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  2. Solo Saxophone

    in Recommendations

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    12 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    Lacy develops motifs, so bring the changes to the table with you if that's what you need.

    What an insightful advice! Now I know how to listen to the music the right way. 

    Here are couple more excellent albums: Joachim Gies "Whispering Blue" (Leo) and Hermann Bühler "Alto Solo" (Dreamscape).       

  3. Solo Saxophone

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    My favorite ones are early John Butcher solo records - "13 Friendly Numbers", "Invisible Ear" and "Fixations (14)". These are the solo saxophone records I return to most often. 

    I don't like solo Lacy that much, I definitely prefer Lol Coxhill when it comes to soprano saxophone. With Lacy I get a feeling that rhythm section is missing - particularly when he plays Monk tunes. With Coxhill it's all harmoniously complete.

    One excellent solo record that I think was not mentioned is Mototeru Takagi "Love Dance". This is some really lyrical stuff.

    https://www.discogs.com/release/22195261-高木元輝-Love-Dance-Solo-Live-At-Galerie-De-Café-伝-Tokyo-1987-1997  

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    And Ellery Eskelin has a very nice solo record: 

     

     

     

    I see Urs Leimgruber just released a new solo soprano album, I bet it's good:

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  4. German Jazz on MPS/Mood/Inakustik re-issues, etc

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, T.D. said:

    Exactly my experience. I bought the very same set...other festival boxes are attractive but I've been put off by the authorization thing. I also have a CD of Marion Brown "Five Improvisations" on the label, so that's 3 B.Free releases I'm not so proud of owning. 😶

    I have a couple of these B.free (or BE!, they have various logos on different releases) festival sets as well, still have to listen to them in full. Yes, they are bootlegs alright. There are no liner notes as such - just track listing (often incorrect) and personnel (mostly correct), lots of photos and reproductions of old press clippings (some quite entertaining). No Information about the label to be found anywhere on the release. At the same time, I can't say I have particular qualms about buying these sets because I am fully aware that it would have been impossible to release them (and these are 12-CD sets!) securing authorization of all the (dozens!) of musicians involved. Legal side of it all is probably quite convoluted anyway. The festival organizer, Karlheinz Klüter, arranged for the music to be professionally recorded. There should have been at least tacit approval of the musicians. Their performance fees probably included payment for recording (or it least in could plausibly be interpreted this way). The tapes were in legal possession of the festival producer, and he had some of the music released on LPs on his (presumably legit) label in the '70s and '80s: https://www.discogs.com/artist/624261 . He died 10 years ago and his son passed the tapes to B.free people (there is an acknowledgement in the booklet). So unauthorized - probably yes, illegal - not necessarily. Whatever, I am glad the music is available, there is some great stuff here. 

    The German company behind BE! label was liquidated a few years back, by the way: https://www.northdata.de/BE!+Record+Productions+GmbH,+Bruchsal/Amtsgericht+Mannheim+HRB+717316 

  5. German Jazz on MPS/Mood/Inakustik re-issues, etc

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    On 5/12/2024 at 11:39 PM, barnaba.siegel said:

    This one is a jazz-rock classic from the MPS catalogue. "Kunstkopfindianer" is credited by Hans Koller, Wolfgang Dauner, Adelhard Roidinger, Zbigniew Seifert, Janusz Stefanski and it's a great piece of a crazier European approach in terms of composing and use of electronics. The opening piece is just mad, Dauner is going crazy with all keys and synths - and Seiferts' violin playing throughout the whole record is definitely unique, he was really one of the best violinist back then.

    Whole album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkVLq95upG0 

     

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    Yeah, this one is excellent. And that was a nice MPS reissue series in 2003. 

    Zbiggy was a good player, a bit over the top, but so it goes with electric violin in jazz fusion context.

    b.free released seem to be indeed ...ahem... "unauthorized" - but they are unique and high quality stuff (if you ignore numerous mistakes in compositions' titles):

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    Are these Japanese CDs on your shelf still sealed?    

  8. Zoh Amba

    in Artists

    Posted

    Interesting that Zoh Amba has studied with David Murray, who, as far as I am concerned, is an epitome of a "simulacrum" player from the previous generation.  

  12. Bandcamp vs. Spotify

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    As of this month, under pressure from major labels, Spotify introduced a new policy of no royalties paid for tracks that get less than 1000 streams per year (similar policy has been introduced by other streaming services as well). Less than 1000 streams per track per year - this probably covers 99% of the jazz and classical music (particularly the contemporary artists). I wonder if this would result in more artists / small labels abandoning Spotify and moving to bandcamp.

    Reading this news while listening to recent Miya Masaoka / Reggie Workman / Gerry Hemingway release on Spotify. What's the number of streams, you ask? 21 per month.

                 

  13. Best Live Boxed Set?

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    On 4/21/2024 at 4:56 AM, mhatta said:

    Japanese free saxophonist Kaoru Abe may not be well known here, but a 3-CDs compilation of his 1971 shows at several universities and a jazz cafe in the Tohoku region in Japan came out a few years ago and was very moving. It is well comparable to Eric Dolphy, in my opinion.

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  18. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by Д.Д.

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    Daniel Humair - Surrounded 1964-1987.

    Saw Humair live a few weeks ago, and he was not playing well, unfortunately. The man is 85, after all - and it shows. Wanted to listen to him at his prime, and this compilation of various live recordings is an excellent showcase for a truly great (and I don't use this word lightly) jazz drummer.     

     

  23. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by Д.Д.

    5 hours ago, T.D. said:

    It's one of those "historically significant" albums. I got it pretty recently, am still evaluating. On first listen I was unimpressed, but am now liking it better. The album starts out as kind of straight-ahead but transitions (Free Form Suite) to exploratory and eventually outside. I'm partial to Takayanagi's late weird/noisy material, and the final track (3d movement of Free Form Suite) is very much in that wheelhouse.

    At this stage I'd say "interesting" rather than "essential", although that final track is really outstanding. At this point I overall prefer the Cool Jojo (straight-ahead, even Tristano style) and Takayanagi's Angry Waves 850113 (outside/noisy) albums somewhat. I don't regret getting this recording, however.

    I thought "Free Form" was mostly lame hippie crap (I don't remember if there actually was tambourine there, but it very much felt like it), but "Angry Waves" is excellent. If anybody wants to buy my CD copy of "Free Form", let me know.   

  24. Live McCoy Tyner and Woody Shaw CD's

    in New Releases

    Posted

    5 hours ago, soulpope said:

    Sometimes it makes me wonder, that musicians wouldn't check their credits via sites like Discogs (even if puting only his name into Google Neil Swainson's Discogs listing comes up quickly) regurarly .....

    Yes, I was thinking the same earlier today when I was correcting one Discogs entry that had a lot of data wrong (including the album title!). The musicians should have some interest in how the record of their legacy is maintained online and Discogs, whether you like it or not, is the reference discography database. 

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