Steve Reynolds

The 2008 disc from the DKV Trio Past & Present 7 CD box is spectacular as good as Vandermark has sounded with the trio - they play a suite of music based on Don Cherry compositions. Even better than the great Trigonometry 2 CD set from 2001. Plus Hamid explodes out of the speakers and Cherry’s tunes are right in his swinging/grooving wheelhouse.

I’m happy Jim wrote/posted above what he did. I loved the liners from the old jazz classics from the 50’s & early 60’s when I was getting and buying all those great classic recordings via CD back in the early 90’s. When I evolved in my jazz listening I ran into his “critical” comments regarding much of the newer or more abstract or challenging music I was discovering and those “critical” comments came across to me as ignorant and close-minded more than anything else. He didn’t like it so therefore he made silly value judgements against all of it. He (and many others) were so SURE that they were correct as they had SEEN and heard the guys who really “swung” and none of these guys blah fucking blah....

David S Ware: New York Live at The Blue Note 2010 / 2 CD set on AUM

Fred Anderson with William Parker & Hamid Drake: Blue Winter Peter Brotzmann with the above bass/drums: Never too Late But Alway too Early Both double CD’s on eremite Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio - any of them but the latest is Desire and Freedom - on Not Two records Paul Dunmall with John Adams & Mark Sanders: Ghostly Thoughts - on hatology Joe Maneri: Trio Concerts with Mat Maneri & Randy Peterson / 2 CD set on Leo Parker Guy Lytton: At the Vortex - on Emanem Records Mats Gustafsson with Barry Guy & Raymond Strid: Tarfala / on Intakt records Tony Malaby with William Parker & Nasheet Waits: Tamarindo / on Clean feed many many others from these and other great players but the above in my view are top of top great trio recordings

Tickets ordered for me and my pal who is experiencing a bunch of these musicians for the first time. He is also coming with me to see Schlippenbach Trio & then Peter Brotzmann with Andrew Cyrille @ Vision Fest in June. so we will hear Gustafsson, Parker & Brotzmann back to back to back and for my young friend - first time for him to each of them and maybe last shot on the two older legends - who knows how many more opportunities any of us will get to hear the first generation European improvising grand masters. I’m very grateful for these concerts being scheduled for this spring. I never really expected any of the three to be so close by this year.

Ordering both the DKV Trio plus Joe McPhee 6 CD set & the Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band 5 CD set with a promise from me to my wife that they don’t get opened until my birthday in April time to remind those here who have been unmoved about previous reminders about these Barry Guy Small Formation box sets that these releases are some of the finest played/improvised live music of the past few decades and are all presented in sound quality that is second to none. The first box is now hard to find and quite expensive (Mad Dogs with the New Orchestra members) but Mad Dogs on the Loose with almost the same personell (including Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, etc.) is almost as great and is available for a fair cost while Tensegrity is small formations improvisation from the Blue Shroud Band and it is arguably a more exciting collectionby mostly lesser known players (save for Guy, Peter Evans & Agusti Fernandez) is even less expensive.

Good to hear - please send him my regards many good memories from here and beyond:)

Any word on where our friend Bev is??

Glad that both Schlippenbach Trio & Fire! will be in NYC on 3/25 & 3/28 respectively so I can join in seeing at least 2 of the great bands you all will be seeing! really a dream for me to be able to see these two trios a few days apart with 2 of my saxophone heroes - Evan Parker & Mats Gustafsson. Plus I know I’ll be seeing Peter Brotzmann in June so this is going to be a great late Spring/early Summer for me!!

Yes - looks like Schlippenbach Trio on 3/25 and THIS on 3/28!!!

Some of these are amazing topped by the Red Trio, the Gustafsson & the Leandre Quartet. The Red Trio + that vibes player is beyond amazing. Freely improvised jazz at it’s finest in a new language to these ears.

DKV + Joe McPhee playing live in New Orleans coming up on Valentine's Day (2/14/19). Twilight Room 2240 St. Claude Ave @ 8:00. If anyone is nearby....

I’m waiting to order these (being as patient as I can - plus some of the below recent arrivals (and other recent arrivals from No Business) are still in my “to be played list” - including the Joelle Leandre box) as the shipping isn’t awful when buying directly from Not Two but recently a seller closely associated with them has been offering one shipping cost for multiple CD’s from Not Two through the famous bid re-seller. On one of my orders at the end of last year, I ordered 7 CD’s (including the 8 CD Joelle Leandre box) and I paid a total of $7.44 shipping for the whole package!! Once the same seller offers these 2 new sets, I’ll add an older release or two and get the whole thing delivered for a similar very low cost. I’m sure it’s not the same for orders/shipments to the U.K. The other new release from Not Two looks totally out of the box / a quartet including Otomo Yoshihide and three other musicians I’m unfamiliar with - I’ll certainly add this to my order when & if it appears plus these 2 recent releases: Akira Sakata/Nicolas Fields: First Thirst - Live at Cave 12 Agusti Fernandez with Artur Majewski & Rafal Mazur: Spontaneous Soundscapes

We already knew about the DKV + Joe McPhee 6 CD box as it was offered on pre-order elsewhere but the new Barry Guy 5 CD set of The Blue Shroud Band in Small Formations is the most exciting release of the new year - called “Intensegrity” (previous 4 CD box was called “Tensegrity” from 2014, I think. The new box is also described as “Odes & Meditations for Cecil Taylor”. the DKV box is recorded live from November 2017 at concerts in France, Poland & Czech Replublic and then in late December 2017 at a show @ Sugar Maple in Milwaukee and then 2 homecoming shows @ Elastic Arts in Chicago. I’m so fired up about this one as I’ve been waiting to hear the trio with a foil for Vandermark and I think McPhee is playing at as creative a level as anyone on the planet these days. Looks like we have a few different new members of the Barry Guy band including Percy Pursglove (no Peter Evans this time) & Jurg Wickihalder. Another exciting aspect is that we get the full band on disc 5 with what is called the “Ode & Meditations to Cecil Taylor”. This could be a composed Guy piece. Discs 1 through 4 recorded live @ Alchemia in Kraków, Poland (11/27-29, 2016) and Disc 5 recorded 11/30/2016 @ Radio Kraków. Wow Having received and listened to most of their recent releases (I choose the ones that have the appeal to me along with ones that I take chances with) Not Two Records continues to release for my ears the most exciting, best sounding catalogue of new recordings of any label operating today.

Any highlights?

Very very sad news Sorry for what must be a very difficult personal loss, Chuck

Me too. I do love some Lauren Newton and when Joelle Leandre starts singing with her bass playing I’m in heaven. Looking forward to their duo performance which is included in the 8 CD box set “A Woman’s Work” from Lady Joelle. Did Ms. Leandre again miss out on all the awards & polls? She’s still ahead of the curve at 67 years old - maybe one day she will be noted as a “new artist deserving wider recognition”!!!!

Missing are ALL the great recordings with Joe McPhee did anyone anywhere hear “Sweet Oranges” or “Journey to Parazzar”?

Larry Ochs, Mark Dresser & Vladimir Tarasov Tarasov is, of course, one of the three original members of the Ganelin Trio

I’d be all over the Jones Jones if it was on CD. The two recordings I have are treasures. Great great improvising trio. “Moscow Improvisations” on Not Two Records is especially great. If I was into solo saxophone recordings (which I’m not) I’d be ordering Hydros 2 by Liudas Mockunas. As I mentioned on another thread, the trio recording with the saxophonist joined by Rafal Mazur & Raymond Strid - Live at Divadlo 29. Have you seen Mockunas live?

Thanks - I’ll wait for it to show up on the Not Two site. I’ve got a big pile of unheard CD’s that I received around the holidays so I can look forward to ordering this in a month or so. I heard about these shows. I wish I was in New Orleans as they look to be playing next month. Maybe they will make their first visit to NYC (DKV that is) in well over a decade. McPhee seems like the perfect addition to the trio.

Where did you see this?!?!

Ordered “Luminous” and I’m one listen in. Not sure what to think. My first impression wasn’t as strong as I was expecting but with Guy/Hemingway as the bass/drums tandem my expectations might have been excessive.

Blessed to see the band in the late 90’s @ Tonic

RIP. Thrilled to see him years ago with Edward “Kidd” Jordan. one if the masters who personified “Ancient to the Future”. was just listening to him with Kidd & Peter Kowald the other day.