OLIV I Spontaneous Music Ensemble John Stevens - Spontaneous Music Ensemble Marmalade/Polydor : 1969 Kenny Wheeler, flugelhorn; Derek Bailey, guitar; Trevor Watts, alto sax; Peter Lemer, piano; Johnny Dyani, bass; John Stevens, percussion and glockenspiel; Maggie Nicols, Pepi Lemer, Carolann Nicholls, voices. DLD:Â Is there a "British sensibility" in jazz? Is it expressed here? CJC: Â To me, the British part of this track comes across less in the jazz elements than [...]
PREVIEW The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Communications JCOAÂ : 1969 Pharoah Sanders, sax. Happy Halloween.
BURIDAN'S ASS Evan Parker The Snake Decides Incus : 1988 / Psi : 2003 [ buy ] EP, soprano sax. The title of this song refers to a philosophical paradox, roughly akin to Schrodinger's cat . Imagine, if you will, a perfectly rational, though hungry, ass, named Ratso, positioned exactly between two equally delicious bales of hay. Since each bale is the same distance from the ass, and since they're more or less identical, what decision can a [...]
 O DESAYO AGBADZA Clifford Thornton & The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Gardens of Harlem JCOA : 1975 CT, cornet, trombone, babassa; Carla Bley, piano; Bob Stewart, tuba; Charles Stevens, trombone; Janice Robinson, trombone; John Thompson, French horn; Gregory Williams, French horn; George Barrow, flute; Pat Patrick, tenor sax + soprano sax; Roland Alexander, tenor sax; Carlos Ward, alto sax + flute; Dewey Redman, alto sax + tenor sax; [...]
 UNKNOWN DISASTER FEDERICO Tim Berne Fulton Street Maul Columbia : 1987 TB, alto sax; Bill Frisell, guitar; Hank Roberts, cello; Alex Cline, percussion. "For 'Unknown Disaster,' I didn't want a guitar solo over the vamp, I wanted a noise solo - total annihilation right at the start." -Berne, reining things in on his major label debut. Tim Berne [...]
 OLE NEGRO Noah Howard The Black Ark Polydor/Freedom : 1969 NH, alto sax; Arthur Doyle, tenor sax; Earl Cross, trumpet; Leslie Waldron, piano; Sirone, bass; Muhammad Ali, drums; Juma Sultan, percussion. In outline, Noah Howard's career follows a fairly common path for the searching jazz musician of the 1960s: there’s the upbringing in a musical town in the center of America, the move out west in [...]
   Destination: Out is thrilled to present this amazing guest post by Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus . This is the first in what we hope will become an occasional feature - jazz musicians on their favorite music. Enjoy! THEME FROM THOMAS COLE SILVER AND GOLD BABY, SILVER AND GOLD Henry Threadgill You Know the Number RCA-Novus : 1986  HT, also sax; Rasul [...]
Instead of our usual posts of rare and out-of-print tracks, this week Destination: Out is offering up our Beginner's Guide to Free Jazz - featuring some of the most fun and friendly entry points to this music. We're doing this in conjunction with novelist Dennis Cooper's great blog , where Chilly has posted a special Introduction to Free Jazz Day. Check out that site for a short essay on Common Misconceptions About Free Jazz; a collection of interesting lists, articles, and links; recommended books and DVDs; YouTube links; and more. (BTW, some of this was adapted from an earlier [...]
  ALTO 1 Kaoru Abe Solo 1972.1.21 PSF : 1972 KA, alto sax. "Sound that stops the capacity for judgment. Sound that never decays. Sound that breaks free from every possibe image. Sound that comes from both death and birth. Sound that dies. The sound around me. Sound like the symptoms of eternal cold turkey. Sound that resists private ownership. Sound that goes insane. Sound [...]
SAND DANCER EYE FOR AN EYE DEVIL'S WIND Last Exit Iron Path Virgin/Venture : 1988 Sonny Sharrock, guitar; Peter Brotzmann, saxophone; Bill Laswell, bass; Ronald Shannon Jackson, drums. "I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears." -Sonny Sharrock Quotes like that make Sonny Sharrock our favorite jazz guitarist. There [...]
OTHER AFTERNOONS PREMONITIONS Jimmy Lyons Other Afternoons BYG/Actuel : 1970 JL, alto sax; Lester Bowie, trumpet; Alan Silva, bass; Andrew Cyrille, drums. Other Afternoons is an album we've been trying to get our hands on for ages. It's Jimmy Lyons's first outing as a leader, an all-star session that's one of the great debuts in jazz as well as a gem in the storied BYG/Actuel [...]
 AMBER MAUVE ONYX+TOPAZ Sam Rivers Hues ABC/Impulse : 1975 Amber: SR, tenor sax; Cecil McBee, bass; Norman Connors, drums, percussion. Mauve: SR, tenor sax; Richard Davis, bass, Wilbur Smith, vibes (?), drums. Onyx+Topaz: SR, soprano sax, flute; Arild Andersen, bass; Barry Altschul, drums. Synesthesia - what colors do you hear? Vladimir Nabokov talked about certain words and letters evoking [...]
 TANTRA THE QUEEN OF TUNG-TING LAKE INFINITE GENTLENESS Don Cherry and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Relativity Suite JCOA : 1973 DC, conductor, trumpet, conch, voice, percussion; Charles Brackeen, soprano and alto sax, voice; Carlos Ward, alto sax, voice; Frank Lowe, tenor sax, voice; Dewey Redman, tenor sax, voice; Sharon Freeman, french horn; Brian Trentham, trombone; Jack Jeffers, tuba; Leroy Jenkins, violin; Joan Katlisch, viola; Nan Newton, viola; Pat Dixon, cello; Jane [...]
LOVE, LOVE Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto Love, Love ECM : 1974 JP, trombone, horns, whistle flute, percussion, synth; Pat Gleeson, synths; Hadley Caliman, flute, saxophones, bass clarinet; Bayette Umbra Zindinko, piano, clavinette; Bill Connors, guitar; Ron McClure, bass; Kamau Eric Gravatt, drums, conga. In some alternate universe, Herbie Hancock doesn't break up his great Mwandishi ensemble after the epochal Sextant is released. He doesn't have a crisis of faith about making "heavy musical trips that try to expand people's [...]
TRIALS OF AN HONEST JOHN GOSSIP MYSTERY AT DAWN Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society Barbeque Dog Antilles : 1983 RSJ, drums, flute, bass flute; Vernon Reid, electric guitar, steel guitar, banjo; Zane Massey, tenor, alto, and soprano sax; Henry Scott, trumpet, flugelhorn; Melvin Gibbs, electric bass; Reverend Bruce Johnson, electric bass. Ornette Coleman ’s Sound Grammar , his first album in ages, was released yesterday . [...]
MRA DEVASHE'S DREAM Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath RCA/Neon : 1971 Chris McGregor, piano, xylophone; Dudu Pukwana, alto sax; John Surman, baritone sax, soprano sax; Mike Osborne, alto sax; Alan Skidmore, soprano sax, tenor sax; Harry Beckett, trumpet; Marc Charig, cornet; Mongezi Feza, Indian flute, pocket trumpet; Ronnie Beer, flute, tenor sax; Nick Evans, trombone; Malcolm Griffiths, trombone; Harry Miller, bass; Louis Moholo, percussion, drums. Brotherhood of [...]
TARIK Dewey Redman Tarik BYG/Actuel : 1969 DR, musette; Malachi Favors, bass; Ed Blackwell drums. (IF THE) MISFITS (WEAR IT) Keith Jarrett Fort Yawuh Impulse : 1973 Â KJ, piano, soprano sax; Dewey Redman, tenor sax; Charlie Haden, bass; Paul Motian, drums; Danny Johnson, percussion. SUNLANDING Dewey Redman [...]
- Dewey Redman - Tarik
- Dewey Redman, saxophones, musette; T.Daniel, J.Robertson, L.Jenkins, Sirone, E.Moore&D.Johnson drums, perc - Qow
- Dewey Redman, saxophones, musette; T.Daniel, J.Robertson, L.Jenkins, Sirone, E.Moore&D.Johnson drums, perc - Sunlanding
- Keith Jarrett - (If The) Misfits (Wear It)
ONCE UPON A TIME BUTTERMILK BOTTOM Marion Brown Geechee Recollections Impulse : 1973 MB, alto and soprano sax, clarinet; Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet; James Jefferson, bass, cello; Steve McCall, drums; William Malone, autoharp, thumb piano; A. Kobena Adzenyah, African drums. C: Marion Brown is an underground jazz legend. But it’s always been mysterious why he isn’t esteemed on the same plane as, say, Archie Shepp or Pharoah Sanders. His music from the [...]
ANCIENT AND FUTURE REFLECTIONS Â DU KING (DEDICATED TO DUKE ELLINGTON) DUET FOR ONE WORLD Muhal Richard Abrams Blues Forever Black Saint : 1982 MRA, piano and conductor; Baikida Carroll, trumpet, flugelhorn; Craig Harris, trombone; Wallace Laroy McMillan, baritone sax, flute; Jimmy Vass, alto sax, flute; Eugene Ghee, tenor sax, clarinet; Vincent Chancey, French horn; Howard Johnson, tuba, baritone sax; Jean-Paul Bourelly, guitar; Michael Logan, bass; Andrew Cyrille, drums. [...]
TATAS-MATOES CAREFREE Â (Take Two) The Art Ensemble The Art Ensemble 1967/68 Nessa : 1968 Lester Bowie, trumpet, bass whistle, siren; Roscoe Mitchell, alto sax; Malachi Favors Maghostut, bass; Robert Crowder, drums. As the summer winds down here on the East Coast (of the U.S.), we return to the subject of our very first post, the pre-Chicago Art Ensemble, quartet edition. Sure they could play free. And hell [...]
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