Steve Reynolds

Excellent in/out quartet at Cornelia Street Cafe featuring Ellery Eskelin & Eric McPherson on 4/22. Plus the bassist Stephan Crump is excellent / not familiar with the trumpeter Plus I'm going to an amazing show on 4/21 in Brooklyn @ Threes Brewing 2 bands playing Ornette music featuring a quartet with Darius Jones, Nate Wooley, Trevor Dunn & Ryan Sawyer and a quintet featuring Josh Sinton. Been wanting to see the above quartet for a while - awesome alto/trumpet tandem with what looks like should be a destructive bass/drum team 3rd set combines the 2 for a Nonet who will play some of Skies of America

Lots of incredible stuff but the choice is the second 16+ minute track from "Hotel Grief" - unexplainable and uncategorizable

One never knows what be real..... maybe one day my new minion Kate might take a visit to NYC this August and experience a tired,decrepit, dying sub-genre of music known as free jazz with losers has beens/never weres like Joe McPhee, William Parker, Joe Morris, Tony Malaby, Hamid Drake, Gerald Cleaver, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mat Maneri all playing within 4 days of each other with a few sets that have the double drumming pair of the above Cleaver and Drake!!!! All available from a few feet away..... not sure about 83-84 Dead though.....???

Grateful Dead: Viola Lee Blues 5/2/70

Been listening to much Dead lately with an emphasis on many different Dark Stars from 68 through 74. I have the bug?

Black Saint is one of the many of mine that disappeared!!

Say hi to Tony from Steve Reynolds from Wayne, NJ if you can?

Speaking of "The Flam", my copy missing for about ten years. An all-time game changing recording for me. Makes all other Frank Lowe recordings secondary and non-essential compared to his masterpiece.

3 big ones off the top of my head this morning: Peter Brotzmann Die Like a Dog Quartet: Little Birds Have Fast Hearts, volume 1 Anthony Braxton Quartet: Dortmund 1976 John Law Quartet: Exploded on Impact many more lost or especially sold back in 2003-4 will get them all back one day - takes time as I am continually listening to new music to these ears

Trying to post a couple of pictures? And yes it was awesome. As good as music gets for me. Craig Taborn is a marvel, Ches Smith is masterful and the *great* Mat Maneri makes the whole thing gel. Standing ovation which is not an every day thing around these parts. Big crowd - full room. Intense 75 minute set. Front row center. Lady next to me almost fainted a few times when the sound was more than a bit elevated.

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Tomorrow night @ Rubin Museum of Art in NYC @ 7:00 Ches Smith Trio with Craig Taborn & Mat Maneri

Sorry to get any hopes up. Mine were dashed when I opened up the thread I found and NO LISTING appeared for NYC I rarely travel but I sure am trying to figure out a way to have a business trip to Louisville, KY on May 13th!!!

Oops - I should be more careful. In any event, great opportunity if one is near Austin!!

Above tour in May includes Jason Adasiewicz filling out the quartet maybe I can make a trip to Montreal or Louusville or Chicago - not likely look it up - band in Austin, Dallas, LA, SF, Portland, Detroit and a couple of other stops - well worth it / see above from Ubu!!! I need another Brotzmann experience and I need to see Edwards/Noble one of these days. I don't think either the great bassist or the extraordinary has ever been to NYC - not sure if they ever have been stateside until this upcoming short tour

Leaning towards the Nonet note that Peter Brotzmann touring with the quartet including Edwards & Noble closest show to me Montreal - 327 miles away. Oh to see this band - disappointed no NYC stop?

All mad props to Sir Ubu what this board should have more of are experiences and posts like the above next show this upcoming Sunday night March 20th / choice between: Tomeka Reid quartet with Mary Halvorson, Jason Roebke & Tomas Fujiwara at I-Beam in Brooklyn plus: the band!!!! Want to see them live very badly!! minus: Brooklyn - maybe only 1 set as it simply lists 8:30 OR: Angelica Sanchez Nonet at The Stone in Manhatten plus: 2 sets!!! with Thomas Heberer AND Kirk Knuffke on trumpets and what looks like a fine band including Michael Attias, Chris Speed and John Hebert minus: I don't know the drummer, no low brass and especially the fact that the other band (above) is playing the same night I've finally carved out for a show - first since February 20th!!! Help me Rhonda!!!

I thought I saw a man named Hamid Drake Noble, Drake and Bennink pictures incredible priceless experience, I'm sure I need to be able to explain this to my wonderful wife

Any comments, pictures, reviews???

I have a hard time with anything after 1977. Even the Closing of Winterland from 12/31/78 isn't as good as the set list would indicate. I have always liked Dead Set & Reckoning from 1980 but the live shows I've tried to withstand from 1981 on are very hard for me to deal with. for me lately, 1969 and especially 1970 are the peak. After Mickey left in February 1971, the shows from 1971 right through to the October 1974 run at Winterland are mostly good to great. February 18, 1971 is From the Vault 3 and it is as burning a show as they ever played. Way tighter than the later large venue two drummer bands. Dicks Picks 4 from 2/13/70 and 2/14/70 is my current favorite fwiw, I would love to hear the 1967 concert on the 30 year box

Section III from "Ode" featuring the *great* Mike Osborne on alto saxophone

As great as the whole schedule is, the last two nights are priceless. If I could have convinced my wife of that I would be flying out this weekend.

Best post of all-time? certainly a contender I'm still kicking myself a bit for not making this happen for me. I will say that being close enough to touch Evan Parker's soprano saxophone while he was playing the tenor saxophone does qualify me for one of those really really incredible days.

Judgement is my first choice then Shades on soul note