Alexander Hawkins

Is there an easy way to do this? I seem to be listening succesfully to the stream, but am not sure how to download it...

From this album: Stan Levey Quintet Mode/VSOP A very good session! Thanks!

Brownie, do you know what the soundtrack is? It's great - I'd love to pick it up!

Davashe's Dream!

Would be great if this were the start of a trend of ICP reissues! Not holding my breath, however...

That's certainly what I was thinking of. Didn't realise it was gigging!

Chuck forgot to mention it but they are both sidemen on the Roscoe Mitchell disc. Guy Nah, I don't believe you... If this is the date I know of, there will be at least one surprising participant. I think I know who that participant is - talked to two participants recently in fact, if I'm thinking of the right thing...

If the right research funding is there, it might be worthwhile coming to the UK. Whilst none of the Blue Notes remain here (remember Moholo is back in SA, although he is over once a year - which happens to be at the moment, for about a month), there are a load of guys around who knew them and played with them - Evan, Harry Beckett, Lol Coxhill, Pete McPhail, Jason Yarde, Claude Deppa, Keith Tippett, Trevor Watts, etc. etc. etc. Allen - could the group have been Dudu's 'Spear'? Dudu, Mongezi, Harry Miller, and Louis Moholo...Apparently, as you say, Dudu was a very nice guy - someone was saying he had a reputation as a serial 'sitter-in', and that it got a bit hard to turn him down, however appropriate/not he may have been to the situation..! BTW - I like Ntshoko a lot on Scwheizer/Tchicai's 'Willi the Pig'.

Just got Divine Love. Beatiful, beautiful recording!

Why not just hire Milford to do a solo set in your living room for that?

Selwyn Lissack.

Really fascinating question! Perhaps Cecil Taylor on his first recordings; or, for that matter Nefertiti...or is the latter too much of an achievement in itself to be called a foundation?

Lots of beautiful music from this scene: the British free scene is of course heavily influenced by a lot of the South Africans, even though very few here/surviving (of the 'greats'). A name that hasn't come up yet (doubtless completely unintentionally) - Mongezi Feza - one of the biggest trumpet sounds I can think of (check him out with Harry Beckett as a section in the BoB!) Lots of nice hybrid UK/Dutch/SA bands as well - Trevor Watts' various groups; Alex Maguire's Cat O'Nine Tails (Maguire, p; Louis Moholo, Steve Noble, d; Pete McPhail, Alan Wilkinson, Sean Bergin, saxophones; Paul Rogers, b; Alan Tomlinson, tb; Claude Deppa, t); Harry Miller's Isipingo (now those Ogun's are *fine*!) And - on a less obvious tip - how about Derek Bailey, Louis, and Thebe Lipere on Derek's 'Village Life'? Fantastic! Saw Moholo last night with Foxes Fox (Kenny Wheeler sat in), and he was awesome as ever.

This is in an interesting one to me - I personally think of Rollins as in a completely different league to Morgan; although it's intriguing to think what it would sound like!

All three seem to be very nice people. They REALLY played at Brecon Jazz Fest in 2000. Unfortunately, they were followed by Dr Lonnie Smith with Ronnie Cuber and Peter Bernstein, who rather took the shine off the preceding set... MG In the sense that Dr Smith et al. blew away the 'competition', or had an off-day?

Must get the Tapscott book. Actually 60-70 pages into 'The Dark Tree', which prompted my comment!

Hell Yeah. I'm a fan of Seeking, tho Dauwhe is the one that really knocks me out... Have Dauwhe on at the moment

Looking forward to this and - especially! - the Tapscott programme.

Brown/Roach Venuti/Lang Bix/Tram Slim/Slam Misha/Han

I enjoy Sfumato an awful lot. Great playing all around!

I have a critical blindspot with Kirk - I love it all. Two favourites, however - Rip, Rig, and Panic (where Jaki Byard and Elvin create some of the happiest mayhem on record, IMHO) and the flute album, 'I Talk with the Spirits'.

Alan Shorter started out as a saxophonist and switched to trumpet. My "on-and-off-again," who digs on Wayne, observed very astutely how much Alan's trumpet playing has the same keen and a lot of the same phraseology as his brother. If only I could marry this girl... anyway, it was a good point. There are some very thoughtful reflections on Bill Dixon here!

"Accelerator Whip Ghost Trance Music," to be exact. Compositions 350-358. ...and to be picky, it's the 12+1tet, FWIW! Great band - Taylor Ho Bynum, Nicole Mitchell, James Fei, etc. etc. etc. I think I mentioned in another thread, but I've been lucky enough to hear/see a bit of the material, and it's really fantastic. I really hope people who were put off GTM by its earlier (more austere sounding?) incarnations don't shy away from this. And Braxton blows some incredible stuff as well.

Just turned up this page, which suggests an October 2007 date. Really can't wait! Some wonderful photos on the link as well.

No help on Cat Stevens, but as Simon Weil hints, if you're after books, go to Foyles, and Ray's Jazz is there as well. Go on the correct Thursday (I think it is) and you'll hear some fine improv as well, often. Charing Cross Road in general will do you nicely for bookstores!