Steve Reynolds

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

Great album

Chance I am at Cornelia Street Friday night for BassDrumBone with Helias, Hemingway & Anderson. Only reason I may not be there is my wife is a bit under the weather. Enjoy the shows!

Getting me more interested in these wonderful musicians, especially the great pianist and the drummer Gabriel Ferrandini that I know from Rodrigo Amado’s Motion Trio.

A wonderful fairly recent release that is making an impact: Before the Silence Albert Cirera: tenor & soprano saxophones Hernani Faustino: bass Agusti Fernández: piano Gabriel Ferrandini: Drums no business records

Latest Peter Brotzmann purchase awaiting a spin: Live in Copenhagen - Trio with Steve Swell & Paal Nilssen-Love recorded live on 4/21/16 same trio on Live in Kraków from a year or so earlier is terrific on Not Two Records

1) Tony Malaby, Daniel Levin & Randy Peterson - late October @ Firehouse in New Haven, CT 2) Tim Berne’s Snakeoil - late Summer in Newburgh, NY 3) Ches Smith Trio with Craig Taborn & Mat Maneri - 12/20 @ The Stone 4) William Parker Quartet with Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake - early summer @ Shapeshifter Labs in Brooklyn, NY 5) Nu Band with Mark Whitecage, Thomas Heberer, Joe Fonda & Lou Grassi - late Winter in NYC might have missed some but these were all stellar to amazing

Not thrilled. Dave’s 22 from December 1971 was meh at best. They should have at least picked 12/15/71 which includes a Dark Star

For jazz/free improvisation the following are favorites - all new to me and 90% are late 2016 or 2017 releases: Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die Chicago/London Underground: A Night Walking Through Mirrors David S Ware Trio: Live in New York - Blue Note Nu Band: Live in Geneva - Heberer & Whitecage are great here Daniele D’Agaro Trio: Disorder at the Border Liudas Mockunas with Rafal Mazur & Raymond Strid: Live at Divadlo 29 Red Trio with John Butcher: Summer Skyshift Jones Jones: Moscow Improvisations By quite a bit the best thing I’ve heard is Tensegrity - 4 CD box of Barry Guy’s Blue Shroud Band in small formations - improvisations

Great to see that Steve Potts is still playing. I loved his playing with Steve Lacy.

Very glad that I had the opportunity to see the great man once I think I remember when I first really heard him on record - I think it was on Jump Up with Jimmy Lyons & John Lindberg. Then I realize he was doing that fee time thing in 1962 when no other drummer had ever approached that sort of free thing. To my ears the most relaxed and coolest drummer in the world. Plus those cymbals? Who does that?? No one by Sunny

I’ll should be at the Newburgh show. Nice venue. I was at the Tim Berne Snakeoil show a couple of months ago.

Enjoy - dream band with the *great* Joe McPhee joining the long standing awe-inspiring trio...

King Crimson in Allentown, PA

Love the 5/10/78 show from the first 2 discs of Dick’s Picks 25

How about the majority of the Not Two Records catalogue?