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  2. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

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    On 5/8/2023 at 3:17 PM, Steve Reynolds said:

    Love LOVE Matanzas / love the metallic rage from Basczkowski 

    like the Eva Novoa trio 

    of course the *great* Gerald Cleaver is the common element 

    Like the Mezei 2 CD set but let’s see after a couple of more spins

    Here are some of what I really like of what’s new to me over the past few months. Some might have been released previously 

    The Glass Triangle with Mette Rasmussen, Zeena Parkins & Ryan Sawyer / the new one Blue and Sun-Lights and the first one on relative pitch

    Nava Dunkelman & gabby fluke-mogul / Likht  - on relative pitch 

    Fata Morgana Ensemble Dedalus & Erik M / wowza also on relative pitch 

    Crying in Space Mette with Flaherty etc also on relative pitch 

    As far as November Albert Cirera, Olie Brice & Nicolas Field - Fundacja SLUCHAJ 

    A Pride of Lions: No Questions No Answers on rogue art. McPhee & Lazro with 2 great bassists & Chad Taylor 

    The Bright Awakening / 2012 show I was at with Paul Dunmall, Matt Shipp, Joe Morris & Cleaver. So incredible. Rogue art

    Judson Trio: Light & Dance Joelle with Mat Maneri & Gerald Cleaver / 2 CD set recorded right before the pandemic in France. Rogue Art

    More later 

    I bought these Relative Pitch albums, and agree that Crying In Space and Blue & Sun Lights are both fantastic. The former in particular is one of the best blowout albums I've heard in quite some time. Everything just locks in perfectly, it's really something special. I'll spend more time with Fata Morgana but that was really nice as well. This label is on a roll; the last couple years there have been a lot of underwhelming solo albums and not many I've wanted to spend time with since the earlier days of the label. Now nearly every one is a must-hear for me. I can't think of a better contemporary imprint right now.

    -Want to also give a special shout-out to the new Rempis disc SIROCCO with Mark Feldman & Tim Daisy. It's just incredible, high-level playing from the jump that never flags.

    -Taborn/Léandre/Maneri - hEARoes on RogueArt is predictably great

    -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

    -A friend recently pointed me towards this one. Three very strong sets of free improvisation across 3 CDs, which I'll definitely be grabbing at some point: https://newwaveofjazz.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-plusetage-volume-1

    -Really enjoyed this Caroline Kraabel/Neil Metcalfe duo album: https://carolinekraabel.bandcamp.com/album/march-cd

    -The Infrequent Seams label is really heating up lately. I really love the Elliott Sharp/Richard Teitlbaum/Andrew Cyrille album and the Roper/Streb/Feeney tape; looking forward to checking the JD Parran/Mark Deutsch duo: https://infrequentseams.com/music

    -Lastly for now, I've been digging into the offerings from this newish UK imprint. The Beresford/Angharad Davies album in particular is great: https://shrikerecords.bandcamp.com/music

     

  3. Clifford Jordan - Drink Plenty Water (unissued 1974 Strata East session)

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    To be clear, the quote was about Ran Blake, not Jordan. I think he was pretty far past 27 at that point.

    Not sure who the other players on that session were, but my money would be on NEC students, possibly Jon Hazilla on drums. There is a Ran Blake bio coming out soon (that deserves its own thread, and to keep this conversation on topic) that will have a full discography, hopefully including unreleased sessions. 

  5. Clifford Jordan - Drink Plenty Water (unissued 1974 Strata East session)

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    Got the disc today. very nice, thick booklet with comments from several participants. 

    20 hours ago, JSngry said:

    Mapleshade proper did several excellent Clifford Jordan records. I particularly like the one with Ran Blake. You wouldn't necessarily think that one would work, but it does. 

    Clifford Jordan was very secure in his voice, so I think he could ultimately play with anybody and it would work, if the other person was equally secure in theirs. Nothing to prove, just make music. 

    There’s an unreleased Ran album in the Mapleshade coffers btw …

  7. John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy - Evenings at the Village Gate (July 14th release date)

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    I got a little inside info last year about this one (and one other one not involving John), exciting to see it finally coming.

     

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    In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library. In addition to some well-known Coltrane material (“Impressions”), there is a breathtaking feature for Dolphy’s bass clarinet on “When Lights Are Low” and the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane’s composition “Africa”, from the Africa/Brass album.

    Tracklist:

    1. My Favorite Things
    2. When Lights Are Low
    3. Impressions
    4. Greensleeves
    5. Africa

     

     

    https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/1179098682/john-coltrane-eric-dolphy-village-gate-1961-lost-album

  9. Clifford Jordan - Drink Plenty Water (unissued 1974 Strata East session)

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    18 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

    Be aware that the Mapleshade website also currently has a "SAVE 30% WHEN YOU BUY 3 OR MORE CDs" offing going on, which seems to apply to everything they offer.  This new Clifford Jordan disc is under the category "OTHER LABELS' CDS".

    They also have a CD of Glass Bead Games in stock. Not sure what the status is now but for years that was real tough to find. 

  11. Clifford Jordan - Drink Plenty Water (unissued 1974 Strata East session)

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    It somehow flew under the radar that this unissued 1974 Strata East session has been released by Clifford Jordan's widow, Sandra Jordan, who assisted in transferring the original tapes. lineup as follows:
     
    Clifford Jordan, tenor
    Dick Griffin, trombone
    Bill Hardman, trumpet
    Charlie Rouse, bass clarinet(!)
    Bernard Fennell (a.k.a. Muneer B. Fennell/Muneer Abdul Fataah), cello
    Stanley Cowell, piano
    Sam Jones, bass
    Bill Lee, bass & arrangement
    Billy Higgins, drums
    Donna Jordan Harris, Kathy O'Boyle, Denise Williams, Muriel Winston, and David Smyrl, vocals & recitation
     
    you can buy the CD from the Mapleshade website. it's also on streaming services. 
     

  18. Marion Brown Live In Bremen 1969

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    Got this the other day and have been listening to it quite a bit. It's a really substantial document, clocking in over 150+ minutes. Sound is quite good. The music is very expansive in scope and dynamic for being a club date. No blowing exercises, everything seems rehearsed and worked over and the band plays as a band, not Marion plus. And 2,5 hours of Steve McCall is always going to be welcome.

    Above all it's great to have this much more music from Marion's early European period, I think this is when his playing was at its peak (i.e. Porto Novo, Le Temps Fou, In Sommerhausen, Gesprächsfetzen). He was always a personal player with a quiet confidence, but I think this is when that confidence was at its strongest, and when he's beginning to take in some new concepts and techniques that will eventually come to flower on Afternoons of A Georgia Faun, Sweet Earth Flying, and Geechee Recollections-- namely the amount of sheer space in this music. It really breathes.

    Can't recommend this enough, if you're on the fence at all, get off it.

  25. 'Busy' albums w/ complex interplay (esp. drums), but with deceptively quiet/understated playing throughout -- like Konitz "Motion" (Elvin) or Metheny "Q&A" (Haynes)

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    Andrew Hill's Smokestack certainly fits the bill with Roy, it's an unusually interactive album for Blue Note. Ditto Destination: Out!. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is another one where Roy goes off with Miroslav Vitous on one of the most intensely focused albums there is.

    RE: the Elvin question, some of my favorite Art Blakey playing is on the Herbie Nichols stuff, which definitely shows a different side of his playing. The bass in that music is a little more in a timekeeping role, but Blakey is hyper-responsive. 

    Mingus & Danny Richmond on Trio.

    Obviously a lot of this in Paul Bley's early music. Keith Jarrett's standards trio seems maybe too obvious an answer (when they weren't overplaying, which .... is most of the time.)

    I can't say it's understated by *this* definition, but one of the best examples of this in Cecil Taylor's music is Student Studies; Silva and Cyrille are on another plane. It's hard to describe what they're doing. It's not holding back, but it's not playing out either. It's just deep deep deep, a whole other thing.

    Another standout in the free-ish realm is the Giuseppi Logan albums on ESP with Milford Graves and Eddie Gomez/Reggie Johnson. Ditto Graves on the Lowell Davidson LP alongside Gary Peacock.

    The classic Joe Maneri recordings are the definition of "deceptively quiet". Randy Peterson does things nobody else has ever done. The music in front of him burns with an understated intensity but he is always playing LOUD and at the same time, I think you can call it understated in some mystical way.

    Plenty of examples from the world of free improvisation, but I don't think that's really what you're looking for. In terms of "understated" playing, TR!O with Mats Gustafsson, Gunter Christmann, and Paul Lovens were always remarkably keyed in. 

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