David Ayers

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.

I guess these are works, like Messiah, best heard in performance - can't get interested in the recordings... but that's just me

True, it's a tricky economy, which is why what he's doing really makes even less sense. Okay, I am beating a dead horse. Nooo - the horse is alive! There's always hope!

I hear you. But we know from Chuck Nessa among others how tricky the economy of these things is - and CD is a declining market whether we like it or not. But yeah, I won't buy that new stuff, and it is easy for me to be relaxed about the oop CD titles as I already have them. I don't take a harsh view though - it is just one of those things in life, and in fairness there are quite a few great hat titles that *are* in print...

I agree with you guys about the Braxton situation, as the listed-as-upcoming-but-missing titles are two of his best by a long way. But. You can't criticize the guy for releasing three new titles - that's up to him, more power to him, not things that excite me either but I don't have to buy them. It is great that he is funding a reissue, obviously one he knows will sell. Hat have brought back some classic titles in recent times - Lyons, McPhee, Braxton - and among the new stuff the Blaser was very well received. i just think really he has done well now that he seems to have lost his funding. And yeah, labels tend to hang on to what they have paid for and own - and we know that can be something that plays out over a long cycle.

His birthday's 6 October, same as mine. Do you mean 2014? MG 2014 yes - it's all on the link.

We've got AB coming to London for his birthday so come and see him/us and ask him about this in person! http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/baraka/

Mosaic was half-owned by Capitol EMI and that part of EMI is now owned by Universal. Those megacorps, eh?