Another Great Week of Important Releases from:

Anthony Braxton Solo, William Parker's Raining on the Moon, Paul Motian Trio 2000 + Two, Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet, Joelle Leandre & Kevin Norton at The Stone in December, 2006 + 7 More New Discs from Leo, Eugene Chadbourne & Jimmy Carl Black DVD, David Watson,The Rempis Percussion Quartet,

Angelo Branford Quartet w/ JD Parran, John Cage 2 CD Set, Morton Feldman Book, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Luther Adams, Eric Richards, Philip Glass, Francois Dufrene 4 LP Set, Book + CD, Time of Orchids, Franck Vigroux & Marc Ducret,

Ahleuchatistas, Radio Massacre International, Lucas Niggli Zoom & Arte Qt, Actis Band w/ Carlo Actis Dato, Urs Leimgruber Solo, Simon Nabatov & Nils Wogram, Franziska Baumann & Matthias Ziegler, Panasian Ensemble, Kaori Osawa, Banz Oester, Marc Mommaas & Nikolaj Hess, Lasse Marhaug, Mono,

Plus Archival & Sale Discs from Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, Bud Powell, Pink Floyd (3 CD Set), Mike Taylor Remembered LP-Only, Bob Downes Open Music, Brenda Ray, Pererin, Gary Walker & the Rain, An Out-of-Print Knit & Shimmy Disc Sale plus a Stack of Amazing & Impossible-to-Find Discs from the Moers Music label!




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Downtown Music Gallery 16th Anniversary Celebration!

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 at 7pm - 9:30pm at Bowery Poetry Club:

John Zorn / Raoul Bjorkenheim / Shanir Blumenkranz / Lukas Ligeti !

Burnt Sugar!

Robert Musso /Raoul Bjorkenheim / John Richey / Elliott Levin / Dave Drewitz / Eric Slick!


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Two New wonderful discs from Intakt...

ANTHONY BRAXTON - Solo Willisau (Intakt 126; Switzerland) Anthony Braxton performs solo alto saxophone at the Willisau Jazz Festival, September 1st, 2003. Our favorite saxist/composer/professor/multi-bandleader and philosopher, Anthony Braxton, has been outdoing himself in recent years with a number of outstanding releases and concerts. Last week at the Guelph Jazz Fest (9/8-9/12/07), Mr. Braxton conducted and played with the AIM-Toronto Orchestra, closed the fest with his own Diamond Curtain Wall Trio+ (w/ Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson & Kyle Brenders, guest saxist) and gave an extraordinary lecture on Tri-Centric Modeling. The Sunday morning set with his Diamond Curtain Wall Trio+ was perhaps one of the best sets I've heard this year!
Mr. Braxton's solo sax performances are pretty rare, this being about his 10th disc over his forty year career. He has performed only one solo sax date (2002) in NY in the decade or two, so each date/disc is one to savior. This disc consists of 7 original pieces and 1 standard, "All the Things You Are" and is nearly 76 minutes long. On each piece Mr. Braxton explores different textures, approaches to playing solo alto sax and compositional strategies. Braxton explained during his lecture that after playing his first solo sax gig (1967?), he realized how much he had to do to explore his ideas, how far he had to dig deep and work on defining his methods to come with new ways playing and utilizing time. He played examples from some ten discs throughout his career and explained the different methods and symbols that he has invented and continues to evolve with. On "No. 328c", he seems to be twisting the tone of his sax inside-out, bending his notes in a most distinctive way. He does a great job of balancing two extremes, from lyrical to sour/bent note tension. He erupts with a unique, furious paced intensity on "No. 344b", playing waves of notes that center in on certain fragments growing louder and softer as he explores a continuous stream. Braxton's with minimal and spacious grace on "No. 328a", tapping his pads quickly yet playing slower notes, as he caresses each one. "All the Things You Are" is a lovely, change of pace and go back and forth between the touching melody and flurries of notes around the central theme. Anthony sounds as if he is talking (cursing?) through his sax on "No. 119m", when he isn't twisting his notes into fractured shards. He plays at a slow pace with certain dreaminess on "No. 106p". Mr. Braxton plays a great control and finesse throughout this entire long disc, so dig in for the rich rewards. - BLG
CD $17

LUCAS NIGGLI ZOOM & ARTE QUARTETT - Crash Cruise: Lucas Niggli's Zoom Meets Arte Quartett (Intakt 130; Switzerland) Zoom features Nils Wogram on trombone & melodica, Philipp Schaufelberger on guitar and Lucas Niggli on
drums, percussion & compositions with the Arte (Sax) Quartette featuring Beat Hofstetter soprano- and tenor sax; Sascha Armbruster alto, soprano & tenor sax; Andrea Formenti tenor & soprano sax and Beat Kappeler baritone & soprano sax.
This is Lucas Niggli's 7th disc for Intakt, his 6th with Zoom or Big Zoo. His quartet is joined by the Arte String Quartet, who has previously worked Tim Berne, Terry Riley & Urs Leimgruber. "Saft" opens with a fine, joyous duo for trombone and drums and soon the rest of band joins in for that same joyous swirling groove with some endlessly inventive trombone playing throughout the entire long work. "Collision Coalition" is a fine five-part piece that features a bit of quirky throat-singing and melodica work from Nils Wogram, surrounded by the sublime harmonies of the sax quartet. Eventually Nils' powerful trombone leads the band through an immense, swirling section. Mr. Niggli's superb trio (trombone, guitar & drums) plays with great care, inventiveness and passion throughout this entire wonderful disc. Nils Wogram's trombone stands out as the main soloist on most of the pieces, never ceasing to amaze us with his diverse talents on melodica and voice as well. Guitarist, Philipp Schaufelberger, a new name for me, is also consistently crafty throughout. Lucas Niggli's composing is quite thoughtful and melodic, giving the sax quartet a great deal of diverse and challenging charts. What I dig most about this disc is that it is often provocative and occasionally haunting without ever being too "outside" or "free". Another excellent offering from Lucas Niggli's Zoom. - BLG
CD $17



WILLIAM PARKER/RAINING ON THE MOON - Corn Meal Dance (Aum Fidelity 043; USA) Featuring Rob Brown on alto sax, Lewis Barnes on trumpet, Eri Yamamoto on piano, Leena Conquest on vocals, William Parker on contrabass & compositions and Hamid Drake on drums & percussion. "Corn Meal Dance is an incomparable and uncompromising work that AUM Fidelity is deeply honored to present; the release of this wonderful record is how AUM Fidelity is celebrating its 10th Anniversary! Review soon.
CD $14



Eight Great New Discs from the fabulous LEO label...

JOELLE LEANDRE/KEVIN NORTON - Winter In New York 2006: At The Stone (Leo 499; UK) The world-renown bassist and ground-breaking improviser Joelle Leandre and an inventive composer-percussionist Kevin Norton met at the stage of New York's The Stone one cold evening in December 2006 (one of the many shows in the DMG At The Stone Festival!) However, they generated such heat that the audience of that sold-out event forgot about the cold outside. The live recording is strikingly original and sonically overflowing. The shimmering notes of the vibraphone and cymbals intersect with the earthy tones of the bass and Joelle's evocative voice to develop an expansive soundtrack for dreams. This recording touches your heart as well as your intelligence: the music speaks to both the immediate and infinite.
CD $17

ACTIS BAND [w/ CARLO ACTIS DATO] - Zhon Guo' -Cina! (Leo 497; UK) This is the third release by Actis Band on Leo Records with the same line-up as the first CD "Garibaldi" which sold out within first six months of the release. What's it all about? Exploring the musical world with no borders and visas. Looking constantly over the horizon. Why "Cina!"? Because tomorrow is the question.... and China is the future! Looking around for every sound with creativity, respect, and the spirit of exploration... As on two previous discs there are 10 original compositions by Carlo Actis Dato played with power, precision and wit which are the trademark of Carlo and his band
CD $17

URS LEIMGRUBER - Solo: 13 # Pieces For Saxophone (Leo 498; UK) This is what Bert Noglik writes in his liner notes for this CD: "A sculptor shapes a work of art by getting to grips with his material, by creating a contour here, or bashing a bit out there. Urs Liemgruber takes on time and space by creating sounds, leaving traces behind him like an artist who designs sculptures or drawings which dissolve into thin air but which still have the power to remain fixed as impressions in our experience".
CD $17

SIMON NABATOV/NILS WOGRAM - Jazz Limbo (Leo 492; UK) These two have been close musical partners for 15 years and counting. Be it Nils Wogram Quartet, Simon Nabatov's projects like "Nature Morte" and "A Few Incidences", collaboration with the NDR Big Band or the intimate duo setting, their musical radars seem to be always in sync. Here they leave the pre-composed tactics aside and delve into open dialogue, proving that limbo can be a pretty good place to be in.
CD $17

FRANZISKA BAUMANN & MATTHIAS ZIEGLER - Voice & Tides (Leo 495; UK) Franziska Baumann - voice & SensorLab electronic, Matthias Ziegler - flute, bass flute, contrabass flute and loops. The clever use of SensorLab makes Franziska's voice totally unique. There is a definite sense of a drama of the creative process that entices the listener into an undreamt-of world of sounds. What makes this duo so special is the density of chamber music, the aural tension, the mutually intuitive reading, call and response, and the confident but playful handling of acoustic, electro-acoustic and electronic devices. The voice, the breath and air-flow, lips, tongue and oral cavity are used expressively to generate an enormous spectrum of sounds and noises. They practice an unorthodox and extensive handling of their instruments, leave conventions behind and still remain connected to the European musical tradition.
CD $17

KAORI OSAWA - Aluminum: Solo Piano (Leo 494; UK) A debut solo piano CD by the new Japanese talent who studied with Aki Takase in Germany and later at the Berklee College of Music. There are nine compositions on the CD, eight of them are Kaori's originals and one piece by Thelonious Monk who was a definite infuence on her playing. Kaori Osawa has been exploring new territory. There is a power filled with conviction in her music, a power that takes hold of the listener from the very first note. As a musician, Osawa has two sides: she is a jazz pianist and a master of a traditional art. These contrasting worlds are connected within her.
CD $17

BANZ OESTER - Blosperment Suite (Leo 496; UK) Banz Oester is not a new name in Leo Records catalogue. He's been a part of Michel Wintsch's group with three releases under his belt. Blosperment (in Swiss-German double bass) is his debut solo CD. Banz says: "I try to play a multidirectional and multicolored music, take the listeners with me on my "amazing discovery-trip" and hopefully make them forget that they are "only" listening to a bass player. I am looking for an orchestral sound. Rather than using electronic loops or re-recordings, I am looking for playing techniques to develop in the direction that I wish."
CD $17

PANASIAN ENSEMBLE - Mujou (Leo 493; UK) One of a very few truly amazing CDs in the entire Leo Records' catalogue. Recorded in Moscow, Pan-Asian Ensemble is led by Georgy Mnatsakanov (shakuhachi) and Dmitry Kalinin (shakuhachi, hichiriki, Chinese gong-chimes and voice). The Ensemble is augmented by Varvara Sidorova, Kakujo Nakagawa and Misako Mimuro (all three on biwas) and Pyotr Nikulin on dijeridu and Dmitry Schyolkin on percussion. The leaders studied with great Japanese teachers. Amazingly, the Russians try to create new music based directly on Japanese musical traditions and its aesthetic principles without distorting European composing techniques. Amazingly, they manage to create something truly original.
CD $17



THE JACK AND JIM SHOW [EUGENE CHADBOURNE/JIMMY CARL BLACK] //ROBERT O'HAIRE, dir. - 2001: A Spaced Odyssey: Rotterdam Holland September 9 2001 [DVD] (Modern Alchemy 01; USA) 99 minutes/NTSC. + 3 hour bonus MP3 materials on the same disc. Review next week.
DVD $19


BRUCE EISENBEIL SEXTET With NATE WOOLEY/NASHEET WAITS/TOM ABBS - Inner Constellation Volume 1 (Nemu 07; Germany) Featuring Bruce Eisenbeil on acoustic & electric guitars & compositions, Jean Cook on violin, Nate Wooley on trumpet, Aaron Ali Shaikh on alto sax, Tom Abbs on acoustic bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. In a town (NYC) with hundreds of great guitar players, Bruce Eisenbeil remains one of the most gifted and crafty of all modern jazz guitar heroes. This is Bruce's fifth disc as a leader in the past decade, taking his time with so that each disc is special in its own way. He has also selected a fine cast of musicians for this special sextet date, no doubt you know the ubiquitous Nate Wooley, Tom Abbs and drum wiz, Nasheet Waits.
The title piece as a quite long (47 & 1/2 minutes) and is a constantly evolving epic-length work. Bruce's opening solo guitar intro is breathtaking, focused and just a bit twisted. While Bruce's solos frenetically, he has the violin, trumpet and alto sax playing intricate lines together around him. Violinist Jean Cook, and Bruce solo intensely together with layers of spiked barbs intertwined as the tight rhythm team swirls powerfully underneath. Bruce has a clean, warm tone, similar to early John McLaughlin and also spins out lightning quick, free lines that are often astonishing and fleet. What knocks me out is the intricate writing for the violin, trumpet and alto sax, keeping everyone on their toes as they navigate the rapids provided by the inspired and at times furious rhythm team. Aaron (alto), Jean (violin) and Nate (trumpet) all get a chance to take some powerful solos on this piece, with Bruce's guitar often leading the way and/or providing a constant dialogue with the bass and drums. I dig the way the trumpet, violin and alto sax bend their notes together at times, giving the sextet a feeling of drowning or being off-balance. In a way it makes sense that it takes Mr. Eisenbeil a couple of years to get out each release since that is about how long it takes to truly absorb all of layers of playing and ideas found within this dynamic masterwork. I just hope we get a chance to see/hear this great group play live in the not too distant future. - BLG
CD $14


PAUL MOTIAN TRIO 2000+TWO - Live At The Village Vanguard, Vol 1 (W&W 133; Germany) Paul Motian [drums]; Masabumi Kikuchi [piano]; Rebecca Martin [vocals]; Chris Potter & Greg Osby [saxophones]; Larry Grenadier [bass]
CD $15


DAVID WATSON - Fingering an Idea (XI 132; USA) Disc 1: Dexter Music for highland bagpipe. Highland bagpipes: David Watson, Matthew Welch, Michael Mahoney, Brendan O'Rourke, Rob Brazius & Richard Baughman. Disc 2: Sinister - Music for acoustic and electric guitars performed by David Watson. " "Fingering an Idea" (a phrase pulled from a Chris Mann piece) resulted from a Phill Niblock invitation to make a double CD for bagpipe and guitar. A bagpipe CD is a particular challenge. A high beam spatial explorer, it is the kind of unstable phenomena that is hard to enjoyably reproduce on your stereo player. The first pipe recording session was an ensemble piece, the score including walks around the concert hall. The second, a solo multi-track session. The third with Rob Ramirez, recorded material was played back in the concert hall through an eight-channel MSP patch. A carnival of colliding pans, exits and entrances, re-recorded for stereo.
For "Sinister", an old cassette recorded at Amica Bunker was the original germ. A sequence of re-tuning and de-stringing, starting with six strings pitched across a whole-tone and ending with an improvisation on one string. This old piece was dusted off and reworked through an image of bell-ringing, another outdoors vernacular." - David Watson
2 CD Set $15


THE DAVE REMPIS PERCUSSION QUARTET - Hunters-Gatherers [2 CD Set] (482 Music 1056; USA) Featuring Dave Rempis on alto, tenor & bari saxes, Anton Hatwich on bass and Frank Rosaly & Tim Daisy on percussion. This is the third fine offering from Dave Rempis' Percussion Quartet and it was recorded live at The Hunter-Gatherer in Columbia, South Carolina in April of 2006. It is another completely improvised affair with three long and three shorter pieces. You should recognize the names of Rempis, Tim Daisy and Frank Rosaly from their work with Chicago groups like the Vandermark 5 and Mandarin Movie. You might even know of Anton Hatwich from a disc reviewed here by Paul Hartsaw or his work with Scott Rosenberg. All four men are Chicago-based.
"A Night at the Ranch Part One" blasts open with some raging tenor and powerful rhythm-team work. Both drummers sound great together, swirling percussive waves and get into a great double drum groove in the middle of this piece, then slowly mellowing down to a fine simmer. Rempis' warm toned bari sax opens "The Bus and the Canyon", which starts slowly and spaciously and then builds in intensity with some feisty bari sax before it winds down again with more spirited bowed bass and drifting percussion. Disc 2 starts with "More Green than Giraffe," which begins with a swirling percussion and strong, Trane-toned tenor sax, eventually getting into a great, sort of funky groove. Dave takes a long and joyous solo, working just right with the web of percussion spinning underneath. You can that these cats enjoy playing together, since there is a great vibe of focused communication that inspires the crowd egg them on even higher. Their creativity and joyous energy is infectious and had me smiling and jumping around in my chair. Yet another strong concoction from Chicago's finest. - BLG
2 CD Set $18


ANGELO BRANFORD QUARTET With JD PARRAN/TODD NICHOLSON/KEVIN SHEA - Wonderful Sound (Myo'on 01; USA) Featuring Angelo Branford on guitar & most compositions, JD Parran on woodwinds, Todd Nicholson on bass and Kevin Shea on drums. I know Angelo as an old friend and customer of DMG, but I didn't know that he even played an instrument. He moved to Sweden & got married a couple of years ago and just returned for a bit. His quartet played at DMG last Sunday (9/9/07) while I was up at the Guelph Fest and Manny reports that they were great. Commencing with "A Slice", the quartet is burning with some fine tenor sax from JD and a spirited bass solo from Todd, a somewhat twisted solo from Angelo, putting his guitar through some sort of device. "Six to Get Ready" features JD on flute with Angelo on more laid back and melodic jazz guitar. JD takes a lovely flute solo that is followed by a short, great drum solo that follows the melody of the tune just right. "Ke'K" is a righteous, laid back bluesy thing with tasty solos from JD on tenor and a haunting solo from Angelo. "Lament for Kabillah" starts with soft thumb piano and sublime bowed bass from Todd and it drifts softly like ghosts hovering in a field of dreams. Angelo's songs are quite memorable, I am most surprised that he hasn't a name for himself yet. He names two songs after two master bassists that have passed away in recent years, Wilber Morris and Peter Kowald. Both are poignant tributes and feature some fine playing from bassist Todd Nicholson, who does a fine job of capturing some of the distinctive sounds that Kowald was known for. I dig the way most of these tunes are both restrained and adventurous simultaneously and develop in unexpected ways. The final piece begins with an odd solo from Todd on bass and then features a strange line for the sax and guitar to play together with an odd harmony in twisted unison. Eventually the guitar and sax erupt their lines against one another while the rhythm team remains tight and focused. An unexpected delight as the downtown underground emerges from the shadows. - BLG
CD $13


BROWN WING OVERDRIVE - We Have Issues / Live at Issue Project Room 8/15/07 [CD-R] (Living Myh 01; USA) (limited edition of 50, numbered) Brown Wing Overdrive (BWO) feature Mikey IQ Jones on percussion & samples, Chuck Bettis on laptop & vocalizations and Derek Morton on electronics & banjo. If two of those names sound fairly familiar, well they should since Mikey & Chuck work here at DMG five days a week. Mikey, the thin dude with the pointy hair, has worked here for years running our shipping department and helping us to select certain music so that we occasionally look cool. Chuck has been here since February, taking over the job of Emperor Mike, manning the e-mail-based sales, selecting noisier sounds for our bins and telling folks to leave their bags at the counter. Both of these fine lads make my life here at DMG easier and we all try to keep each sane and smiling.
BWO have been around about a year, playing gigs as often as they can, recently playing in DC and Baltimore. You might recognize Chuck Bettis, the one with the goggles on this discs' cover, from improv sets he has born with Zorn or from the night he volunteers at The Stone. This disc captures one complete set at the second Issue Project Room just last month. It sounds like a particularly strong and focused set. Chuck does a great job of singing sounds into his laptop and then manipulating those sounds into strange fragments. Mikey plays percussion most selectively, occasionally adds vocals and also manipulates the results. Derek also plays some ancient electronic devices and occasionally plucks on his banjo. I dig the way they swirl their electronic and vocal-processed sounds into a fascinating and rarely too dense brew. Some of vocal sounds are hilarious, so it is fine to laugh when you listen. At 31-minutes, this disc is the perfect length, since it remains completely enchanting throughout. Great music to play loud in your apartment so that your neighbors know that you are f**king nuts. - BLG
CD $10



Three new impressive CUNEIFORM releases!

AHLEUCHATISTAS - Even In The Midst... (Cuneiform 261; USA) Leaving audiences slack-jawed in amazement at South by Southwest, punk-rock dives across the USA and jazz festivals in Europe, the Ahleuchatistas and their unique, high-energy, instrumental, technical, undefinable trio music for guitar, bass and drums continue to reach new heights as a performing and a recording unit. If they come to your town, you must see them; there is no one - and I mean no one - who can match them at what they do. Even in the Midst... is their fourth album and the years together playing hundreds and hundreds of shows have created one of the most amazingly tight ensembles that you will ever hear or see. This album widens their sound a little bit; there's plenty of the insane, over-the-top playing that we've come to expect, but there's more room for improvisation here and also for more quiet moments as well. The CD contains an 8 page, full color booklet of Courtney Chappell's beautiful and disturbing artwork. With this album, both in terms of the sonics of the album and the performance itself, the band have made their best-recorded statement yet.
CD $15

TIME OF ORCHIDS - Namesake Caution (Cuneiform 257; USA) Time of Orchids is an indefinable avant-rock band that formed in 1999 in New York City. After 3 self-released albums and a release on Tzadik that brought them to a much wider audience, Namesake Caution is their fifth release and their first on Cuneiform. They don't sound like anyone else, but you can definitely hear elements of film scores, Thinking Plague, new wave/no wave, The Beach Boys, Shudder to Think, Yes and The Magic Band, among many others. These disparate influences should give you an idea of just how different this band is from basically anyone else I can think of! They have a unique and jarring slant on music - a wedding of staggered angularity and a sweeping, seductive beauty. This is the band's most dramatic work yet - an album that sparkles with a deceptive pop linearity and ventures maniacally outward from that base. Nicely recorded by Colin Marston (Behold....The Arctopus), this album boasts layer upon layer of rich, orchestrated vocals, strange guitar figures and otherworldly keyboard textures, all draped atop a rhythm section who are rock solid and complex. Weird... stunning... and weird once again, this unlike anything else except Time of Orchids.
CD $15

RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL - Rain Falls In Grey (Cuneiform 256; USA) Radio Massacre International is a British trio of Steve Dinsdale (keyboards, electronics, drums), Duncan Goddard (keyboards, electronics, bass) and Gary Houghton (guitar, synthesizers). These three musicians have worked together in various configurations since they were 16-year old students in the 70's and formed R.M.I. in 1993. Their second Cuneiform release (and the band's 27th overall) is something quite different from the band's previous work. Best known for electronic space music for keyboards, electronics and guitars, here Radio Massacre have expanded greatly upon their usual sound and also use conventional rock instrumentation to create a sincere and moving tribute to Syd Barrett, and in doing so, manage to capture some of the psychedelic magic of 1967-1968. This album features a really striking cover by Daevid Allen, which is also an homage to Syd.
"This album is our way of saying goodbye and thanks to a genuine one-off. His passing had an unexpectedly profound effect, despite the fact that he hadn't been near a guitar in more than 30 years. It forced us to consider what an enormous influence he was, despite his space-age ascendancy and equally rapid burnout. He picked up a zippo lighter, invented glissando guitar and incorporated non-musical sounds into the context of the new psychedelic movement that had hardly had time to leave the conformity of Rhythm & Blues behind. His creation was a particularly English take on what we now call 'rock'...and for those of us engaged in experimental or space rock, the debt is enormous."-R.M.I
CD $15



SIGNAL TO NOISE - The Journal of Improvised & Experimental Music [120+ page magazine] (Issue #47/Fall 2007) Cover story on Animal Collective plus articles on Andrew Hill, Rod Poole R.I.P., Akron/Family, People (Mary Halvoson & Kevin Shea), The Terminals, "Chicago Drone", Astral Social Club, Future Rapper & Khate. Live reviews of Victo 2007, Marilyn Crispell & Louis Moholo, book reviews and 60 pages of music reviews.
Magazine $5.00


FRANCK VIGROUX [w/ MARC DUCRET & BRUNO CHEVILLON] - Triste Lilas (D'Autres Cordes 061; France) Featuring Franck Vigroux on turntables & electronics, Marc Ducret on guitar & voice, Jenn Priddle on voice, Helene Breschand on harp, Bruno Chevillon on double bass & electronics and Michel Blanc on drums. I was unfamiliar with Mr. Vigroux until recently when Elliott Sharp left us with a fine duo disc Franck. While checking out Mr. Vigroux's website, I saw that he had some dozen CD's on his own D'Autres Cordes label, often with personnel that intrigued me. Around the same time, I caught guitar great, Marc Ducret, playing at the Jazz Gallery with Drew Gress and asked him about Franck. Ducret mentioned that he is most impressed with Vigroux's playing and concepts behind each disc that Ducret has heard. So, I wrote to Franck and just got copies of his "Triste Lilas" CD to review and sell.
'Triste Lilas' translates to "Sad Lilacs", that lovely-scented flower of the Spring. It is also the third volume of trilogy about "a fugitive lost in a blood red continent". Besides Vigroux, I know three of the six members here: Marc Ducret from his work with Tim Berne and numerous solo efforts; Bruno Chevillon, one of finest contrabassists in Europe who has worked with Louis Sclavis and Helene Breschand, a fine harp player who played a duo set at Victo with Jean-Francois Pauvros. Each of the nine pieces appears to be a trio or duo. "Les Soldats Tamboura" features the sinister voice & guitar of Ducret with the spooky sounds of Franck's turntables and/or electronics and Helene's eerie harp pluckings. "Et J'ai Vu Dans le Miroir" features the somber, sexy, spoken word voice of Jenn Priddle (in English), more sinister samples from Franck and strange guitar sounds from Ducret. I get the feeling that Ducret's voice is that of the fugitive describing his troubled life while Franck and Helene provide appropriate accompaniment to the ongoing and slightly disturbing story as it unfolds. The duo of Chevillon on acoustic bass and Vigroux on samples is especially effective, since Bruno provides a great dialogue, often bowing his bass, with Franck's evocative samples and Jenn's narrator-like voice added. Michel Blanc kicks up a great funk/rock groove on "Le Cygne en Porcelaine", with Bruno's great fuzzed-out acoustic bass and Franck's swirling samples. Franck does a consistently swell job of providing often dark and mesmerizing sounds evoke a film noir-like haze to each track. Quite a fascinating story-like vibe runs through this entire disc. - BLG
CD $17


MARC MOMMAAS With NIKOLAJ HESS - Balance (Sunnyside 4001; USA) Featuring Marc Mommaas on tenor sax and Nikolaj Hess on piano. Dutch-born saxist, Marc Mommaas, moved to NYC in 1997 and got a full scholarship at the Manhattan School of music. He put together a group called Global Motion with Nikolaj Hess, John Hebert and Tony Moreno and Sunnyside released their debut disc in 2003. This is Marc's second disc for Sunnyside and it is a duo with the pianist Nikolaj Hess. Marc has a strong, warm tone on tenor and the duo work together with an almost telepathic empathy. Marc appears to have all of the songs here, yet both musicians are an integral part of the duo. "Amissirac" is a sublime ballad that begins with stark piano as Marc's robust tenor builds to a grand display on slow-burning power, with a beautiful, bluesy solo from the piano. Marc plays solo sax on two tracks and sounds well. His rich, warm tone and robust execution are superbly recorded, he sounds mighty fine just by himself. Although much of this is laid back, I found this disc to consistently touching, quietly engaging and delicately inventive. - BLG
CD $15


MITCH MARCUS QUINTET - The Special (Jazzcubed 20061231; USA) Featuring Mitch Marcus & Sylvain Carlton on saxes, Michael Abraham on guitar, George Ban-Weiss on upright bass and Ches Smith on drums. Anyone who looks behind our front counter will see dozens of 30-count CD boxes of promos piled up way too high. It is a never-ending battle to listen to as many of these promos as I can, but I continue to try. Odds are that 1 in 10 or 15 CD's turn out to something worth listening to again and even get copies to sell. I don't recall when this disc showed up, by the Mitch Marcus Quintet, but I'm glad I gave it a chance, as it is pretty great. I know nothing about anyone in this group except for drummer Ches Smith, who has become one of the most in-demand west coast/east coast percussionists in recent years, playing with Trevor Dunn, Will Bernard, Fred Frith (on 'Reasons for Moving') and Nels Cline.
"Paisano" opens with a tight, complex two sax and guitar frontline, the structure somewhat M-Base-like. Michael Abraham takes his first of numerous great guitar solos, utilizing a powerful early Frisellish distortion device. As the great rhythm pumps propulsively, someone (Mitch?) takes a great slow-burning tenor solo, which is followed by another fine softly erupting tenor solo. Mitch's composing often has the saxes doubling up the theme, as the guitar plays counter parts, soloing strongly in the middle somewhere. At times both saxes play tightly around one another, swirling intricately and powerfully. If I didn't know better I would think that this is one of those great M-Base discs from the JMT catalogue. Whenever the guitar or one the saxes solos, the rest of the quintet swirl intricately around them playing those complex written lines. All of the pieces here but one are nine minutes or longer, giving everyone a chance to stretch out. On "Inditranego", Michael takes a truly bent, electric jazz/rock guitar solo but when he finishes the quintet takes off in a different direction, yet it still works. Amazing, right?!? Consistently surprising, creative and exciting all the way down the line. This is perhaps the best disc I've heard from a mostly unknown band in the past few months (years?). - BLG
CD $15


BRAM STADHOUDERS - Tonelist [CD-R] (self-produced; Netherlands) Featuring Bram Stadhouders on guitar, guitar synth & laptop, Jasper Lekkerkerk on keyboard & effects and Onno Govaert on drums. Here's another fine promo that found its way to DMG by a 20-year-old Dutch guitarist named Bram Stadhouders and his trio. 'Tonelist' is completely improvised and 72 minutes long. There is something quite lovely and fragile, cautious and sublime, melodic yet quirky. Bram reminds me of Steve Hackett (or Fripp maybe) in the early days of Genesis when he played more dreamily. Jasper also plays spacious, exquisite, slightly eerie and dream-like electric keyboards, yet uses the minimum of notes. The same with Onno, their drummer, he just plays a few notes here and there as occasional punctuation, often in the distance and delicately. He often plays just cymbals and uses brushes, helping to navigate the soft currents that the guitar and keyboard supply. I find this music most soothing, refreshing and pure. It is progressive in a most understated way. It is one of the quietly enchanting discs I've heard in recent memory. Ommm. - BLG
CD $14


LASSE MARHAUG - Quality Control (Anoema 40; EEC) "Lasse Marhaug, head of the norwegian noise mafia, jumps right in and starts trashing the place. A symphony for a demolition team of one. This release is a definite nod to Merzbow: with every tone fully realized, dynamically placed, and the physicality of CONTROLLED mayhem! "Trashplate", the opening track on the disc, sounds as if he attached contact mics to his body and jumped into a mosh pit at a Bad Brains gig during their "I Against I" era. "More Sugar Please" brings in a repetitive rhythms with bouts of sonic terets and A.D.D. panning. "Magical Mystery Lore" gives no hint of "Revolution No. 9" but does build upon the layered guitar feedback ala "Metal Machine Music". "From The Future" , the shortest track on the record, is actually the most uneventful one; perhaps a comment on Marhaug view of the future. "Fungus For Fellini", perhaps my favorite song title in quite some time, brings this musical trip to an end. Fellini used to blast music really loud on the set to get his actor's comfortable, then overdub dialogue later; perhaps this is Lasse's intention as well. Marhaug's "Quality Control" is his best release yet! A real face melter." -Chuck Bettis/dmg
CD $16

TOSHIJI MIKAWA - Gyo-Kai Elegy (Anoema 50; EEC) "Pioneer, innovator and visionary are words easily associated with Toshiji Mikawa. One of the prime movers of Japanese noise, he started his musical activities in the late 1970s and joined the legendary and notorious Hijokaidan. In 1981 he formed Incapacitants to pursue his interest in pure noise, in contrast to the more performance art oriented Hijokaidan of that time. Initially a solo project, later he was joined by Fumio Kosakai to make Incapacitants a duo that has been widely acknowledged for their extreme sound and intense live performances. Gyo-Kai Elegy is the debut CD release under Mikawa's own name. It grants us a close-up view of his sound which is normally immersed inside Incapacitants' mighty sound structures. We get highly-detailed, unforgiving electric annihilation, invoking images of imaginary lifeforms trapped inside cages of silicon crystals."
CD $16


WALLY SHOUP/CHRIS CORSANO/PAUL FLAHERTY - Bounced Check ('Records' 14; USA) Wally Shoup, Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty make up this screamin' free punk jazz liquid solid noize trio captured LIVE 'in your face' style in Seattle, WA. Totally improvised double sax and drum explosions that break down into duos and solos and re-ignite as trio howlin' paint splattered madness gone butt-naked wilder. Recorded at an art gallery with artwork melting off the walls and frightened fans nervously mopping their furrowed blood-stained brows (they were especially afraid one or both of the sax players would expire -- it did feel like attempted sax suicide), this limited LP, which will be the final volume in the Records label plan, represents one half of the concert that emerged on that unsuspecting evening. The other half is being released at the same time (relatively) on the Tyfus label in Finland as Blank Check. Thus creating another pair of sister releases much like the Last Eyes (Records #7) & Steel Sleet (TYFUS) LP pair released in 2005. The 'Check' pair will serve as the document of the only event this trio has played to date, and it presents another blistering historical document of an underground movement that continues to go un-recognized and even un-noticed in most of the so-called civilized baby starvin' world. Free music -- hard to believe it can still piss people off just by rearing its ugly head -- but someone's gotta stand up and throw the metaphysical psycho love bombs -- thankfully we still have volunteers like these notorious three to kick around the turntable.
LP $16

TETUZI AKIYAMA/JEFFREY ALLPORT - Live at the Western Front (Simple Geometry 02; USA) "The Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama performs an improvised set as a duo with Canadian percussionist Jeffrey Allport on July 1, 2006. This recording is of the first and only time these two well-regarded improvisers have ever played together. Living on opposite sides of the Pacific, this show became an opportunity for Allport and Akiyama to each perform some of their most advanced techniques in improvised music with a player whose style was truly compatible. Allport approaches every side of his drum, the rim, the snares, the steel clamps, and of course, the skin to produce a challenging repertoire of sounds that defy the drum's gambit, segues from Tibetan drones to electronic clicks and cuts, distant steamships to nearby popcorn. Akiyama's preternatural improvisations along the neck and body of his guitar meditate patiently on each bluesy sound, almost as if his fingers were playing along the surface of a slow-moving river. Every note that Akiyama plays becomes a sensational interruption causing ripples, splashes, and oxbows in the flow of the music. This LP documents an unprecedented collaboration between two modern masters of far left improvisation."
LP $15


MONO - Gone: A Collection of EPs 2000-2007 (Temporary Residence 121; USA) "Collecting all of Mono's rare and out-of-print non-album tracks, Gone perfectly (and chronologically) displays their astounding growth, from the modest opening notes of 'Finlandia' to the scorched finale of 'Little Boy (1945-Future).' These tracks are culled from a series of highly sought-after releases, including the Japanese-only debut 'Hey, You.' EP, their split LP with Pelican, the Cameron Crowe-commissioned 'Memorie dal Futuro' vinyl 10", and 'The Phoenix Tree,' their out-of-print EP for the storied 'Travels In Constants' series. All tracks have been beautifully remastered from their original master tapes, with absurdly beautiful deluxe packaging."
CD $12



JOHN CAGE//SABINE LIEBNER - Music For Piano 1-84 [2 CD Set] (Neos 10703/4; Germany) "Sabine Liebner, piano. Cage had discovered small irregularities, elevated points, or tiny spots on the surface structure of the paper, distributed completely irregularly. Within a predetermined interval of time he marked with ink as many of these irregularities as he could find. Thus he obtained an absolutely random constellation of a field of points. Then he placed a sheet of transparent music paper over it to convert the dots into exact pitches by means of the key signature and ledger lines. Using chance procedures each of the notes determined in this way was assigned a dynamic value between pianissimo and fortissimo as well as, in some cases, a sharp or flat. 'Music for Piano 1' was produced in this way in 1952 and choreographed by Jo Anne Melcher as was 'Music for Piano 2' of the following year, for the dancer Louise Lippold. As a balance to his incessant efforts as an artist to make chance graspable in new ways in the points of coincidence and intersection of series of events that occur independently of one another, in 1954/55 he became increasingly at home in the universe of mycology. Perhaps he was haunted by another metaphysics of finding? Wherever he found an opportunity to find and identify mushrooms, Cage pursued this passion with professional depth -- in part, as he explained with a smile, because the word 'mushroom' immediately precedes 'music' in many dictionaries. Over the years he became an expert on mushrooms. He wrote a book on mushrooms with illustrations covered with Japanese silk paper; on an Italian television quiz show he won a lot of money with his expert knowledge. He meditated on the mysterious subterranean grow of mycelia, lichen, and carpophores in Japanese Zen gardens or American forests, and he could enthuse and sympathize with the horizons of sound and silence of this or that mushroom, whether they grew alone or in collections, or in bundles of five to six individual growths, saying that a such a spot of earth is precious."
2 CD set for $40

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Stimmung [H-SACD] (Harmonia Mundi 807408; USA) "[this is a hybrid SACD, which means it is playable in any ordinary CD player]
"With the 1968 Paris premiere of his 'Stimmung,' Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928) exploded the very definition of vocal performance. This musical tour de force, made up of an unbroken sequence of 51 sonic models -- entirely built on the overtones of B-flat and presented in every possible voice combination -- experiments with new compositional techniques and deconstructs the mechanics of speech and song. Paul Hillier, a champion of early and contemporary vocal repertoire, leads Theatre of Voices in his newly created 'Copenhagen Version' of a 20th-century milestone that today remains as relevant as ever. Hillier's life-long relationship with 'Stimmung' began in the 1970s when he performed it as a member of Singcircle with the composer at the controls. With its serene but highly-charged aural landscape, the work is surprisingly one of Stockhausen's most accessible compositions: spiritual yet humorous, mystical yet worldly and erotic in its poetry. This SACD-only release is an audiophile-quality recording."
H-SACD $21

MORTON FELDMAN - Give My Regards To Eighth Street: Collected Writings Of Morton Feldman (Exact Change FELD; USA) Originally released pre-9/11, finally reprinted in 2007! "What was great about the fifties is that for one brief moment -- maybe, say, six weeks -- nobody understood art. That's why it all happened." -- Feldman. "Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th century. While his music is known for its extreme quiet and delicate beauty, Feldman himself was famously large and loud. His writings are both funny and illuminating, not only about his own music but about the entire New York School of painters, poets, and composers that coalesced in the 1950s, including his friends Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank O'Hara, and John Cage. Together with John Cage, Feldman is the principal representative of the New York School of composers, a group of American avant-gardists who in the 1950s and 1960s challenged the European music establishment with their use of graphic scores, chance techniques, and indeterminate compositions. Yet despite Feldman's devotion to these radical innovations, his music was known above all for its sensuousness and melancholy. 'There never was and there is not now in my mind any doubt about its beauty,' wrote John Cage in his landmark book Silence. "'t is, in fact, sometimes too beautiful.' It is Feldman's intuitive, almost spiritual approach to music that has caused him to become one of the most performed composers of our time; since his death in 1987, no fewer than 80 CDs of Feldman's music have been released, and his works can now be heard in classical music halls worldwide. His music has also won a large following outside the classical establishment; Feldman is one of the most listened to and discussed composers among fans (and practitioners) of avant-garde rock and techno music. Give My Regards to Eighth Street is an authoritative collection of Feldman's writings, culled from published articles, program notes, LP liners, lectures, interviews, and unpublished writings in the Morton Feldman Archive at SUNY Buffalo (where Feldman taught for many years). Feldman's writings explore his music and his theories about music, but they also make clear how heavily Feldman was influenced by painting and by his friendships with the Abstract Expressionists. As editor B.H. Friedman notes in his introduction, Feldman's 'writing about art is also of lasting importance.'"
BOOK $16

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS - For Lou Harrison (New World 80669; USA) Composed in 2003-2004, for Lou Harrison completes a trilogy of large-scale memorial works that also includes Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (1991-95) and In the White Silence (1998). "For Lou Harrison" encompasses the most lush and active textures in my music to date, moving in four tempo layers (in the proportions 4/5/6/7) throughout. The work's two textures - rising arpeggios over sustained harmonic clouds, and long solo lines over 'procession-like' material - alternate in nine continuous sections, each of which is grounded in a different five-, six- or seven-tone harmony. The formal structures of the composition recur throughout the score, but the sound of the music is always changing.
"For Lou Harrison" was not commissioned. I composed this work because I was compelled to do so in response to the death of one of the most important figures in my life. Amid the daunting realities of today's world, Lou Harrison and his joyful ecumenical life and music seem more vital and more pertinent than ever before." - John Luther Adams
CD $15

ERIC RICHARDS - The Bells Themselves (New World 80673; USA) Alan Zimmerman, cowbells; Kay Stonefelt, gyils, vibraphones, and tingsha; David Keck, bass-baritone; Paul Schiavo, oboe; Greg Purnhagen, baritone; Paul Marquardt, piano; Molly Paccione, clarinet; Eric Richards, whistler Few composers today explore so poetic and visionary a musical landscape as Eric Richards (born 1935). Richards has been composing, in his own unassuming way, for more than forty years. The works included on this recording span the latter half of that time period (roughly 1983-2003). These mysterious and magical works spring from a personal aesthetic that is completely American. Richards creates his sound world from a collage of musical fragments, saturating the musical time canvas with various nuances and shades of instrumental color. Through the juxtaposition and superimposition of different facets of the same instrumental material (in different tempi, played backwards, in different patterns of repetition, and at various levels of transposition), he creates a multilayered composite sonority - one single enlarged and magnified instrumental entity. His approach is not unlike the technique of assemblage practiced by the surrealist painters.
In his willingness to experiment with sound for its own sake, without constraint by accepted formal or technical procedures, and in his invention of new rhythmic and textural effects as well as his innovations in musical notation, which parallel the originality of his musical ideas, Eric Richards is an important extension of the American Experimentalist tradition - one that includes composers Henry Cowell, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and James Tenney.
The majority of compositions on this compact disc recording exhibit timbral saturation and, as such, emanate from a single instrumental sound source (11 oboes, 72 clarinets, 5 voices, 3 pianos). A single performer using multi-track recording techniques is featured on each of the individual compositions. Many of these compositions depict different perspectives, facets and planes of instrumental sound as they simultaneously evolve in different time planes. This is manifested in the simultaneous layering of contrasting and often unrelated dimensions of time and memory within a single composition. When listening to Richards' music, one often has the sense of being dislocated in time.
CD $15



New & Recent Releases on Philip Glass's Orange Mountain label...

PHILIP GLASS - Archive Volume 2: Orchestral Music (Orange Mountain 47; USA) "In a continuing endeavor to expand and document the Philip Glass recorded legacy, Orange Mountain Music presents the second volume [out of a proposed 10 volumes] of works from the composer's archive. The program features two vivid orchestral scores: 'Day and Nights in Rocinha,' a luscious musical tribute to a Brazilian neighborhood, performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies, and 'Persephone,' the score for a 1994 Robert Wilson theatrical installation, in a tour de force performance by the instruments and voices of the Relache Ensemble, led by Joseph Franklin."
CD $19

PHILIP GLASS - Archive Vol 1: Theater Music (Orange Mountain 44; USA) "From the Philip Glass Archive -- Theater Music Archive Volume I represents the first release in a series of 10 discs to be released on Orange Mountain Music from the vast archive of recordings made in the last 40 years of Philip Glass' incredible recording career. These recordings span the entire range of Philip Glass' compositional activities and will include music for film, theater, dance, and concert hall in a wide variety of scores including chamber music, solo instruments and orchestral works. Theater Music Archive Volume 1 features two ravishingly beautiful works from the world of theater: the instrumental suite from Glass' 2003 chamber opera 'The Sound of a Voice' features Eastern and Western instruments in one of Glass' most creative scores. 'In the Summer House' is the original music composed for the Jane Bowles' 1953 play. This release contains an incredibly rare chance to hear premiere recordings of works by one of the most successful composer of our times in the most intimate context. Orange Mountain Music seeks to bring many of these works to the public for the first time in the continuing effort to expand and document the Philip Glass recording legacy."
CD $19

ANDREW STERNMAN - The Path To Peace: Music Inspired by the Inner Journey of Mahatma Gandhi (Orange Mountain 45; USA) "A member of the Philip Glass Ensemble, Andrew Sternman took his inspiration for The Path to Peace from the life and writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Performed by some of New York's leading musicians -- Todd Reynolds (violin), Bob Palmieri (guitar), Mick Rossi (piano), Kermit Driscoll (bass), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), N.M. Sundar (vocals), Nivedita Shivraj (veena) -- the result is a multimedia work that is lyrical, passionate and profound."
CD $19

COMPOSER INSIDE ELECTRONICS: FROM THE KITCHEN ARCHIVES [V.A. With DAVID TUDOR/PHIL EDELSTEIN/MARTIN KALVE/BILL VIOLA] - Kitchen Archives Vol 4: Composer Inside Electronics (Orange Mountain 46; USA) "From The Kitchen Archives No. 4: Composers Inside Electronics continues a series of CD releases featuring recently discovered audio recordings of concert performances at The Kitchen dating from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. The electronic innovation of the time is illustrated here by tracks from David Tudor, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Martin Kalve and Bill Viola." All recordings from this CD are from 1977/78. The Kalve piece is from 1978 and is performed by John Driscoll, Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi & David Tudor. The Tudor piece ("Pulsers") is a 23-minute track from 1977 with taped violin by Takehisa Kosugi.
CD $19

AMPLIFIED: FROM THE KITCHEN ARCHIVES [V.A.] - Kitchen Archives Vol 3: New Music Meets Rock 1981-1986 (Orange Mountain 24; USA) From the Kitchen Archives Vol. 3. "Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981-1986 is the third release in a series of CDs compiled from The Kitchen's archive that documents historic concert recordings at The Kitchen from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. While the first two releases, New Music, New York 1979 and Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977 focused on major figures of new and experimental music from The Kitchen's first decade, Amplified moves into the early 1980s, representing a vocabulary that emerged from the avant-garde, minimalist, and No New York scenes in the 1960s and 1970s in New York City. Highlights from the CD include the layered guitars of Rhys Chatham's works, classical cello played through electronic effects pedals by Arthur Russell, a Christian Marclay piece created with multiple turntables 'prepared' with his 'To and Fro-nograph,' one of the earliest Sonic Youth concert recordings, two tracks by Swans and a rarely performed large orchestral piece by Elliott Sharp. Even now, more than twenty years after these shows took place, these recordings capture an explosive energy that still feels vibrant and vital."
CD $19


FRANCOIS DUFRENE - Oeuvre Desintegrale [4 LP set] (Alga Marghen 070; Italy) Staggering sound poetry document, in deluxe boxset. "Alga Marghen presents one of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the Nouveau Realiste artist, Francois Dufrene. His work, along with that of Gil J Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong influence for experimental poets like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and Ake Hodell. These recordings show him that through the tape machine his poems could reach deeper and wider creative dynamics. Since the mid-1950s, the tape-machine became for him a poetical and experimental tool and Dufrene fully develops its potentials with stereophonic recordings as well as with the superimposition of his Crirhythms. The loudspeakers amplifies sounds while the microphone captures even the most detailed concrete sound produced by his voice. The physical tempest he produces is a real concrete electronic sound attack. Dufrene produced primitive, brutal poems opening the path of vocal sounds to contemporary composers: it's known that Pierre Henry was deeply inspired by Dufrene. This 4LP anthology, conceived by the same author and privately issued as a 3 cassette edition in the mid-1970s, includes only previously unpublished sound works that finally fully documents the creativity of such a radical artist. Deluxe heavy boxset edition limited to 345 copies."
4 LP set for $100

FRANCOIS DUFRENE - Francois Dufrene [Book+CD] (Alga Marghen 024; Italy) "The CD offered in the catalogue includes the fantastic crirhythm from 1970 titled 'Belle nuisances hantez nos nuits,' the complete 'Osmose-Art' from 1969 where crirhythms are superimposed to classical music, 'Eryximaque' and two 'Lecture-collage' from 1965 as well as the 1958-70 'Comptinuum.' All the sound works presented on the CD are also included in the 4LP boxset anthology issued by Alga Marghen and titled Oeuvre Desintegrale. Full colour catalogue in A4 size, 250 pages, all texts translated in English, French and Portuguese. The book includes a large selection of experimental visual works dating from 1957 to 1981 as well as the biography, essays and original texts (among them 'Pragmatics of Crirhythm' and 'The Crirhythm and the Rest' both from the mid-1960s). Full discography and filmography are also included. First edition of this large catalog, the first ever to fully document the work of Francois Dufrene."
BOOK + CD for $60


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The following item was described incorrectly last week [it is wholly a disc featuring the entire cast of musicians, not various lineups, nor does it include John Edwards]
Here is the corrected listing & contents:

DAVID RYAN with VINNY GOLIA/STEVE BERESFORD/JEREMY DRAKE/JOE WILLIAMSON/EDDIE PREVOST - Excursion [Ltd Ed CD-R] (SoundSpace 01; UK) Vinny Golia: Bb clarinet, soprillo, and sopranino saxophones; David Ryan: bass clarinet; Steve Beresford: piano; Jeremy Drake: electric guitar; Joe Williamson: bass; Eddie Prevost: drums. These tracks explore different aspects of improvisation, which I have been involved with for some time. The first two pieces are from a session that brought together a broad range of improvisers - each, in fact, playing more or less untypically. In my own case I have been best known for performing experimental indeterminate music, that of Christian Wolff, Earle Brown and Cornelius Cardew, to name but a few. But I have also been very interested in more jazz-inflected approaches, and the LA based composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia provided a push in this direction during his rare visit to the UK in 2005. Jeremy Drake is a fellow improviser from the LA scene - and one of the most inventive guitarists around to my mind (although always with understatement and subtlety as here). Steve Beresford, Eddie Prevost and Canadian bassist Joe Williamson need no introduction. But perhaps I should add that this recording was the first time this particular ad hoc group had played together. All the pieces were spontaneously realized without any discussion, plans or structures. - David Ryan, 2007
CD $15


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Virtually impossible-to-get Moers CDs !!!

CALL BOYS INCORPORATED [WOLFGANG MITTERER/KLAUS DICKBAUER /GUNTER SCHNEIDER/GUNTHER SELICHAR] - Call Boys Incorporated (Moers 2068; Germany) Wolfgang Mitterer - computer,electronics Klaus Dickbauer - reeds Gunter Schneider - g Gunther Selichar -electronics
CD $20

JOHN CARTER - A Suite Of Early American Folkpieces (Moers 2086; Germany) Solo clarinet!
CD $20

JOHN CARTER QUINTET - Variations (Moers 2084; Germany) John Carter - cl; James Newton - fl; Bob Stewart - tuba; Bobby Bradford - tp; Phillip Wilson - dr
CD $20

RHYS CHATHAM - Factor X (Moers 2008; Germany) Rhys Chatham - eg Olu Dara, Sinclair Acey, Ron Todley, Frank Gordon - tp George Lewis, Jim Staley - tb Steve Freeman - b-tb Bob Stewart - tuba Karen Haaglof, Craig R. Krafton, Susan Springfield, Tim Schellenbaum - eg Anton Fier, James Lo - dr
CD $20

DEPART [HARRY SOKAL/HEIRI KAENZIG/JOJO MAYER] - Depart (Moers 2058; Germany) Harry Sokal - ss,ts Heiri Kaenzig - b Jojo Mayer - dr, el.-perc
CD $20

RONALD SHANNON JACKSON & THE DECODING SOCIETY With VERNON REID/ZANE MASSEY/MELVIN GIBBS et al - Street Priest (Moers 3002; Germany) Zane Massey, Lee Rozie - s; Vernon Reid - e-g; reverend Bruce Johnson, Melvie Gibbs - e-b; Ronald Shannon Jackson - dr
CD $20

DAVID MOSS FULL HOUSE With FRED FRITH/JOHN ZORN/BILL LASWELL /JAMALAADEEN TACUMA/CHRISTIAN MARCLAY/ARTO LINDSAY - Full House (Moers 2088; Germany) Fred Frith - g David Moss - dr Bill Laswell - b Arto Linsay - g Tom Guralnick - sax Fred Maher - dr Christian Marclay - turntables Phil Minton - voc Jamaaladeen Tacuma - e-b John Zorn - sax David van Tieghem - perc
CD $20

DAVID MOSS DENSE BAND With FRED FRITH/JOHN ZORN/TOM CORA /WAYNE HORVITZ/CHRISTIAN MARCLAY/ARTO LINDSAY - Dense Band (Moers 2076; Germany) Fred Frith - guit; david Moss - dr, perc; Tom Cora - cello; Wayne Horvitz - p; Arto Lindsay - guit; Jules Moss - dr; Tenko - voc; Christian Marclay - turntables; John Zorn reeds
CD $20

SUNNY MURRAY TRIO with DAVID MURRAY/MALACHI FAVORS - Live At Moers (Moers 1054; Germany) Sunny Murray - dr David Murray - ts,bcl Malachi Favors - b, perc Cheik Tidiane Fall - perc
CD $20

MUSIC REVELATION ENSEMBLE [JAMES BLOOD ULMER/DAVID MURRAY /AMIN ALI/RONALD SHANNON JACKSON] - No Wave (Moers 1072; Germany)
CD $20

PERFECT TROUBLE [SIBYLLE POMORIN/TOM CORA/CHRIS CUTLER /MAGGIE NICHOLS/KLAUS WILMANNS] - Perfect Trouble (Moers 2070; Germany) Chris Cutler - dr, electr Maggie Nichols - voc Tom Cora - cello Sibylle Pomorin - as,ts,fl Klaus Wilmanns - b
CD $20

PHALANX [GEORGE ADAMS/JAMES BLOOD ULMER/AMIN ALI/CALVIN WESTON] - Got Something Good For You (Moers 2046; Germany) James Blood Ulmer - e-g, voc George Adams - ts, voc Amin Ali - e-b Calvin Weston - dr
CD $20

ODEAN POPE TRIO With GERALD VEASLEY/CORNELL ROCHESTER - Out For A Walk (Moers 2072; Germany) CD $20

ODEAN POPE TRIO With GERALD VEASLEY/CORNELL ROCHESTER - Almost Like Me (Moers 1092; Germany)
CD $20

CORNELL ROCHESTER & THE N.P. BOYS With URI CAINE - I said your mother� was on the pipe (Moers 3004; Germany) Cornell Rochester - dr, voc Willie Williams - ss, ts Uri Caine - keyboards, voc Terry "Butter" Tyler - e-b, voc Andre "Black Snow" Harris - voc, rap
CD $20

NED ROTHENBERG DOUBLE BAND With THOMAS CHAPIN - Overlays (Moers 2074; Germany) This is Rothenberg's Double Band: a sextet with the leader and Thomas Chapin on alto saxophones, Kermit Driscoll and Jerome Harris on electric bass guitars, and Billy Martin and Adam Rudolph on kit and other percussion.
CD $20

NED ROTHENBERG DOUBLE BAND With THOMAS CHAPIN - Real and Imagined Time (Moers 3006; Germany) Featuring Ned Rothenberg & Thomas Chapin on saxes & flute; Jerome Harris & Chris Wood on basses, and Billy Martin & Jim Black on drums
CD $20

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
CD $20

SHIBUSA SHIRAZU With KAZUHISA UCHIHASHI - Lost Direction (Moers 3016; Germany) Fuwa Daisuke- bass,Katayama Hiroaki - tenor sax, Kawaguchi Yoshiyuki- baritone sax, soprano sax, harmonica, Komori Keiko- alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, Kita Yoichiro- trumpet, Takaoka Daisuke- tuba, Murodate Aya- flute, vocal, Uchihashi Kazuhisa- guitar, Shibuya Takeshi- organ, Sasaki Ayako- keyboards, vocal, Uemura Masahiro- drums, Sekine Mari- percussion. Recorded live April 16th 2002 at Ekoda Buddy, Tokyo
CD $20

JAMAALADEEN TACUMA/DENNIS ALSTON - Sound Symphony (Moers 2082; Germany)
CD $20

JAMAALADEEN TACUMA & BASSO NOUVEAU - The Night Of Chamber Music (Moers 2098; Germany)
CD $20

JAMAALADEEN TACUMA & BASSO NOUVEAU - All Basses Covered - High & Low (Moers 3014; Germany) Jamaaladeen Tacuma- four stringed old hag, effects; Gerald Veasley- six strings bass guitar; Tyrone Brown- vektor & banchette stick basses & Taylor acoustic bass guitar; Warren Oree- acoustic upright bass, bow lady K.; Webb Thomas- drums; Special guests: Tony (Bun) Green- rap Vocals; Lisa Bell-sultry vocals; Aziz- from the Soul Vocals
Recorded an Mixed at: Sonic Recording Studios, Philadelphia P.A , July 1996
CD $20

RICHARD TEITELBAUM With TOM CORA/FRED FRITH/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE /GEORGE LEWIS/CARLOS ZINGARO - Cyberband (Moers 3000; Germany)
CD $20

VIENNA ART ORCHESTRA - Inside Out: Live '87 [2 CD set] (Moers 2062/63; Germany)
CD $30

VIENNA ART ORCHESTRA - Pt 2: Nightride of the lonely saxophoneplayer (Moers 2055; Germany)
CD $20

VIENNA ART ORCHESTRA - Pt 1: Nightride of the lonely saxophoneplayer (Moers 2054; Germany)
CD $20

REICHLICH WEIBLICH - Live at Moers Festival '87 (Moers 2064; Germany)
CD $20

WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET [DAVID MURRAY/JULIUS HEMPHILL/HAMIET BLUIETT/OLIVER LAKE] - Point Of No Return (Moers 1034; Germany) Recorded at the 6th New Jazz Festival Moers, June 1977
CD $20


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Out-of-print Knitting Factory and Shimmy Disc titles available from us as 'CD Sale' items - for a ver-r-y short time!

MATT DARRIAU'S PARADOX TRIO - Paradox Trio (KnitWorks 171; USA) Paradox Trio -- which became a quartet soon after its formation but has continued to be known as a trio in name only -- was formed by Matt Darriau in 1994, a few years after the multi-reedist moved from Boston to New York City. The band has provided a small-ensemble context for Darriau to continue the sort of stylistic fusion he began exploring while a member of Boston-based big band Orange Then Blue: a melding of jazz and creative improvisation with the melodies, modes, and rhythms of Balkan, klezmer, Celtic, and Gypsy folk music traditions. In addition to Darriau, the band's earliest incarnation featured percussionist Seido Salifoski from Macedonia and cellist Rufus Cappadocia (noted for his "ethno-slap-funk-cello" style) from Hamilton, Ontario; Brad Shepik soon joined the group on guitar, at which point this first album was recorded [1995]. Composer Darriau's songs draw their inspiration from jazz, gypsy rhythms and klezmer; the group's instrumentation includes sax, flute, electric cello, guitar and dumbek. ~ Jason Ankeny, AMG
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

ORI KAPLAN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE - Gongol (KnitWorks 284; USA) "This is local alto sax great Ori Kaplan's third release in two years and he just keeps growing in leaps and bounds! After two fine cds on the CIMP label, this is Ori's other project which features two marvelous percussionists - Susie Ibarra and Geoff Mann plus the equally amazing Andrew Bemkey on piano. With no bass player involved, both drummers switch off on a variety of exotic percussion. The hypnotic modal groove of "Crisis Dream" opens this wonderful offering but soon opens up to suspense-filled spaciousness with Andy magically plucking the strings inside the piano. Andy also starts off "Anticipate" with slow-burn waves on the piano - yet it is both percussionists who surround the sax with layers of exotic sounds. "Slow Boat" is a slow, somber, moody piece for minimal hand percussion, piano and mesmerizing Eastern sounding sax. "Blow Daddy" has a rather funky sort-of second-line beat - the great piano solo becomes more dense and passionate before if slows down to minimal elegance once more. Susie's kulintag (Polynesian percussion), Geoff's mallads, Andy's sublime piano and Ori's quietly intense alto sax add mystery to an excellent piece. On Geoff's tune "Prayer for Ramon" - Geoff actually plays mandolin - an odd choice which works well as all four players spin their notes together in a web of connected activity. The title track shows marvelous restraint and delicate spirits - a walking bass-line groove played on the drums and spirited alto sax and piano solos. The final tune is "Balasax" - short, sweet duo for balafon and sax - a perfect ending for this ever-engaging release." - BLG
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

KRAMER - Songs From The Pink Death (Shimmy Disc 5122; USA) Kramer, former leader of Bongwater and Shockabilly, and producer of the Butthole Surfers and Half-Japanese (among many other notables), teams up with longtime collaborators Damon Krukowski [Galaxie 500] and Sean Eden [Luna] for this amazing jewel of post-punk rock lunacy!
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE

KRAMER - The Guilt Trip [2 CD set] (Shimmy Disc 5055; USA) Kramer, former leader of Bongwater and Shockabilly, and producer/collaborator of the Butthole Surfers, Daevid Allen/Gong and Half-Japanese (among many other notables), finally put out his most direct work of self-expression - 36 cuts of that are bitterly confessional, passionately inspired and totally redemptive, while also being turnig all genres on their heads; abetted by drummer David Licht [ Shockabilly] and Randolph Hudson on guitars!
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE

KRAMER - The Secret Of Comedy (Shimmy Disc 5075; USA) Kramer, former leader of Bongwater and Shockabilly, and producer of the Butthole Surfers and Half-Japanese (among many other notables), plays everything [bass, mellotron, slide guitars, cheap flutes, kitchen sink, etc.] on this trio recording with guitarist Randolph Hudson and original Material and Curlew drummer Bill Bacon. More post-punk-art-rock lunacy!
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE

MYTH-SCIENCE [REUBEN REDDING/ANTHONY COLEMAN/BRIGGAN KRAUSS/TIM OTTO/ED WARE] - Love In Outer Space (KnitWorks 183; USA) Myth Science was a mid-'90s Sun Ra cover project by NY downtown players Reuben Radding (bass), Anthony Coleman (organ), Briggan Krauss (alto sax), Tim Otto (tenor sax) and Ed Ware (drums). They recorded one album over the course of a couple nights in October, 1995 at the Knitting Factory's Tap Bar.
Love in Outer Space is a fun, live barroom recording of some of New York's "out" downtown jazz players performing as the Sun Ra cover band Myth Science. Led by bassist Reuben Radding, this group delivers hot, personalised, roomy takes on such Ra tunes as "Kingdom of Not" and "Space Loneliness." With a jaunty yet professional looseness, tenor player Tim Otto (of Pink Noise Saxophone Quartet) and twisted alto saxist Briggan Krauss slither their tones through the excellent, fat grooves laid down by Radding and drummer Ed Ware. Not to be underestimated is the intensity of Anthony Coleman on organ -- he wails. Coleman's chunky solos poke you in the ribs and make your body move; he's all over the place, yet in full control of his instrument. The interaction between all the players (with their slightly bent sensibilities) makes this a real treat for Ra fans and an accessible, grooving introduction to Sun Ra's material for those who are interested. ~ Joslyn Layne, AMG
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

MARIO PAVONE NU TRIO With PETER MADSEN/MATT WILSON - Remembering Thomas (KnitWorks 257; USA) When alto sax & flute giant Thomas Chapin passed away on Valentine's Day last year, he left the downtown community and fans worldwide devastated. He had a very special spirit that touched all who knew or even just heard him play. Thomas and I were close friends and it was me who introduced him to the Knitting Factory staff, soon signing him to their label when it began and released seven outstanding CDs by his fabulous trio. Mario Pavone was & is the incredible contrabassist who worked with Thomas for twenty years in both of their bands. Their playing, composing and vision, a constant source of inspiration to each other and all who heard them play. Mario's incredible nu piano trio consists of two wonderful jazz musicians who both played with Thomas on numerous dates - Peter Madsen on piano & Matt Wilson on drums. They cover four of Thomas' finest tunes, a Monk and an Annette Peacock cover, while the rest are Mario's originals that Thomas once added his special magic to. I have long been a fan of a great jazz piano trio date (from Bill Evans to Harold Mabern), but for me this is as good as it gets. Both Thomas' & Mario's tunes have this jubilant, finger snapping, propulsive & uplifting spirit that is impossible to resist and not be knocked out by. Annette Peacock's "Miracles" has that gnarly, dark edge that Paul Bley always dug and it shows a different side to this trio. Pianist supreme Peter Madsen never ceases to amaze me, he is constantly spinning webs of lines which erupt into small mountains. You haven't heard of him?!? You will. This release commences with Thomas' "Aeolus", perhaps the loveliest and most haunting of all his pieces and the last tune he performed in concert a week before his passing. The beautiful and infectious spirit of Thomas Chapin lives on in this wonderful release. Treat yourself - BLG
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

MARIO PAVONE With THOMAS CHAPIN/MARTY EHRLICH - Dancer's Tales (KnitWorks 205; USA) Mario Pavone (bass) Thomas Chapin (sax) Marty Ehrlich (clarinet) Peter McEachern (trombone) Peter Madsen (piano) Steve Johns (drums) Bassist and composer Mario Pavone pays homage to the great Charles Mingus on his eighth release as a leader. His musical talents have been heavily lauded by the likes of Downbeat, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone. Pavone has played with the Thomas Chapin Trio, Anthony Braxton, Paul Bley, and gave Joshua Redman his first recording opportunity. The smoking live take of this band from the What is Jazz? CD, the Pavone/Braxton KFW release, and his presence on four Chapin CDs are a testament to the power of Pavone's musical abilities. This is truly an astounding recording that should give Pavone widespread recognition as one of the great modern jazz composers. Dancer's Tales is an exquisite recording which features an astounding group of musicians. "Challenging and original" - Stuart Nicholson, The Wire "Brilliant" - Jim Macnie, Musician "Pavone's a marvelous full-toned player who injects aggressive forward motion throughout. Fascinating tonal colors" - Steve Futterman, Rolling Stone.
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

ROB REDDY'S SLEEPING DOGS With CHARLES BURNHAM/GUILLERMO E BROWN - Seeing By The Light Of My Own Candle (KnitWorks 291; USA) Rob Reddy's Sleeping Dogs is a different group than Rob Reddy's Honor System -- bassist Dominic Richards is the only common member -- so those shades of Ronald Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society aren't as strong on this CD. The all-acoustic quintet features high-pitched lead instruments -- alto/soprano sax, violin, and trumpet -- over a rhythm section with Charles Burnham's plucked violin or mandolin strums generally filling the middle ground. The abstract opener, "Street Angel House Devil," finds Reddy's tart, knotty sax lines somersaulting out of the supporting riffs and an almost-parade beat bouncing from drummer Guillermo Brown. "Victim" is more freewheeling, with a Spanish tinge in the main melody from Burnham's mandolin and later John Carlson's trumpet. The harmonic blend gets more yearning on the recurring motif to "My Own Candle" when Burnham switches to bow after a Richards' bass solo. "Child" features a strong bass-trumpet duet -- Carlson sometimes employs growls and a fat, tart, low tone to complement a general stylistic debt to Don Cherry. "RJOC" gets into a dirge-like, funeral-parade groove behind Brown's active but unobtrusive drums that strongly recall Henry Threadgill's sextet phase, with boozy lines and gospel inflections in Reddy's alto solo. Burnham's mandolin strums generate an old-timey banjo feel, and he takes a nice plucked solo with vaguely Eastern-flavored backing harmonies by Reddy and Carlson on the closing "Prayer III." The old Ornette Coleman principle of leaving the middle wide open rules here, but Sleeping Dogs fill up the open spaces with savvy and without overplaying. Rob Reddy shows he's an intriguing composer and very democratic bandleader in a different context on Seeing by the Light of My Own Candle, an excellent disc that also has the presence of Charles Burnham, a far-too-rare occurrence, to recommend it. ~ Don Snowden, AMG
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HISTORIC & ARCHIVAL DISCS, RESTOCKS & REISSUED ITEMS OF NOTE:

ALBERT AYLER - The Hilversum Session (ESP-Disk 4035; USA) Featuring Albert Ayler on tenor sax, Don Cherry on cornet, Gary Peacock on acoustic bass and Sunny Murray on drums. Recorded at Hilversum in The Netherlands on November 9th, 1964. "The Hilversum session by Albert Ayler is one of those legendary recordings in free jazz. It was recorded in a Netherlands radio studio in front of a small invited audience, at the end of the Ayler Quartet's European tour on November 9, 1964 in front of a small invited audience. The band-Ayler, Don Cherry, Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray-had been playing Ayler's tunes for months and were uncanny in their ability to hear one another and improvise together at that point. It was also the last time the group would record together under Ayler's name as a quartet and then went out at a peak. The recording itself remained unissued until 1980 when it appeared on an LP on the long defunct Osmosis label. It made a brief appearance on CD on the Coppens imprint before the most recent edition-and likely its final home on the ESP-Disc label (who have also acquired the rights to the Holy Ghost: Rare And Unissued Recordings, 1962-70 box set originally released by Revenant. Most of the tunes were, and remain fairly common Ayler creations. "Ghosts," was recorded numerous times in 1964, and "Spirits" first appeared on Witches And Devils but appeared on a record with the same title; both appeared on Spiritual Unity; (the tune "C.A.C," is actually the original title for the cut "the Wizard," also from Spiritual Unity).
According to the liner notes, the closing number "No Name" was added as a coda to the infamous "Bells" issued in 1965, and in its relatively melodic beauty reveals another dimension to the fierce but inspiring improvisation by this quartet who would take Ayler's skeletal melodies and move them to the margins of musical language itself. "Infant Happiness" by Cherry, is the only piece not authored by Ayler. The saxophonist kicks it off before he is joined by the trumpeter near the end of bar four in a knotty but wonderfully nursery rhyme-like melody that is reminiscent of the music Cherry had played with his former and future boss Ornette Coleman. This set is a defining moment, not just historically, but musically. The intense listening and interplay that goes on here is inspiring. Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray may have played better elsewhere, but they never played with the kind of deep communication they enjoyed together as a rhythm section and other front line players than they do here. Ayler is no longer striving to find the outer limits of spiritual expression in his music: it's all on display here, and Cherry, the inveterate and outrageously talented listener/musician is in full bloom here, untethered as a soloist, yet, like the other three, remain an inextricable part of a BAND. These cats play together with the kind of intuition and foresight only a seasoned group can; they understand the nuances of the language they are speaking and k know how to offer those to the listener emotionally, musically, and even culturally. Finally, as for the sound of the recording, it has never been better. The remastering job is excellent, providing excellent fidelity and balance-not always true on the ESP-Disc offerings in the past. Included in the package are fine liner notes by Russ Musto, and a neat poster of Ayler. If someone would take the same care with Ayler's L�rrach, Paris 1966, recordings (owned by Hat is Switzerland) and reissue those in this fashion, we have have a definitive recorded portrait of the great saxophonist. This is a welcome issue." - Thom Jurek / AMG
CD $14

SUNNY MURRAY - Sunny Murray (ESP-Disk 4037; USA) Fantastically upgraded 2007 mastering + bonus interview material! Featuring Byard Lancaster & Jack Graham on alto saxes, "Drummer Sunny Murray's second date as a leader (following by eight months an almost-unknown set for Jihad that featured Don Cherry and Albert Ayler as sidemen) finds Murray leading a high-powered free jazz quintet. Best known among the sidemen are altoist Byard Lancaster and bassist Al Silva, although second altoist Jack Graham and trumpeter Jacques Coursil also play important roles in the music. Performing lengthy versions of three Murray originals and one by Graham, the band is fairly coherent but also full of fire and chance-taking solos. In ways, this is a typical ESP free-form blowing session, and certainly will be most enjoyed by open-eared listeners." - Scott Yanow / AMG
CD $14

BUD POWELL - Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961 (ESP-Disk 4036; USA) Featuring Bud Powell on piano, Zoot Sims on tenor sax, Pierre Michelot on bass, Kenny Clarke on drums. "After bop pianist Bud Powell died in 1966, ESP-Disk Records kept his name alive with a series of archival live recordings curated from the personal collection of his wife, Buttercup Powell. Unlike their higher-profile Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker series, which were of unfortunately varying (and quite often very low) quality, the Bud Powell sessions are uniformly fine, with the excellent Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961 a particular standout. Working in a trio format with local bassist Pierre Michelot and former Modern Jazz Quartet drummer Kenny Clarke, Powell stretches out on a set that's half evergreen standards (a rollicking "There Will Never Be Another You" opens the set) and half songs written or co-written by his friend and mentor Thelonious Monk. Although Powell's performances during this period were occasionally erratic owing to his sometimes precarious mental state, the pianist sounds relaxed and even playful on these eight tracks, investing his solos on Monk showcases like "'Round Midnight" with a lightness of touch that matches Clarke's fleet, flashy drumming. It's not one of Powell's most essential recordings, but Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961 shows the pianist in a comfortable setting in front of an appreciative crowd." - Stewart Mason / AMG
CD $14


NEIL ARDLEY/IAN CARR/DAVE GELLY/JON HISEMAN/HENRY LOWTHER /BARBARA THOMPSON/NORMA WINSTONE - Mike Taylor Remembered [LP only] (Trunk 026; UK) Originally recorded in 1972, as part of the long-standing Lansdowne Jazz series, this remarkable session was shelved and never issued. Recorded over two days in these famous studios, with a sublime line-up of top musicians, this represents a stunning but forgotten tribute to one of the UK's great lost jazz artists, Mike Taylor. Little is really known about Mike Taylor: an inspiring, unpredictable piano player, he recorded two super-rare albums for EMI Columbia, and later some of his compositions were recorded by Cream on their Wheels of Fire album. Taylor's music is like no one else's. It has a strange mystery, a strong and prescient feel -- full of darkness, light and poetic jazz phrasing. Mike Taylor's 1965 trio would find themselves banned from London jazz venues, and their live shows were extraordinary, LSD-fueled affairs, unlike anything else on the scene at the time. Taylor enjoyed and experimented heavily with drugs, and succumbed to mental illness in the latter half of the 1960s. Homeless and broke, he deteriorated quickly, and his body was washed ashore in the Thames Estuary in late January 1969. He left behind a number of musical manuscripts he'd thrown away, rescued by a good friend from the bin. It's these compositions that form the basis of this album. Issued on vinyl for the very first time, featuring the cream of progressive British jazz artists of the late 1960s, early 1970s period: Neil Ardley, Ian Carr, Dave Gelly, Jon Hiseman, Henry Lowther, Barbara Thompson, Norma Winstone and more.
LP $17



PINK FLOYD [SYD BARRETT/ROGER WATERS/RICHARD WRIGHT/NICK MASON] - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn [Limited 3 CD Edition] (EMI/Capitol; USA) 2007 digitally remastered and expanded three CD Special Edition of Pink Floyd's debut album, released to coincide with the album's 40th Anniversary. The packaging, designed by Storm Thorgerson, resembles a cloth-covered book, and holds three CDs, along with a 12-page reproduction Syd Barrett notebook.
Discs One and Two each contain the full album, represented in both stereo and mono versions. Both have been newly remastered by James Guthrie.
Disc Three [not available on the 2 CD edition] features bonus tracks, including all the Pink Floyd singles from 1967, ('Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play', and 'Apples And Oranges'), plus the B sides 'Candy And A Current Bun' and 'Paintbox'. Other tracks include a version of 'Interstellar Overdrive' (Take Two) of the original recording sessions, previously only available on an EP in France, and the 1967 stereo version of 'Apples And Oranges'.
"The title of Pink Floyd's debut album is taken from a chapter in Syd Barrett's favorite children's book, -The Wind in the Willows, and the lyrical imagery of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is indeed full of colorful, childlike, distinctly British whimsy, albeit filtered through the perceptive lens of LSD. Barrett's catchy, melodic acid pop songs are balanced with longer, more experimental pieces showcasing the group's instrumental freak-outs, often using themes of space travel as metaphors for hallucinogenic experiences -- "Astronomy Domine" is a poppier number in this vein, but tracks like "Interstellar Overdrive" are some of the earliest forays into what has been tagged space rock. But even though Barrett's lyrics and melodies are mostly playful and humorous, the band's music doesn't always bear out those sentiments -- in addition to Rick Wright's eerie organ work, dissonance, chromaticism, weird noises, and vocal sound effects are all employed at various instances, giving the impression of chaos and confusion lurking beneath the bright surface. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn successfully captures both sides of psychedelic experimentation -- the pleasures of expanding one's mind and perception, and an underlying threat of mental disorder and even lunacy; this duality makes Piper all the more compelling in light of Barrett's subsequent breakdown, and ranks it as one of the best psychedelic albums of all time!" ~ Steve Huey, AMG
"The album that launched a thousand groups - nay, many more. Along with the 1st Soft Machine album, this is the definitive statement of original British HARD psychedelic pop. If there's anyone amongst you that have not heard this, RUN to fetch it! My thumbs have queued UP only after the previous billion!"- MannyLunch
LIMITED 3 CD edition for $35
2 CD edition [with mono & stereo versions of the album] for $23



Expanded PERE UBU CD reissues!

PERE UBU [DAVID THOMAS/JIM JONES/ALLEN RAVENSTINE/TONY MAIMONE/SCOTT KRAUSS/CHRIS CUTLER] - The Tenement Year (Mercury; UK) 2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of the veteran Post-Punk band's 1988 album, released during their short-lived but musically rewarding 'commercial period' (1988-1993. Features five bonus tracks: 'Postman Drove A Caddy', 'The B-Side', 'Miss You' (Peel Session), 'We Have The Technology' (Peel Session) and 'Hollow Earth' (Alternate Mix).
CD $18

PERE UBU [DAVID THOMAS/JIM JONES/ALLEN RAVENSTINE/TONY MAIMONE/SCOTT KRAUSS/CHRIS CUTLER] - Cloudland (Mercury; UK) 2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of the veteran Post-Punk band's 1989 album, released during their short-lived but musically rewarding 'commercial period' (1988-1993). This re-issue has been digitally remastered by David Thomas of the band and Paul Hamann. Originally recorded at Prince's Paisley Park Studio in Minneapolis, four tracks were subsequently re-recorded in London at the label's behest and others remixed, although the band were never happy with the end result. For this 2007 re-issue David Thomas has gone back to the original Paisley Park version of the album and has presented what is basically a "directors cut" of the album. Also includes five bonus tracks in the form of the previously unreleased Paisley Park mix of "Breath" and a John Peel session version of "Bus Called Happiness", a dance mix of "Love Love Love" and the single B-sides "Wine Dark Sparks" and "Bang The Drum".
CD $18

PERE UBU [DAVID THOMAS/JIM JONES/ERIC DREW FELDMAN/TONY MAIMONE/SCOTT KRAUSS] - Worlds In Collision (Mercury; UK) 2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of the veteran Post-Punk band's 1991 album, released during their short-lived but musically rewarding 'commercial period' (1988-1993. Features four bonus tracks: 'Around The Fire', 'Down By The River', 'Like A Rolling Stone' and 'Invisible Man'.
CD $18

PERE UBU [DAVID THOMAS/JIM JONES/TONY MAIMONE/SCOTT KRAUSS] - Story Of My Life (Mercury; UK) 2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of the veteran Post-Punk band's 1993 album, released during their short-lived but musically rewarding 'commercial period' (1988-1993). Features five bonus tracks: 'Fedora Satellite', 'Gripless', 'Through The Windshield', 'Stoughton 529' and 'Come Home' (Stephen Hague Mix).
CD $18


BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Episodes at 4AM (Paradigm 24; UK) "Bob Downes is most often thought of as a jazz flautist, composer and group leader, but throughout his varied career that has included such diverse musical activity as working with the John Barry Seven and playing on Egg's second LP, he also had his own fluid conceptual group Open Music with principle bass player Barry Guy and drummer Denis Smith. Other players that passed through Open Music include Chris Spedding, Kenny Wheeler, Ray Russell, Ian Carr, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett, Harry Miller, Barre Phillips, John Stevens and many others. Besides the free jazz and jazz/rock influences, Bob Downes has also been involved in much experimental music. After his early 70s releases on Philips, Vertigo and Music For Pleasure there appeared a series of 3 private pressed LPs on his own label Openian that explored this more experimental style. 'Episodes at 4AM' is the second in this series and is by far the strangest of the three. Released in 1974 and commissioned by the Welsh Dance Theatre, it consisted of 10 short duos performed by Wendy Benka on zither, dulcimer and small percussion, and Downes on flutes, various percussion instruments and plenty of electronic manipulation. Nearly every sound on this LP was processed using a variety of shimmering delays, controlled feedback, reverb and speed change to create a haunting and delirious mix of musical styles and atmospheres. Taken from the master tapes, this 33 minute LP has been expanded for the CD release with 35 minutes of previously unreleased experimental works, mostly from the same period, that cover even more ground than the LP, including one piece made entirely from the sounds of various phone booths on the streets of New York."
CD $17


BRENDA RAY - Walatta (EM 1071; Japan) "Certainly the most unusual reggae album ever made. August Pablo, King Tubby, Asha Puthli with Ornette Coleman, Lonnie Liston Smith & Pharoah Sanders - very disturbing slices of psycho-dub/doo-wop/ jazz-fusion/exotica music. Her breathy Chordettes meets Susan Cadgan vocals, multi-tracked whisperings about inter-galactic Bluebeat starlights over what sounds like a modulated cut of heavy rhythm. Brenda Ray will be familiar to observers of the Liverpool scene as part of the NAFFI organisation through the '80s, also fame as Brenda & The Beachballs. Over the past years, together with cohort Sir Freddie Viadukt (aka the Minister of Noise), she has been aiding and abetting the reggae producer Roy Cousins, once of The Royals, in his program of remastering and reissuing selections from his Tamoki Wambesi imprint. Cousins suggested she record an album using original roots reggae tracks from original tapes. The whole album overdubbed/played/recorded/mixed between 1995-2005 at NAFFI Studios. Everything was done by herself except the final mix-down with Sir Freddie. The cover photo has Brenda in a pose between Pharoah Sanders' Thembi and Augustus Pablo's East of the River Nile with melodica pointed towards the water."
CD $21


PERERIN - Tirion Dir (Guerssen 11; EEC) "Finally the third album of Welsh folk-psych-prog legends Pererin is made available again. Quite a huge number of you already purchased our previous Pererin reissue of their second, Teithgan so you all know what to expect from this platter, but for those who didn't, let me say it's another brilliant set of traditional songs played in their very own contemporary electrified folk style. 6 & 12 string guitars, bass, mandolin, synths, mellow percussions, flute -- this might well be the folkier of all their albums, but there's still a strong progressive feel on it and some killer electric guitar leads. Another must-have for anyone into folk-prog, this is the last of the band's vinyl offerings, it was released in 1983 and was followed only by their last work that was only released on cassette. For the first time on CD format, with amazing remastered sound and with our usual outer carton slimcase. Licensed from Arfon Wyn."
CD $20


THE BAROQUES - Purple Day (Distortions 1005; USA) Catalog items from this Philadelphia-based reissue label. All are artist-authorized reissues. "The Baroques were from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and were the first psychedelic group to have an LP released on the Chess label in 1967. This CD compiles 22 of their best songs, with many unreleased demos and non-LP material. Includes 8-page booklet with detailed CD liner notes and photos
CD $12

BOHEMIAN VENDETTA - Enough (Distortions 1038; USA) "Twenty-coffee tracks from 1966-1968 by Long Island garage/psych group Bohemian Vendetta who used to play gigs with The Vagrants at the Action House. Lots of cool photos and stories. This CD contains their 1966 garage acetates as The Bohemians, the Rascal-esque first single as well as out-takes from their 1968 LP."
CD $12

HERBAL MIXTURE/GROUNDHOGS - Please Leave My Mind (Distortions 1012; USA) "1964-66 Groundhogs 45s & acetates, including their USA-only Interphon record. Also includes all known material by Tony McPhee's pop-psych outfit, the Herbal Mixture from 1966-'67."
CD $12

THE MYSTIC TIDE - Solid Sound/Solid Ground (Distortions 1006; USA) "The Mystic Tide released a total of five singles between the years 1965-1967 and they are all nearly impossible to find now. They are now considered to be one of the best garage/psychedelic groups to come out of Long Island. This CD contains 18 songs which includes all their singles and unreleased material as well as rare photos and information about this mysterious group. As featured in Richie Unterberger's book Unknown Geniuses of Rock & Roll."
CD $12

GARY WALKER & THE RAIN - Album No. 1 (Distortions 1011; USA) When the Walker Brothers got tired of their teeny-bopper status, each member embarked on a solo career (i.e. Scott). Gary formed the ultimate British pop-psych band with pre-Badfinger Joey Molland and unleashed one super rare Japanese-only LP in 1968. This CD contains the entire album plus 45-only tracks. Informative liner notes written by Finton Kirk."
CD $12




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THE DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY 'FREE IN-STORE MUSIC' CONTINUES:

This Sunday, September 16th
6pm - AMANDA MONACO & MATANA ROBERTS!
7pm - RODRIGO AMADO / ADAM LANE / HARRIS EISENSTADT!

Next Sunday, September 23rd
6pm - DAVID BEARDSLEY presents ROD POOLE'S "VOICE OF THE BOWED GUITAR"


and

DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY 16th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 at 7pm - 9:30pm at Bowery Poetry Club

JOHN ZORN / RAOUL BJORKENHEIM / SHANIR BLUMENKRANZ / LUKAS LIGETI!

BURNT SUGAR!

ROBERT MUSSO / RAOUL BJORKENHEIM / JOHN RICHEY / ELLIOTT LEVIN / DAVE DREIWITZ / ERIC SLICK!


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THE STONE is located at the NW corner of Avenue C & 2nd St.
September, 2007 is curated by Theo Bleckman

9/14 Friday
8 pm - Kate McGarry Trio w/ Kate McGarry (voice) Keith Ganz (guitar) Clarence Penn (drums); We'
10 pm - Jay Clayton Project w/ Jay Clayton (solo voice with electronics) "singing and saying the poets"

9/15 Saturday
8 and 10 pm - John Zorn Improv Night-A Stone Benefit
John Zorn (sax) Ikue Mori (electronics) Ned Rothenberg (sax) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) Theo Bleckman (voice) and many special guests
Only through your continued support can The Stone survive-come out, enjoy the music and be generous. TWENTY DOLLARS.

9/16 Sunday (MW)
8 pm - Guy Klucevsek w/ Guy Klucevsek (composer, accordion) Steve Elson (clarinet) Theo Bleckmann (voice) Nurit Tilles (piano) Solos, duos, trios and quartets with guests.
10 pm - The Music of Meredith Monk: Facing North and Tablet; Emily Eagen, Silvie Jensen, Holly Nadal (voices) Theo Bleckmann and Katie Geissinger, of Meredith Monk's vocal ensemble, will be singing a capella dutes from Facing North. Emily Eagan, Silvie Jensen, and Holly Nadal (voices) perform Meredith Monk's TABLET (1976), for 3 voices, recorders, and piano. First time performed in more than 20 years!

9/18 Tuesday
8 pm - 4Five6-Eight Decades of Experimental Films & Music
Rob Henke (brass) Alan Brady, Jody Espina, Bohdan Hilash (reeds) Rolf Sturm (guitars) Jim Whitney (bass); 4Five6 performs a wide-ranging program of music with experimental films, video, and animation from 1920 to the present. Images from Ren� Clair to Jan Svankmeyer and music from tone-row manipulation to sound-painting with everything in between.
10 pm - Mike Lowenstern (reeds) - New music from composer/performer Mike Lowenstern. Featuring music from Lowenstern's fourth CD, "Fade," with a pretty heavy dose of nostalgia, jazz, funk and electronics.

9/19 Wednesday
8 pm - Shane Endsley (trumpet) Pete Rende (piano, keyboards) Matt Renzi (tenor sax, clarinet) Ted Poor (drums) Matt Pavolka (bass); Shane Endsley presents gritty, energetic, music as a platform for the unique voices featured in this new lineup
10 pm- Ellen Christi (vocals) Gary Hassay (saxophone, vocals) Toshi Makihara (percussion); In the past, the Hassay and Makihara duo have chartered jarring musical frequencies exploring butoh inspired dance projects to Brotzmann. With the addition of Christi's mystical vocals, the evening promises to be a musical passage rendering an intimate dance of free jazz improvisation with a homage to the old school jazz idiom?

9/20 Thursday
8 pm- -Kermit Driscoll (bass) Terrence McManus (guitar) Gerry Hemingway (drums). Feet rooted in the earth, hearts open, heads in the clouds.
10pm - David Devoe (voice)

9/21 Friday
8 pm - Peter Herbert Solo (bass)
10 pm - David Cossin (percussion) Mark Stewart (guitar) Daniel Kelly (piano)

9/22 Saturday
8pm - Ned Rothenberg (sax, bass clarinet) & Sylvie Courvoisier (piano)
10 pm - Shelley Hirsch (voice, performance) Shahzad Ismaily (various instruments) In her 1st NYC performance since late last March (!), Shelley will be improvising with mult-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily.

9/23 Sunday
8pm - Kirk Nurock (piano); In a turmoil of t�te-a-t�te, pianist Kirk Nurock and drummer Tony Moreno will delve rhythmic overlays and textural shadowing. If the audience behaves, they may be invited to join in "crowd sonics."
10 pm - Russ Johnson Quartet w/ Russ Johnson (trumpet) Mick Rossi (fender rhodes) Eivind Opsvik (bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums) The premier performance of Russ' new compositions with a collection of downtown's finest improvisers.


Performances take place at 8 & 10 PM from Tuesday - Sunday nights
There are no advance tickets, first come, first served, there is no phone
There is no food or beverage served or allowed, just a serious listening environment
Admission for each set is $10, unless otherwise indicated
Check out the website for The Stone at thestonenyc.com


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From Nick Didkovsky

Tonight (Friday Sep 14 2007), two great bands playing my tunes, at two different venues:

1) Electric Kompany, 7:30 pm at the Ethical Society of Lincoln Center (64th st. and Central Park West).
The opening concert of the 2007-8 Wordless Music series.
EK will be premiering one movement of my new 11 movement suite "Human Dog" for EK and Ethel. Ethel won't be there tonight (the double quartet will premiere all of Human Dog on late October). But this should be an exciting preview!
For tickets/info
http://www.wordlessmusic.tickets.musictoday.com/WordlessMusicSeries/calendar.aspx


2) Meridian Arts Ensemble, 7:30 pm Borden Hall, Manhattan School of Music Part of the new Graduate Comtemporary Performance Program

The following pieces to be performed without pause:
Remedial Eminent Brass Nick Didkovsky (2000)
Fanfare for All Milton Babbitt (1993)
Denser Mealtime Brains Nick Didkovsky (2000)
Mini Overture Witold Lutoslawski (1982)
Mantra I Mark Applebaum (2006)
The Black Page no. 1 (solo drums) Frank Zappa (1977)
Sa�ko Tania Leon (1997)
Last Inane Dismemberer Nick Didkovsky (2000)
Dimensions Dafnis Prieto (2005)
Meanie Master Blinders Nick Didkovsky (2000)


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The Living Theatre [http://www.livingtheatre.org/]
21 Clinton Street, Manhattan (F train to Delancey or 1st Ave)

presents LIVING MUSIC - FALL 2007 SCHEDULE (more to come!)
all shows $10


SEPTEMBER 18th [Tues.] at 8pm
Steve Swell's Slammin the Infinite featuring: Steve Swell - Trombone; Sabir Mateen - reeds; Matthew Heyner -bass; Michael Wimberly -drums

OCTOBER 19th [Fri.] at 11pm
TEST featuring Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Tom Bruno and Matt Henner


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j a z z a t t h e s e a p o r t - Fridays at 10pm

September 14 - heart-feld
bob feldman, tenor saxophone
louie belogenis, tenor saxophone
michael bisio, bass
warren smith, drums

September 21
esther noh, violin
louie belogenis, tenor saxophone
john lindberg, bass

September 28
louie belogenis, tenor saxophone
eivind opsvik, bass
harris eisenstadt, drums


seaport district cultural association performance space
Front Street at Beekman Street (South Street Seaport)
rsvp: 1.212.393.9191
subway: 2,3,4,5 to Fulton Street or A to Broadway/Nassau


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Dee Pop presents: The Freestyle Creative Music Series
EVERY SUNDAY @ Jimmy�s Restaurant
43 East 7th Street NYC 212-982-3006

September curated by Kevin Norton

This Sunday - Sept 16 - Angelica Sanchez, Tony Malaby and Tom Rainey

Sunday Sept 23 - The Kevin Norton Bauhaus Quartet/ Quintet- (Barking Hoop Night #2). New compositions for this quintet configuration/instrumentation.

Sunday Sept 30 - Jim Pugliese
The 7pm set is Jim Pugliese & Dana Maisel: songs for percussion, harmonium and voice.
The 9pm set is Jim Pugliese & Kevin Norton: pieces for two percussionists, by Jim and Kevin.

Sets are at 7pm & 9pm $10 PER SHOW (cheap!)


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CLEAN FEED FEST II
At Cornelia Street Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20th
8:30 pm - Patrick Brennan Trio: Patrick Brennan - alto sax, Lisle Ellis - bass Bern Nix - guitar
9:30 pm - Al�pio C Neto Quartet: Al�pio C Neto - tenor sax and curved soprano, Ken Filiano - bass, Michael TA Thompson percussionist

SEPTEMBER 21st
9:00 pm - Russ Lossing Metal Rat: Russ Lossing - piano, Mat Maneri - violin Sean Conly - bass
10:00- Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana: Brandon Terzic - oud, Sam Bardfeld - violin & Ravish Momin - percussion
11:00 pm - Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra: Trumpets: Nate Wooley, Taylor Ho Bynum, Reeds: Avram Fefer, Michael Attias, David Bindman, Trombones: Reut Regev, Tim Vaughn, Bass: Adam Lane & Drums: Igal Foni

SEPTEMBER 22nd
9:00 pm - Gerry Hemingway Quartet: trombone - tba, Ellery Eskelin - tenor sax Mark Helias - bass & Gerry Hemingway - drums
10:00 pm - Free Range Rat: John Carlson, trumpet & pocket trumpet, Eric Hipp, tenor sax, Shawn McGloin, bass & George Schuller, drums
11:00 pm - Michael Attias Quintet: Twines of Colesion: Michael Attias: alto sax Tony Malaby: tenor & soprano saxes, Russ Lossing: piano, John Hebert: bass Nasheet Waits: drums

SEPTEMBER 23rd
8:30 pm - Ethan Winogrand Quartet: Steven Bernstein - trumpet, Ross Bonadonna - guitar, Thomson Kneeland - bass & Ethan Winogrand - drums
9:30 - Rob Brown Trio: Rob Brown - alto sax, Daniel Levin - cello & Satoshi Takeishi - percussion


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September Palmetto Dates

9/12 Bill Mays w/ Inventions Trio St. Peter's Church: Midday Jazz at Noon, NY
9/14 - 9/15 Bill Mays with Inventions Trio (CD Release) Kitano, New York, NY

9/4 - 9/9 Fred Hersch (Piano Duo Invitation Series) Jazz Standard, NY, NY
9/4 w/ Ethan Iverson
9/5 w/ Brad Mehldau
9/6 w/ Kenny Barron
9/7 w/ Jason Moran
9/8 w/ Geoff Keezer
9/9 w/ Art Lande

9/13 Frank Kimbrough (w/ Katie Bull) 55 Bar, New York, NY
9/23 Frank Kimbrough - Andrew Hill memorial St. Peter's Church, New York, NY
9/25 - 9/26 Frank Kimbrough Trio w/ Paul Motian Jazz Standard, New York, NY

9/6 Matt Wilson Long Beach Jazz Fest, Long Beach, NY
9/7 Trio M (w/ Mark Dresser, Myra Melford & Matt Wilson) The Stone 10pm, NY,

9/4-9 Fred Hersch Piano Duo Series Jazz Standard, New York, NY
4 w/ Ethan Iverson
5 w/ Brad Mehldau
6 w/ Kenny Baron
7 w/ Jason Moran
8 w/ Geoff Keezer
9 w/ Art Lande


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ELLIOTT SHARP'S TERRAPLANE RARE GIG BEFORE EUROPEAN TOUR!

Friday September 14 at Mo Pitkin's
34 Avenue A - NY, NY - one set at 10pm

Warm-up for their European tour running from Sept. 17-30.

The band includes Eric Mingus and Tracie Morris on vocals, Alex Harding-bari sax, Curtis Fowlkes-trombone, Dave Hofstra-bass & tuba, E#-guitars and sax.


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Festival # 3

COLUMBIA/HARLEM FESTIVAL OF GLOBAL JAZZ

SEPTEMBER 19-29, 2007
www.globaljazz.columbia.edu

Sponsored by
Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone
Jazzmobile, Inc.
Columbia University World Leaders Forum



PROGRAM LISTINGS [performance events curated by George Lewis]


WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19

OPENING EVENT AND WELCOME - FREE! With remarks by Randy Weston, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Dr. Billy Taylor, and a Special Performance by drummer SUSIE IBARRA @ The Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, 116th Street betw. Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues 7:30 pm



THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20

DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - FREE!
National Track & Field Hall of Fame Theatre
@ The Armory at West 168th Street
216 Fort Washington Avenue
10:00 am-6:00 pm
See www.globaljazz.columbia.edu/ for film times

CONCERT:
JOELLE LEANDRE Octet: "Satiemental Journeys"
and THE GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA [!!!!!]
@ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center
3940 Broadway betw. 165th & 166th Streets at 8:00 pm
$10/$5 students and seniors


CLUB NIGHTS - THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 21, 22, 23
Same programs all 3 nights!
DAVID MURRAY and KIDD JORDAN's Jazz Allstars
@ Creole Restaurant & Jazz Cafe
2167 Third Avenue
NE corner 118th Street
9:00 pm & 11:00 pm

The MONTY ALEXANDER Jazz and Roots Ensemble @ Lenox Lounge
288 Lenox Avenue
Malcolm X Boulevard
betw. 124th & 125th Streets
9:00 pm & 11:00 pm

CYNTHIA SCOTT Quartet
@ Showman's
375 West 125th Street
9:00 pm & 11:00 pm



FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21

DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - 10:00 am-6:00 pm - FREE!
Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz
@ Memorial and Education Center
3940 Broadway betw. 165th & 166th Streets
See www.globaljazz.columbia.edu/ for film times



SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22

CONCERT at 8pm
RANDY WESTON Quintet
@ Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall
150 Convent Avenue at West 135th Street
$10/$5 students and seniors



SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23

BLOCK PARTY - 1pm - 6:30pm - FREE!
Featuring Shamarr Allen and the Hot 8 Brass Band
The Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra directed by Arturo O'Farrill
George Gee Youth ensembles from the Harlem School of the Arts
@ Riverbank State Park - 679 Riverside Drive at 145th Street



FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28

CONCERT at 8pm
ZIM NGQAWANA Quartet
STEVE COLEMAN and the Mystic Rhythm Society
@ El Museo del Barrio -1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
$10/$5 students and seniors

Saturday, September 29
CONFERENCE: JAZZ IN THE GLOBAL IMAGINATION - FREE!
Music, Journalism, and Culture
@ Columbia School of Journalism - 2950 Broadway (at 116th Street)
9:00 am-6 pm, with an evening panel at 7:30 pm

DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - 10:00 am-6:00 pm - FREE!
@ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center
3940 Broadway between 165th & 166th Streets
See www.globaljazz.columbia.edu/ for film times

TECHNODIASPORA: AN INTERNET MASTER CLASS PERFORMANCE - Noon-1:30 pm - FREE!
Douglas Ewart and J. D. Parran
Sazi Dlamini, Ndikho Xaba, and Madala Kunene
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
@ Harlem School of the Arts - 645 St. Nicholas Avenue at 142nd Street
Enter St. Nicholas Ave from either 141st St. or 145th St. end


Starting Monday 9/17, Concert tickets may be purchased at the Miller Theatre box office, located at Broadway and 116th Street, Monday-Friday, noon-6 pm.
Tickets are also available through the Aaron Davis Hall and El Museo del Barrio box office locations. Tickets may be purchased by cash or check and in person only. For additional ticket information and up-to-date event information, please visit www.globaljazz.columbia.edu or call 212-854-4289.


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The FIFTH ANNUAL Festival of New Trumpet Music [FONT Music] begins on September 15, 2007 and will continue every day until September 30, with performances at venues all over New York City. The festival will present over 60 trumpeters from across the spectrum of musical genres.

The Festival of New Trumpet Music proudly commissioned works from five musicians in its 2007 schedule, which also includes an even greater number of world premieres. In this way FONT maintains its commitment to support emerging musical arts and artists.
FONT Music is a non-profit charitable organization. If you appreciate our work, please consider supporting us with a tax-deductible contribution:

FONT MUSIC
PO Box 31
Croton, NY 10520

THANK YOU.
(Dave Douglas founder and curator; Taylor Ho Bynum, Mark Gould, John McNeil, Jeremy Pelt curators)


For even greater detail on each performance, go to http://fontmusic.org/schedule.html and click on any particular scheduled event!


SEPTEMBER 15 [Sat.] - 8:00
FONT Music Benefit Concert - $15 [Students $12]
@ Center for Improvisational Music [CIM]
295 Douglass St. #1, between 3rd & 4th Aves., Park Slope, Brooklyn
[http://www.schoolforimprov.org]
Representing the Center for Improvisational Music, trumpeter RALPH ALESSI will lead the Extension Ensemble, an contemporary brass chamber ensemble that also features Mike Boschen on trombone, Andrew Bove on tuba, Sycil Mathai on trumpet, and Theodore Primus on French horn.
From the Brooklyn Jazz Underground, violist and composer TANYA KALMANOVITCH will perform her original music, joined by Anne Mette Iverson and Alexis Cuadrado on bass, with guest (and FONT curator) TAYLOR HO BYNUM on cornet.
Arts for Art (producers of the Vision Festival) will be represented by FONT co-founder ROY CAMPBELL Jr.. and fellow trumpet explorer LEWIS 'FLIP' BARNES.
In a meeting of special significance, trumpeter CECIL BRIDGEWATER (representing Y'all of New York) and percussionist WARREN SMITH (Studio WIS) will perform for the first time as a duo. Both musicians had long and fruitful associations with the great Max Roach, whose leadership as an innovator, activist, and organizer remains a major source of inspiration for all of the artists involved in this concert.
And finally, Dave Douglas, the co-founder and artistic director of FONT, will lead an ensemble put together especially for this unique occasion!



SEPTEMBER 16-17
Contemporary Trumpet Music [curated by Mark Gould]
@ Manhattan School of Music, 120 Claremont Ave - 212 870 4100 [http://www.msmnyc.edu]

On the 16th [Sun.] @ Borden Auditorium in MSM
7:30 ($12.50) :
MARK APPLEBAUM Magnetic North
A piece for brass quintet and improvising trumpet soloist. Performed by the Meridian Arts Ensemble and the young virtuoso, Peter Evans, as soloist.
HUANG RUO Trumpets in Time of War [FONT MUSIC COMMISSION / WORLD PREMIERE*] The distinguished Chinese composer, Huang Ruo, was commissioned by FONT Music through the generous assistance of the Greenwall Foundation. It is written for the New York Trumpet Ensemble (3 trumpets, bass trombone, and string bass), and traditional Chinese singer and instruments. DAVE DOUGLAS Blue Latitudes
U.S. premiere of renowned trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' piece for solo trumpet, chamber orchestra, bass, and percussion.

On the 17th [Mon.] @ Ades Performance Space in MSM
5 PM (Free) Panel Discussion on New Trumpet Music: Language, Idiom, Improvisation
7:30 ($12.50):
JASON PRICE Aries [*WORLD PREMIERE*] - A piece for multiple trumpets and electronics. ROBERT ERICKSON Kryl - A classic contemporary piece for trumpet solo using extended trumpet techniques. Brian McWhorter is the trumpet soloist.
OLIVIER MESSIAEN/BRANDON RIDENOUR End of Times - A meditation on Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, re-orchestrated for electronic ensemble and solo trumpet.
BUTCH MORRIS Conduction - A conducted improvisation by the large brass ensemble, Trumpet Nation. Butch Morris is the 'Toscanini' of New Music.



SEPTEMBER 18-19 ($ ???)
@ Tea Lounge, 837 Union St, Brooklyn - 718 789 2762 [http://www.tealoungeny.com]

On the 18th [Tues.]:
8 PM - NOOK Qnt with Kenny Warren
10 PM - MR. TRUMPET with George Colligan, Ralph Alessi, Shane Endsley

On the 19th [Wed.]:
8 PM - KIRK KNUFFE Quartet
10 PM - KENNY WOLLESEN Big Band featuring the music of Sarah Wilson



SEPTEMBER 20-23
New Jazz Premieres [curated by Dave Douglas and Jeremy Pelt]
@ The Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th St - 212 576 2232 [http://www.jazzstandard.net] ($20 -$30)

On the 20th [Thurs.]
7:30 & 9:30: DAVE DOUGLAS & JEREMY PELT - Inspiration [*WORLD PREMIERE*]
with special guest Eddie Henderson, Uri Caine, Vicente Archer, and Clarence Penn

On the 21st [Fri.]
7:30 & 9:30: MUSIC OF THE MASTERS with Cecil Bridgewater, Eddie Allen, & Ron McGaha
11:30: CARLOS ABADIE & BRUCE HARRIS


On the 22nd [Sat]:
7:30 & 9:30: WADADA LEO SMITH'S SEVEN with Marcus Rojas tuba, Okkyung Lee cello, Rubin Kodheli cello, Skuli Skerrisson el bass, John Lindberg bass with wah-pedals, Martin Obeng drums and percussion
11:30: GREGORY RIVKIN and AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE


On the 23rd [Sun.]:
7:30 & 9:30: JASON PALMER Quintet



SEPTEMBER 23 [Sun.] - 2 PM ($ ???)
@ St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th St, Manhattan - 212 674 6377
[http://www.stmarkschurch-in-the-bowery.com]
The BRASS MUSIC of ANTHONY BRAXTON
The Festival of New Trumpet Music is honored to have the opportunity to present two major compositions for brass ensembles by Anthony Braxton, one of today's most innovative and acclaimed living composers.
COMPOSITION 103 (for seven trumpets) - Taylor Ho Bynum, Tim Byrnes, Forbes Graham, Sam Hoyt, John McDonough, Nicole Rampersaud, Nate Wooley - trumpets
This features 145 pages of notated music and choreography for seven costumed instrumentalists. Composed in 1983, the 45-minute piece was first performed in 2005, in a fully staged and costumed realization at Wesleyan University celebrating Braxton's 60th birthday. The FONT performance would be the New York premiere, and only the second performance anywhere, of this major interdisciplinary work.
COMPOSITION 169 for Brass Quintet - Taylor Ho Bynum, Nate Wooley - trumpets; Mark Taylor - French horn; Reut Regev - trombone; Jay Rozen - tuba
Braxton's Composition 169 is one of the seminal pieces in the composer's oeuvre, yet has NEVER been performed by the intended instrumentation. Originally written for brass quintet (on swivel chairs), 169 consists of an hour of intense and unrelenting rhythmic complexity, contrasting with sections of lush, static harmonies. Braxton never found an ensemble brave enough to tackle the imposing piece, so instead has performed the work in configurations ranging from saxophone quartet to full orchestra. The FONT performance will present the WORLD PREMIERE of the composition with its original instrumentation!



SEPTEMBER 24 [Mon.] - $10-15
@ The Blue Note, 131 W 3rd St, Manhattan - 212 475 8592 [http://www.bluenote.net]
8:00 & 10:30: JEREMY PELT CD Release Celebration Performance - Jeremy Pelt celebrates the eagerly anticipated release of his 5th CD and debuts his new band "WiRED"! The CD, entitled "Shock Value: Live at Smoke", captures the band's red-hot, electric energy!



SEPTEMBER 25 [Tues.] - $15 [Students $12]
@ Center for Improvisational Music [CIM]
295 Douglass St. #1, between 3rd & 4th Aves., Park Slope, Brooklyn
[http://www.schoolforimprov.org]
8:00 & 9:30: RALPH ALESSI Quartet with Jason Moran piano, Drew Gress bass, Nasheet Waits drums



SEPTEMBER 26-27 ($ ???)
@ Barbes, 376 9th St, Brooklyn - 718 965 9177 [http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com]

On the 26th [Wed.]:
8:00: PRINCESS, PRINCESS with JAIME BRANCH, Toby Summerfield bass, Frank Rosaly drums
10:00: MATT LAVELLE Spiritual Power Trio with Mike T.A. Thompson soundrhythium, Hilliard Greene bass

On the 27th [Thurs.]:
8:00: JONATHAN FINLAYSON/SHANE ENDSLEY Duo and DAVE BALLOU/HERB ROBERTSON Duo
10:00: MACROQUARKTET with DAVE BALLOU & HERB ROBERTSON



SEPTEMBER 28-29 ($ ???)
@ Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia St, Manhattan - 212 989 9319 [http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com]

On the 28th [Fri.]:
9:00: NICOLE RAMPERSAUD Quintet
10:30: JOHN McNEIL

On the 29th [Sat.]:
9:00: The TAYLOR HASKINS Experiment
10:30: RESPECT SEXTET with ELI ASHER



SEPTEMBER 29 [Sat.] 1 PM - 5 PM ($ ???)
@ St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th St, Manhattan - 212 674 6377
[http://www.stmarkschurch-in-the-bowery.com]
BREATHS & BEATS: New Directions in Trumpet & Percussion Music
1:00 - FORBES GRAHAM
2:00 - BIRGIT ULHER/SEAN MEEHAN duo
2:45 - LEONEL KAPLAN/TATSUYA NAKATANI duo
3:30 - LAURA ANDEL With TAYLOR HO BYNUM & GAMELAN SON OF LION [*FONT MUSIC COMMISSION / WORLD PREMIERE*]



SEPTEMBER 30 [Sun.] ($ ???)
@ The Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge St, Manhattan - RSVP 212 219 0888
[http://www.eldridgestreet.org]
2:00: The MYSTIC TRUMPETERS featuring Amir El Saffar, Mark Harvey, Frank London & Natsuki Tamura (2:00)


SEPTEMBER 30 [Sun.] ($ ???)
@ Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand St - 212 766 9200 [http://www.henrystreet.org/arts] 8:00: NATE WOOLEY with Paul Lytton & David Grubbs (8:00)


For even greater detail on each performance, go to http://fontmusic.org/schedule.html and click on any particular scheduled event!


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HENRY GRIMES TO TOUR JAPAN!!!

Sunday, September 3Oth & Sunday, October 7th: Yoriyuki Harada (piano) with Tobias Delius (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Henry Grimes (double-bass, violin), Tristan Honsinger (cello), and Louis Moholo (drums, percussion), tour in Japan & Korea:

Monday, October 1st: Concert at Suginami Kokaido Concert Hall, 1-23-15 Uehagi, Suginami ku, Tokyo, Japan, +81-3-322O-O4O1, doors open at 19:OO, music starts at 19:3O;

Tuesday, October 2nd: Concert at Sakura-Za, 1-1-7 Chuo, Koufu City, Ymanashi Pref., Japan, +81 55-233-2O31, doors open at 19:OO, music starts at 19:3O;

Wednesday, October 3rd: Concert at Nagoya City Theatre, 3-6-10 Chikusa, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya City, Japan, doors open at 19:OO, music starts at 19:3O;

Thursday, October 4th: Concert at Kyoto Cultural Museum, Sanjyo Takakura, Chukyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref., Japan, +81-75-222-O889, open at 18:3O, music starts at 19:00

Friday and Saturday, October 5th and 6th: Travel from Tokyo to Seoul, Korea, and day off;

Sunday, October 7th: Concert at Buam Art Hall, 5F, 2O8-71 Buam Dog, Chong-Roku, Seoul, Korea, +82-2-391-9631, www.buamart.co.kr, buamarthall@hanmail.net, doors open at 18:3O, music starts at 19:OO.


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ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013

Friday, October 5th
Kyoko Kitamura with Valeria Vasilevsky & ok|ok [Mike McGinnis: reeds, Khabu: guitar, Kyoko Kitamura: voice and laptop]:
Nihon Anime Night. In tonight's work, conceived by Kyoko Kitamura & Valeria Vasilevski and performed by ok|ok (Mike McGinnis on reeds, Khabu on guitar & Kitamura on voice and laptop), several Japanese silent animations from the 1920s and 1930s will merge with a live performance. ok|ok's performance will honor the original content and add an English translation as well as original music both composed and improvised. Theater director/writer Valeria Vasilevski and vocalist Kyoko Kitamura first started exchanging creative ideas informally at a cafe in Brooklyn in the beginning of 2007. The purpose: to come up with ideas, no matter how strange or unrealistic, for multi-media projects which incorporated music, visuals, and Japan. Since then, the meetings have given birth to several possible projects, from small and light to big and heavy, based on classic Japanese animation from the 20s, 30s and 40s. Tonight's performance is the first realization of these ideas.


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Thursday October 11th
Matana Roberts� Gens De Couleur Libre
(chapter 1 of the Coin Coin Continuum)

featuring:
Matana Roberts - reeds, Jessica Pavone - viola, Amelia Hollander--viola Shoko Nagai-piano, Thomson kneeland- bass, Tomas Fujiwara- drums Daniel Givens� Visual Projections

Short post concert Q and A discussion with Matana Roberts after performance.

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(closest public transport)F train to Carroll Gardens
www.issueprojectroom.org


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ROB REDDY TO UNVEIL NEW WORK, NEW ENSEMBLE THIS OCTOBER in BROOKLYN, NY

Saxophonist/composer Rob Reddy and his new ensemble, Rob Reddy's Tenfold, will be in residence at

Brooklyn's Jalopy Theater every Friday night in October

to perform his latest and most ambitious extended work, Episodes and Antinomies. The world premiere of this ten movement suite, commissioned by the American Composers Forum, will happen Friday, October 5th at 9:00 p.m.

Three other performances will follow on October 12th, 19th and 26th respectively, further exploring the nuances and possibilities of this diverse music.

The opening acts will be the
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet (10/5)
Jon Margulies: Stone Tablet Interface (10/12)
Sarah Bernstein Unearthish (10/19)
Jessica Lurie Ensemble (10/26).

Admission to each of these four concerts will be $15 at the door. The Jalopy Theater is located at 315 Columbia Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Venue information is available at (718) 395-3214

Episodes and Antinomies, which takes roughly an hour and a half to perform, was written for Reddy's newly formed ten-piece ensemble featuring Douglas Yates (clarinets), John Carlson (trumpet), Mark Taylor (French horn), Charles Burnham (violin and mandolin), Rubin Kodheli (cello), Brandon Ross (guitars), Bryan Carrott (vibraphone and marimba), Dom Richards (double bass), and Pheeroan akLaff (drums). The music further explores many of the hallmarks of Reddy's most acclaimed musical projects, including a variety of time signatures, co-existing melodies, alternating through-composed and improvised movements, and the influence of genres ranging from traditional marches to modern rock to avant-garde jazz.

Episodes and Antinomies, the second of three commissioned Reddy works to receive its world premiere in New York this year, will be followed by the debut of a new book of music for his sextet, Rob Reddy's Gift Horse, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in late November.

On September 18th, Reddy will release The Book of the Storm (Reddy Music), which documents his 19-piece ensemble, Rob Reddy's Small Town, at the March world premiere of his four-movement piece of the same name.


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IRENE SCHWEIZER US & CANADIAN TOUR SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER, 2007 -

November 5th - Solo - EUROJAZZ MEETS CHICAGO, USA

November 6th, Trio w/ FRED ANDERSON and MICHAEL ZERANG at VELVET LOUNGE, CHICAGO

November 9yh - 07 - Trio with Jean Derome etc. jazz club MONTREAL

November 10th - Solo concert in Montreal, La chapelle historique du bon pasteur.

November 12th - Solo at ROULETTE, New York City


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