Steve Reynolds

Immediate order. Fired Up!!

Simply amazing sound from Booker here

His large ensemble Bik Bent Braam (I think I have the spelling close) has some tremendous recordings. Growing Pains (2 CD set) is worth the search.

Over the last few days (among other things) I listened to 4 longish form improvisations of ~ 15, 18, 25 & 19 minutes plus a 70 minute or so continuous Grateful Dead Live segment. Thank jah there are no time limits like 6 minutes per track. those improvised pieces were made by musicians such as Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Agusti Fernandez, Peter Evans, Lucas Niggli & others. There are many brilliant recordings of Evan Parker of pieces up to or longer than 45 minutes. Are there too many? Ha I saw Evan in a quartet with John Escreet, John Hebert & Tyshawn Sorey when one piece lasted almost 50 minutes. Maybe someone should have stopped the set!! hopefully that show gets released on disc one of these days

Opening night tomorrow night - listed as Sold Out which is not surprising - I’ll be there and then on either Friday or Sunday night. Looks like Charles Gayle is NOT listed any longer but I still will probably go that night for the first two quartets

Most of my listening these days is in the car and I have lots of 45 minute to 1 hour drives - perfect for good long slabs of improvised music or big parts of Grateful Dead shows. These 2 sorts of music is about 90% of the type/sort of music I listen to these days.

Thanks for posting that Uli:) I’ll be seeing a few of our heroes next week. I’ll be sure to say hello to Hamid & Kidd for you:)

The new Evan Parker recording with Dave Holland, Craig Taborn & Ches Smith is on the way! Among others but this one I’m really looking forward to hearing

In the middle of the first disc (concert from October 8th, 1997 in Oslo) Building up a whole lot of steam after Hamid’s solo which starts about 18-20 minutes in and builds to a climax ~5 minutes later. All alto saxophone so far from Frode.

Surprised and happy the shows are from as early as 1997

Great idea so I don’t need to see this sub-forum clogged up with pictures

Mine just arrived @ US post office in Wayne, NJ (10:19 A.M.) which is where I live!

Mine was shipped on 4/13 - it’s now somewhere between Kentucky & New Jersey and has been for 3-4 days!

Fwiw the Dead are playing “Playing in the Band” even when it goes way way out just as when they play 35 minute versions of “Dark Star” or “The Other One”, they are still playing “Dark Star” or “The Other One”. there are many many compositions on the jazz/free jazz vein that steer far from the thematic or harmonic materials - this does NOT mean they have “discarded” the tune. Some of the most interesting modern compositional approaches blur these issues. Gerry Hemingway, Mary Halvorson, Tony Malaby, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, May Maneri, Andrew Drury, Tim Berne and many other modern composers have developed very intriguing and viable compositions that meld improvisation and composition in ways that we sometimes “think” that the composition has went the way of the wind when maybe the connection is just a bit more subtle than we might have ears for.

Amazon - ~$55 for the 4 CD set - not bad for a Not Two release

Ordered: 4 CD box of Frode Gjerstad w/William Parker & Hamid Drake - on Not Two Records 4 CD box Mats Gustafsson 50th Birthday concerts from 2014 with many interesting musicians playing with Mats - on Trost Records newest Parker-Guy-Lytton recording on Intakt

Received mine a few days new at that nice low price starting with the later 3/24 concert with So What, On Green Dolphin Street & All Blues I’ve heard all this before but unless I’m mistaken it seems the sound quality is much better than on any of the previous bootlegs & grey market issues I’ve heard. It’s been a very long time since I’ve listened to this era Miles or Trane and they are sounding so in sync that it’s scary how great this group was. Miles is in superb form and we all know about Coltrane during these years. Kelly imo never played better than in the period and he sounds so assured on this show.

Thanks for this post (and all your comments over the years) fwiw I’ve missed my share of seeing the living masters - whoever someone else or I or you or the cognoscenti says they are - and I’ve never beat myself for missing 3 or 4 of the great pianists - yes I missed Paul Bley, Don Pullen, Mal Waldron and most of all I missed Horace Tapscott when I had one chance to see him shortly before he became ill. But I saw Cecil twice and the one time with Tony Oxley from 10 feet away had some of the EFFECT that so many have commented on over the past 2 days. so I will NOT miss Archie Shepp on 5/23. Never the biggest follower but he IS Archie Shepp and I understand what that means. Plus even though I’ve seen Charles Gayle a few times I will NOT miss him on 5/27. Plus Edward “Kidd” Jordan is also playing on 5/23 and although I’ve seen him numerous times these opportunities are not to be missed. Plus I’m going this year as the Vision Fest is thankfully back in Roulette in Brooklyn. I imagine the atmosphere on 5/23 with Andrew Cyrille playing in 2 bands will be heavy with Cecil Taylor’s spirit

I’m very gratified for this post especially as I know you were his friend. I’m very much looking forward to May 23rd - the opening night of Vision Fest when Andrew is playing in 2 bands. I’m very sure Cecil’s spirit will be strongly felt on that night.

It will take a while to take this in RIP to the great man who opened up my ears to everything

Plus I have most or all of these concerts on various grey area issues over the years but I want to hear this music in hopefully better sound. Plus I’m hoping it awakens a bit of a dormant fire which is at a low low simmer these days for historical Miles & Coltrane music. I’m mostly in a current free jazz/improv listening mode along with massive amounts of Grateful Dead music and I’ve been in that mode for 2-3 years now.

I re-checked and it is listed as the 4 CD set. Plus even though the seller has some negatives the overall rating is 99% so I’m pretty confident:)

I usually notice those things but I didn’t this time. Wish me Well!!!

E-Bay listed as pre-owned which is pretty odd being it just came out so I took a shot

Ordered for $22.98 delivered