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Great album, good reminder!
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23 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:
Last night
Kelsey Mines solo double bass
Webb Crawford solo guitar
both utterly unique and brilliant
Michael Foster’s Ghost with Brandon Lopez on double bass & Joey Sullivan on drums
Foster on tenor, baritone & soprano saxophone
stunning incandescent blazing set. Foster is one of the greatest saxophonists on the scene today.
very nice lineup
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11 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:
I'm supposed to get a copy on tuesday but I listened to the album on Spotify today and liked it a lot. Sound leaves something to be desired but really not that bad. Hey, how'd you like to go to a club tonight and hear Coltrane and Dolphy? The music is rather similar to the Vanguard dates made soon after but this has the feeling and enthusiasm of the artists doing their first take in this configuration, or so it seems to me. Less polished perhaps than the Vanguard recordings but very spirited.
This is about my impression after 4 listens. I appreciate that the notes (which are uniformly excellent) don't try to overinflate the contents, emphasizing that not only is the classic Coltrane quartet only newly in place, but Coltrane's performing relationship with Dolphy, especially as it relates to this new direction, is at the beginning of its fruition. It is not hard to hear the difference between this performance and the ones from later 1961 onward-- they are definitely feeling this music out. So I appreciate it on that level.
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Selling 3 Dylan Bootleg Series box sets. all essentially like new with mild storage wear to the outer boxes
SOLDxxxThe Cutting Edge 6xCD $70
SOLDxxxThe Complete Basement Tapes 5xCD $60
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The great trumpet player Oscar Brashear has passed away. Maybe best known to jazz folks for his excellent contributions to small ensemble albums by Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Joe Henderson, and others, but he was also a prolific session musician who played on hundreds of recordings, many of which I'm sure you know. A cursory skim through his Wikipedia page should give you an idea of the breadth of his contributions. RIP, and thanks for the music.
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2 hours ago, mjazzg said:
Has Akinmusire recorded with Roscoe? I didn't realise.
Yes, he plays with him regularly but I believe this has only resulted in one recording, which I enjoy quite a bit
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Also have pretty much all of this but this is the first of the new BN sets where that's the case that is compelling because it's such a perfect body of work.
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7 hours ago, Larry Kart said:
Guess I think of those three on my list because I'm 81! I'd also like to add Josh Berman, though he plays cornet.
Not a whole lot and what I heard I couldn't stand. I 'd have to listen again to say why specifically. Another guy I couldn't stand was the guy who was Mark Turner's frontline partner a while ago. Maybe he is still.
Well, might be irreconcilable but if you haven’t heard him with Roscoe Mitchell that may help. Berman is a major favorite of course!
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Have you listened much to Ambrose Akinmusire?
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On 6/6/2023 at 1:36 PM, colinmce said:
-Some phenomenal things on the horizon from Not Two: a 3xCD Steve Swell box, Zlatko Kaucic/Elisabeth Harnik duo, and a Joëlle Léandre bass duet with Vinicius Cajado: https://www.nottwo.com/new-releases
Have these on the way from serpent.pl $50 USD all in, not too shabby for 5 CDs from Poland.
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17 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:
Thanks!
Which of those do you think you’ll be returning to most?
speaking only for the new music rather than the archival/reissue titles: as I said earlier, the Rempis disc is just fantastic and will be in rotation for quite some time. the Agnel/Lanz/Vatcher disc is right up my alley, a left of center trio thing that rewards return listens. I will be listening to the hEARoes trio more to crack it open some more. I really love the Loriot/Kahn/Walfarth as well and have been compelled to listen to it again and again. I guess to keep this short, lastly I am really looking forward to acquiring Live At Plus-Etage Volume 1 on CD and will certainly be listening to that alot; I really enjoy pulling out these small box sets with different musicians on them to listen to one or all of the performances.
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Some more of my favorites from the second quarter of this year:
Actual Music (Tatsu Akoi/David Pavkovic) - Actual Music Now (FPE)
Agnel/Lanz/Vatcher - Animals (Klanggalerie)
Gonçalo Almeida - Ciclos (Cylinder Recordings)
Albert Ayler - More Lost Performances Revisited (ezz-thetics)
Elsa Bergman - Playon Crayon (Bergman Inspelningar)
Bertrand Denzler - Low Strings (Confront)
Marion Brown Quartet - Mary Ann (Live In Bremen 1969) (Mooscius)
Mark Feldman/Tim Daisy/Dave Rempis - SIROCCO (Aerophonic)
Milford Graves/Arthur Doyle/Hugh Glover - Children of the Forest (Black Editions Archives)
Petra Haller & Meg Morley - Shoulders I Stand On (self-released)
Diego Hedez & The Sounds of Freedom Project - Don't Just Call It Freedom (577)
Sven-Åke Johnasson/Jeanne Lee/Gunter Hampel/Freddy Gosseye/Michael Waisvisz- Scheisse '71 (Black Truffle)
Zlatko Kaučič/Boštjan Simon – Žepi/Pockets (Jazz Cerkno Records)
Brandon López - vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile (Tao Forms)
Frantz Loriot/Jason Kahn/Christian Wolfarth – Köln (Editions)
Malombo Jazz Makers - Down Lucky's Way (Tapestry Works)
Pascal Niggenkemper - Bloc (Subran)
Lesley Mok- The Living Collection (American Dreams)
Ivo Perelman/Dave Burrell/Bobby Kapp - Trichotomy (Makahala)
Vance Purvey/Whit Dickey/Spin Dunbar - 1983, Motifs 2023 (nhic)
William Roper, Cassia Streb, & Tim Feeney - Avenue 64 (Infrequent Seams)
Mark Sanders/Hyelim Kim/John Edwards - Senstive To Light (Shrike)
Brandon Seabrook's Epic Proportions - brutalovechamp (Pryroclastic)
Giacomo Salis/Paolo Sanna - Acoustic Studies For Sardinian Bells (Falt)
Dave Scott - Song For Alice (Steeplechase)
Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Saturn XIII (Presspop)
Craig Taborn/Joëlle Léandre/Mat Maneri: hEARoes (RogueArt)
Birgit Ulher/Carol Genetti/Eric Leonardson - horizontal shift (Amalgam)
Ove Volquartz/Gianni Mimmo/Peer Schlechta/John Hughes - Cadenza Del Crepuscolo (Amirani)
Various - Live At Plus-Etage Volume 1 (New Wave of Jazz)Looking forward to:
-3xCD Steve Swell & friends box set + Joëlle Léandre bass duo on Not Two
-the next 6 from Fundacja Słuchaj, 3 of which are out now, incl. Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band, Francois Carrier & friends 3xCD box, Swell/Tokar/Kugel trio, and a disc with our friends Alexander Hawkins & Karl Evangelista w/ Tatsu Akoi and Michael Zerang -
16 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:
Had a very bad back issue and was only able to attend the first 2 nights
1st night highlights: Joelle with Fred Moten & the septet was 40 minutes of genius. They rehearsed almost 30 hours over 3 days and pulled off the execution of a very complex score with intricate improvised sections and solos. Steve Swell, Mat Maneri & Fred Lonberg-Holm absolutely killed it. I’m still amazed at this. One time meeting. Hoping we get a recording of this down the road.
Leandre was immense the whole night / the trio with Taborn & Maneri a bit better than the trio with Melford & Mitchell
2nd night highlights: Black Host delivered with Seabrook the highlight as well as Cooper-Moore. Darius Jones not high enough in the mix
Rob Brown with Hilliard Greene & Jackson Krall incredibly great / old school free jazz vibrant and alive. Band explodes once Brown laid out. Hilliard especially great with the bow
Patricia Nicholson ruined the Drake Alice Coltrane project with her incessant yelping and self promotional horseshit. Pathetic but it’s her festival. Her ego knows no bounds.
Sorry to hear that, been having similar issues that have thankfully resolved for the time being. It's the worst. Hopefully I will be able to track down some video of these sets.
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12 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:
Crispell, Dresser & Hemingway delivered a 62 minute continuous set of Braxton’s music with an intensity & pure genius that no words can be found to describe what was played 3 hours ago. Best set of the last 9 months and I’ve seen at least 40 to 50 sets of jazz/free improv as this was on that level above and beyond.
to see my heroes in the glass box theatre 10 feet away was another musical dream come true. They are all better than ever. Astounding.
Amazing. Jealous!
btw, maybe I missed it but I would love to hear your thoughts on anything you saw at Vision.
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Orange Fish Tears is coming in September, vinyl & CD.
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i’m at a loss as to how to encompass the breath of his music— so many recordings over so many years of such immense quality. it will just have to be here forever, because we will never see another like him again.
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3 hours ago, paulfromcamden said:
Just wondering out loud if anyone knows how Charles is doing and if he's playing at the moment?
Unsure of his health, but I don’t think he’s played for several years now. The last recording I know of is from Café Oto in 2017.
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15 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:
Are there other Gayle records from the 1960s? Wikipedia denies everything.
There are not. After this (with the exception of Rising Tones Cross) the next most recent Gayle recording I know of is the 1987 duo with William Parker on the Centering box. Then in 1988 he begins his recording career.
I once read a news article about him that I think was from the 1970s, but I'm not able to turn it up right now. It had a lot of background about his involvement in music and education in the Buffalo area in the 60s and 70s, giving you a sense of what he was up to and who he was playing with (I think he even had a semi-steady group for a time), but it seems most of that is lost to the ether.
On 4/12/2012 at 6:18 PM, AllenLowe said:to me, Gayle's got something really special. Just a sound, and a way in that's all his.
This is just a layman's theory that I have never put to the test (and honestly I don't know that I'm capable of doing it), but I've come to feel that Gayle may be the only saxophonist in this idiom that does not have a basis in either late Coltrane or Ayler-- I am trying to think of another that I can't at least tangentially link to those streams and I'm coming up short (Arthur Doyle's approach is obviously quite sui generis but I do hear a lot of 1966/67 Coltrane there).
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11 minutes ago, felser said:
But Tapscott passed in 1999. Are those copyright/release dates rather than performance dates?
No, the Arkestra has still played consistently since his passing as a community organization of sorts, so he's certainly not there but in spirit.
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11 hours ago, romualdo said:
"Taken from a compilation of recordings from 1961-2 in Horace Tapscott's archive"
I presume the other 5 titles on this 2LP set are from the same time period (61-62)
What's the label behind this?
No, it's a bit confusing, you have to click through on each track to see when it's from-- the other tracks on the set are from 1971, 1981, 1995, 2009, and 2019.
The label is The Village, same one that did the Tapscott/Session LP and recent PAPA 12"
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Very intriguing recording on this new Pan Afrikan People's Akrestra retrospective LP. A ca. 1961 recording of a Tapscott small group with this lineup. On a cursory listen it certainly does sound like it could be Jimmy Woods, but I'd wonder if anyone here could make a more positive ID:
Arthur Blythe - Sax
Jimmy Woods or Guido Sinclair - Sax
Lester Robertson - Trombone
Horace Tapscott - Piano
David Bryant - Bass
Bill Madison - Drums
*This configuration is a likely band based on existing informationhttps://panafrikanpeoplesarkestra.bandcamp.com/track/the-golden-pearl
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That's an awesome disc, just about as close as we can get to imagining the not-to-be ESP album.
He seems to be a controversial player but I don't find him boring in the least. At his best he's among the most riveting musicians I've ever heard. Just my opinion though.
FS - Grant Green With Sonny Clark
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A top 10 Blue Note release for me, some of the most perfect jazz music ever played.