Steve Reynolds

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!

I just bought Ches Smith's The Bell @ B&N

Placed order for: Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 8: Harpur College May, 1970 Brotzmann/Gustafsson/Nilssen-Love: The Fat is Gone Brotzmann Die Like a Dog Quartet: Close Up Fire! Orchestra: Enter Akira Sakata: Flying Basket I've been in this sort of mood lately - older Dead & newish hard core free jazz power/skronk. All been sounding as good to me as it ever has. Especially Peter Brotzmann. I'm connecting with his playing on a deeper level these last 6 months to a year more than I ever have.

I saw Old Growth Forest live and despite fine playing by Malaby, Bishop & Roebke, way less fire and excitement than I hoped for. Way too subdued cool as could be approach by the drummer.

Wow plus the *great* Toshinoru Kondo is there!! I wonder if Parker, Drake and Kondo with Peter re-form Die Like a Dog Quartet for the celebration. One of my missed dreams!

Jim - nice to see you picking up those EP recordings down the line once you've heard them a couple of times, would love to hear your thoughts on them - especially 50th Birthday Concert which is Schlippenbach Trio on disc 1 & Parker-Guy-Lytton on disc 2. After Appleby is the latter augmented with Marilyn Crispell (one live disc and the other a more sedate or measured studio session) fwiw, I'm not familiar with The Needles

OK a few shows above Tamarindo w/Malaby, Formanek & Waits a couple/three photos of Malaby's Apparitions band with Ben Gerstein on trombone, Formanek w/Billy Mintz and Randy Peterson on drums - front to back Hamid Drake & Ramon Lopez - duel drummers of Turbine Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark & Mat Maneri Tom Rainey & Mary Halvorson (Ingrid missing off to the right!) and 2/4ths or 3/4ers of Dragonfly Breath Weasel Walter on drums with Paul Flaherty on tenor & alto and Steve Swell on the trombone (C. Spencer Yeh missing on the right!)

I got a car for that but even though I'll listen to the song on my phone or home computer, damn if I'm gonna waste my cranked up car listening time on 2015/16 Santana. I had a couple of the LPs as a teen and my interest waned by 20. My best pal loved the live/studio double LP with Europa but I was on to different stuff. fwiw, lately it's either been classic 69-74 live Dead or modern day intense improv (jazz or otherwise) played just about as loud and rich as the stereo will handle. Track 3 of Andrew Drury's Content Provider lined up - I think you would like this pretty well, Jim. For me, *sounds* better than any Santana on my car stereo

He lives in Connecticut. Born 1948, I believe. Plays the two horns as shown in the 2 pictures. Don't answer, Leeway

Correct care to guess the band with the pink drums?!?!

Thanks, Leeway I hope this gives some a bit of perspective of what it is like to be so close. The bottom picture is taken about 3 or 4 feet from the great Joe McPhee. I had to lean back to get most of him in the picture. I will wait for someone who is curious who doesn't know to ask who/what the band is with the white bearded dude. I know a couple of you know but please don't tell. I might now tell the really incredible story of that night if Clifford approves. What you think, Mr. Allen?

I'm working on it but I'm very technically challenged. I just downloaded the photobucket app. I do have a few close up photos of my favorites that I hope to share. My recents favorites are Mary, Ingrid & Tom or the duel drummers, Billy Mintz & Randy Peterson (with Malaby, Gerstein & Formanek) Yeah Baby!!

Wonderous. Thanks so much. I'm going to find out how to get pictures posted on the board so I'll send some of my pictures of recent shows along - except there will be no pictures of me!!

Of the people volunteering, most of them are good dudes and if it's real cold, they certainly let you hang out. Sometimes the band likes the room cleared for a sound check if it's a different band for the 10:00 set. Plus I don't want to hear the warm-up/sound check. Just an idiosyncrisy of mine. I don't want hear except what they present for the actual set of music.

Not many options. Don't need any really. Regulars usually hang out inside and/or on the corner. Lots of time to talk to the musicians and friends. One of the pluses. Go down to the deli and buy a water/cold drink. The 45 minutes is gone in no time and we are seated by 9:50 or so. next show 2/19 or 2/20 for me - I'll choose one of the wonderful nights between Friday or Saturday night of the stellar week that Darius Jones is leading bands. Tough choice - quartet/quintet anchored by the *great* Nasheet Waits or a quartet featuring the one on only Cooper-Moore on organ of all things. btw - take a peak @ Joe Morris' week in August. There are at least 3 nights that defy and surpass my dreams of what I was imagining I would experience this year.

I'm interested in many younger musicians and approaches but fur whatever reason I've never been at all interested in Iyer. I did see him with Trio 3 and they were tremendous (as they've been every time I've seen them over the past 20 years) but Vijay added little except restraining the grand masters, Lake, Workman and Cyrille from getting even more open, loose and free. for me there are so many more exciting musicians playing today - pianists and otherwise, for me to get all worked up about Vijay Iyer. The Trio 3 show a few years back I mentioned above was a let down. I was expecting to hear some fire and excitement and I heard none that night.