Steve Reynolds

Just ordered the Roscoe Mitchell quartets with Philip Wilson which I've never heard so my quick list below night not be compete: Eric Dolphy - Live at the Five Spot volume 1 John Coltrane: First Meditations Peter Brotzmann: Nipples Hank Mobley: Workout Wes Montgomery: Full House Or add one of Miles Smiles or Filles De Kilemenjaro Impossible to pick - and I'm not as big a listener to 60's jazz as I am of 90's onward. Plus I love fasstrack's picks My favorite Rollins are Alfie plus the later impulses Damn I need to get a new copy of Wes' At the Half Note - I used to play the hell out of that one Another two would be Inner Urge and Idle Moments

Added number 7 as well I think 4 is May 1970 with the acoustic set. 7 & 12 from 1974, I think which might be my favorite year

Ordering Dick's Picks 4 & 12 later today for my birthday I think those are the ones I picked out

Good but not great bassist, very good melodist and a fine small ensemble band leader. Some of themes hold up well over time and in another world some would be jazz classics Agree with your commentary on his large ensembles. Messy and aimless - at least they were 10 years ago or so when I stopped trying

Best release of 2013 The first CD Inscape/Tableaux is a mind bender

Tempted to take off work and fly there Despite Gustsfsson not being there - but Trevor Watts live for the first time would be quite the treat. Never seen either Guy large band. Number one musical dream

Curious as to where you're coming from here. No fan of the 60's political philosophy. I don't like the connection that many including some or most of my musical heroes make with politics. Put it this way as some from the old jazz corner know, I come from a very different place in these respects. Do you think you can really detach the music from its underlying philosophy? I really don't, not without injustice to the music. Otherwise, as they say, "the rest is noise." Anyway, I've never really heard anything explicitly political at VF. Mostly it's vague Art + Spirit = Beauty sort of thing. Vague enough to allow one to carry one's political views away unharmed. Oh go on, let it rip! I love him as a sax player, respect him as a piano player, and puzzle over him as a bass player. But I think he loves the bass the same way Michael Jordan loves minor league baseball. He's really an enigmatic figure; to me that's estimable. Rightly so. Steve, I'll let it go. Thanks for the reply. I guess I can't. Lots of truth to that, Leeway A few times it got overtly political but maybe only in an anti war way which doesn't bother me. As far as Gayle, I've never heard him on the bass and I'm not sure I'm ready.

Curious as to where you're coming from here. No fan of the 60's political philosophy. I don't like the connection that many including some or most of my musical heroes make with politics. Put it this way as some from the old jazz corner know, I come from a very different place in these respects.

"Same Shit Different Day" (or in this case, different year) I am not super into the sound at Roulette, and last year's VF had some egregious issues in that respect. But since cynicism is not allowed in talking about free music, I'll refrain from complaining too much. Allowed, encouraged and welcomed!!! I love free jazz and improvisation as much as most anyone and I still don't (well I do but I don't like or accept it ) understand why certain musicians dominate these proceedings - even though some of them are my personal favorites. The openness and acceptance and love that is preached often comes across as lip service when it comes the bands and musicians that "qualify"

Thanks for the information. I do a good bit of good stuff for myself every day to work on undoing some of the damage!

Why is Antoine Roney on that stage on that night? As Jim asked, is he that happening? No other band to fit that prime spot before Rothenberg and Brotzmann-Parker-Drake? Fwiw, I'm no huge fan of some of the bookings as despite what some might think, I can't get excited about things like the Alcorn/Halvorson duo and although I might be surprised, the idea of duos of vocalists with Sorey and Rothenberg have me feeling nothing except hoping it's not that painful. Would much rather have a band with Darius Jones Little Women, Gerald Cleaver's Black Host or Tim Berne's Snakeoil. Plus the fascination with drummers like Whit Dickey and Michael Wimberly have always astounded me. Maybe they have grown over the past 10 plus years and maybe I'll be there on one of those nights but when I've seen them back in the day, there was never a silence to be heard from either of them. Plus I love my pal Steve but poets and dancers do very little except detract from the reason I go. And if it gets political, I'm out the door until the music starts

Absurd that any list would not include Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor Unless as many people demonstrate here and elsewhere that all really great jazz was made over 40 years ago.

Again this year for a week: 9/9 through 9/14 - a week earlier in September than last year. This is a very pleasant surprise as last time it was 2009 to 2013. He must really enjoy the week. I look forward to: 1) Finding out who is playing with on each night 2) Hoping that we get a cool week of weather that allows me to show up AND enjoy hearing the great saxophonist 2 or 3 times during his week

I'm not a musician and I have no idea what a nootropic is do I care to but my experience is that I hear best with nothing in my system. It has all slowed down for me the last 9 plus years and I know the other side.

Courageous as I had only heard rumors about one of musicians he mentioned. For the others it has always been unspoken common knowledge for most of us who have followed jazz. Good to see how good of shape he is in @ 70 plus. Note how young/old all those mentioned lived to. Only the most famous somehow survived to 71

I admit to be one of them. I might spring for a set. Listening for the first time streaming from the website and there is much more that I never heard but looks very interesting. One of my missing discs. My favorite of the Lindberg black saints. The two quartet records with Mangelsdorff are also fantastic as is Bounce with a wonderous performance from Dave Douglas. Fwiw Ed Thigpen is the drummer on those two quartet sessions - Ressurection of a Dormant Soul has some very nice thematic material with the great trombonist captivating throughout.

The John Lindberg catalogue is thoroughly overlooked and unheard by too many

Almost as great as the massive first 38 minute track which has Lytton especially in beast mode.

Yes the ones who are most real to us. No masks, No games, No show If there are theatrics with some of them, it's only because it is part of them. Nothing manufactured. And the stories and the music are very real, very imperfect - especially with the great improvisors.

Next Time I'm gonna see if Evan Parker's shoes are shined. Style?!?!? Catch Mat & Tony sitting across from each other leaning in to each other if you want to see or hear style. Leaning into the music. Should have seen and heard that band. Best SHOW of the year?? Maybe save for Brotzmann sounding like god at 15 to midnight. Ever see the old man get up off the stool with the tenor or alto or that beautiful clarinet in his hand??? A show? No - reality, LOVE - could not NOT watch and listen with no clue why he was great except the sound of surprise - so many forget that it isn't the past - his regrets that the Big Man heard him and called him in 65 or 66 but nothing - go teach, write, play teach and never get the gig even where you teach. He became himself when he realized now at 71 there were almost a hundred here in front of him I when he could still get up his stool. Thank Jah a few of us witnessed it. Yes - the Round one / never once did I even think about how he was carrying himself. Sure his first gigs of any note were after 65 but STYLE or class or all of that - been never seen any musician that I seen touch lo' Papa Joe. "Duke Ellington just called and asked me to play Sentimental Lady " Or sitting on the little couch downstairs at the knit and here he comes downstairs and the door is closed and we know he is there but the door doesn't so he tells the kid "I'm in the BAND" He was the band. Fat, short, old, then can't get up from the stool, couldn't get many gigs, but he still thought that "It's gonna be HUGE" and when he yelled to Mat when I first said hello in 1998, "This guy buys OUR records" he knew it was just the beginning. Maybe the world's one day will open up. Most jazz ears hated him - but at least back then a few tried to listen. Today most are all closed off - no hard swinging here. Beyond the groove, maybe I suppose. But of course, Papa Joe Maneri didn't play ANY tunes, played between the notes and the sounds and never got the gigs, but he did do something, he had a SOUND like no other, a jazz sound that could be mistaken for no other, and in his time and after, like the other off kilter greats, the dogs are always barking. And of course it was HUGE - the imprint on my heart of seeing and hearing is most replicated in intensity and surprise and improvisation daredevil brilliance by his son and when it comes to the tenor saxophone, Tony Malaby. No show, just him whoever that might be although always playing with the band. See him, hear him, hear technique and sound and heart, like I told him, a little like Evan Parker with a groove almost: April 12 April 19 May 3 May 9 & 10 Going to Church Joe Maneri 1927-2009 RIP Long live the spirit and love of true improvising

Sounds like a great event - very happy that it happened. Very grateful that at least a couple of listeners here attended. Listened to disc 2 of Most Materiall this AM - the free jazz session that starts with track 2 with Prevost at his jazziest best. Some of Evan's most powerful tenor on record.

Fwiw, Malaby dresses just fine and looks like a normal guy as do pretty much all the musicians I go to see. Plus he does fine with booking gigs. It's just that the more well venues don't book him or his sort. STILL not acceptable in many quarters to play without many or any restrictions.

Now the problem is how he dresses? And his weight is a problem as well? Try May 9th or 10th with Taramindo (William Parker and Nasheet Waits) and hi to me if it's the 10th. Plus who are these dozens of today's tenor players? I've seen or heard quite a few over the years and I can't think of any!!!

I'm going this time for sure - inspired by Jim's commentary

If I somehow make it to the show on May 3rd which is my goal, I finally get to meet you which is first priority, then the live music and then to buy the most recent set of music Reminds me of when I used to play Dark was the Night..... Back in the late 90's and I was pretty much wondering who this Allen Lowe Guy was and so on......