28 April 2018

BENGT ERNRYD ‎– MUSIK (MAGNUM, 1966)





A1. Form För Sextett
A2. Två Blå - Fyra Blå(sare)
A3. Six And Four

B1. En Man Satt Vid Rödingsjön Och Hade Torskat Sin Sista Spinnare
B2. Possibile
B3. Summer Is Gone

Chris Holmström, alto & baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet
Wåge Finér, alto & tenor saxophone, claves
Gösta Wälivaara, bass
Ivan Oscarsson, drums
Lars Olovsson, trombone
Bengt Ernryd, B-trumpet, diskantposaun, zinka, Japanese bamboo-flute, voice, mellophone
Stefan Ernryd, piano intro

Recorded on 2 October, 1966

Magnum ‎– MLP-713 - mono

LP Rip


27 April 2018

Miłość, Tymon I Trupy - Muzyka Do Filmu Sztos - Gowi Records 1997

For the last post of this serie, let’s finish where we’ve started. This split cd is the perfect exemple of the Yass movement. Two bands are featured on this recording Miłość (love) and Tymon I Trupy. If Miłość was the most popular group of this movement, its music remains pretty much in the tradition of jazz. Noticeably less popular, Tymon I Trupy shows more the Yass spirit by having much wider influences. The leader of those two bands and one of the founding members of this cultural movement is the multi instrumentalist Tymon Tymański. An interesting article about the history and ideas of Yass can be found here:
Last but not least Miłość shared the studio and the stage with Lester Bowie, they have recorded two albums together that will perhaps be featured here in the future.
*Miłość
-Pamiętny Merta (Przykrywanie Gałęziami / A Nuż Bóg
-Kontredans II
-Doxy II
-Kontredans III
-Senna I
-Etno II
-Senna II
-Zdrowy Kołłątaj I
-Pływaj Obok Mnie
-Chory Kołłątaj
-Zdrowy Kołłątaj II
*Tymon I Trupy
-Widziałem, Widziałem
-Komu Się Poskarżyć
-To Coś

*Miłość
-Mikołaj Trzaska: alto & soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
-Tymon Tymański: contrabass
-Jacek Olter: drums
-Lesław Możdżer: piano
-Maciej Sikała: tenor & soprano sax
*Tymon I Trupy
-Tomasz "Święty" Hesse: bass guitar
-Jacek Olter: drums
-Tomasz Gwinciński: guitar
-Lesław Możdżer: keyboards
-Maciej Sikała: tenor sax
-Tymon Tymański: vocals, guitar
Music for the film « Sztos" by Olaf Lubaszenko
Recorded on  3, 5 and 17 March 1997 in the studio of Polish Radio Gdańsk.

Gowi Records cdg46 cd rip

23 April 2018

The GREAT JAZZ CHAMBER COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC OF VIENNA, 1978 or 79




Eugene Chadbourne, dobro, electric guitar, vocals
Franz Koglmann, flugelhorn
Walter Malli, soprano saxophone

Not good sound quality, but what else is out there?

Cassette Rip


20 April 2018

Sergey Kuryokhin & Boris Grebenshchikov - Mad Nightingales In The Russian Forest - 1985

Imagine the soundtrack of a novel by Edgar Allan Poe or Lovecraft, scary, mysterious, dark, cosmic …

This have been published first by Leo Records on lp in 1986 and reissued in Russia by Solyd Records in 1997.
What is interesting in the cd version besides the Cyrillic sleeve is the fact that the two parts of the title are reunited in one uninterrupted sequence.
Boris Grebenshchikov: electric guitar
Sergey Kuryokhin: Organ
Recorded Spring 1985 In Leningrad

Solyd Records slr 0087 cd rip
also available on lp Leo Records lr 167

19 April 2018

EUGENE CHADBOURNE ‎– PEOPLE WANT EVERYTHING - PERFORMANCE SPACE 122: THE HEARINGS (SELF-RELEASED, 1989)




A1.  Our Neighborhood
A2.  What Is Truth?
A3.  Theme From Alfred Hitchcock
A4.  Bernadette Gnossienes
A5.  The Law Is For The Protection Of The People
A6.  The Shephard
A7.  Jammin' With Gene
A8.  Cocaine For Children
A9.  Donovan Deutsch
A10. Once More With Feeling
A11. Godfather Waltz
A12. What Is Cocaine?
A13. Bitches Brew

B1.  Another Day Gone Lawman Wrong
B2.  Tommorow
B3.  Alfred Hitchcock, Bessie Smith's Godfather
B4.  Your Song Ruby Flintsones
B5.  Jammin' With Gene
B6.  The High Safeway
B7.  Godfather Theme
B8.  Chinese Soup


Tom Shephard, bass, electronics
Bob Jordan, booking agent
Murray Reams, drums, percussion
Doug Henderson, electric guitar
David Doyle, French horn, mandolin
Eugene Chadbourne, guitar
Lenny Kaye, pedal steel guitar
David Henderson, saxophone


Recorded on 15 November 1989.

Cassette Rip

17 April 2018

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT & SOLO "AKISAKILA" & "LONO" (TRIO RECORDS, 1973)



Cecil Taylor, piano
Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone
Andrew Cyrille, drums

1. Bulu Akisakila Kutala (vol.1)  61:06
2. Bulu Akisakila Kutala (vol.2)  20:38

Lono (solo):
3. Choral Of Voice (Elision) 7:19
4. Lono 9:23
5. Asapk In Ame - 1st Layer Part Of Indent 7:07
6. Indent - 1/2 Of First Layer, 2nd 1/2 Of 1st Layer  7:15


Trio recorded May 22, 1973 at Koseinenkin Dai-Hall, Tokyo.
Solo recorded May 29, 1973 at Lino Hall, Tokyo.


Source: Konnex KCD 5039 + KCD 5040

ICP 1967/68 HILVERSUM - ORIGINS OF ICP (expanded repost)



There have been several requests for a repost of the Instant Composers Pool recordings for Hilversum radio in the Netherlands in 1967. These were posted on the blog back in 2008, but unfortunately the links have lapsed since then. So only too happy to be able to respond.

Update from 17.04.2018
After correct silence requested a reup of these files I've searched on my hd's and found an expanded version.
Included in my repost are the years 1967 and 1968 (in flac) with more titles than listed below and two CDs with more music from the early years (in mp3).
Also the files are rearranged - haven't checked the infos..
So the repost is good for some surprises.

Basic info:

INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL Volume 1 (1967)

1967-06-19 / MENGELBERG
INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL + MANFRED SCHOOF
19.6.1967 – Hilversum, V.A.R.A. studio 5
Manfred Schoof cnt; Willem Breuker cl; Theo Loevendie bcl; Gilius van Bergeyk ob; Misha Mengelberg p; Maarten van Regteren Altena b; Han Bennink d.
1. JUMP ITALIANO (Misha Mengelberg) – 5:34
Length: 1t/5'43"
Source:rb/VARA, Radio Hilversum 2, 1967
Lineage: FM>2 gen.tape>HD/wav>flac

1967-11-23 / MENGELBERG
INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL
23.11.1967 – Hilversum, V.A.R.A. studio 5
Nedly Elstak tp; Theo Loevendie bcl; Willem Breuker bcl; Erik van Lier btb; Misha Mengelberg p; Maarten van Regteren Altena b; Han Bennink d.
2. DE LAATSTE STUNDE (Theo Loevendie) – 13:10
Length: 1t/13'32"
Source:rb/VARA, Radio Hilversum 2, 1967
Lineage: FM>2 gen.tape>HD/wav>flac

1967-12-18 / MENGELBERG
INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL + JOHN TCHICAI
18.12.1967 – Amsterdam, Lurelei-Theater (live)
John Tchicai as; Willem Breuker bcl; Misha Mengelberg p; Maarten van Regteren Altena b; Han Bennink d/vib.
3. COOL EYES (John Tchicai) – 9:46 [Trio, WB & MM out]
4. DIE BERGE SCHÜTZEN DIE HEIMAT (Misha Mengelberg) – 13:50
Length: 2t/24'15" (incl. radio announcements and applause)
Source: rb/AVRO(?), Radio Hilversum 1967/68
Lineage: FM>2 gen.tape>HD/wav>flac

 INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL Volume 2 (1968)

1968-02-22 / MENGELBERG
INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL + PETER BRÖTZMANN
22.2.1968 – Baarn (NL)
Peter Brötzmann ts; Willem Breuker bcl; Lodewyk de Boer viola; Misha Mengelberg p; Han Bennink d.
5. DEDICATION TO PIETER SMEERPUTS (Misha Mengelberg) – 12:08
Length: 1t/12'08
Source: rb/VARA(?) (NL), Radio Hilversum 2, 1968
Lineage: FM>2 gen.tape>HD/wav>flac

1968-05-00a / MENGELBERG
INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL + JOHN TCHICAI
May 1968 – Hilversum, V.A.R.A. studio
John Tchicai & Willem Breuker as; Misha Mengelberg p; Maarten van Regteren Altena b; Han Bennink d.
6. SCANDINAVIAN DISCOVERIES (John Tchicai) – 15:44
Length: 1t/15'44"
Source: rb/VARA (NL), Radio Hilversum, broadcasting date 10.5.1968
Lineage: FM>2 gen.tape>HD/wav>flac

1968-05-00b / MENGELBERG
INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL + EVAN PARKER
May 1968 – Hilversum, V.A.R.A. studio
Evan Parker ts; Willem Breuker bcl; Misha Mengelberg p; Han Bennink d.
7. I.C.P.69 (Misha Mengelberg) – 14:00
Length: 1t/14'
Source: rb/VARA (NL), Radio Hilversum, broadcasting date 10.5.1968
Lineage: FM>2 gen.tape>HD/wav>flac

Additional info by the poster (on the Dime network):

The first ICP-sessions in 1967 are important documents for the second root of this very special kind of Dutch "free jazz": the tradition of the European contemporary written music. It's a strange kind of "Third Stream Music".

The recording sessions are also documents for the beginning international integration of the European Improvised Music scene with the guests from Germany, England and Denmark.

The technical quality of these pieces is poor due to my possibilities to receive these broadcastings in 1967/68. Specially the two live recordings (tracks 3 and 4) are something only for hard-core musicologists, because I got them by trade from an x-generation copy. But let's be happy that these recordings have survived and hope, that there will be someone who has received and preserved a better cut.

The recordings are giving an impression of the treasures which are still hidden in the Netherlands archives.

I hope that my seeds will motivate someone for digging there. It would be quite amazing to be able to listen to these unique beginnings of the contemporary jazz from the Netherlands in a good quality on CD or on Radio someday.

Links in comments.

14 April 2018

SVEN HESSLE ‎– GREKISK RAPSODI / NOVOTEK (SELF-RELEASED, 1968)






A.  Grekisk Rapsodi

Christer Boustedt, alto saxophone
Gösta Wälivaara, bass
Sven Hessle, bass
Jan Carlsson, drums
Torbjørn Munthe-Sandberg, vocals


B. Novotek

Sven Hessle, bass
Anders Söderling, drums
Åke Johansson, piano
Gilbert Holmström, tenor saxophone


Recorded on January 14, 1967 (A) and June 10, 1968 (B)

LP Rip

7 April 2018

CECIL TAYLOR & THURMAN BARKER - Frankfurt 1995

























CECIL TAYLOR - piano, voice, bells...
THURMAN BARKER - percussion, vibes, marimba, voice..

1. 70:09

26th German Jazz Festival. Frankfurt.
30th September 1995

Radio broadcast.

First ten minutes on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oABZJu1gTRM

6 April 2018

Vlatko Kučan Quartet Feat. Tomasz Stanko - Live At Palo-Palo - True Muze 1991

Our trip in the East goes on with this saxophonist from Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). But even if Vlatko Kučan have kept some connections with his native country, he lives in Germany since the seventies. Under his name he have made only one album that is presented here but he have played with many renowned musicians including Anthony Braxton, Steve Swallow, Lester Bowie, Carla Bley, Marion Brown  or Dieter Glawischnig to name a few. But Vlatko Kučan is also working as composer for theatre, movies and radio; his works includes also meeting between music and philosophy and poetry. Last but not least he have also studied psychoanalysis and he teach and practice musical therapy. Considering that, no surprise that his discography as a leader is so small.

Vlatko Kučan Quartet Live At Palo-PalO

  1. Dance Of The Robot People
  2. 2. Gigolo
  3. 3. Paris Blues
  4. 4. Floating
  5. 5. Tuba Tune
  6. 6. `Round Midnight

Track 1 & 3 composed by Jay Oliver, track 2 & 5 composed by `Vlatko Kuçan, track 4 composed by Heinz-Erich Gödecke and track 6 composed by…

-Vlatko Kučan: Tenor & soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
-Bill Elgart: Drums
-Jay Oliver: Bass
-Tomasz Stanko: Trumpet
-Michael Danner: Trombone, tuba

Recorded Live at Palo-Palo, Hannover Germany on 19 March 1991


True Muze TUMU CD 9803 cd rip