Steve Reynolds

Please share thoughts on the CD when you're ready. will do. I've only listened once through so I'm not ready to comment as of yet Did you see my brief comments on the 8/10 set @ Birdland?

I picked up the Trio 3 CD with Jason Moran @ the Trio 3 show with Vijay Iyer!!

Another more skronky electronic improv recording: Love Me Two Times: Jason Lesacalleet with Nmpergin (Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey)

Keith Rowe/Toshi Nakamura: Weather Sky Between - a slighly later 2 CD set - even better

Fine performance. Cyrille is mesmerizing with his seemingly simple freeish groove. My wife went nuts when they played his feature "A tribute to Bu" which is 90 percent Andrew with a little duo with Lake emerging after about 6 or 8 minutes of what is still an amazing to see and hear, melodic somewhat composed solo from the legendary drummer. Iyer was fine as was Workman(although undermiked) and The band hit their groove with a Workman tune titled "Synapse" when the Cyrille groove became unshakable and Lake really took it up and OUT. I think he scared a few tourists! Last 2 tunes were Wha's Nine from the great Live in Willisau CD from 1992 and then another older tune from that amazing record where Lake really let loose and I be a very happy boy by then. First time seeing the great trio in ten years and the addition of Iyer was very nice. The guys sound and look great and they deserve to have the crowds they have. Really about time. Only thing missing was Cyrille's "Shell" but that would be asking too much!

Fwiw we have real nice seats about 10 feet from Andrew Cyrille's bass drum Life is good

Trio 3 plus Vijay Iyer Trio 3 is, of course: Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille

full schedule up - I think it is a mis-print that shows John hebert on drums rather than bass! plus it irritates the hell out of me when they spell Mat Maneri's last name wrong. I be going Wed & Friday and maybe I make it in for what will be a very crowded little room on Saturday for the duo with Milford Graves 9/17 Tuesday 8 and 10pm Rocket Science Peter Evans (trumpet) Craig Taborn (piano) Sam Pluta (computer) Evan Parker (saxes) 9/18 Wednesday 8 pm Duos Evan Parker (saxes) John Escreet (piano) John Hébert (drums) Tyshawn Sorey (percussion) 10 pm Quartet Evan Parker (saxes) John Escreet (piano) John Hébert (drums) Tyshawn Sorey (percussion) 9/19 Thursday 8 pm Bleeding Edge Trio Peter Evans (trumpet) Okkyung Lee (cello) Evan Parker (saxes) 10 pm Evan Parker and Han Earl Park Evan Parker (saxes) Han Earl Park (guitar) 9/20 Friday 8 pm Mat Manieri, Lucian Ban, Evan Parker Mat Manieri (viola) Lucian Ban (piano) Evan Parker (saxes) 10 pm Evan Parker and Sylvie Courvoisier Evan Parker (saxes)Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) 9/21 Saturday 8 and 10pm Milford Graves and Evan Parker Milford Graves (percussion) Evan Parker (tenor sax) TWENTY DOLLARS. 9/22 Sunday 8 pm Jeremiah Cymerman, Nate Wooley, Evan Parker Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet, electronics) Nate Wooley (trumpet) Evan Parker (saxes) 10 pm Solos and Duos Ned Rothenberg (reeds, shakuhachi) Evan Parker (saxes)

I agree with the comment about adding Mickey Hart back in to the band. Never as good as 1970 - 74 which is my favorite period. The second drummer, just like (IMO) when a great jazz band adds a second percussionist, stifles the flexibility of the band. It also coincided when the band's sound became heavier and fuller (at least on the live shiows I have from 77 & 79) with the seocnd drummer added to the mix. I do still very much like Dead Set from 1980 as for whatever reason, it has a rejuvinated Garcia as compared to the Nassua LI set I have from the previous year.

not a competion but I am simply making a point regarding the often overlooked drummer

Seconded I was unaware of jazz until I was 31 and I didn't grow up in a cave

Bending Bridges is nice and the band live is well balanced and exciting And when she played in the trio with Laubrock and Rainey, she was spectacular. And she isnt the best musician in the trio.

Not today but this Saturday: Trio 3 plus Vijay Iyer @ Birdland

Been listening to quite a bit of Mobley recently Not loving Peckin Time - seems like very rote late 50's date with a not fully formed Lee Morgan and an unimpressive very young Charlie Persip on drums I think he is great on Drew's Undercurrent - plus Freddie is great as is Louis Hayes

Craig Taborn when he plays with Mat Maneri

I have to give this Russ Johnson guy a listen

Crispell-Guy-Lytton Then maybe you will really complain about the bass solos!!

Almost went to see this last night. I will order the Blu-Ray and the CD for what to me is reasonable @ $54.98. I only have a few of the 1972 sets (one of which I will be listening to on a longish drive to Binghamton, NY later today) as 1972 is rightly revered as one of the best times for the band - and the set list is strong.

@ smalls playing bebop on the piano?

something Bev just listened to - if the world was a better place, the *famous* melodic line that is the centerpiece of Barry Guy's "Harmos"

try to find this one:

Not going to see him here in the great southwest - so (among others) Capricorn Climber will have to do. Mat is still working on getting his own label started - if that happens then everyone will get to hear *his* music

See my recent comments over the past few years regarding seeing him a whole lot live over the past 2 years. To my ears among the best 3 or 4 improvisers on the planet The quintet with Oscar Noriega and Randy Peterson needs to be recorded With either Kris Davis or Craig Taborn on the piano and it would be great if Ed Schuller is on bass. The duo CD with Lucien Ban is nice Capricorn Climber does NOT capture that band and especially does NOT capture what Mat is like live with that band. A damn shame that Mat Maneri isn't served well on recent recordings. Then again I'm blessed to be able to see him often usually within 10 feet where I can hear and feel his genius. And the memories of seeing him with his Dad a few times with the classic quartet will always resonate with me. Last time this year with Randy and Ed was especially intense. But he may have played even better with Kris and the trio with Ches Smith and Craig Taborn was the best 2 sets of music I've heard this year.

my thoughts on last night at The Stone in NYC which was: 8 pm Horn Guys Michael Moore (sax, clarinet) Ray Anderson (trombone) Ellery Eskelin, Tony Malaby (tenor saxes) 10 pm Michael Moore plays Available Jelly Michael Moore (sax, clarinet) Ray Anderson (trombone) Ellery Eskelin, Tony Malaby (tenor saxes) Marcus Rojas (tuba) Gerry Hemingway (drums) it's getting a bit hot in the infamous little room between sets despite the "newish" air conditioner working at full bore. And it's not even that hot out - maybe 70 degrees with showers and high humidity - but *nothing* like the place must have been 2 weeks ago whent he temperatures were in the mid to high 90's - and Tony told me before that 2 sets he played with Louie Belegonis during that time were beyond insane - but he did say it was great - so Mr. Malaby's solution is a roll of Bounty paper towels from across the street....so I am wondering why on this earth am I in NYC on a Sunday night in a humid hot little room after a first set which was nice but nowhere near why I go see live music - fine chamber jazz for four horns - arranged and played wonderfully and all, but little to no improvisation - and I'm DYING to hear these guys play their DAMN horns! so they seem to casually seem to start at 10:15 when I KNOW it needs to start right after 10:00 - just because, I need to get my fill.... when it is about 10 til 11:00 and Marcus Rojas gets out of the chair unbeknownst to me as he was sitting throughout and now he was up and it had been a very nice set - I heard a couple of the great Available Jelly concoctions/compositions/creations or whatever the hell Michael and that history of great Dutch musicians has invented over the past 30 years - and I'm pretty damn happy with what is happening. but Marcus Rojas got up out of his chair at some point and I think they were into the last tune - something called Show something or other and it was a tune I didn't know - or maybe they were finishing up the second to last tune that had about 3 or 4 different lives - and I have NO FUCKING IDEA how these guys are playing this music they NEVER played before.... and within a few minutes Marcus, Ray and Gerry are playing this Ornettish rumbling swinging groove that has my heart coming out my chest and I'm thinking and feeling that somehow that I forget a few things about the *great* Ray Anderson - lordy fucking lordy - a few mutes never knowing or caring really when he did or didn't use 'em - he played the blues and the sweet and lovely - from the distant past into right now in an instant - and then..... well - indescribable to me as I think about such things - is there anyone who can? really describe it? well at least I got to experience *it* and then....it got/became really really special - *it* almost ended 4 or 8 times - Hemingway unexpectedly did within the structures of the composition - his insane "most powerful intense drummer who ever lived" thing - within the music - yes - within the music - powerhouse over the top without being over the top - and people were screaming when it finally ended at 11:15 - few got up right away despite the heat - hard to move after that. Michael beaming despite really no saxophone solos by any of the three world class reed masters - not that is wasn't filled with improvisation - it really is nothing like anything else that I know in jazz - it really just *is* jazz - and all three smiling knowing, loving what this music is - it *is* Sunday night in a dank, hot little place with about 40 lucky people - people who heard the genius of jazz, the genius and history of Available Jelly - despite the fact that only the brilliant Michael Moore was there from the current band or the one that I know from the their 2 great recordings in a some little club over there from a few years back and silence on the way home save for the sound of the rain.... for Ernst Glerum, Toby Delius, Eric Boeren, Wolter Wierbos and Michael Vatcher - they did you proud - one day I see all of you in a dank, hot little club - maybe there - but one day maybe here Always a Pleasure

Leaving in a couple of hours for what could be or should be a great 2 sets: Moore, Malaby, Eskelin and Anderson: "Horn Guys" Then add Marcus Rojas and the great Gerry Hemingway and they play Available Jelly Will be stuffy but its only in the high 70's