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Any opinions on this one? Haven't heard it, but there are some great Ellington/Strayhorn covers on other Sun Ra recordings.
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On 23/03/2016 at 3:22 PM, Steve Reynolds said:
Tomorrow night @ Rubin Museum of Art in NYC @ 7:00
Ches Smith Trio with Craig Taborn & Mat Maneri
Just saw this trio last tuesday at the Sunside in Paris towards the end of their tour in Europe! Intimate experience in the tight concert hall for very powerful music which has stuck with me during the last couple of days. Two full sets and all in top form. It was great to see Mat Maneri so enthusiastic during one of Craig Taborn's high speed solos. I wish concerts like this happened more often!
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Next week will be seing Harry Partch's opera Delusion of the Fury arranged by Heiner Goebbels. Harry Partch's instruments were all recreated according to the instructions he had left, since the original ones are not functional anymore. The stage looks impressive:
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I also feel very lucky to have seen Joe McPhee a few times in different settings in the last couple of years, and to be seing him again next August with The Thing.
Last february with Chris Corsano at the Instants Chavirés was a summit for me, McPhee was in a very playful mood on arrival and they gave a great hommage to Ornette Coleman!
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David S. Ware Quartet -- Live in Vilnius
Just purchased this recently from No Business records, though it is one of their earlier releases. Truly one of the great quartets there were and this was their last release.
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I thought this was a discussion of the Gershwin song "Let's call the whole thing off"
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In that case, I also think you will find it a good read! The fun part is that it recalled many concert experiences and those will be different for each reader. I will not reveal more about it for now, except that I wish Evan Parker would write on this music more, his words that are cited in the book were the most profound to me. Maybe I should look into a biography also. Brötzmann's interviews with Gérard Rouy were great, but Evan Parker from what I have seen really seems to know how to coin the right words.
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I read this book in one evening. The format is really nice, the quality of the display and cover also. I enjoyed some remarks on Cecil Taylor's "wave-like" music and a few anecdotes - but there are not many. But I kept wondering who is the targeted reader for this. Initially I had bought the book as a gift in order to "initiate" a relative but I don't see how you can enjoy reading it without having experienced some of it yourself and knowing Brötzmann, Vandermark, Joe McPhee and a few others as the author talks about them. On the other hand, for those who are already gripped by the music, there might not be much new here. I was also interpelled by the listening while you fall asleep title, only to find that the thought wasn't pushed that far, not much further than what I had already experienced on my own (also starting as a teen, listening to Coltrane). The chapters are all very short and the argument cannot be pushed very far. Also, among the recommendation lists there are many out of print books and records which doesn't make it a "beginner's guide" for me.
I really shoudn't be bringing the only relatively negative opinion here, since I support the initial idea and the personal project of writing such a book. Maybe it's my french contradiction side... -
It seems from some interviews that Brötzmann is tired that some journalists or new followers of his music regularly bring him back to the Machine Gun sessions, his playing has evolved so much as you point out here Steve. The latest Münster Bern solo disc is also remarkable by that account. I need to get Krakow nights. Have you listened to the record with the Munich ICI ensemble which also looks interesting?
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I suppose this will be a new mastering. I don't have any other version so I am getting this, but read discussions of the 1993 Chronoscope CD version being very different from the original LP.
ps: the title of the thread is a bit misleading now since only SME is out
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I need to hear that "Bridge" session you mention Steve. I am really fond of Jean-Luc Cappozzo's playing as heard on the latest Joelle Léandre tentet recording on Ayler (on which there are many distinguished intrumentists by the way, one other favorite being Christiane Bopp), or also in duo with Léandre (Leo records).
The drummer line-up is very enticing! Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't seen it that way.
Hope you will make it there king ubu, I often come back to reading your review on your recent Warsaw trip.
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Very sad and sudden news.
I had the chance to seem him a little above a year ago with Alan Silva and Roger Turner at the Instants Chavirés and was amazed by such a personal voice. He will be missed!
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The full program is up now on the link above. Getting ready for this.
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I just noticed that the initial program for this year's Météo Festival is out and the line up looks pretty great:
ROSCOE MITCHELL || ZEITKRATZER || MATS GUSTAFSSON || ZEENA PARKINS || JOËLLE LÉANDRE || CLAYTON THOMAS || SOPHIE AGNEL|| ARCHIE SHEPP || JOACHIM KÜHN || JOE MCPHEE || STINE JANVIN MOTLAND || MICHAEL ZERANG || DOUGLAS R. EWART || AGUSTI FERNANDEZ || PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE || ERWAN KERAVEC || HAMID DRAKE || PAT THOMAS || WILLIAM PARKER || CHRISTER BOTHÉN || INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN || PER ÅKE HOLMLANDER || HÉLÈNE BRESCHAND || JOHN EDWARDS || ÁINE O’DWYER || ANTHEA CADDY || FRANTZ LORIOT || JOACHIM BADENHORST || ANTOINE CHESSEX || LOUIS MINUS XVI || FELICITY MANGAN || CHRISTIAN WOLFARTH || CÉDRIC PIROMALLI || DIEB13 || PHONOSCOPIE || MIKE MAJKOWSKI || KATHARINA ERNST || JOKE LANZ || MICHAEL VATCHER || MARK SANDERS || BERNARD SANTACRUZ || ALEXANDRE BABEL || MATHIAS DELPLANQUE || KERWIN ROLLAND || KJELL NORDESON || & many more to be announced soon...
It will be my first time at Météo, last year looked excellent also. Anybody else from Switzerland, France or Germany considering on coming? Or even from overseas for a holiday?
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Great!!!
He is interviewed here in The Guardian after learning the news:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/18/henry-threadgill-wins-pulitzer-prize-music-jazz
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On 11/04/2016 at 6:51 PM, clifford_thornton said:
Interesting, thanks. Love the Thollot avatar by the way.
It's no coincidence then that I also like your avatar! (I also wish I could get more of C. Thornton's music).
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Learned about this at a Matana Roberts concert on saturday in Paris. She dedicated the concert/experiment to his memory, mentioning how he had been a big influence for her on the combinations of sound and images
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New live Von Schlippenbach in quartet with Rudi Mahall (bcl), Antonio Borhini (b), Heinrich Köbberling (d):
A coproduction on Double Moon records:
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1 hour ago, jazzbo said:
Not sure that there's no new mastering. The Levy was only on cd before from Fresh Sounds (unofficial, my estimation) and this new one has a bonus track not on cd before.
I don't know for all of them but the two I got mention the same producer for the reissues as an earlier series, Daniel Baumgarten. The Desmond mentions being mastered at La Source mastering by Jean-Pierre Chalbos, which is a 2000 remaster I think.
Other characteristics are they added a "jazz connoisseur" label to this series. The Liner notes are transcriptions of the original LP ones followed by the facsimile of the same thing as it was originally on the back cover. The transcriptions are plenty of mistakes, seems they were scanned and not checked afterwards.
Sound is very good on both, except for a very brief yet disturbing digital error at 03:31 on the first track of the Desmond, in the midst of the Jim Hall solo... I wonder if it is there on all the copies.
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New RCA Victor reissues, some of them (most?) have been reissued many times and no new mastering here it seems:
Gil Evans plays the music of Jimi Hendrix
Jeanne Lee, Ran Blake - The Newest Sound Around
Martial Solal - At Newport '63
Phineas Newborn Jr- Fabulous Phineas
Paul Desmond - Easy Living
Gary Burton - The Genuine Tong Funeral
Mack the Knife and Other Berlin Songs of Kurt Weill
Lou Levy Trio - A Most Musical Fella
George Russell - The Jazz Workshop
Sonny Rollins - What's New
I just picked up the Desmond and the Russell.
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Many thanks King Ubu! Also love the way you have of traveling and the side visits. Really hoping to hear some of those nights on record.
Will be next week in Paris at: Tiger trio -- Nicole Mitchell, Joëlle Léandre and Myra Melford, for a concert that will be recorded for a future issue on Rogueart.
Also more live Léandre next month with her Tentet...
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Also sent, thanks!
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Not UK but French member and air mail was always fine for me, it usually comes faster than announced and the rate is low. I will very probably be in for the Hawk set this time after getting Threadgill last fall (go for it by the way).
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