Olie Brice

That photo is from Poole, not the Lescar! Agree about Tim Giles, one of the very best drummers of his generation

Thanks - bought the Takac CD with both Janaceks and the 1st Smetana - wonderful!

Been quite obsessed with the two Janacek string quartets recently. The version I've got is wonderfully played by the Janacek Quartet (who should know what they're doing with this music...) but on a quite noisy old LP, would like to add a good CD version to my collection. Any recommendations?

That was the first album I discovered that turned me on to this stuff. I saw them quite a few times as well - some of the loudest gigs I've ever been at. For some reason they haven't aged as well to my ears as some of the other stuff, but they were an important part of that scene.

yep, and is still their best album imo

Slightly tangentially related - but Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham and his various aliases) kind of overlaps with that scene and is wonderful. 'Ease Down the Road' is my favourite of his albums. And he took the photo that's on the cover of Spiderland. This thread has just sent me back listening to 'Spiderland' - still a classic! Kind of links Minutemen/Fugazi to the post-rock bands listed above... Djed is amazing - I wish Tortoise had reached those heights more often

Clifford already mentioned it, but Slint's Spiderland is pretty much the source of all this stuff, and in my opinion was never really bettered in the genre. if you don't know that album Scott, I highly recommend it. Also, if you're getting into Godspeed, some of the off-shoot projects were pretty cool. I've not really listened to this kind of stuff much for years, but at one point Godspeed / Silver Mount Zion / Set Fire to Flames were massively important to me.

Sad news. Don't know that many of his recordings, but his contributions to Lowe's 'the flam' and the live Braxton Quintet from Basel are wonderful

"Hear Me Talkin' to Ya" is wonderful. And via Candid he played a major role in making some of the greatest albums in the history of the music happen - "charles mingus presents charles mingus", "out from", "freedom now", vital early Cecil Taylor and Steve Lacy... massive contribution

also a brilliant composer

a masterpiece

wish there were more recordings of the trio with Buster Williams and Billy Hart...

It's amazing

The ICP!

Don't really know any of these albums, Blythe has been on my 'must check out properly' list for ages - but that much reissued Fred Hopkins is exciting!

The biggest regret for me - Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron played duo near where I lived as a teenager, but you needed a credit card to book and by the time I got a parent to do so for me it was sold out... Never heard either live Missed Andrew Hill on his UK big band tour too - was unemployed and decided I couldn't afford it, wish I'd prioritised differently!

Other than as a wonderfully compositional improviser? I've never come across any written music by him, would be v interested to hear some

Paul Motian was one of the all time great jazz composers, in my opinion

wow! this will be amazing

Thanks! Scottish gigs are hard to come by, pretty much every time I've booked a tour I've tried and failed to include Scotland... A Hebridean tour is my real dream...

Hello, hope this level of self-promotion is acceptable from someone who only posts here very rarely... Thought some of you might be interest in a tour I'm doing with my quintet, starting next Tuesday. The band features Alex Bonney (cornet), Mike Fletcher (alto), George Crowley (tenor) and Jeff Williams (drums), as well as me on double bass... We'll be playing the following dates: 24/05/16 – The Spotted Dog, Birmingham 25/05/26 – Dempsey’s, Cardiff 26/05/16 – Soundcellar, Poole 27/05/16 – Fusebox, Leeds 29/05/16 – Future Inn, Bristol (afternoon gig, 4.30pm) 30/05/16 – The Wonder Inn, Manchester 31/05/16 – Jazz Café, Newcastle 01/06/16 – The Lescar, Sheffield 02/06/16 – The Vortex, London and recording a new album a few days after the tour

A sad loss, great trombonist and lovely bloke. I did a really fun tour with him a few years ago with Mark Sanders and Mikolaj Trzaska, was a joy to play with.

Great review! That's very much been my experience of both Pardon To Tu in particular, and touring in Poland in general - an incredibly emotional audience response, it's a really special experience

Curious about the Frank Butler - anyone know it?

'An Evening with Joe Henderson', trio with Haden and Al Foster from 1985 is incredible. I think that might be my favourite period for Henderson, there's loads of great trio recordings, generally with Al Foster, official and bootlegs. 'The Standard Joe', with Rufus Reid and Foster in 1991 is another good one, as is the classic 'State of the tenor' on Blue Note (Foster and Ron Carter, 1985). There's some great 70s Joe as well - 'at the lighthouse' and 'tetragon' are 2 I love - Invitation on tetragon is one of the all-time great Joe Henderson solos and this, of course: