Daniel Caux is gone

[brownie]

Critic/musicologist Daniel Caux passed away last week in Paris.

Caux was one of the most energetic supporter of freejazz. He helped organize concerts by Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra and others at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul de Vence on the French Riviera. As a producer with the record company Shandar he put out recordings of Maeght Foundation concerts.

His enthusiasm and openness to music are being missed!

[king ubu]

That's sad news.

I wish the Shandar catalogue was more readily available! Besides the Water/ESP releases of Ayler's concerts, I know of nothing that is around.

Here's an excellent site listing the Shandar releases:

http://home.comcast.net/~ed_maurer/Shandar/index.htm

[Nate Dorward]

Yeah I heard this from Dan Warburton. RIP.

I actually don't have any Shandar recordings...!

[clifford_thornton]

RIP.

I have a lot of 'em, but they're all in storage boxes and can't be played right now.

[7/4]

That's sad news.

Same here.

I wish the Shandar catalogue was more readily available! Besides the Water/ESP releases of Ayler's concerts, I know of nothing that is around.

Here's an excellent site listing the Shandar releases:

http://home.comcast.net/~ed_maurer/Shandar/index.htm

The Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Charlemagne Palestine was reissued on CD.

[clifford_thornton]

And the Ragnar Grippe.

[7/4]

And the Ragnar Grippe.

My error, I even own that one!

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[clifford_thornton]

The Francois Tusques/Sunny Murray material needs a reissue - hell, it'd fit on one disc!

That Guitars Derive is really nice, too, in the pantheon of obscure minimal-music recordings.

The Dashiell Hedayat/Gong thing was also put out on CD. But without the nice, textured cover of the orig.

Edited July 14, 2008 by clifford_thornton

[brownie]

Daniel Caux's widow Jacqueline has gathered many articles by him in a recently published book.

For people who read french...