UNZIP)

1) http://rapidshare.com/files/42637495/_PRAXIS_mp3.part1.rar

2) http://rapidshare.com/files/42639703/_PRAXIS_mp3.part2.rar

for more info, on cecil taylor including a couple of extensive interviews, go to the european free improv pages, its in the links.

L.D.LEVY AND RICHARD DAVIS- CAULDRON (CORVO RECS, 1979)

heres one im very pleased to be able to share .

i dont know much about this record at all, and cant find anything out, by checking the web.

L.d levy, who plays bass clarinet, flute and alto sax on this is a real mystery.

i suspect its either a pseudonym , or as glmlr has suggested to me ,that he was a student of richard davis.

richard davis is one of the great virtuosi bassists in the music, some one who has played with everyone from, kenny burrell , andrew hill, eric dolphy ,jaki byard, booker ervin, don freidman to stravinsky .

he also played with many in the post free continuum anthony braxton, steve lacy ,david murray , roscoe mitchell,and beyond, making many great albums of his own as a leader, for muse king records(japan) hep, and diw among them.

jd levy sounds very much like eric dolphy at times on this , and on the whole the project is somewhat reminicent of the alan douglas produced "conversations session" by dolphy in duet with richard davis.

richard davis here plays incredibly freely throughout, and he makes levy sound great, in fact rather than mere support or underpinning, davis provides most of the textural interest on this album.

levy's probably playing out of his skin as a result.

this is ripped from vinyl in good nick, i bought it new though slightly water damaged 23 years ago.

please come forward if you have any info whatsoever ,about either l.d. levy or the session as a whole.

this was released on a lable calling itself "corvo" operating out of milwakee, ive looked hard for info but could come up with only one thing, its listed in richard davis discog.

i think this may well be the only album ever released on corvo.

wonderful chamber "free -jazz" links in comments

AGAIN THANKS TO YANN FOR HIS HELP!

buy richard davis discs
and check out his homepage here.
http://www.richarddavis.org/

heres his discog http://www.richarddavis.org/bio/disc.htm

postscript- having just gone through richard davis extensive discog, i see that there's another corvo release, by ld levy called" the eagle and the king"

LUNA – SPACE SWELL

Well! With a Great new look to the blog!!
& some superb albums from Sotise & Boromir.
I’m now playing catch up! So I thought I would
Bring you a couple of albums from my collection.

ENJOY!!!

Luna - Space Swell

(ARHOOLIE ST8001)
1967 Arehoolie Records - Berkeley California
Private Press (USA)
Sound Engineer - Bob DeSousa
Production - Chris Strachwitz


Track List;

A1: Space Swell (5:18)

A2: Moon & Flag Polka (4:38)

A3: We'll Think Of That, Later (5:54)

A4: Nisaba In The Grass (4:58)

B1: Twin Bass Bass (6:02)

B2: Warp (6:54)

B3: Paraphernalia (6:24)

Highly Recommended!!
That’s all I have to say about this one.
But please do let me know what you think?

Vinyl Rip @ 256kbps

Download Link in the comments.
Click on the post title to access.

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ROACH OM – UNIVERSAL EXPRESSION

Roach Om - Universal Expressions
(United Sound USR 4626) (197?)

LA/Bay Area, spoken word; black power poetry by female poet / rapper Roach Om.
Very Rare!!! & collectable private press, past on front cover with a plain white back! No information as too musicians or track titles!!
I brought this about 30 years ago because the backing musicians were rumoured to be the group “Juju” who had recently released “A Message From Mozambique” On Strata East Records, a label that I was seriously into at the time (& still include some of my most played albums today). Unfortunately I have never been able to confirm the rumour, so if there is anyone reading this who worked for United Sound Studio in Berkley CA during the 70’s & has any further info, it would be most appreciated!!

Vinyl Rip @ 256kbps

Download Link in the comments.
Click on the post title to access.

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KENNETH TERROADE- LOVE REJOICE (BYG 1969)

'BOROMIR' SAID
"Kenneth Terroade - Love Rejoice Paris 1969..
Kenneth Terroade: tenor sax, flute
Ronnie Beer: alto, tenor sax, flute
Evan Chandley: bass clarinet, flute
Francois Tusques - piano
Beb Guerin: bass
Earl Freeman: bass
Claude Delcloo: drums

Like all BYG Actuel recordings, the sound quality is not brilliant, but I think it is a good example of the genre. I think this was Terroade's only outing as leader. Jamaican-born, he moved to London when he was fourteen. Internet references indicate that he played with Chris Magregor and cohorts, which probably explains Ronnie Beer's appearance on this album, as well as British artists like John Surman and Mike Osbourne. I've traced one album from this period, Friendship Next Of Kin, which I've seen for sale at 180 euros. He moved to France where he made recordings on BYG with the likes of Sunny Murray, Shepp, Dave Burrell etc. I've found no trace of him after the early 70s, so did he meet an early and untimely death ? Scans are attached

THANKS B, I DONT KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT TERROADE, apart from the fact that he appeared on a few albums, on byg, sunny murry's sunshine , and witches and devils, and "never give a sucker an even break"
and a record by mongezi feza which a friend of mine owns ,i cant remember what its called.
hes also on alan silva's lunar surface, and the triple lp celestial communications orchestra.He's also on a few great rock albums, playing flute ..i think..
doctor john's- sun moon and herbs
and, daevid allen (from gong)'s bannana moon.
this has been available, sporadically
as a vinyl only "reissue"of dubious provenance on the abraxas lable.
apparently the owners of 'abraxas' have little respect for the original artists appearing on the discs and they get nothing, which is from what ive heard and read exactly what happened the first time round, yep thats right some of the jazz artists who made records for byg
claim they never even got paid.
In any case this, does seem pretty hard to obtain.

192kbs is pretty low fi, so if you want to enrich the owners of 'abraxas', who make very poorly pressed vinyl reissues, and dont pay any artist royalties, buy the album if you can find it!!!!!!!!!theres a beautiful photo taken by valerie wilmer of terroade in 1971 here
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/magnify.php?imageid=im00229

this has been ripped by boromir from his original vinyl, not the abraxas pressing
(i have half a dozen abraxas "reissues" as well as a couple of originals , the originals sound much more vivid, the abraxas pressings have inexplicable pressing faults, and in the case of my copy of jimmy lyons- other afternoons, actual pops and clicks even though the record was new when i bought it and is apparently unmarked, a tape of the same which i made 15 years ago sounds better than that pressing. issues of royalties and legitimacy aside, the music is not being done justice ,by these amateurish vinyl pressings.

KEITH TIPPETT(THE DARTINGTON CONCERT) ONE FOR YOU DUDU released 1992, (lame)

BOROMIR, SAID KEITH TIPPETT'S DARTINGTON CONCERT RECORDED 1990

RELEASED 1992 , OOP

You may have this - it's solo piano, a single track of 47 mins "one for dudu", which some people may find too daunting.You may know more about him than I do sotise, but he is perhaps more familiar to people as pianist in King Crimson in the 70s, and for his big orchestral arrangements like Centipede. Long-time married to jazz singer Julie Tippett - formerly Driscoll, whom we all know from Brian Auger Trinity and Wheels Of Fire. There was an example of one of his small group recordings (Nicra - Listen/Hear) posted on jizzrelics blog site a couple of months ago, which I can recommend.

Dartington Concert - Keith Tippett solo piano Ripped at 192 kbpshttp://rapidshare.com/files/41311929/Tippett.rar.html

check out some more rarities here

http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/2006/11/keith-tippett-group.html

thanks for this one B, i do have it(on tape) and its great, one of his best solo recordings.

as i recall tippett also made a couple of great fusion albums for the vertigo lable in the early seventies, but yeah i know him mostly through his acoustic jazz and free improv records, and ive liked all ive heard.

i confess to rather liking king crimson too, and in some small way albums like "lizard "were an introduction to jazz content one didnt expect on rock albums.

tippetts solo "cat food" may well have been a generations intro to free jazz.

buy keith tippett discs here

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tippett.keith.html

CHARLES TYLER "FOLK AND MYSTERY STORIES" (1980) FLAC ,AND LAME

The first charles tyler album i ever heard!

i bought this in an opshop for a couple of dollars when i was first discovering this music in the 1980's

its a lot more arranged, than most of tylers other work, but no worse for that, this features the unique front line combination , of richard dunbars french horn, and tylers baritone sax, on the wonderfully mutant stroll of monks friday the 13th.

click on the black and white image for the personnel info.

track list

side a 1)uptown Manhattan puerto rico 2)folk like

side b 1)Friday the thirteenth, 2)the warlock mystery drama.

this is a vinyl rip 

I'm sorry i cant scan the covers in full, at the moment as i don't own a digital camera, and couldn't find an image on the web.

check the comments for links

KEIJI HAINO- LIVE AT THE ANNANDALE HOTEL SYDNEY(13TH OF FEBUARY, 2004), 320 LAME

heres a solo performance recorded by my friend, juke on a minidisc recorder, on the 14th of febuary 2004.

hes in pretty righteous form , especially on track 2, explosive!
a great show.

ripped to mp3 320, from a cd burn made from the minidisc
recording, i had to edit the end of the 2nd track slightly(about a minute or so, of microphone hum), otherwise the show was as you hear it.

HAINO- GUITAR, VOICE, PERCUSSION,SAMPLER

ripped to 320MP3
IN A SPLIT ARCHIVE(YOU NEED BOTH TO UNZIP)

PART 1- http://rapidshare.com/files/40589874/kei_hai_a1.rar

PART 2- http://rapidshare.com/files/40590652/kei_hai_a2.rar

(PART1= 97 MEG, PART 2= 7 MEG)
BUY KEIJI HAINO DISCS, VISIT THE UNOFICIAL KEIJI HAINO WEBSITE
http://poisonpie.com/sounds/haino/

FRANK WRIGHT- CHURCH NUMBER NINE(REC 1970, RELEASED IN 1973) LAME

heres a record that deserves a wider hearing.
i feel its one of his best albums(and im not an unreserved fan)
this was originaly issued in a very limited run on a french lable called calumet, only three hundred copies were distributed.

ive ripped this from a cd , presumably the bootleggy black keys reissue ,from the early 2000's.

i can find absolutely no information as to the provenence of this reissue, nor on black keys the presumed lable.

ive checked its availability, and there seems to be no one who has it, although it has occasionably come up for auction on ebay.

forced exposure do not list it.
cd hut, and amazon says its temporarily out of stock, the customary response when they dont have something.

the cd itself contains no clue as to provenance, no lable indicated, no address, no date of reissue, all the hallmarks of a bootleg.
anyone possesing any info ,come forward.

a raft of frank wright's OOP, material has been posted at church number9 the blog, and since ive been sitting on this for a while, i thought id throw it in to compliment those posts.

the personnel on this is the same as that on the classic one for john.
wright- tenor sax, noah howard- alto, bobby few -piano, mohammed ali-drums

for me its probably bobby few's playing thats most impressive.
if you enjoyed this , and the center of the world posts on ch#9 buy others here
http://www.forcedexposure.com/bin/search.pl?search_string=frank+wright&searchfield=artist

ripped to 256 kbsmp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/40552016/fw_cn9.zip

find more here-http://churchnumber9.blogspot.com/

Drew Gress Quartet - Live Recording (about 2001, in London I think) ,lame

boromir said"I found a CD in a drawer that I'd burnt years ago. It was unlabelled, so I had to play it to find out what it was. It turned out to be a radio broadcast from around 2001, I think, Drew Gress Quartet. "

Drew Gress Quartet - Live Recording (about 2001, in London I think)

Drew Gress: bassTim Berne: alto saxCraig Taborn: pianoTom Rainey: drumshttp://rapidshare.com/files/40014590/DGress.rar.html FM broadcast ripped at 224kbps. About 1 hrs playing time, split into 2 untitled tracks. I don't know very much about Gress, but he seems to have played all over the place, including in Tim Berne's band, so perhaps this concert was Berne repaying the complement.

The weather's dried up a bit, but more rain is expected tomorrow. Low lying areas are still under threat as the rivers fill up off the hills.

visit drew gress' website http://www.drewgress.com/drew.html

read an article about drew gress' 7 black butterflys album, (a good one)

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17746

buy drew gress albums- http://www.amazon.com/Drew-Gress/artist/B000APPVUE

SOME ART BY AUSTRALIAN OUTSIDER DAMIEN MICHAELS

here are a few drawrings by australian contemporary "outsider artist" damien michaels"

ive been in a few group shows with damien,though weve never met.

http://www.artofimagination.org/Pages/Michaels.html

ICP OO6- "group composing" 1970

heres another, upload by 'boromir' by request

this album has also appeared on the mutant sounds

blog,but many people including myself were unable to open one of the files.

so here it is again, unlikely that this will ever be reissued, the master tapes of this and other I.C.P,releases have apparently been lost.
heres a review by none other than eugene chadbourne.

The name Instant Composers Pool has become synonymous with the extended ensemble of Misha Mengelberg, closely identified with both his compositions and his amusing outlook on life. These associations mean the use of the name in conjunction with this early-'70s recording may wind up hiding a crucial and astonishing document of group improvisation. The German, Dutch, and British scenes come together for this extended piece of music, spilling over two sides and titled simply "Groupcomposing." The players featured are some of the most famous and well respected from these countries, interacting in a hustle bustle of energetic attacks and contrasting moods that is bound to make fans of the European free improvisation scene jump up and down, and why not since the people downstairs are probably already horrified. Some of these listeners, again, think Instant Composers Pool and imagine written charts, somewhat similar to what Willem Breuker cooks up. This album is much more like the acclaimed Topography of the Lungs release from roughly the same era, and in fact that album's three participants are all on hand here: Derek Bailey playing electric guitar with a tone that will make listeners want to raid the fridge, Evan Parker demonstrating how to play frantically and subtly at the same time, and Han Bennink approximating a windstorm on percussion, all fairly well recorded for this period. Mengelberg is also more on the case than he often is in these types of settings — he uses space, but does more than just sit back smoking and watching the others freaking out. Paul Rutherford is great on trombone, and so is the drummer's underrated brother Peter Bennink on both dangerously addled alto saxophone and preposterous bagpipe. Followers of this admittedly very challenging music all have their favorite events where the music just seemed totally inspired, one startling scenario developing after another on-stage. That, boy howdy, is just what this record is like.

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boromir said"Here's Brotzmann et al in Group Composing ICP006 Peter Brotzmann: tenor saxPaul Rutherford: trombone Han Bennink: percussionMisha Mengelberg: pianoEvan Parker: tenor and soprano saxPeter Bennink: alto sax, bagpipesDerek Bailey: guitarRecorded: 15/5/1970 Rotterdamhttp://rapidshare.com/files/39294123/ICP006.rar.html

Vinyl ripped at 224 kbps Scans attached, though cover's rather bland.
i couldn't agree less, i really rather like this cover,i assume its designed by bennink
buy other icp albums here
http://ssl.adhost.com/jazzloft/baskets/pos.cfm?CD=1548

I.C.P WEBSITE- HERE http://www.icporchestra.com/

Whit Dickey Quartet live at Vision Festival X on June 17 2005

heres another upload by 'boromir' ,

heres a spiel, from the all music guide

Free jazz drummer Whit Dickey first stepped into the spotlight as a leader with the release of his Transonic album from Aum Fidelity in 1998. Two years later, Wobbly Rail issued his Big Top release. Previously, he was best known for his solid work with Matthew Shipp and David S. Ware, with whom Dickey split in 1996. Early the following year, the drummer began composing the works that would be included on Transonic. Dickey penned all but two songs, "Kinesis" and "Second Skin," on the collection, and he even had a hand in those with the help of his fellow musicians on the album. The original compositions give a nod to the influence of "Criss Cross" and "Off Minor" from the legendary Thelonious Monk. Dickey recorded the album with the aid of Rob Brown on flute and alto saxophone, and Chris Lightcap on bass. In 2001, Dickey recorded half a dozen of his compositions with Mat Maneri, Shipp, and Brown under the name Nommonsemble, and put out Life Cycle through Aum Fidelity. ~ Linda Seida, All Music Guide

Whit Dickey Quartet live at Vision Festival X on June 17 2005

Line-up:

Whit Dickey - drumsRoy Campbell - trumpetRob Brown - alto saxJoe Morris - bass

http://rapidshare.com/files/38314775/WhitDickey.rar.htmlmp3 at 192kbps

buy whit dickey albums here-http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum005.html

Hamid Drake's Bindu recorded at Vision Festival XI on June 16 2006

boromir, said

"We had our first new potatoes last night, variety Vanessa, which is pink-skinned. . One of the lettuces I've grown this year is called Australian Yellow Loose Leaf, and it's done very well. I have 2 main crop potatoes growing (Desiree and Picasso), which I will harvest in September (if the slugs leave them alone)"

b. 3 August 1955, Monroe, Louisiana, USA. Hamid Drake studied drums extensively, including eastern and Caribbean styles. In 1974 he began what was to be a long-term musical relationship with Fred Anderson. In the late 70s, Anderson introduced him to George Lewis and Douglas Ewart. His most significant percussion influences, Ed Blackwell and Adam Rudolph, date from this period. The latter, who was a childhood friend, became another continuing collaborator and they appeared together in numerous contexts, including Anderson's 1979 The Missing Link. Don Cherry, who Drake first met in 1978, was another continuing collaborator. Also in the late 70s, Hamid Drake became a member of the Mandingo Griot Society, appearing on the group's first album.

buy hamid drake ,albums here -http://www.indiejazz.com/page.aspx?page=ArtistDetail&ArtistID=95&p=2

Hamid Drake's Bindu recorded at Vision Festival XI on June 16 2006

Line-up: Hamid Drake - drums, tabla, frame drumsDaniel Carter, Sabir Mateen: tenor and alto saxophoneErnest Dawkins - tenor and alto saxophones, wooden fluteGreg Ward: alto saxophone, clarinet

Set list: Meeting and Parting,

Improvised Piece

http://rapidshare.com/files/38300543/Bindu.rar.htmlmp3 at 224 kbps

photo of hamid drake by frank rublino, from "drummer world"

PAUL BLEY -SOLEMN MEDITATION 1958 (GNP)RECS

a generous friend , wishing to contribute some , very rare unreissued vinyl, brings you....

paul bley-solemn meditation
(1958) GNP
this legendary record, was cut shortly before ,bleys legendary hillcrest club residency, which alerted (so some assert) the broader californian public to the existence of ornette coleman and don cherry.every one knows the story of how pike was sacked to make room for don and ornette.

this is the recorded debut of both dave pike and charlie haden.

a lovely record that i have known about but, never seen.
its firmly ,rooted in postbop language.
the playing's as wonderful as you'd expect but the real revelation here for me is lenny mcbrowne's drumming, which is subtly inventive throughout,other than this ive only previously heard mcbrowne on acouple of fairly drab ,organ funk dates from the mid sixties

theres so much dave pike being reissued especially on heavy 180 gram vinyl, its a wonder it hasnt been reissued for commercial reasons alone.
let alone because bley and haden are such pervasive contemporary influences.

my friend ,aint no trophy hunter
so be warned this and the record which follows have been well loved, and are probably going on 40years old

personnel
paul bley-piano
dave pike- vibraphone
charlie haden- db, lenny mcbrowne-drums
tracklist included+cover scan

ripped @256
http://rapidshare.com/files/37134380/SOL_M.zip

thanks "friend"

next up carla bley, michael mantler, steve lacy-"jazz realities" phillips 1966, !!!

MARION BROWN- JUBALEE 1966, REUP BY REQUEST ,FLAC

hi, Marion Brown's jubalee has been one of the most downloaded items here, some one mentioned that the file ho link from feburary is no longer active it appears the earlier file ho links have been trolled.
i dont know why, the records are all OOP, and have been for years.
with little prospect of being reissued.

for archival purposes ive reuploaded this in FLAC, 3 files ,you need all three to unzip.

personnel
brown, grachan moncur, dave burrell, reggie johnson
alan shorter, bennie maupin, beaver harris
SEE COMMENTS

GEORGE LEWIS, JOHN CARTER AND BOBBY BRADFORD-LIVE ON THE 5TH OF NOV 1978( RADIO BROADCAST)

heres a great little concert, featuring unrecorded compositions by the great african american trombonist composer- george lewis, what a terrific line up, TOO this is an american radio broadcast from 5th of november 1978

george lewis-trombone john carter-clarinet bobby bradford -tpt

just two tracks 1) shadowgraph 5

2) player.

ive ripped it to both FLAC and mp3-192

(FLAC VERSION IN A SPLIT FILE,YOU NEED BOTH!) for those who want quality ! both files= 180 meg

1- http://anonym.to/?http%3A%2F%2Frapidshare.com%2Ffiles%2F36267931%2Fgl_l_781.rar

2- http://anonym.to/?http%3A%2F%2Frapidshare.com%2Ffiles%2F36273242%2Fgl_l_782.rar

heres the mp3 at 192 for those who dont mind the slightly flat sound and or have slow connections.

mp3 192 http://anonym.to/?http%3A%2F%2Frapidshare.com%2Ffiles%2F36279322%2FG_L_L78_MP3.rar

the above photo of lewis ,is by oscar henn,hope he doesnt mind,it was one of the few shots of george in action.

also heres george lewis' site at the columbia university music faculty ,for those unfamiliar with

mr lewis work

http://music.columbia.edu/faculty/lewis.html

buy george lewis discs, there are many on black saint, sackville, andmusic and arts.

thanks to flux'us for his last couple of posts and some much needed help.

i woke up this morning to an email from mr lucky of border music and cineville, sadly his extraordinary blog is no more, lucky is calling it quits , lucky taught me the rudiments of blogging, how to open accounts, use a file host ,etc

i shall miss him.

JACK WRIGHT AGAIN & AGAIN!!!

I thought it better to make a post of this,
rather than link it in the comments!

For anybody who liked this album,
here is a link to Pine Ear Music.
Where you will find 6 free; album length downloads!
Including 2 by Jack Wright

From the Web Site:
“Pine Ear will release a new album-length project
every month in 2007 via free download.
Check and refresh this page monthly to download the latest updates.”

!!!GO GET E'M!!!

http://www.reubenradding.com/12.html



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JACK WRIGHT LARGE ENSEMBLE-( 8 X 9) ,2000

hi all heres an ornery disc of uncompromising free improv, from californias limited sedition lable.

this item has sold out and its this small cottage operations policy, never to reprint titles once they're gone.

guitarist john shiurba runs the lable, hes best known for having performed and recorded with the likes of anthony braxton and gino robair.

of the players here ,fans of this sort of thing will have heard of jack wright,whom i first became aware of through a couple of duets with italian percussionist andreas centazzo,those performances were from 1978-9.

bhob rhainey is also reasonably well known to people as i recall, his first major appearence was on the 1971 america record 'emergency' i may be mistaken about this ,i no longer have that lp, hes been playing a lot of improvised music in the last few years.

as have most of the people on this disc.

mathew sperry is ,possibly unfortunately best known for having played on a few tom waits albumsNOT THAT THEY ARE NO GOOD, it's simply obscured some of his fine achievments as an improvisor, these include a couple of fine discs of double bass solos, WHICH ARE STILL AVAILABLE FROM LIMITED SEDITION!. sadly sperry passed away a few years ago.

i confess that i know even less about the other performers ,though percussionist karen stackpole appears on quite a few other limited sed, discs that i posess.

JACK WRIGHT LARGE ENSEMBLE (8 x 9) PERSONNEL

jack wright- saxes , matt ingalls- clarinet, bhob rhainey-soprano sax, mathew sperry- contrabass, morgan guberman- contrabass, tom djill- tpt, ron heglin- tuba ,voice , john shiurba- guitar, karen stackpole- percussion

recorded by shiurba on the 3rd of the 7th 2000

visit limited sedition here - http://www.limitedsedition.com/LS.html

BUY THE CDR'S ,AT $10 ITS A STEAL AND WILL ENABLE THEM TO PUT OUT MORE GREAT STUFF

ripped at 256kbs mp3, in 2 parts including scans

part 1- http://rapidshare.com/files/34751190/JWR_LE_1.zip

part 2- http://rapidshare.com/files/34755329/JWR_LE_2.zip

once you grab this righteous slab, youre sure to aquire a taste for more, its an affordable habit.

enjoy