Gary

Swiss history student, ardent admirer of dada, surrealism, Duchamp etc, thus logically of Alfred Jarry, as well, there comes my handle... then a self-declared jazz addict (ask my girlfriend, she'd say my declaration is spot-on - and no, she doesn't like it...) now back to some serious funky stuff B-) you forgot to mention '& generous to a tee'

Joy Division - Heart & Soul

I got my copy of Gianni Gebbia: Arcana Major/Sonic Tarots Session from Cadence not so long ago, it may be worth trying there. (Chaney is playing down how good this CD really is!)

Great reading! As I was reading that a little gap seemed to develop in my collection. I didnt realise DeJohnette had played with Trane. Was he just sitting in or did he have a small run in the band?

7/4's cover is the same as the JapanseCD I recently bought.

Coincidently tonights BBC Jazz on 3 is - Jazz on 3 Tim Berne Special Tonight Jazz on 3 continues its summer season giving listeners another chance to hear the most popular gigs broadcast over the last year. The programme has been asking people to call and write in with their suggestions, and it is an indication of the programme's wide appeal that the two equal top choices were Swedish pop-jazz sensation EST and British godfather of avant-garde saxophone, Evan Parker. This week Jez Nelson introduces a very special concert by cult US saxophonist Tim Berne with his Science Friction Band and special guests David Torn and The Arte [saxophone] Quartett. Berne is one of the most influential composers and band leaders on the New York downtown scene; for the past 20 years he has been a seminal figure in jazz and contemporary music. The concert was recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank during the 2003 London Jazz Festival, and the performance includes a brand new work commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for Jazz on 3. Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Playlist Jazz on 3 Signature Tune Artist Russell Gunn Title 74 Miles Away Intro Label Atlantic Cat No. 7567-83165-2 LP Title Ethnomusicology Volume 1 Tim Berne Special recorded at the London Jazz Festival 2003 including the first performance of a new work commissioned by Jazz On 3 Tim Berne Science Friction Quartet with special guests David Torn and the Arte Saxophone Quartet Tim Berne - alto sax Tom Rainey - drums Craig Taborn - keyboard Marc Ducret - guitar David Torn - guitar, samplers, and electronics Arte Saxophone Quartet Jazz on Three Commission Title Untitled (Still) Composer Tim Berne Arte Saxophone Quartet Beat Kappeler - baritone saxophones Beat Hofstetter - alto saxophones Andrea Forment - tenor and alto saxophones Sascha Armbruster - alto soprano and baritone saxophones Title Repulsion Composer Arte Saxophone Quartet Tim Berne Science Friction Quartet with special guest David Torn Title Vangundy's Retreat Composer Tim Berne Title Shell Game Composer Tim Berne Title Traction Composer Tim Berne Title Mrs Subliminal Composer Tim Berne Title Heavy Mental Composer Tim Berne http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzon3/pip/277gp/

NY1 is a great CD . The performances of the three players could easily be enjoyed on their own throughout.

This weekends fixtures Sat Aug 14 2004 Barclays Premiership Tottenham v Liverpool 12:45 Norwich v Crystal Palace 15:00 Portsmouth v Birmingham 15:00 Aston Villa v Southampton 15:00 Blackburn v West Brom 15:00 Bolton v Charlton 15:00 Man City v Fulham 15:00 Middlesbrough v Newcastle 17:15 Sun Aug 15 2004 Barclays Premiership Everton v Arsenal 14:00 Chelsea v Man Utd 16:05

He's staying http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...nal/3560576.stm Vieira remains at Arsenal He's going http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ool/3560542.stm Owen to sign for Real Hang on a minute..... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ton/3558832.stm Agent hints at Beattie exit

Happy Birthday to the guru of all things MILES ! Have a good one.

There is a team that I'm quite partial to that can offer the usual rollercoaster of emotions, with little to show for it at the end of the season.

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10905

I thought this may be of interest from todays Guardian Anarchy on the trumpet Can jazz stop Bush? John Fordham on the return of the Liberation Music Orchestra Monday August 2, 2004 The Guardian The anti-war brigade: the Liberation Music Orchestra Charlie Haden was sitting in his car one night, listening to the news. Vietnam's neighbour Cambodia was being bombed by the US air force on the orders of President Richard Nixon. Haden felt powerless as an individual - but as a musician he was convinced he could register dissent, and maybe make a difference. He rang his friend and musical collaborator, composer Carla Bley, and said: "Let's do an album about the tragedy of what this administration is doing in the world." The result was the Liberation Music Orchestra, which made one of the most powerful jazz-driven musical statements of the early 1970s with its self-titled album. The band was a volatile, expensive one, and many members were leaders in their own right, making it difficult to keep it on the road. But in the past 35 years, the LMO has returned whenever the rallying call was loud. It re-formed in 1982, when Ronald Reagan invaded El Salvador, to record the album Ballad of the Fallen. It came back in 1989, during George Bush Sr's time, for a rousing We Shall Overcome at the Montreal jazz festival, and to record the album Dreamkeeper. And tonight the LMO performs at the Edinburgh festival - the first time Haden and Bley have shared a live performance in 20 years. Haden has long felt angry at what he sees as the Republicans' theft of the election four years ago, and the situation in Iraq has brought that anger to the boil. Haden has said he always believed in "an America worthy of the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr, and the majesty of the Statue of Liberty". A bespectacled, mild-looking man in his 60s, with chronic bronchitis that worsens on tour, he exudes a firm sense of purpose, disagreeing with the suggestion that, in the end, music is just music: "I wouldn't have done this over all these years if I hadn't believed it made a difference. In recent years in America, it's become very difficult for people critical of the government to express their feelings. Providing some kind of focus for that to happen is power, in its way. "People have often come up to us after Liberation Music Orchestra gigs and said this music has helped give them confidence to say what they really feel. The material we use draws on a long tradition of people doing that, all over the world." By background and artistic disposition, Haden is no fan of Republican politics. His father had close friends in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade that fought in the Spanish civil war; as a double-bassist, Haden participated in black Texan saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1950s revolutions in jazz form. These two influences came together when he heard of the Cambodian bombings. His father had a collection of socialist and anarchist songs of the Spanish civil war, music he and Bley had already considered adapting for a jazz project. The pair turned to this in 1969, examining the Spanish songs and creating arrangements for a full jazz band. The resulting album featured a suite of 1930s anarchist songs vividly interpreted by the eloquent trumpet of Don Cherry and the hot winds of Argentinian Gato Barbieri's tenor sax. Haden also contributed the brooding Song for Che, a powerful double-bass anthem, plus Ornette Coleman's War Orphans. The sleeve showed the personnel lined up against a brick wall, staring uncompromisingly at the camera from under a banner. The album won the Grand Prix Charles Cros in France (a Grammy equivalent), Swing Journal's Gold Disc award in Japan, and critics' accolades everywhere. The current line-up includes hot young sax prospect Miguel Zenon and Jazz Passengers trombonist Curtis Fowlkes. Haden, though, says he always hears the band as "timeless, in all its various incarnations". Its music has varied widely, too: politics may inform it, yet Haden is too much of a jazz improviser to settle for a repertoire of marching songs or fists-in-the-air music. On 1989's The Montreal Tapes, the orchestra plays We Shall Overcome for over half an hour: not as a cosy piece of linked-arms chanting but as an increasingly free blues in which a pedigree team of improvisers (including trumpeters Tom Harrell and Stanton Davis, saxophonists Ernie Watts and Joe Lovano, and trombonist Ray Anderson) independently jam themselves into ecstatic spontaneous union. Earlier this year, when Bley was in London for the Barbican's tribute to film composer Nino Rota, she was still at work on the new LMO scores, and worried Haden would find them too oblique. She was absorbed by the sounds of her Looking for America album, in which she created sublimely sinister mirrors to imagery of John Wayne frontiersmen and roadside shacks bearing Day of Judgment warnings. That music has influenced the current repertoire. "I guess I've taken it more as my own project this time," Bley said then. "I hope Charlie doesn't think it's too ironic." "She was just worrying," Haden says, now the tour is under way. "But there was nothing for her to worry about. I don't ever compare the current orchestra to the first one, because, although the music might be different, the reason for its existence is the same. Then it was Nixon, now it's George W. What they're doing is the same. So what we're doing is the same, too." · The Liberation Music Orchestra plays Queens Hall, Edinburgh, tonight. Box office: 0131-668 3456. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/st...1274213,00.html

Nice one Danny!

Same here & I enjoyed every second of his fight against Lennox Lewis. Unfortunately I dont think Danny Williams will last too long against him tonight , I've seen him fight on the TV on quite a few occasions , when things are going his way he has shown potential but when they are not he seems to lose heart quickly & has lost a few fights to guys that he shouldnt have

I'd thoroughly recommend Live in Japan to anyone who enjoys Trane's later work , but like Couw says its heavy shit so I think the excellent Live in Seattle & at the Village Vanguard again may be the way to go first . Unless it goes for a cheap price on Ebay , I got mine for a relative steal on Ebay , the seller spelt Coltrane incorrectly.

Funny stuff there! me & my big mouth!

I really love those 2 CDs , have you checked this one out Another corker (also includes another great version of Lonely Woman).

Д.Д., any more comments on 14 Love Poems? Won't be able to add any more comments before I get home and re-listen to it which will happen in mid-August only. But trust me, this is good stuff. Probaly Gary could help a bit with reviewing this one before then. I listened to the first 14 tracks & was left feeling exhausted ! If this is about love its certainly a very passionate affair. 'Lonely Woman ' is exceptional - a peaceful start then Brotzmann blows the shit out of it! FANTASTIC!!!

Many thanks guys I really appreciate your kind words. I'm just going to open a bottle of red & the first glass will be raised to you chaps.

Thanks very much

Eternally fresh

sorry that should have read 'He will appear on tour in November with a trio & a specially recruited British big band that will include players such as Jason Yarde & Tony Kofi '

I havent seen a line up just yet all in Jazzwise this month it has the dates & the following - 'He will appear on tour in November with a trio & a specially recruited big band players such as Jason Yarde & Tony Kofi '