Roscoe Mitchell - Solo Saxophone Concerts

Continuing with AACM-related material, this is a solo saxophone record by Roscoe Mitchell, basically composed of solo concert appearances in 1973-74. Nine pieces in all, some of which was known by the time of recording and others to be more fully developed in later Mitchell albums.

The album is bookended by two shortish versions of "Noonah" which was to be given much more extended treatments on the later Mitchell album by the same name. Here a version of the basic theme is stated and which to these ears would not be out of place in a Braxton repertoire with its staccato phrasing and knotty rhythmic tempo. The second piece is the only one not composed by Mitchell, a slower, sedate tune by Malachi Favors and a staple of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. It'll be interesting to go back to the AEoC album of the same name and check the Mitchell solo work-out against the full Ensemble treatment. The two following pieces are austere, almost minimalist, in which Mitchell seems to be working with sound elements in a very tentative, exploring way hinting at a melody yet to be found. "Eeltwo" sees Mitchell in a lyrical mood, slowly running through a somewhat elegiac melody repeating and varying it along the way. "Ooboma" is back to the austerity of "Enlorfe" and "Jibbina". "Ttum" sounds like a companion piece to "Noonah", again with certain characteristic Braxtonish features. Perhaps less of a pleasant listen than the Braxton-Lewis duo with less "playing to the audience" and more focus on introversion and contemplation of pure sound. More than a step removed from "jazz".

Titles:

01_Noonah
02_Tutankamen
03_Enlorfe
04_Jibbana
05_Eeltwo (Part One)
06_Eeltwo (Part Two)
07_Oobina (Little Big Horn)
08_Ttum
09_Noonah

All compositions by Roscoe Mitchell except "Tutankhamen" by Malachi Favors

Roscoe Mitchell plays soprano, alto, tenor and bass saxophones, recorded at Kalamazoo, Michigan October 22, 1973 (tracks 5,6), Montreal, Quebec, November 2, 1973 (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8) and Pori International Jazz Festival, Finland, July 12, 1974 (track 9)

Braxton up next ...

David Murray Solo: Organic Saxophone (flac and Lame)

David Murray Solo: Organic Saxophone
Palm 31

David Murray tenor saxophone

1. Body And Soul (dedicated to Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster) (Johnny Green)
2. Chan Pour Une Nouvelle Afrique Du Sud (David Murray)
3. Ballad For Matthew and Maia Garrison (David Murray)
4. Hope/Scope (dedicated to Mary Hope Lee) (David Murray)
5. All The Things You Are (dedicated to Ntazake Shange) (Jerome Kern)
6. The Prominade Never Stops (dedicated to George Brown) (David Murray)
7. Monica In Monk's Window (Stanley Crouch)

Recorded February 6 &; 7, 1978 live at the Theatre Mouffetard, Paris

Recorded by Jef Gilson

This recording is one third of a concert recorded in Paris in 1978. The other two parts were released on the Italian Red and British Cadillac labels. The Cadillac Conceptual Saxophone is, amazingly, still available commercially from the label. When you order you’ll get a vinyl copy from the original pressing. Let me know if you’d like one.

Organic Saxophone was released by Jef Gilson – who also recorded the concert – on his Paris-based Palm label. I’m guessing Gilson selected from the takes at the concert because this is the best programmed of the three LPs. Romantic ballads intersperse with sharper, wilder, performances, and the whole is very satisfying indeed. The recording is excellent for a live performance, although there is a very strong pre-echo of the sound explosions to come in each of the quiet moments in Murray's solos. This is most likely the result of ‘print-through’ where the magnetic signal encoded on the tape is passed on to the next layer of the tape wound on the reel. I must try and see if I can find out the full running order of the concert. I did try and see if there were any aural clues to the order, but it defeated me. It would be marvellous to have the whole two days of recordings featured on the three LPs made available as one release in performance order. I know that at least one of the masters still exists.

It’s the music that makes this recording, though:

This is the first time on record that Murray tackles a standard (well two, actually). 'Body and Soul' is dedicated to Hawkins and Webster, indicating the importance Murray placed on investigating the saxophone techniques of the masters of the instrument. Murray plays the theme with all the romanticism that made the Hawkins’ rendition a jukebox hit forty years before. From that point on, though, it’s an exploration of both the musical possibilities of the piece and the saxophone. Just as Hawkins had transformed what was possible on a tenor, Murray looks to go beyond even that. However, this is a lovely, tender, rendition which would set a pattern for his later exploration of the ballad in the jazz tradition.

‘Chant for a New South Africa’ is a wonderful, well titled, piece. He seems to be exploring the sort of counter-point used so effectively in the World Saxophone Quartet, but here from one soloist. Quite remarkable. It is both a meditative chant and a blow of frustration, punctuated with saxophone and verbal cries. He was seldom as overtly political in the naming, or playing, of a composition.

It is interesting how many of Murray’s recordings have dedications. His music always sounds very personal to me, and the dedications tend to suggest the relationship between his selection of music, his playing, and his personal relationships. I tend to a degree of speculation when trying to map out the dedications, and I’d be very interested to hear if I’ve got any of these right (or wrong), but they suggest a network of fellow musicians and friends who stimulated and supported his work. Ballad for Matthew and Maia Garrison feels a very personal piece, and I’m guessing that it’s named after the bass player and dancer siblings born to Coltrane’s bassist, Jimmy Garrison, and his wife, the dancer Roberta Garrison. The younger Garrison’s would have been ten and seven at the time of the recording, and the dedication suggests something of the creative world in which Murray operated at the time.

Hope/Scope is a much tarter piece featuring lots of Murray’s squeals and low to high leaps and runs, and the fast alterations between quiet and high volume. It feels right that this would be for the poet and writer Mary Hope Lee, whose poem “on not bein” is often a part of compilations of African American women’s writing. I’d like to think her 'A Song for David' from the following year was a reciprocal dedication. Murray reused the theme a further seven times on record in a variety of settings for quartet, octet and duo’s with piano players Dave Burrell and then Donald Fox. Murray's later playing is even more ecstatic than it is here, and usually set against piano clustered discords. Such an observation rather undermines the view that Murray became more mainstream as his career progressed.

The treatment of ‘All the Things You Are’ mirrors that of Body and Soul. A romantic statement of the theme and some lovely flights of playing that bring out the edge of a standard that’s often given a saccharin treatment. It’s dedicated to Murray’s then partner, poet Ntazake Shange, with whom Murray had been performing in New York for much of the previous year, and there are suggestions that they worked together in Europe during June 1977 (West 1977). I don’t know of any recordings of these performances, but I’d sure like to hear them if they exist. It’s pretty much an avant-lovesong.

Murray’s own ‘Promenade’ and Stanley Crouch’s ‘Monica In Monk's Window’ finish off the LP. The latter has a jolly theme which I think is pretty good writing from the EngLit-teacher-turned-drummer-turned-cultural-critic. Murray certainly does an excellent job with it in this five minute or so performance. As far as I am aware this is the only recording of both pieces. The earlier number is dedicated to George Brown, who I assume is the same GB who plays drums on the January Quartet Paris concert that appears on Last of The Hipman and Let the Music Take You [I featured Hipman in an earlier post here]. If you know anything more about George Brown I’d be very interested to hear.


References:

Mary Hope Lee (1979): ‘A Song for David’. Callaloo, No. 5, Women Poets: A Special Issue (Feb., 1979), p. 89

Mary Hope Lee ‘on not bein’ collected in Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua (eds) (1981): The Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Women of Color Press.

Hollie I West (1977): ‘The Development of a Bright Star’ Washington Post 12th June 1977.

Archie Shepp a massy(UNI_22_975_YX2 lp1975) FLAC, and lame

Pierre who has little time to post, sent this a few days ago.

its not one of the better known shepp albums, but its a great one about on par with steam ,shepp's stunning enja recording from the same year, and just as free wheeling and exploratory.

check out the ACE version of grachan moncurs classic hipgnosis and that WILL dispel any skepticism!!

click on the images to enlarge.

personnel

shepp, dave burrell-pno, charles greenlea- trb

cameron brown-db, beaver harris-dr

murky beans Pierre!!

Skidmore, Oxley, Haurand - SOH (1979)

Here's a terrific post from glmlr's vinyl collection. Many thanks to him for allowing us to enjoy this rare LP.

Details:

Alan Skidmore - Tony Oxley - Ali Haurand
"SOH"
Ego 4011 LP
Recorded Ludwigsburg
February 1979

Skidmore Alan, tenor, soprano
Haurand Ali, bass
Oxley Tony, drums, percussion.

A1 - One - Two - Free
B1 - Das Ist Alice
B2 - Trio nr. 10
B3 - Lost in W. G.


There are far too few Alan Skidmore recordings available. This one, long since unobtainable, is one of the best I've heard. For most of the tracks, Skidmore is in unashameably Coltrane mode, and nobody does it better than him. Curiously, as a contrast, the track "Trio nr. 10" sounds more like Evan Parker. I have my doubts about that track, but it's only short, and the rest of the tracks more than make up for it.

Glmlr informs me:-
"By complete coincidence, the latest issue of Cadence magazine contains a review of a newly-released SOH recording, called "Live in London" on the Jazzwerkstatt label, number 16, recorded in 1983."

That I believe is the only other recording the trio made, so if you can track it down you can have their entire recorded works.

Links in comments. Flac and MP3.

Anthony Braxton/George Lewis Duo - Elements of Surprise

Following the earlier posting of the Braxton - Mitchell duet, here is another duet from about the same time, more specifically the New Jazz Festival at Moers, June 1976.

This time Braxton is paired with George Lewis, another member of the AACM, though not quite among the founders as he joined in the early 70s. But he's taken upon himself to write the full history of the AACM, just published by the University of Chicago Press.

Four pieces in all:

01_Composition 64 (Braxton)

02_Ornithology (Braxton/Parker)

03_Composition 65 (Braxton)

04_Music for Trombone and Bb Soprano (Lewis)

This one is, I thought, less "austere" than the Mitchell - Braxton duet, which to some extent may be explained by the live concert setting which means they have an audience to interact with. Again, a great sense of rapport, almost intutitive, between the two. Great playing, needless to say, and an ability to do the classics and add their own prsonalities to it. Not at all inaccessible, as one may have thought, a sense of humour throughout which is easily noticed by the audience. Long stretches of virtuoso playing and an uncanny talent to make their instruments "speak". At some point, I was thinking of "Peter and the Wolf" as the two almost "act out" imaginary characters.

Very enjoyable and one to come back to. More to come, but I'll have to figure out what will be up next. Stay tuned!

James Carter Quartet - Marseille 1995

Serviceton wrote:-

"JC fans should enjoy this concert of his quartet from 1995 (No organs here though!)Nearly 2 1/2 hours of music.Sound is a good-ish audience recording
MP3s - LAME 320

rapidshare.com/files/108687506/jc_marseilles95.part1.
rarrapidshare.com/files/108723233/jc_marseilles95.part2.rar

Details got left out of the RARs and are copied verbatim here

"James Carter
Espace Julien
Marseille,
France1995,

November 2002

James Carter - soprano (#02), alto (#07, 08) & tenor (#03-05, 09, 10) saxophones
Craig Taborn - piano
Jaribu Shahid - bass
Tani Tabbal - drums

1st Set (58'39)
01 - introduction - 01'01
02 - 1944 Stomp (D.Byas) - 14'49
03 - - 11'01
04 - - 14'34
05 - The Stevedore's Serenade - 17'13

2nd Set (79'44)
06 - introduction - 00'39
07 - - 24'12
08 - The Intimacy Of My Woman's Beautiful Eyes (J.Carter) - 23'20
09 - Worried And Blue (D.Byas) - 14'22
10 - JC On The Set (J.Carter) - 17'10

Total Time: 138'23
This from a torrent - "berbilbe" is the credit-worthy individual

Hope someone enjoys."

Many thanks to serviceton for upload
19 April 2008 16:50:00

James Carter Organ Trio - Live Montreal 2002

I'm a bit short of time, so I'll be brief with this.

Details:

James Carter Organ Trio
Jazz Festival
Montreal,
Canada
July 4, 2002

Disc 1:
1) (19:04)
2) (22:00)
3) (12:07)
Total: (53:11)

Disc 2:
1) (19:42)
2) (27:30)
Total: (47:12)

James - reeds
Gerald Gibbs - organ
Leonard King - drums

For those who are not familiar with James Carter, he played in Lester Bowies bands, particularly in the New York Organ Ensemble, which may explain why he decided to form his own mini version. If you like the Hammond B3 organ, you'll love this. If you don't, well Carter is phenomenal so just shut your ears to the organ. Myself, I love it.

Unknown lineage, perhaps a soundboard recording. The quality is excellent. Thanks to seeder.
Link in comments, MP3 - I have flac, but it's quite a big upload and I'm not sure how popular this will be.

Roscoe Mitchell Creative Orchestra feat. Anthony Braxton

Another quick one, for Sotise this time. This is the Roscoe Mitchell Creative Orchestra, featuring Anthony Braxton and recorded live at the Konfrontationen '84, more specifically at the Jazzgalerie, Restaurant Falb (outside in the court yard), Nickelsdorf, Austria on 30. June 1984.

One contiguous piece only, lasting close to one hour.

Line - up:

Anthony Braxton - as,cond
Roscoe Mitchell - as,ss,bs,fl
Anthony Holland - as, bs
Faruq Z.Bey - ts
Michael Mossmann - tp, flh
Pinguin Moschner - tuba
Conny Bauer - tb
Johannes Bauer - tb
Martin Mayes - horns
Ursula Opens - p
Spencer Barefield - g
Susanna Heilmeyer - vla
Richard Teitelbaum - synth
Jaribu Shahid - b, eb
Ponda O'Bryan - perc
Tanni Tabbal - dr

This is a dense, orchestral piece which shifts across several moods and passages, some rooted in jazz, others in collective improvisation and yet others in formally composed contemporary music. As such it may be representative of the AACM philosophy of not recognising any stylistic boundaries in music, drawing as much on the Afro-American jazz tradition as on the European classical-contemporary tradition. Mitchell and Braxton were (and are) explicit exponents of this worldview, at the risk of not being fully accepted by either camp. But they know what they're doing and are fully able to defend themselves. Needless to say, perhaps, I'm in full sympathy with this view and with the deconstruction of artificial boundaries in music.

By the way, George Lewis has now published his book on the AACM which can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/6nj9ep

Braxton and Lewis up next, but that won't be quick as it's back to the vinyls again ...

Anthony Braxton Standards Quartet - Bergamo, Italy 2003

A quick one for Boromir now. I thought that his suggestion to lay off the Braxtons and Baileys for a while and get into real music required a quick response, so what could be better than Braxton doing standards! I believe Bailey did a cd of standards, too, but that may still be in print, so better lay off that one for the time being.

What we have here is ureleased material from the same European tour in 2003 that resulted in two four-cd sets on the Leo label. This is from what I understand off a concert at the Bergamo jazz festival, recorded at Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, Italy on Feb 21, 2003.

Four pieces in all:

01 East Of The Sun [Oscar Peterson]
02 Afro Blue [Mongo Santamaria]
03 Nancy (With The Laughing Face) [P Silvers & JV Heusen]
04 Little Melonae [Jackie McLean]

Line-up:

Kevin Norton - dr
Anthony Braxton - as. sop.
Kevin O'Neil - gtr
Andy Eulau - cb

In the words of one critic,"In an era when the jazz past is regularly bowdlerized, trivialized and travestied - reduced to little more than a marketing plan - Braxton presents it in much of its true potentiality as the authentic discourse of its time, making both the past and the present (even the future) that much richer than it was before". Yep.

Do lend an ear to "Afro Blue" and then dig out your Coltrane at Birdland album for comparison.

Superb playing from all concerned and Kevin O'Neil is a minor revelation IMHO. Right, then, and I'll get to the heavy-duty stuff later on, Sotise.

Peter King Quartet - Live at Bulls Head Barnes 2008

Peter King Quartet
The Bulls Head
Barnes
LondonUK

29 March 2008

Set One
1. E’s Blues (Melling)
2. My Ideal (Chase, Robin, Whiting)
3. Yes and No (Shorter)

Set Two
1. Untitled (Gascoine)
2. Deluge (Shorter)
3. Spain (Corea)
4. Lush Life (Strayhorn, sax solo)
5. Joshua (Feldman)

Peter King – alto sax
Steve Melling – piano
Geoff Gascoigne – double bass
Martin Drew – drums

I don't know how well this one will go down here, as there is a preponderance of free jazz. This is much more mainstream. Pete King is one of Britain's great altoists, who's been around since bebop days. He played at the opening night of Ronne Scott's club in London in 1959 (no I wasn't there - before my time). Since then he's led his own band and played along with the likes of Ronnie Scott, Stan Tracey and Alan Skidmore. He is said to be very "Parkerish" (and indeed he's done many tribute gigs to Bird), but I think he has a style more similar to Phil Woods.

The other guys in the band have played with Pete on and off for years. Martin Drew was Oscar Peterson's drummer for many years. Melling has worked with such notables as Elvin Jones and Benny Golson, but more fequently with Skidmore and other British artists.

As regards the venue, the pub is located right by Barnes Bridge on the Thames, and is one of the best regular jazz venues in the country. Unfortunately I don't live near, so I've only been there on a very few occasions when I've been in the area. It's a great place - all that jazz and Youngs Bitter as well - can't be bad !

This is an audience recording, excellently taped and seeded by "youngsbest" (see he even named his moniker after the beer). My thanks to him.

So forget your Braxtons and Baileys for a while and listen to some real music.

Link in comments.

Frank Lowe- the other side 1976 (palm lp 25 f) FLAC

Pierre who is too busy at the moment to post has just sent

FRANK LOWE / The Other Side

Frank Lowe, tenor saxophone; Lawrence Butch Morris, cornet; Didier Levallet, double bass;

George Brown, drums.

01 The Other Side (07:19); 02 Zap (06:18); 03 Up (05:13); 04 Pretty (05:38); 05 Carmen (07:32); 06 Fresh (06:00);
Recorded 19 December 1976 at Palm Studio, Paris.

this is in a similar vein to lowe's other

70's albums "fresh" and "the flam"

its been out of print far to long.

as i recall this was posted sometime last year by antanase at church#9 , at 192kbs

Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille- live at berlin jazz days 6th nov 1975 , FLAC, and LAME (NEW LINKS)

This is a very special concert, the finest cecil taylor roio ive ever heard .

Its simply incredible both as a performance ,and in terms of the recording quality.

From the most under documented period in cecils career.


Even a cursory comparison with “akisakila”(the only official release by this magnificent edition of taylor's unit) will reveal I think that this is of equal ,if not superior sound quality!

many thanks to the original taper/archiver of this stunning set, and virtual sonic hugs to black forrest the dime seeder.

Exhilarating stuff.. I can’t recommend it stongly enough.

Thanks also to glmlr who passed it on to me some months ago, and has rightly insisted on it being shared here.


cecil taylor trio
live at berliner jazztage , philharmonie berlin (d)

1) untitled improvisation 83.00

cecil taylor- pno
jimmy lyons -alto sax
andrew cyrille- drums .

Enjoy!!!!



Ps, can anyone provide an upload of a recent dime seed of roscoe mitchell’s creative orchestra featuring Anthony Braxton.
If anyone can help out, we here on this board would be most appreciative.

Alan Skidmore and Third Eye - Live Cologne 1978

Details:-

Third Eye
'Kauri' ,
Köln (Germany)
12th January 1978

Alan Skidmore - ts,ss
Gerd Dudek - ts,ss
Rob van den Broeck - el p
Ali Haurand - b
Frank Köllges - dr

K.A. Blues (Skidmore, 14:29)
Rhum (Huydts, 18:38)
The Healer (Gaynair, 20:03)

This combo released just one commercial recording in 1982 on a label called View VS, long since gone. Skidmore and Dudek of course need no introduction, but I don't know much of the rhythm section. Apparently, Haurand, the German bass player, recorded in a trio called SOH (not to be confused with SOS) along with Skidmore and Tony Oxley.

This is not groundbreaking stuff, but devotees of Skids will not be disappointed with this rare recording. I particularly like the 2nd track where both reedsmen play soprano, and is very evocative of the track title (Rhum, for non-UK folk, is a beautiful and remote island in Western Scotland).

This was a radio broadcast (excellent sound quality), transmitted in a lossy format, so no flac available. My thanks to seeder and taper.

Link in comments.

Roscoe Mitchell - Duets with Anthony Braxton

Continuing with the AACM flood and also responding to a request from Cent, this is a mid-70s recording with two of the AACM veterans, Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton. No prices for guessing who is who. This was done for the Canadian Sackville label and the notes on the back reveal that both of them made more records for the label at about this time. I do have the Mitchell group record in case there is an interest in that one.

Seven pieces in all, with Mitchell credited with the four on side one and Braxton with the three on side two, the latter with "graphical" titles. Most of the pieces are what one might call minimalist "tone poems" with the players throwing phrases back and forth and demonstrating in the process an amazing rapport with each other and an astounding ability to listen and to respond. The odd one out in this collection is "Composition 40Q" which to me sounds like a warped marching tune for an unspecified furry or feathered creature, demonstrating that there's an underlying sense of humour in Braxton's work, too. And as familiar listeners will expect, they keep switching between a multitude of reeds and woodwinds throughout the set, but leaving out the "little instruments" this time. A record for the long haul, I thought, and one to return to now and then.

Titles:

01_Five Twenty One Equals Eight

02_Line Fine Lyon Seven

03_Seven Behind Nine Ninety-Seven Sixteen or Seven

04_Cards - Three and Open

05_Comp. 40Q

06_Comp. 74A

07_Comp. 74B

There seems to be numbering theme behind Mitchell's pieces, but I've no idea about what significance to attach to it. Braxton's pieces are in general numbered.

Now, with a little more time on my hands, I hope to do more Braxton 70s vinyls, so stay tuned!

Don Cherry- 'cool' live in europe 1971 ? or a bootleg composite of his byg oeuvre... flac and lame

This don cherry bootleg compilation is very similar to the blue lake album which was originally released by byg and orient with bits of mu#1 and #2 thrown in for that matter.

This ‘cool’ boot seems to contain at least half of the material from that album.
I don’t have blue lake , but I have heard it a couple of times and judging by the results of cursory research ive conducted it appears to be the case that there is crossover.
Certainly the first few tracks amejelo, and bamboo night do not appear on blue lake

To my ears( this boot contains no personnel info or dates) the drummer on the above cited two tracks is definitely ed Blackwell who didn’t play on the byg record.
The following tracks don’t sound like the drummer is Blackwell (exept track 6), so they could well feature ok temiz who did.
This also features a variation of orient vol 1 which sounds different to the version on the album of the same name.
So my guess is that it’s a composite of two concerts from around the same time as blue lake.
Johnny Dyani can definitely be picked out both by the bass playing. And singing in a few passages though cherry does most ( and there is a lot) of the singing.

No date or personnel cited
My guess is
don cherry- tpt ,flutes , piano and voice, perc
Johnny dyani- db, voice, perc
Ed Blackwell –drums on at least track 2 and possibly track 6, okay temiz- drums
Tracklist
1) Amejelo- possibly from mu part 1( it sounds different, and that was credited as omelejo)
2) bamboo night- possibly from mu part 2 (sounds remarkably similar)
3) blue lake- ( possibly from blue lake)
4) east part 1 (possibly from blue lake)
5) east part 2 (possibly from blue lake)
6) smiling faces other places
7) orient #1 ( perhaps lifted from the album of the same name.. they sound very similar but could at a pinch be different)

so its ither a composite of cherrys byg albums, or exerpts from 2 or 3 concerts performed at similar times.

Perhaps someone else has this boot , and knows the particulars more thoroughly than i.
There are so many bootlegs and even official; releases of don cherry from this period it becomes confusing.

Whatever this is despite the monochrome slightly recessed sound its very beautiful and successful satisfying example of cherry’s ethno trance out.
The balance is not great either cherrys vocal mike at times to loud!
Dyani’s free roaming bass is clearly heard , as well as the tonal range of the kit.

its the bad balance which is similar on all the tracks which makes me think this could all be from the same (live) source.
its possible that the tracks were carefuly chosen from each of cherrys byg albums and deliberately remixed that way...
but the first 2 tracks featuring blackwell and possibly track six which appear on the mu albums seem like much rawer mixes.

Juhani Aaltonen trio- raahe, finland july 1st 2001, FLAC

Here’s a truly great concert by legendary alto saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen.
A player who has been a visible presence at least since the late 60’s.

I kow him mostly through the records of the drummer/ bandleader /composer Edward vesala, but also through a few recordings with arild Andersen and the album on tum with reggie workman and Andrew cyrille.

I haven’t heard much that he has recorded under his own name( judging by the discography on his website there are many) ,and after hearing this concert which is superb in every way im certainly going to investigate and aim to check this band out further ( any recommendations would be welcome).
According to his website he also played in the legendary progressive rock band tasavallan presidentti.
I actually bought one of their albums in my late teens not quite knowing what it was , but gave it away because it didn’t appeal at the time.

.. many thanks to the taper/seeder/traders

heres a link to Aaltonens website
http://juhaniaaltonen.com/index.php?target=1&subtarget=5&language=en


Juhan Aaltonen Trio
Fantti
Raahen rantajatsit
Raahe
Finland
2001-July-01 SB

Juhani Aaltonen (ten, fl)
Uffe Krokfors (bs)
Tom Nekljudow (dr)

1. (12:10)
2. (8:01)
3. (12:48)
4. Nature Boy (11:38)

Cecil Taylor - Yoshi's, December 1998

Thanks to glmlr for this music - three complete consecutive nights of Cecil Taylor (solo, and in quartet and sextet) at Yoshi's, Oakland, California in December 1998. The music is outstanding.

Details are:-

4th December, 1998

Cecil Taylor Quartet 

 

Cecil Taylor - piano 

Joe Locke - vibraphone 

Santi Debriano - bass 

Jackson Krall - drums 

1. Set I (60.34)

2. Set II (65.16)

5th December, 1998

Cecil Taylor Sextet / Quartet 

Cecil Taylor - piano/voice 

Joe Locke - vibraphone 

Santi Debriano - bass 

Jackson Krall - drums 

Oluyemi Thomas - bass clarinet (set I) 

Ijeoma Thomas - voice (set I) 

1. Set I/1 (voices intro) (3.57)

2. Set I/2 (14.16)

3. Set I/3 (25.10)

4. Set I/4 (18.46)

5. Set II/1 (24.45)

6. Set II/2 (12.55)

6th December, 1998

Cecil Taylor - Solo, Quartet, Sextet

Cecil Taylor - piano, voice

Joe Locke - vibraphone

Santi Debriano - bass

Jackson Krall - drums

Olyemi Thomas - bass clarinet

Ijeoma Thomas - voice

1. Cecil Taylor solo (16.30)

2. Jackson Krall drum solo (2.53)

3. Santi Debriano bass solo (7.02)

4. Quartet - 1 (18.52)

5. Quartet - 2 (27.09)

6. Quartet - 3 (13.43)

7. Sextet - 1 (60.22)

8. Sextet - 2 (30.09)

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Eda Wobu

Since we got a little AACM flood going here, I thought I'd chip in with this one. This one has always remained a bit of mystery in the AOEC discography. It's listed as released on the JMY label, but very hard to come by these days. Found this on the fine free jazz group on Usenet and thanks to "Tom F." for putting it up in the first place.

What you get here is one close to fifty minute slab of Paris 69 AEOC in the original quartet format. Regular listeners to Paris-period AEOC would know what to expect. This has to my knowledge not been out in any other form(at) before, so it fills in a hole for those of us who do not like any holes in our AEOC collection.

It nicely complements the earlier posting of the Smith-Jarman-Mitchell concert from 2000, so listeners are advised to draw comparisons across time and space.

Dig in!

Rototor- live at ulrichsberg Austria, may 5th 2005 ,flac

serviceton says

"If anyone is interested - From large ensemble to Trio...'ROTOR' is - sadly, now "was" - Paul Rutherford, Keith Tippett, & Paul Rogers (all here in Iskrastra too).

They became 'ROTTOR' when joined occasionally by Julie Tippett ('The First Full Turn' on Emanem recommended highly)http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4026.htmlThis ROTOR gig recorded Ulrichsberg Austria May 5, 2005.It's an audience recording but sound is pretty darned good.And there's some quite wonderful improvising here..(w/ big thanks to 'tricko')

Muhal Richard Abrams- lifea blinec 1978 , flac

serviceton says
"Muhal Richard Abrams is wonderful. Too often seen as just some 'progenitor' or father-figure ("Founded AACM blah blah") - and not enough listened to, in my view.Harmonically, texturally, even structurally, MRA's music is never less than interesting and frequently much, much better than that.If you download this and enjoy it, you must go out and buy some other Abrams records (or stay in and buy 'em if you like)Happily (even unusually!) - most are still in printWell over a dozen on the wonderful BlackSaintlabel http://www.blacksaint.com//Artists/muhal+richard+abrams/77ALL of these are worthwhile, with some, like 'Hearinga Suite' & 'Sightsong' being minor masterpieces.The 3 Delmarks under his own name are reissuedhttp://www.delmark.com/delmark.jazzbyart.htmAnd that's about it for the 60's and 70's save for a record of solo piano on the Japanese 'Why Not' label (briefly issued too on India Navigation).- And 2 albums on Arista Novus in 1978. As you point out sotise, these are probably in no danger of being issued any time soon.2nd of the 2 is called Lifea Blinec. It's a quintet w/ Joseph Jarman, Douglas Ewart, Amina Claudine Meyers and Thurman Barker.
Cover scans included."

HOPE SOMEONE ENJOYS IT.

Famoudou Don Moye "Sun Percussion volume one" (1975, AECO 001) FLAC

A Chicago musicians series would not be complete without at least one record from the Art Ensemble, so here is the first LP on the group's own AECO label. It seems that this imprint was used first as a mean of publishing the first album-lenght solo works by the group's members, Don Moye opening the series with the present percussion LP, followed by Joseph Jarman's "Sunbound" (AECO 002) and Malachi Favors' "The Natural and the Spiritual" (AECO 003). Roscoe Mitchell had also issued his "Solo Saxophone Concerts" on Sackville the year before the beginning of the series. Could somebody who has heard the four albums comment and tell us if there is or not a significant relationship between them ?

Enjoy,
Pierre

Please note that the Jarman title is still available in .mp3 at Nothing Is :
http://ajbenjamin2beta.blogspot.com/2006/10/joseph-jarman-sunbound.html

And that the AECO label is also still in activity and has reissued some of the LPs on CD, in addition to the new recordings done along the years :
http://artensembleofchicago.com/

Muhal Richard Abrams- spiral live at montreux 1978 arista novus lp 3007 flac and lame

Muhal Richard Abrahms has long been a favourite of mine, the founder of the AACM as well as the fabled experimental band which spawned the likes of the art ensemble of Chicago and brought to light so many great, beloved talents.

What can one say, reviews of this album have not always been kind.
Although often acknowledged as a great composer/bandleader I feel abrahms is unjustly undervalued as an improvising pianist.
I like this album a lot.
This has never had even a whiff of reissue as far as I know .
But then again both the arista and novus holdings of contemporary ‘post free’ jazz languish un reissued in obscurity, including essential braxton, lacy, abrahms, threadgill records.

no lavish mosaic box sets with immaculate annotated booklets for this motley crew



Spiral- live at montreux July 22 1978 arista novus 3007 lp

Side one- d song, string song.
Side two- voice song

Muhal Richard Abrahms- piano, gongs and cymbals

The Revolutionary Ensemble "The People's Republic" (1975, Horizon SP-708)

To complement Sotise's post of "Manhattan Cycles", here's another one of the five Revolutionary Ensemble records. Note that the other Revolutionary Ensemble 1975 record originally issued on the group's own RE: label as "The Psyche" has been recently transfered to CD format by Mutable Music.

If interested, don't forget to take a look at the documentation post for a link to an audio interview with Leroy Jenkins & Marilyn Crispell also containing music. The post has also been updated with scans of William Parker, Trevor Watts & Peter Kowald interviews.

Short on time again so please excuse the lenght of my post !

Enjoy,
Pierre

Alan Silva, Marshall Allen, William Parker - Vision Festival 2000

Here is another great concert that appeared on dime recently (thanks jeffgmorris). The music covers a wide gamut of emotions, and the interplay between Alan Silva and Marshall Allen - who is absolutely red hot - is particularly effective. Very good sound quality.

Vision Festival, New York City
23rd May, 2000

Alan Silva (p, synth)
Marshall Allen (ts, fl)
William Parker (b)

It would be great to get comments and responses to the music from the many people who download from this blog!

Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman- live at the hot house ,chicago june 15 2000 ,lame 320kbs

while we are focusing on the aacm for a bit, heres a superb concert by leo smith , roscoe Mitchell, and joeseph jarman.

This is luminous,and beautifully recorded .
Many thanks to the original dime taper/seeder of this show.
.. its magnificent.
Unfortunately no flacs from me for this one.

Wadada Leo Smith
Hot House, Chicago, IL
June 15, 2000

Disc 1-Track 1 52:30

Disc 2-Track 1 36:52 ,Track 2 11:09

Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Roscoe Mitchell - reeds
Joseph Jarman - reeds

each disc has been uploaded seperately , and is individually downloadable( not a split archive)
thanks to boromir… for uploading part 1 of this stunning concert

Those residing in australia may be interested to know that leo is touring nsw and Victoria.
(playing a few gigs)

the dates and venues are
Apirl 25 Wadada Leo Smith in Workshop at Wollongong, AustraliaApril 26 Wadada Leo Smith’s 6 at SIMA Sydney, AustraliaApril 27 Wadada Leo Smith’s 6 at Bennett’s Lane, Melbourne Australia

The sima show in Sydney takes place at the Seymour centre, and is a paltry 25 bucks.

check out-leo smiths website

http://music.calarts.edu/~wls/

aacm pages

http://csmaclab-www.cs.uchicago.edu/AACM/GreatBlackMusic.html

Fred Anderson Reunion Band - Live Chicago Jazz Festival 1994 (FM broadcast)

FRED ANDERSON REUNION BAND

Chicago Jazz Festival

September 4, 1994

Fred Anderson [ts]

Kidd Jordan [ts]

George Lewis [trb]

Bill Brimfeld [tpt]

Doug Ewart [reeds]

Harrison Bankhead [b]

Hamid Drake [d]

Source: FM Broadcast

Total Time 46:15

Fred brought together his 70s band, together with guest, fellow veteran tenorist, Kidd Jordan for the festival. I'll let the music speak for itself. The band was really smoking that night. This is the best Fred Anderson recording I've ever heard.

Thanks to billien for seeding. Link in comments.

the Revolutionary Ensemble- manhattan cycles 1972 (india navigation lp 1023) lame and flac

heres an old favourite , and a tasty follow up to recent Braxton postings.
I don’t think this has been reissued on cd , it was reissued on innercity in 1978,.
Sadly very few of their albums are available at present.

This is one long continuous piece recorded live in concert on December 31st 1972 (the record cover does not specify where.

This even features an early example of the turntable as instrument, billie holiday’s low moan being clearly audible , though seeming to emerge out of a fog..and becoming less and less audible as the piece progresses.
This was the first release on India navigation.. and it’s a beauty.


Hope you enjoy it.
Flacs will be added , later tonight or tomorrow if they are required.


Manhattan cycles – India nav lp 1023

1 piece manhattan cycles- composed by leo smith
side a) 23’
side b) 18’

leroy jenkins, sirone, jerome cooper

truncated lp cover scans included

enjoy!!

Iskrastra - Bath Festival 1998

Here is a stunning concert from the 1998 Bath Festival, recorded from the BBC broadcast, featuring Paul Rutherford's Iskrastra. The music is astounding, moving effortlessly from relatively conventional 'big band' figures to extended free improvisation. The comments from the players are also very interesting.

Paul Dunmall, Simon Picard, Evan Parker, Trevor Watts, Elton Dean, Pete McPhail (reeds)
Henry Lowther, Jim Dvorak (tpt)
Rob Paton, Martin Lawrence, Richard Fox (fr horn)
Dave Amiss, Alan Tomlinson, Dave Powell (tbn)
Howard Riley, Keith Tippett (p)
Marcio Mattos, Paul Rogers (b)
Louis Moholo (dr)

There is a very interesting interview with Paul Rutherford here which talks briefly about this ensemble, here;

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22016

Anthony Braxton Twelvetet - September 2005

Here is a great concert of Ghost Trance Music from September 2005. It's unlike anything in the Iridium set; the music is more fragile, and the slight thinness in the recording serves to accentuate that.

Anthony Braxton Twelvetet
Crowell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
17th September 2005

First set - Composition 349 (+186+254)

Second set - Composition 338 (+205+287)

Anthony Braxton - reeds
Taylor Ho Bynum - trumpets
Andrew Raffo Dewar - reeds
Elizabeth Panzer - harp
Jessica Pavone - violin
Reut Regev - trombone
Jane Rigler - flutes
Jay Rozen - tuba, melodica
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
Aaron Siegel - percussion, drums
Carl Testa - contrabass, bass clarinet
Libby Van Cleve - oboe

I found this on dime - it was originally recorded by allsoundz.

Billy Bang, Dennis Charles - 'Bangception'

Serviceton has very kindly upped a great Billy Bang recording, and also supplied some further backgound to Bang, (many thanks, serviceton):-

most of Billy Bang's back catalogue is still in print - including his great 80s records on Soul Note (stuff arcturus is referring to above), and the String Trio of New York albums on Black Saint (recommended).There are 2 albums more recently issued that reflect on his Vietnam experience, feat. Threadgill, Butch Morris, F Lowe etc - these are really worthwhile too. (+ other titles avail. that I haven't heard)

This one, is a duo with Dennis Charles - 'Banception'. Relased early 80s on Hatart, and reissued in the late 90's on CD. Although some shops seem to have copies of the CD, the Hat website shows it as Out Of Print.These files ripped from vinyl though, not CD. The LP had an amazing dull brown cover, which I've included a scan of, for those that dig 'dull'The music is far from it.

mp3 at 320kbps

http://rapidshare.com/files/100360853/Bangception.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/100361086/Bangception.part2.rar

Noah Howard "Space Dimension" (1970, America 30 AM 6108) FLAC

Not much time at the moment so I'll just upload an old rip already on my hard drive (but don't worry it does not mean this is second rate music !). Should complement nicely the other Noah Howard posted recently by Sotise. It is also one of the America titles which have not been reissued on CD a few years ago by Universal.

I think this one has been uploaded already on Church Number 9 or another site in mp3 so I provided only .flac files this time, in .rar archives for everyone who had problems with the .zips.

For those who might have missed it, Mr. Howard's "Black Arc" LP with its masterful A-side has been reissued by Bo'Weavil Recordings.

To conclude, be sure to check the documentation post (here), which has been updated with extensive interviews of Derek Bailey, David S. Ware, William Parker, John Tchicai as well as some others. Contributions are still welcomed !

rolf kuhn septet- going to the rainbow, aka "creaction" 1970 , flac and lame vbr

Heres a fusion record I really like, a stunner.
Not much can be faulted here and tony oxley really stokes that engine room in a way he never would now, his playing here is similar to that on the classic extrapolation by john mcglaughlin from a year or so before .
At times corea and Joachim kuhn do tend to dominate somewhat, neither are particularly known for subtle understatement.

A lot of this is obviously influenced by bitches brew era miles.. with a little bit of a unique European free flavour,.
An exiting stew.
Oxleys one of my favourite musicians, and im planning to reup both incus 8 and febuary papers as well as a couple of other fusion albums from roughly this same time.

Id love to hear peter warren’s bass is from the same year if anyone has that , an early enja release also featuring corea and surman.

this is ripped from the 1978 acanta lp reissue.

Rolf Kuhn (cl) Alan Skidmore (ts) John Surman (bars, ss, el-p) Joachim Kuhn (p, org) Chick Corea (el-p) Peter Warren (b) Tony Oxley (d)
Koln, West Germany, December 14 & 15, 1970

Roundhouse Rock
BASF [G] CRC 008

Sad Ballade
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T.C.B.
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Going To The Rainbow
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Racing It Down
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Rolf Kuhn - Going To The Rainbow (BASF [G] CRC 008)v
Chick corea , rolf kuhn, Joachim kuhn- creaction – acanta lp 1978 cc23.097

enjoy!!!!

Billy Bang's The Fire Within - Live NYC 1985

Billy Bang is not an artist who got onto my radar until recently when I heard him featured on a David Murray recording, so I don't know an awful lot about the history of his career.

What I do know is that "Billy Bang" is a nickname that stuck, and conveniently enabled the guy to label his albums with names like "Big Bang Theory" and "Bang On".

I guess there haven't been too many jazz violinists around, particularly in latter years, but Billy has a very nice tone, and he can really swing. This concert has some great numbers in it. The marimba (not an instrument you hear that often) makes an interesting accompanyment to Bang's violin, and there's some great work from Parker.

This is a very exiting concert with some great soloing, much appreciated by a vociferous audience.

Details:-

Billy Bang's The Fire Within
Neither/Nor
NYC
December 30 1985


Billy Bang Violin
Ahmed Abdullah Trumpet (2nd set only)
Thurman Barker Marimba
William Parker Bass
Zen Matsura Drums

Approximate setlist

1. Intro
2. Going Through/Echo Vamp
3. The New Seers
4. Music For The Love Of It
5. The Glow Of Awareness
6. The Mold Of Man

tracks 1-3 are the complete first settracks 5,6 are the incomplete 2nd set

Thanks to punkjazz for seeding. Flac and MP3 links in comments. Enjoy.

Anthony Braxton - Marilyn Crispell - London 1993

There was a mention of this in the comments section and an apparent interest to have it posted, so here goes ...

Recorded live at Bloomsbury Theatre, Inaugural London Jazz Festival, London, May 22, 1993, this is a duo of Braxton on a variety of reeds and Crispell on piano. Crispell was in the 80s Braxton Quartet, but has since made a number of recordings under her own name, putting her in the top league of female pianists, of which there aren't too many.

I'm not famiiar with the individual tracks here, but perhaps the Braxton expertise may help out ...

This appears to be off a radio programme, but I have no information about which one and when. Most likely the BBC.

Posted on BigO and downloaded from there, including cover art. They do serve up the goodies, now and then (but you gotta be quick to catch 'em!)

ICP 10-TET - Tetterettet (1977)

There was a request for this one, so another dip into the archives.

This is a tentet recording from 1977, out on the ICP's own label, and comprising a, shall we say, star-studded bunch of continental free jazzers. Not your usual 40-minute blow-out, but a genre-bending exercise in burlesquerie, circus, old-style waltz, march tunes and what not. Not unlike what the Willem Breuker Kollektief would get up to (with which this troupe is strongly connected). Altogether jolly delightful, I'd say.

Line - up:

Misha Mengelberg, piano;

John Tchicai, alto and soprano saxophones;

Gilius Van Bergeyk, alto saxophone, oboe;

Peter Bennink, alto and sopranino saxophones;

Peter Brötzmann, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones;

Bert Koppelaar, trombone;

Tristan Honsinger, cello;

Michel Waisvisz, crackle box;

Alan Silva, bass;

Han Bennink, drums, bass clarinet.

Tracks:

Tetterettet V + VI (04.53)

Tetterettet IX (04.36)

Tetterettet XII (01.03)

Tetterettet XIV (07.24)

TetterettetXV (06.41)

Alexander's marschbefehl (07.10)

Rumboon (03.34)

Kwik kwek kwak (03.17)

Valse trouvée (02.37)

Ludwig's blue note (04.57)

Dank (01.17)

Recorded on 14-17 September 1977 at Uithoorn, Amsterdam and Utrecht.

The record was posted on the Swami Hermeticus Solus blog which appears to have folded and as a contiguous side one and two. Anybody is free to split the sides into separate tracks, if one should so wish, but I'm reposting it as it was.

Enjoy! (I did)

Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Unreleased early recordings

There was a request for this one, necessitating another dip into the mp3 archives. We do pride ourselves on providing a good and rapid service around here, don't we?

This is a good collection of five tracks, partly studio, partly live.

These are excerts from the early phases of SME which would go on in a variety in formats, sometimes down to a duo with John Stevens and Trevor Watts (which also ran their fusion-oriented bands in the 70s - Away and Amalgam - to be documented in due course).

Info on the individual tracks:

Juicy (from the unreleased Cul-de-Sac soundtrack)(K. Komeda/2:14/completed track)Kenny Wheeler (tp), Paul Rutherford (tb), Trevor Watts (as/breathing**), Jeff Clyne (b), John Stevens (d/perc). Rec. by Eddie Kramer, prob. at Olympic Sound Studios, London, April 1966. The Ensemble was apparently commissioned via Eddie Kramer to record compositions by Krzysztof Komeda for the soundtrack of Roman Polanski’s 1966 film Cul-de-Sac, an offbeat black-comedy set on the island of Lindisfarne.

Springboard (and radio announcement)(Stevens/3:29)Kenny Wheeler (tp/fh), Paul Rutherford (tb), Evan Parker (ss/ts), Trevor Watts (as/fl/oboe), Derek Bailey (g), Barry Guy (b), John Stevens (d). Rec. live by BBC Radio at the Paris cinema, London, Mon March 20, 1967; tr: BBC Radio Light Programme The Jazz Scene (Jazz Club slot), March 26, 1967.

Willow Trio - Part 2(extract 8:03)Evan Parker (ss), Barre Phillips (b), John Stevens (perc). Rec. by Eddie Kramer at Olympic Sound Studios, London, October 6, 1967. Willow Trio sessions.

Double Trio - Part 1Evan Parker (ss), Trevor Watts (as), Dave Holland (b), Peter Kowald (b), Rashied Ali (d/perc), John Stevens (d/perc). Rec. by Eddie Kramer at Olympic Sound Studios, London, March 10, 1968. Unreleased studio session.

Originally posted by "not really", and reposted by BigO, from where this came.

The radio announcer I would guess is Humphrey Lyttelton (back on the BBC Light Programme in 1967 - before it came Radio 2).

noah howard- ole (chiaroscuro lp-2016) 1979, flac, lame vbr

Noah howard, One of the great musicians of that second wave of new jazz from the 60’s..Was born in new Orleans in 1943.
Apparently he was inspired to play by hearing paul gonsalves, monster solo on diminuendo and crescendo in blue from Ellington’s great Newport 58 concert.
In the mid sixties after a stint in san Francisco he moved to new york , playing with sunny murray , frank wright ,archie shepp ,sun ra and the aeoc, howard was also documenting his work prolifically , and it was at that time that he started his altsax label ,the catalogue of which is still sporadically in circulation.

In 69-70 ,he went to Europe where being surprised by the level of respect accorded the new jazz , he was to return and settle in 1973.
Howards got an intense and personal sound, though I guess after the critical success of classics like the black arc, live at the village vanguard and at Judson hall people thought they had him pigeon holed and lost sight of him after he( confounded expectations and) moved on into other more subdued and or eclectic areas.

This is a record I quite love now though initially I was pretty disappointed having heard , the esp albums and the black arc first, to be fair I didn’t much like the black arc at the time either.
Anyway this is a great band.

Personnel is as follows
Noah howard –alto sax
Takashi kako- pno
Kent carter- db, oliver Johnson- dr on ole (only)
Muhammad ali- dr ( on the rest)

Track list
Side- a
1)Ole-12’’
2)kanpai- 9’’
side b
1)creole girl- 11’
2) new arrival- 6’’
3)lift every voice and sing- 4’

there aren’t too many references to this on the net, sadly I cant find a professional review or intact cover.

Check out howards homepage, which also previews new releases on his altsax label, provides info on tours and new projects and some sample mp3’s
Here
http://www.noahhoward.com/

Michael Finnissy - English Country Tunes

Here is Michael Finnissy's English Country Tunes, a piece for solo piano played by the composer and recorded in London in September 2006. About 3/4 of an hour of a torrent of music (and silence), preceded by a short interview with Finnissy.

A very good article explaining some of the aspects of this music can be found here;

http://tinyurl.com/2kxoav

instant composers pool- hilversum radio broadcasts 1967-8, lame 320

Here are a couple of important broadcasts recently seeded on dime.

The music is stunning , but because the music was transefered from 2nd generation cassettes, I’ve decided to post these at 320.

Flacs aren’t going to improve the tape quality .
There remains a lot of hiss .
although once you screen it out its no longer a problem.

Mischa mengelberg and the instant composers pool need no introduction, being pioneers of what might now be called musical postmodernism by some.

These are very odd juxtapositions of all out total free improvisation, over subtle and distinctive minimal compositions that are very reminiscent of louiss andrierssen ,mengelbergs’s contemporary and friend.

I don’t know who seeded these , but thanks be to him or her , preserving such a magnificent early glimpse of the icp’s music.


The info, is as follows ( it is also contained in the files)
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



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

the seeder also provides links to further information about the concerts /and broadcasts
these are contained in the file.

heres a link to the icp website
http://www.icporchestra.com/

also an amusing interview with mischa mengelberg from paris transatlantic online mag.
http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/mengelberg.html


amazing stuff !!
enjoy

tony scott- golden moments, and i'll remember - live at the showplace ,n.y.c aug 1959, flac and lame ( muse lp's 5230, and 5227)

Inspired by the response to the jimmy guiffre posts below.
Here are a couple of prized lp’s by tony scott another pioneering maverick clarinetist.
Scott was a musical nomad and amateur musicologist , who travelled the world playing music with people of different musical traditions.

This is an electrifying concert , and was as I understand his very last gig in the us, before leaving for south east Asia . and further travels in Africa, India and Europe.

Born in 1921, as a young man Scott who was (I think of Sicilian parentage) wound up making friends with and playing on 52nd street with everyone from Ben Webster, and Coleman Hawkins to Charlie parker and dizzy Gillespie, he’d studied as a youth with serial composer Stephan wolpe .

This concert is remarkable for its looseness , freedom and the raw expressive intensity of Scott's own very ecstatic delivery.
At times on the tracks ill remember April and walkin' there are dervish like wails , Scott drawing on middle eastern modal patterns.
Later of course he made some amazing early examples of what would these days be called world music fusion .

I’m no great fan of bill Evans (though I like him…who doesn’t at some level) his playing here is angular ,funky and the attack much more staccato than on his own classic records.
Scott recorded this himself and leased or sold the rights to muse in 1982, so the balance is far from perfect.
I love this concert!!


I think that golden moments( the 1st of these 2 discs ) may have been posted at orgy in rhythm about a year or so ago , this is the complete show.

Ill try to get some mp3’s up soon.

Tony Scott Quartet
Tony Scott (cl -1/4,6/9) Bill Evans (p) Jimmy Garrison (b) Pete LaRoca (d)
"The Showplace", NYC, August 1 & 9, 1959
1.
Walkin'
Muse MR 5230
2.
I Can't Get Started
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3.
Free And Easy Blues
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4.
My Melancholy Baby
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5.
Like Someone In Love
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6.
Stella By Starlight
Muse MR 5266
7.
I'll Remember April
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8.
A Night In Tunisia
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Garrison's Raiders
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* Tony Scott - Golden Moments (Muse MR 5230)* Tony Scott - I'll Remember (Muse MR 5266)

cecil taylor- Reggio Emilia oct 13 2007 (hi fi version) flac + taylor -oxley duet live in modena 11 oct 2007 ,lame 320

heres a broadcast of taylors quartet featuring anthony braxton.

obtained by serviceton, who says....

"To recap: it's Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, William Parker and Tony Oxley - Reggio Emilia -31st October 2007.Radio Broadcast The sound is great.

FLAC

http://rapidshare.com/files/96402740/Taylor_Braxton20071013ReggioEmilia_RAI.part1.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/96447438/Taylor_Braxton20071013ReggioEmilia_RAI.part2.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/96471086/Taylor_Braxton20071013ReggioEmilia_RAI.part3.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/96494636/Taylor_Braxton20071013ReggioEmilia_RAI.part4.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/96563462/Taylor_Braxton20071013ReggioEmilia_RAI.part5.rar.html

Hope some of you guys enjoy this.I am, still.

( note , any problems unpacking these rars should be solved by renaming them, for example part 1 = 1, the archive name is probably too long!)

and tantris (who earlier posted the aud of the above)

brings us a great cecil taylor and tony oxley duet, beautiful in every respect!!

"- here is the radio recording of the Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley duo concert from 11th October, 2007, at the Teatro Comunale in Modena;MP3@320

http://rapidshare.com/files/96371591/CTTO_Oct07.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/96374852/CTTO_Oct07.part2.rar

I think it's excellent - interested in your views."

Reunion of the Jimmy Giuffre Trio - Live Montreal 1991 FM Broadcast

Following the interest in the 1961 Giuffre Trio, I thought it might be appropriatre to bring this one out for an airing.

Jimmy Giuffre/ Paul Bley/ Steve Swallow

Theatre Du Nouveau Monde
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 07/1991

Jimmy Giuffre - clarinet
Paul Bley - piano
Steve Swallow - electric bass

Setlist:
1. announcer stage intros (1:43)
2. Sensing (13:56)
3. S.Swallow-solo (1:56)
4. J.Guiffre-solo (2:26)
5. P.Bley-solo (8:08)
6. Turns (8:22)
7. ? (10:28)
8. I Can't Get Started (6:40)
Total Time: 53:42
CBC-CBOF fm "Jazz Sur le Vif" live-to-air '07/07/91

Thirty years on from their groundbreaking trio of the early sixties, this session seems much less iconoclastic and more melodic. Swallow, now playing guitar-like electric bass, gives the band a different dimension. There's a lovely version of the standard "I can't get started" - the sort of thing you wouldn't expect in the 1961 performances. It strikes me as three guys who've done it all and just want to enjoy playing together with old friends.

I don't know what the motivation for reforming was, or why they didn't carry it on for much longer. In fact information on the net about this trio is a bit sparse. It'll be interesting to hear if anyone can shed any light on it.

This was broadcast on a French-Canadian radio station, sound quality is excellent. Thanks to "nocturne" for seeding.
MP3 and flac links in comments.