Steve Reynolds

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

Placing my order tomorrow - looking forward to hearing this unique recording

One of my favorite saxophonists - I have quite a few of his own releases - some of the most exciting new jazz releases I know of. Ballister & the 2 drummer band are both very intense and exciting ensembles. Was glad to hear him live last summer when he visited NYC. Very friendly when I met him.

What a line-up - some of my favorite musicians

Some of the best live improvised music I’ve heard on a given night also included sections or sequences of music that irritated, bored or even upset me. a few weeks back I heard 2 improvised sets of continuous music from a quartet (saxophone, piano, bass & drums) that ranged from a few sections of time that were relatively unsuccessful to a closing 15-20 minute section that was among the most exciting and substantial live music I’ve heard over the last few years. Certainly for listeners not interested in freely improvised music portions of this might have sounded like a construction site but I’ve (and many others) been listening to “challenging” improvised music for quite a while and I think we can discern good from bad or accomplished from amateur and certainly we know certain musicians take significant risks and those risks sometime don’t pay off and sometimes the payoffs take an hour or more.

Never heard of her:)

Enjoy the show - wanted to make the 3/1 show at Jazz Gallery but life/world got in the way.

I will say that 40-55 years ago he played with “Everybody” - well of course even in the 60’s then he didn’t play with all the greats - maybe mostly as he was with Miles. For the last 40 or so it’s been a very narrow/straight group and type of jazz musicians that he’s played with.

Mat Maneri Quartet with Lucien Ban, John Hebert & Randy Peterson @ Korzo in Brooklyn sets listed @ 9:00 & 10:30

Anyone here know what kind of shape Archie Shepp’s chops are in? certainly very tempting to want to hear Shepp with Burrell, Parker & Drake

So glad it is back at Roullette would love to be there for the Burrell tribute on Wednesday 5/23 but it looks like Friday night 5/25 & Sunday night 5/27 are my targets. 5/25: first band looks interesting as I’ve wanted to hear Keir Neuringer. Nasheet Waits’ Equality with Darius Jones is a great band and I cannot miss the Shipp ensemble that includes both Mat Maneri & Nate Wooley 5/27: missed Frode Gjerstad’s trios & quartets too many times and this quartet with Steve Swell will be burning, would love to hear Chris Potter with Cleaver - plus I see Brandon Lopez in on bass - I’ve always wanted to hear Potter in this sort of environment. Plus I think I need to see Gayle one more time before it’s too late. Hopefully he plays more tenor sax than piano - maybe it’s good they are listing saxophone next to his name.

The reason I put Sara Schoenbeck on he list is she played a few amazing bassoon improvisations both times I saw her / once in a larger ensemble with Harris Eisenstadt and the other time a woodwind & strings Marty Ehrlich led Quartet that also had Nicole Mitchell & Tomeka Reid. Sara was the musician I was unfamiliar with and she more than held her own in that company. With Eisenstadt her solo/improvisation was as impressive as Nate Wooley’s or Jeb Bishop’s. Shockingly inventive and powerful.

A few friends saw Mary Halvorson multiple times during her recent week at The Stone while I took a new friend to see her 1/30 show - a duet with Randy Peterson. My friend is a 22 year old guitarist who had seen a few you tube videos but his first real exposure to Mary was from a few feet away that night. I think he was spellbound but he would have to speak for himself. For me the 4 improvised pieces that spanned 65-70 minutes were pretty much great to otherworldly. First meeting with the iconclastic drummer and although Randy can teeter on the edge of a bit too much, the music was worthy of a CD release. Very strong. Good to hear their first encounter and thrilled she takes such risks.

Current great female musicians I’m always interested in hearing: maybe not including older more established (for decades like Myra Melford, Joelle Leandre, Marilyn Crispell, etc.) Tomeka Reid Mary Halvorson Kris Davis Ingrid Laubrock Jaimie Branch Sylvie Courvoisier Nicole Mitchell Sara Schoenbeck Lisa Mezzacappa More of course and not sure more interesting than their male peers but very cool that so many wonderful improvisors from all backgrounds are heard these days...

Tony Malaby Quartet with Marc Hannaford on piano (I’m unfamiliar with him - Malaby has a very wide range of musicians that he plays with so I’m excited to hear another new name to me), Michael Formanek on bass & the *great* Randy Peterson on drums 2 sets @ Cornelia Street Cafe 8:30 & 10:00