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Pierre has very kindly donated this great post. I'm sure there will be much interest in this...

This British saxophone trio was highly-acclaimed, but quite short-lived. It was formed by arguably the three greatest UK reedsmen of the t...

In 1971 steve lacy was hitting a real peak of sorts incorporating , what was happening musically in the the jazz laboratory that paris ...

our friend brent, brings us a reupload of a great concert, featuring a performance of the entirety of paul bley's great improvart album...

our friend 'intempestif', brings us a couple more great concerts by jan garbarek's classic early 70's quartet. this is the ...

Following Boromir's fine posting of Garbarek from Bremen in 1974, I thought I'd back up one year and put up this concert from 1973 a...

This recording is of uncertain lineage, I suspect it's a very good audience recording. For those people not familiar with Freeman's ...

Personally, I'm not a fan of Garbarek's later ECM work, where he seems to have jumped all sorts on band wagons (and made himself ver...

Red Records VPA129 David Murray Tenor Saxophone Lawrence ‘Butch’ Morris Trumpet Johnny Dyani (spelt Dyiani on record sleeve) Bass George Bro...

this too, was a lucky introduction to free improvised music. bought on the same day as the previously posted fictions .. and the bailey/holl...

heres a reupload of something posted febuary last year.. an upgrade for friends.. its a pretty rare album.. lord knows why ..a wonderfully ...

I thought I'd do a bit more of recycling from the now defunct C#9 blog. These posts were initially put in the comments section in respon...

Following up the Harriott posting a couple of weeks back, here, as promised, is the earlier Southern Horizons , originally out on the Jazzla...

Here’s something I like by Daunik Lazro who's own contributions don’t quite match those on his stellar re...

This is somewhat of a curiosity. The 3 great altoists improvising together, without rhythm section. I know nothing about this concert apart ...

Circle Records RK 16177/5 Circle Records, Aachener Str 60/62, 5000 Koln, Germany Dedicated to Martin Luther King I’m honoured to be invited ...

Hope you are all fully recovered from the excesses of Christmas (though I guess there are always some who go carry on non-stop into early Ja...

Details: Lee Konitz Trio w/ Paul Bley and Larry Grenadier Regatta Bar, Cambridge, MA April 12, 2002 Lee Konitz - alto Paul Bley - piano Lar...

D Steve Lacy Quintet Studio 104 Maison De Radio France Paris, France October 17, 1976 Steve Lacy - ss Derek Bailey - g Irene Aebi - cello,v,...

here's one, by roger deans group lysis , with a guest appearance ( he plays throughout)by Kenny wheeler. roger dean ...

Originally released in 1963 on Columbia, Movement was a follow-up to the earlier, fairly straight-laced Southern Horizons as well as to th...

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

here's a superb broadcast in good sound, of Enrico rava's great 1978 quartet. the band that made one of the great albums in the ...

An early improv purchase , thats long out of print and hasn’t seen cd reissue. This is an often misunderstood album.. almost universally pan...

Ken vandermark / Kent Kessler / Joe McPhee June 15, 2002 Gallery 37 Storefront TheaterChicago, IL June 15, 2002 1...09.58 2...14.41 3...0...

Hi all Heres an electrifying gig by ecstatic honker frank wright with one of the greatest European based groups, the blue notes. There is ap...

brent , has ripped this to 320 and says'just thought i'd also send along a 320 rip of coursil's black suite.you can post if...

heres a christmas present from brent who says 'Ok Mr. Fancypants-high-bitrate, here is icp004 at 320: ' this is the very first of ...

the leaders jvc jazz festival new morning paris, france18.10.2007 Personnel: chico freeman – ts, ss bobby watson – as eddie henderson – tr, ...

If you'd bought this LP when it was released, you'd be a bit pissed-off when you got it home and found out that it contains only abo...

Since there is a recent Burton Greene posting on this blog, I thought I'd recycle one of my old postings for the C#9 blog. This one did ...

Here's my first "official" contribution to the blog (and thanks to Sotise for inviting me). I have a long-lasting fascination ...

Away from jazz based modes of improvisation for just an instant.. Heres an epic slab of prime narco fueled free post i...

the post has dissapeared blogger is screwing up. BLOGGER SUCKS I DID NOT DELETE MY POST fucked if im going to write out the info again heres...

the great Raphe malik trumpet player first heard in cecil taylors stunning combo’s of the mid 70’s- early eighties, died last year leaving ...

Continuing on with the series of early david murray recordings. Here is murrays biggest challenge up to that point, 2 lps of...