Steve Reynolds

Mad Dogs on the Loose disc 1 from the small formations recording of Barry Guy’s New Orchestra highlights here might be the 19 minute piece with the trio with Trevor Watts, Evan Parker & Agusti Fernandez or the trio of Guy with Johannes Bauer & Paul Lytton plus the other 3 discs are even better

Assif Tsahar Lotte Anker Liudas Mockunas

Matthew Shipp was in the piano chair with Parker & Lytton last night and he was magnificent. Very fine 45-46 minute piece followed by a 13-14 minute piece which had a strong opening solo statement by Shipp. Then an intense 4-5 minute encore. Parker brought only his tenor (as I expected) and was in strong voice to my ears (albeit with some of the intensity of 15 to 20 years ago). Lytton is wonderful and was terrific as I expected. Good to see Clifford as well as the many regulars who all seemed to enjoy the fine set at a fine venue with great sound and a fine Steinway grand piano.

I’ve heard. Many are very dissapointed, I’m sure. I am. Would have been my first time seeing the great pianist since 2003. Waiting to find out if Evan & Paul are still coming to NYC and playing as a duo on Monday night. If anyone hears anything let me know. No one at Roulette seems to know.

Dave’s Picks 17 Grateful Dead 7/19/74 amazing Wall of Sound show from a peak time for the band

Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack - Disc 2

When I discovered this music (and related music of all sorts) on record and in person I had no thought about the race of the musicians. Today I’m even less concerned if that’s possible.

The Attic recorded Live 12/22/2015 Goncalo Almeida on double bass Rodrigo Amado on tenor saxophone Marco Franco on drums on No Business Records an improvised suite in 5 parts

Well I know a few are including you of course. Happy to know you and I will both be seeing Schlippenbach Trio and Mats Gustafsson Fire! albeit you in Knoxville, TN and me in New York! Unless you have a conflict at Big Ears - I’m hoping you get to see both trios - been almost 10 years since I’ve seen Gustafsson. He’s another one that has a wide variety of exciting recordings/projects of which I also love the large ensembles.

I’ve always thought/felt that it seemed so few are even interested in these musicians around these parts for unknown reasons. I’d love to discuss my relatively limited experience regarding the full DKV catalogue and then my deep interest in Vandermark’s music - specifically his many large ensemble projects that he’s recorded & toured with over the past 20 or so years but I think I’d bore people. I’m sad I’ve not been able to travel to see some of these groups like the Territory Band or Resonance Ensemble but I love the recordings - especially the Territory Band with some added electronics and the last 3 Resonance Ensemble recordings on Not Two records. A great combination of guys like Dave Rempis, Steve Swell and some great young European musicians playing Ken’s creative charts. I think most know my history and thoughts regarding Hamid Drake. I’m just glad I’ll have another opportunity to see him live again this year at least once or twice more this year. First shows for me back in 1998 or 99, I think. My favorite is still the quartet with Fred Anderson, Kidd Jordan & William Parker back in 1999 of 2000 at Vision Fest. People were dancing in the aisles. Stunning experience. These last 2 DKV boxes are all fully improvised groove based jazz save for the 2008 show on the previous box “Past & Present” where they improvise off of Don Cherry compositions. Maybe the best disc of the 12 discs that the 2 box sets contain.

DKV Trio: Sound in Motion Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler & Ken Vandermark 5 discs from 5 nights between 2012 & 2014. Amazing sound quality & production on Not Two Records

Delivered but not to be opened until my birthday (4/25)

A fantastic box set. The Fernandez large ensemble suite is incredible.

After listening through 5 or 6 of the 8 CD’s within the Joelle Leandre “A Woman’s Work” Box I give this release my highest recommendation on many levels. First level is that Lady Joelle might be the strongest bassist with a bow I’ve ever heard. then her occasional ‘singing’ then her choice of dance/playing partners and then disc 8 which is the full quartet with Evan Parker, Agusti Fernandez & Zlatko Kaucic. on Not Two Records

Led Zeppelin: Presence

Dark Star>Me and My Uncle>Dark Star>Wharf Rat Grateful Dead 4/24/72 from Rockin’ the Rhein mind-boggling stuff from the great E72 tour

Phil Lesh & Friends @ Capital Theatre

Same vendor:)

Here in the U.S. there is a vendor directly related to the label where we get ONE shipping charge for as many CD’s as we want from Not Two. I made an order (that I documented on another thread) that was over 8-9 releases with a total shipping cost of $7.43 U.S. dollars. Same for these 2 boxes - I think $122 cost & 7.43 shipping:) for the two boxes. Great price in my view for these very high quality recordings.

No report until some time after 4/25!! My experience with the 2 previous DKV box sets is that the sound quality is very very good. If one compares it to the William Parker Wood Flute Songs Box on AUM, the Not Two DKV boxes sound better. I use that as a comparison as Hamid Drake is on both and the sound of his drums is very important to me. Not Two records to this avid non-audiophile provides the best sound quality as compared to any current label I know of. The “Sound in Motion” box maybe sounds even better than the previous “Past & Present” box but both are spectacular sounding documents. I hope you are also considering the Barry Guy box as the previous Tensegrity 4 CD set is among my favorite collection of current day freely improvised music. It’s exciting to these ears to hear the playing from a number of younger players I was previously unfamiliar with (Per Texas Johansson, Julius Gabriel, Fanny Paccoud, Ben Dwyer, etc.) similar excitement in hearing the 3 CD set from Per-Ake Holmlander with a number of younger woman players I’d never heard of including a bassist Elsa Bergman who is amazing and some horn players who are also very very good and all seem to have fresh approaches to this music. Plus this set has Steve Swell & Tim Daisy as “veteran leadership” so there is a wonderful young & older or ying & yang feel to this release. This one might end up being an all-time favorite as my second or third time through in listening to the composed & improvised suite on disc 3 (with the full large ensemble) reveals a mature accomplished composer in Holmlander.

Gong: Angel’s Egg

Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 19 from 10/19/73 Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Adding Brotzmann’s “For Adolphe Sax” stunning true debut LP from 1967 with Peter Kowald & Sven-Ake Johansson imagine oneself hearing this knowing what other jazz/improvised music existed at this point in time

Repeating from New Releases thread Journey to Parazzar Joe McPhee: alto saxophone & pocket trumpet, voice John Edwards: bass Klaus Kugel: drums stunning

Hopefully they get Ches Smith recorded as he sounds in real life. If that’s the case it should be played very loud.