Lemgruber

"Adam's Apple", IMO, must win this poll. But "Speal No Evil" is a solid contender.

It sound like distorted French words. So, well, it could be creole. Or cajun?

Yes, Jazz In Silhouette is a great album of Sun Ra, at a time he was still very close to the dominant style of that time, the hard bop, and in the same time already "somewhere else" (and not only because he was alone - and stays alone - to play this style in big band). But the universe of Sun Ra is more vast than that particular records: Other Planes Of There, The Magic City, Atlantis, Space Is The Place (the vidence one), The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra (vol 1 specially), Nothing His, Les Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (LPs on the French label Shandar, out of print), Disco 3000 and Sunrise In Different Dimensions, are some of my favorite (but you may like others) and all show how unique this band and how great and out of proportion the genius of the Sun Ra was. It seems to me that today, Sun Ra doesn't get the recognition the man and his work (from swing and bop to the new thing and back) deserve.

- Steve Lacy 6: We See (Thelonious Monk SongBook) (hatOLOGY) - Steve Lehman Qunitet: - Structural Fire (CIMP)

Just a correction to my previous post. Alone together is not a solo but a duet between Dolphy bass clarinet and Richard Davis bass. The solo is, of course, his takes on Love Me where he uses his alto.

I've always like Dolphy much. But I've never listen to an album of his who was completely satisfying. I'll like very much some tracks in each of his records but never the whole record as an entity. I think than his best work where with Coltrane, Mingus & Hill (Joe Henderson is a hell of a tenor, that sure but he doesn't "outblows" Dolphy at any moment on "Point of Departure". It's Dolphy who gave sound and charactere to the session and makes Andrew Hill compositions alive). IMO, I think than his best work ever is to find on the two Mingus on Candid: "Charles Mingus presents Charles Mingus" and the self-title "Mingus". On the last, the version of "Stormy Weather" who start as an incredible duet between Ming and Dolphy could symbolise jazz in his whole. In his album under his name, I think than his most greatest take is his solo version of Alone Together on bass clarinet who is as thrilling, mysterious and incredibily modern today than ever. I think than, if he didn't died so young (36, even Ken Vandermark is older than him today!) it will have grown bigger and bigger because, as it concerns his recording career, it was just beginning to start.

You may try his last solo album of a long list of solo album. It's happen to be one of his best ever: The Willisau concert on Intakt (www.intaktrec.ch). it has been recording at the Willisau Festival in 2000 and the piano it's an incerdible good one. The recording is also first rate. A great choice in my mind.

The best Albert Ayler are on ESP. (It's what I discover when I buy the Japan printing of the ESP at the end of the seventies. With the original you couldn't hear the music because the printing was so terrible).

The sound track of "Le Souffle au coeur" is mostly Charlie Parker's tune. No need to bring this film to listen to Bird. Louis Malle and Vadim are not considered as "Nouvelle vague" director. But their films as open the way to the "Nouvelle Vague" directors. Jean-Luc Godard liked a lot "Et Dieu créa la femme". "Détective", a Godard film from 1985 with Johnny Hallyday, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Baye & Claude Brasseur, he features some Ornette Coleman Music. In the press conference in Cannes that Year, He indicates than he chooses OC to be in the soundtrack because "the critic spoke about him as they spoke about me, saying: what he was doing before is far better than what he is doing now". The assistance laught a lot but I think he was dead serious when making this statement. As the "Nouvelle vague" is concern, and at the exception of Jacques Rosier ("Adieu Philippine", music by Maxime Saury) only second rate "Nouvelle vague" directors use jazz as soundtrack like Edouard Molinaro in "Des Femmes Disparaissent" (Art Blakey & The Jazz Messenger). Vadim as also uses Art Blakey for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". It's Jean-Pierre Melville, who was considered as the "grand frère" of the "Nouvelle vague" who tell to Godard to take Martial Solal for the score of "A Bout de souffle". It was also Melville who recommend Martial Solal for write the soundtrack of "Les Parents terribles". Melville, himself as always use "jazz ambiance" in most of his film noir but never hired a real jazz musician to write a score for him, except, again, Martial Solal partly for "Deux hommes dans Manhattan" (1958) and, before that, Bernard Peiffer (with guitare solo by Sacha Distel) for "Quand tu liras cette lettre" (1953). Eddie Barclay as also write the music of "Bob le flambeur" but the main was much on the side of the "international variety" than real jazz. In "Le Doulos" the "piano bar music" who give his mood to the last spoken scene of the movie was writte (but not play) by Jacques Loussier. If you want find jazz in french film, you must look for the second or third generation of post "Nouvelle vague" directors such as Jean-Louis Comolli or more straight one as Bertrand Tavernier or Claude Sautet.

Too Much in my Taste. Nothing here, IMO, to compare with WORK, also on the French label Sketch & recorded in May 2002. His best record for years. And no Irène Aebi at all. This is howw I like my SL.

- J.S. Bach - Edgard Varèse - Morton Feldman - Gérard Grisey (the greatest French living composer until he suddenly died few years ago at the age of fifty-two. He was the lmost illustrious composer with Tristan Murail of the so-called school of "Musique Spectrale) - Jimi Hendrix - The Doors - Captain Beefheart - Robert Wyatt - Tony Joe White - Johnny Shines - Sarmila Roy (india, singer)

My April list (so far): - Sabir Mateen Trio: Divine Mad Love (Eremite) - Pandelis Karayorgis Trio: Blood Ballad (Leo Records) - Joe Henderson: Inner Urge (Blue Note) - Paul Bley: Hommage To Carla (Owl) - Abash: Jazz (Dragon) - Louis Sclavis Trio: Ceux qui veillent la nuit (Label Bleu) - Kaoru Abe: Solo.1972.1.21 - Steve Lacy/ Daniel Humair/ Anthony Cox: Work (Sketch) - Myron Walden: Higher Ground (Fresh Sound NT) + - Johnny Shines: Wet To Plow (Corazong) - Morton Feldman: Only (Works For Voice & Intruments) (New Albion Records)