Steve Reynolds

Thanks for the heads up. Since it's on auricle I expect great sound as well as an excelled performance. Not sure I know of a BassDrumBone recording with added musicians.

Tonight: 8:00: Marty Ehrlich, Sara Schoenbeck, Nicole Mitchell & Tomeka Reid 10:00: Ehrlich, Michael Formanek & Tomas Fujiwara + special guest @ The Stone

The Flame Alphabet?? With Jeb Bishop? one of the great modern day saxophone quartet recordings or is there a new one? Now I see it. "Desire & Freedom" on the list once the price drops down as they sometimes do for not two releases will get the Brotzmann, Dragonfly Breath III & the Amado plus waiting for the Jones Jones (Ochs, Dresser & Tarasov) Moscow Improvisations to drop in price. They were as great as I expected when I saw them earlier this year. I did order the Pink 5 CD box. Next will be the Red plus the Barry Guy 4 CD Blue Shroud band small formations box. Not Two records is killing it. Best jazz label going right now.

Not Two releasing another Brotzmann Swell Nilssen-Love live recording previous Kraków Nights from 2015 was tremendous. I imagine this from the same early 2015 performances. Another must buy from the best free jazz label operating today.

No market for free jazz tenor saxophonists? I haven't kept up too much either but I've got a few real good recordings from the late 90's and early 00's.

I like Dave's 19 but so much wish the tape containing most of the jam from 1/23/70 wasn't lost. Would like a longer Dark Star & shorter Lovelight!! love the Bear Owsley recorded sound. Jerry sounds great on guitar and vocals. i passed on Dave's 20 but I'm picking up the 2017 subscription

Then please send them Stateside to NYC!!!

Don Van Vliet famously retired from music in 1982 after recording Ice Cream for Crow at 41. He left us on December 17, 2010. Joe Maneri stopped performing after a 2005 mini-festival in NY @ 78 a few years before he left us on August 4, 2009.

Only thing I can do is mention 5 modern jazz recordings that have great meaning to me and are also, in my view, recordings of substantial objective merit. Joe Maneri Quartet: Dahabenzapple Parker-Guy-Lytton: At The Vortex Peter Brotzmann Tentet: Walk, Love, Sleep Gerry Hemingway Quintet: The Marmalade King Clusone Trio: I Am An Indian

Looks like they are playing in Queens next Wednesday also with a Josh Sinton group. Sounds great except I have ZERO chance to get to Queens on Wednesday 10/12/16.

Who was in his band? did he play alto & tenor?

I agree with all of this. It might be elitist or something but I think people don't know what their missing. Two more great nights of live music last week within 10 feet of two great bands led by the *great* Ches Smith. It was very cool with cool people to the left and right of me and in front of and behind me. Plus very cool to say hi to a few of the musicians before and after a he sets. Plus everyone is cool with my wonderful wife, Barbara

Marty Ehrlich

I saw a great band play two incredibly unique sets of music and probably only 2 people other than me who posted on this thread would have liked it. I almost danced. I was yelling a bit. I was moving in my chair. I was excited. It was the best music night of the year for me. People left after the first set - some of them since they were plugging into electrics for the second set. Second set was insane. 50 continuous minutes including some of the best drumming I've ever heard plus the simply the most exciting improvising I've heard on a single instrument in a few years. You all know who it was. one of the guys prompted my wife to tell Mat he reminded her of Hendrix. He was honored by the comparison. I think he's better:) like Clifford, I like new music

Ches Smith Trio with Craig Taborn & Mat Maneri @ The Stone 8:00 & 10:00 - later set listed as "electric" also great show @ Cornelia Street Cafe - Ingrid Laubrock's Ubatuba with Tim Berne, Ben Gerstein, Dan Peck & Tom Rainey tough choice but hard to pass up one of the best small units playing today (probably my favorite recent group of any type that I've seen live) and I'm not passing it up - will be the 5th time seeing them since their debut over 3 years ago.

That is the Blue Shroud band in small formations. Available for ~$60. Some different guys and some stalwarts like Agusti Fernandez. It's mine soon.

Dragonfly Breath III from 11/24/15 Live at The Stone out on not two records. 40:51 which was the whole show. A few of us were there. Shocked and stoked to see this on CD. Still amazed this show on that night happened. Right, Clifford? also DKV/Thing hybrid out on not two - no brainer to get this and see how it works

Sounds like 3 good shows! Any comments on the performances?

Captain of the Deep, baby

Thanks very much - I think Hamid knows you. He was speaking of looking forward to the trio show with WP & Pat Thomas fwiw I've had similar feelings regarding William but a few disappeared a few times during some of the 4 sets I saw with him. The best set for him might have been when he did not even play that red & black bass. There was a portion on that "silly" bass when his bow playing blew my head out late Friday night after 30-40 minutes of me struggling to *hear* him on that red/black thingy. yes Edwards is the greatest - me needs to see him live - one day - but you also did see the *great* Mark Sanders who in that format with a burning Roscoe Mitchell, it sure must be something to experience!!! I did get to see him once way back in May 2001 with Evan Parker (plus Tim Berne & Drew Gress) / it might have been the start of my mantra to "never leave before the second set" as that second set at The Knitting Factory remains one of those memories - as faded and as long ago as it was, it some respects, I'm still hearing it. as Mr. Evan Parker said to us before the first set, "We will know by the second set of we have a band" I sure think they had one but I can't think of when they would have ever played together again. I've not seen Berne that often since (I often feel about him as I feel about William!!), but that night he played toe to toe on alto with Evan Parker's tenor!! btw - your write-ups remain the highlights of this site/board, yet it reinforces how so many continue to miss out on what made and makes jazz/improvisation truly great / the live experience. Nothing compares. I LOVE my recordings that I can play any time I like, but nothing compares the ultimate true sound of surprise.

Didn't expect this loss to hit me so emotionally. over the last few years, I find I don't listen to that much jazz of the era in which Rudy Van Gelder made his enormous mark. BUT the memories of my discovery of that music and what has followed over the past few decades are priceless. Reading and absorbing the stories and the music - searching in the pre-Internet days for the tough to find OJCs & Blue Notes and looking for the RVG name and recording location - did they move to Englewood Cliffs yet? The discussions on all the jazz boards, the friends I've made and the music I've seen and heard since / all of that not possible without hearing those recordings first and thirsting to find the next one with that sound - oh that sound. peace and blessings RIP, sir

Stayed for Morris, Taborn, Parker & Cleaver huge win - as good as the first 45 minutes were, the last 20 were trance inducing magic miracle stuff with WP playing mystery bowing stuff that only he can play. Cleaver's groove is the narrowing tightly defined and the deepest yet most subtly intense groove that exists in this music when he gets to that spot. He got there Saturday at about 11:05 P.M. The whole night had both quartets pushing very hard against the boundaries of the acceptable with various levels of success. The breakthroughs and peaks were the highest I've heard probably in the last year. The struggles were real. Nothing easy with Tony Malaby. Lots of sweat and the ending of the set with Malaby, Morris, Parker & Drake with Hamid switching off the kit for the last 15 minutes or so surpassed in beauty and eventually in intensity to what happened in the first 50 minutes of intermittent struggle and ecstasy. Hamid & Tony pushed each other and the band very very hard. William didn't touch the contrabass and besides the shrill sounding shenai, his playing on the odd string instruments was stunning in their simplicity and sound. When Malaby (all tenor on this night) somehow found a way in to the quieter vibe at the end, him and the band found something that is now gone, lost but never forgotten. Mysterious, ingenious and complete and thoroughly surprising and breathtaking. Stunned to hear it. Shocked despite my huge expectations of what these guys do and what they play - all for the music - especially Joe Morris - all for the music - no ego to show what he can play. That is so very apparent but the results and experience is even greater than the sum of the immense parts.

Hamid in good spirits. Looks like Tony has just the tenor. Fired up

All about getting a parking spot as 1.8 miles a bit much to walk to 3rd in line!!!

First set: Joe Morris with Tony Malaby, William Parker & Hamid Drake options for second set: 1) stay at The Stone for Joe Morris with Craig Taborn, William Parker & Gerald Cleaver or 2) go to Cornelia Street Cafe for Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman, Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey win either way, I'm sure