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Paging Clem....

He's closing out this year's Vision Fest on Sunday June 24. It looks like he will be doing a short EC tour the same week w/ stops in Baltimore and Philly(tentative). Info on the Baltimore gig http://www.andiemusiklive.com/EvntDtl1.cfm...29&T=092024

I heard the news right before the Roscoe Mitchell show tonight. I was speaking w/ the promoter of that show who said that he was speaking to Greg Osby last week about having Osby and Andrew due a duet show here in Philly. Alas.

THE SUN RA ARKESTRA UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MARSHALL ALLEN will appear in a free outdoor concert on Friday, April 27, 6:30 p.m. at the Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave. (between Hall St. & Classon Ave.), Brooklyn, NY. For additonal information on this event, visit: http://brooklyn.untilmonday.com/event/ligh...sun_ra_arkestra

CDs arrived this morning in great shape. Thanks again.

Chuck - the LPs arrived safely this morning. Thanks.

I have to admit I had never heard of David Torn's name until I saw the upcoming concert schedule for Ars Nova. After reading this thread I'm definitely going to see this... Saturday, May 19 | 8pm David Torn's Prezens with David Torn, el. guitar/live sampling Tim Berne, alto saxophone Michael Formanek, bass Craig Taborn, Fender Rhodes Tom Rainey, drums + Michael Formanek/Tim Berne Duo performs "The Offbeat Manifesto" Philadelphia Clef Club 738 South Broad Street $22 General Admission

Thanks for posting this info. You've made my day.

THIS SHOW WAS AWESOME!!!!! Great finale to my live-show-athon. Details please! Well, for one thing the Explosives are truly a great "bar-rock" band - I hadn't paid much attention to them in the past, but they really have their style nailed. They did great versions of You're Going to Miss Me and one other song off the first 13th Floor Elevators album. Roky looks to be in better condition than I expected and his voice doesn't seem to have changed one bit since the 60s - I was a little worried about his ability to put on a good performance due to his health problems, but he is right on his game. I was 50/50 on whether I wanted to go to this show in the first place, but I'm really glad I did - probably the best rock show I'll see this year. That's sounds like a good time. I wish Roky was playing in the Sixth Borough. You didn't happen to catch the Stooges when they were up your way??

Going to see the Koronos Quartet on Thursday night. Afterwards, if I can swing it, I'm going to try to catch the Taylor Ho Bynum Trio. Friday night is Horns of Hathor:Pauline Oliveros, electronics/accordian; Ione, voice; Roscoe Mitchell, reeds; and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Saturday afternoon Patti Smith is giving a free reading/performance. Next week is Acid Mothers Temple!!

THIS SHOW WAS AWESOME!!!!! Great finale to my live-show-athon. Details please!

I just logged on to find out that they finally hit me w/ the $1.00 increase.

PM sent.

Chuck, 2 years + later - do you have any vinyl left?? I'm interested in purchasing all 4.

Maybe they'll release the Coltrane/Dolphy/Montgomery show from 1961 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...f=5&t=24107

Yeah, I'm leaning towards that for the same reasons. I just found out about the Rowe show this morning and I had been getting pumped up to see Brotzmann. If I could just split myself in two.....

Ok... Help me make up my mind. There are two shows happening tonight that I really want to see. Should I go to this one???... april 14th (sat) VOLTAGE SPOOKS (keith rowe / rick reed / michael haleta) + a panel discussion with Rowe, Jon Abbey (Erstwhile Records) and Brian Olewnick (current Rowe biographer) @ Slought Foundation <http://slought.org> website 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA <http://www.google.com/maps?q=4017+Walnut+St,+Philadelphia,+PA+19104&i... &z=15&om=1&iwloc=addr> directions discussion 7:00 pm concert 8:00 pm $10 VOLTAGE SPOOKS keith rowe electronics rick reed electronics michael haleta electronics The Voltage Spooks is a newly formed, all-star trio of improv luminary, Keith Rowe, Texas-based sound artist, Rick Reed, and electro acoustic composer, Michael Haleta. Keith Rowe (born March 16, 1940 in Plymouth, England) is an English free improvisation guitarist. Rowe is a founding member of AMM in the mid-1960s (a group from which he quit in 2004) and a founding member of M.I.M.E.O. After years of obscurity, Rowe has achieved a level of relative notoriety, and since the late 1990s has kept up a busy recording and touring schedule. He is seen as a godfather of electroacoustic improvisation, and many of his recent recordings have been released by Erstwhile Records. Rowe began his career playing jazz in the early 1960's--notably with Mike Westbrook. His early influences were guitarists like Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian and Barney Kessel. Eventually, however, Rowe grew tired of what he considered the form's limitations, and gradually expanded into free jazz and free improvisation, eventually abandoning conventional guitar technique. "How could I abandon the technique? Lay the guitar flat!" Rowe thus developed various prepared guitar techniques: placing the guitar flat on a table and manipulating the strings, body and pickups in unorthodox ways enabled him to produce sounds that have been described as dark, brooding, compelling, expansive and alien. He has been known to employ objects such as a library card, rubber eraser, springs, hand-held electric fans, alligator clips, and common office supplies in playing the guitar. A January, 1997 feature in Guitar Player magazine described a Rowe performance as "resemble a surgeon operating on a patient." Rowe sometimes incorporates live radio broadcasts into his performances, including shortwave radio and number stations (the guitar's pickups will also pick up radio signals, and broadcast them through the amplifier) AMM percussionist Eddie Prévost reports that Rowe has "an uncanny touch on the wireless switch", able to find radio broadcasts which seem to blend ideally with, or offer startling commentary on, the music. On AMMMusic, towards the end of the cacophonous "Ailantus Glandolusa," a speaker announces via radio that "We cannot preserve the normal music." Rick Reed (b. 1957) is an entirely self-taught composer/visual artist who has been working in the Austin music underground for the past 25 years. Using old battered electronic devices like sine wave generators, short wave radios and a vintage EMS analogue synthesizer, Reed has performed solo and with various electronic/noise groups including Frequency Curtain, Abrasion Ensemble, FTC and many others. The Spring 2006 issue of Signal To Noise Magazine said of his most recent CD release, Dark Skies at Noon, that "(Reed works) a complex weave of sounds plucked from the dawn of electronic music-or maybe stolen from some future fading memory of it's passing". Since the early 90s, Reed has released several LPs and CDs on labels such as Ecstatic Peace, Beta-Lactam Ring, Pale Disc Japan and Elevator Bath. Among other projects, he's been the host of Commercial Suicide, a long running 'other worldly' music radio program heard on a local station, KOOP FM . He is also the musical director of an experimental music concert series called Toneburst, which is dedicated to promoting unheard,or underexposed musicians from the Austin new music community. Since 2004, he has worked closely with New York filmmaker Ken Jacobs on three soundtracks for his Nervous Magic Lantern displays, one of which, entitled "Capitalism:Child Labor", had it's world premiere at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. Reed has 3 new releases due out later this year, a new CD on Spectral House, a Ken Jacobs DVD project and a picture disc LP on Elevator Bath. Michael Haleta (b. 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New Jersey. A classically trained cellist turn electro acoustic composer interested in individual sounds and bits rather than complete things. (BG) Has released audio for: Alienation, Raw Special Effects (RSE), Carpark and Hoss records. Michael and his wife Dawn run the small edition label/shop, Raw Special Effects (RSE) which is scheduled to release material by EVOL, Peter Rehberg and others within the upcoming year. Or this show???? Saturday, April 14 | 8pm Brötzmann-Pliakas-Wertmüller with Peter Brötzmann, saxophones et clarinettes Marino Pliakas, guitare basse Michael Wertmüller, batterie Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue $10 General Admission Event Description: "Pliakas and Wertmuller were equally assertive at filling every last bit of space in the thick canvas of sound and matched Brötzmann’s fire with accompaniment worthy of an Ozzfest booking." -JazzTimes Peter Brötzmann (tenor saxophone, tarogato, a-clarinet) studied at the Art Academy of Wuppertal before beginning his music career in German swing and be-bop bands. Subsequent pivatol associations in the early 1960s with the Fluxus movement (including Nam June Paik), bassist Peter Kowald, and Americans-in-Paris Don Cherry and Steve Lacy encouraged Brötzmann's (b.1941) unorthodox approach, often described as "sonic terror." A founder of European Free Jazz movement, his work includes collaborations and recordings with Last Exit (with Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock and Ronald Shannon Jackson), Evan Parker, Misha Mengelberg, and Borah Bergman. Recent projects include Die Like a Dog (with William Parker, Hamid Drake and Toshinori Kondo), his homage to Albert Ayler, and a Chicago-based Octet/Tentet featuring Ken Vandermark. Wertmueller and Broetzmann toured for years as a duo and in various contexts, such as Broetzmann's Chicago Tentett. Together they have recorded with bassist William Parker. Wertmueller and Pliakas perform together on various occasions with Caspar Broetzmann, Stephan Wittwer, John Cale, Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Csukay, K.K. Null, Olaf Rupp, Marian Gold and others; and in cooperation with Pliakas' avant trio STEAMBOAT. One more thing to consider - I've seen Brotzmann before and I've never seen Rowe.

2-8. Season over.

TY's are the best, IMHO.

The Inky ran their obit today.... http://www.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/...ith_Sun_Ra.html Tyrone Hill, 58, of North Philadelphia, a powerful trombonist whose expressive big sound broke out of the Sun Ra Arkestra pack for three decades, died of heart failure March 11 at his aunt's home in East Mount Airy following the burial of his mother. Born in North Philadelphia and raised around 17th and York Streets, Mr. Hill started playing the trombone in music class at Gillespie Middle School. He listened to saxophonist John Coltrane jamming with musicians such as Sherman Ferguson and Middie Middleton on the street in his neighborhood. After graduating in 1966 from Benjamin Franklin High School, Mr. Hill studied the trombone for four years at the former Combs School of Music in Chestnut Hill. "He had one semester before he graduated, and he quit to play in bands," said sister Liz Hicks. "Our mother was so mad at him." Mr. Hill played with the Uptown Theater Orchestra and several rhythm and blues, jazz and pop bands in Philadelphia and New York until 1970. He hooked up with singer Billy Paul, who won a Grammy for "Me and Mrs. Jones" in 1972. "Tyrone was Billy Paul's music director for eight years," his sister said. "He was the only member of Billy's band to tour Europe with him." In the late 1970s, Mr. Hill joined the Sun Ra Arkestra - often consisting of up to 20 players and dancers, led by colorful organist Sun Ra. The Sun Ra Arkestra, which was formed in the late 1950s, combined big-band sounds with flavors from Africa, Latin America, avant-garde indie-rock, space jam and free jazz. For nearly a half-century the Arkestra performed all over the world and in dozens of local venues, including the Philadelphia Ethical Society and the Franklin Institute, and as part of the Mellon Jazz Festival. "I never heard music like that before. They played for six hours straight through. No breaks. It was unreal," Mr. Hill said in a 2000 interview about his first performance with Sun Ra, who had moved to Germantown from New York in 1969. Mr. Hill often led the band in songs such as "Discipline 27-II." He played the trombone on more than 40 albums with the Sun Ra Arkestra and recorded two albums of his own - Out of the Box (1997) and Soul-Etude (1999) - released on the Creative Improvised Music Projects label. "Tyrone's sound boosted mine, and the sum of my trumpet and his trombone ended up greater than the total of those two instruments," said Arkestra trumpeter Fred Adams. After Sun Ra died in 1993, he bequeathed his Germantown home on Morton Street to the band. Although things slowed down after the death of Sun Ra, the Arkestra still plays several times a month. The group practices in the house on Morton Street, where four members live. "We called Tyrone 'Pound of Plenty' because of his huge sound," said saxophonist Marshall Allen, director of the Sun Ra Arkestra. "He played his last gig about a month before he left this planet. He was supposed to play in New York with us this week. Sun Ra Arkestra will have 15 players at his memorial service." Outside the jazz world, Mr. Hill was "a diehard Eagles fan," he said in a 2004 Philadelphia Daily News article. "I just got back from touring Europe with the Sun Ra Arkestra and ran into some Eagles fans in Barcelona. They saw my Phillies cap." Mr. Hill played "Fly Eagles Fly" for them. During the 2003 Eagles playoffs, "some tailgaters heard me playing the fight song and hired me to play for their party. They fed me ribs and gave me some beer. That felt good," he told the Daily News. Mr. Hill also played several times in the Mummers Parade. In addition to his sister, Mr. Hill is survived by two brothers. A musical memorial service with the Sun Ra Arkestra will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Church of the Advocate, 1801 W. Diamond St. Burial was private. Donations may be sent to Church of the Advocate, c/o Tyrone Hill Memorial, 1801 W. Diamond St., Philadelphia 19121-1509.

Crap!! That's the same night as my son's 3rd birthday. Take him with you!! Wish I could. I'm gonna email Dave Burrell's manager and see if there is any chance of them coming to philly for a gig. Got a reply to my email from Burrell's manager. He said he is working on bringing them down to Philly. :party:

I read "Cat's Cradle" and “Slaughterhouse-Five” in high school. 25 years later I still think they are wonderful. FWIW....“The Sirens of Titan"'s film rights were bought up by Jerry Garcia. The Dead were so enamoured of Vonnegut's writing that they named their publishing company "Ice Nine". Thanks Kurt. R.I.P. (edit for spelling)

Crap!! That's the same night as my son's 3rd birthday. Take him with you!! Wish I could. I'm gonna email Dave Burrell's manager and see if there is any chance of them coming to philly for a gig.

I got this last week from a board member. It's fantastic. One of those albums that gets better and better w/ repeated listenings.

Well it took a MONTH(what a disgrace) but there's finally an obit for Tyrone in the local papers. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/obituaries...t_musician.html