Steve Reynolds

I didn't listen. No reason to listen to that belief system. It is suffocating on so many levels.

Got my fill with Drake on the 14th @ Vision Fest and then a few nights during the week at The Stone in October which will feature the GREAT Cooper-Moore

one would think that new blood would be welcomed I hope that is the case If anyone here would bother to investigate, many posters from JCS have much to offer. How about some new viewpoints on music, etc. from many of us who have many years of experience listening, hearing, discussing, remembering? Not in Kansas any longer? welcoming spirit, anyone?

a shame the place will no longer be around. however as some have noted, the volume and activity has been almost nothing for quite some time. when BBS traffic was high and the internet was newer, there was *nothing* quite like Jazz Corner - the memories and friends I've met are priceless...

Try Tom Varner's The Mystery of Compassion, a great early 90's soul note Rainey grooves on that one!

I will see These Arches when I can. Ches has a nice vibe to his playing.

Thanks! My buddy is seeing them tonight @ Cornelia Street. Of course there will be no issue with muddy sound in the great little club. Wish I could go as well but I was happy to be there for Open Loose last night

Listening to Gentle Ben now from New School and anybody doubting Malaby's brilliance needs to hear this performance on this gorgeous ballad made famous in this small circle of music by the version on Hemingway's Johnny's Corner Song with Eskelin on tenor.

Wonderful show last night. Picked up New School and Atomic Clock Band was restrained and concise. Malaby was particularly on form although with less of his way out excursions(good or bad depends on one's mood or taste), but his melodic and harmonic brilliance was on full display. I think even i take for granted how amazing he is but not last night or this morning. Listening to the older disc New School is fine place to start and Tony told me it is his favorite of the trio. Mark recommended the later Atomic Clock from the other 2 discs they had for sale. So I think that is a couple of good recommendations from the sources!!!

Word is that is still a single unit that goes off during the shows and that it will still be hotter than is humanly possible to deal with for the next 3 months or so

Here's hoping the new AC @ The Stone is working on July 28th & 29th The only thing these days I'm interested in that John Zorn is a part of. Got bored with the multiple projects/massive number of compositions/pseudo creative BS of his about 10 plus years ago. So many more focused and interesting and powerful musicians/improvisers just in NYC, let alone in the rest of the world.

Very cool to me that a few of us are all going to shows on the same night.

Look forward to hearing your comments, relyles

A few and I only have the last one which is live in France and the sound is sub-par. I'm hoping they bring a few but last couple of times they only had the most recent one

they deserve a live recording in prime sound in order to capture the monsterous power of Tom Rainey in the context of this trio, a force of nature that has *still* not been captured on record. One hopes Not Two records gets a shot at this band one day.

Thursday, May 23 - 8:30PM OPEN LOOSE Mark Helias, bass; Tony Malaby, tenor sax; Tom Rainey, drums $20 cover includes a drink http://www.markhelias.com goes without saying that I be there, I be there early, and I can't wait to see one of my favorite bands *the* band to hear these three masters at their finest

How about Peter Evans

Opening KV penned tune on AALY's Live at The Glenn Miller Cafe The break at just after the 4 minute mark when they really crank is an absolute scream.

I have Absolute Zero I told Jon that I wasn't yet sure what to think about it. I do think he doesn't give the other musicians enough of their own space and the music needs to breath a little more As far as his technical facility on either horn, he may be without peer. A friend of mine who was at the show says over the last 18 months, he has come a long way. There are group of people who go to many, many shows focused on the outtish downtown scene and he is one of those guys so he has seen him often.

Couple of thoughts: Irabagon could one day be one the big guys Altschul played a solo on brushes on a ballad towards the end of the second set that said all about everything there is to say about the simplicity and genius of a great drummer Helias is among the most versatile and organic bassists playing today A few pieces didn't quite work like a long boppish piece The best piece was almost a tone poem where Irabagon (who played tenor throughout) played long bright tones a of a piece. He can play anything and he is best when he doesn't Altschul's other solo during the second set was beyond my ability to even start to describe where it came from. Btw I love when he almost stands up off the drum stool as he so into the groove Very good night and I was blessed to be within 6 feet of the bass drum Also once Irabagon played some rough and tumble tenor saxophone that was the first time I ever heard anyone for about 20 seconds sound like primo Evan Parker. The whole sound was there, I wondered how much he's listened to the great man

Fwiw, I think Jump Up is as great a sax-bass-drums trio recording that ANYONE could have wished to have made.

Fwiw, I think Jump Up is as great a sax-bass-drums trio recording that ANYONE could have wished to have made.

I think that Rollins playing on that track with Ornette is tremendous while I think Ornette is not quite with it. So at 80 he could have hung with Hamid do maybe he still can. I have always wanted to hear him with a great NOW drummer

Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity Giuseppi Logan Quartet both recent and fairly recent ESP re-masters Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Indestructible

Ten years ago I said Hamid Drake Today I still say it needs to happen at least once