OliverM

Thanks! It was really as you said. Very strong music that stays with you. Total engagement. A friend showed me Ken Vandermark's comments on Instagram which are great to see what is perceived from the musician's point of view: "There are highlights on a tour, and there are highlights. On a cold Monday in November, DKV played their third quartet gig with Joe McPhee, at Les Instants Chavirés in Paris. During soundcheck Joe started running, "Knox," which I recognized from his solo album "Tenor," one of my favorite albums of all time and the LP that transformed my life and led me to the music that I'm playing today. I suggested that we perform this incredible piece of blues during the concert and Joe merely said, "If it comes up." To say that I hoped it would was an understatement. What happened was even better than that- not only did we explore "Knox" on the bandstand with Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake, Joe introduced his classic composition, "Nation Time," in the first set. With it, the four of us set fire to the room. The third concert by this set of musicians brought things to ensemble territory- this was no longer Joe McPhee joining an established band as a guest, this was now a real band finding their way each night and introducing new materials to each other every set. I can't put into words the intensity I felt playing Joe's pieces with him onstage, music that I studied while in college during the mid 1980s, and that I arranged for him and eight other Chicagoans on one of my last albums for Okka Disk, "Impressions of Po Music." November 13, 2017 goes down in the books for me. Tonight DKV/McPhee performs at the Blue Tomato in Vienna, one of our favorite clubs in the world and already sold out- it will be a celebration with friends in spite of the strange and difficult times surrounding us. As Joe said in 1970, and which has more meaning now than ever before, "What Time Is It?!"

Tonight: DKV & Joe McPhee at Instants Chavirés

Waiting for an European retailer to have them. Exciting news about both.

Also looking forward to this. Sound excerpt is really nice! http://www.darktree-records.com/en/dt08-vinny-golia-wind-quartet

Another great one leaves this world.

Louis Sclavis - Clarinettes

Bon anniversaire!

Michel Portal - Splendid Yzlment

Jacques Thollot - In Extenso - Nato, 2017

I see that Ives gets cited a lot, I've loved everything I've heard but have only started to get into him more in part thanks to this forum. His music is rarely played in Paris. Ten that come to mind and have been enjoyed a lot this year: Debussy Préludes - Krystian Zimerman Debussy - Alexis Weissenberg Debussy La Mer - Pierre Monteux Haydn 4 Sonatas - Eschenbach Darius Milhaud La création du monde - Charles Munch Bartok Concerto for Orchestra - Pierre Boulez Zoltan Kodaly Dances of Marosszek, Dances of Galanta, Hary Janos Suite - Ferenc Fricsay Aaron Copland Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, Symphony n3 - Leonard Bernstein Camille Saint Saens Organ Symphony - Charles Munch Morton Feldman Crippled Symetry: at June in Buffalo - Feldman Soloists Overall, anything by Debussy, Milhaud and a lot of Ravel and Saint Saens really works for me. Lots of piano, but I tend towards historic recordings for that. Pierre Monteux's (original conductor in 1913) 1945 recording of the Rite is my reference version. I was also shocked and fascinated when I discovered the story and images of that 1942 Choral symphony and read plenty about it at one time. If you're into recordings where one can sense history, this one is interesting: Public laughing at a première of Varèse in 1954.

François Tusques Quartet Futura Experience

Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Chiasma

Just got a shipping notification for Louis Armstrong and All Stars (257) ordered during the week-end. It also said that: We had a very strong response to our offerings over the last few days and want to thank you for your support!

h Mary Lou Williams At Rick's Cafe Americain

Got this last week. Really well done release packed with great music and two booklets with plenty of photographs. Strongly recommended to anyone into Jacques. There is also a Thollot LP out now on Alga Marghen, "Intra Musique", from 1969.

Last night in church of Saint Merri, Paris: Jon Gibson's Visitations John Tilbury and Eddie Prevost (AMM)

It looks like it will come in the fall: https://finderskeepersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/free-jazz

There is a sale from UK's Hyperion records on some releases starting at 2.50 pounds: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/o.asp?o=1054 (and other ones in 'current offers') I was thinking of getting a couple. Do you have any favorites that I should also order?

The set for me where to hear the "Ellington sound", fantastic.

Great loss. What a way of going through life with such energy. Re-watched Elevator to the Gallows on French TV last night, still gripping.

I like the spirit of who and what they cover and how they do it, the range is big, and they can easily change the list every night on a long tour, from "Friday I'm in love" to Black Flag and many rarities.

Thank you for this! Just started to listen to the songs and as you said, it is extremely enjoyable.

From this box:

Everybody is so great here! Jaki Byard is such a diverse player. Tony Williams... The fisheye cover. The song titles...

Just been offered this set as a birthday present, obviously from someone special! It will be here soon, coming from JM in Barcelona. Can't wait!