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Also got a burn yesterday of another great disc by Stephan Wittwer: Not you usual ECM album! Christy Doran Fredy Studer Stephan Wittwer Red Twist & Tuned Arrow Christy Doran electric and acoustic guitars Fredy Studer drums, percussion Stephan Wittwer electric guitar, synthesizer, sequencer programming Canon Cannon 1374 Quasar Belluard Backtalk Messing D.T.E.T. Recorded November 1986 ECM 1342 Doran is actually of Irish origin, but has been a mainstay of the swiss jazz/rock/free scene for several decades. He might be the best-known of the three. He was, together with Fredy Studer, part of the legendary swiss jazz-rock group OM (the other half being saxofonist Urs Leimgruber and bassist Bobby Burri) (I have yet to hunt some of their LPs or CDs). Doran and Wittwer are both incredible, and it's great to hear them with just a drummer, as there is some space around them (which would probably be cluttered up by a bassist). ubu

P.L.M., I just took that Columbia disc with the wonderful (playing & looking) Susie Ibarra home from the radio station I occasionally do some programmes for. Will report. Of course I have one of the discs Ware made with Cecil, namely the Enja disc "Dark to Themselves", which I like quite some. And I don't find the duo track with Harris too weak - it's just more the "your usual kind of free jazz" stuff than the solos of Harris, which are great! ubu

For those interested, "All About Rosie" was reissued on CD as part of the Columbia Legacy CD "The Birth of the Third Stream" in 1996. A great disc! And All About Rosie is indeed a killer! I wish they'd reissue the Modern Jazz Society disc in its entirety!

Yep. Monday or so. ; ) Oh, well, that neato classy divider is, well, a neato classy divider ubu

I had the Bill Mays CD with ray Drummond, and I'm sure this is not the version. It does not sound like Red Mitchell on bass either, whose sound I know pretty well, so the album king ubu linked is not the one. No clue who it might be ... I just provided the link to the guess of cannonball addict, not having my disc with me then (and too lazy to compare since then)... and here goes just to show I can do that, too...

I think I mentioned that I got the disc in the mean-time (well, a CDr, only), and it's friggin' great stuff! D.D. you ought to check this out! From the Grob blurb: "he [Wittwer] has absorbed the lessons from Hardcore and Trash Metal and transferred them elegantly and without compromise into his own idiom". You know, I still have sentimental nostalgic Trash/Death Metal attachments, so there is no way I will want to miss this one. He also has a classical guitar education. Mentioned the "usual suspects" in the interview (Hendrix, mainly, as he was coming of age at the time of Hendrix's greatest success and musical achievements). Also told us a funny story about him and Elliot Sharp, but he can't relate to Sharp too much, musically.

Guy, I only have one of Spring Heel Jack's discs, and got it without knowing them, rather accidentally, too. It's called "Amassed" and features E. Parker, Shipp, W. Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford and a few others. I like it pretty much. Won't check AMG on it, as that site really sucks a the moment. Here is a short thread over on AAJ. ubu

Listening to this one again: I think I mentioned that I got the disc in the mean-time (well, a CDr, only), and it's friggin' great stuff! D.D. you ought to check this out!

And yes! Based on that one solo number on the "Momentum Space" disc, an Elvin solo album would be a great thing!

David S. Ware is not a Coltrane clone anymore. I am not too familiar with his ouevre, but of what I have the one I like the most is Corridors and Parallels (AUM Fidelity). Very strong work IMO, with excellent writing, and very original synth playing by Matthew Shipp. Ware burns on it. Ain't Ware that one guy who was almost as successful with Free Jazz as Britney Spears? The one with that quartet with Shipp and Parker? Never really felt a need to check that out, but I may check that disc on AUM if I run accross it. Thanks! ubu

Listening to this one here for the second time: GREAT music to wake up to in the morning and get aggressive Seriously: it's 40 minutes, 30 of it solo drums, but of a musicality I rarely hear in drummers (well, frankly I've not been listening to drummers all that often, lately). One track features the (then? still now? don't know him!) Coltrane-clone David S. Ware on tenor. High energy playing at a good level, but not really necessary. Harris is doing it for me! ubu

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Tony: Read more here PDEE - great post above! I guess I'm on my way, and there's no need trying to deny my "addiction", in fact I call myself a "jazz-addict" since I was fifteen (which is now a decade ago, already, and what a short one, I might add!). Now I guess you know that addicts might try to rationalize their addiction a bit, from time to time, and that's exactly what I did in my post. I just don't think getting a Mosaic of a musician hitherto unknown is a bad thing - you saw the remarks about their track record, their credibility, you admit that yourself - and I consider "curiosité" (in the 18c meaning) one of the best qualities human beings can have. Bon, I'll stop now before I get even more overtly pathetic.

I can't accept statements like this, couw! I think I'll delete my message... on the Rat front: some days ago I made a dub of an FMP LP by Brötzmann titled Elements (1971). Fiery stuff with some pretty moments. Features Mangelsdorff to make it more interesting. Anyone heard (of) that one? Opinions? Oh, wait, let me quote that before you can delete anything

Oh, by the way, you're all highly inacceptable! I don't know Moodoc, and I'm sure he's no worth (of course I'm so sure about that because I have no money to spend on getting any of his discs right now ) P.L.M.: thanks for the S. Texier recommendations! Texier & Denzler sounds good! He is unacademic, indeed! Very straight, very workman-like, but in a very good way! ubu

Thanks for this offer! I'd be delighted! By the way, Lenin, when he was in Zurich, was deeply influenced by the then starting Dada movement, this being a major factor in his deciding to pull through that revolution thing... (I know this sounds strange but someone seriously wrote a book trying to prove this theory... totally unconvincing, of course, but he lived on that same street in Zurich where the Cabaret Voltaire was located...) ubu

This is such a great set! And the 20bit domestic disc, IMO, sounds just amazing! Definitely "you are there" sound on that one. I'd love to hear what you think... I like it! Got to hear it some more times, but the first impression is very positive! A bit on the short side - I'd love to hear more of the quintet, but the two trio tracks are very good, too! Tyner definitively smokes! ubu need to spin it again, memory tells me I was underwhelmed Could be the same thing as the currently active "night of the cookers" thread demonstrates, but to a lesser extent. A live session of some good cats working, not stellar, not THE great record, but just a glimpse. And for that I think it's good enough (I got it cheap, anyway). Then, I'm very much into Mariano (although I don't have all that much of his music). And Tyner rather surprises me on it, as he seems more agile, and looser compared to the two trio Impulses of his that I have. ubu

This is such a great set! And the 20bit domestic disc, IMO, sounds just amazing! Definitely "you are there" sound on that one. I'd love to hear what you think... I like it! Got to hear it some more times, but the first impression is very positive! A bit on the short side - I'd love to hear more of the quintet, but the two trio tracks are very good, too! Tyner definitively smokes! ubu

Looks good. I know Texier only through his recording in Sclavis-Romano-Texier trio, which I enjoy but wish it would have more edge - it is all just too pretty. Looks like this one is a bit funnier and rattier, so I'll probabl give it a try. Do so! I think Sébastien Texier is cool! His playing is very hot, very melodic it is all (that's part of the mediterranean thing, I guess), but always with an edge, and Rabeson really drives, as - of course! - does Texier himself. I had a chance to pick this up used some months ago (even cheaper), but passed it after a quick listen. Maybe you need a few go's to really get warm. By the way it's a soundtrack project of some sorts, for a film shot by a French director in 1970. That film had no soundtrack, and Texier was asked I think for a live screening, originally, to provide some music where it would fit. The disc, however, is in perfect studio quality. ubu

Got this one dirt cheap (less than the prize of two cups of coffee...), and had a listen on the way to work today. Very intense, and very good! Mediterranean jazz, I'd call this. Henri Texier has his usual big beautiful sound, his son Sébastien is on alto saxophone and clarinets, and Tony Rabeson on drums. S. Texier plays the alto with much urgency and drive, going to the limits volume- and soundwise, to very good effect. Rabeson does some quite astonishing things, too. A great trio record - and all in all pretty far removed from your olde sax-b-d trio recording. ubu

Like I said in the whisky thread, I don't do Islays I know that, Hans! It was actually directed at brownie anyway!

Or was it Juliette? Or Justine?

Sue?

Ain't it fun to try to "catch" an artist or an album while using Opera? Doesn't this tell it all?

You know, these rats here have taste! If you follow the link and go to the prize list, then to the Islays, you can - without any bigger problem - order a Laphroaig 40yr in a wooden box for a mere 548 Euro, and let them mail it to me...