SERMiLÄ / ViKLiCKÝ / ŠVAMBERK / POSEJPAL - NEURO (1998)

SERMiLÄ / ViKLiCKÝ / ŠVAMBERK / POSEJPAL - NEURO (1998)

01. Another Dawn    [03:06]
02. Barbarian (K)nights    [05:23]
03. Can Picker    [02:09]
04. Crazy Waltz    [03:38]
05. Delta Psycho    [03:21]
06. Lament    [01:45]
07. Petit Mal    [02:32]
08. Scary Moments    [01:44]
09. Autumn In Jazz Cafe    [03:11]
10. Neuro    [04:17]
11. Hypomnesia    [03:43]
12. Borderline Cases    [05:07]
13. November Song    [01:39]
14. Lovers' Talk    [00:49]
15. Quietly    [01:42]
16. Pop Tones    [04:44]

JARMO SERMiLÄ - trumpet
EMiL ViKLiCKÝ - piano
ALEX ŠVAMBERK - metals, editing
MiROSLAV POSEJPAL - cello

Recorded live at Viola Theatre, Prague, in April and December 1997, except track 5, recorded at Delta Club, Prague, December 1997.

(c) Gallup Music 1998 (CD)

Improvisational project of Finnish trumpeter Sermilä and Czech jazz pianist Viklický, with fellow Czech improvisers Švamberk and Posejpal and their sole release on now defunct Czech label. Reduced version without Viklický continued playing as Paraneuro and in 2014, collection of their studio recordings from 1998-2012 was released as Paraneurologic album on Polí5 label.

Idris Ackamoor And Cultural Odyssey - The Beginning Of The Second Earth (Sagittarius A-Star 2012)

Idris Ackamoor - Alto and Tenor Saxophone, Mbira [Thumb Piano], Balafon, Percussion, Poetry
Rasul Siddik - Trumpet, Percussion, Bamboo Flutes
Joe McKinley - Bass
Abdul Waahid - Congas, Percussions
John Baker - Drums

The Beginning Of The Second Earth Suite    
A1- Part I The Beginning Of The Second Earth    
A2 - Part II Ascent Of The Nether Creatures    
B1 - Look Into Yourself    
B2 - The Temple Garden    
B3 - Another Carnival

Composed By Idris Ackamoor (tracks: A1 to B2)
B3 composed by Wallace Wilson

Live at SOMARTS Cultural Center, San Francisco, 1980

Sagittarius A-Star 25, LP
limited edition 200 copies

WALLY SHOUP ‎– ALTO SAX IMPROVISATIONS (TRANS MUSEQ, 1984)

A. Solo Alto Sax

B. Lower-Case-Hyper-Space


Wally Shoup, alto saxophone, electronics, voice, home-made instruments

Recorded on 16 November 1984 (A) and 15 May 1984 (B).

Transmuseq

Cassette Rip

Roy Brooks & The Improvisational Sphere - Live At Lelli's (Sagittarius 2011)

Roy Brooks - drums, marimba, steel drums
Amina Claudine Myers - Hammond B-3 organ
Rodney Rich - guitar
Jerry LeDuff - shaker, tablas, cuica, percussions
Ray Mantilla - conga, bells, percussions

A1 - Ha-Ya !        
A2 - Samba Del Sol        
B1 - Basketball        
B2 - Her Blues Is Mine Ra    

Recorded on September 3, 1999 in Detroit.

Sagittarius A-Star 12, LP
Limited to 200 copies with insert

Doudou Gouirand - Mouvements Naturels - Disques Jam 1982

Doudou Gouirand is a french saxophonist who has started to record in the middle of the seventies. As side man he have worked with Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra, Mal Waldron, Johnny Dyani, Okay Temiz’s Oriental Wind, Michel Marre to name a few. Some of those musicians are featured on his own albums. In 1985 he have recorded « Forgotten Tales » with Don Cherry on one track but this album is not so memorable in my opinion. Three years before he published « mouvements naturels » with some of the musicians previously mentionned + Chris McGregor on one track.

Face A:

1. Amanda
2. 2. jungle Dream
3. 3. Song For J.M

Face B:

1. Blues For B.B
2. 2. Mélanésie Nuclear No 1
3. 3. Mouvements Naturels

Doudou Gouirand: alto, soprano saxophone, flute, voice, piano

Michel Benita: bass on a. 1

Johnny Dyani: bass, voice

Jean Claude Montredon: drums, percussions on a1, a3, b1

Merzak Mouthana: drums, percussions on a2, b2, b3

Lelle Kullgren: guitar on b1

Pierre Dørge: guitar

Chris McGregor: piano on b1

Disques Jam 0482/DG 028 lp rip

SUNNY MURRAY QUARTET ‎– 1968 (THE "JAZZ" COLLECTION, 1995)

1. ABCD

Sunny Murray, drums
Kenneth Terroade, saxophone
Paul Jeffrey, saxophone
Ronnie Beer, saxophone


Recorded live at the Paris Jazz Festival on November 6, 1968.

Jazz Collection - JCD-08

CD Rip

The Phill Musra Group - The Creator Is So Far Out (Sagittarius 2010)

info are very few about Phil Musra, what I found is from cliffordallen blog

"...Philip Musra, a reedman and composer living in Los Angeles. He’s not a figure who’s well-known in the jazz (or even avant-garde) community, though his work in the 1970s with his brother, multi-instrumentalist Michael Cosmic, Turkish-born drummer Huseyin Ertunc, and bassist-composer John Jamyll Jones is the stuff of curiosity and possibly legend. Part of what has made their music - available on a small scattering of privately-pressed LPs - so interesting is that it does not sound like anything else. I recently characterized the trio music (without Jones) as something like a collision between the AACM and Alan Sondheim’s Ritual 770 or another, similar wild-and-woolly artists’ collective. The group was based in Boston at the time and also worked with pianist Gene Ashton (now known as Cooper-Moore) and poet-vocalist Ntozake Shange, among others. Apparently Musra and Cosmic also spent time in Chicago studying with AACM musicians. Until recently, not much was known about their concurrent and subsequent activities........Shimmering percussion dense but hanging in midair, maniacal insistence on mini-organ chords or frantic arpeggios on a glockenspiel, and intertwining flutes and saxophones are the linguistic building blocks, and the dialect is unlike anything I had previously experienced.

... Though Musra has assembled CD-Rs of archival material to almost no distribution over the past few years, his visible output has generally remained known only to connoisseurs of rare records from a bygone era. That is until now, as what is officially his second LP as a leader in over 35 years has been released in a limited edition via the Sagittarius A-Star label. The Creator is So Far Out takes its title from a composition that also appeared on his 1974 Creator Spaces LP (Intex) as well as on the present album. Here, he's joined by drummer Don Hooker, percussionist Steven McGill and pianist Walter Barrilleaux on two sidelong originals.
The core trio of Musra, Hooker and McGill has been together since last year, making live appearances on the West Coast (most often at the Heartbeat House in LA) and cutting some YouTube videos that have yet to go viral. As one would hope, there is a rather profound difference between this trio and what came before. Rather than the slightly-unhinged democracy of his 1970s free unit with Cosmic, Musra stretches out his husky and somewhat minimalist riff on Newk over dry, regular conga and trap set patterns on the lyrical, loving ode Yvonne, peppered with occasional throaty wails. The title track is taken in a bluesy direction, Barrilleaux laying down churchy chords around Hooker's loose lope and Musra's slightly wandering declarations. McGill's brief, glassy vibraphone is used as a marker between tenor and soprano solos, on which the leader's pinched tone contrasts curiously with the rhythm section's chunky groove. Boxy electric piano and flute shortly make a strange pair, as Musra runs through his arsenal. There's always been an outsider quality to Musra's music, and thirty-odd years ago that unbridled and sometimes unfocused energy probably contributed to his and his compatriots' unknown status. Now, of course, that naturalness is something many musicians work to achieve, and if Musra's music is a little more reigned in today, it's not without a folksy honesty that makes The Creator is So Far Out a charmingly humanist statement." 
http://cliffordallen.blogspot.com/search?q=phil+musra


A. Yvonne        
B. The Creator Is So Far Out        

Phil Musra - Reeds
Walter Barrilleaux - Piano
Don Hooker - Drums
Steven McGill - Percussion, Vibraphone

Recorded August 22, 2010 @ Mysterious Mammal Studio, Los Angeles.

Roy Brooks Aboriginal Percussion Choir - Live at the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival 1986-1989 (Sagittarius A-Star 2013)

some already knows it, but after a request is here for all

1986
side A
Aboriginal theme song, part I
side B
Aboriginal theme song, part II
Panoramic view points
side C
Kujichaglia
side D
Basketball
Cubano
Gloom and Doom

1989
side E
Samba del Sol
side F
Five for Max

featuring:

Brad Felt
Geri Allen
Jerry LeDuff
Ray Mantilla
Marion Hayden
Vincent Bowens
Marcus Belgrave
Sundiata Keita Sun Drummer Society
Teddy Harris New Breed BeBop Society

Sagittarius A-Star #36
3LP set in a triple folder cover;
two black vinyls ('86) + one transparent red ('89)
released 2013

Okay Temiz Trio - Turkish Folk Jazz - Sonet 1975

In my opinion it is the best record of Okay Temiz due to the fact that the music doesn’t fall too much in some kind of « world cliché ». The reason of this successful cross-cultural meeting is perhaps because it have been recorded live.

Side a:

-Taksim

-Introduction, Batum, Ulah- Balkan.

Side b:

-Döktür, Kürt Havasi, Madimak, Üsküdar, Anadol Havasi, Trabzon Karsilamasi, Laz Havasi.

-bass: Björn Alke

-Clarinet: Saffet Gündeger

-Drums, percussions: Okay Temiz

All tracks except A1 & A2 are traditional Turkish folk music.

All tracks recorded March 25, 1974 in Stockholm except A1 recorded March 6, 1974 in Stockholm.

Lp Sonet SNTF 668 serie universal folk sounds Vol 5 published in 1975

Reform Art Music - Es Steht Geschrieben

Reform Art Music - Es Steht Geschrieben, Drago PRELOG
homage for Walter Malli

CD AR 20105

Linda Sharrock - vocal
Sepp Mitterbauer - trumpet
Fritz Novotny - arghool, bombarde, clarinet, flute, soprano sax, percussion
Alaeddin Adlernest - basson
Yedda Chunyu Lin - piano, voice
David AyankokoVilayleck - laptop
Ram Chandra Mistry - sitar
Paul Fields - violin, synth, alto sax
Johannes Groysbeck - el. bass guitar, groysophon
Walter Malli - drums, soprano sax

homage 1 - live at the Amman Studios, april 2012
homage 2 - live at the Museum des XX.JAHRHUNDERTS, june 1981
homage 3 - live at the Sophiensale, march 1981

HOWARD RiLEY & ELTON DEAN - Pendley Manor Jazz Festival 1985

Earliest known to me recorded duet of Riley and Dean. From the same event, as R&B by Howard Riley and Jaki Byard, released as Slam CD (with cover designed by Andy Isham).

HOWARD RiLEY & ELTON DEAN - Pendley Manor Jazz Festival 1985

01. Tring Thing (improvisation) [27:35]

Howard Riley - piano
Elton Dean - saxello

Live at The First Pendley Manor Jazz Festival, Tring, UK, 5th July 1985

BBC Radio 3 broadcast, recorded off air, transfered (VHS SP > VHS LP > flac) and shared on Dime by PsyKies in 2010. Additional repairs and slight noise reduction by miloo2.

VÍGH - SZELEVÉNYI - MÁRKOS - MEZEI "FORMACIOK" (GYÖRFREE, 2007)

András Vigh,  hurdy-gurdy
Ákos Szelevényi,  saxophone, bass clarinet
Albert Márkos,  cello
Szilárd Mezei,  piano, prepared piano


01. Take 1 - untitled 21:39
02. Take 2 - untitled 33:52
03. Take 3 - untitled 23:07

Recorded September 4, 2007 at Rómer House, Györ, Hungary.


Harmonia Produkcio 2007 GyörFree Muhely 2004

CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET - Jazz Baltica 2000

Charles Lloyd Quartet
LIVE AT JAZZ BALTICA 2000

1. Prayer (Charles Lloyd)  6.42
2. Zoltan (Charles Lloyd)  5.00
3. When Miss Jessye Sings (Charles Lloyd)  20.18
4. God Give Me Strength (Burt Bacharach / Elvis Costello)  16.11
5. Voice In The Night (Charles Lloyd)  10.26
6. Sombrero Sam (Charles Lloyd)  12.53
7. Nachiketa's Lament / Hymn To Her Mother (Charles Lloyd)  6.33

Charles Lloyd - tenor sax, flute, tibetan oboe, percussion
John Abercrombie - guitar
Marc Johnson - bass, cello
Billy Hart - drums

Live at Konzertscheune Salzau, Germany, June 6, 2000

Pre-broadcast DAT copy

O.T. - ON THE ROAD ‎– VON DER GOLDKÜSTE ZUM KOHLENPOTT (PRIVATE RELEASE, 1994)

1.  Zürich 17.10.93
2.  Basel 12.11.93
3.  Landshut 2.11.93
4.  Luzern 4.3.94
5.  Ravensburg 25.4.94
6.  Dortmund 16.11.93
7.  Dortmund 16.11.93
8.  Dortmund 16.11.93
9.  Dortmund 16.11.93
10. Dortmund 16.11.93
11. Dortmund 16.11.93

Christoph Winckel, bass
A.R. Penck, drums, vocals
Lothar Fiedler, electric guitar
Helge Leiberg, trumpet

CD Rip

MICHEL PORTAL UNIT "HAMBURG, 1981"

Thanks to the original taper and poster.....


Michel Portal,  saxophones, clarinets, bandoneon
Bernard Lubat,  piano, drums
Jean-François Jenny-Clark,  bass
Jean-Pierre Drouet,  percussion


1. Splendid Yzlment (MP) [20:55]
2. Voyage (MP) [20:47]
3. Valse Mauve (BL) [16:16]
4. Ball (JPD) [09:52]


Recorded on October 11, 1981 during the 6th New Jazz Festival at the Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany.
FM radio broadcast NDR Hamburg
Tracks 2 (faded out) and 3 were probably a single continous performance.

MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS - September 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois - October 29, 2017, New York, NY

Just got the sad news that Muhal Richard Abrams has died already three days ago.

R.I.P.

STEVE LACY "STALKS" (COLUMBIA, 1975)

 Heres something that has been requested repeatedly in the comments on Lacy posts ( especially by brent/ 1001)
One of Lacy’s finest from the period, with masters like Togashi and Yoshizawa on board it couldn’t be otherwise.
This is unaccountably rare , ive only ever seen the one copy.

(Update)
This was posted for the first time in January 2008 by Sotise from a cassette he got from a friend.
I've hitchhiked the post - here's a reup in flac from another rip...






1. Stalks (Lacy) 10:35
2. Moon (Lacy) 9:24
3. Japanese Duck (Lacy) 6:40
4. The Wane (Lacy) 6:46
5- Bone (Lacy) 4:47

Recorded at Nippon Columbia 1st Studio, Tokyo, June 7, 1975

Steve Lacy: soprano saxophone
Masahiko Togashi: percussion
Motoharu Yoshizawa: bass

1975 - Columbia (Japan), YQ-7507-N (LP)

PETER VAN DER LOCHT - BOY RAAYMAKERS "AT DIFFERENT TIMES" (GMP, 1970)

Boy Raaymakers, trumpet, bugle
Peter Van der Locht, alto saxophone
Robert Scholer, bass
Noel McGhee, drums
+
Burton Greene, piano (Side B)


Side A. 29 Augustus 1970  (20:43)

Side B. 4 September 1970  (18:13)


GROUP MUSIC PRODUCTIONS ES 46136 (1970)

The Jazz Doctors- intensive care 1983, FLAC, lame

Here's an update of a post originally published back in 2008, for two reasons basically. First, there was a request for a repost, and secondly, it provides an opportunity to commemorate John Jack, who was the proprietor of the Cadillac label which released this record back in 1983.

An obituary can be found here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/24/john-jack-obituary.

The rest of the post is as it was.

The Jazz Doctors - 'Intensive Care'
The Jazz Doctors: -
Frank Lowe - saxophone
Billy Bang - violin
Dennis Charles - drums
Raphael Garrett - bass

I think they only made one record (as The Jazz Doctors), although I have 2 live tapes and there might be more ?...?

Intensive Care was made for John Jack's Cadillac Records in the UK in the second half of 1983.
Anecdotally, only a few weeks after Bang & Dennis Charles had a punch-up on the bandstand in Germany, resulting in Charles losing a tooth..

The tunes on this are written by Frank Lowe (x2)
Butch Morris
Rashied Ali
Billy Bang
Jackie McLean
Ornette Coleman

I've always loved the 2nd side - but now that I listen to it again, the 1st side's not too bad either<

Worth adding is that the Cadillac label is well worth a visit, at http://www.cadillacjazz.co.uk/

The Ogun label is there too, Cadillac releases include some original vinyl pressings still available (as detailed by Wallofsound elsewhere)as well as CDs on both Cadillac and other distributed labels.

David Murray, Mike Osborne, Joe Harriott, Louis Moholo, Elton Dean, Chris McGregor etc etc etc

John & Hazel have been supporting this music for longer than many of us have been walking the planet. I'd urge support for them, and the acquisition of some great music in the process.

sermon endeth here - enjoy the Jazz Doctors."

Hamid Drake / Pasquale Mirra - Live In Italy 2013

One of the many collaborations between Hamid Drake and european musicians. This time Drake plays with Italian vibist Pasquale Mirra who have recorded more in various projects than under is own leadership. You can find him on Butch Morris Conduction® / Induction. (Rai Trade) It doesn’t mean that Mirra is an avant garde player. In fact this set is more inside and relaxed than outside and complicated. Original tracks and covers are in the program.

01/ Togo, 02/ Brown Rice, 03/ Afro-Blue, 04/ Piacevoli Pensieri, 05/ Mirra Solo, 06/ Water, 07/ Ishmael, 08/ Encore.

Hamid Drake : Drums

Pasquale Mirra : Vibraphone

Recorded September 13, 2013 In Olbia Italy.

LOU GARE compilation 1965-1985

Sadly, Lou Gare left us on 6th October 2017.  He was a true gentleman.

Years ago he was kind enough to send me this cassette covering the years between 1965 and 1985.

He was a woefully under-recorded saxophonist and consequently didn't receive the recognition he deserved.  Although, in his humility, I suspect he didn't mind that too much.

A1. 1965.  MIKE WESTBROOK BAND 'DEPARTURE'   5:41
A2. 1965.  EARLY AMM   8:07
A3. 1970.  AMM   7:44
A4. 1973.  AMM DUO   8:35
A5. 1978.  AMM WITH STRINGS   8:06
A6. 1978.  WEBIT   7:30

B1. 1980.  THE EXETER FREE JAZZ DUO   4:34
B2. 1983.  SOLO BY RIVER EXE   6:59
B3. 1985.  'GOD BLESS THE CHILD'   5:39
B4. 1985   TRIO AT DARTINGTON   28:26

Cassette compiled by Lou Gare

ps. Lovely stuff from a couple of years ago

KAORU ABE, TOSHINORI KONDO, MOTOTERU TAKAGI, DEREK BAILEY, TOSHI TSUCHITORI, MOTOHARU YOSHIZAWA ‎– THE MUSIC ... HARDCORE JAZZ (KITTY RECORDS, 2003)

1. Trio Improvisation 1
2. Trio Improvisation 2
3. Duo Improvisation
4. Trio Improvisation 3



Kaoru Abe, alto saxophone, harmonica (1, 2)
Mototeru Takagi, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (1-3)
Toshinori Kondo, trumpet (1-3)
Derek Bailey, guitar (4)
Motoharu Yoshizawa, bass (4)
Toshi Tsuchitori, drums (4)


Recorded at Polydor 1st Studio, Tokyo, 19th April, '78.

Out-takes from the Derek Bailey - Duo and Trio Improvisations sessions. Promo, not for sale.

Kitty Records ‎– BCC-1018

CD Rip

MARION BROWN - LEO SMITH GROUP "ESSLINGEN, 1970"

Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet, percussion
Marion Brown, alto saxophone, percussion
Thomas Stoewsand, cello, flute(s)
Manfred Eicher, double bass
Fred Braceful, drums, percussion


1. unknown title  28:36
2. unknown title (fade-out_incomplete) 17:00


Recorded on December 18, 1970 at Club Laboratorium, Esslingen, Germany.

Recorded by Süddeutscher Rundfunk and (first) broadcast on SDR-2 "Leo Smith-Marion Brown Gruppe in Esslingen" on February 12, 1971.

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHiCAGO - Urban Magic (1997)

This quartet concert (without Joseph Jarman) from 1997 was released with Italian Musica Jazz magazine in 3/2003 and also on AECO Records (AECO 0014, different cover, without date).

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Magic (Musica Jazz 2003) 

1. Urban Magic (13:05)

2. Mama Wants You (10:30)

3. Dancer (3:32)

4. Chant (12:40)

5. Villa Tiamo (3:15)

6. Horn Web (6:05)

7. Odwalla (3:56)

8. Strawberry Mango (5:22)

Recorded on June 4, 1997 in Laroche-sur-Yon, France. 

Lester Bowie - trumpet, flugelhorn 

Roscoe Mitchell - saxes, flute, bamboo flute, piccolo, percussion 

Malachi Favors - bass, percussion

Famoudou Don Moye - drums, congas, gong, percussion 

TT 58:27

{Musica Jazz MJCD 1150, Italy 2003} 

HAN BENNINK "MUNICH, 1994"

Found a cassette in my collection.....


Han Bennink, drums, percussion, etc.


1. improvisation 1 (27:29)
2. improvisation 2 (12:36)



Recorded on February 8, 1994 at the department-store Ludwig Beck at the center of Munich, Germany.


The concert was scheduled as the duo of Myra Melford and Han Bennink.
Myra Melford got sick and so Han Bennink played a solo set.

MAARTEN ALTENA & MAURICE HORSTHUIS "GRAND DUO" (CLAXON, 1980/81)

still not reissued..



Maarten Altena, double bass & cello
Maurice Horsthuis, viola


A1. Grand Duo (14:54)
A2. Fantasie Nr. 1 (04:27)
B1. Fantasie Nr. 2 (01:15)
B2. Fantasie Nr. 3 (00:56)
B3. Fantasie Nr. 4 (06:39)
B4. Fantasie Nr. 5 (07:04)
B5. Fantasie Nr. 6 (02:23)
B6. Fantasie Nr. 7 (01:41)
B7. Fantasie Nr. 8 (01:22)


A1 recorded at the Shaffy Theatre, Amsterdam, on 9th February, 1980.
All other selections recorded at De IJsbreker, Amsterdam, on 22nd April, 1981.


CLAXON 82.9  (vinyl)
.

Niels Viggo Bentzon & The Contemporary Jazz Quartet ‎– Third Stream Music (1965)

I would like to alert our followers.
There a Kickstarter campaign about reissueing this elusive LP.
The Contemporary Jazz Quintet should be famous enough for their collaboration with Sunny Murray on the album "Action". (available on CD through SteepleChase).

I've joined the party some minutes ago...about 1800 DKK are missing for a start.

Here's the link to the website:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1257284387/niels-viggo-bentzon-and-the-contemporary-jazz-quar?ref=email

FRIEDHELM SCHÖNFELD / HUBERT KATZENBEIER "JAZZ" (AMIGA, 1972)

Side A:

Friedhelm Schönfeld Trio
Fiedhelm Schönfeld, alto & tenor saxophone, clarinet
Klaus Koch, bass
Günter Sommer, drums

A. Trio-Dimensionen 19:11


Side B:

Hubert Katzenbeier Quintett
Hubert Katzenbeier, trombone
Konrad Körner, flute, tenor saxophone
Manfred Schramm, piano
Hans Schätzke, bass
Wolfgang Winkler, drums

B1. Quartett  5:13
B2. Ballade  4:11
B3. Blues-Fasching  10:49


Recorded October/November 1972, AMIGA-Studio Berlin.

Amiga 855307  (vinyl rip)

Mike Westbrook Sextet live in Montreux 1968

When I found this, my eyes went WOW! I can't believe it! This is taken from a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968. The sextet has the following line-up:

Mike Osborne - alto
John Surman - baritone
Malcolm Griffiths - trombone
Mike Westbrook - piano
Harry Miller - bass
Alan Jackson - drums

This concert features the line-up at about the time of the first Concert Band albums on Deram from 1967 onwards to about 1970. I can't identify the tunes here - two slabs at about 20 minutes each - but I'll have a listen to the afore-mentioned albums and see if I can get any further. In the middle of the first piece, Surman slips into "The Girl from Ipanema" of all things (which is on Release) and there are some thematic passages that do sound like marching songs. To be verified if possible.

Make this an essential listening if you're into golden age British Jazz. And I mean essential!

ROBERT WOOD "SONABULAR" (EDICI, 1973)

Robert Wood, vibraphone
Gilbert Artman, drums


A1. Inspiration 03:30
A2. Edwige 05:22
A3. Words For A Tunisian Song 09:58
B1. Woodlands 08:01
B2. Shades Of Mu 12:00


EDICI ED 0061030 (Released 1973)

Note: No location or date of recording given on the cover.

(lp rip)

Brötzmann - Parker - Drake ~ Sant'Anna Arresi ~ 6th September 2016

Peter Brötzmann ~ tenor sax, taratoga
William Parker ~ bass
Hamid Drake ~ drums & percussion

Sant'Anna Arresi ~ 6th September 2016

There are four improvisations, but as they flow into each other, the file has not been edited into separate sections.

YVES BOULIANE / JOHN HEWARD ‎– MASSE AU TIERS CONTRÔLE / MASS³ CONTROL (CIAC, 1985)

A1. 1
A2. 2
A3. 3

B1. 4
B2. 5
B3. 6


Yves Bouliane, bass
John Heward, drums
Robert Lepage, clarinet (B3)

Recorded at Le Studio Utopic, Montréal, on 31 March and 5 April 1985

Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montréal ‎– no ciac-3301

LP Rip

Ahmed Abdullah Sextet live at Ali's Alley, NY, 1978

Yet another repost, from early 2013, this one with reference to another loft turned performance space in NY, Ali's Alley.

Following on from the former posting of the Group live in 1987, here is an older date from 1978 with some of the same players. As I said in that post, some of the members of the Group emerged during the loft movement in the 1970s. This was a musicians' initiative to create their own spaces for players to express themselves and interact with others. Perhaps the most well-known was Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea, and another was Ali's Alley, run by Rashied Ali who was the drummer with John Coltrane during his last days, before launching a solo career with his own group. Ali made a duo record with Frank Lowe in the early 70s and the latter can also be heard on this date.

As I said in the former post, both Abdullah and Bang emerged as major players on the loft scene during the 70s and Frank Lowe was very much a part of that scene as well, having cut his debut record for the legendary ESP label, "Black Beings" with, among others, Rashied Sinan on drums who is "coincidentally" also on this date. So it's all interlinked.

Close to two hours in all here with music, though tending towards the free side, that still has a strong rhythmic pulse and melodic core. Lively, propulsive, energetic, thorougly enjoyable. Dig in!

The sonics on this recording may not be the optimal as this clearly is an audience recording, also capturing the ambience of the space in which it was performed. But don't let detract from the joyous and uplifting music on display here!

The facts:


Abdullah Ahmed Sextet

NYC, Ali's Alley

July 12, 1978

Ahmed Abdullah - tp
Frank Lowe - ts
Billy Bang - viol
Jay Hoggard - vb
Jerome Hunter - b
Rashied Sinan - dr

No set list given, so if anyone can help out, it would be appreciated.

Jay Hoggart is here on vibraphone and today teaches music at Wesleyan. Jerome Hunter, the bassist, has played with Sun Ra, among others, another common link.

Abdullah is still active today, educator, curator and musician and writer, though his book on his years with Sun Ra still remains unpublished. He maintains his own web site which can be accessed here:

http://www.ahmedian.com/

His curatorial work in later years has been linked to thia place:

http://sistasplace.org/

which is in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, one node in a network of community organising. A place to check out for jazz-loving brooklynites and newyorkers?

There'll be more posts on the NY 70s/80s club scene, so stay tuned!

The Group live in Cambridge, Mass. 1987

I am reposting this one from late 2012 because it very much ties in with the theme of NY loft/club jazz in the 70s, although this specific one was later.

There has been jubilation in jazz circles about the release, after 26 years, of a live recording by the Group at the Jazz Center of New York on 13 September 1986. The tapes had languished in Ahmed Abdullah's possession ever since until the Nobusiness record label out of Vilnius, Lithuania, was told about them and expressed an interest in releasing them. The cd (and an lp) is now out in limited circulation of 1000 copies so readers are advised to rush out and get a copy before it disappears. However, it is not the only recording in circulation. In the course of the short life of the Group, up to the end of 1987, they also gigged around the East Coast, including a date in Cambridge, Mass., on 21 January 1987. This is briefly mentioned in Abdullah's liner notes to the cd release. There is no mention of the gig being recorded, so this is in all likelihood an unofficial audience recording.

Who was the Group? It was a collective composed of five members, some of whom had cut their teeth on the NY free jazz scene in the 60s (Brown, Cyrille) and others who had emerged as part of of the loft scene in the 70s (Bang, Sirone, Abdullah). After the loft scene had pretty much subsided, there was a scramble to look for new opportunities for players on a NY scene less hospitable to innovative jazz than before and to look for new collaborative models to work from. So, in that spirit, there was no leader of the Group and each member was encouraged to contribute their own compositions, even though the repertoire made room for covers of standards. As Abdullah writes, there have been several revivals of the Group, buth with the passing away of Brown, Bang, Sirone and also of Fred Hopkins (who is on the cd, though not on this gig), replacements have become a duty of necessity.

In the pic above (a flyer for their very first appearance, courtesy of the Nobusiness website), all five members are present and these are the five you will hear on this Cambridge date.

The Group
Cambridge, Mass. (USA)
1369 Club
January 21, 1987


Marion Brown as
Ahmed Abdullah tp
Billy Bang violin
Sirone b
Andrew Cyrille dr

1) 16:47 Assunta
2) 08:47 Warm Valley
3) 14:16 Fortified Nucleus
4) 06:21 La Placita – cut -
5) 17:39 cont´d - La Placita
6) 17:18 The Glow Of Awareness
7) 12:13 The Music In Us
8) 08:12 I Remember Clifford
9) 21:43 Restore Africa

This is a historical recording of five great musicians. I'm not going to single out anyone in particular, though I would like to say that anything that has Marion Brown on it is pretty much essential. All five should be familar to followers of the blog (and parenthetically, I should try to find more from Abdullah).

Two hours of goodness for y'all.

Dave Holland Quartet with Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton and Barry Altschul at Studio Rivbea, 1 December 1972

Getting started with the many live recordings by "orchiddoctor", we might begin with the oldest tape which was recorded at Studio Rivbea in NY in 1972. The place was set up as a performance space by Sam Rivers,  seen above with Joe Daley at Studio Rivbea in 1976. The establishment of this space set the beginning for what was to become known as the NY loft scene.

What we get to hear here is the David Holland Quartet which released a wonderful album entitled Conference of the Birds in 1973. This album was recorded on 30 November, the day before  the concert at Studio Rivbea. Naturally, the repertoire is to a great extent taken from the album. After listening to the album and to this concert, what we hear is the following, first a statement of the theme of See Saw, then Q & A, then Four Winds, then Interception rounding out the first file. The second file starts off with Now Here (Nowhere) and ends with a tune that is not on the album. I invite suggestions as to what it is.

Sam Rivers is on tenor sax and flute, Anthony Braxton on alto (and contrabass clarinet), Dave Holland on bass and Barry Altschul on percussion. It's really great to hear the interplay of Rivers and Braxton and their strongly individual styles of playing. Very recognisable and not to be confused. As it's a concert, the tunes are considerably longer than on the album, and considerably wilder, too, not hemmed in by the atmosphere of a recording studio.

More to come!

Art Ensemble of Chicago live at the Empty Foxhole, Philadelphia, March 1976

This is a repost of a post originally published here in October 2013. The reason for reposting is basically to draw attention to the list of amateur recordings made by "orchiddoctor", mostly in the period 1975-1980. Listed by "carville" in the comments section, this is a huge collection of live concerts by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and various spinoffs as well as other bands active on the loft jazz scene in NY and outside in those years. All together, it provides an invaluable insight to a scene that is not well documented. I have now the entire set, courtesy of carville, and the idea is to post all this material in the weeks and months to come. Needless to say, this is a huge project, but one well worth doing for the historical record.

What follows is the original post with all the comments from then:

This post was inspired by a comment from reader and follower "santos curser" who went to see the AEoC at the Empty Foxhole in Philadelphia in 1980, a performance which was somewhat "interrupted" by a young amateur saxophonist who wanted to play with the band. He was eventually escorted out of the venue. It occured to me that I did have some archive files of the AEoC at the Empty Foxhole in 1976. Two consecutive nights, 12 and 13/14 March. These were recorded by "orchiddoctor" and posted on the Dime torrents site by "carville". There were 67-68 concerts posted in all, basically coverning the 1975-1980 period, many of these recorded in snall clubs in NYC and beyond. For me and other AEoC fans, invaluable historical documents. When it comes to the AEoC, critical faculties are permanently suspended. It's all good.

What we have here are two performances, two sets each, both lasting close to three hours in all. There were some dicussions at the Dime site about the exact location of these two gigs. I can't add anything to it, never been to Philly and certainly not then. Listening to these two performances, it seems obvious to me that they were not recorded in the same place. The acoustics of the 12 March performance sound as if the recording is from a small club, closer, more intimate. The 13 March performance is from a much larger locality, spacy, roomy sound.  So my guess is that the 12 March gig is at Geno's Empty Foxhole, located in the basement of the Saint Mary's Church on the Uinversity of Pennsylvania campus. The 13 March sounds as if it was recorded in the actual Church which would explain the acoustics. Reportedly the band was delayed by a snowstorm, so what we're hearing was performed from four in the morning. Must have been quite atmospheric!

The lo-down:

March 12 1976
Empty Foxhole
Philadelphia, PA

total time 177:21
1st set 88:22
1 improv including Ohnedaruth and Tutankhamen (tape flip) 44:44
2 cont'd 43:38
2nd set 88:59
1 improv including Dreaming of the Master (tape flip) 57:15
2 cont'd 31:43


March 14 1976
Empty Foxhole
Philadelphia, PA

total time 170:51
1st set 88:51
1 improv (tape flip) 61:20
2 cont'd 27:30

2nd set 81:59
1 Reese and the Smooth Ones, Odwalla (tape flip) 39:56
2 cont'd 42:03

Much more from where that's coming from. I estimate my AEoC collection runs to about 200 performances, so I'll sprinkle a little now and then.

Collage c/o the 2nd First Look website.

Enjoy!

The Reform Art Unit - For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso (Voves 1996)

The Reform Art Unit live at the Museum of 20th Century in Vienna, April 25, 1969. An instant composition in 3 movements by Fritz Novotny.


Fritz Novotny - Flute, Soprano Sax, Percussion
Muhammad Malli  - Drums
Sepp Mitterbauer - Piano, Trumpet
Toni Michlmayr - Double Bass

1 - For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso: One         13:11
2 - For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso: Two     16:15
3 - For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso: Three     12:40

Bonus track: Human Closely
Reform Art Unit Extended, live at the Alte Schmiede in Vienna, 5 January 1995.
featuring Sunny Murray. An instant composition by Paul Fields, Karl W. Krbavac, Sunny Murray, Fritz Novotny

4 - Human Closely            29:14

Paul Fields - Violin, Alto Sax
Karl W. Krbavac - Viola Da Gamba
Sandro Miori - Tenor Sax
Sepp Mitterbauer - Trumpet
Sunny Murray - Drums
Fritz Novotny - Clarinet, Flute, Soprano Sax, Percussion
Mario Rechtern - Sopranino, Alto, Baritone Sax, Oboe, Selfmade Instruments
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - Double Bass
Helmut Schiefer - Percussion

"For John Coltrane and Pablo Picasso" was produced in 1969 as RAU 1002 but released here for the first time.

Voves Productions, Voves CD 90001
 A Reform Art Unit Production , RAU 1002
Austria, 1996

MAX EASTLEY - STEVE BERESFORD - PAUL BURWELL - DAVID TOOP "WHIRLED MUSIC" (QUARTZ!, 1979)

Didn't know that I have this rip (since at least Sep. 2011) but found it several weeks ago.
Thanks to the original uploader.




Performed by David Toop, Max Eastley, Paul Burwell and Steve Beresford

Audience Side
A.     Untitled

No Audience Side
B1.     LMC (a)
B2.     LMC (b)
B3.     LMC (c)
B4.     Butlers Wharf
B5.     Suffolk (a)
B6.     Suffolk (b)
B7.     Tennessee


AUDIENCE SIDE
Recorded live in performance at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; 7th October 1979.

NO AUDIENCE SIDE
Tracks B1 to B3 recorded at the London Musicians Collective in 1979 using a stereo UHER reel with 2 AKG 224s.
Track 4 recorded outdoors on a UHER reel with 2 Sennheiser ND441s.
Tracks B5 and B6 recorded outdoors.

Quartz Publications !QUARTZ 005
(vinyl rip)

Lester Bowie, Malachi Favor, Roscoe Mitchell - Live March 31, 1979 Verrona Italy.

Here is a live recording by three totally unknown musicians.

One long improvisation with appearances of some tracks that may be familiar for some of us. Played in the fall of the seventies this music is in fact more close to the early spirit of those musicians at the time when Lester was recording number 1 & 2, at the time when the band’s name was the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble.

March 31, 1979 location unknown to me except Vienna Austria.

4 HORSEMEN - 2 NIGHTS (UNDERWHICH EDITIONS, 1988)

A1-4. Night 1

B1-5. Night 2


Rafael Bareto-Rivera, voice
Paul Dutton, voice
Steve McCaffery, voice, contrabass clarinet
bpNichol, voice


Recorded at The Music Gallery, Toronto, in the "Within Limits" jazz program on 9-10 October 1987.

Underwhich Audiographic Series - No. 37

Cassette Rip

Musica Elettronica Viva - Ferrara, 2002

Here is a recent find from dime - a superb concert from Musica Elettronica Viva in 2002. Many thanks to tricko, durian1 and Owombat for making this available, and also to htakat for the great artwork. 

This music has made a strong impression on me - it unfolds in a series of tableaux, which are quite different in style, with references to several of the group's known themes, and more - at times, it could almost sound like a remix of Luigi Nono. The whole thing is held together through a strong programmatic propulsiveness - the effect is not dissimilar to reading Joyce's Ulysses.

The break about halfway through is to allow the whole piece to fit onto two CDs - if, like me, most of your music is stored on a hard drive and CDs have become more or less redundant, the two pieces can just be joined together.

Musica Elettronica Viva

Ferrara, Italy - 9th June, 2002

Alvin Curran - piano, keyboards, shofar, live electronics

Frederic Rzewski - piano

Richard Teitelbaum - keyboards, live electronics

Garrett List - trombone

Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone

George Lewis - trombone, live electronics

PHIL MINTON QUARTET "UP UMEA" (BLUE TOWER, 1969)

Phil Minton, trumpet, voice
Lars-Göran Ulander, alto saxophone
Lars Gunnar Gunnarson, bass
Sten Öberg, drums


1. Day     8:31
2. Blue Reading I     10:06
3. Wood Song Five     5:00
4. Up Umeå     7:40
5. Blue Reading II     6:41


Recorded in Umeå, January 1969, at the Swedish national TV studios.

Blue Tower Records BTCD 07 (1999)

Exiles - The Only Cure ( 1984)

Zelenka and Mills began their collaboration as part of the Human Art Ensemble.
Since 1979 they have been working as Exiles.
They seems to keep a low profile on the net, I found no many personal info , but they have -or partecipate to- a label :
http://freedoniamusic.org/


Greg Mills - piano, melodica, prcussions, drums
Jay Zelenka - flute, alto sax, vibes, percussions, drums


A-1 Perihelion    
A-2 The Only Cure    
A-3 Burning Bridges Variations I And II    
A-4 Contours    
A-5 Cosmophaney    
A-6 Invocation    
A-7 Invitation    
B-1 Sanctuary    
B-2 Sonaire For The Dawn Of Time    
B-3 Jugalbandi


Esfoma Recordings - ER52
Cassette, 1984

COMPANY. 1991 Broadcast.

DEREK BAILEY - guitar
VANESSA MACKNESS - voice
JOHN BUTCHER - saxophones
PHIL WACHSMANN - violin
LOUIS MOHOLO - drums
THEBE LIPERE - percussion, didgeridoo

1. LM.TL   6:19
2. DB.PW   4:31
3. VM.JB   7:21
4. DB.LM.TL   11:21
5. VM.JB.PW   11:03
6. DB.VM.JB.PW.LM.TL   10:41

BBC Radio 3.  Music in Our Time. March 1991  

A.R. PENCK ‎– CONCERT KÖLN x DRESDEN (MARA RECORDS)

1. Brecht Die Macht Der Tyrannei - Karstatt - World War 2 - Lale, Lale


A.R. Penck, piano
Helge Leiberg, trumpet
Annette Jahns, vocals


Mara Records ‎– 15

CR Rip

MiLAN SVOBODA & PRAGUE BiG BAND - Reminiscences (Supraphon 1980)

 

Similarly to Karel Krautgarter a decade earlier (unfortunately not very well documented on records), Milan Svoboda was relatively interesting presence in a field of big band jazz in former Czechoslovakia during late 70's and early 80's. Born 1951, composer, pianist and graduatee of the Organ class at Prague Conservatory (and a cousin of saxophonist Jiří Stivín), he started first big band in 1974 with his colleagues from jazz rock area on purely enthusiast base. During the next few years, Prague Big Band established itself as main attraction on Czech big band scene, aside of long-standing names as Czechoslovak Radio Jazz Orchestra and Gustav Brom Big Band.
First PBB album "Portarit" was released in 1978, followed by "Reminiscences" in 1980, with leader's compositions exclusively. Last album of original PBB is "Poste Restante" from 1982, reissued on CD by German label Aurophon in 1994. CD of "Reminiscences" was issued by former label Supraphon in 1995, but is OOP for long time now. This rip comes from CD release, while I was trying to enhance the sound slightly and to repair huge bug in the beginning of first track. In the group line-up, Svoboda is credited as leader only, but he plays also piano on track 3 at least. Overall sound is a bit fusion tinged, with occasional use of electric keyboards and bass guitar.

Live footage of Prague Big Band from 1980

Since early 80's, Svoboda leads also his own small groups, mainly quartet sized. During 1984 he studied at Berklee College of Music, where he recorded live album with international big band, consisted of his College schoolmates. Back at home, he did one album of Czech-Polish Big Band, released as Nr.5 in "Interjazz" Supraphon series, and in 1990 he started other big band named Kontraband, with mainly younger jazz players. Aside of his other musical activities, Svoboda leads new version of Prague Big Band (sometimes presented as Milan Svoboda Big Band) since 1995 until now. 

Something more recent from Czech big band scene