David Ayers

Copland is one in a line of American democratic popularisers - think Bernstein, Previn, Marsalis. What's wrong with trying to communicate your art?

Thanks for posting that Larry. Albeit in brief, it indicates what the parameters of such a discussion should be.

Quite interested in these recs. I am not so enamoured of piano repertoire. I know the Schubert mainly through Uchida but never really learned to love those recordings so am always happy to try others. Although...I have heard quite a few others....

I'd love to hear Evan with those guys. ECM made a great call in releasing this. One of a string of outstanding releases from that label in recent times.

This link to spotify might help to end the speculation: Végh Quartet – Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 1-16 (Complete) (Vegh Quartet) (1952)

Ronnie Laws, Slight Temperature Eddie Gale, Gentrified Neighborhood Music OK seems I am not cut out for this kind of work.

And most famously on Dolphy's last recordings, right?

I assume it is not produced by Eicher, is it? Produced by Lucian Ban and Steve Lake. S'really good.

I guess this has been out some months now. Intense and moody. Lovely and rich concert recording.

Sgud.

I messed up by bringing up the other Schoof thread - but let's binge-Schoof by all means, can't hurt. To hell with Clifford Brown ( x 100)

Perhaps reflecting the manner in which he tends to just 'pop up', Schoof does not even have his own page at Peter Stubley's European free improv site (which I assume people know...http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/)

Those who like Mike will only listen once may turn their attentions to Spotify: Various Artists – Verve: The Sound Of America: The Singles Collection

Turns out the Avantgarde title is on Spotify, so a chance to settle my immediate curiosity.... Various Artists – Avangarde — Jazz Collection Voices is also there: Manfred Schoof Quintet – Voices (except for one with-held track)

More rattiness here in the form of the Brotzmann/Noble Here I Am... CD which has finally materialised.

Thanks, Romualdo. Flurin, Sireena has a website, don't have link to hand but it is google-able.

Track list at this link confirms Romualdo's conclusions http://www.grooves-inc.de/schoof-manfred-quintet-the-munich-recordings-1966-sireena-cd-album-pZZa1-1898257080.html

My brain hurts. (= thanks guys!) ((Although if Romualdo is right this is not the first time on CD as claimed in the blurb...))

Here's the blurb which is pretty clear I think even if you don't read German: Intensive, zeitlose Free-Jazz-Klänge vom MANFRED SCHOOF QUINTETT (1966) jetzt erstmals als CD erhältlich. Feat. ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH, GERD DUDEK, BUSCHI NIEBERGALL und JAKI LIEBEZEIT (pre-CAN). 'The Munich Recordings 1966' erscheint im Digipack-Format inklusive achtseitigem Booklet auf SIREENA. Als das MANFRED SCHOOF QUINTETT diese Aufnahmen Ende 1966 in den Münchner Trixi Studios einspielte, lag die Veröffentlichung von ORNETTE COLEMANS bahnbrechendem Album 'Free Jazz', das gleich einer ganzen Stil- und Spielrichtung des Jazz den Namen gab, zwar bereits sechs Jahre zurück, hatte aber von seiner Wirkung und Akzeptanz her das europäische Publikum erst lediglich teilweise erreicht. So sorgte das SCHOOF QUINTETT mit seinen radikalen Klängen noch kurz zuvor im Rahmen der Berliner Jazztage für einen regelrechten Publikumseklat. Auf dem nun erstmalig veröffentlichten Studiomaterial des herausragend besetzten Quintetts sind neben Bandleader und Trompeter MANFRED SCHOOF noch ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH (Piano), GERD DUDEK (Tenorsaxophon), BUSCHI NIEBERGALL (Kontrabass) sowie Schlagzeuger JAKI LIEBEZEIT (pre-CAN) zu hören. Wuchtig, eruptiv, intensiv geht es hierbei auf den sechs von SCHOOF, VON SCHLIPPENBACH sowie NIEBERGALL stammenden Kompositionen zu, steht das Streben nach größtmöglicher Freiheit ohne Strukturverlust im Mittelpunkt des aufregend energiegeladenen, musikalischen Geschehens, dreht sich alles um die hohe Kunst der kollektiven Improvisation

Thank you so much for the link! I had never seen that before. Truly interesting and invigorating.

What Lon said, surely? If it's out there (and apparently has been for years) then the market is already saturated.

Let's face it we just love box sets. We'd buy anything.

We've only just got started...

i don't know if 'jazz fans' and 'music lovers' needed the excuse of the digital age for their/our archival obsession. As a researcher i spend enough time among the dead. I quite appreciate living and breathing human bodies in my music-consuming. Let the dead bury the dead.

Not bothered about Seasons: Creation gets an outing in London most years - enough for me Oh and Messiah - that's performed here every year for sure (!) - this year it will be AAM for me.