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In the absence of general Lyons thread in Artists (shame on this board), posting this here. Been listening to Lyons / Cyrille duo "Burnt Offering" and there is some strange stuff going on the first 1.5 minutes of the music. It sounds like somebody (Cyrille, I guess) is playing a saxophone mouthpiece or some whistle together with Lyons. Very annoying. Could anyone venture a guess what is that being played? And by whom? I don't remember Cyrille playing whistles or other shit like that (Bennink - yes, Sommer - yes, but Cyrille?) on any other records of his I heard.

A nice little write-up on Shihab at bandcamp: https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/sahib-shihab-critical-discography

An excellent and unusual later-period Konitz that does not seem to be mentioned often is Jugendstil II on ESP Disk: http://www.espdisk.com/4059.html?search=konitz It's a project of Stephane Furic Leibovici, to be exact. I also like the quartet session "Round & Round" from 1988, but mostly for super-tight rhythm section of Fred Hersh, Mike Richmond and Adam Nussbaum.

Just in case - Sanders is available at Spotify and the likes.

I sell stuff on Discogs. It works.

Gret undertaking, Pim. Prompted me to review my Waldron collection. The effect was probably not the one you expected your blog would have on its readers - I significantly pruned my Waldron collection, leaving just a few items (TUTUs, discs with Lacy, duo with Marion Brown). But that's not your fault - it's that Waldron fella. Regarding obtaining TUTU CDs - one can contact the label owner, Peter Weissmüller, directly at tutu@jazzrecords.com - his prices are actually very reasonable, and most of the CDs are in print. Have you covered these Time Warp duos (four volumes!) with Christian Burchard: https://open.spotify.com/album/1sG6Oljx9LSGxyomKmkhe7 ?

Ha, I am in complete disagreement on this one. I think Jenkins is really a mediocre violin player and a bad improvisor. Ugly tone, no dynamics, a lot of repetitive licks, no development in solos. Monotone. As far as jazz violin is concerned that's the one for me: Or in free improvisation realm:

Yes, he is a good piano player. He is the least jazzy of the three.

Gents, I think this is a pretty stunning album: Hafez Modirzadeh "Facets" on Pi, https://hafezmodirzadeh.bandcamp.com/album/facets . Tenor / piano duos. The pianos are retuned and the sonorities created are fascinating. The pianists are Craig Taborn, Tyshawn Sorey and Kris Davis - each has a very different approach. Modirzadeh's playing is highly original. Innovative, unpredictable stuff, I have it on repeat for a week now. It's available for steaming on Apple Music.

Oh come on, that's exactly who he is. If anything he's diluting his "legacy" by this release incontinence.

Do you mean this one, without McPhee - https://pnlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/angular-mass ?

Today's bandcamp Friday open your hearts blah blah blah starving musicians blah blah blah your support blah blah blah Got me this one: https://marhaug.bandcamp.com/album/soul-stream-2015 (or here: https://pnlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/soul-stream-2 )

Good stuff.

Marc Levin - Social Sketches (Enja). Very curious work.

I think it's the composer's son who uploaded the recordings to YouTube. He's maintaining a pretty comprehensive website about Nosyrev: http://www.nosyrev.com/biography I would love to like his music more than I do given the tragic circumstances of Nosyrev's life, but I don't find it first-rate. There are some truly great and original elements there, but it's all quite disjointed and incohesive. Maybe not having formal education had an effect (arrested at the age of 19 when he just started his studies at Leningrad Conservatory). Maybe lack of access to good musicians (he lived in a provincial town of Voronezh after his release from Gulag).

Yes, it's a nice one. Helps understand who is producing which sound.

Gorgeous.

On (otherwise excellent) solo drums album by Beaver Harris "African Drums" (recorded in 1977) there is one track (called "African Drums" too) with David S. Ware. His playing is weak, and it's infested with late-era Coltrane-isms. "Interstellar Space" is my favorite Coltrane album, fwiw. I agree on Glenn Spearman being influenced by later-period Coltrane, what an excellent musician. Also, Louis Belogenis. Early Gerd Dudek (later Dudek is also indebted to Coltrane but rather "Crescent"-period). Actually, Evan Parker on tenor. And early Breuker (Machine Gun era). Ivo Perelman ("Hammer", "Sound Hierarchy"). Joe McPhee. Urs Leimgruber. Alfred 23 Harth. From younger generation, Jonas Kullhammar. Many people. Best of them don't sound like Coltrane (thankfully).

bandcamp best of jazz, April 2021: https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-jazz/the-best-jazz-on-bandcamp-april-2021?utm_source=notification Most of the names are new to me, and I am looking forward to exploring these releases. These bandcamp jazz & experimental lists / specials / whatever they call them are compiled by knowledgeable people, which is a pleasant surprise. I remember being impressed by the mini-feature on Joe McPhee a coupe of years ago ( https://daily.bandcamp.com/lifetime-achievement/joe-mcphee-discography-guide ) - the writer (Marc Masters) obviously knows his McPhee. I would never expect companies with much more vast resources (Spotify, Apple, amazon) even contemplating doing something like this.

It's a shame this band imploded before the scheduled end of the tour. Zappa's guitar playing was getting better and better (it was sort of hesitant at the beginning of the tour but his last '88 concert in Genoa had him playing beautifully - see "Outside Now" from "Broadway the Hard Way" or "After Dinner Smoker" from "Trance-Fusion") and the band was getting increasingly loose with improvisations. But well, as the man said, touring can make you crazy.

That's a Zappa song, right?

Karlheinz Essl "Rudiments". Great, great stuff.

Not exactly, it was to damage Knepper's position in court hearings. As per Wikipedia: Charged with assault, Mingus appeared in court in January 1963 and was given a suspended sentence. According to his [Knepper's] daughter, Robin, Mingus also later mailed heroin to Knepper's home, and made an anonymous phone call to the police. A little girl at the time, she remembers the police questioning her father after the mailman delivered the package. What a nice man, Mingus. I seem to remember reading somewhere that musicians (Buddy Collette?) who witnessed the assault refused to testify in Knepper's support, and instead stood behind Mingus.