NA ENU IGWE Joseph Jarman and Famoudou Don Moye Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) India Navigation : 1978 JJ, tenor and alto sax, sopranino, flutes, bass clarinet, conch, vibraphone; FDM, drums and other percussion, bailophone, conch, whistles, horns, marimba. Rare things: Successful utopias. Hen's teeth. Really good linguine con vongole . Giant pandas. And, apparently, silence . There's something of a micro-genre springing up, with recent books devoted to searching out [...]
PEACE (FOR DAKOTA AND JASON) ANGELS WING ANCIENT PLACE Larry Young Love Cry Want New Jazz : 1997 (rec. 1972) LY, organ; Nicholas, guitar, synth; Joe Gallivan, guitar, synth, drums, percussion; Jimmy Molnieri, drums, percussion. Destination: Out's Dept. of "Believe It or Not" : We belatedly kick off the New Year with some insane electro [...]
OURS FOR YOURS: Having already exhumed our jazz picks for the year , here's a list of off-topic items that have excited us over the last 12 months. A peek behind the curtain of our other interests. We're also extremely curious about what's affected you this year. We look forward to reading your highlights in the comments. DREW LeDREW (aka JEFF GOLICK): SCOTT PILGRIM [...]
CRY OUT Darius Jones Trio Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing) AUM Fidelity : 2009 DJ, alto sax; Cooper-Moore, piano, Rakalam Bob Moses, drums. You know what you need? Another freakin top ten list, that's what. While we don't pretend toward comprehensiveness in our listening, we thought it might be of moderate interest to D:O's abnormally well-informed and good-looking readership to know of some discs [...]
We're thrilled to welcome back saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman for a special guest post detailing some of the recent contemporary classical music that's influenced and inspired his work. It's a sonic world that's new to us and we hope you'll be as intrigued by this selective overview as we are. Most mentions of so-called contemporary classical music in the (jazz) blog-o-sphere tend to focus on people like Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Milton Babbitt, and their work from the 1950s and 1960s. Sort [...]
PART II Ornette Coleman Chappaqua Suite Columbia : 1966 OC, alto sax; Pharaoh Sanders, tenor sax; David Izenzon, bass; Charles Moffett, drums; Joseph Tekula, orchestral arranger; plus 11 studio musicians. Several key Ornette Coleman albums have fallen through the cracks, but none have been quite as cursed as his soundtrack to the movie Chappaqua . For starters, his elaborate 80-minute score wasn't even used in the film! The story goes like this: First-time [...]
[untitled 3] Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson For Don Cherry OkkaDisk : 1995 HD, percussion; MG, reeds. On the day Don Cherry died - 19 October 1995 - Drake and Gustafsson took the stage in Chicago and recorded a forty-minute set that is remarkable for its sensitivity and resonance. Though it is unclear whether the duo were aware of Cherry's passing before taking the stage, there is nevertheless a depth of feeling that it's all too [...]
MOTORCYCLE '66 [alt. take] Bill Dixon tapestries for small orchestra DVD Firehouse 12 : 2009 BD, orchestration; Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet, flugelhorn; Graham Haynes, cornet, flugelhorn; Stephen Haynes, trumpet, cornet; Rob Mazurek, cornet; Glynis Lomon; cello; Michel Côté: contrabass clarinet; Ken Filiano, bass; Warren Smith, vibraphone, marimba. Maybe we're reading the wrong periodicals or Twitter feeds or wherever people get their information these days, but it looks to us as though Bill Dixon slapped down easily [...]
INSPIRATION François Rabbath Dialogues and Meditations Emen : 1990 FR, bass; Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute; Sabin Khan, tabla. We're pleased to present the final installation of Brian Roessler 's exploration of the visionary jazz of Franç ois Rabbath.This extended Indo-Jazz fusion track is so fluent that it could even make Don Cherry jealous. If you haven't already, be sure to check out part one and part two . And below [...]
BREIZ POUCHA DASS THYOSANNE Francois Rabbath Multibasse Emen : 1974 FR, bass on all tracks; Michel Delaporte, percussion ("Breiz"); Jean-Pierre Drouet, percussion ("Poucha Dass"); Jean-Pierre Drouet, Christian Garros, and Armand Molinetti, various percussion including tabla and marimba ("Thyosanne"). We're thrilled to present part two of Brian Roessler's exploration of the visionary jazz of François [...]
KOBOLDS PRELUDE A L'ARCHET DESERT François Rabbath The Sound of a Bass Philips : 1963 FR, bass; Armand Molinetti, drums. We're thrilled to present a special three-part post about extraordinary French bassist and composer François Rabbath. His contributions to jazz have been widely overlooked both within jazz circles and by his own fans. His early recordings form a visionary [...]
WHEN WILL THE BLUES LEAVE KING KORN Paul Bley Footloose! Savoy : 1964 PB, piano; Steve Swallow, bass; Pete La Roca, drums. We're pleased to present another stellar guest post from longtime friend of the site Ethan Iverson, of The Bad Plus . A reminder that Do The Math remains essential reading for any [...]
THESE FOOLISH THINGS GHOSTS BOUNCIN' AROUND Marc Ribot Don't Blame Me DIW : 1995 MR, guitar. Many thanks to all entrants in the contests we ran last week. The song is a duet between McCoy Tyner and Marc Ribot called "Improvisation #2." Congratulations for recognizing the tune and players are due to: Bart White, in "(almost) jazzless Tampa" [...]
SONG Artist Album Label : Year It's been a while since we last offered any free booty to our kind, good-looking, abnormally intelligent, and generous readership. Welcome to the latest D:O contest, brought to you by the fine folks at Pi Recordings , and Henry Threadgill . CONTEST ONE – Blindfold, please. The blindfold test. We've posted an mp3, above, stripped of identifying tags or details. Write us at the email [...]
THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN (PEACE) Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong and his Friends Flying Dutchman : 1970 LA, vocals; Leon Thomas, vocals, percussion; James Spaulding, flute; Kenny Burrell, guitar; Sam Brown, guitar; Frank Owens, piano; Richard Davis, bass; George Duvivier, bass; Gene Golden, congas; Bernard Purdie, drums, plus strings. Satch plays Fats, sure - but Satch sings Sanders?!?! Following our previous Pharaoh Sander's post, we couldn't resist posting this outrageous oddity: Louis Armstrong singing Pharaoh's freak [...]
HEALING SONG Pharaoh Sanders Live at the East Impulse : 1972 PS, tenor sax; Joseph Bonner, piano, harmonium; Lonnie Liston Smith, piano, flute, percussion; Marvin Peterson, trumpet; Carlos Garnett, flute, vocals; Harold Vick, vocals, sax; Stanley Clarke, bass; Cecil McBee, bass; Lawrence Killian, congas and bailophone; William Hart, drums. Maybe it's the encroaching winter, maybe it's the crappy economy, but these days we find ourselves fighting off the doldrums. Supposing that maybe you could use [...]
CARDIO - LIVE QUESTIONS OF AGENCY - LIVE Vijay Iyer Trio [ exclusive to D:O ] : 2009 VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums. We're incredibly pleased to have longtime friend of the site Vijay Iyer back for another guest post. This time he's been generous enough to share two exclusive live tracks from his trio, recorded earlier this year. We've been utterly bowled [...]
MONOCEROS 2 MONOCEROS 4 Evan Parker Monoceros Incus : 1978 EP, soprano sax. In the pantheon of saxophone colossi, there is a special place reserved for Evan Parker. Taking late Coltrane as his jumping off point, Parker has expanded the language of the saxophone as much as anyone over the past three decades. A central figure in the European Free Improv scene alonside Derek Bailey, Peter Brotzmann, John Stevens, [...]
SARANA Ray Russell Rites & Rituals Columbia : 1971 RR, guitar; Tony Roberts, reeds; Harry Beckett, flugelhorn; Nick Evans, trombone; Daryl Runswick, bass; Alan Rushton, drums. We're not big fans of traditional jazz guitar. To our ears there's something neutered and fussy about the instrument in the hands of too many jazz musicians, as if they were afraid to tap into its full potential. We're more of the Sharrock-Ulmer-Ribot-McLaughli n-circa-1970 school of the fretboard. And to that [...]
EARTH SONG SOUND IT OUT Jason Moran Black Stars Blue Note : 2001 JM, piano; Sam Rivers, tenor sax, flute; Tarus Mateen, bass; Nasheet Waits, drums. As an antidote to the recent strain of Jazz is Dead discussions, NPR's A Blog Supreme recently issued this thoughtful invitation - " Which five albums would you pick to get an open-minded listener into the jazz of [...]
Destination: OUT
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
Mr Fogg - Eleven
