Steve Reynolds

The 25 minute first piece from the second set last night @ Cornelia Street Cafe Again, if one is really into the outskirts of avant-garde combinations, NEVER leave before the second set. Decent first set, THEN: Doom metal free jazzish improvisational skronk care of Malaby, Monder, Hebert & Williams In a sane world it is a side long track on an upcoming underground LP that gets played on a radio station as it's awe inspiring power transcends the fact it is wholly improvised and this world will never ever hear anything like it, before, since or ever after. Easily the best "track" I heard all week

I havn't warmed up to Farmers by Nature and I didn't like them live despite liking or at times even loving all three of the musicians. I havn't returned to the one CD I have of the two they released in a couple of years.

Nice review, Leeway Fwiw, Lescalleet was extremely loud when I saw him solo @ The Stone a couple of years back - but I thought it was mind bendingly awesome. Tonight: Tony Malaby Quartet with Ben Monder, John Hebert and Jeff Williams. @ Cornelia Street Cafe. We got a great parking spot. My wife is shopping on Bleeker Street. Weather is perfect. I am thinking Tony will be on fire! Btw - Jeff Williams is new for me. Malaby picks great drummers so let's hope he fits the bill.

Saw Full Blast front row a few years ago. Only thing comparable volume wise was Jason Lescalleet @ The Stone

Thanks, Clifford I only picked up a few individual CDs from that box - I think a Globe Unity and the Schlippenbach Live @ Quartier Latin with Kowald, Parker & Lovens. I missed the DLAD CD. I wonder if it compares favorably with the great Little Birds Have Fast Hearts 2 volumes.... Don;t forget the DLAD with Roy Campbell on Eremite. Nice one - the 10 minute encore section is stunning but the main portion of the recording doesn't touch the band with Kondo. Campbell is/was a fine energetic trumpeter but Toshinoro Kondo on those 2 discs is a genius level improvisor. Yup, have you checked him out with the "Hairy Bones" project? I think that is the band with PNL, isn't it? No I havn't heard them. I am still working my way through coming to grips with the Long Story Short box. The large band without the charts is still a challenge for this listener and I miss Drake in the chair next to Michael Zerang. Fwiw, I love the long side with Laswell, Ghania (sp?) and Drake. Almost worth the $75 I paid for the box set.

I want that box. I see it for the above 185 euros. Not happening as my next major purchase since my 2007 Hyndai Sonata will be the new 2015 Ford Mustang hopefully in October if it goes on sale in September as announced. The CD purchases will have to wait. I am going for the best stereo they offer rather than the 5.0 Liter GT with 425 HP!!!

Thanks, Clifford I only picked up a few individual CDs from that box - I think a Globe Unity and the Schlippenbach Live @ Quartier Latin with Kowald, Parker & Lovens. I missed the DLAD CD. I wonder if it compares favorably with the great Little Birds Have Fast Hearts 2 volumes.... Don;t forget the DLAD with Roy Campbell on Eremite. Nice one - the 10 minute encore section is stunning but the main portion of the recording doesn't touch the band with Kondo. Campbell is/was a fine energetic trumpeter but Toshinoro Kondo on those 2 discs is a genius level improvisor.

Baraka was never limited edition as far as I understood. The limited edition DKV disc was the live one from the same time frame - a disc I recently bought used for $20. I like it more than Baraka. Rougher than Baraka and it sure takes a while to get going but well worth hearing and owning from my perspective.

The last couple of times on the Artist forum - Tim Berne thread

Thanks, Clifford I only picked up a few individual CDs from that box - I think a Globe Unity and the Schlippenbach Live @ Quartier Latin with Kowald, Parker & Lovens. I missed the DLAD CD. I wonder if it compares favorably with the great Little Birds Have Fast Hearts 2 volumes....

Wow - Die Like a Dog Quartet with the great Toshinoro Kondo: Close Up?? Is this a recording culled from the FMP retrospective box of a few years back? I didn't know this existed. I thought there were only 4 DLAD quartet dates with Kondo.

Yes it was vinyl only. Are the above all available in CD? I lent the above 3 CD Brotzmann Chicago Octet/Tentet set to a "friend" years ago and it and the "friend" disappeared. For me, along with Stone/Water, the best representation of that seminal large ensemble. The two versions of "Other Brothers" (live & studio) give some approximation of what that tune sounded like live. It was the first piece they performed on the first night they played in NY @ Tonic in 1999 or 2000. After that 25 minute intro to the set, my friend Josh, who is no huge Brotzmann or free jazz fan, who was sitting next to me - said it was the single greatest thing he ever heard. I agreed. But I was speechless which is the last thing I usually am. Stunned disbelief at what I had just heard. To this day, the only thing or piece of music or anything I ever heard that came near that was the same band two years later in the same place. But it still didn't have the immense power of "Other Brothers" I guess I need to re-buy the set.

Loved this. Same here. I'm buying the duo CDs because of reading this and I never buy bass/piano duo CDs - plus I havn't bought a Keith Jarrett CD except older recordings since Deer Head Inn and I bought that when it was released.

I wonder who is in his quintet(s)

Thanks! When I saw there were topics about Berne, Parker etc I just had to join in. I'd highly recommend the Trio set, no worries with the dual drummer scenario, it works beautifully, as it should with those two players. The packaging is secondary but it's good to hear that the "Duets" set is packaged nicely as that's in the queue. I placed the Trio order this morning with Amazon, which had it for $37.19, includes free shipping, not a bad price. I'll work around to the duo box eventually. I'm particularly keen on the duos with Katherine Young. Yes, the Bassoonist! I was going to mention that same thing. I paid $47 for it through Amazon and the next day it went down $10 to $37. I emailed them and they credited my account the difference, along with another $5 due to a drop on the new Guru Guru Live In Germany. At least they're quick and responsive. I'm so jealous of those US prices (Trio 2013 is £49, Duets 2012 is £111.55 on amazon.uk) I'm wondering whether emigration/immigration is the solution. I could fund it by all the savings I'd make on future purchases How close are you to Oto? Maybe we can just switch places, no one will ever notice. Can you buy directly from the Tricentric website as a better alternative? 25 minutes from Oto on the tube It's not just the retail price but the postage (Tricentric would be $60 inc postage for Trio 2013) and then there's the chance of the 20% sales tax on import and postal service handling fee for administering that tax to factor in. Really the answer is to download but I need to enter ths century first....meanwhile back to some vinyl I trade you your 25 minutes for my 75 minutes to The Stone or Jazz Gallery or Cornelia Street for maybe 2 months only. My big decision for this Friday: Ingrid Laubrock's Quintet with Tim Berne, Ben Gerstein, Dan Peck and Tom Rainey (Jazz Gallery) OR: Tony Malaby's Quartet with Ben Monder, John Hebert and Jeff Williams (Cornelia Street) I'm torn - my wife likes Gerstein but she wants to see Malaby as she loves him and his untucked shirts and messy hair. Imagine that?!?!

If I was halfway to Chicago, I would be there.

Up for the show tomorrow night!

I wonder who wrote that review. One of the most special recordings for me of that time.

Certainly Parker's playing was very raw 30 or 40 years ago. As I've mentioned earlier there are some days I prefer that searching, developmental sound. There is a solo/improvisation on Globe Unity Special on the opening Misha Mengelberg tracks that features the best of 70's era Evan and there are many more of those instances where the technique is sufficient for the raw power to emerge. But the advancement in his art by the early 90's is huge - and the loss of harshness is replaced by a combination of a more advanced technique with plenty of power and raw sound remaining. I first saw Parker live in probably 1998 with Mark Dresser and Bobby Previte. I saw him again in May 2001 with Tim Berne, Drew Gress (wrong band for him - he disappeared as he was swallowed up) and the great Mark Sanders on drums. The second set was incredibly intense and was not matched in intensity until 2009 when during a 10 minute encore with Dresser & Hemingway, Parker (and the trio) played with an intensity that Parker-Guy-Lytton must have played with for 25 or 30 minutes at a clip back in the early or mid 90's. At the Vortex from 1996 documents this ably on record. So the intensity has waned and the playing may be more measured and the excitement may have lessened to some extent, but what I heard in 2009 and during some of last September's sets, the brilliance remains.

Interesting that many here seem to prefer the solo recordings - and especially the solo soprano recordings. I enjoy the sections of solo soprano playing, but I've never been thrilled to listen to too much solo saxophone recordings, even the best of the best which to me are probably the following - whether it be Braxton (although For Alto is great - but I might listen once every few years), Lacy, Mitchell or even my favorite saxophonist, Evan Parker. Hearing Evan Parker live last fall when he played an incredible section of circular breathing soprano within a duet set with Sylvie Courvoisier was stunning, exciting and from a sonic standpoint, beyond what I could have imagined even though I was within 8 feet of his horn. Amazing live. But for me the solo playing via a recording cannot compare to the visceral effect of hearing Evan Parker on tenor on recordings like The Two Seasons, At the Vortex, The Ayes Have it - or the great two sets on 50th Birthday Concert. This is where is closest or part of the jazz tradition - where I hear a groove (altered and off kilter in all cases, for sure), where I hear explosive tenor saxophone clearly of his own making - but coming from Coltrane or from the jazz tradition as a whole. This is what really speaks to me.

The ECM box is wonderous. Much variety plus it was recorded when ECM records sounded like the actual bands playing the music.

That "Obbligato" album got a decidedly mixed reaction among folks I know who consider themselves fans of Rainey (I am). It's an all-standards album, and that seems to have thrown some folks. I haven't heard it myself, but I have a lot of confidence in Rainey's musicianship, so am interested in hearing it. Seems like it passed muster with you on first hearing. Any more thoughts on it, Ubu? I might pick it up at the show Friday (Rainey's trio with Mary Halvorsen & Ingrid Laubrock). My fear is that the recording might be too cute and won't hit my sweet spot. Like Leeway I've heard mixed reviews and my sweet spot for Rainey is when there is much groove, improv and good bits of skronk and aggression. Exactly what I've heard from the trio I'm seeing this Friday. To this point easily my favorite band from this circle of musicians.

That's the band my wife and I saw live.

50th Birthday Concert is a great 2 disc set. My recommendations as always are Parker-Guy-Lytton At the Vortex and the 2 CD set The Two Seasons with John Edwards and Mark Sanders Combined, these two live recordings contain the most intense tenor playing from the great saxophonist on record. All in a context that is as free jazz as he gets. Obviously the Mad Dogs box is a great incredibly sounding document and demands to be heard but for pure Evan Parker, the above two recordings, from 1996 and 1999 respectively, capture the trios and the musicians at peak level.

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