ANOTHER GREAT WEEK with DISCS from BRAXTON/CYRILLE, DUNMALL/ROGERS/GIBBS, MICHAEL MOORE'S 2nd DYLAN TRIBUTE, URI CAINE TRIO, CHRIS SPEED'S YEAH NO, TEXT OF LIGHT, SABIR MATEEN, PHAROAH, SECRET CHIEFS 3 , DJ SPOOKY & MORE!!



but first...We're closing early tonight [6:30 PM] 'cause it's...

BRUCE LEE GALLANTER'S 50th BIRTHDAY PARTY & DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY'S 13TH ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE CELEBRATION
Friday June 18th [Tonite!] 8 pm at Tonic, 107 Norfolk St.
What an amazing lineup:
TISZIJI MUNOZ HEART-THRUST w/ BOB RA-KALAM MOSES & DON PATE!
JOHN ZORN'S MYSTERY MASADA!
ELLIOTT SHARP'S RAW MEET TRIO w/ MELVIN GIBBS & LANCE CARTER!
You'd have to be crazy to miss this..all for one admission!!!!


AND READ BRUCE LEE GALLANTER'S
REVIEW of the 9th Annual VISION FESTIVAL NY (2004) !!!





Now for the mind-bogglers...

ANDREW CYRILLE / ANTHONY BRAXTON - Duo Palindrome 2002, Volume 1 (Intakt 088) This fantastic duo effort was recorded at Wesleyan University, where Mr. Braxton is a professor, in October of 2002. Both musicians contribute compositions together and separately and on Volume 1, Mr. Cyrile is interviewed by Ted Panken for the booklet, getting a chance to discuss the pieces and his role in the music. This was only the second time that Andrew and Anthony have played together. The first was in a quintet doing the music of Lennie Tristano in 1988, this is something both musicians have long wanted to do. CD for $16

ANTHONY BRAXTON / ANDREW CYRILLE - Duo Palindrome 2002, Volume 2 (Intakt 089) This is the second extraordinary duo meeting of two giants of avant-jazz, recorded at Wesleyan University in October of 2002. On this volume, jazz journalist Ted Panken interviews Mr. Braxton at length, discussing the historical context and respect both musicians have for each other's playing and spirit. Braxton plays a variety of reeds while Cyrille plays drums. Both musicians again contribute pieces, sometimes updating versions of older works like Andrews' "Excerpt from the Navigator", is that Anthony playing bass sax?. Each piece deals with a different area from the long history of jazz or new music. Some pieces are dreamy and spacious while others are an assortment of different rhythmic situations, from a march to freer terrain. Another excellent and well balanced recording by Jon Rosenberg.
CD for $16



PAUL DUNMALL / PAUL ROGERS / PHILIP GIBBS - Nimes [ltd ed 4 CD-R set] (Duns 036) Our favorite sax hero, the ever industrious Paul Dunmall, has outdone himself once again with his first self-produced box set. For this massive effort, the incredible bassist Paul Rogers debuts his new custom-made 7 string A.L.L. contrabass with Philip Gibbs on guitars & banjo and with Dunmall on saxes (tenor & soprano usually), woodwinds, casio and voice. All but one of the sixteen tracks are over nine minutes long and as always, Jonathan Scott has done a magnificent job of producing this perfect recording. Philips is an incredible, yet largely unrecognized guitarist that Dunmall has introduced over a half dozen of previous Duns cds and here really gets a chance to solo at length, taking a number of impressive, sometimes furious and often free solos on unprepared and prepared mostly acoustic guitars. Paul Rogers new bass looks and sounds magnificent with a layer of sympathetic strings found under the extra wide neck that Paul can pluck or bow at times, as well as the way it resonates while he plays the 7 strings above the neck. There is a wonderful section which features Gibbs banging rhythmically on his acoustic guitar with some object as Rogers also strums and plucks both sets of strings at once while Dunmall weaves super-quick streams of notes on a soprano or sopranino sax. Never a dull or uninspired moment and pretty f**king extraordinary throughout. Need we say more?!?
4 CD #'d ltd edition [85 copies] set for $60 (we have just five of these right now...more on the way)



JEWELS & BINOCULARS [MICHAEL MOORE/LINDSEY HORNER/MICHAEL VATCHER] - Floater: Play the Music of Bob Dylan Vol 2 (Ramboy #20) Finally! This is the second superb Bob Dylan tribute by Michael Moore's trusty trio who features Michael on alto sax, clarinets & melodica, Lindsey Horner on double bass and Michael Vatcher on percussion & drums. The first Bob Dylan tribute be ICP reeds master Michael Moore's Trio, from a couple of years ago was amongst the best releases of that year and listening to this one, the same will certainly hold true as being one of this year's best. Michael seems to favor Dylan's songs from the sixties, when Dylan was referred to a spokesman for his generation and poet of the people. The only newer songs that I recognize are "Man in a Long Black Coat" (from 'Oh Mercy'), "Buckets of Rain" and the title track "Floater (Too Much Too Ask), the last one I am unfamiliar with. Opening with a most appropriate choice of "Masters of War", the song in which Dylan pointed the finger at the world leaders who forced us into unnecessary wars. Besides being a brilliant lyricist, Dylan has also written some truly enchanting melodies and Michael has picked many of Dylan's more haunting and endearing ones. Moore plays the solemn, spooky "Man in a Long Black Coat" on bass clarinet that drifts like ghost over the skeletal humming bass and exquisite minimal percussion. What makes this trio so special is lush and lovely tone that Moore gets on alto sax, bass and regular clarinets, the pure, well rounded sound that Lindsey gets on his acoustic bass and the playful way the Vatcher approaches his subtle rhythmics with hand percussion, occasional scrapes, rustling things and playing the drums with his hands. Many of these songs are very laid back and require some late night reflective listening. On "All I Really Want to Do", Moore sounds as is he playing tenor sax, with a golden tone right out of Stan Getz or Dexter Gordon, yet still being a bit freer than them. There is nothing very "out" here, just eleven mostly lovely, folk themes played passion and grace.
CD for $16

ALSO IN STOCK...

JEWELS AND BINOCULARS [MICHAEL MOORE/LINDSEY HORNER/MICHAEL VATCHER] - 'Jewels and Binoculars': the music of Bob Dylan (Ramboy 15; Netherlands) Featuring Michael Moore on alto sax, clarinets & melodica, Lindsey Horner on double bass and Michael Vatcher onpercussion. This exquisite gem came out in 2001, was and still is one of my favorite discs of that or any other year. As a Dylanfan-addict myself and collector of Dylan covers, Michael's trio takes the great melodies of 11 classic Dylan tunes, mostly from the 'Blondon Blond' and 'Highway 61' era and the trio shines throughout.Seeing and hearing them live at Tonic was equally revelatory.
CD $16.00 STOCK



URI CAINE TRIO - Live at the Village Vanguard (Winter & Winter 102) Featuring Uri's long-standing trio with Mr. Caine on piano, Drew Gress on acoustic bass and Ben Perowsky on drums. An extraordinary and immensely engaging live jazz piano trio date from the most popular and historic of all jazz clubs in the big apple - the Village Vanguard! Ten great songs and nearly 77 minutes long with just four covers, Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti" and older standards like "I Thought About You" and Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek". The standards are done with taste, care and elegance. It's the originals that really show off the colossal talents of this perfectly balanced trio. I dig the way "Stiletto" has the trio jumping through dynamic hoops that consistently swirl as they swing hard and ride the waves like seasoned surfers. I can't think of a better, more exciting and well executed jazz piano trio date I've heard in recent memory. Thirteenth great Uri Caine cd for the great Winter & Winter empire/label.
CD for $15 (copies should arrive sometime next week...?)

CHRIS SPEED'S YEAH NO - Swell Henry (Squealer) Yeah No features Chris on tenor sax & clarinet, Cuong Vu on trumpet, Skuli Sverrisson on electric bass & Jim Black on drums. The guests include Rob Burger & Jamie Saft on keyboards and Hilmar Jensson on guitar. Hopefully in stock today and eminent review next week.
CD for $15 (price not verified at this time)

TEXT OF LIGHT - Text of Light (Starlight Furniture 24) Text of Light is an extraordinary downtown all-star ensemble with a revolving cast that features on this date Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht on guitars & devices; Christian Marclay and DJ Olive on turntables; William Hooker on drums and Ulrich Krieger of Zeitkratzer on sax and electronics. Text of Light was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music during screenings of films by Stan Brakhage and other American avant-garde filmmakers from the 1950s and '60s. These should not be considered soundtracks for Brakhage's works, that are intended to be screened silently. Rather, the group uses the films as an element to stimulate improvisation. The two times I've seen and heard Text of Light, their improvisations were pretty great.
CD for $15

SABIR MATEEN - Seeing Colors / Solo Alto (No Label No #) Strong solo alto sax effort recorded at Jeffrey's Shurdut's FMA (Forever Music & the Arts) studio in February of 2004. Over the past decade local multi-reeds hero, Sabir Mateen, keeps getting busier gig-wise and more prolific, as far as recordings go. Besides early work with Horace Tapscott, we've seen three great discs with TEST, duos with Sunny Murray, Hamid Drake Ben Karetnick and Jeff Shurdut and a great group effort on Marge, that great band did their Vision Fest debut afew weeks back and were great.. On his this fine solo alto sax debut, Sabir plays a 44 + minute one track work. Sabir paces himself well, the first ten minutes are pretty restrained with Sabir's rich, warm tone slowly building in tempo and intensity. Sabir seems to telling a long and winding story in suite-like sections with some quick bopping episodes, occasional squeaks and no squawks. He plays a touching bluesy ballad section at the 30 minute point which is righteous and quite mellow. Towards the end play faster and faster until it sounds as if he is about to explode. Good strong medicine for us groovy free/jazz folks.
CD for $10

DANIEL CARTER / PAUL FLAHERTY / RAPHE MALIK / SABIR MATEEN / RANDALL COLBOURNE - Resonance (Zaabway 2005) Recorded in May of 1997 in Amherst, Mass by Michael Ehlers from Eremite. Nope, this is not a new cd or even a reissue, but Sabir just sold us a few and this is the first time we have had this little gem in stock. Most of us know Daniel & Sabir from their work with TEST and we know Raphe from his heavy blowing with Cecil Taylor & Glenn Spearman, as well as his half dozen releases on labels like Boxholder, Eremite & FMP. Flaherty (alto & tenor sax) & Colbourne (drums) are lesser known New England legends with some dozen releases between the two. Flaherty seems to finally getting some well earned recognition of the past few years due to his work with Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore and Greg Kelley. The two long, live pieces here are forty minutes each and involve a series of connected sections. Since there are four horn players involved with both Daniel and Sabir playing some four or more horns each, it is hard to know who is doing what, not that it matters. There also appears to be a piano on stage, so everyone (but Flaherty) takes a chance at playing it. "Piece I", starts with some slow-burning free-improv magic, the horns, piano and occasional percussion slowly weaving around one another, taking their to build to a frenzy of activity. When they finally hit their stride and take off for the stratosphere and points unknown. Yet another free-jazz classic to be reckoned with and savored by those in the know.
CD for $14

PHAROAH SANDERS - The Creator Has a Master Plan: Live (Venus 35321; Japan) Pharoah Sanders is one of the few horn players whose sound is instantly commanding and recognizable. He's often compared to John Coltrane in their similar power, spirituality, and preference for the meaty middle register of the tenor, and in fact, one of the selections here is a long, atmospheric meditation on Coltrane's "Welcome." This recent [2003] CD is a rare treat, since Sanders has not been recording as prolifically as he did in the first four decades of his career. If he's not quite as pyrotechnic as before, his sound and soul are undiminished, and he's still coming up with unusual timbres. The title track, his timeless 1969 hit, gets nine minutes here rather than the 32-minute original exposition with Leon Thomas's memorable yodeling, but it's still a tour-de-force. Everyone gets to stretch out on "Tokyo Blues," and while the band isn't particularly inspired by "The Greatest Love of All," (Whitney Houston's hit) they do a fine job on Sanders's own "Tina, and "It's Easy to Remember," the latter of which showcases Sanders's way of excavating a ballad. There's also great support and propulsion throughout from bassist Ira Coleman, and drummer Joe Farnsworth, with pianist William Henderson supplying some swinging solos. -- Judith Schlesinger, AMG
Japanese import CD for $22

ALSO AVAILABLE...

PHAROAH SANDERS - Ballads With Love (Venus 35129; Japan) This 1997 recording - only available from Japan - finds Pharoah with his good friends William Henderson on piano, Charles Fambrough on bass, and Sherman Ferguson on drums doing an album of covers including Errol Garner's "Misty", Ellington's "In A Sentimental Mood", "Body And Soul", and three others. Relatively straight ahead, but still uniquely Pharoah!
Japanese import CD for $22

EDDIE GALE - Afro-Fire (Black Beauty 72004) The long awaited (30+ years!) follow up to Eddie Gale's Blue Note albums: 'Ghetto Music' and 'Black Rhythm Happening' (reissued recently on the Water label and available from us for $15 each).
'Afro-Fire' finds Eddie working with multi-instrumentalist David Hayden, pianist Will Nichols and synthesizer player Chet Smith crafting a blend of jazz with contemporary beats & rhythms. Gale's muted trumpet is once again at the forefront. Sam Sweet said it best 'Gale's music often carries apocalyptic undertones in its explosions of celebration and humor his records remain accessible and musically rich somber and celebratory, contemplative and ferocious, there is much to be found in, and to be learned from, Eddie's music'.
CD for $14

JOHN HAGEN - Segments (Cadence Jazz 1171) Featuring John Hagen on alto, tenor & soprano saxes, Denman Maroney on piano, Mark Dresser or Shanir Blumenkranz on basses and Gerry Hemingway or Todd cap on drums. I've heard saxist John Hagen since his early work with William Parker in the mid seventies and with the Microscopic Septet in the eighties. He's also worked with Baird Hersey, Bob Telson, Donald Fagen and the Blind Boys of Alabama. He played at the Vision Fest a couple of years back and at the Sunday Free-Style Series at CB's Lounge more recently. This is his first effort as a leader and its been a long time coming. 'Segments' features about half quartet pieces (w/ Maroney, Dresser & Hemingway), half trio pieces (w/ Shanir & Todd Capp) and on duo with Denman. 12 of the 15 pieces are referred to as "Segments", or works-in-progress. Each piece seems to deal with a different concept or challenge. The trio with Shanir and Todd is the freer of the two units, creating free-flowing and high-flying buzzing underneath John's occasionally screaming sax. The quartet is more laid back and deals more with textures, with even showing off his warm tenor tone on a song called "Mr. Hodges/Mr Webster". Shanir sounds better and better, pumping hard, keeping things burning on a number of these segments. Denman plays some fine angular and out piano with John's tenor sax on the duo selection "Colloquial", as well as another sparse piece called "Messiaen", which has an old Braxton Quartet-like vibe. The quartet is in amazing form on "No Waiting", you can tell that Dresser and Hemingway have played together for many years as they soar together and work perfectly in a hand-in-glove sort of way. There is a fine balance here between the freer and more focused terrain, never going too far into one extreme or another.
CD for $14

DJ SPOOKY - Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix [2 CD set] (Thirsty Ear 57148) Disc 1 is called "The Remixes" and Disc 2 is called "The Continuous Mix". This long journey features remixes of DJ Wally, Maldoror, Bass Pressure, Craig Taborn, Mike Ladd, William Parker, Matt Shipp. Meat Beat Manifesto, Mad Professor, Spring Heel Jack, Antipop Consortium, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Saul Williams and Guillermo Brown. Earlier this year DJ Spooky remixed a slew of pieces from the Sub Rosa catalogue and here he does remixes from Thirsty Ear's Blue series catalogue. DJ Spooky does a fine job of manipulating, splicing and dicing these already fascinating layers of sampled sounds and twisting them in a variety of ways. He often takes segments of (jazz) saxes, drums, piano and other horns and reworks them by adding layers mutated samples, inserting occasional beats and grooves. There are some 46 mostly short sections, all of which flow into one another and work well together as one long, somewhat twisted journey. I do dig this, but feel it probably works best with those who have short attention spans and need that beat more often than not.
2 CD set for $20

PAUL MURPHY - Shadow/Intersections/West (Cadence Jazz 1160) Featuring Marco Eneidi on alto sax, Kash Killion on cello and Paul Murphy on drums. Hearing Paul Murphy's long lost studio session 'Red Snapper' with Jimmy Lyons on alto sax (released earlier this year on Cadence) was an incredible and welcome surprise, reminding us of what a fine drummer Paul Murphy was and still is. This trio makes complete sense since Marco Eneidi is another extraordinary alto sax blaster and Kash Killion an equally intense cellist who works with another under-recognized giant - pianist Joel Futterman. Promo and review coming soon.
CD for $14

PAUL BRENNAN - Sonic OpeningsÉRapt Circle (Cadence Jazz 1168) Featuring Patrick on alto sax, Hill Greene on acoustic bass, Newman Taylor-Baker on drums and J.F. Ayantola on percussion. NYC is filled with an army of amazing sax players, some famous, some recognized and some little known. Patrick Brennan is another great alto saxist who I've known for the past few years, playing here at DMG & at CB's Lounge on occasion. This is his fourth release, his second for the folks at Cadence/CIMP. His first one ('Sudani' on Deep Dish), featured him playing with some great Moroccan musicians and was a favorite of ours when it came out. You should know bassist Hill Greene from his work with Louie Belogenis, Charles Gayle or Dave Douglas. We last caught Newman Taylor-Baker with Henry Grimes and with Billy Harper, if my memory serves. Promo and review next week.
CD for $14

SECRET CHIEFS 3 - Book of Horizons (Mimicry 014) That spectacular bay area all-star band has again risen from the ashes of Mr. Bungle and has utilized the talents violin hero Eyvind Kang and utility switch hitter Shahzad Ismaily (Carla Kihlstedt band). 'Book of Horizons' is the first release in an elaborate trilogy and meta-composition by Secret Chiefs 3. It's huger than anything the band has ever done: beyond psychedelia, beyond experimentalism and beyond classification. The Secret Chiefs 3 enhance their usual multiple personalities and divide into seven individual and distinct bands, enabling the overall musical content to be distilled into pure vessels. One band incorporates multi-ethnic instrumentation and seasoned, soulful playing while the rocking, supersensory surf band (with full orchestra) bloodies up the waters. John Merriman (Cephalic Carnage) and Unhuman keep the ultra-death metal grind band well within the pummel zone of utter mayhem. Completely astounding, unpredictable and just plain wonderful!
CD for $15

THE NECKS - The Boys [OST] (Recommended NECKS 4) The latest release by the extraordinary Australian improvising ambient/jazz trio, The Necks, is drawn from a soundtrack the group composed for the prize-winning Australian movie, The Boys. For the Necks this is a revolutionary move; gone are the hour-long shifting luminous improvisations that they have made their own special territory. Here you will find seven shorter instrumentals, each developing a different sound and mood. The usual Neck's components (floating acoustic piano, anchoring double bass, and skimming drums are all present, but are set to very different tasks. There are darker forces here that are absent from their other releases and the cd ends with full-blown Joy Division-like rock, with fuzzed up bass and heavy tribal drums. Along the way, The Necks expand on Erik Satie-like vignettes, tempered with electronic sounds and ambiences, insistent rhythms reminiscent of the Velvet Underground, and music and sounds that are subtly sensuous and extremely addictive. One the year's best!
CD for $14

NIKOLA KODJABASHIA - Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Recommended NK1) The award-winning Macedonian composer, Nikola Kodjabashia, is best known for his classical works, having studied extensively with Anatol Vieru. 'Reveries Of The Solitary Walker' is an oddly beautiful mixture of contemporary, Balkan-esque folk aesthetics, Byzantyne-age leanings, and just enough shards of Avant-gardism to make it appeal to those who like things a tad 'different'. Joining him on this disk is his latest group, the Project Z'lust Ensemble, who augment his piano work with an arrangement of brass, upright bass, percussion and a violin duo. Strictly speaking, this wonderful song cycle adheres to the melodic principles of Eastern Orthodox chant music as composed by the 18th-century Macedonian cantor, St. Joan Harmosin-Ohridski, but this ensemble's interpretations display an up-to-date twist, which eschew the rigorous routine of classical theorems while pushing forwards in a stylistic way.
CD for $14

MUSHROOM - Glazed Popems (2 CD set) (Black Beauty 72005) Psychedelic jazz rock groovers Mushroom move into baroque, pastoral, acid folk on disc one of their new double CD. New keyboardist Matt Cunitz arrived with a mellotron and an electric harpsichord giving the music a distinct flavor -- somewhere this side of post-Syd/pre-Dark Side Floyd, and vintage King Crimson. Don't worry that Mushroom has gone too far into 'prog'. Guitarist Tim Plowman (Slovenly), trombonist Mike Rinta (Howard Tate) and saxophone maverick Ralph Carney (Bill Laswell, Marc Ribot), steer the band into wild space jams, jazzy grooves and freaky post-rock throughout disc two. Find out why Mushroom has attracted the likes of Faust, Bundy K. Brown, Kevin Ayers, and Daevid Allen -- all of whom, have collaborated with Mushroom in the past.
2 CD set for $16

RASP HASP - Mix Your Languages (Ramboy # 19) Rasp and Hasp are two improv projects featuring the voice of Jodi Gilbert. Rasp features Jodi's voice with Wilbert de Joode on bass, Richard Barrett & Ann La Berge on computers (Anne also on flutes) and Paul Lovens on drums & saw. Hasp is a trio with Jodi, Wilbert again on bass & Anne on flutes only. Rasp was recorded in May of 2002 live at the Bimhuis and Hasp was recorded in May of 2003 in Studio Fokke van Saane. Jodi Gilbert is an extraordinary improvising vocalist, unafraid of pushing her voice through all sorts of twists and turns. The wonderful rhythm team of Wilbert de Joode and Paul Lovens are ever animated as they spin around the strange voice(s) and computer/samples. Each of the 19 pieces is under six minutes, so that each piece remains quite focused. Both Anne's flutes and Jodi's voice sound like they are coming from a more modern classical background and are pretty intriguing throughout, although Jodi does have some of those jazz as well. Hasp is an acoustic trio of voice, bass & flutes and again work together just right, blending as one sound most often. Jodi sings or speaks in English and inhabits a variety of twisted personalities with different voices. Nice to hear Euro-free-jazz drum wiz, Paul Lovens, improvising with electronics and weird vocals, as he sounds inspired and often wacky throughout. Wilbert is an incredible bassist who works wonders whether bowing or plucking and remains one of the best ingredients throughout this entire cd. Strange scenes in the gold mines of Amsterdam.
CD for $16

LISA SOKOLOV - Presence (Laughing Horse 1011) Featuring Ms. Sokolov on vocals & keyboards, John DiMartino on piano, Cameron Brown on bass and Gerry Hemingway on drums. The few times I've had the opportunity to hear the ever exuberant, downtown jazz vocal sensation, Lisa Sokolov, she has knocked me out. Whether with the Cecil Taylor Orchestra at the Knit, William Parker's Jeanne Lee Tribute at the Vision Fest or with her own trio, she just exudes that feisty spirit and has a unique presence. This riveting cd is a compilation of live and studio tracks, with Lisa doing originals, standards and some unexpectedly delightful covers. On the studio tracks, Lisa does a fabulous job of overdubbing her voice with a few enchanting layers and harmonies. She does an incredibly soulful version of "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning", kinda reminding me of Laura Nyro, whose "And When I Die", she also covers and does a splendid job with, really stretching those notes pretty far out. I dig the way she deconstructs Aretha's early hit "Chain of Fools" and twists it into a new shape. My favorite tunes here are the ones where Lisa goes the furthest out and they are also her originals. On "Hard Being Human", she chants the title while the trio weaves around her voice in connected spurts, a quietly bent dreamworld. Lisa brings this great disc to a close with charming, sexy rendition of that (usually) corny old campfire song, "Home on the Range". The pianist here sparkles and add the occasional bittersweet spice, the bassist plays with refreshing taste and our good pal Gerry Hemingway, scrapes them cymbals magically and plays his drums with (skeletal) care throughout. What more could we want?!?
CD for $14 (probably)

THE FALL - The Real New Fall CD (Narnack 7018) This album is the strongest album in many years and truly is 'The Real New Fall CD'. This album carries the excitement and freshness of early Fall. The Fall focuses everything that made them great onto one album avoiding filler and laziness. Mark E. Smith clearly orchestrates the sound and mood of each song with plenty of haunting back up vocals. The Fall manage to combine off-kilter beats with exciting, catchy as fuck building rhythms. The guitar hooks in the verse bring the vocal majesty of Mark E. Smith chorus's to full fruition. Every word is discernable, carried with confidence no matter how much alcohol was consumed. The lyrics seem wiser but definitely not more sober. It's a brooding swirl of dark, dancey, songs full of electronic blurps that acts like a shot of some bad coke in the mainline. Yet throughout, the wit and charm of Mark E. Smith permeates each track. There's no need to beat anyone over the head. But this is the Fall, taking a step forward as a band. This is Mark E. Smith reclaiming his throne. Buy it and you'll believe once again!
CD for $14

BROTHER DANIELSON - Brother is to Son (Secretly Canadian 66) This sixth Danielson album has been a long time coming for Daniel Smith. All the special-ness that the full band brought to previous Danielson albums is fully intact. The earnest vocal chirp of head Danielson himself is still there, not to mention the impassioned and punk-inspired hard strum of his acoustic guitar. He still leads his folk jamboree through the familial boy-girl harmonies as the banjos, bells, piano keys and jaw harp all teem with kinetic energy, like a deconstructionalist jug band led by a man who follows in the bold footsteps of Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart and Johnny Lydon as a truly original art terrorist. What is unique about this new window into the Danielson brain-cage is its pervasive tenderness, most clearly manifested in the ever-broadening vocal range of Daniel. Taking a cue from Dylan's 'Bringing it All Back Home', 'Brother is to Son' opens confidently and intensely while slowly turning in on itself by its second half, on which Smith brings a vulnerability unmatched on his previous five albums.
CD for $14

JACK ROSE - Raaga Manifestos (VHF 85) Compiled from a variety of sources, 'Raaga Manifestos' cuts across various acoustic styles much like Rose's Opium Musick LP, but with a more aggressive attack. 'Black Pearls from the River' and 'Hart Crane's Old Boyfriends' are dense, serious assaults on the 12-string, with the intensity of the latter enhanced by Ian Nagoski's roaring electronic backdrop. With subtle tabla accompaniment by Eric Carbonara, 'Crossing The Great Waters,' is another epic modal journey in the style of Pelt's 'Road To Catawba' and Rose's own 'Red Horse.' The traditional 'Blessed Be the Name of the Lord' finishes off the cd on a calming note. Another of that new school of acoustic guitar virtuosos.
CD for $14

RAMON SENDER - Worldfood (Locust 55) In those pre-Buchla Box days, we cobbled together whatever odd bits of equipment we could beg, borrow, steal and occasionally buy to coax whatever squeaks and chirps or sequences of noises we could from their complaining depths.' -- Ramon Sender. 'Worldfood' is a wild, psychedelic warble and drone of looped, over-layed tape pieces produced by 'goosing' an ampex tape player with a computer calibration device. The resulting two pieces - "Worldfood III (To See With my Eyes)" and "WorldfoodX!!" -- both part of a number of variations in a series -- make for gorgeous, careening sungazing music. Leave your glasses behind. Ramon Sender is a legendary figure in the Bay Area scene -- first paving the way for the San Francisco Tape Center with Mort Subotnick (Silver Apples of the Moon) and Pauline Oliveiros at the dawn of the 1960s where the stunningly out pieces on this disc happened. In subsequent years, he played an active role with the San Francisco Diggers -- the anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture --and co-founded the legendary Morningstar Ranch Commune in Sonoma County. "Worldfood" is the first in an ongoing series of archival discs to come from Ramon Sender's exceptional vaults.
CD for $14




TWO NEW MUSIC MAGAZINES are NOW in STOCK for YOU INFO JUNKIES:

SIGNAL TO NOISE - the journal of improvised & experimental music (issue 34/summer 2004) 80 pages Cover story of Bonnie "Prince" Billy (a/k/a Palace Bros./Will Oldham), Steve Lacy & Irene Aebi, Pete Cosey, Lukas Ligeti, Dom Minasi, Darin Gray, Philip Gelb, Fire of Space (Jordan McClean from Antibalas), Reed Ghazala, live reviews and 40 pages of informative cd/record reviews. Our favorite domestic music magazine!
80 page glossy & groovy magazine for $3.95 (or 4 bucks)

E I - Music Electronic and Otherwise (Issue Three/Spring 2004) 100 pages of informed opinions with stories on Monolake, Minamo. Terre Thaemlitz, Canadian Electronica, Detalles, Sense, Kiln, Bebe Barron, Aaron Ximm, an article by our pal & progressive expert & DJ Tony Coulter and over 200 reviews of recordings known and unknown. No cover story bullsh*t and chockfull of information.
100 page magazine for $5.00






REISSUES, RESTOCKS and HISTORIC RECORDINGS FOR JUNE 18th, 2004:



WE'VE FINALLY GOT MORE COPIES of THESE DON CHERRY & SCHOOL DAYS GEMS from SWEDEN...

DON CHERRY With OKAY TEMIZ/BENGT NORDSTROM/BERNT ROSENGREN et al [MOVEMENT INCORPORATED] - Movement Incorporated (Anagram 008; Sweden) An impossibly rare find featuring the legendary Don Cherry on trumpet, flute, piano & voice, Bernt Rosengren on tenor sax, oboe, sitar & flute, Maffy Falay on trumpet, Brian Trentham on trombone, Bengt Nordstom on alto sax, Tommy Koverhult on tenor sax, Torbjorn Hultkrantz on bass and Okay Temiz or Leif Wennerstrom on drums. Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden in July of 1967, this treasure was long forgotten and unreleased until now [It predates the two Sonet Swedish recordings made in '68 and '73]. It is 76 minute journey that moves through an engaging three-part suite with a long concluding piece. This epic captures that magic spirit that Don Cherry forever embraced, mixing the freer jazz terrain with a variety of exotic, world music influences, from Ayler-esque influence through Swedish folk songs to Turkish rhythms. Though the world-traveling ambassador of possibilities, Don Cherry, was well recorded during his lifetime, we have only seen a dozen or so of his fine works released on cd over the past few years.
Limited edition Swedish CD for $18

SCHOOL DAYS & THE THING [MATS GUSTAFSSON/KEN VANDERMARK/JEB BISHOP/INGEBRIGT HAKER FLATEN/PAUL NILSSEN-LOVE/KJELL NORDESON] - The Music Of Norman Howard [ltd. ed. LP only!] (Anagram 001; Sweden) Norman Howard played with the legendary Albert Ayler on 'Witches and Devils, but so far as we are aware, only released a cassette recording on the Homeboy label called "Burn Baby Burn" as a bandleader. This recording, which was made in the cellar of the Anagram Records store in Stockholm on November 19th 2001, is presented by Mats Gustafsson and brings together Swedish, Norwegian, and American musicians in equal proportions, combining the talents of the free jazz groups 'The Thing' and 'Schooldays': Mats Gustafsson - alto and tenor sax; Ken Vandermark - clarinet, bass-clarinet, tenor and baritone sax; Jeb Bishop - trombone; Kjell Nordeson - vibraphone; Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - bass; Paal Nilssen-Love - drums.
SWEDISH LIMITED EDITION VINYL [200 gram] RELEASE limited to 750 copies!!! We're not going to be getting more of these - for reasons obvious!
Limited Edition LP only for $28

DAIMONJI - Improg (Poseidon/Musea 014; Japan) Featuring Hoppy Kamiyama on keyboards and vocal, Tatsuya Yoshida (from RUINS) on drums and vocal and Nasuno Mitsuru on bass. Four long pieces certain to blow minds, a must for RUINS fan-addicts.
Japanese import CD release for $20.



WE MENTIONED THIS NEW MONSTER OF AN ALBUM LAST WEEK...

NED ROTHENBERG DOUBLE BAND With THOMAS CHAPIN - Parting (Moers 3012; Germany) Featuring Ned Rothenberg & Thomas Chapin on saxes & flute; Jerome Harris on electric guitar & bass; Tony Scherr on basses and Michael Sarin & Samm Bennett on drums. Finally!! This is the third (studio) recording from one our favorite downtown all-star bands. Recorded in May of 1996, Ned's phenomenal double band picked up where Ornette's Prime Time, also a double band, left off and blended its own unique avant/electric-jazz with elements of free, fractured and funky rhythms. What made this band so special was the way that Ned and Thomas played together and pushed each other into stratospheric flights of fancy. Both of these cats are amongst my favorite (alto mostly) saxists and both are resourceful, inventive, passionate and powerful players. Ned has written some wonderful, infectious, sly and sumptuous tunes here with inspired solos from each member of the band.
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...BUT FORGOT TO MENTION THAT NED BROUGHT US HANDFULS OF THE EVEN RARER 1ST AND 2ND 'DOUBLE BAND' ALBUMS....

NED ROTHENBERG DOUBLE BAND With THOMAS CHAPIN - Real and Imagined Time (Moers 3006; Germany) As the rhythms kick in on "Railbread" and the band starts churning through a rollicking groove, a sense of poignancy is unavoidable -- not the feeling one would normally expect from such an upbeat form of jazz-funk. But here they come, the two altoists up front in the stereo speakers, Ned Rothenberg to the right and Thomas Chapin to the left: two unbeatable downtown New York saxophonists, who -- along with the other four stalwarts of the Ned Rothenberg Double Band -- are ideally suited to realizing the bandleader's conception for this most satisfying amalgam of jazz, funk, rock, and avant-garde music styles. And given Chapin's premature passing in 1998 -- robbing the scene of one of its early lights, guiding forces, and most enthusiastic proponents -- it will never be possible to experience this lineup on a stage again. But there are the two [now three as of 2004] Double Band discs on Moers, and for that fact listeners should be grateful.
On the evidence of Real and Imagined Time, the group was on an upward trajectory when the CD was recorded in May and July of 1993. It's sometimes tempting to credit drummer Jim Black with enlivening every project he's in; let's just say that there's no evidence here to contradict that theory. Black and Billy Martin work together on drums as perfectly as Rothenberg and Chapin on saxophones; like the reedmen, they seem more like one musician with the physical resources of two -- that's how closely their playing is integrated. Rounding out the rhythm section -- or perhaps squaring off, given their sharp and percussive attacks -- are Chris Wood and Jerome Harris on electric basses, punchy and nailing the groove from start to finish. Harris is also given a few opportunities to blast off with burning solos on electric guitar; any fan of his work with Bobby Previte's Latin for Travelers or Empty Suits should find much to admire in his flare-ups on the title track and the initial "Once and Future" portion of "The Medley of Unbroken Lines."
The three-part "Medley" is one of those extended-form Rothenberg powerhouses, and it perfectly illustrates the saxophonist's skill in fashioning multi-sectioned narratives and his ability to find the funk root in his trademark ostinatos. The full band rolls with him in the first measures of "Once and Future," but after several minutes everyone has dropped off but the leader, who maintains the piece's harmony and rhythmic momentum with powerful solo circular breathing -- the effect is a little like crossing Evan Parker with P-Funk. The band re-enters to support Harris' solo, collectively raising the dynamic level back up into the red zone, only to bring it down in a hypnotic segue to "Freeka Seven," a soulful cruiser that layers and builds polyrhythms and polyphony over its initial 7/8 mid-tempo pulse. The Rothenberg alto and Chapin flute solos here, and the flute melodies that both musicians play in counterpoint, provide some of the CD's loveliest moments.
As "The Medley of Unbroken Lines" reaches its final four minutes and "Freeka Seven" segues into "Open Jaw," Rothenberg and Chapin shift back to saxophones and the percussives are punched up to a more assertive level; all six musicians unite in navigating a tricky ensemble chart that builds to the suite's dramatic and rousing finish. The CD's title track is nearly as ambitious as "Medley," noteworthy not only for the aforementioned fretwork from Harris but also the moody alto ruminations from an unaccompanied Rothenberg, a fiery soprano solo from Chapin, an energetic tandem drum blowout from Black and Martin (Deadheads and Allmaniacs take note), and the off-kilter rhythm beneath beautiful soprano and alto lines as the piece winds toward a rather spacy and understated conclusion. Listeners familiar with Rothenberg's classic Power Lines CD will recognize "Fits and Starts," the last track of Real and Imagined Time, which reappeared on the later Power Lines in more chamberesque form as "Bellhop Vontz." The funk quotient is higher on "Fits and Starts," and it's intriguing not only to hear how different the two versions sound, but also how alike they are despite their highly improvised feel. The Ned Rothenberg Double Band had truly hit its stride on this CD, and it leaves the listener elevated while also providing yet another reason to mourn Chapin's loss. Moers apparently has a third Double Band disc in the can, and one wishes that it might see the light of day sometime soon. It's hard to imagine that it would be anything less than a tremendous recording -- and one to provoke the same mixture of joy and sadness as Real and Imagined Time. -- Dave Lynch, AMG Editor/Writer
CD for $17

NED ROTHENBERG DOUBLE BAND With THOMAS CHAPIN - Overlays (Moers 2074; Germany) We didn't have time to dig up a review - ours or anyone else's - but rest assured that this 1st Double Band release is every bit as vital, essential, and as deserving of intense examination as the two above...only rarer still! Just a handful of copies left...
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OK, THE BIG NEWS FOR FANS OF BRIAN ENO'S ANOMALOUS FOUR CLASSIC '70s "POP" ALBUMS IS THAT THEY INDEED HAVE BEEN UPGRADED IN SOUND QUALITY... 20 YEARS AFTER CDs WERE INTRODUCED!

"Using Brian Eno's original analogue masters as the source, re-mastering engineer Simon Heyworth has employed Class A' Analogue Electronics combined with the most advanced Analogue to Digital conversion techniques available. Using an ATR analog mastering deck with Aria Reference Series class A discrete electronics, Simon Heyworth was able to coax a higher level of fidelity out of these recordings than ever before heard, while keeping the orignal mastering intact. The result is a clarity and depth of sound to these albums not heard since their initial playback in the recording studio. And more important, no attempts have been made to re-equalize, remix or in any way tamper with the original EQ'ed analogue production masters. These "Original Masters" sound just as Brian Eno originally intended them to be heard."

These will be in stock next week - except perhaps for 'Another Green World' [one of MannyLunch's top twenty 'Desert Island Discs'!] which has been RECALLED due to a manufacturing error; if you already got this as a 2004 edition check your copy today!

BRIAN ENO - Here Come The Warm Jets (Astralwerks 77293; USA) 2004 Re-master of Eno's solo debut from 1973, 'Here Come the Warm Jets' is a spirited, experimental collection of unabashed pop songs on which Eno mostly reprises his Roxy Music role as "sound manipulator," taking the lead vocals but leaving much of the instrumental work to various studio cohorts (including ex- Roxy mates Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, and Paul Thompson, as well as Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Chris Spedding, Busta Cherry Jones, Bill MacCormick, Paul Rudolph, Nick Judd, Lloyd Watson, Nick Cool). Eno's compositions are quirky, whimsical, and catchy, his lyrics bizarre and often free-associative, with a decidedly dark bent in their humor ("Baby's on Fire," "Dead Finks Don't Talk"). Yet the album wouldn't sound nearly as manic as it does without Eno's wildly unpredictable sound processing; he coaxes otherworldly noises and textures from the treated guitars and keyboards, layering them in complex arrangements or bouncing them off one another in a weird cacophony. Avant-garde yet very accessible, 'Here Come the Warm Jets' still sounds exciting, forward-looking, and densely detailed, revealing more intricacies with every play. -- Steve Huey AMG
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BRIAN ENO - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (Astralwerks 77288; USA) 2004 Re-master. Continuing the twisted pop explorations of 'Here Come the Warm Jets' , Eno's sophomore album (with backing from an all star lineup including Phil Manzanera, Robert Wyatt, Andy Mackay, Phil Collins, Brian Turrington), 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)', is more subdued and cerebral, and a bit darker when he does cut loose, but it's no less thrilling once the music reveals itself. It's a loose concept album -- often inscrutable, but still playful -- about espionage, the Chinese Communist revolution, and dream associations, with the more stream-of-consciousness lyrics beginning to resemble the sorts of random connections made in dream states. Eno's richly layered arrangements juxtapose very different treated sounds, yet they blend and flow together perfectly, hinting at the directions his work would soon take with the seamless sound paintings of 'Another Green World'. 'Taking Tiger Mountain' is made accessible through Eno's mastery of pop song structure, a form he would soon transcend and largely discard. -- Steve Huey AMG
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BRIAN ENO - Another Green World (Astralwerks 77291; USA) 2004 Re-master (With Robert Fripp, John Cale, Phil Collins, Percy Jones, Ian McDonald, Phil Manzanera, Brian Turrington, Paul Rudolph and Rod Melvin). A universally acknowledged masterpiece, 'Another Green World' represents a departure from song structure and toward a more ethereal, minimalistic approach to sound. Despite the stripped-down arrangements, the album's sumptuous tone quality reflects Eno's growing virtuosity at handling the recording studio as an instrument in itself (ˆ la Brian Wilson ). There are a few pop songs scattered here and there ("St. Elmo's Fire," "I'll Come Running," "Golden Hours"), but most of the album consists of deliberately paced instrumentals which, while often closer to ambient music than pop, are both melodic and rhythmic; many, like "Sky Saw," "In Dark Trees," and "Little Fishes," are highly imagistic, like paintings done in sound which actually resemble their titles. Lyrics are infrequent, but when they do pop up, they follow the free-associative style of albums past; this time, though, the humor seems less bizarre than gently whimsical and addled, fitting perfectly into the dreamlike mood of the rest of the album. Most of Another Green World is like experiencing a soothing, dream-filled slumber while awake, and even if some of the pieces have dark or threatening qualities, the moments of unease are temporary, like a passing nightmare whose feeling lingers briefly upon waking but whose content is forgotten. Unlike some of his later, full-fledged ambient work, Eno's gift for melodicism and tight focus here keep the entirety of the album in the forefront of the listener's consciousness, making it the perfect introduction to his achievements even for those who find ambient music difficult to enjoy. -- Steve Huey - AMG
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[1st pressing run was recalled by the label so there may may a significant delay on this title]

BRIAN ENO - Before And After Science (Astralwerks 77292; USA) 2004 Re-master. Featuring Robert Fripp, Fred Frith, Phil Manzanera, Phil Collins, Percy Jones, Dave Mattacks, Paul Rudolph, Bill MacCormick, Jaki Liebezeit, Brian Turrington, Achim Roedelius, Mobi Moebius & Andy Fraser. 'Before and After Science' is really a study of "studio composition" whereby recordings are created by deconstruction and elimination: tracks are recorded and assembled in layers, then selectively subtracted one after another, resulting in a composition and sound quite unlike that at the beginning of the process. Despite the album's pop format, the sound is unique and strays far from the mainstream. Eno also experiments with his lyrics, choosing a sound-over-sense approach. When mixed with the music, these lyrics create a new sense or meaning, or the feeling of meaning, a concept inspired by abstract sound poet Kurt Schwitters (epitomized on the track "Kurt's Rejoinder," on which you actually hear samples from Schwitters ' "Ursonate"). 'Before and After Science' opens with two bouncy, upbeat cuts: "No One Receiving," featuring the offbeat rhythm machine of Percy Jones and Phil Collins (Eno regulars during this period), and "Backwater." Jones ' analog delay bass dominates on the following "Kurt's Rejoinder," and he and Collins return on the mysterious instrumental "Energy Fools the Magician." The last five tracks (the entire second side of the album format) display a serenity unlike anything in the pop music field. These compositions take on an occasional pastoral quality, pensive and atmospheric. Cluster joins Eno on the mood-evoking "By This River," but the album's apex is the final cut, "Spider and I." With its misty emotional intensity, the song seems at once sad yet hopeful. The music on 'Before and After Science' at times resembles Another Green World ("No One Receiving") and Here Come the Warm Jets ("King's Lead Hat") and ranks alongside both as the most essential Eno material. -- David Ross Smith - AMG
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WE HAVE A HANDFUL OF THE FOLLOWING CLASSIC JAZZ CDs - IF YOU DON'T GET THEM INCLUDED IN YOUR NEXT ORDER, IT MEANS YOU WILL BE BACKORDERED TILL EARLY JULY...

PHAROAH SANDERS With SONNY SHARROCK/LEON THOMAS/SONNY FORTUNE/SIRONE et al - Izipho Zam [My Gifts] (Sunspots 552; Italy) Featuring Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Fortune, Howard Johnson, Cecil McBee, Sirone, Lonnie Liston Smith & Leon Thomas!!! "Two years after the death of his mentor and boss, John Coltrane, and just before signing his own contract with Impulse!, Pharoah Sanders finally got around to releasing an album as a leader apart from the Impulse! family. Enlisting a cast of characters no less than 13 in number, Sanders proved that his time with Coltrane and his Impulse! debut, Tauhid, was not a fluke. Though hated by many of the jazz musicians at the time -- and more jazz critics who felt Coltrane had lost his way musically the minute he put together the final quintet -- Sanders followed his own muse to the edges of Eastern music and sometimes completely outside the borderlines of what could be called jazz. That said, Izipho Zam is a wonderful recording, full of the depth of vision and heartfelt soul that has informed every recording of Sanders since. Guests include Sonny Sharrock, Lonnie Liston Smith, Chief Bey, Cecil McBee, Sirone, Sonny Fortune, Billy Hart, Howard Johnson, and others. The set begins with a gorgeous soul tune in "Prince of Peace," with Leon Thomas doing his trademark yodel, croon, and wail as Smith, McBee, and Hart back him and Sanders fills the gaps. Next is "Balance," the first blowing tune on the set, with the African drums, the modal horns, and Sanders' microtonal investigations of sonic polarity contrasted with Johnson's tuba, leaving the rhythm section to join him as Sharrock and Smith trade drone lines and Sanders turns it into a Latin dance from outer space about halfway through to the end -- it's astonishing. Finally, on the 28-minute title track, the band members -- all of them -- begin a slow tonal inquiry, a textured traipse into the abyss of dissonance and harmonic integration, with Thomas as the bridge through which all sounds must travel on their way to the ensemble. From here, percussion, bells, whistles, Sharrock's heavily chorded guitar -- all provide rhythm upon interval upon tonal figure until the horns enter at about 12 minutes. They move slowly at first and gather force until they blast it right open at 20 minutes and the last eight are all free blowing and an endurance ride for the listener because, with four minutes left, Sanders leads the band in a gorgeous lyric ride that brings together all disparate elements in his world and ours, making this track -- and album -- an exhilarating, indispensable out jazz experience. - Thom Jurek, AMG
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JOHN COLTRANE/WILBUR HARDEN - Complete Mainstream Sessions (a/k/a Savoy Sessions)][2 CD set] (Lone Hill Jazz 10116; EEC) In the late 50s, 'Trane recorded some fantastic sides with trumpeter Wilbur Harden for Savoy Records, and the material is unlike anything he ever did elsewhere. (Why is this called the "Mainstraem Sessions.?!?!?) This is the complete collection of recordings made with Harden, a mysterious figure in jazz history, who was forced to retire at the age of 35 due to ill health. The band includes Tommy Flanagan, Curtis Fuller, Louis Hayes and Art Taylor! The tracks are long and modal, a perfect platform for Coltrane's new ideas of soloing that were beginning to take shape at the time. Harden's had a fiercer approach to rhythm than Miles - which drives Coltrane along in a more souful groove than ever before. The 2CD set features 19 tracks from the Savoy Sessions. Titles include "Gold Coast", "Dial Africa", "BJ", "Once In A While", "Tanganyika Strut", "West 42nd Street", and "Rhodamagnetics" -- and the CD includes 6 alternate versions as well!
2 CD set for $25

JEANNE LEE & RAN BLAKE - The Newest Sound Around (RCA Victor; EEC) Nearly 40 years after it was recorded, this music still demands to be heard, especially if you think you have heard it all. This second CD-reissue of this classic early-60s duet session contains 4 extra non-LP tracks (they were also available on OOP first CD reissue), and is packaged in a sweet little facsimile of the original LP cover, with extensive notes (in French, mostly) by Laurent Goddet. "Third stream" may have been the bandied term, but this unjustly ignored 1962 duet set, the debut for pianist Blake and singer Lee, who worked up their act while studying at Bard College, plays blissfully free of the lumbering lugubriousness and Big Mac-thick philosophizing that mar so much of that music. The eeriness, the mystery, and the sweetness lie always in the deceptive simplicity, never more so than on the opener, "Laura," sketched by Johnny Mercer as a hazy image of loveliness, always out of reach and perhaps not even real, and she flickers in and out of existence with the strike and fade of Blake's figures, the attack and decay of Lee's intonation, now husky, now fruity, but as exacting as Miles Davis' muted trumpet. "Church on Russell Street" is Blake's alone, a gospel show for solo piano late at night, or early in the morning, when everyone but the pianist and maybe the Lord has gone home. "Where Flamingos Fly," from which Van Morrison peeled a few leaves years later, finds Lee a mournful anti-siren, losing her lover and a few members of the animal kingdom to an island that may be Aruba, Iceland, or even Alcatraz; Blake tests single notes like water drops, rumbles chords for incoming tide, stabs boldly at the not quite in tune top octave on his keyboard. "Season in the Sun" (nowhere near Terry Jacks!) injects levity with bassist George Duvivier sitting in (as he does on "Evil Blues," the second dash of comic relief) and Lee dryly, slyly insinuating the brevity of her bikini. "If there's going to be an enduring 'new wave' in jazz styling...this voice, this piano may well be the beginning," reads an un-credited blurb on the cover. The record started no revolution, probably because no other two performers had such chemistry or such a distinctive reaction. As jazz styling, though, it endures unsurprisingly. You hear the set in less than one hour (four CD-only bonus tracks included). You spend decades wandering inside the sound, as you might inside a sonic Stonehenge, savoring each new vantage point discovered and the impossibility of discovering them all. - Andrew Hamlin, AMG
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ERIC DOLPHY QUINTET Featuring HERBIE HANCOCK - Gaslight Inn, October 7th 1962 (Lone Hill Jazz 10124; EEC) A 1962 broadcast originating from the Gaslight Inn in New York Ciry is the source for this live Italian bootleg. Eric Dolphy leads a pickup group with Herbie Hancock and Richard Davis, along with drummer Edgar Bateman and trumpeter and flugelhornist Ed Armour. Dolphy is heard almost exclusively on alto sax, though he does get in a few typically adventurous solos. The leader's memorable flute makes the nearly twelve and a half minute "Left Alone" the most valuable track. There are also performances of his originals "Miss Ann" and "G.W." Singer Joe Carroll dominates a rather forgettable bluesy treatment "Oh, Lady be Good!" in which Dolphy is only featured briefly on bass clarinet. The broadcast is faded with DJ Alan Grant's voice-over on top of an incomplete rendition of Dolphy's "245." This long unavailable LP, later reissued on CD by the now defunct Stash as Live in New York, has had its recording quality improved to be the best possible here.
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ERIC DOLPHY QUINTET Featuring LALO SCHIFRIN - Philadelphia '61 (Lone Hill Jazz 10121; EEC) Purportedly a radio broadcast form Philadelphia in 1961, this set matches the remarkable multi-instrumentalist with pianist Lalo Schifrin, bassist Bob Cunningham and drummer Mel Lewis, performing long versions of "On Green Dolphin Street" (over 23 minutes), "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise" and "The Way You Look Tonight." Although the rhythm section is conventional, Dolphy really tears into these standards, making this imported CD worth searching for. -- Scott Yanow, AMG
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GATO BARBIERI - The Third World (Flying Dutchman/RCA Victor; EEC) Featuring: Gato Barbieri (ts,fl,vcl), Charlie Haden (b), Beaver Harris (d), Richard Landrum (perc), Lonnie Liston Smith (p), Roswell Rudd (tb) The Third World is the initial session that triumphantly mixed Gato Barbieri's free jazz tenor playing with Latin and Brazilian influences. It's also the album that brought Barbieri positive attention from the college crowds of the late '60s. He would expand on this musical combination with his next few Flying Dutchman releases as well as his first recordings for the Impulse! label. The records made between 1969 through 1974 find Barbieri creating a danceable yet fiery combination of South American rhythms and free jazz forcefulness. [Strangely - and unfortunately - once Barbieri later signed with A&M, he began making commercial records geared to fans of Herb Alpert, sounding nothing like his earlier great albums] -- Al Campbell, AMG
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OLIVER NELSON - Skull Session (Flying Dutchman/RCA Victor; EEC) Although not in favor with the regular [real] jazz crowd that appreciates such classic earlier Nelson albums like 'Blues And The Abstract Truth' and his album with Leon Thomas 'In Berlin', this recording has taken on a cult status life of its own among those who seek out singular pre-electronica jazz-groove albums of the seventies. Many great players are involved here - Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank, Shelley Manne, Lonnie Liston Smith and many others -though most who would want to hear them do not want to do so in this context. However we offer it here because we've had so many requests for it - it really doesn't matter what we small-minded snobs at DMG think (who you pointing that finger at, Manny?), obviously this is loved by a growing populace of youngsters nowadays!
CD $17.00 STOCK

THESE TITLES WILL BE COMING IN AN EARLY JULY PACKAGE - ORDER NOW SO WE CAN ADJUST QUANTITIES TO PLEASE EVERYBODY!!!...

MANNY ALBAM/JAZZ GREATS OF OUR TIME - Complete Recordings: The Coral Sessions [2 CD set] (Lone Hill Jazz 10118; EEC) This 2 CD set contains the complete recordings made both in studio and live by the Jazz Greats Of Our Time for the first time on CD! CD1 offers the two volumes recorded in 1957 under the generic title of "Jazz Greats Of Our Time" on Coral. See what Ken Dryden at AMG has to say about these volumes: Vol 1: Albam leads a truly all-star tentet with Gerry Mulligan, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Bob Brookmeyer, Nick Travis, and Art Farmer, along with a rhythm section consisting of Hank Jones, Milt Hinton, and Osie Johnson. Most of these 1957 sessions are devoted to Albam's cool but swinging original works, each of which features great solos and superb interplay among the musicians. One oddity is the inclusion of the 1920s-era "My Sweetie Went Away," which somewhat resembles Mulligan's composition "Jeru," though the playing is first-rate. Cohn trades his usual tenor sax for baritone to join Mulligan in Albam's humorous "Poor Dr. Millmous" (whose title was inspired by a James Thurber cartoon). Consider yourself fortunate if you locate a copy of this rare album. Vol 2: Manny Albam put out a steady stream of compelling progressive big-band LPs in the 1950s and 1960s, though few of them have been reissued on CD. These 1957 sessions feature numerous so-called West Coast jazz players on the date (Shelly Manne, Richie Kamuca, Conte Candoli, and Bill Holman, among others), though "Trumpeter X," actually Harry "Sweets" Edison, is a notable exception. Albam's charts are consistently challenging to the musicians and there are plenty of great solos, far too many to list individually. If Edison's identity isn't apparent from the liner notes and the song title "Sweet's-Bread," his two-chorus muted solo on that swinging track and the single chorus in his own "Jive at Five" will clear up any doubt. This long unavailable Coral LP will be extremely difficult to acquire and the second disc features [we believe as we haven't had one in our sweaty li'l hands yet] super-rare live recordings of the Jazz Heritage/Jazz Greats Of Our Time groups!
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ALBERT AYLER QUINTET With DONALD AYLER/RONALD SHANNON JACKSON/LEWSI WORRELL/MICHAEL SAMPSON - Complete Live At Slug's Saloon (Lone Hill Jazz 10101; EEC) This CD clocks in at 80 minutes! Except for one Japanese edition [now out of print] this material has generally been available in the past as two volumes of cds or lps. Featuring Donald Ayler on trumpet, Michel Sampson on violin, Lewis Worrell on bass and Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums. Originally Recorded at Slug«s Saloon, New York, May 1st, 1966
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CLIFFORD BROWN & MAX ROACH QUINTET With SONNY ROLLINS - Complete Live At The Bee Hive 1955 [2 CD set] (Lone Hill Jazz 10128; EEC) Originally a double LP on Columbia, this is Brown«s first ever recording with Sonny Rollins and Max Roach recorded live at Chicago«s Bee Hive on November 7th, 1955. The playing is actually somewhat historic, a jam session featuring the ill-fated Clifford Brown, tenorman Sonny Rollins (who was playing with Brownie for the first time), drummer Max Roach and a few other musicians (Nicky Hill on tenor, pianist Billy Wallace [or Chris Anderson], guitarist Leo Blevins and bassist George Morrow), but earlier editions of this [on LP] betrayed not-very-good recordings. They have been cleaned up here as best as possible.
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PAUL CHAMBERS/TOMMY FLANAGAN - Motor City Scene: Complete recordings (Lone Hill Jazz 10134; EEC) Recorded in New York, 1959-60. This sensational release feat. Paul Chambers and Tommy Flanagan with two all-star Detroit formations including such outstanding musicians as Thad and Elvin Jones, Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams, Billy Mitchell, Kenny Burrell and Louis Hayes.
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STEVE LACY With WHITEY MITCHELL - Complete Whitey Mitchell Recordings (Lone Hill Jazz 10130; EEC) Featuring Tom Stewart, Herbie Mann, Joe Puma, Dave McKenna, Osie Johnson Recorded in New York, 1956 This particular release features two rare 1956 studio sessions during the early stages of Lacy's legendary career. The personnel in both sessions is either sextet or quintet format featuring Lacy on soprano sax!
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JOHN LEWIS/ORCHESTRA U.S.A. - The Debut Recording (Lone Hill Jazz 10117; EEC) Never Previously released on CD! Recorded in NY in a studio on January 12th and february 4 & 27th, 1963. Includes both mono and stereo versions. His debut concert was celebrated at the Philarmonic Hall in NY«s Lincoln center of the Performing Arts
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BOOKER LITTLE - New York Sessions (Lone Hill Jazz 10110; EEC) Recorded in New York, 1959 - 5 tracks from a rare Teddy Charles album caught live in New York at a Metronome sponsored gig featuring Mingus alums Mal Waldron, Booker Ervin and Booker Little - and two dates from 1960, the first a cut featuring Charles and Waldron along with Curtis Fuller and Don Ellis Frank Strozier; the next two two cuts are jam session tracks -- "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" and "Blue N Boogie" -- from the Young Men From Memphis set that featured Little and Louis Smith on trumpets, plus Calvin Newborn, Frank Strozier, and Phineas Newborn. Last up is "After Hours", also from the same session, but without Smith on trumpet. These NY sessions produced exquisite tracks, each one better than the next. Nothing short of sublime!
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WES MONTGOMERY ALL STARS Featuring CANNONBALL ADDERLEY/JON HENDRICKS/PONY POINDEXTER - A Good Git-Together/Kismet (Lone Hill Jazz 10133; EEC) Never Previously Released on CD! This set offers a two long lost treasures - with the focal point being Wes Montgomery - on 1 CD: Jon Hendricks' first album as a leader, 'A Good Git-Together has not been reissued since its 1959 release, but it is a real gem. This rarity features such major sidemen on various tracks as altoist Pony Ponidexter, guitarist Wes Montgomery and both Nat and Cannonball Adderley. Hendricks -- who, at the time, was riding high in Lambert, Hendricks and Ross -- is in superb form on such numbers as "Everything Started In the House of the Lord," a couple of songs that Hendricks had written for Louis Jordan, Randy Weston's "Pretty Strange," "Social Call" and the jubilant "A Good Git-Together." A near-classic LP long overdue to be reissued on CD. -- Scott Yanow, AMG ....and a second album released under the group name Mastersounds performing their version of the Broadway revue Kismet: "Recorded in the late '50s and released in 1966 when the name Wes Montgomery became well known, this reading of Borodin's evergreen classic "Kismet" is a wondrous platter. The Mastersounds were the Montgomery brothers' group before Wes stepped out on his own. Monk and Buddy Montgomery were excellent musicians in their own right. Buddy's vibe work on this record clearly shows that he was leading the group through their paces, and his performance is excellent. Top marks also for piano player Richard Crabtree, whose vamp on "Baubles, Bangles & Beads" is positively funky, and drummer Benny Barth. Wes was indeed coming into his own here, and for just that reason alone this is an important record. Although merely an accompanist, he gets to stretch out on the extended "Not Since Nineveh" and the snaky, Eastern-tinged "Fate." Overall, an excellent jazz reading of one of the most beloved musicals ever and also an important historical record for Wes Montgomery fans"- Matthew Greenwald, AMG
CD for $16 SPECIAL

LEE MORGAN With DIZZY GILLESPIE ORCHESTRA Featuring WYNTON KELLY & BENNY GOLSON - Those Dizzy Days (Lone Hill Jazz 10107; EEC) It was not until Lee Morgan came into the band in Gordon«s place that Dizzy had a trumpeter of comparable individuality to his own. The line of trumpets includes Talib Ahmad Dawud, Carl Warwick and others behind Lee & Diz, Ray Connors, Al Grey and others on trombone, Pee Wee Moore on baritone, Wynton Kelley on piano, and a stunning showing by Charlie Persip on drums! Originally recorded in Hester, Pensylvania, June 14th (# 1-11), LA, March 23rd (#12-13), NY, April 8th (14-15) and Newport Jazz Festival, July 6th, 1957. 78 minutes!
CD $16.00 SPECIAL




INCREDIBLE IMPORT JAZZ DVDs NOT MARKETED IN THE US [ BUT PLAYABLE ON ANY MACHINE HERE & WORLDWIDE!]

OK, we got handfuls of the ones marked "Stock" below - but we're already low on them just from in-store exposure. Under the in-stock list, you will find titles we only ordered to get a look-see at, marked "Special Order" - they are not in stock at the moment.
If you wish to get any of them, the cut-off for placing an advance order for them is June 30th, which is when our next European shipment will lift-off. This will include more copies of anything 'in-stock' that we have run out of.

IN STOCK:

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - In Concert: Live From The Jazz Showcase (Rhapsody 2869005; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] This outstanding DVD contains a memorable live performance - in color - at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, November 1st, 1981, by the most influential avant-garde jazz band of the 70s and 80s. The primary innovators in the fusion of traditional African and African- American music with European performance art, performed by the classic quintet of Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, Famadou Don Moye, Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell! 60 minutes
"Don't be without this! All Thumbs Up!" - MannyLunch
DVD for $30

MILES DAVIS//CHARLIE PARKER//LESTER YOUNG//DIZZ GILLESPIE//HARRY EDISON - Great Performances: Four Jazz Movie Masterworks (Idem 1057; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] This DVD includes the only two surviving films of Charlie Parker, one featuring his acceptance of the Down Beat Award [1952] playing "Hot House" with a 5tet incl. Dizzy Gillespie, Dick Hyman; and the other a two reel movie with the JATP troupe: five tunes [1950] with a band incl Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Hank Jones, Buddy Rich, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Brown, Flip Phillips, Harry Edison and Bill Harris!!! This also has the exemplary half hour [ 4 tunes] CBS television program featuring the classic late '50 Miles Davis Quintet [John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb] and the Gil Evans Orchestra - an absolute historic masterpiece in perfect sight & sound [rely on poor quality bootlegs no longer!] ...as well as the complete material from the "Jammin' The Blues" filmed sessions of August-September 1944 with Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Harry Edison, Barney Kessel, Red Callender [or John Simmons], Jo Jones [or Sid Catlett], Marlowe Thomas, [7 tunes including 4 - with Dicky Wells and Garland Finney added - not originally in the released short feature!]
DVD for $30

HERBERT DANSKA/MAL WALDRON/CHARLES McPHERSON - Sweet Love, Bitter (Rhapsody 2869014; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] A film by Herbert Danska. Starring Dick Gregory as "Eagle", with Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Robert Hooks Soundtrack composed by Mal Waldron and performed by Charles McPherson. USA 1966. Based on the last years of Charlie "Bird" Parker. B&W; 90 min.
DVD for $30

BILL EVANS - The Universal Mind Of Bill Evans (Rhapsody 2869016; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] An extraordinary moment of live televisionÉ Here is the late, brilliantly original jazz pianist in intense conversation with his composer brother, Harry, on the nature of creativity in jazz, the creative process and self-teaching. 60 minutes; B&W
DVD for $30

ILLINOIS JACQUET - Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story (Rhapsody 2869015; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] Feat. Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Harry Edison and Dorothy Donegan. This is a phenomenal DVD - a documentary by Arthur Elgort filmed fifty years after the release of "Flying Home" 60 minutes; B&W
DVD for $30

MORE DVDs COMING IN A JULY PACKAGE [ORDER NOW SO WE CAN ADJUST QUANTITIES TO PLEASE EVERYBODY]:

COUNT BASIE/BIG JOE TURNER/LESTER YOUNG et al - The Last Of The Blue Devils: The Kansas City Jazz Story (Rhapsody 2869012; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] Feat. Count Basie, Big Joe Turner, Lester Young, Paul Quinichette, Charles McPherson & Jay McShann 1979 - This unique documentary recreates one of the most exciting musical developments in American history. Contains vintage footage of the featured musicians. It is beatiful to see the excitement shared by these musicians, who take turns at the bandstand and swap stories of days gone by. 80 minutes; color
DVD for $30 SPECIAL

JAKI BYARD//ELVIN JONES - Anything For Jazz//Different Drummer (Rhapsody 2869018; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] DOUBLE FEATURE! Both episodes in 1 DVD This DVD release includes documentaries of two of the most original and innovative musicians in jazz, drum legend Elvin Jones and the enigmatic pianist Jaki Byard. An excellent visual and aural study of the great innovator Elvin Jones. The movie also boasts an outstanding clip of Jones with Coltrane Quartet that shows their unique relationship 60 minutes total; color and b&w.
DVD for $30 SPECIAL

SONNY CRISS & THE L.A. ALL STARS//LES McCANN TRIO - In Concert (Rhapsody 2869002; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] DOUBLE FEATURE! Both episodes in 1 DVD. This rare DVD release includes two exceptional live concerts featuring some of the greatest musicians in jazz. The incomparable Sonny Criss & The L.A. All Stars and the enigmatic Les McCann and his trio 60 minutes; color
DVD $30 SPECIAL

JIM HALL - A Life In Progress (Rhapsody 2869011; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] Feat. Tom Harrell, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Greg Osby, Chico Hamilton, Jimmy Giuffre, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans Total Time: 60 min; Color / Hi-Fi Stereo While most jazz documentaries tend to concentrate on musicians who have passed away or are no longer in their prime, this DVD features one jazz legend who is in the midst of the most creative stage of his already prolific career. Also appearing Thelonious Monk, Art farmer, Lester Young, Ben Webster and Count Basie among others...
DVD for $30 SPECIAL

BARRY HARRIS Featuring BUD POWELL/CHARLIE PARKER/DIZZY GILLESPIE et al - The Spirit Of Bebop (Rhapsody 2869009; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] Feat. Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy Flanagan. One of the last living legends of the era, Harris has been hailed as bebop«s most important conservator. This pianist boundless energy belies his age, and at 78 he remains more musically active than ever before. A true joy greatly aided with vintage footage of such outstanding musicians as featured here. 60 minutes; color.
DVD for $30 SPECIAL

COLEMAN HAWKINS//PEE WEE RUSSELL - After Hours//Jazz Dance (Rhapsody 2869008; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] DOUBLE FEATURE! Both episodes in 1 DVD Featuring Harry Edison, Teddy Edwards, Hampton Hawes, Willie A late-night jam session at the «After Hours Club,« staged for TV in the «wee small hours« of the New York dawn, with some fine playing from swing veterans. Plus an exuberant documentary with a great jazz band playing for dancers at the Central Park Dance Hall in Manhattan. B&W; 60 minutes
DVD for $30 SPECIAL

EDDIE JEFFERSON - Eddie Jefferson In Concert (Rhapsody 2869003; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] The Jazz Showcase, May 6th, 1979. This exceptional DVD includes rare footage of the last performance by the «King of Vocalese«, the late great Eddie Jefferson. Only two days after the filming of his live concert at Joe Segal«s Jazz Showcase in Chicago, May 6th, 1979, Jefferson was tragically shot to death outside a Detroit nightclub. At 61, he was still perfoming with an exuberance and intensity that belied his years. 60 minutes; color
DVD for $30.00 SPECIAL

LORD KITCHENER/CALYPSO ROSE - One Hand Don't Clap: Calypso Music History (Rhapsody 2869017; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] The film concentrates on the life and music of Lord Kitchener and Calypso Rose. Through these to legendary musicians, the viewer gains an understanding of just what it means to be a "true calypsonian" and a priceless glimpse into the calypso & soca culture. 90 minutes; color
DVD for $30.00 SPECIAL

LEE KONITZ Featuring HAROLD DANKO - Portrait Of An Artist As Saxophonist (Rhapsody 2869013; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] Very rarely we do have the opportunity to see a music documentary in which the artist is free to express him or herself without the encumbrance of superfluous narration. This exciting DVD is one of such examples. It is a stunning work capturing the music and persona of one of the greatest legends of the alto saxophone. 90 minutes, color
DVD for $30 SPECIAL

PEE WEE RUSSELL//BABY LAURENCE - Portrait Of Pee Wee Russell//Jazz Hooter (Rhapsody 2869019; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] DOUBLE FEATURE! Both episodes in 1 DVD Feat. Mary Russell, Louis Prima, Eddie Condon, Dan Morgensten, Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie. This Phenomenal DVD release includes rare documentaries of two of the most extraordinary figures in jazz, clarinetist Russell & jazz tap master Baby Laurence. Total Time: 60 mins; Color
DVD for $30 SPECIAL

ZOOT SIMS QUARTET//SHELLY MANNE QUARTET - In Concert (Rhapsody 2869004; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] DOUBLE FEATURE! Both episodes in 1 DVD Featuring: ROGER KELLAWAY, HAMPTON HAWES, BOB COOPER and RAY BROWN This outstanding DVD includes live footage of performances by two of the top jazz combos of the west coast. Captured on film on two separate 1970 LA club dates, these exciting bands swing from start to finish 60 minutes; color
DVD for $30 SPECIAL

CHESTER ZARDIS Featuring MILT HINTON/ALAN LOMAX et al - Legendary New Orleans Jazz Musicians (Rhapsody 2869010; EEC) [complete program on each side of the disc: one side NTSC all region, other side PAL all region!] Featuring Milt Hinton, Chester Zardis, Danny Barker, Alan Lomax Chester Zardis This outstanding documentary by Preston McClanahan focuses on the life of bassist Chester Zardis "The Last Of The First" great African-American jazz pioneers, a master of the bass, and an important jazz innovator. 90 minutes; color
DVD for $30 SPECIAL



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OUR FREEE! DMG INSTORE GIGS CONTINUE WITH...

SUNDAY June 20th --- LAST MINUTE SCHEDULE CHANGE [Matana Roberts cancelled due to illness in the family]

7 pm
DANIEL LEVIN solo cello improvisations at 7pm! From Riti recording artist & Joe Morris/Rob Brown collaborator

8 pm
ANDREAS WILLERS rare solo electric guitar set at 8pm! From legendary guitarist who has records on FMP and Enja!... and has worked with Paul Bley, Louis Sclavis, Enrico Rava, David Murray & Bobby Previte!!

MONDAY 7pm - SPECIAL SHOW

FERNANDO SAMALEA and FERNANDO KABUSACKI two internationally known Agentinians on guitar, percussion, bandoneon and glockenspiel! Mr Kabusacki just recently collaborated with ROVO on record and at the recent Tonic gigs!


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DMG RECOMMENDED NYC GIG CALENDAR FOR JUNE 18th & Beyond:

Friday June 18th-

BRUCE LEE GALLANTER'S 50th BIRTHDAY & DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY'S 13TH ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE CELEBRATION will take place at Tonic - 107 Norfolk St. at 8pm w/ an amazing cast:
TISZIJI MUNOZ HEART-THRUST w/ BOB RA-KALAM MOSES & DON PATE!
JOHN ZORN'S MYSTERY MASADA!
ELLIOTT SHARP'S RAW MEET TRIO w/ MELVIN GIBBS & LANCE CARTER! Tickets are $20 for the entire night, so be there or be square!


Saturday June 19th - (Bruce Lee Gallanter's actual 50th birthday!)

MARK HELIAS' OPEN LOOSE at Cornelia St. CafŽ - 8:30 & 10:30 - consistently great!

RICHARD THOMPSON BAND at Irving Plaza at 8pm! Always a gas! The last time I caught Mr. Thompson at Irving Plaza, he introduced "Put it There, Pal" by saying, "Here's a song for a friend of mine with a one inch dick!?!" and than played one of the most vindictive guitar solos ever!

MARIO PAVONE QUARTET at 55 Bar - 55 Christopher St. w/ Tony Malaby & Mat Wilson!

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE at Southpaw - 125 Fifth Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn!

TRAD GRAS OCH STENAR at 10pm at Tonic w/ TK WEBB & ENDLESS BOOGIE! Legendary early prog band from Sweden is back & better than ever!


Sunday June 20th-

DANIEL LEVIN Solo Cello at 7pm ....& ANDREAS WILLERS solo Electric Guitar at 8pm here at DMG - 342 Bowery (bet. Bond & Great Jones) for free! Daniel is a great cellist who has worked with Rob Brown & Joe Morris and Andreas is a fabulous German guitarist & this is his NY debut!!

Free Style Series at CB's Lounge - 313 Bowery starts at about 7pm w/ - anders nillson & tom bruno;
8pm - james finn's three part engine w/ dominic duval & warren smith;
9pm - burton greene, roy campbell, lou grassi, adam lane;
10pm - steve lanter, dee pop, sabir mateen, tom abbs;
also upstairs in the gallery at 10pm andreas willers (solo el. guitar)!

ORNETTE COLEMAN QUARTET & ABBEY LINCOLN QUARTET at 8pm at Carnegie Hall!


Monday June 21st-

FERNANDO SAMALEA and FERNANDO KABUSACKI here at DMG at 7pm for free! - two internationally known musicians from Argentina on guitar, percussion, bandoneon & glockenspiel! Mr Kabusacki just recently collaborated with ROVO on record and at the recent Tonic gig!

KRIS DAVIS QUINTET at Cornelia St. CafŽ at 8:30 - w/ Tony Malaby - great new cd on Fresh Sound New Talent!!


Tuesday June 22nd-

KATHLEEN SUPOVE CD release party at Joe's Pub at 7:30 - extraordinary modern classical pianist who plays w/ Dr. Nerve will perform works by Carolyn Yarnell, Elaine Kaplinsky, Marti Epstein and Randall Woolf!

KNOX CHANDLER Solo guitar at 8pm at Tonic! Gig change - Anton Fier Band will not playÉ

LORI CARSON BAND w/ ANTON FIER as special guest at 10pm at Tonic - Lori writes immensely touching songs that often make me cry!

URI CAINE TRIO at the Village Vanguard w/ Drew Gress & Ben Perowsky! Their new cd on W&W is great!


Wednesday June 23rd-

ELLIOTT SHARP'S ORCHESTRA CARBON performs "Quarks Swim Free" at Tonic at 8pm w/ Jenny Lin, Curtis Fowlkes & Jim Pugliese - always challenging music to consider!

ELLIOTT SHARP'S SYNDA-KIT for ALL GUITARS at Tonic at 10pm - w/ Kato Hideki, Angela Babin, Roger Kleier, Dave Hofstra, Deb de Salvo, Tyondai Braxton, Khabu, Ron Anderson, Alan Licht, Luke DuBois & Al Kaatz. More mind-blowing music from the pen of E. Sharp!!

TOMASZ STANKO QUARTET at Merkin Hall at 8pm! ECM trumpet great makes a rare NY appearance!

URI CAINE SEPTET - MAHLER PROJECT at the Village Vanguard!! Great cd on W & W!


Thursday June 24th-

ESZTER BALINT BAND & HANNAH MARCUS at Tonic at 8pm - Eszter's new cd is swell!

MICHAEL BLAKE'S BLAKE TARTARE at Tonic at 10pm! Local sax wiz new quartet w/ a fine Scandinavian crew!

URI CAINE BEDROCK QUINTET at the Village Vanguard! One of Uri's funkier bands!


Friday June 25th-

URI CAINE BLUE WAIL QUARTET at the Village Vanguard!


Saturday June 26th-

MARC RIBOT TRIO PLUS at Tonic at 8 & 10pm - w/ Morgan Craft on guitar & Giulia Lowlie on turntables (Burnt Sugar & Rough Americana), Dave Hofstra -bass & Deatoni Parks - drums!!

URI CAINE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS OCTET at the Village Vanguard!


Sunday June 27th-

CHRIS MANNIGAN & ED OWENS alto sax & bass here at DMG at 7pm for free!

Free Style Series at CB's Lounge - 313 Bowery starts at about
7pm w/ - chris kelsey, jay rosen & francois grillot;
8pm - jack wright, dan dechellis & reuben radding;
9pm - boom quartet: mario pavone, david berkman, matt wilson & tony malaby;
10pm - mary halvorsen & jessica pavone - another strong line-up!!