1 November 2024

What a long, strange trip ...


Photo © Roberto Masotti / Lelli e Masotti Archivio.




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

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

With these few words, heading on ...

....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 8, 2024 -
We've shortened the list (again) for users' convenience:



Steve Lacy  - Blues For Aida
FMT - Tango
Amina Claudine Myers & Rrata Christine Jones - Live in Rome '79
Enrico Rava - Roswell Rudd Quartet - Live in Bremen (Feb 13 1978)
Joe McPhee - Black Magic Man
Karl & Ingrid Berger - Changing the Time
Togashi / Miyake / Takahashi / Jenny-Clark - Senza Tempo
Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus - Hakaru Hayashi - After the Apocalypse
Abe/Yoshizawa/Kondo/Bailey - Aida's Call 
Kang Tae Hwan - Clearness 
Takashi Kazamaki & Danny Davis - Atmosphere
Takashi Kazamaki - Eiko no hata
Marion Brown - Live
Michel Portal Unit - In Hamburg 1974 (NDR Jazz Workshop No.99)
Michel Portal - In Kleve 
Robert Pozar - Good Golly Miss Nancy
Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Requiem für einen jungen Dichter 
Bernt Rosengren - Fly Me To The Sun
Carla Bley Big Band - Escalator Over the Hill - Live in Perugia 1998
Iskra 1903 - Free Improvisation
Masahiko Togashi / Haruna Miyake / Yuji Takahashi / Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark - Senza Tempo
Eugene Chadbourne & Polly Bradfield - Torture Time! 
Brötzmann / McPhee Quartet - Live in London 2001 
Don Heckman - Ed Summerlin Improvisational Workshop - Jax Or Bettor
Peter Brötzmann 3+1 In Berlin 1973
John Carter & Bobby Bradford - Secrets 
Heiner Stadler - Brains on Fire
Love Cry Want - Love Cry Want  
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Three Gentlemen From Chicago
New Jazz Ensemble - Burning Flowers
The Chitinous Ensemble - Chitinous 
Kazue Sawai - Ta-Wa-Go 
Walden Wimberley & His Musical Friends - What The Pyramid Told Me 
Sunny Murray - Khan Jamal - Change of the Century
Manfred Schoof - Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet - NDR Jazz Workshop No. 187
Steve Lacy / Mal Waldron - Japan Dream 
Sam Rivers Trio - Live in Lovere '77
Hugh Hopper Wilderness - Rudersdorf 2005
Itaru Oki - Dialog
Itaru Oki - Opera Night
Harry Beckett on BBC Jazz Club
Steve Lacy - Points
The Quartet - Relation
The Quartet - Interchange
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Nuremberg 1996
Ninh Le Quan-Michel Doneda-Daunik Lazro - Concert Public
Braxton at Moers 1976 
Historic Meeting: Cecil Taylor-Anthony Braxton-William Parker-Tony Oxley - London 2007 
Steve Lacy Sextet - Wuppertal 1983  
A Touch of the Sun - Milk Teeth
Kowald-Smith-Naughton-Sommer - Live at WDR Koln 3/12/81 
District Six - To Be Free
Rajesh Mehta & Irena & Vojtěch Havel - A Day In Benedict
Stan Tracey at the BBC 1978 - 1982 
Stan Tracey and Louis Moholo - Live in Novara Italy 2006
Sonny Rollins - Live at Ronnie Scott's London 1968
Stevens.Riley.Guy - Pied Bull, 1981
David S. Ware - Flight Of I 
Katsuyuki Itakura - Calendar of Copse 
Robert Leriche - Danses
Masahiko Togashi & JJ Spirits - Updat
Andrew Hill Trio - Live at Pori 2oo2
John Tchicai Group - Montmatre, Copenhagen, May 29, 1981
Polly Bradfield, Peter Kuhn, Carolyn Romberg - Santa Cruz, House Concert, Mid 70's 
Archie Shepp Trio with Woody Shaw - Live Hamburg 1977 
Masabumi Kikuchi Sextet - Re-confirmation
Loek Dikker Waterland Big Band - Live in Moers '79'
James MacDonald - Pieces For Solo Horn (Music Gallery Editions, 1979)
Keneth Terroade - Love Rejoice (BYG 1969) 
Michel Pilz - Celeste + Jamabiko
Joachim Kühn - Sound of Feelings
Roswell Rudd's Broad Strokes Band invitée Sheila Jordan 
Evan Parker - Barry Guy - Paul Lytton - Tracks (Incus, 1983)
Evan Parker - Paul Lytton Duo - Ra (Ring Records, 1976)
Alexander von Schlippenbach Nonet - Köln 1969 
J.Jarman & D.Moye Quartet - Live in Rome '81
 

AKIRA SAKATA SESSION "TOKYO, 1983"


 

Akira Sakata, alto saxophone, clarinet, vocals
Ichiko Hashimoto, piano, vocals
Hiroshi Yoshino, double bass
Nobuo Fujii, drums

1. announcement 1:16
2. Mr. H.M. 9:02
3. band introduction 1:01
4. Memories (Formerly called <A Depressing Act>) 7:25
5. announcement 0:38
6. Tamago (Egg) 11:22
7. Tori (Bird)(IH, comp.) 10:59
8. Dance (incomplete) 4:25

Recorded at NHK 505 Studio, Tokyo on May 14, 1983.
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