What a long, strange trip ...

Photo © Roberto Masotti / Lelli e Masotti Archivio.

This blog is now in its 12th 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 ...

Contributions

Anything our readers and followers would like to contribute goes here. That may include recommendations, reviews, recordings, you name it.

The earlier contributions thread was unfortunately deleted, but we have managed to recover about three years of the last five years of posts. The recovered posts have now been moved to separate posts in the new thread. All links to files are working at the time of writing. If there is anybody out there who has found that their contributions are missing, feel free to repost them or if anybody has downloaded files when they were still available, the same thing applies.  Of course, we welcome any new contributions from our followers, anything that we and you should know about.

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 26, 2021 -
We've shortened the list (again) for users' convenience:

Lol Coxhill - live in Rome '09
Michel Pilz - Celeste
Don Cherry-John Tchicai Group - Nyon 1980
Sabu Toyozumi / Paul Rutherford - Fragrance
New Herd - So Long Charles
Tomasz Stanko - Edward Vesala Quartet - Live at Remont
Steve Lacy-Lee Konitz Duo - Paris March 1st 1984
Bill Evans Trio feat. Lee Konitz - Live in Terni '78
Masahiko Togashi - The Face of Percussion
Alan Davie - The Alan Davie Music Workshop
Arthur Doyle, Takashi Mizutani, Sabu Toyozumi - Live In Japan 1997
Albert Mangelsdorff & Lee Konitz - Hannover, Germany, 1982
Mario Schiano - And His Allstars
PRS Picard, Rogers, Stevens 1989
John Stevens @ Terry Day Benefit 1991
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - BBC Session 1993
Paul Dunmall Octet - Bath 2002
Eddie Prevost 50th birthday
Günter Christmann & Detlef Schönenberg - Live in Padua '78 

Blake Parker - Stella!
Kenneth Terroade - Love Rejoice
Clifford Thornton - Ketchaoua
The Glass Orchestra - Tales from Siliconesia
Mujician - Band on the Wall 1997
Masahiko Togashi Trio - Voices
Kang Tae Hwan - Masahiko Satoh - Masahiko Togashi - Asian Spirits

Ornette Coleman Trio - Copenhagen '66
Manfred Schoof Sextet - Konstanz 1975
Toshi Tsuchitori - 3 LPs from D.Y.M. Records
Roach Om - Universal Expression
NDR Jazz Workshop No. 64 "Catching The New Ones" (1969)
NDR Jazz Workshop No. 50 "Remember Oscar Pettiford" (1967)
NDR Jazz Workshop No. 2 "Hans Koller" (1958)
NDR Jazz Workshop No. 3 "Hans Koller" (1958)
NDR Jazz Workshop No. 77 - Peter Brötzmann & Friends (Hamburg, 1972)
Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet & Guests - Hamburg, 1973
Blue Freedom's New Art Transformation - Blue Freedom's New Art Transformation

Toshi Tsuchitori with Fred Frith - The Euphio

Walt Dickerson - Solo Live - Dorchester, Mass., Dec 10, 1979

Masahiko Togashi - Guild For Human Music & Essence  

Evan Parker & Frank Perry - For The Love Of...

Evan Parker - Derek Bailey Quartet - Pisa 1980 

Quartet Moderne - St.Johann, 2009

Paul Lovens-Michael Moore-Phil Wachsmann-Sabina Meyer - Phonomanie IX 2009 

Globe Unity Orchestra - Bad Godesberg, 1979 

Pat Matshikiza - Sikiza Matshikiza - The Sun 1976

Charles K Noyes and David Tamura - Duets

Detail -  Way It Goes/Dance Of The Soul

Friedrich Gulda - Nachricht Vom Lande

Anthony Braxton & Roscoe Mitchell - Live in Pisa '78 

NDR JAZZ WORKSHOP NO.93 - Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet (Hannover 1973)

Bobby Few - More or Less Few

Tubby Hayes - 200% Proof 

Joe Rigby - Praise - Homeboy Music 2007

Masabumi Kikuchi - All About Dancing Mist 

Horace Tapscott - Moers 1992

Masahiko Togashi - Live at Dolphy

Cecil Taylor Unit - Live in Stuttgart 1966/1969 

Graham Sparks - Gurus are Fucked - Fringe Benefit

Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory - Radio Broadcast 1997

Masayuki Takayanagi - Action Direct

Mal Waldron / Jackie McLean - Like Old Times

Trio Music - Live in Genoa '83

Cecil Taylor - Yoshi's, December 1998

Rotcod Zzaj - Sdrawkcab Zzaj (An Improvisational Oddesey.....)

Reichel - Knispel - Niebergall - Waisvisz - Köln, 1974 

TTT with Butch Morris - Hollywood Blvd Concert / Malibu-Experiment

Sophia Domancich Trio+ - Bath 1995 remaster

Milford Graves Trio - Festival Sons d'Hiver 2008

Alan Silva - Inner Song 

Composers Pool "The Big Reunion" - Ravenna 1985

Ornette Coleman - A Wealth of ROIOs

David Murray Octet - NYC 1984

Extremely Quartet - Brighton, 1996

Jimmy Lyons, Oliver Lake, Henry Threadgill - Live Nickelsdorf 1980

Atté - Sondela (feat. Dudu Pukwana) 

Even More Sam Rivers 

Bobby Few / Alan Silva / Frank Wright - Solos & Duets (1)

Bobby Few / Alan Silva / Frank Wright - Solos & Duets (2)

John Russell / Richard Coldman - Home Cooking / Guitar Solos (Incus)

Steve Lacy - Sideways

Butcher/Durrant/Russell - 30 July 1989

YORIYUKI HARADA / KOICHI MATSUKAZE ‎– 無明 [MU-MYO:]

Yoriyuki Harada Unit - Harada Isu 

Kalaparusha - Kalaparusha

Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre - Ram's Run 

Tete Mbambisa - Tete's Big Sound

Tomasz Stańko ‎– Fish Face

Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - Live in Paris 2015 

Giorgio Buratti - A Smooth Day

Harry Beckett - Warm Smiles & Themes For Fega

Cecil Taylor Ensemble - Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen 1993 

Ethic Heritage Ensemble - Impressions

Acting Seven - Clan Music Overdrive

Masters of Unorthodox Jazz & Reform Art Unit - Vienna Jazz Avantgarde 

Rutherford -:- Brötzmann -:- Parker - Three Recordings - Audience 1976/80/81

Derek Bailey & Sabu Toyozumi - Live at Taruho

Manfred Schulze Bläser Quintett - Choral-Konzert

Tim Berne's "Los Totopos" - Jazz Gallery N.Y.C. 2010

The Glass Orchestra - TGO and Human

Ray Warleigh Qt. - Birmingham 1996 

Paul Dunmall - ZAP II  

Paul Dunmall - ZAP III  

Harry Beckett/Paul Dunmall Qt. - 1989 

Peter Brötzmann, Dudu Pukwana, John Zorn - Grenzüberschreitungen, Wuppertal 1983

Saheb Sarbib Quartet - UFO! On Tour

Hamiet Bluiett - Endangered Species 

Jayne Cortez & The Firespitters - Taking The Blues Back Home

 

 

 

Requests

Requests, broken links, re-ups and related topics go here. It may be easier for admins to be attentive to these topics if they are put here and not under the individual posts. There's no guarantee that we may be able to respond to everything, but we'll give it a try.

I've deleted the previous 'Requests' post as it was becoming a bit unwieldy.
I shall start the requests with the last one from the previous thread.

Free form

Anything else goes here. Observations on the general state of the universe and its overall direction are particularly welcome, but also on more mundane matters as you may see fit.

HORACE TAPSCOTT & EVERETT BROWN JR. "AT THE CROSSROADS" (NIMBUS WEST, 1980)

 

Repost of an old submission. Reverted it to draft some time ago and now I re-adding it - but - alas - all old comments have been discarded by the new blogger configurations....

Horace Tapscott, piano
Everett Brown jr., drums


A1. At The Crossroads     9:55
A2. Middle Age Madness     8:55
B1. Ballad For Window Lee Black 11:50
B2. Marcellus III 9:45

Written by H. Tapscott: A1 to B1
Written by E. Brown jr.: B2

Recorded at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, California, 1980.

Nimbus West Rcords NS 579 (vinyl rip)
Released 1980

WOLFGANG DAUNER "DER URSCHREI" (HANNOVER, 1974)

 

The promo LP from which I've ripped this rare composition by Wolfgang Dauner wasn't in the best condition. Removed several louder clicks 'n' pops manually. Then I've added a very mild filtering. You will still hear some crackling especially in the quieter parts of this work but I'm sure that the music deserves to be heard even with some extra noise.

Two years later in 1976 Dauner composed a jazz opera titled "Der Urschrei des Musikers" for the Berlin Jazz Days; during the performance Dauner had excerpts from contracts with musicians read aloud. The work dealt with the mechanisms in the record industry of that time.
And again in August 2010 in Stuttgart he came back to the topic (BTW: Urschrei means primal scream) with a composition / opera titled 'Second Prelude to the Primal Scream' (Zweiter Auftakt für den Urschrei) [conducted by Dennis Russell Davies] in memory of his Berlin opera.
How much the music offered here is the seed for the latter two compositions I don't know. But it seems rather likely that Dauner had an idea / theme which kept coming back through a good part of his life as musician and composer.

Wolfgang Dauner, piano, synthesizer, composition
Zbigniew Seifert, violin
Adelhard Roidinger, double bass
Ack van Rooyen, flugelhorn
Bronislav Kovacev, drums
Rundfunkorchester Hannover des NDR
Mladen Guteša, conductor

1. Der Urschrei  27:17

Recorded 27.-31.5.1974, Funkhaus Hannover, Germany.

Vinyl rip from the A side of a NDR promo LP "NDR Jazzworkshop '76" (666 796)

Sonny Simmons - Ecstatic Nostalgia

 Hello World!  HW06
released 1 Apr 2007

1 - Introduction: Ode To Thelonious Monk     8:05
2 - My Favorite Things             1:56
3 - The Promise                 2:42
4 - Exotic Study                 16:58
5 - My Favorite Things             7:27
6 - Blues For Everyday Life             9:54
7 - Out Of Love                 13:46

Sonny Simmon - alto sax, english horn

"#1-3 Recorded August 4, 2006 at Bruno Grégoire's home, Romainville, France and #4-7 December 12, 2006 at Galerie Apnée, Paris, France."

WEATHER REPORT "OSSIACH, 1971"

 

Here's another contribution by inamorata. The picture above is from the www and was shot during the concert in Oissach (no name given for the photographer).

Weather Report
3. Internationales Musikforum, Stiftshof
Ossiach
June 27, 1971
 
Source: FM or SBD

The earliest known live recording of WR

01 Firefish  13:57 >
02 Unidentified 2:01 >
03 Early Minor 8:15
04 Morning Lake 4:37 >
05 Waterfall  6:38
06 Umbrellas  7:22
07 Piano intro (Orange Lady theme) > Eurydice 14:36
08 Seventh Arrow 5:35 >
09 Unidentified 2:34
10 Orange Lady 11:03

Joe Zawinul, piano & keyboards
Wayne Shorter, tenor & soprano sax
Miroslav Vitous, bass
Alphonse Mouzon, drums
Dom Um Romao, percussion & flute

This show is relatively well circulated, but in variable sound quality, often with the sequence of compositions mixed up and/or one track missing (Eurydice was officially released) or otherwise incomplete. The date given for most versions, July 27, is also incorrect.

This new and uncirculated version is remastered from the best of several versions I picked up over the years, a trade CD I received from an Austrian collector. It appears to be fairly close to the original source but has the usual issues coming with several generations of cassette copies (pitch slightly sharp, azimuth errors, clicks and other artifacts). I have corrected all of these and remastered the sound, and I doubt you will find a better version of this historic show.

Considered to be the earliest known live recording of Weather Report, this represents what might be called the 'consolidated' first line-up with Dom um Romao having replaced Airto Moreira (and the other percussionists, Don Alias and Barbara Burton, who also contributed to the eponymous first album but remained uncredited). Alphonse Mouzon was still on board.

The venue was the 'Third International Music Forum Ossiach' in Carinthia, initiated by Friedrich Gulda, which brought together such diverse acts as, among others, Paul and Limpe Fuchs, Tangerine Dream, Arvind Parikh, Le groupe liturgique de Tunis, Pink Floyd, The Trio, and Gulda himself playing Mozart. While the audience sounds rather polite and restrained during the Weather Report show, Ossiach was flooded by enthusiastic hippies when Pink Floyd played on July 1st. The natives were shocked and as a consequence Gulda's festival had to move to Viktring, also in Carinthia, for the next editions. Selected recordings from the festival, made by the Austrian radio and TV network, ORF, were released on a three-LP sampler by BASF under the title Ossiach Live. This includes, as mentioned, Eurydice from the Weather Report set, in a very different mix from what we have here. The 2 CD edition from 2008 appears to be unofficial.
 

 

UPCOMING RELEASE XXII

 

   NoBusiness Records

Reform Art Orchestra - Pannonian Suite

 2 CDr in LP jacket
Released 2014

1-1     –reformARTunit     Untitled     
1-2     –reformARTunit     Untitled     
1-3     –reformARTunit     Untitled     
2-1     –The MASTERs of unorthodox music     Untitled     
2-2     –The MASTERs of unorthodox music     Untitled     
2-3     –The MASTERs of unorthodox music     Untitled     
2-4     –The MASTERs of unorthodox music     Untitled     

Alaeddin Adlernest - bassoon (tracks: 2)
Paul Fields - electric violin (tracks: 1)
Johannes Groysbeck - bass guitar  (tracks: 1)
Inge Katharina Pechoc - piano (tracks: 2)
Monika Stadler - Harp (tracks: 2)
Shamal Amin - voice
Nikolaus Dolp - drums
Nigar Hasib - voice
Raoul Herget - tuba
Karl Wilhelm Krbavac - viola da gamba
Yedda Chunyu Lin - piano
Sepp Mitterbauer - trumpet   
Fritz Novotny - soprano saxophone, flute
Rudolf Ruschel - trombone
Hans Echnaton Schano - voice
Karl Vossner - english horn
 
Improcomposed on 10 September 2014
at Porgy and Bess jazz music club
produced by the reformARTorchestra

FORMATION "FORMATION" (SELF-RELEASED, 1973)

 

Markus Geiger, soprano & tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Urs Voerkel, piano
Peter K. Frey, double bass
Herbert Hartmann, drums


1. 45 (7:52)
2. Verusse (10:34)
3. Fryli, Fryli (16:49)
4. Heissi Ohre (3:24)


Recorded 22nd April 1973, Dübendorf / Zürich

Self-released FORM 001 (Switzerland)

(vinyl rip)

Walter Malli, Werner Dafeldecker - Vrhunec - 1991

 Extraplatte, EX 128 CD
1991

1 - Wounded Heart (Malli)        2:27
2 - Amal Geht's No (Ferry Andrée)            1:11
3 - 245 (Eric Dolphy)            4:12
4 - Vrhunec (Malli)             0:19
5 - Wünschelrute (Malli)        4:13
6 - Depp (Malli)            2:21
7 - Glatzig(Malli, Dafeldecker)            2:13
8 - Almost Meticulous (Malli)        1:34
9 - Pease (Ornette Coleman)                1:28
10 - All Den Tauben (Malli, Dafeldecker)            6:24
11 - Oh Du Oida Huizuam (Malli)    1:40
12 - Tango Karfiol (Malli)        3:39
13 - I Häng An Meiner Weanastadt (Fritz Wolferl)  0:58
14 - The Face Of The Bass (Ornette Coleman)    3:40
15 - 3 Schwämme (Malli)        3:56
16 - Krötschilder I (Malli, Dafeldecker)    1:35
17 - Krötschilder II (Malli, Dafeldecker)    2:14
18 - Indian Klingl (Malli)        0:47
19 - Königslied (Malli)        4:23
20 - Wossara Seif (Malli)        2:57
21 - Amal Geht's No (Ferry Andrée)    1:32
 
Werner Dafeldecker - bass
Walter Malli - soprano saxophone

Digital Two-track recording on October 13 & 14, 1990 at Schloßtheater Schönbrunn, Vienna/Austria

MAX ROACH QUARTET "LIVE IN AMSTERDAM" (BAYSTATE, 1977)

 

 Here's a reup of Paul's post - below we have the original text which is still current.

< Max Roach Quartet in Amsterdam 1977 If you ever saw this band, it was a knockout, muscular sax, polyrhythms, always ancient to the future... Baystate LP, vinyl Rip, wav files >

 

Billy Harper, tenor saxophone
Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet
Reggie Workman, double bass
Max Roach, drums


1. It's Time (Roach) 22:49
2. Call of the Wild & Peacful Heart (Harper) 26:12

Recorded live August 17, 1977 at the "Jazzhaus", Amsterdam, Holland.

Baystate ‎– RVJ-6029
(vinyl rip - 96 khz)

MARIO SCHIANO, ELIO MARTUSCIELLO, MAURIZIO MARTUSCIELLO ‎– TRIO DI NAPOLI (DISCOTECA DI STATO, 1999)

 

1. Prologo E Introito - Allegro, Dolce E Solenne
2. Pezzo Giocoso - Vivacemente Ma Senza Fretta
3. Pezzo Serioso - Andante Sostenuto, Pensoso
4. Alla Napoletana - Vivace
5. Cantico - Largamente, Più Moderato

Mario Schiano, alto and soprano saxophone
Elio Martusciello, guitar, CDs, electronic devices
Maurizio Martusciello, percussion, electro-acoustic objects

Recorded in Rome at Discoteca di Stato on March 14 1998

Discoteca Di Stato ‎– DDS 99-2

CD Rip

The Reform Art Unit featuring Sunny Murray - Subway Performance

Granit Records, GR 93003
RAU 1021
CD
1993

1  - Inside Work. Seven Movements Dedicated To Sunny Murray     20:00

Paul Fields - violin, piano
Sepp Mitterbauer - trumpet
Fritz Novotny - clarinet, soprano sax, flutes, small percussion
Mario Rechtern - alto, baritone and sopranino sax

Recorded live October 5, 1993 at Soundfield Studio, Lower Austria
Composed by Reform Art Unit

2 - The Subway Performance. Eleven Movements Dedicated To Adolf Frohner     45:00

Leena Conquest, Sainkho Namtchylak - vocals
Sepp Mitterbauer - trumpet
Fritz Novotny, Georg Graf, Mario Rechtern - reeds
Paul Fields - violin
Karl Wilhelm Krbavac - Viola
Mia Zabelka - violin
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - bass
Sunny Murray - drums
Walter Schiefer - percussion
Stefan Bochdansky, Susanna Wilhelmina - voices
Dieter Haspel - director

Recorded live on September 2, 1993 at the Subway Station U3 Westbahnhof in Vienna
Composed by Reform Art Unit

 

MAX ROACH "CONFIRMATION" (FLUID RECORDS, 1978)

 

A contribution by Pablo - by request 

Billy Harper, tenor saxophone
Cecil Bridgwater, trumpet
Calvin Hill, double bass
Max Roach, drums

1. Confirmation 12:18       
2. Giant Steps     8:05   
3. The Profit 7:49       
4. Sunday Afternoon 7:01       
5. Soliloquy 6:17

Recorded 10.6.1978 at the studio Sysmo Records Paris, France.

Fluid Records FLUID 103
(vinyl rip - 96 khz)

HOPPER / DEAN / TIPPETT / GALLiVAN : Live 1977

Sound taken from video at https://vimeo.com/81384676. Slightly remastered. Thanks to Aymeric Leroy for setlist. One 62 minute file. I am posting it

in flac and mp3, although original file from vimeo was mp3

Echoes / Footprints (W. Shorter) / Calyx / untitled improv 

HUGH HOPPER - bass guitar

ELTON DEAN - alto sax, saxello

KEiTH TiPPETT - piano, elctric piano

JOE GALLiVAN - drums, synthesizer

Alex Coke - New Visions

 no much known, he has many collaborations with Willem Breuker Kollektief, Tina Marsh Opportunity Orchestra, and some albums as a leader; also some wonderful, to me, albums with Steven Feld and the Ghana connection on voxlox label.

Cola Rodriguez - Bass
Rock Savage - Drums
Alex Coke - Flute, Saxophone
Booka Michel - Percussion
James Wagner Rich Harney - Piano
Randy Zimmerman - Trombone
Tina Marsh - Vocals

A1 - By The River (Thinking of 0) 4:34
composed by Tina Marsh
A2 - Flexible Sunset           4:50
composed by Alex Coke
A3 - REM - 136           2:56
composed by Alex Coke
A4 - Djinn (improvisation)     5:18
A5 - Lenny          3:25
composed by Alex Coke
B1 - The Prank          5:22
composed by Rock Savage
B2 - Radio Eyes (e.d.)      8:10        
composed by Alex Coke
B3 - Casey Jones           5:26
composed by Edward Newton
B4 - Sayonara (improvisation)     2:12

Recorded November 1981 at Lone Star Studio

re records ‎– RE001
Vinyl
1982

MAX ROACH "THE LOADSTAR" (HORO, 1977)

 

 

Resurrected post with a high defintion vinyl rip.

Here's the original write up:

Horo Number 3 from I Forgot Clifford. I had 5 Max Roach discs on Clifford, and 2 of them were in the top ten (this one and Confirmation). This may be a bit surprising since much of the blog had free jazz. Max transcended generations having bopped with Bird and later played with Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Shepp, hip hoppers, MBoom, etc. I have posted this one because it is very rare and contains a lot of music. As noted previously, Billy Harper is great on this disc. If you are new to Max's drums, listen to the dialogue he sets up between snare and bass drum. The last of this breed may be Roy Haynes. 

 

Billy Harper, tenor saxophone
Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet
Reggie Workman, double bass
Max Roach, drums

1. The Matyr  32:41
2. Six Bits Blues 34:23


Recorded at Mama Dog Studio July 27, 1977 in Rome.

Horo Records HDP 9-10

(high definition vinyl rip)

  in flac with pictures from the web

 

Thanks to Pablo for the rip and the idea of reposting it in the first place.

Reform Art Unit - Open Window Suite, 1986-1989

 granit record 2018

SIDE ONE
Part 1: 16 may 1986, Wien
Sepp Mitterbauer - percussion, trumpet
Fritz Novotny - percussion
Nikolaos Polimenakos - piano
Walter Schiefer - percussion

Part 2: 29 june 1986, Aigen/Enns
Gerhard Fritsch - tenor sax
Richard Isaiah - trombone
Siegi Lemmerer - hackbrett
Sandro Miori - tenor sax
Fritz Novotny - clarinet, soprano sax
Christian Salfellner - drums
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass

Part 3: 6 march 1987, Linz
Paul Fields - keyboard, violin
Gerhard Fritsch - tenor sax
Fritz Novotny - khene, flute, soprano sax
Christian Salfellner - drums
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass

SIDE TWO
Part 4:18 january 1989, Wien
Paul Fields - violin
Fritz Novotny - clarinet, soprano sax
Walter Schiefer - drums
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass

Part 5: 17 september 1989, Wien
Paul Fields - violin
Fritz Novotny - glockenspiel, flute, clarinet
Sebastian Piekarek - flute
Walter Schiefer - drums
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass
Rolf Schwendter - poetry

Part 6: 28 december 1989, Wien
Leena Conquest - vocal
Bleda Elibal - double bass
Paul Fields - violin
Fritz Novotny - flute, khene
Sebastian Piekarek - flute
Christian Salfellner - drums
Levent Tarhan - santur
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass

Reform Art Unit with Milo Fine

 not my rip, is a mp3 from a musician

Fritz Novotny: reeds, percussion
Sepp Mitterbauer: trumpet
Paul Fields: piano, violin
Milo Fine: drums, clarinet, piano

Suite Milo       59:35

Recorded at Soundfields Studio, Vienna, Austria; November 29, 1996

1999, Granit (Austria) gr.96002/rau 1025

JORMIN - GUSTAFSSON - JORMIN "UMEÅ, 1997"

 

Here we have a contribution by inamorata (another one will follow)

***
Jormin - Gustafsson - Jormin
December 11, 1997
Umea, Sweden

Anders Jormin, bass
Mats Gustafsson, saxes and clarinet (?) [fluteophone??]
Christian Jormin, drums

01 Broadcast intro  0:53
02 What reason could I give? (Ornette Coleman)  7:42
03 Korpo II (Gustafsson)  11:30
04 Apus Apus (Jormin/Gustafsson/Jormin)  11:47
05 Unidentified  18:19
06 Unidentified  8:24
07 Broadcast outro  0:19

TT 58:54

inamorata second remaster version

This comes from a Swedish radio broadcast of a great live performance of music from the “Opus Apus” CD (LJ Records LJCD 5212, 1996). I picked it up on dimeadozen.org in 2012 and posted a remastered version there in 2016. In December 2020 I made a new version which, I think, sounds quite nice given the difficult source material. For information on the editing and remastering see the info file.

This is improvised music and I find it difficult to identify compositions. Except for trach 02, I’m not sure if I got it right (and if my guess concerning the Swedish outro is right the announcer disagrees with my identification of track 03).

The Opus Apus CD may still be available at the JL Records website (http://www.lj-records.se/). At any rate, a digital download can be purchased at Gustafsson’s Bandcamp site (https://matsgustafsson.bandcamp.com/album/opus-apus). Highly recommended!

***

Upcoming Release XXI

 Here are two incredible releases from the label Blank Forms Editions scheduled in mid June, both appears to be some essential records for fans of Don Cherry.

First is one of the earliest incarnation of the organic music theatre, a live recorded in France in 1972, with Nana, Moki, Christer Bothèn and french saxophonist Doudou Gouirand, the sound seems perfect.

The second double cd is titled « Summer House Session » and it is one of the many jam sessions that Don Cherry organised when he was in Sweden. Here also the sound is incredible and the sound samples reveals a fantastic music. Those two releases foreshadows a very cool summer :)

https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/music

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

CD Rip 

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

CD Rip

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

CD Rip

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

CD Rip

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

CD Rip

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

Reform Art Unit - Live At The Gymnasium

Granit Records, Gr. 89401
RAU 1017
cassette
 
A1 - Lobua     6:43
A2 - Third Decade     15:32
B3 - Cloude Music     23:16

Klaus Bru - Reeds
Paul Fields - Violin, Piano
Sepp Mitterbauer - Trumpet
Fritz Novotny - Reeds, Percussion
Walter Schiefer - Drums, Percussion
Giselher Smekal - Synthesizer
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - Bass

Recorded June 1989, Live Gymnasium, Strebersdorf, Austria

John Fischer - 6 x 1 = 10 Duos For A New Decade - Reentry 1980

John Fischer - Piano & Voice

Lester Bowie - trumpet

Charles Tyler - baritone saxophone

Perry Robinson - clarinet

Mark Whitecage - alto saxophone

Arthur Blythe - alto saxophone

Rick Kilburn - bass

Side A

1. Walking Ahead

2. I Love You Mama

3. What If?

4. But Not For Me

5. February

Side B

1. 110th Street

2. Bull Pop

3. Squeal

4. How Long Has This Been Going On?

Duos with Perry Robinson, Arthur Blythe, Mark Whitecage - Recorded at ENVIRON - 1977

Duos with Lester Bowie & Charles Tyler - Recorded 1978 [Media Sound & Downtown Sound]

Duo with Rick Kilburn - Recorded 1978 Public Theatre 

ReEntry Records RE-004 1980 vinyle rip from Serviceton