John B Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 Wittwer also can be heard on disc in a group including Peter Brötzmann - the name of which is Sprawl (Trost TR 070). The group consist of Brötzmann, Alex Buess (reeds/electr), Wittwer, William Parker and Michael Wertmüller and was recorded in Switzerland in 1996. ubu, have you had a chance to hear this one by chance? I am very curious. I think Wertmueller is a perfect drummer for Broetzmann, and having an added distorted GUITARRRRRRRRRRR in the mix... what could be better? If either of you has a chance to hear this please post a review. This sounds like it could be really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 Wittwer also can be heard on disc in a group including Peter Brötzmann - the name of which is Sprawl (Trost TR 070). The group consist of Brötzmann, Alex Buess (reeds/electr), Wittwer, William Parker and Michael Wertmüller and was recorded in Switzerland in 1996. ubu, have you had a chance to hear this one by chance? I am very curious. I think Wertmueller is a perfect drummer for Broetzmann, and having an added distorted GUITARRRRRRRRRRR in the mix... what could be better? If either of you has a chance to hear this please post a review. This sounds like it could be really good. If that beat up copy is still at that store, I'll go and listen to it, and then decide if I want it or not. Or I'll ask Wittwer. We'll see, maybe he's got a copy of it that he'll give away... On paper it does sound very good! ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaney Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 Thanks for that Chaney here another one from jazzweekly (...) Good stuff Gary. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 Nice interviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 There appears to be a lot of interesting interviews here http://www.jazzweekly.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 Woohoo! I just found out that Fred Anderson will be coming to Vermont in December with William Parker and Hamid Drake! I am really, really excited about this. A friend of mine books some shows at a small community college north of here and he just made the announcement. If anyone feels like taking a road trip let me know and I'll supply directions and the first round of the night will be on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 I'm listening to the Jemeel Moondoc Trio live at Fire in the Valley in 1996. One 40 minute track and a 1:28 min encore. Nice playing by Moondoc, Cook and Voigt. Not the most essential Moondoc, but definitely worth checking out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 I have also finally had a chance to listen to Cecil Taylor - Live in the Black Forest. While not up to the level of Nailed or Is It In the Brewing Luminous, perhaps, this is still a great disc! Wonderful recording quality, some great playing by Raphe Malik and Jimmy Lyons (and there is always room for more Jimmy Lyons) and Cecil is in fine form. Ron Jackson on drums sounds a little too "rock" for my liking. Not that rock is a bad thing, necessarily, I'm just not sure how well it fits with the Cecil Taylor Unit. That said, my quibbles with this disc are minor. I would highly recommend adding this to any order from Japan one might have in the near future before it, like Pharoah's Live in the East, is unavailable. (this disc has one of the worst "reviews" I have ever seen at AMG. I don't know why they even bothered posting it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaney Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 Woohoo! I just found out that Fred Anderson will be coming to Vermont in December with William Parker and Hamid Drake! (...) Have you ever seen Drake play live? If no, I'd strongly advise that you avoid looking directly at him. If you do, you'll not be able to look away! If you insist on a visual, use only your peripheral vision or better yet, position yourself behind a column or bring along a bit of cardboard to block your vision. Don't be embarrassed: others will be doing the very same thing. Have fun! www.hamiddrake.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 (edited) Have you ever seen Drake play live? If no, I'd strongly advise that you avoid looking directly at him. If you do, you'll not be able to look away! If you insist on a visual, use only your peripheral vision or better yet, position yourself behind a column or bring along a bit of cardboard to block your vision. Don't be embarrassed: others will be doing the very same thing. Have fun! www.hamiddrake.com No, that will be my first show seeing him live, which is one of the reasons I am so excited about this news. I appreciate your advice, but can make no guarantess that I will follow it! Edited July 13, 2004 by John B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 I saw Brötzmann's tentet with Drake and Zerang, and they are both very animated drummers and a pleasure to watch (and listen to, as well). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 NEW Vinicius Cantuaria - Live: Skirball Cultural Center - 2 CDs (Kufala) June 29 — Vinicius Cantuaria (vocals, guitar, percussion); Jenny Scheinman (violin); Sergio Brandao (bass); Paulo Braga (drums); Nanny Assis (percussion) NEW Club D'Elf - Live 3/28/02 Athens, GA - 2 CDs (Kufala) June 29 — Brahim Fribgane (vocals, oud, percussion); Reeves Gabrels (guitar); Mat Maneri (electric violin); John Medeski (keyboards); Mike Rivard (bass instrument); Eric Kalb (drums); Mister Rourke (turntables) NEW Club D'Elf - Live 4/20/00 NYC - 2 CDs (Kufala) June 29 — Joe Maneri (vocals, reeds); Brahim Fribgane (oud, percussion); Mat Maneri (electric violin); John Medeski (keyboards); Mike Rivard (bass instrument); Erik Kerr (drums) NEW Club D'Elf - Live: Vassar Chapel 2/26/01 - 2 CDs (Kufala) June 29 — Brahim Fribgane (vocals, oud, percussion); Randy Roos (guitar); Mat Maneri (electric violin); John Medeski (keyboards); Mike Rivard (bass instrument); Erik Kerr (drums) NEW Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Slow Breath, Silent Mind (Kufala) June 29 — Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Brian Haas (piano, melodica); Reed Mathis (cello, acoustic bass); Jason Smart (drums); recorded live in 2003) NEW Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Symbiosis Osmosis (Kufala) June 29 Rather odd assortment of musicians, me thinks. Inexpensive two CD sets. Anyone familiar with the KUFALA RECORDINGS label? (Interest lies mainly with the presence on Joe and Mat Maneri.) One of my friend mentioned this label to me a few days ago, as they have released a few live shows by the surviving members of Morphine's new band. He has a couple of releases and recommends them. Kufala seems to specialize in live recordings of indie rock bands in the New England area. They also seem to be affiliated with the Newbury Comics chain of cd shops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 (edited) I recently received Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins and really enjoy it! Thank you all for the feedback on it. I'll start exploring a few more Hawk recommendations from this thread soon. I'm listening to the Jemeel Moondoc Trio - Tri-P-Let now. If you are a fan of Moondoc it would be hard to go wrong with this one. Again, I would recommend starting with Revolt, but grab this one while it is still around. It was recorded in 1996 and is the first release on Eremite. I have no idea if Michael Ehlers plans on keeping this one in print or if it will go oop but it has been around for quite a while. Edited July 13, 2004 by John B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaney Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Anyone place an order with Forced Exposure lately? I'm not sure if I've ever ordered from them in the past but I recently placed an order for Steve Lacy's Scratching the Seventies / Dreams. No confirmation as to my order having been received. Two weeks pass and I e-mail FE asking for the status of my order. No response. I let a bit more time pass and send a final e-mail letting them know that I'd not be bothering them again as to the status of my order or with future orders. No response. Anyone like this outfit? Anyone have similar problems? (As I recall, shrugs spoke badly of them.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Anyone place an order with Forced Exposure lately? I'm not sure if I've ever ordered from them in the past but I recently placed an order for Steve Lacy's Scratching the Seventies / Dreams. No confirmation as to my order having been received. Two weeks pass and I e-mail FE asking for the status of my order. No response. I let a bit more time pass and send a final e-mail letting them know that I'd not be bothering them again as to the status of my order or with future orders. No response. Anyone like this outfit? Anyone have similar problems? (As I recall, shrugs spoke badly of them.) I've ordered from Forced Exposure in the past (not recently, though) and never had any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Tony - No problems with FE, but I haven't ordered from them in a month or two. I'm listening to Jemeel Moondoc's Judy's Bounce (Soul Note) now. Recorded live in New York City in 1981, with Fred Hopkins on bass and Ed Blackwell on drums. This is a really, really nice recording! I am loving hearing Blackwell on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 (edited) For some hard to explain reason I was never completely convinced by Moondoc's playing. I haven't listened to his discs for ages, maybe I should start afresh. Edited July 14, 2004 by J.A.W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Tony - No problems with FE, but I haven't ordered from them in a month or two. I'm listening to Jemeel Moondoc's Judy's Bounce (Soul Note) now. Recorded live in New York City in 1981, with Fred Hopkins on bass and Ed Blackwell on drums. This is a really, really nice recording! I am loving hearing Blackwell on this one. Heeey, this sounds like a nice one- Hopkins and Blackwell.... and Moondoc! Can't be too bad. BTW, anyone knows if there were an Black Saint / Sould Note releases this year? ------------------------------------------------ Hans, have you heard Monndoc's "Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys". That's a mighty mighty record, and Moondoc just sahines on it (and so does Khan Jamal). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 (edited) Phenomenal clariner (ands sometimes alto saxophone) / drums duo: Mauro Negri / Zlatko Kaucic "Scuarci" (Splasc(H), 2000) I responsibly proclaim that Mauro Negri is the most impressive clarinetist ever. My package from jazzos finally arrived, so I will now have a chance to judge your proclamation for myself. So far I am really enjoying this disc... yeah, this is a fantastic album! thank you for recommending this one! Edited July 14, 2004 by John B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 NEW Club D'Elf - Live 3/28/02 Athens, GA - 2 CDs (Kufala) June 29 — Brahim Fribgane (vocals, oud, percussion); Reeves Gabrels (guitar); Mat Maneri (electric violin); John Medeski (keyboards); Mike Rivard (bass instrument); Eric Kalb (drums); Mister Rourke (turntables) NEW Club D'Elf - Live 4/20/00 NYC - 2 CDs (Kufala) June 29 — Joe Maneri (vocals, reeds); Brahim Fribgane (oud, percussion); Mat Maneri (electric violin); John Medeski (keyboards); Mike Rivard (bass instrument); Erik Kerr (drums) NEW Club D'Elf - Live: Vassar Chapel 2/26/01 - 2 CDs (Kufala) June 29 — Brahim Fribgane (vocals, oud, percussion); Randy Roos (guitar); Mat Maneri (electric violin); John Medeski (keyboards); Mike Rivard (bass instrument); Erik Kerr (drums) Rather odd assortment of musicians, me thinks. Inexpensive two CD sets. Anyone familiar with the KUFALA RECORDINGS label? (Interest lies mainly with the presence on Joe and Mat Maneri.) Tony - last week's Boston Phoenix had an article on Club D'Elf that mentioned these releases and described the contributions of the Maneri's: "Mingus meets dub Club d’Elf’s floating musical crap game BY JON GARELICK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIVE-REMIX: 'I try to create an atmosphere where everybody knows they can go out as far as they want to go and there will be somebody to bring it home at the end,' says Club d'Elf's Mike Rivard. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on this topic The best of 2001: Best jam session. When I reach bassist/bandleader Mike Rivard by phone, he’s on a break from his current "day job" playing in the pit band for The Lion King in Columbus, Ohio, where the touring production will be stationed until July 11 before coming to Boston. Rivard says his getting the job was a bit of a fluke: the show calls for acoustic double bass as well as electric, and enough classical chops to handle passages of bowing. A friend in New York recommended him to the tour’s contractor. "It’s cool. It’s definitely different from other stuff I’ve been doing, but as far as Broadway goes, it’s not too bad. There’s a lot of African 6/8 stuff in the show, and everybody’s really nice. And the costumes and sets are pretty stunning." Rivard has been a utility player on the Boston scene for years, having gigged with, among others, the Either/Orchestra, the Indian-jazz hybrid Natraj, Mark Sandman–related projects like Morphine and the Hipnosonics, and Jonatha Brooke and the Story. But for the past few years around town, he’s been best known as the mastermind behind Club d’Elf, a kind of musical floating crap game with a revolving cast of characters who’ve been playing the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge every other Thursday on and off since 1998 and who come to the Museum of Fine Arts’ "Concerts in the Courtyard" series on Bastille Day. Club d’Elf came together when the Lizard’s Billy Beard offered Rivard a night to do a night to do an "improv-groove-dub-bass-thing." Rivard drew on his wide association of friends. "I had this idea to create a situation where there would be a core group and we would have something of a loose book, some tunes that people would be vaguely familiar with, and I’d just have different people come in and kind of remix the tunes." While Rivard held down a more-or-less constant rhythm section, a cool left-of-center all-star cast came in to jam: John Medeski, guitarists Reeves Gabrels and Duke Levine, DJ Logic, Joe and Mat Maneri, oud and percussion player Brahim Fribgane, keyboardist Alain Mallet of the Story. Loose jams are often better experienced live than on disc, but what’s remarkable about three new double-CD live recordings from Club d’Elf on the Kufala label (recorded on tours from 2000 to 2002, all available at www.kufalacom) is how compelling and varied they are from track to track. This is in part due to the inventiveness of the soloists, including John Medeski playing a variety of keyboards and violinist Mat Maneri conjuring guitar-like effects with his electric violin. But just as important is Rivard’s multi-lingual musical adaptability, as he creates one varied setting after another, drawing on Moroccan gnawan traditions (Fribgane’s contribution is crucial in this regard), West African, Indian, and funk. With that mix of settings and inspired soloists (Gabrels, Joe Maneri, Randy Roos, and turntablist Mister Rourke are also on the new discs), he avoids the jam-band trap of all-groove-no-content. "I know what you mean about the jam thing," he acknowledges, "but it’s not like I say, ‘Let’s get up there and play an E-chord for 20 minutes.’ I try to make it a little more interesting. One of my big inspirations is Charles Mingus and the kind of relationship he had with [drummer] Dannie Richmond. When you listen to them play behind soloists, they shift things around. They go from a fast-walking section to a 6/8, they keep mixing it up." In shows, Rivard acts as a live mixmaster conductor, cueing players when to drop out or come back in, dub-reggae-style. Although rehearsals with Club d’Elf’s guests tend to be casual, he does work closely in rehearsing material with drummer Erik Kerr, whom he describes admiringly as "kind of like Sunny Murray meets Clyde Stubblefield" in his facility to shift among loose jazzy patterns and hard funk. Rivard likes to find the right balance of blend and contrast in his mix of players (for instance, in matching former David Bowie guitarist Gabrels with microtonal-free-jazz visionary Joe Maneri), and he also tends to shape sessions around guests like Roger Miller, who will be joining the group at the MFA on keyboards. "Roger plays a lot of sampled ‘prepared’ piano, which really fits well with what we do, because it turns his thing into more of a percussion instrument." The band at the MFA will also include Fribgane, Rourke, Kerr, and Mat Maneri. As the live mixmaster, Rivard says, "I try to create an atmosphere where everybody knows they can go out as far as they want to go and there will be someone to bring it home at the end." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Phenomenal clariner (ands sometimes alto saxophone) / drums duo: Mauro Negri / Zlatko Kaucic "Scuarci" (Splasc(H), 2000) I responsibly proclaim that Mauro Negri is the most impressive clarinetist ever. My package from jazzos finally arrived, so I will now have a chance to judge your proclamation for myself. So far I am really enjoying this disc... yeah, this is a fantastic album! thank you for recommending this one! Glad you liked it. Now start checking the rest of the Negri discography (and so will I - I have just a 3 discs of his, and it's time to expand!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Glad you liked it. Now start checking the rest of the Negri discography (and so will I - I have just a 3 discs of his, and it's time to expand!). So Funky was also part of the order from jazzos, so I'll be listening to that one later on today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Glad you liked it. Now start checking the rest of the Negri discography (and so will I - I have just a 3 discs of his, and it's time to expand!). So Funky was also part of the order from jazzos, so I'll be listening to that one later on today. This might be the only example of funky clarinet you will find. And there is some mighty Enrico Rava there as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Glad you liked it. Now start checking the rest of the Negri discography (and so will I - I have just a 3 discs of his, and it's time to expand!). So Funky was also part of the order from jazzos, so I'll be listening to that one later on today. This might be the only example of funky clarinet you will find. And there is some mighty Enrico Rava there as well! I wasn't expecting the electric bass on this one. I see what you mean by "funky clarinet." Very interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Listening to a FANTASTIC Stanko quartet concert from London, last year (a BBC broadcast provided by guess who, and not transferred to CDR by yours truly). This band is one of the best currently active! They're smoking! Each of the four is a great instrumentalist in his own right - Marcin Wasileski is GREAT! I'd love to hear him in trio! Slavomir Kurkiewicz has a beautiful big and woody sound, a huge sound, and Mihal Miskiewicz sounds better on these live tracks than on the ECM-mixed studio recordings (well, I only have the first disc so far). ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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