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Interesting...do you know if this a new release? It is always good to hear Brotz with some different players. I know nothing about anyone else on this album. Are you familiar with their work at all? Peter Friis Nielsen is the (excellent, IMO) bass guitar player from Brötzmann's "Live in Nefertiti" (on Ayler), Pierre Dorge is a great versatile guitarist - I heard him on several SteepleChase dates (there is a beautiful, beautiful trio Dorge-Khan Jamal-Johnny Dyani). This seems to be a new release. As far a I understand, The Wild Mans Band is a working group: I haven't heard any of those.

Looking forward. Milford Graves is one of my favorite percussionists and live he is unbelievable (I saw him 4 years ago with New York Art Quartet). With the NYAQ or with the New New York Art Quartet (as the version with Zorn is called)? They were at Willisau last year or the year before. I only heard some 40 minutes over the radio, and it was pretty poor. Old-fashioned chaotic energy free jazz... (the statement I made a couple of pages earlier in this thread applies...) ubu It was NYAQ. "Old" one: Tchicai, Rudd, Reggie Workman, Milford Graves, Amiri Baraka. Spring of 2000 in Paris. Fantastic. Milford Graves started with a super energetic polyrythmic drum solo and continued playing like this all through the set - amazing stamina. The guy seemed to be very inspired (and they received a very warm reception), and very pleased with themselves and each other: Reggie Workman was laughing all concert, Rudd was dancing, Baraka was very artistic... After they finished playing, Graves ran to the mike and said something along the lines: "we are really, really old guys, but we can kick anybody's ass when we play". And that was true. I didn't know Zorn joined NYAQ. Would be curious to hear them. Next day there was solo Graves ..hmm...performance. Graves spent most of the time dancing (quite well) and "singing" (quite expressively). Then he ran to the audience and lifted a guy from the seat and carried him on his shoulder around the audience for a couple of minutes. In the end he sat behind the drum set and did an absolutely stunnig thing: he played some (pretty elaborate) rythm with just right hand, then he played another rythm with only his left hand, then with his right leg and with his left leg - and then he played all four rythms AT THE SAME TIME for a couple of minutes, and then started improvising occasionally returning to this mind-boggling 4-rythm structure - and it all looked so natural and easy. The man has comepletely become music, really. TOday I listened to Graves' solo "Stories" on Tzadik and it has a lot of this amazing total musicality. But be warned - Graves is "singing" nearly all of the time whilèe he is playing, and for sensitive Dutchmen among us it can prove more than they can bare.

Pretty poor review, IMO. Upcoming release on Tzadik (late March): Looking forward. Milford Graves is one of my favorite percussionists and live he is unbelievable (I saw him 4 years ago with New York Art Quartet).

Phenomenal clariner (ands sometimes alto saxophone) / drums duo: Mauro Negri / Zlatko Kaucic "Scuarci" (Splasc(H), 2000) I responsibly proclaim that Mauro Negri is the most impressive clarinetist ever.

And getting back to our hero. New release on Danish Ninth World records:

Nice cover art. I haven't bought any of the hatART CDs hoping that sooner or later most of them will be reissued in hatOLOGY /hat[now]ART series. Probably I should get at least some... Monoceros is no longer available through Forced Exposure. Hans, I also have problems with Koglmann's ouevre - everything I've heard sounds too dry and a bit pretentious. Our friend ubu's Joe McPhee purchases prompted me to listen to some McPhee from my collection, so I dug up Grand Marquis (Boxholder, 2000) - McPhee's duo with drummer Johnny McLellan, and it's an absolute masterpiece. AMG review.

John, where did you get this one? It looks like it's OOP now.

ubu, check this mini-festival we have here in Geneve on April 1st-4th: http://www.amr-geneve.ch/prog2004/jazzfest/affiche.htm Not bad, eh? Let me know if you want to come - you can crash in my place.

New Leo Records releases: http://www.leorecords.com/?m=catalogue&release=2004

Distributor for Dutch improv music: http://www.subdist.com/ Prices are not too bad, given that shipping is included.

It's just a dumb-ass BBC website where you cannot find anything...

I nanticipation of the Fred Anderson / Hamid Drake duo disc, I listened to other Anderson's duo with drums: It's a good one (and Robert Barry is actually very close to hamid Drake in his playing style), and very nicely recorded. I would still rate Vintage Duets (Okka) higher, though.

Hey, so I am not alone in my feelings about Mateen. This one sounds quite interesting (click on "play all songs" button): http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ckhuges

Tell us Americans about it! Japanese jazz imports anyone? COme on TOny, with some very rare exceptioons, US is the best place to buy creative music CDs, regardless of their origin.

Cheap source for Nuscope, Sketch, Nine Winds and other labels: http://www.indiejazz.com/ It's insane that we here in Europe have to re-import European CDs from the US...

Hmm, I absolutely hated Mateen every time I heard him (a couple of times live and as a sidemen on a several recordings) - all these standard calculated "free jazz" licks, all solos absolutely the same... 0 originality. Durning the concerts I felt a bit embarassed and angry, really, - I thought some people in the audience who had never heard free jazz before would think that all free music is like this... On the other hand, a lot of people whose opinion I trust recommend his music highly, so I might check some of his records - and a sax-drums duo sounds good. Actually, I have a Test live recording on Aum somewhere - with Tom Bruno, bassist and another reeds player (who I like a lot) - Daniel Carter - I'll try to find it and will report my impressions here.

True, to some extent because Mars Williams and Ken Vandermark are quite derivative players, IMO (I mean good - I do like them, but not too original).

to be released on Thrill Jockey in the end of March: As I mentioned, Fred Anderson's other duo with drummer (Steve MacCall) - Vintage Duets (on Okka) is fantastic, so this one shouldn't be too bad either.

I have very few Ganelin Trio recordings. I really enjoyed their "Reunion" CD released last year on Leo. Geoff might be more knowledgeable about the Ganelin Trio. Regarding Redman, the only one by him that I didn't like too much is "In London" on Palmetto. It's with Marcotulli, Matt Wilson and Cameron Brown - I guess that's the band you heard him with.

ubu, regarding Dewey Redman - he is one of my favorite tenor players. I actualy find his solos fascinating to listen - not only because of his sound, but also because of the melodic development - a great musical thinker. Even though he's mellowed down recently, he still can play some fantastic stuff - like on Momentum Space (with Cecil and Elvin, from late '90s). He is also excellent on Ed Schuller's "Mu-Point" (Tutu) and on Ethan Iverson's "School Days". Fro older Redman's CDs, get his duo with Edward Blackwell "In Willisau" (?) (on Black Saint or Soul Note) and his angry Tarik on BYG. Great man.

OK, I spent half an hour searching for this one on line, cursing everybody including (but not limited to) little labels that can't preserve anything in print, anonimous fans who grabbed all available copies (even from the most obscure on-line sotres), Gregg Bendian himself for recording good records as early as in 1997, etc, etc... just to find out that it will be reissued in less than a month on Atavistic with two added live bonus tracks. Yes! Hers is the new cover:

ubu, let us know your opinion on these discs. I don't have any of those. Never heard of Crazy Wisdom label either.

Well, drummer Paal Nielsen-Love is very prominent in Chicago improv circle (and he is a new Broetzmann's Tentet drummer - big shoes to fill after Hamid Drake), and deservedly so. His playing on Frode Gjerstad / Peter Broetzmann's "Sharp Knives Cut Deeper" (Splasc(H), 2003) absolutely blew me away. And yes, this is the third time I am plugging this disc in here, and I will continue until you all get it.

Have you ever know us to say "no"? This was more of a rhetoric question.

Got some Russian improv CDs for you guys. Let me know if you want to receive them.