AIR "ANGOULEME, 1981"

 

 

Henry Threadgill, alto & tenor saxophone, flute
Fred Hopkins, double bass
Steve McCall, drums


01 - Sir Simpleton 21:53
02 - Substration 11:59
03 - Somebody Got The Wrong Shoes (For Rafael Garrett) 19:28
04 - C.T., J.L. - Ann SMcC 19:56

Recorded May 28, 1981 at Festival d'Angouleme, Theatre Municipal, Angouleme.

(FM - 16bit48)

This is the complete concert

DEWEY REDMAN QUARTET :: Willisau 1977-03-26

These two live tracks, shared by mew23 in Contributions section, are killers! I did equalisation as usually. Enjoy.

Dewey Redman Quartet - Willisau, Switzerland, March 26, 1977

Dewey Redman - ts, musette
Ted Daniel - tp
Fred Hopkins - b
Edward Moore - dr

1) 31:03
2) 13:37 n.c.

David Murray-Quintet Unkown Venue NYC,13-Oct 1976,AUD

Here's a great gig , of David Murray  with Bluiett's Quartet, or Visa Versa, the lineup is similar to Endangered Species, with Dara and Wilson again in fine form , yeah an excitingly exploratory show!
thanks to the Dime sharer JackMw for this one!
Exceptional music , despite the tape being Rough around the Edges!
if others want to help out with mirrors please do! i'll try not to use Mega in future.


David Murray Quintet
Unknown venue
New York, NY
October 13, 1976

David Murray ts
Hamiett Bluiett bs
Olu Dara crnt
Fred Hopkins b
Philip Wilson d

Source: Stereo audience tape > ? > CD > EAC v. 1.0 beta 2 (extraction and FLAC encoding) > FLAC compression level 8

Disc one
d1t01 [0:22:35.56]
d1t02 [0:26:29.27]
d1t03 [0:10:52.27]
Total time: 0:59:57.35

Disc two
d2t01 [0:23:23.06]
d2t02 [0:08:01.70]
Total time: 0:31:25.01

Hamiet Bluiett-Impossible to keep,1996 (rec 1979)

And here's my favorite band of Bluiett's , the same that also made 'Resolution'on Black Saint,the deep empathetic chemistry , with Pullen dating back to the Mingus band of a few years before ,very much in evidence here.

Sobre una nube was originally released as the India Navigation Lp SOS,

This double disc features the whole concert pretty much unedited.

enjoy!!

Don Pullen Quartet - Live in Milan '78

Milan was the final stage of a very long European tour, where, in addition to three concerts, the Quartet recorded the album "Warriors" for the Black Saint.

Rec. live at "Capolinea", Milan, Italy, on Sunday April 9, 1978
(mics recording)

Don Pullen,piano
Chico Freeman,tenor & soprano saxes,flute
Fred Hopkins,bass
Bobby Battle,drums

Sunday afternoon set:
1. Richard's Tune [D.Pullen]/Look Up [C.Freeman] (1:03:15)

Sunday evening set:
2. Double Arc Jake [D.Pullen] (1:36:21)

Total Time 2:39:36

Double Arc Jake (excerpt)

Air - Live in Pisa '79

For the first day of spring, what better than a live Air?

Rec. live at "Teatro Giardino Scotto", Pisa, Italy,
on June 27, 1979 (mics recording)

Henry Threadgill,reeds,flute
Fred Hopkins,bass
Steve McCall,drums

1. Unknown/Portrait Of Leo Smith (14:36)
2. Midnight Sun (13:22)
3. Sir Simpleton (12:37)
4. Untitled Tango (16:09)
5. Open Air Suit [encore] (05:56)

Total Time 1:02:42

excerpt from Midnight Sun

STEVE COHN "THE BEGGAR AND THE ROBOT IN DIAMONDS" (ITMP, 1986/93)

STEVE COHN "THE BEGGAR AND THE ROBOT IN DIAMONDS"


Steve Cohn, piano, shakuhachi, hichiriki, khaen, shofar, percussion
Fred Hopkins, bass
Jason Hwang, violin
Tom Varner, french horn

'The Beggar'
1. 1st Movement 08:45
2. 2nd Movement 06:54
3. 3rd Movement 20:04



Steve Cohn, piano, shakuhachi, hichiriki
Frank Lowe, tenor saxophone
Bob Stewart, tuba
William Parker, bass, musette
Karl Berger, vibes
Zen Matsuura, drums

'The Robot In Diamonds'
1. 1st Movement 11:11
2. 2nd Movement 11:15
3. 3rd Movement 17:01



'The Beggar' recorded live at the Miller Theatre, N.Y.C., N.Y. on 14th October, 1993.
'The Robot...' recorded at Zen's Studio, Brooklyn, N.Y. on 30th January, 1986.


ITMP 970089

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STEVE COHN "ITTEKIMASU" (ITM, 1987)

STEVE COHN "ITTEKIMASU"


Steve Cohn, piano, shakuhachi, hichiriki, shofar, khaen, percussion
Fred Hopkins, bass
Thurman Barker, drums, marimba, orchestra bells, percussion


1. First movement 16:25
2. Second movement 08:00
3. Third movement 06:15
4. Fourth movement 12:15
5. Fifth movement 12:20

Recorded 9/4/1987 at the Greenwich Village Jazz Festival, at the Greenwich House, N.Y.C.

ITM Records ITMP 970059

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Air - Live in Lovere '79

For all Air lovers.

Rec. live in Lovere, Italy, on June 17, 1979
(mix recording)

Henry Threadgill,reeds,flute
Fred Hopkins,bass
Steve McCall,drums

1. Through A Keyhole Darkly/Dance Of The Beast/G.v.E./
Keep Right On Playng Thru The Mirror Over The Water (47:23)
2. Midnight Sun [encore] (06:10)

Total Time 53:34

Arthur Blythe Quartet - Live in Newport '80

The "in the tradition" Blythe's quartet taped live at the
Newport Festival.

Rec. live at the "Newport Jazz Festival", on July 1980
(radio broadcast)

Arthur Blythe,alto sax
John Hicks,piano
Fred Hopkins,bass
Steve McCall,drums

1. Miss Nancy (16:20)
2. Slidin' Through (14:23)
3. Misty (09:00)
4. Odessa (11:09)
5. Break Tune (06:51)

Total Time 57:45

All compositions by A.Blythe except 3 [E.Garner]

Don Pullen Quartet - Grenoble 1978

Happy New Year to one and all !

Pullen was an artist who must have slipped under my radar until quite recently. I'd heard him on one or two Mingus records, but not on anything else. He started out as an avant gardist in the 60s, playing with the likes of Guisseppi Logan and Milford Graves, but must have cleaned up his act to occupy the piano spot in the Charles Mingus band for much of the 70s. On Mingus's death, he formed a great quartet with fellow Mingus sidesmen, reedsman George Adams and drumme Dannie Richmond, along with bassist Cameron Brown (formerly with Archie Shepp). This quartet endured for much of the 80s and produced some fine recordings.

This concert, an FM recording (thanks go to blackforest for seeding) predates the formation of the Adams quartet, and is the same line-up that produced the album Warriors in 1978.

Details:

Don Pullen Quartet
Grenoble (France)
Maison de la Culture - Grande Salle
19780322 - March 03, 1978

Don Pullen p
Chico Freeman ts, ss, fl
Fred Hopkins b
Bobby Battle dr

1) 31:36 Richard´s Tune (Don Pullen)
2) 27:52 Joycie Girl (Don Pullen)....
3) 24:20 …u.t.

Much criticism has been levelled at Pullen, suggesting he was a poor man's Cecil Taylor. Well he can pound the ivories as well as the next man, as passages of this recording show, but I think he is much more than that.
Freeman is superb on this. He doesn't appear until about two-thirds the way through the first track (perhaps he was held up in the traffic). He plays freer than on anything else I've heard by him.

If anyone is interested in a solo Don Pullen recording, "Five To Go" is still available on fredito's now defunkt blog at
http://huppeshyalites.blogspot.com/2007/05/don-pullen-five-to-go.html. Quite rare I think, and well worth a listen.

AIR- LIVE IN SALZBURG AUSTRIA, (2nd april 1982) FLAC and LAME

more, great live ..Air..
a stunning show in decent sound ( for an audience tape)
for centrifuge, ghostrancedance neeroonoo1
and other air lovers.

Last track is a jimmy garrison dedication, which the great fred hopkins ...lord bless him takes solo.

AirSalzburg (Austria)Jazz im Theater – Elisabethbühne

Henry Threadgill as, ts, fl,
Fred Hopkins db
Steve McCall dr
1) 08:50 Subtraction2) 11:29 R.B.3) 29:374) 09:235) 05:58

enjoy

AIR -SUISSE AIR 1978 ,FLAC and LAME

HERE'S, a stunning live album by one of the all time
great free jazz groups, this the first album of theirs i ever bought, and Ive loved the collective sound of this group ever since.


threadgill has now like anthony braxton transcended the idiom, and there are plenty of pointers to this (rampantly eclectic )future direction throughout this GLORIOUS slab .

this bands palette was as broad as it was subtle, almost everything can happen,a truly rich and rewarding listening experience.

i never tire of listening to this, one could spend a lifetime and find continual renewal.

who knows why the aeco became more acclaimed than AIR or the Revolutionary ensemble for me along with Leo smith and anthony braxton's mammoth oeuvre.
the most joyous and satisfying listening experiences Ive ever had, contemporary free jazz is hugely mannered by comparison.

fred hopkins and steve mccall -are sadly no longer with us.








this is a very clean vinyl rip, and shame on bmg or whomever owns novus for not deeming air's albums worthy of full hansomely packaged reissue.

its almost criminal.
many people are starving for this, and if they dont step in and fill the gap, we will continue to share it in the form of crackly vinyl rips!!

a pox on their stingy bottom line mentality, and bottomless profit mongering.
as well as there ephemeral taste shaping on a mass toxic scale.

BUY REISSUED AIR.

VISIT HENRY THREADGILLS PAGE (the only one i can find)
http://www.ejn.it/mus/threadgi.htm




album info
air suisse , recorded live at montreux jazz fest july 22, 1978, released by novus( now bmg)

side 1
lets all go down to the footwash
abra

side 2
suisse air

henry threadgill- saxes, fl
fred hopkins -db
steve mccall- dr

many thnks to yann ,for his help with this current batch of rips!