Steve Reynolds

I bought mine on-line this A.M. go the link below

anyone attending? My first night is tonight for Peter Brotzmann, etc.

a reminder that the big night is tonight 3 bands with Herr Brotzmann with the big one a quintet to close the night with Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Kent Kessler and Paal Nilsson-Love first set @ 7:00 - 466 Grand Ave, NY NY

I saw both the Braxton 65th b-day tribute and ICP @ Le Poisson Rouge and it is a very nice place to see and hear some great music. I will choose a Tuesday and get there early to get right up front for Cecil.

the odd part to me is that he allowed someone's comments (Solal's) to put him in a bad mood and make him angry. sounds like I used to get (and still sometimes can get) despite Iverson's interesting comments it still would not surprise me if he never heard Misha and Han play Monk - which is not suprising as my father in law pointed out when I showed himan amazing clip of the ICP playing Criss Cross and then another playing a Misha tune that there were soemthing under 1000 views. maybe Ethan might want to take a listen to these guys to get a new perspective on what some others might be capable of doing with Monk.

thanks for the link, Tom I *really* enjoyed reading that commentary. but alas all I could think of was a week ago last Thursday and of course they are not youngsters on the way up - but I thought of ICP from 10 feet away playing "Jackie-Ing" and I have *never* heard a band swing like Monk like that - Tobius Delius tenor solo and what followed with Bennink et al was pure Monk in it's absolute essence. Swinging, not abstract yet totally out in it's own way. and a few weeks earlier Ellery Eskelin with Gary Versace and Nasheet Waits played what may have been Bye-A for the first 12-15 minutes of a second set and it was although not on the same level as what Misha, Han and the band does, it was Monk worthy as well - especially the playing of Eskelin - an aside is listen to Ellery with Han on Dissonant Characters take on Brilliant Corners. Monk's music is alove and well and in in the right hands it might be the music I most want to hear covered as the one thing that Misha once pointed out quite controversally is that he plays with guys better than the guys that Monk played with - and as far as drummers go he is correct! plus Monk never had Wolter Wierbos in his band

all I could hope for - in reality a real big band but *only* 10 pieces all wonderful all spirit all ultimate musicians highlight is seeing Misha at a piano playing softly and beautifully throughout and those horn players are models of restraint, exuberance and magisty all at the same time Jackie-ing was astounding with Toby Delius on the tenor with Han Bennink taking Monk's music to the swinging heights that few today could imagine let alone accomplish. Swinging?? holy baby jesus....swing??!!! roaring firing on all cylinders... Baltimore Oriole had Mary Oliver's violin and Wolter Wierbos' trombone speaking on very human level Wolter Wierbos is simply one of the great trombonists who has ever played this music - he plays from precise ensemble work to out in in and all around his horn - with and without mutes, altissimo to the pure awesome balst of the trombone - yeah - he is the *great* Wolter Wierbos and to get the chance to see him for the first time in 10 years for me and say heloo to him Han and Ernst before and after the show was huge thrill - and have my 24 year old friend Travis introduce himself the Han and tell him he is glad he shook his hand and Peter Brotzmann's hand and know that they have also played together for almost 50 years - and the smile on my friend's face through out and after for me is simply priceless. and to know that I had a little bit to do with it is simply a wonderful rewarding thing. and Mr. Han Bennink - a little show a little too much but not over the top. All heart, so organic and so delightfully subtle when I least expected it. I don't remember such swing - the older tunes had that swing band feel with a modern and present touch that defies time. Only complaint is that it was only 65 minutes - too bad they didn't play two sets I am a little misty thinking it might be the last time I see them - I am so tempted to go to Philly tomorrow night but I don't think it is going to happen. The idea that this music is dead is only for those who are jaded - 3 friends came with me and all were astounded - most wouldn't believe what they heard if they were not there but maybe for some listeners this kind of performance is rote - I don't feel that way just because they have been playing this music for decades - fact of the matter it is Misha's music - even when they play someone else's or Michael Moore's or Ab Baar's. I just did not want the music to end - I lived for it years back and today I live for life and then I get the chance once in a while to hear the masters, the giants who walk this earth - and these musicians are them. No Idea, baby

also been listening to Cold Bleak Heat - same CD and I am loving it. My first exposure to Paul Flaherty was a duo with Chris Corsano - The Beloved Music - and the quartet might even be better. a few good more recent discs: Michael Formanek - The Rub and Spare Change Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green - Apex Parker-Guy-Lytton plus Peter Evans - Scenes in the House of Music Parker-Guy-Lytton: Nightwork

one and all - don't miss it if you near the city Instant Composers Pool Orchestra - @ Le Poisson Rouge NYC @ 7:00 last day of the month - leaving early no matter what - will be there first in line for the band I thought I might never see again Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Wolter Wierbos, Michael Moore, Ab Baars and the rest - also listed with "special guests" maybe they play all night!! hoping for lots of Duke, Herbie and Misha tunes. me imagines that the great drummer is still in his prime and with Misha @ 75, this really might be the last time we get to see this legendary ensemble. No Idea, baby also:..and elsewhere. Spring Tour Dates 2011 : ICP Orchestra March 30 Baltimore / Windup Space http://thewindupspace.com March 31 New York / Le Poisson Rouge http://lepoissonrouge.com April 1, 2, 3 Philadelphia / Ars Nova http://www.arsnovaworkshop.org/event...rchestra-04-01 -2011 April 5 Rochester / Bop Shop http://www.bopshop.com/ April 7 Austin / Epistrophy Arts http://epistrophyarts.org April 8 Houston / Nameless Sound http://www.namelesssound.org April 9 Des Moines / Caspe Terrace abe@trilixgroup.com April 10 Chicago / Hungry Brain http://www.myspace.com/hungrybrainchicago April 11 Chicago / Cultural Center http://www.chicagoculturalcenter.org April 12 Seattle / Earshot Jazz http://www.earshot.org

70th Birthdat tribute @ Vision Fest in early June On Wednesday, June 8th, we celebrate a lifetime of achievement by the great saxophone and clarinet player, Peter Brötzmann. First European musician to be honored at the Vision Festival, Peter Brötzmann has been a leading voice in the Creative Jazz field for more than forty years. We are delighted to present his duo with drummer Hamid Drake, his quintet with Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake and his quartet with Joe McPhee, Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits.

I saw the original band when they came out and I don't remember it being good at all.

guys like Billy Joel are the reason I love great music. thank jah for the message boards so I connected with people who like music that isn't the worst of the worst and Billy Joel is as bad as it gets - nothing more than glorified commercial jingles

Vision Festival - XVI Save the Date Monday June 6th to Sunday June 12th, 2011 A Lifetime of Musical Achievement by ** Peter Brötzmann ** WHAT’S NEW: Peter Brötzmann – Lifetime of Achievement Award, June 8th Plus a week of the Best of AvantJazz Including a Tribute to Marion Brown by the GROUP on June 11th WHEN/WHERE: Monday, June 6th Evolving Vision at Clemente Soto Velez (107 Suffolk Street) Tuesday June 7th FONT at Vision - Abrons Art Center (466 Grand Street) Wednesday thru Sunday, June 12th at Abrons Art Center (466 Grand Street) Friday, June 10th & Saturday, June 11th at Clemente Soto Velez Friday, June 10th FREE Out Doors at Campos Plaza near (611 East 13 Street) TICKETS: Abrons Admission: $30 per day / $20 students & seniors Festival Passes are $140 URL: www.visionfestival.org or call (212) 254-5420 New York, NY – Arts for Art announces the 16th annual Vision Festival, New York’s premiere multidisciplinary celebration of creative jazz, dance, poetry and visual arts. It will run from Monday June 6th to Sunday June 12th at the Abrons Art Center (466 Grand Street), a venue dedicated to the presentation of innovative artists. Afternoon performances, as well as after hours conductions, will take place at Clemente Soto Velez (107 Suffolk Street). Arts for Art will present more than 40 events in total, including innovative music and dance performances, poetry readings, visual art exhibitions. On Wednesday, June 8th, we celebrate a lifetime of achievement by the great saxophone and clarinet player, Peter Brötzmann. First European musician to be honored at the Vision Festival, Peter Brötzmann has been a leading voice in the Creative Jazz field for more than forty years. We are delighted to present his duo with drummer Hamid Drake, his quintet with Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake and his quartet with Joe McPhee, Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits. Evan Parker/ Matthew Shipp Jen Shyu This year’s highlights include performances by the great saxophonist David S. Ware and pianist Cooper-Moore, as well as Jazz legend Kidd Jordan. The Vision Festival will also present concerts with Swedish saxophone player John Tchicai, . On Saturday, June 11th, a tribute will be paid to Marion Brown with Ahmed Abdullah, Billy Bang, Andrew Cyrille, Hamiet Bluiett, Bob Stewart and D.D. Jackson. For the first time AFA has invited another non-profit presenter to present one night at the Vision Festival. This Year the Festival of New Trumpet will curate Tuesday, June 7 at the Vision Festival! About Arts for Art and the Vision Festival: Arts For Art, Inc. (AFA) is a multi-cultural organization that presents avantJazz music, dance, multi-media performances, spoken word and visual arts. AFA programs build understanding of creative jazz and related expressive movements through outreach and educational initiatives, which strengthen the ties of community amongst artists and public. From the beginning, AFA has carried a clear message of social awareness. The very institution of AFA is a political act of self-determination holding to the belief that art moves people and that to move people is a powerful political act. A tenet of AFA is its unrelenting commitment to the strength of NYC’s evolving artistic community expressed through the quality and diversity of our programming, which is essentially multi-cultural and multi-ethnic. AFA strives to make its events accessible to a broad economic audience base with reasonable ticket prices. AFA has added a Free performance, as well as offering discount tickets and some complimentary tickets for students, seniors and economically deprived. Finally, AFA’s programming initiatives focus on strengthening the creative arts at a local level so that it reflects both a community’s aspirations and an understanding for issues affecting artists. MORE INFO AT www.visionfestival.org Long Live Peter Brotzmann Especially June 8th is going to be a very special night

Instant Composers Pool Orchestra - @ Le Poisson Rouge NYC @ 7:00 last day of the month - leaving early no matter what - will be there first in line for the band I thought I might never see again Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Wolter Wierbos, Michael Moore, Ab Baars and the rest - also listed with "special guests" maybe they play all night!! hoping for lots of Duke, Herbie and Misha tunes. me imagines that the great drummer is still in his prime and with Misha @ 75, this really might be the last time we get to see this legendary ensemble. No Idea, baby Spring Tour Dates 2011 : ICP Orchestra March 30 Baltimore / Windup Space http://thewindupspace.com March 31 New York / Le Poisson Rouge http://lepoissonrouge.com April 1, 2, 3 Philadelphia / Ars Nova http://www.arsnovaworkshop.org/event...rchestra-04-01 -2011 April 5 Rochester / Bop Shop http://www.bopshop.com/ April 7 Austin / Epistrophy Arts http://epistrophyarts.org April 8 Houston / Nameless Sound http://www.namelesssound.org April 9 Des Moines / Caspe Terrace abe@trilixgroup.com April 10 Chicago / Hungry Brain http://www.myspace.com/hungrybrainchicago April 11 Chicago / Cultural Center http://www.chicagoculturalcenter.org April 12 Seattle / Earshot Jazz http://www.earshot.org

I would love to hear the Formanek group - but mid week is hard for me to swing form Jersey. which younger more vital musicians than those 4 are playing in NYC these days? Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn are not old and they are not that young but who are the younger jazz musicians playing the next 2 weeks who are more vital than these guys? I saw Taborn with Joe Maneri's band in the early 90's and he was great then and I am damn sure he is even better now. Formanek & Berne might be a BIT over 50 but damn I think they are pretty damn great improvisers/composers as far as Gayle, he is 72 but I am sure if you are into what he does, he is probably still blowing doors off many younger saxophonists.

If you get reservations for Cornelia Street Cafe and get there by 8:30 you can be at one of the front tables like I will be and be 5 or 10 feet from Nasheet's kit which is one intense experience. Gary Versace on the organ is also a mind fuck and it should go without saying that Ellery Eskelin is one of the truly great tenor saxophonists playing today or any day. I have seen him play many times and he is always on his game.

quite a bit more in the groove than the classic Eskelin-Parkins-Black recordings on hat ART. Versace is a staright player but his grooves and improvisations on the organ were over the top and very exciting. Waits in this format plays to his strength - maybe as close to Elvin Jones as a drummer can get when he really gets it going. He was much better than he was in a quartet with Tony Malaby and Ben Monder ealier last year. My wife loved the band - she is no big jazz fan - she said they should be on Jay Leno - it didn't hurt that we were 5 or 6 feet from the band!

Ellery Eskelin Trio with Gary Versace and Nasheet Waits @ Cornelia Street Cafe 2/19 - sets @ 9 & 10:30. The band is smoking hot

Ellery Eskelin-Gary Versace-Nasheet Waits - Cornelia Street Cafe Tony Malaby Ninetet - same place Crispell-Dresser-Hemingway joined by Anthony Braxton - 65th year b-day show

Ed Thigpen on John Lindberg's 2 great albums - Quartet Afterstorm & Resurrection of a Dormant Soul - also with Albert Mangelsdorff Keith Rowe with Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Eddie Prevost- Supersession especially Rowe with Guy wouldn't seem to make sense but for me it worked in 1984 Paul Lovens playing straight swing drums on Schlippenbach's Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra - Live in Japan I think in 1996 - I am still wondering if it really him... would always like to hear the straight or mainstream players of today play with guys like Bennink, Dresser,etc - but they don't....

plus he isn't nearly as good as so many others who do not get the accolades he gets. never grateful that he has those crowds that guys like Paul Bley will never get. And Paul Bley is a far greater musician, innovator and thinker than Jarrett ever was. nothing more disturbing than a jazz/improvising musician with a sizeable audience who is an ungrateful nasty asshole.

Ellery Eskelin Trio @ Cornelia St Cafe Ellery Eskelin: tenor saxophone Gary Versace: organ Nasheet Waits: drums @ Cornelia Street Cafe sitting about 5 feet from the bass drum and 6 feet from the bell of Ellery Eskelin's horn wanted to stay for the second set but my wife was a little tired - but she thinks the band would sell millions if anyone ever heard them - and she watches American Idol.... she is in love with Nasheet Waits and told him on the way out that he is greatest drummer she ever heard she might be close - at least last night... best organ trio alive today - maybe the best ever??!!?? slow start followed by what was I think was Bemsha Swing or Bye-A but my Monk listening and song recognition is way out of shape - but whatever it was the next 10 - 12 minutes exposed a band that is without peers in what they do - and I think Ellery told me afterwards that this was the first set they played - or maybe one of the first times they played - Ellery looked to have a set list of about 15 tunes on a scrap paper on the floor and I don't think Gary Versace had anything in front of him as they tore through the music. What might have been Body and Soul or another old warhorse (I can't to this day tell an old ballad from another but that's my ears or lack of them from that respect) was next without a break and it was a slight letdown from the first half of the first half of the set (the set was two 31 to 32 minute sections). Then then then..... then they went into something else and something else mostly groove based where they all took the music to dramatic heights with Ellery & Gary playing at a very high technical level without an ounce of flash - when the organ and drums combines at times it was more than incendiary and made one think this music had just been invented when in most respects it was of forms that have existed for decades. The last groove based portion was very powerful and I was transfixed and as inspired as I have been for quite some time. who is that man on the organ!!!!!??????? holy shit! can I say lordy lordy?? As we left I told Ellery that it was the greatest organ trio on par with Larry Young's Unity band (yes I know that was a quartet) but what the hell - a damn great band and damn fine night out for the both of us. picked up the last Eskelin-Parkins-Black CD on hatology and damn does that bring back some great memories - can't wait to hear the classi trio and I hope they play somewhere here in NYC next year.... but for now over and out... One Great Night, baby

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liking Rocking on the Rhein - great sound and the piano sounds wonderful I often like the band with just the 1 drummer still not liking the 1989 sets as much as a couple of friends - Without a Net and the new 3 CD and DVD from JFK - Myland is just too busy and the band sometimes noodles... for me I like the Hartford 1977 (with a great Terrapin) and the dicks picks from March 24, 1973 as much as anything I have

I'm sure Hank had to play to because he was caught in the grips of addiction for what was probably a very long time. I think the last thing he was doing with the money is paying hospital bills - this would be too much to ask for someone who probably was looking of a few bucks to get straight. There wasn't much help for addicts in the 50's through the 70's for guys like him. For me I know quite a few survivors (not jazz musicians - but guys from the streets of NY & New Jersey from the 60's & 70's) and I will see a few of them @ 10:00 A.M. this morning - I know one guy who knew Jackie McLean and a few others. A sad ending to fine legacy - that as many escaped from it or got help is the real story for me. I believe that a former member of another bbs used to see Hank on the stress and it inspired him to find out and fall in love with this music. RIP, Hank and Sonny and Art and the rest of the fallen heroes the love I have for these guys is more special because of what has happened to me - I fell in love with all of them when my addiction took off and the love I have for them is increased tenfold since I was able to surrender and find a new way of life almost 6 years ago. peace and blessings Lost Life, RIP when at the end of the road....