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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.

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.

Thursday: Mark Charig, Michel Pilz, Quentin Rollet, Marcio Mattos, Jean-Noël Cognard at Instants Chavirés Should be good!

Concert page has disappeared on Sunset website, and checked a few other venues which have cancelled or changed to Vinny Golia trio. I suppose we won't be seeing Bobby Bradford, I hope he will be back soon!

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!

Tonight!! Roscoe Mitchell Sextet: Tribute to John Coltrane RM, Mazz Swift, Tomeka Reid, Silvia Bolognesi, Junius Paul, Vincent Davis My crossover concert for the Chinese New Year! Wishing the best to all of you.

I'm going on Feb 1! (and also seeing Roscoe Mitchell sextet Flurin, have a good trip in Italy)

Thanks for posting and for the article. Sad news, respect and peace to the artist.

Thanks, I did recognize I few tracks and was wondering about that.

It seems that the new "Singles" compiled by Strut has 16 tracks that the Evidence 2 CD didn't hold, I will have to get it since the Singles are a great bunch!

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.

Great piece! Just listened to Hemphill's Flat-Out Jump Suite this morning which is amazing. The interview seems silent on what he has done in the 20 years since he stopped playing, did he still teach?

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...

Just listened to this one during the week-end, and also highly recommend it. Preference also goes for the three tracks of the 1978 session but everything is highly enjoyable. Tippett is really special here (for Moholo-Moholo, it was already noted). Very well presented album, very good sound, and pretty cover art!

Mahler Symphony no. 4 - NY Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein Lately have been playing one of Mahler per evening. The remastering to this is excellent, while some masterings of the Bernstein symphony box could be refreshened.

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).

Thank you! I will let you know if I get to tell her.

Yes I remember her feeling a bit bitter after a free concert she gave in a church last year, telling me she doesn't generally do free concerts by principle, and because too few people from the public (it was a classical music monthly listening group, and most hadn't heard of her) had bought any of the records she had brought with her, it was as if the public had left and ignored her it is true. I saw her with her tentet this year which was a great success though, and she spoke out at the end explaining how the different ways of combining composed and improvised music would be essential to the development of this music in the 21st century, in a way that reminded of Threadgill or Braxton. But her profile is less important for the media than when she colaborated with Boulez I guess, and is probably higher abroad nowadays. And institutionally the support for this adventurous music is dwindling, last year's new concert hall in Paris, the Carreau du temple, has stopped programming any of it after a great first year, it is now become a place for artistic and commercial fairs.

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. I feel that Joelle Léandre has suffered from a relative lack of recognition in France, especially from institutions that otherwise support culture more than in other countries, so this should be a special moment.

First blindtest for me on this forum and I enjoyed it very much - some great music - I might have had a few ideas for tracks 1 and 10 at one time but now that they were found, I see I had no chance. Well done Corto maltese! An occasion to learn and discover more I guess. What proportion of this music has made it once on CD? None at all? Thank you for preparing and sharing this. Solidarity from France!

Tomorrow in Pantin (Paris suburb): Alexander Hawkins and Louis Moholo-Moholo Followed by Hamid Drake, Sylvain Kassap and Benjamin Duboc

Yes! Through Archie Shepp. This drummer friend started taking lessons with Stephen McCraven from the Shepp Quartet in Paris and he would tell me what they spoke about. Archie Shepp's music was easily available here and I connected with its political orientation which made me appreciate this music even more. I started exploring more later on by learning about the history.

Very dependent on age/generation, family and surroundings I can imagine. For me, it must be Coltrane's Impressions which a drummer friend whom I was playing with at the time lent me. I was really not ready to hear that at the time, especially the starter "India", yet the length of the piece, the basses, the musical voyage were truly fascinating. It took me a long time to start to realize what was happening. I think I handed it back after one month and very many listenings and told my friend that I still didn't like it, and after a little time without it, things changed by themselves and I went out to buy my own! Just this morning, I listened to India again from the 1961 village vanguard dates and noticed how effective the spell still is! Edit: I thought I had read almost all of the above, only to notice I had completely skipped Scott's own recollections, what a coincidence! For me this "transformation" happened in the Paris subburbs in the end of the 1990s in my early teens...

Preparing for Heather Leigh and Peter Brötzmann tomorrow night at Instants Chavirés

Exciting release!