Steve Reynolds

Tonight on Code Read with Mark Dresser & Gerry Hemingway Assif Tsahar on tenor & bass clarinet He's come a long way from when I heard him over a decade ago. A great performance on this disc of live free improvisations. Wow

RIP Also played with Dennis' Yels with Eels Fwiw Hymn for Perfect Heart of a Pearl might be the most overlooked great album ever made by anyone. Among other 1980's Dennis Gonzalez records Prayers for the family and all the New Orleans musicians. Too bad Dennis will write a hymn way too soon.....

We have all been there. I just received the Blue Notes box, Con Affetto and the Hemingway trio disc with the Cecil 1956-62 bargain box, the 1965 Jimmy Giuffre concert, Very Urgent and Snurdy McGurdy on the way. And maybe the 4 volumes of Remarkable Saxophonists with Eddie Prevost on matchless once the mail works!!!

You get "Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe" yet I love writing that especially since the band is the AALY trio plus KV in its most intense state

I have "Poco-A-Poco" sitting about here, will give it a spin tomorrow. No "Con Affetto" I'm afraid. I like Poco-A-Poco Con Affetto was a cheap buy!!!

Or at least Ancora Da Capo Much better than the nice but not exceptional Strictly for our Friends

Listen to Con Afetto, leeway!!

One week from tomorrow!! Dying for live music as the last live show for me was July 25th!!!!

Nice to hear some comments.... So I get back in the car after work yesterday and I'm almost halfway through the 57 minute Vyacheslav Ganelin penned piece named "Semplice" and having heard the "build-up" to the more compositionally orientated last half, I was ready to hear the wonder. As I mentioned in the listening thread, I had not heard this recording in over ten years and my recollection was of something pretty special to be happening over the full 57 minutes. I referred it to as waiting for the "anti-groove" but my memory had failed me. When the keyboards (or whatever the hell that sound is/was!!), and those bass pedals (as above?!?!), the trio swings, grooves and cries mercy. Then Mack the Knife as a first encore, then two more. Lordy Lordy I cried as well. Been a long long time since I was moved like this by a recording. And then this AM, I listened to the first movement from the first disc of Blue Notes for Mongezi Feza and it was more of the same - but very different, of course. More on that later on another thread.

A favorite of mine over a decade ago. I just reaquired Con Affetto and listened to the 57 minute piece today and the encores starting with a stunning Mack the Knife. For those who don't know the trio are multi-instrumentalists with The primaries being piano, alto sax and drums, but there has never been a trio anything like them before or since. Most everything they recorded was smuggled out from behind the iron curtain and it was really the reason for being of Leo records as many know. Their peak was mid to late 70's through the early to mid 80's. Comments, likes, dislikes?!?!?

When "The Giant is Awakened" is released, I MUST remind myself to order "Intents and Purposes"

I wonder when the last time that FVH played with EP.

Barre Phillips added to 9/9 10:00 set which makes it a quartet of Evan, Joe McPhee (listed on trumpet but maybe we get some duel saxophone), Phillips on bass - first time in the states in a number of years, and Chris Corsano on drums. wow

I listened/watched the trio with Helias and Crispell as well as Paradoxical Frog with Kris Davis and Ingrid Laubrock. The former was very fine as expected but the latter is just beyond sublime. The patience and tension they build is almost disconcerting but the end result is magical. I think this trio is a apt example of this generation's finest improvisors applying some compositional elements to abstract focused improvising with a wide variety of dynamics. Has me salivating to see Davis, Sorey and Maneri on September 5th.

I saw ICP a couple of years back at the end of a two week US schedule that would make any of the above seem like a cake walk. At the time Han Bennink was 71 or 72 and none of the ten musicians are that young - I think Thomas Heberer and Mary Oliver might be the youngest. They were obviously tired. Bennink's energy level and precision has never wavered any time I've ever seen him live - and it's always been at the beginning, the middle or towards the end of these 2 weekish coast to coast and border to border US tours. The actual show was stunning, exhuberant and highly inspired. The great world class musicians that make up the band played magnificently. This has been my experience for all the bands that take on these grueling one night tours that traverse the country. These incredible musicians must get some inside motivation and strength from what they love as they cannot possibly play this music for anything but love.

Love the above posts by Alexander and Karl Both Very Urgent and the Blue Notes box are showing as shipped!!!!!

Finally placed my order: Ogun Blue Notes box Cecil Taylor bargain box 1956-62 Ganelin Trio: Con Affetto Chris McGregor: Very Urgent Roscoe Mitchell: Snurdy McGurdy Hemingway trio: Code Read Jimmy Giuffre: NY Concerts

Tyshawn is a master at this sort of rhythmic mystery. I will be so fortunate to see him next month in three different bands. Two with Evan Parker and one with a trio with Kris Davis and Mat Maneri. Should make up for missing his Stone residency.

Cool - we can compare our thoughts over the next months as we listen to these recordings for the first time

You dog, I am hopefully ordering tonight and you might have "stolen" my copy!!!!

You *almost* have me wanting to make the 10:00 set on September 11th Wow - 13 years from that day - Wow

Good to hear he managed to get over to the US for that. When I saw him in Leeds on the same tour he looked very frail and played the whole time sitting down. Still sounded good though..... Yes he played sitting down and needed assistance to get to his chair. Very emotional for anyone with a heart to see and hear him. A friend of mine went to the quintet show with Dave Holland, Jon Irabagon, Matt Mitchell and Rudy Royston. I think I got the band right and he told me for him, Wheeler was wonderous. I heard the same great Wheeler sound in a large ensemble conducted by John Hollenbeck.

I was very glad to see him @ The Jazz Standard 3 or 4 years back for his 80th birthday celebration. He was very frail but his playing was as I expected - still sublime.

Don't order it tonight!!!!

If I get my order together tonight, the box set is on it