Steve Reynolds

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

One of about seven of the eleven tracks from Light Trigger - the awe inspiring thoroughly and almost completely overlooked masterpiece of a duet recording from Mat Maneri & Randy Peterson continue to avoid at your own severe loss of discovery

It's about 11:00 and we've heard almost 2 hours of funked out organ jazz with a Darius Jones outside screaming edge with fine performances all around and THEN Cooper-Moore takes organ playing to another planet. People yelling. Darius yelling. People probably crying. I'm yelling. Somehow it gets better. The man is a fucking lunatic genius. Second set was the first set backwards yet all kinds of mixed up. Atonal abstract sections changed, solo orders and heads all kinds of altered. It might all have been genius. Certainly one great CD is the whole thing mixed, matched and edited to present the coolest of cool. It was also pretty damn loud - Newsome used a microphone for his soprano but as some know, Darius Jones doesn't need one even with that screaming bass infested groove monster organ licks the master was manipulating and delivering from that crazy beautiful sounding machine he rolled into the little room last night.

Second in line. Band warming up. Sounds like funkified in/out groove just a little bit fired up - first live show in over a month

My wife has not been feeling well so I wasn't sure I would leave her alone tonight but she is feeling a bit better so it looks like tonight @ 8:00 & 10:00 @ The Stone: Darius Jones: alto saxophone Sam Newsome: soprano saxophone (never heard him live) Cooper-Moore: organ (never ever heard the great man on organ - besides loving to hear Darius Jones live in this little room - Cooper-Moore is why I am going) Chad Taylor: drums

There are 3 B&N near me - one doesn't even have a music section. the one in Paramus, NJ has a fairly large jazz section with the big blue note titles and a relatively deep selection of titles you would expect from Miles, Coltrane and Monk. Some recent issues like the last Steve Lehman disc and I think Dave Douglas or even Rudy Roylston. Nothing like criss cross, steeplechase, enja, AUM, clean feed, hat ART, okkadisk, etc. many new ECM discs, new blue notes, all kinds of Jarrett trio CDs on ECM, a few impulse twofers, Rashaan CDs, etc. the Clifton, NJ store not quite as much, the Livingston, NJ store near my work has hardly anything. my favorite thing about the Paramus store is that I've snagged Dick's Picks 1, 4, 7, 12, 28 and 31 over the past year or two. Not cheap but they are rarely cheap anywhere.

They stock ultra-obscure ECM issues but not The Epic?!? No way some of those odd ECM CDs sell one tenth whatever The Epic is selling Paul Motion 5 CD ECM box was in stock when I bought it a couple of years back - was automatically replenished. Maybe the same box is still there!