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  2. Horace Parlan (1931-2017)

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    Very sad to have another great member of this generation going away.

    On this documentary, is it there were Archie Shepp gives a call from Paris to his friend during the interview? I will listen.

    Now listening to Turrentine's Look Out!

     

     

  3. French Horn Recommendations

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    On 20/02/2017 at 11:32 PM, Peter Friedman said:

    For classical music check out the Brahms Horn Trio, a favorite of mine along with the previously mentioned Mozart Horn Concertos.

    julius Watkins is the man for jazz horn. 

    Strong connection for Brahms who played the instrument and also Richard Strauss (the two horn concertos), son of a horn player.

    For reference there is a Wikipedia list of classical compositions for the instrument:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_for_horn

    For XXth century, I would try Ligeti's trio for Violin, horn and piano -- it is given here in Paris soon and I would like to see it if I can get a ticket.

     

  10. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    This was great!!!

    Recorded live and to be released along with some studio sessions recorded in the last couple of days, most probably on Jean-Noël Cognard's own label Bloc Thyristors.

    So this was trumpet and alto tuba (Mark Charig), bass clarinet, alto and soprano sax, double bass, drums. One englishman, luxembourgeois, brazilian and two frenchmen.

    Marcio Mattos was new to me and particularly powerful, I'm wanting to check his solo release on Emanem last year. Cognard was great at 'waking up' Michel Pilz who then responded with great energy and lyricism.

    Jean-Noel Cognard dedicated the concert to Johannes Bauer and gave a hommage to Jaki Liebezeit also. Not so young critic Philippe Carles was in the audience as well as many from Impro Jazz.

  11. Mats Gustafsson's vinyl collection!

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    Every now and then I need to watch those Little Richard live sessions, they are so incredible!

    I wish some of the rarer records of Mats' collection were more widely available. On a saturday I will track some in the vinyl archives of the Musical Mediatheque of Paris (public library), I've been meaning to do this for a while. One can listen to them on location.

  14. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    On 27/01/2017 at 3:36 PM, Steve Reynolds said:

    Enjoy - sounds like an amazing band and I'm not familiar with Mazz or Silvia 

    Thanks! It was very powerful music, presented as Roscoe Mitchell "with strings" (two double-basses, cello and violin, plus drums). They played Coltrane's Countdown and a short, very solemn rendition of Alabama, but most of the concert was Roscoe's own compositions interspersed by large improvised, intense, sections. Great connivance between the three women on the left part of the scene, Mazz Swift is a very charismatic violinist whom I had seen once in a Rob Mazurek large ensemble (also next to Tomeka Reid) and with a stunning voice (she sang only for the last tune), Silvia Bolognesi stroke the bass beautifully mostly archo and with very interesting timing, I should check more of her work. And an audience of a few hundred people in a nice theatre stage in the outskirts of Paris. A very enjoyable evening!

  20. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

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    On 12/12/2016 at 4:13 PM, .:.impossible said:

    I don't think we will be getting our discs. 

     

    Edit: I see that you did in fact receive yours. I haven't been on the forums in quite some time it seems. I was a backer as well and have been in contact with Stephen over the years. I just chalked it up to the vastness of the universe, but it has been in the back of my mind all along. My last correspondence with Stephen was September of 2015.

    I seem to have inadvertently called attention to the last sentence. With the new software, I don't know how to correct that. It was not my intent. 

    Ed Ricart had to send another copy to me since my first order never came, you should contact him again, he was very friendly and helpful. Apparently their distributor handled things strangely in the midst of bankruptcy.

  22. François Tusques' Free Jazz

    in Re-issues

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    I read on French online magazine Citizen Jazz that François Tusques' seminal "Free Jazz" is going to be reissued on LP by Finders Keepers with a bonus CD of live tracks taken from 1965 and 1966 concerts of the then "Bernard Vitet sextet". Apparently INA did not accept or respond to Tusques'  asking them the tapes of the concert given on the eve or recording "Free Jazz". So instead Tusques drew these undated tapes from his stuff. Somehow the people from Resonance records seem to collaborate more successfully with the people at INA...

  25. What live music are you going to see tonight?

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    On 25/11/2016 at 6:44 PM, OliverM said:

      Sounds great! I will be seing two of them next Monday, three French labels organized for Joelle Léandre a 40 years of touring celebration concert to which she responded by inviting trombonist Christiane Bopp as well as Mat Maneri and Maggie Nicols.

    Thanks mjazzg and Steve for building up the anticipation! Unfortunately, I didn't succeed in conveying your salutation or message. Mat was out of sight at the end of the concert, the church is huge, but I suspect he was rather somewhere outside smoking a cigarette, couldn't see him though. While Joelle was surrounded by fans and friends.

    I'm glad that this concert received all the attention it deserved, many people there! Joëlle was moved while still rebellious as usual. Many small group combinations, all recorded (and I suppose to be released on Fou records? At least mixed by Foussat), in one of the largest parisian churches. The sound might turn out to be better on the record though, the seats were a bit far from the stage (no amplification), and once again the space in that church in every direction is huge so some of the energy might have been tempered by this disposition (or was it the cold?), yet it forced the public to be very attentive and brought out particularly the finesse of the alto. Mat Maneri started Joëlle Léandre on one of his microtonal explorations, which might have been my favorite moment that night.  Christiane Bopp was great, very playful, everyone should really check her out, and also catch Joelle during her celebration tour (see also the Free jazz collective this week).

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