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THAWING OUT w/ GREAT DISCS from SHARP/GIBBS/CARTER, CECIL TAYLOR, "3 TRIOS" from BADEN-BADEN,
NEW 'PSI' RELEASES, HANS KOCH, EARTH PEOPLE, MORE AMERICAN CLAVE, TOMATO REISSUES & SUB ROSA TREATS for 2-20-04!!
ELLIOTT SHARP/MELVIN GIBBS/LANCE CARTER - Raw Meet (Intakt 090) Colossal guitars/el. bass/drums studio date from three ultra creative and highly diverse downtown all-stars. Melvin Gibbs is one the best electric bassists alive, having done time with Ronald S. Jackson, Arto Lindsay, a number of his bands and is currently with Harriet Tubman. Lance Carter is a master drummer and an old pal who has played with Sonny Sharrock, Lunar Bear, Joan Obsborne and presently with the fine vocalist Maroon. E# wears way too many hats to mention here since he excels at so much, from avant, rock, blues, jazz, classical and ethnic influences, playing numerous guitars, reeds and computer as a great bandleader, composer, player and producer. This extraordinary trio has played live in Europe, but not in the US as of yet. While the rhythm team set up some burning grooves, Elliott does an incredible job of twisting his axe inside-out by altering it in a variety of strange ways, often blurring the lines between blues, jazz, rock, funk with some inspired guitar sonic textures and mind-bending solos. "Metonymy" recalls some of those sinister sounds that Hendrix once used. I dig the way the trio occasionally lay down some steamy, laid back, hypnotic grooves while E# floats his somber, spiraling guitar sounds on top. What also stands out is that Melvin and Lance often play strong, melodic grooves, so that nothing Elliott does sounds too far out, yet always fresh and enticing. The final piece, "Sonny's Way" sounds like it was inspired by Sonny Sharrock and is a powerful, brooding work with some of Elliott's most blisterin' guitar work, a perfect way to bring this dynamic disc to a righteous and invigorating conclusion. All Thumbs Up!
CD for $16
[STEVE LACY/PHILIP JECK/PETER HERBERT/MARCUS WEISS et al] - New Jazz Meeting: Baden-Baden 2002 [2 CD Set] (Hat ology 607; Switzerland) 1) Steve Lacy -soprano saxophone, Peter Herbert -double bass, Wolfgang Reisinger -drums; 2) Marcus Weiss -tenor saxophone, Philippe Racine -flute, Paulo Alvares -piano; 3) Bernhard Lang -electronics, Christof Kurzmann -electronics, Philip Jeck -turntables; Even though the trios are billed in the lineups listed above, this is a fascinating series of live and studio solos, duos, trios, quartets and a nonet plus a remix of each improv piece. I know of about half of these names from different places/scenes, Lacy (of course), Weiss (Hat Art cd of Cage & Wolpe), Jeck (numerous fascinating solo projects & for Jah Wobble), Kurzmann (Erstwhile) and Herbert (great solo, duo w/ Tronzo & new cd on BTL). No doubt, an engaging listen for those with adventurous sonic appetites. Review next week!
2 CD for $26
NEW PSI RELEASES!!! As Emanem's Martin Davidson will tell you, Evan Parker's label is 'psi' or "Psi' (the penultimate letter of the Greek alphabet, among other things), but not 'PSI' or 'P.S.I.' (Parker's Superior Improvisations?!?). THESE ARE EXPECTED IN FRIDAY, BUT SHOULD THERE BE A DELAY WE WILL ONLY HOLD UP YOUR ORDERS FOR A FEW DAYS BEFORE SHIPPING.
KENNY WHEELER - Song for Someone (Psi 04.01; UK) 1973 Between the legendary 'Windmill Tilter' and 'Music for Large Ensemble' came 'Song for Someone' from 1973, the first music Kenny Wheeler recorded for a large group of his choosing. Featuring Derek Bailey, Alan Branscombe, Duncan Lamont, Ron Matthewson, Mike Osborne, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker, John Taylor, Norma Winstone, and others. Now on CD for the first time. Reissue of Incus LP 10. 43 minutes.
CD for $17
STAN TRACEY & EVAN PARKER - Suspensions and Anticipations (Psi 04.02; UK) 2003 A sequence of free improvisations - eight duos, two piano solos & one tenor saxophone solo - recorded at Gateway Studios. 62 minutes.
CD for $17
PISA 1980 [V.A.] - Improvisors Symposium [2 CD set] (Psi 04.03/4; UK) Ten leading free improvisors assembled in Pisa in the summer of 1980. MAARTEN ALTENA, DEREK BAILEY, BARRY GUY, GEORGE LEWIS, PAUL LOVENS, PAUL LYTTON, EVAN PARKER, PAUL RUTHERFORD, GIANCARLO SCHIAFFINI & PHILIPP WACHSMANN. Two duos, one trio & two quintets. Reissue of Incus LP 37 plus 94 minutes of extra material. 142 minutes
2 CD set for $26
WILLIAM HOOKER With EVYIND KANG, DJ OLIVE, DOUG WALKER - complexity #2 (KOS 011) Recorded live at the Knitting Factory in September of 2000. No doubt a smokin' set! Review next week
CD for $12
HANS KOCH - London duos and trios (Intakt 081) Featuring the wonderful Hans Koch on bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet & soprano sax with Phil Minton (voice), Pat Thomas (electronics), Steve Noble & Roger Turner (drums/percussion), John Edwards (bass), Mark Wastell (cello), Phil Durrant (violin) and Rhodri Davies (harp). A splendid series of studio and live duos and trios featuring Swiss reeds wizard Hans Koch with eight of UK's best improvisers often associated with the Emanem and Incus labels. The great Koch/Schutz/Studer trio is one of the finest, busiest (half dozen releases so far) and certainly the most diverse new music units anywhere, constantly re-inventing themselves in different countries and with different genres, both recording and playing live with quite a variety of guests. Over an hour of dynamic edge-of-your -seat improvisations, consistently fascinating throughout.
CD for $16
EARTH PEOPLE - Sky Readers (Undivided Vision Records 003) Third cosmic offering from local legends the Earth People who have slimmed down to a more focused free/jazz septet featuring Andre Martinez (once a Cecil Taylor collaborator) on drums & exotic percussion, Sabir Mateen & Jason Chandler on reeds & guitar, Doug Principato on electric guitar, Mark Hennen on keyboards, Francois Grillot on contrabass and Firehorse on electronics. This was recorded live at the Walker Space in NYC in April of 2003 and Earth People continue to do a fine job of keeping their fine free spirits alive and well. "Magical Flower" is 41 _ minutes of blissful, organic waves washing all over our troubled souls. Beginning calmly and then moving into denser currents with spacey wah-wah guitars, layers of spinning clarinet, flute and alto sax and a web of piano, bass and drums. The flow and thread that holds this together is just right as it moves in well connected episodes. Some of this has that 'Agartha' (Miles-like) double guitar frenzy and free/funk/rock groove and that screaming sax (Sabir?) really erupts forth intensely. Everyone gets a chance to shine as different combinations of players weave their wares, ascend and submerge. "It's That Simple" explodes open with some quick paced swinging yet free insanity, as the guitar, saxes. piano and boiling rhythm team. This is certainly some truly magic music for flying in your seats.
CD for $14
LEMON JUICE QUARTET - Peasant Songs [The Music of Erik Satie & Bela Bartok] (Piadrum Records 0201) The Lemon Juice Quartet (LJQ) have been a round for the past years and feature four fine Israeli musicians based in NY: Eyal Maoz (once in a trio w/ Okkyung Lee) on guitar, Avishai E. Cohen (recent cd on Fresh Sound reviewed here), Shanir Blumenkranz on bass and Kevin Zubeck on drums. Shanir is becoming one of the most in-demand bassists here and can be heard with Jon Madof (Tzadik cd) as well as with that great Braxton/Simmons sextet cd which is no longer available. Both Shanir and Kevin also are members of the great Satlah (3 swell cds on Tzadik) and recently worked with Daniel Carter for an excellent cd called 'Chinatown'. For 'Peasant Songs', the LJQ cover songs by two very different European classical composers - Erik Satie and Bela Bartok, an unlikely source of inspiration, perhaps? I do recall Blood, Sweat & Tears once covering a Satie piece, as well as couple jazz groups doing a Bartok pieces, but not for an entire cd. Bartok's "Bear Dance" gets a great hyper klez/rockin' version that got to make you smile. Satie's "Trumpets of the Rosicrucian Order" is playfully done with quaint guitar and tasty muted trumpet. LJQ play five different "Hungarian Peasant Songs" which also have that charming eastern European klez-like vibe with the guitar and trumpet spiraling their lines intricately as the rhythm team also dance through different tempos and changing rhythmic schemes. No small feat. They put a charming bluesy spin on "Gnossienne No. 1" and deconstruct "Dried Embryos" by speeding up and slowing down and chopping it into fragments. Both Eyal and Avishai take a number of nifty inspired solos here, at times Eyal especially takes off in some unexpected, crazed directions. Quite a p(l)easant and charming surprise.
CD for $14
PONDER THIS [V.A.] - Electronic Musics (Submergence 5007) Excellent collection of weird electronic music from both well known and lesser known figures like Conrad Schnitzler, Merzbow, Asmus Teichtens, David Lee Myers/Thomas Dimuzio, F/i, Rapoon, Colin Potter, Endgame and Mystery Hearsay. Complied by our good pal Hadley Kahn from Escapade as an obvious labor of love. The legendary German sonic pioneer Conrad Schnitzler opens with a marching sequencer beat, a number of percussion samples and subtle layers of electronic squiggles. Mystery Hearsay is/are from Memphis and sound like German synth music from the seventies with a repeating central figure and layers of suspenseful slowly shifting samples. Rapoon is much more calm and hovers in the distance. Colin Potter (has to be and is British) works with eerie samples and slowly shifting textures. Asmus Tietchens is another established sonic wiz from Germany and here does a fascinating job of altering slow moving mutant samples. Perennial favorite noise-master and over-recorded icon Merzbow provides shimmering electronic feedback drones that just slightly warped. David Lee Myers (formerly a/k/a Arcane Device) and Thomas Dimuzio (duo w/ Chris Cutler) blend their more restrained sonic fragments nicely, like submerging in a submarine. F/I from Milwaukee has also been around for a long while and does a great job of providing some scary mutating waves. Endgame aptly gets the final and longest cut, slowly unfolding one layer at a time, stretching out sounds and ghostly voices like an ominous fog enveloping us all. Let's hope that we aren't the only shop smart enough to stock this well done plethora of sonic delights. Yo Jimmy J. from FE, you best wake up & smell the coffee!?
CD for $12
ROYAL HARTIGAN - Blood Drum Spirit [2 CD set] (innova 580) Featuring Kevin McNeal on guitar, David Bindman on saxes, Wes Brown on bass and Royal on drums, with guests Michele Navazio on guitar & Brad Jones on bass. I know of David Bindman from a trio cd with Kevin Norton on CIMP and recall Wes Brown from his early work with Leo Smith, which was featured on that recent reissue box set of Leo's on Tzadik. Don't know of Royal or Kevin before this, but Royal has studied with Clifford Jarvis, Ed Blackwell and Max Roach. This fine double cd starts with strong hard swinging hard bop and then moves through a variety of cultures or influences. Both Kevin's guitar and David's tenor sax have strong, warm, well-worn tones. Royal claims that he was inspired by the Asante people of Ghana on "Wadsworth Falls", but for me it sounds like a solid, straight jazz burner. "Dagbamba" is a dreamy, spiritual sax/bass/drums trio piece inspired by West African drummers with the hypnotic, organic rhythm at the center. The "Pilipinas Suite" features Royal playing kulintang, those gong-like things from the Philippines, with David on flute. It takes us on an enchanting journey through the sights and sounds of Manila, with some luscious, laid back guitar and tenor sax serenading us. "Tala Vadyam" is based on a South Indian rhythmic cycle and is another wonderful, cerebral work with some excellent raga-like guitar from Michele Navazio, whose name I haven't heard in quite a while. Disc 2 is called the 'Apartheid USA Suite" and each part features rhythms from various cultures, usually with Royal's master drumming as the central force. More West African, Juba, Native American, Inuit, Papago and Saguaro cultures inspire our journey through the lands of our ancestors. Besides the consistently creative rhythm team, both Kevin McNeil's guitar and David Bindman's tenor and alto sax play splendid inspired jazz solos throughout. A supreme offering!
2 CD set for $18
MARK APPLEBAUM - Intellectual Property (innova 602) Mr. Applebaum is quite an incredible composer, musician and teacher. He is a professor at Stanford University, has won numerous awards for diverse compositions, is an active jazz pianist and has built electro-acoustic instruments out of all sorts of hardware and found objects. Each of the six pieces here is deals with a different approach to his compositions. The title piece is written for a Disklavier and performed by two pianists and sounds like one of those Nancarrow-like works for a player piano that would be nearly impossible for most humans to play, with some blues and jazz licks inserted in the frenzied activity. "Plundergraphic" is for two groups of players, one with live electronics and one group of four instrumentalists. The piece is extremely complex as constantly shifting combinations of players and electronics are mixed in different ways. Completely fascinating. The "Ferneyhough Remix" is for two percussionists and tape and is also quite an engaging work which also uses found sounds like a hairdryer, metronome and bicycle bell. "Mouseketier Praxis" is for Mark's sound sculptures and live electronics and is a more contemplative piece for somber suspenseful samples. "Scipio Wakes Up" is performed by the Paul Dresher Ensemble with six sound-sculptures called the Micro-Mice. This work is a more subtle alien dreamscape with quirky toy-like sounds scattered among eerie keyboards, violin, bassoon and electronic percussion drones. The conclusion is the hilarious piece called "Pre-Composition" for voices on an 8-track tape which just discusses the ridiculous side of serious composition. Zappa would be smiling. Altogether, a successful collection of wonderful sounds, ideas and compositions.
CD for $14
OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila (Thrill Jockey 117) OOIOO is Yoshimi P-We's (from the Boredoms) newer project with Kayan on el. guitar, AyA on e. bass, Yuka Yoshimura on drums and Yoshimi on just about everything else (vox, perc., guitar, keys & synth). Since the Boredoms last psych/prog masterwork 'Vision Creation New Sun', from a few years back, we Boredoms fans have been eagerly awaiting their next classic disc, but have been biding our time with a number of great offshoot projects. Check out those Rovo or Yamamoto Seichii discs on Tzadik or Yoshimi & Yuka Honda's nifty cd on Ipecac. 'Kila Kila Kila' is another gem of charming spaced-out psych grooviness, sort of a stripped down version of 'Vision Creation.' There is a joyous, radiant and child-like vibe that runs through this - goofy voices, jewelry-box percussion, fun funky grooves, a chanting chorus, selective wah-wah guitar punctuation and a cosmic all-enveloping hippy dance swirl that makes will anyone feel good to be alive and celebrate life.
CD for $14
TRAPIST - ballroom (Thrill Jockey 129) Trapist is Martin Brandlmayr on drums, percussion, vibes & synth, Martin Siewert on guitars, steel & mando guitars, electronics & synth and Joe Williamson (from Kletka Red) on double bass. This is the second cd from Trapist, the first was on Hatology plus the two Martins had a fine duo cd out on Erstwhile. I dug both previous cds immensely, but this one is even better. Considering they mainly play guitar, bass and drums, they've stripped everything down to its bare essence, rarely rocking out, yet always maintaining a rich dreamy flow. Drifting, haunting, desert-like sounds, rustling, floating drones and wandering spirits. Their bassist always takes his time to enter and often provides their enchanting, melodic undertow. When a small mountain of noise finally emerges, it just balances the rest just right. Here's a first for us, all four clowns who work here at DMG dig this, not bad at all. Without a doubt, my favorite minimalist disc of the month, at least until the next batch of Erstwhiles arrive.
CD for $14
ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS - Rocket Redux (Smog Veil 050) Collection of 12 new studio recordings with the current lineup. Featuring David Thomas from Pere Ubu on vocals, Cheetah Chrome from The Dead Boys on guitar and vocals, Richard Lloyd from Television on guitar, Craig Bell from the Saucers on bass and vocals and Steve Mehlman from Pere Ubu on drums. David Fricke, editor of Rolling Stone, wrote of Rocket From The Tombs: "No on else in American rock underground or over in 1974 and '75 was writing and playing songs this hard and graphic about being f**ked over and fighting mad. No one else is doing it now. Jason & I caught them last year at the Village Underground and they still rule!!!
CD for $14
REISSUES, RESTOCKS & HISTORIC RECORDINGS for FEBRUARY 20, 2004
CECIL TAYLOR TRIO & QUINTET - Love for Sale (Blue Note 94107/UK) Featuring Cecil's first trio studio date with Buell Neidlinger on bass and Denis Charles on drums, with Ted Curson on trumpet and Bill Barron on tenor sax added on three of the six tracks. This is an essential early studio date from April of 1959 that gives us a glance of things (modern jazz) to come. The trio covers three songs by Cole Porter, something that Cecil would soon abandon (doing covers). Cecil is already starting to spin a series of cascading lines, turning Cole Porter's melodies inside-out and freeing them up as the tunes develop. Remember, at this time (1959) no one else was playing piano like this, both Sun Ra and Lennie Tristano were working in their own worlds, not yet noticed by most journalists or serious listeners. The three quintet pieces are Cecil's originals and take those slightly twisted Monk-like themes and push them a bit further out. Ted Curson's trumpet really shines spinning intensely fueled by Cecil's amazing runs. Ted would soon be playing with Mingus' band with Eric Dolphy. The original cover of the hooker getting her cigarette lit says it all, I guess that is "Love for Sale". We only have a few of these & it is not in print here.
CD for $16
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - Sacred Bordello [Book & CD] (Alga Marghen 17) Special edition of this book (which by itself is published by Black Dog Publishing and available elsewhere -- we don't carry the book by itself; this version includes a limited CD bundled w/ the book, only available via Alga Marghen. It is a lot more expensive as a result - the book itself lists for $30. As one of the most influential figures of experimental music and performance Charlemagne Palestine has remained an enigma. Unlike his illustrious contemporaries Terry Riley, John Cale, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass, little has been written on Palestine and his continuing influence. In his own right, he was and remains today a pivotal personality whose research in musical composition and performance has been characterized over the years by its incantory repetitiveness, its flamboyance and its mysticism, but also by its violence A wonderful full color book with flexicover, 192 pages including essays, scores, original photos of both performances and installation. The most complete documentation on Charlemagne Palestine art. The compact disc will feature the 60 minutes recordings of a lecture that Charlemagne Palestine gave on March 7th, 1975 at Art Now Centre in Canada. After the performance of a strumming music concert, the author freely speaks about his music, the philosophy beyond his composition techniques and art involving the students in some kind of magic ritual. Starting as a question and answer conversation, the lecture develops into an intimate speech in which particularly private subjects are discussed. The lecture ends with a particularly touching suspended atmosphere showing how real communication in universities should be. The CD also includes a breathtaking multi-layer voice study of the early 1960s never published before on record, very similar in sound and structure to the electronic music studies just issued by Alga Marghen.
Italian import book & CD for $55
JOHN CAGE - From Zero [DVD] (Mode 130) Four films on John Cage by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver. 84 minutes with many extras. DVD only release with bonus extras of 'Making of' film and interviews. 'A Major film on John Cage' by renowned Dutch director Frank Scheffer in collaboration with Cage's associate Andrew Culver. The group of films, entitled From Zero are: '19 Questions': Cage answers 19 questions on a variety of subjects, using chance operations to determine the duration of his colorful and often witty answers. 'Fourteen': The acclaimed Ives Ensemble perform Cage's piece of the same name. Filmed with multiple cameras using chance operation to determine the position, angle, focus and aperture settings of each shot. 'Paying Attention': Agreeing on a predetermined duration, Scheffer worked with the video portion and Culver the audio from an interview with Cage. Overpopulation and Art With Ryoanji': The audio combines Cage's spoken performance of his text Overpopulation and Art simultaneously with his Ryoanji 4 voices & percussion.
DVD only release for $24
MERZBOW - Last Of Analog Sessions [3 CD boxset] (Important 022/4) Last of The Analog Sessions is a three CD box set compiling Merzbow's final three albums recorded entirely on analog equipment. These albums sat unreleased until now and mark a historic compositional change in the world of Merzbow. Upon completion of these three albums Masami Akita traded his analog equipment for an Apple laptop which he has been composing on ever since. This change in equipment marks a change in sound and a whole new period for Merzbow. This box set documents the end of one era and the beginning of another. The first 1000 copies include an embroidered Merzbow analog sessions patch. Each CD is packed in an LP mini jacket featuring cover art by Masami Akita. The entire package is housed in a deluxe silver foil-printed box featuring the EMS Synthi, one of Akita's primary instruments during Merzbow's analog era.
3 CD box-set for $25
JOHN FAHEY - Hitomi [2 LP set] (Important 030) That cranky old plectrum specialist, John Fahey's final record released in his lifetime was the discrete album titled 'Hitomi'. Previously available on CD only, Hitomi finds Fahey at peace with all his musical phases, working them together with a frail, fragile aesthetic supported by various reverb, echo and digital delays. Pressed on double 180 gram virgin vinyl and housed in a deluxe tip-on heavy-duty gatefold jacket.
2 LP set for $23
EDALAT NASIBOV - The Art of the Saz (Ocora 560181) Music of Azerbaidjan; recorded 1997. With innovative instrumental techniques of fingering and tuning and a richly ornamental style, virtuoso sz lute performer Edalat Nasibov plays tunes which explore the art of the shyq (Azerbaijani bards whose golden age lasted from the 15th to the 16th centuries).
CD for $13
IF YOU ONLY HAVE ONE WORLD MUSIC ANTHOLOGY, MAKE IT THIS ONE.
OCORA WORLD MUSIC [V.A.] - The World of Traditional Music [7CD set] (OCORA 561061-67; France) You may have seen this listed elsewhere as a 6 CD set, but we have the 7 CD version! With this set, Ocora presents an overview at its remarkably diverse collection of recordings of traditional music from around the world. Includes musical selections from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America." One disc each for: North Africa/West Asia (Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Azeraijan, Iran), South Asia (India, Pakistan), East Asia (China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia, Laos), Africa (Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Gabon, Zaire, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi), Europe (France, Belgium, Norway, Hungary, Rumania, Russia, Greece), Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela). Includes previously released material from the Ocora vaults. Buy it now as we may be forced to raise the price due to the disasterous dollar.
Import 7 CD box set for $56
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DMG IS NOW DEALING WITH THE GREAT SUB ROSA LABEL DIRECT AND WILL BE STOCKING MANY OF THE GEMS FROM THEIR BACK CATALOGUE SOON. HERE'S WHAT ARRIVED THIS WEEK:
JAMES JOYCE - the complete recordings [book & CD boxset] (Sub Rosa SR60) This contains one cd of James Joyce reading "Eolian Episode" from his novel 'Ulysses', recorded in Paris in 1924 and "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from 'Finnegan's Wake' recorded in Cambridge in 1929, plus an 116 page unpublished book called and about 'James Joyce' by Eugene Jolas, edited by and with an introduction from Marc Dachy.
CD & 116pg book for $20
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - Break Through in the Grey Room (Sub Rosa SR08) Readings and tape cut-ups from one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
CD for $15
LUNAPARK: DADAISTS AND POETS [V.A.] - Lunapark 0,10 (Sub Rosa 80; Belgium) "Sub Rosa has been working in the archives domain for a number of years and many productions are now accepted as 'classics'. After William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Antonin Artaud and before The Complete Recordings by James Joyce, Raymond Carver and an important anthology about 'Fluxus'...there is at last (after 4 years of research and work and editing) Lunapark! A sonor lunapark: the concept is from the writer, critic and close collaborator Marc Dachy. It`s really a panorama of the most important avantgarde writers and artists of the century. It begins in 1912 with Guillaume Apollinaire and ends with the Brazilian avantgarde of the seventies... 'Unique Archives' mostly never released before! Original recordings from: Guillaume Apollinaire (Father of the Avant-Garde -- Paris, 1912), Vladimir Maakovski (1914-20 in the Soviet Union), Richard Huelsenbeck (Father of Dada, in Berlin 1916), Kurt Schwitters (The Genious Father of Merz, 1932), James Joyce (Recorded in 1929 [Finnegans Wake], Gertrude Stein (New York 1934-1935), Antonin Artaud (About Death and Destroyed Minds and Bodies, 1946), Tristan Tzara (Father of Dada in Zurich [Cabaret Voltaire], 1949), Camille Bryen (French Art Brut, 1932/1939), Marcel Duchamp (Just An Enlightenment, 1957), E.E. Cummings (In Confine of the Silence), Brion Gysin (3 Permutations from 1960/1962), Julian Beck (Founder of the Living Theater, 1968), Gherasim Luca (Rare Voice of the French Poet in New York, 1969), Franois Dufrne (A Pure Fury of Words, 1961), Pierre Guyotat (Sexual Murmuring, Paris 1976) Augusto de Campos (Brazilian Avant-Garde 1970 ).
CD for $15
SOME MORE AMERICAN CLAVE TITLES RESTOCKED [that we weren't able to offer you the first time around!]
MILTON CARDONA - Cambucha [Carmen] (American Clave 1028; USA) With MILTON CARDONA, JOE SANTIAGO, ROBBY AMEEN, JOSE MANGUAL jr. , JOSE FERNANDEZ, SERGIO CARDONA, JOE TORRES (PROF.), JAMES ZOLLAR, MICHAEL BRECKER, PAPO VASQUEZ, PHILLIPE VIEUX, BILL O'CONNELL, ANDY, JOHN (YOMI) ROBINSON, CAROL ROBINSON, SANDRA (FELA) WILES, IMANI ROBINSON-FALU, THEODORE (WOOGGIE) HOLLIDAY, JOSE FERNANDEZ, ABI HOLLIDAY, KEN ROSS, GUS ONNA New York percussionist Milton Cardona is a mystical figure in the ranks of percussionist-leaders working at the juncture of jazz and Latin concepts, as heard on his first solo album, Bembe, and Cambucha (Carmen), the follow-up. Cardona and a percussion-rich entourage, also including Michael Brecker and bassist Andy Gonzalez, create a kind of allusive musical narrative (i.e. poetry in motion)....a hypnotic musical flow." - Josef Woodward, Jazz Times
CD for $16
KIP HANRAHAN - Shadow Nights 1: A Thousand Nights And A Night (American Clave 1042; USA) With DON PULLEN, STEVE SWALLOW, ROBBIE AMEEN, CARMEN LUNDY, CHARLES NEVILLE, BILLY BANG, BRANDON ROSS, EL NEGRO HORACIO HERNANDEZ, HENRY THREADGIL, MIKE CAIN, ANTHONY CARRILLO, MILTON CARDONA, ALFREDO TRIFF, ERIC SCHENKMAN, ANDY GONZALEZ Shahrazade and the opening of the first shadow night; Blue Shalimah's Tale, Opening; Blue Shalima's Tale, Continuing; Shaharazade's shadow night lover; The Blonde Woman Escapes; The Hasheater At The Gates of the Summer City ; The Hasheater in Judgement / and the Revival of the Thousand Pound Elephant; A's Trick Ghanim ibn Ayyub's Tale and Kut al-Kulub; The Jewish Doctor's Tale Continues; Shahrazade Adrift; The Sleeper Awakened; Zummarud's Tale Continues with the Thieves; The Brown Eyed Woman Escapes; The Red Headed Woman Remains with the Merchant; Shahrazade and the Closing of the First Shadow Night "complete with bawdy lyrics and lavish romanticism, Hanrahan sculpts vivid imagery with grand assistance from the late great pianist Don Pullen ... A Thousand Nights and a Night is an audacious and stimulating affair thanks to Hanrahan's exquisite production and the flawless execution of these masterful musicians. Melodramatic, peppery and articulate, this may be Hanrahan's crowning achievement, which could be a bold statement considering his already impressive discography..." - Glen Asarita, All About Jazz
CD for $16
KIP HANRAHAN - Days And Nights Of Blue Luck Inverted (American Clave 1012; USA) With FERNANDO SAUNDERS, ANDY GONZALEZ, LEO NOCENTELLI, GIOVANNI HIDALGO, JERRY GONZALEZ, MILTON CARDONA, ROBBIE AMEEN, WILLIE GREEN, CHARLES NEVILLE, JOHN STUBBLEFIELD, KIP HANRAHAN, JACK BRUCE, IGNACIO BERROA, PETER SCHERER, ANTON FIER, LEW SOLOFF, MARIO RIVERA, DAVID MURRAY, PABLO ZIEGLER, ALFREDO TRIFF, GEORGE ADAMS, CARMEN LUNDY "...Hanrahan avoids the mold; his records constitute one of the more fruitful experiments of the '80s, an experiment that people will want to listen to for a long time. It's also music that sums up the intelligent side of our age, inquisitive, open minded, sensuous. That it existed in the era of Reagan will be one of the mysteries to be debated by social historians." -Peter Watrous, Musician October 1988
CD for $16
TOMATO REISSUES RESTOCKED..!
JOHN CAGE/JAY CLAYTON/DONALD KNAACK PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE - Three Constructions (Tomato; USA) On Three Constructions the enigmatic 20th Century American composers made these works based around the poems of E E Cummings. His construction series produced a string of conceptual works for percussion and voice performed by the Donald Knaak Percussion Ensemble with the voice of Jay Clayton reciting. Spare and delicate these compositions further reveal his interests in oblique methods and chance operations in both composition and performance which in other work are often hard to tackle and arguably appeal more of a conceptual level than an audible one. This work however is closer to a song cycle and is explicit of the composers interests in Balinese music. -- Martin Walters
CD FOR $12
JOHN CAGE/RICHARD BUNGER/JAY CLAYTON - Four Walls (Tomato; USA) This beautiful piece for piano solo (Richard Bunger), with a scene for the unaccompanied solo voice of Jay Clayton in the middle, is of approximately one hour's duration. It was written originally as music for a theater piece, a "dance play" psychodrama about a family conceived by the dancer Merce Cunningham, which had only one performance in Steamboat Springs, CO on August 22, 1944. The music is played entirely on the white keys of the piano, which gives the work natural modal qualities, and the music is not complex, as it was designed to be easily played by a pianist unknown to either Cage or Cunningham, and there was no travel money for Cage to attend the rehearsals with the pianist. All of these circumstances resulted in a work of direct, evocative, mesmerizing musical gestures, some set off by silences of varying length, some of insistent rhythm with simple variation. There are 14 Scenes, plus two sections for dance alone, each with a different dynamic -- the text they were to accompany, now lost, can only be imagined by the listener. The text for the solo singer in Scene VII reads "Sweet love, my throat is gurgling, the mystic mouth, leads me so defted, and the black nightingale, turned willowly by love's tossed treatment, berefted." Written at a time when Cage was considering the serious move of ceasing to write music in order to devote time to being psychoanalyzed, the title (as in the expression "staring at four walls" for intense, cabin-fever boredom) must have taken on poignant personal significance for the composer. He resolved to keep on with music, which lead to the radical and highly influential solutions of his post-1950 work. -- "Blue" Gene Tyranny, AMG
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JON HASSELL - Earthquake Island (Tomato; USA) Earthquake Island was Hassell's first project supported by a traditional lineup -- two guitarists, a bassist, and several percussionists. Rhythms from Latin American and the Caribbean appear for the only time (so far) in this world citizen's recordings, and on a couple of tracks there's even a guest vocalist named Clarice Taylor. Includes the participation of Weather Report vets bassist Miroslav Vitous and percussionist Dom Um Romeo They provide nice harmonic guidelines without getting slippery; Vitous' bass and the guitars of Claudio Ferreira and Ricardo Silviera don't use electronic effects, so they don't match Hassell's brass textures. But they all, Um Romeo, Nana Vasconcelos, and Pakistan tabla master Badal Roy, create a bottom far earthier than the experimental percussion textures of Dream Theory in Malaysia or the overworked, undermelodic funk rock of City: Works of Fiction, especially the touches of samba. Hassell's trumpet effects and stylings tend to swell up and even loom over his keyboards and rhythm sections on his finest albums. Recommended.
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SAM RIVERS - Waves (Tomato; USA) An explosive late '70s set with underrated composer, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger Sam Rivers leading a strong quartet. While bassist and cellist Dave Holland and percussionist Thurman Barker merged to form a strong, challenging rhythm section, Rivers and Joe Daley, playing tuba and baritone horn, worked together to create instrumental dialogues in sequence. Their array of contrasting voicings, with Rivers on tenor and soprano sax and flute, makes for compelling listening. -- Ron Wynn AMG
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AS WELL AS THESE POORLY DISTRIBUTED ITEMS
HASSAN HAKMOUN & ADAM RUDOLPH With DON CHERRY & RICHARD HOROWITZ - Gift Of The Gnawa (Flying Fish; USA) This is world fusion's true sound. A young, hip Gnawa sintir player here combines his expertise with a multi-national percussionist, a European ney player, and veteran free jazzer Don Cherry's pocket trumpet to create a soundscape that one cannot escape from. All this is done in New York City. The ney work here is perhaps the greatest contribution. The light tones wrap around all other features of the music when Richard Horowitz is playing to envelope the listener. Hakmoun's sintir playing is, of course, outstanding as well -- that's why he's the upstart Gnawa player producing an album (though other sintir players are also extremely well versed, including Brahim el Belkani, who has played with Led Zeppelin, among others). At times, the ethereal echoing of the music can become a bit cumbersome, but still not to the point of frustration. One of the real treats here could quite likely be Don Cherry's venerable trumpet. The chops and snippets he can emit fit perfectly into the whole, often la Miles, but definitely related to his days with Ornette. For someone looking into the true nature of Gnawa ritual, this is not the place to go. For someone already familiar with the Gnawa brotherhood's music, this is an extremely enjoyable excursion into more groundbreaking forms. Pick it up as an interested listener, but perhaps not as a completely nave newcomer. --Adam Greenberg
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DAVE TRONZO/REEVES GABRELS - Night in Amnesia (Upstart; USA) An avant-roots electric acoustic collaboration between David Bowie's main guitar man in the '90s Gabrels and 'downtown' mainstay slide guitarist Dave Tronzo under the collective name Tronzo/Gabrels! CD For $15
SUN RA SEXTET - At The Village Vanguard (Rounder; USA) Sun Ra often pulled small units out of the larger Arkestra, and that was the case on this 1991 concert recorded live at the Vanguard. He led a sextet with Chris Anderson on piano,John Gilmore's rugged, soaring tenor sax taking the featured soloist role, and bassist John Ore and Buster Smithcompleting the rhythm section. Bruce Edwards provided guitar fills and accompaniment, while Ra offered synthesizer coloration, textures and swirling support. Ra's lines seem to flag a bit on the opening cut, "'Round Midnight," but he's worked out the kinks by the second number, "Sun Ra Blues," and for the remainder of the session adds looping countermelodies and phrases to Anderson's themes and statements. -- Ron Wynn
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VERY SHORT LIST OF RECOMMENDED NYC UPCOMING GIGS [DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS]
Fri Feb 20th-
TONIC VIDEO PROJECTOR BENEFIT w/ JOHN ZORN, CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, IKUE MORI, OKKYUNG LEE, TIM BARNES, DJ OLIVE, O.BLAAT, MARINA ROSENFELD, MARCUS MILLER & more - at Tonic at 8pm!!!
THE MUSIC OF MEREDITH MONK/TORU TAKEMITSU/STEVE MACKEY at Manhattan School of Music at 8pm for free! CHRISTIAN WOLFF/LARRY POLANSKY TRIO at Greenwich House at 8pm!
RASHIED ALI QUINTET at Sweet Rhythm (formerly Sweet Basil) on Seventh Ave. South near Bleecker!
Sat Feb 21st-
MILFORD GRAVES & WILLIAM PARKER at 8 & 10pm at 288 E 10th St. at Ave. A - 212- =696-6681 - The Vision Club Series begins.!!!
JUDI SILVANO - AN EVENING OF UNCOMMON LYRICS TO THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK AND JAZZ STANDARDS
The Cornelia Street Caf Saturday, February 21 at 8:30PM and 10:30PM Ticket price - $12, students $6 for the 2nd set
Sun Feb 22nd-
BLAISE SIWULA & ADAM LANE - alto sax & acoustic bass duo here at DMG at 7pm for free! Fabulous duo offering!!
The Sunday Nite Free-Style Series at CB's Lounge begins at
7pm - michael mayednak trio;
8pm - maroon: Hillary Maroon, Benny Lackner, Derek Nievergelt, Lance Carter;
9pm - adam caine trio; 10pm - tim ziesmer, shane endsley, thompson kneeland, take toriyama
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THE DMG SUNDAY NIGHT FREE MUSIC SERIES CONTINUES EVERY SUNDAY at 7PM with:
Sun Feb 22nd at 7pm w/ BLAISE SIWULA & ADAM LANE - alto sax & acoustic bass duo; two local greats - Blaise has played w/ everyone, especially William Hooker & Adam has an incredible quartet w/ JOHN TCHICAI, PAUL SMOKER & BARRY ALSCHUL!!
Sun Feb 29th at 7pm w/ DOM MINASI/TOMAS ULRICH/KEN FILIANO/JOHN BOLLINGER CD release set here at DMG at 7pm for free - Dom is a fabulous avant/jazz guitarist and his current quartet are amongst NY finest!!
Fri March 5th at 8 & 10pm- Downtown Music Gallery presents at Tonic- TISZIJI MUNOZ COSMIC TRIO w/ DON PATE & BOB "RAHKALAM" MOSES!!! Munoz is one the finest electric jazz guitarists of all time!!!!
ELLIOTT SHARP/MELVIN GIBBS/LANCE CARTER - Raw Meet (Intakt 090) Colossal guitars/el. bass/drums studio date from three ultra creative and highly diverse downtown all-stars. Melvin Gibbs is one the best electric bassists alive, having done time with Ronald S. Jackson, Arto Lindsay, a number of his bands and is currently with Harriet Tubman. Lance Carter is a master drummer and an old pal who has played with Sonny Sharrock, Lunar Bear, Joan Obsborne and presently with the fine vocalist Maroon. E# wears way too many hats to mention here since he excels at so much, from avant, rock, blues, jazz, classical and ethnic influences, playing numerous guitars, reeds and computer as a great bandleader, composer, player and producer. This extraordinary trio has played live in Europe, but not in the US as of yet. While the rhythm team set up some burning grooves, Elliott does an incredible job of twisting his axe inside-out by altering it in a variety of strange ways, often blurring the lines between blues, jazz, rock, funk with some inspired guitar sonic textures and mind-bending solos. "Metonymy" recalls some of those sinister sounds that Hendrix once used. I dig the way the trio occasionally lay down some steamy, laid back, hypnotic grooves while E# floats his somber, spiraling guitar sounds on top. What also stands out is that Melvin and Lance often play strong, melodic grooves, so that nothing Elliott does sounds too far out, yet always fresh and enticing. The final piece, "Sonny's Way" sounds like it was inspired by Sonny Sharrock and is a powerful, brooding work with some of Elliott's most blisterin' guitar work, a perfect way to bring this dynamic disc to a righteous and invigorating conclusion. All Thumbs Up!
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2 CD for $26
NEW PSI RELEASES!!! As Emanem's Martin Davidson will tell you, Evan Parker's label is 'psi' or "Psi' (the penultimate letter of the Greek alphabet, among other things), but not 'PSI' or 'P.S.I.' (Parker's Superior Improvisations?!?). THESE ARE EXPECTED IN FRIDAY, BUT SHOULD THERE BE A DELAY WE WILL ONLY HOLD UP YOUR ORDERS FOR A FEW DAYS BEFORE SHIPPING.
KENNY WHEELER - Song for Someone (Psi 04.01; UK) 1973 Between the legendary 'Windmill Tilter' and 'Music for Large Ensemble' came 'Song for Someone' from 1973, the first music Kenny Wheeler recorded for a large group of his choosing. Featuring Derek Bailey, Alan Branscombe, Duncan Lamont, Ron Matthewson, Mike Osborne, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker, John Taylor, Norma Winstone, and others. Now on CD for the first time. Reissue of Incus LP 10. 43 minutes.
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STAN TRACEY & EVAN PARKER - Suspensions and Anticipations (Psi 04.02; UK) 2003 A sequence of free improvisations - eight duos, two piano solos & one tenor saxophone solo - recorded at Gateway Studios. 62 minutes.
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PISA 1980 [V.A.] - Improvisors Symposium [2 CD set] (Psi 04.03/4; UK) Ten leading free improvisors assembled in Pisa in the summer of 1980. MAARTEN ALTENA, DEREK BAILEY, BARRY GUY, GEORGE LEWIS, PAUL LOVENS, PAUL LYTTON, EVAN PARKER, PAUL RUTHERFORD, GIANCARLO SCHIAFFINI & PHILIPP WACHSMANN. Two duos, one trio & two quintets. Reissue of Incus LP 37 plus 94 minutes of extra material. 142 minutes
2 CD set for $26
WILLIAM HOOKER With EVYIND KANG, DJ OLIVE, DOUG WALKER - complexity #2 (KOS 011) Recorded live at the Knitting Factory in September of 2000. No doubt a smokin' set! Review next week
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HANS KOCH - London duos and trios (Intakt 081) Featuring the wonderful Hans Koch on bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet & soprano sax with Phil Minton (voice), Pat Thomas (electronics), Steve Noble & Roger Turner (drums/percussion), John Edwards (bass), Mark Wastell (cello), Phil Durrant (violin) and Rhodri Davies (harp). A splendid series of studio and live duos and trios featuring Swiss reeds wizard Hans Koch with eight of UK's best improvisers often associated with the Emanem and Incus labels. The great Koch/Schutz/Studer trio is one of the finest, busiest (half dozen releases so far) and certainly the most diverse new music units anywhere, constantly re-inventing themselves in different countries and with different genres, both recording and playing live with quite a variety of guests. Over an hour of dynamic edge-of-your -seat improvisations, consistently fascinating throughout.
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EARTH PEOPLE - Sky Readers (Undivided Vision Records 003) Third cosmic offering from local legends the Earth People who have slimmed down to a more focused free/jazz septet featuring Andre Martinez (once a Cecil Taylor collaborator) on drums & exotic percussion, Sabir Mateen & Jason Chandler on reeds & guitar, Doug Principato on electric guitar, Mark Hennen on keyboards, Francois Grillot on contrabass and Firehorse on electronics. This was recorded live at the Walker Space in NYC in April of 2003 and Earth People continue to do a fine job of keeping their fine free spirits alive and well. "Magical Flower" is 41 _ minutes of blissful, organic waves washing all over our troubled souls. Beginning calmly and then moving into denser currents with spacey wah-wah guitars, layers of spinning clarinet, flute and alto sax and a web of piano, bass and drums. The flow and thread that holds this together is just right as it moves in well connected episodes. Some of this has that 'Agartha' (Miles-like) double guitar frenzy and free/funk/rock groove and that screaming sax (Sabir?) really erupts forth intensely. Everyone gets a chance to shine as different combinations of players weave their wares, ascend and submerge. "It's That Simple" explodes open with some quick paced swinging yet free insanity, as the guitar, saxes. piano and boiling rhythm team. This is certainly some truly magic music for flying in your seats.
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LEMON JUICE QUARTET - Peasant Songs [The Music of Erik Satie & Bela Bartok] (Piadrum Records 0201) The Lemon Juice Quartet (LJQ) have been a round for the past years and feature four fine Israeli musicians based in NY: Eyal Maoz (once in a trio w/ Okkyung Lee) on guitar, Avishai E. Cohen (recent cd on Fresh Sound reviewed here), Shanir Blumenkranz on bass and Kevin Zubeck on drums. Shanir is becoming one of the most in-demand bassists here and can be heard with Jon Madof (Tzadik cd) as well as with that great Braxton/Simmons sextet cd which is no longer available. Both Shanir and Kevin also are members of the great Satlah (3 swell cds on Tzadik) and recently worked with Daniel Carter for an excellent cd called 'Chinatown'. For 'Peasant Songs', the LJQ cover songs by two very different European classical composers - Erik Satie and Bela Bartok, an unlikely source of inspiration, perhaps? I do recall Blood, Sweat & Tears once covering a Satie piece, as well as couple jazz groups doing a Bartok pieces, but not for an entire cd. Bartok's "Bear Dance" gets a great hyper klez/rockin' version that got to make you smile. Satie's "Trumpets of the Rosicrucian Order" is playfully done with quaint guitar and tasty muted trumpet. LJQ play five different "Hungarian Peasant Songs" which also have that charming eastern European klez-like vibe with the guitar and trumpet spiraling their lines intricately as the rhythm team also dance through different tempos and changing rhythmic schemes. No small feat. They put a charming bluesy spin on "Gnossienne No. 1" and deconstruct "Dried Embryos" by speeding up and slowing down and chopping it into fragments. Both Eyal and Avishai take a number of nifty inspired solos here, at times Eyal especially takes off in some unexpected, crazed directions. Quite a p(l)easant and charming surprise.
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PONDER THIS [V.A.] - Electronic Musics (Submergence 5007) Excellent collection of weird electronic music from both well known and lesser known figures like Conrad Schnitzler, Merzbow, Asmus Teichtens, David Lee Myers/Thomas Dimuzio, F/i, Rapoon, Colin Potter, Endgame and Mystery Hearsay. Complied by our good pal Hadley Kahn from Escapade as an obvious labor of love. The legendary German sonic pioneer Conrad Schnitzler opens with a marching sequencer beat, a number of percussion samples and subtle layers of electronic squiggles. Mystery Hearsay is/are from Memphis and sound like German synth music from the seventies with a repeating central figure and layers of suspenseful slowly shifting samples. Rapoon is much more calm and hovers in the distance. Colin Potter (has to be and is British) works with eerie samples and slowly shifting textures. Asmus Tietchens is another established sonic wiz from Germany and here does a fascinating job of altering slow moving mutant samples. Perennial favorite noise-master and over-recorded icon Merzbow provides shimmering electronic feedback drones that just slightly warped. David Lee Myers (formerly a/k/a Arcane Device) and Thomas Dimuzio (duo w/ Chris Cutler) blend their more restrained sonic fragments nicely, like submerging in a submarine. F/I from Milwaukee has also been around for a long while and does a great job of providing some scary mutating waves. Endgame aptly gets the final and longest cut, slowly unfolding one layer at a time, stretching out sounds and ghostly voices like an ominous fog enveloping us all. Let's hope that we aren't the only shop smart enough to stock this well done plethora of sonic delights. Yo Jimmy J. from FE, you best wake up & smell the coffee!?
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ROYAL HARTIGAN - Blood Drum Spirit [2 CD set] (innova 580) Featuring Kevin McNeal on guitar, David Bindman on saxes, Wes Brown on bass and Royal on drums, with guests Michele Navazio on guitar & Brad Jones on bass. I know of David Bindman from a trio cd with Kevin Norton on CIMP and recall Wes Brown from his early work with Leo Smith, which was featured on that recent reissue box set of Leo's on Tzadik. Don't know of Royal or Kevin before this, but Royal has studied with Clifford Jarvis, Ed Blackwell and Max Roach. This fine double cd starts with strong hard swinging hard bop and then moves through a variety of cultures or influences. Both Kevin's guitar and David's tenor sax have strong, warm, well-worn tones. Royal claims that he was inspired by the Asante people of Ghana on "Wadsworth Falls", but for me it sounds like a solid, straight jazz burner. "Dagbamba" is a dreamy, spiritual sax/bass/drums trio piece inspired by West African drummers with the hypnotic, organic rhythm at the center. The "Pilipinas Suite" features Royal playing kulintang, those gong-like things from the Philippines, with David on flute. It takes us on an enchanting journey through the sights and sounds of Manila, with some luscious, laid back guitar and tenor sax serenading us. "Tala Vadyam" is based on a South Indian rhythmic cycle and is another wonderful, cerebral work with some excellent raga-like guitar from Michele Navazio, whose name I haven't heard in quite a while. Disc 2 is called the 'Apartheid USA Suite" and each part features rhythms from various cultures, usually with Royal's master drumming as the central force. More West African, Juba, Native American, Inuit, Papago and Saguaro cultures inspire our journey through the lands of our ancestors. Besides the consistently creative rhythm team, both Kevin McNeil's guitar and David Bindman's tenor and alto sax play splendid inspired jazz solos throughout. A supreme offering!
2 CD set for $18
MARK APPLEBAUM - Intellectual Property (innova 602) Mr. Applebaum is quite an incredible composer, musician and teacher. He is a professor at Stanford University, has won numerous awards for diverse compositions, is an active jazz pianist and has built electro-acoustic instruments out of all sorts of hardware and found objects. Each of the six pieces here is deals with a different approach to his compositions. The title piece is written for a Disklavier and performed by two pianists and sounds like one of those Nancarrow-like works for a player piano that would be nearly impossible for most humans to play, with some blues and jazz licks inserted in the frenzied activity. "Plundergraphic" is for two groups of players, one with live electronics and one group of four instrumentalists. The piece is extremely complex as constantly shifting combinations of players and electronics are mixed in different ways. Completely fascinating. The "Ferneyhough Remix" is for two percussionists and tape and is also quite an engaging work which also uses found sounds like a hairdryer, metronome and bicycle bell. "Mouseketier Praxis" is for Mark's sound sculptures and live electronics and is a more contemplative piece for somber suspenseful samples. "Scipio Wakes Up" is performed by the Paul Dresher Ensemble with six sound-sculptures called the Micro-Mice. This work is a more subtle alien dreamscape with quirky toy-like sounds scattered among eerie keyboards, violin, bassoon and electronic percussion drones. The conclusion is the hilarious piece called "Pre-Composition" for voices on an 8-track tape which just discusses the ridiculous side of serious composition. Zappa would be smiling. Altogether, a successful collection of wonderful sounds, ideas and compositions.
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OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila (Thrill Jockey 117) OOIOO is Yoshimi P-We's (from the Boredoms) newer project with Kayan on el. guitar, AyA on e. bass, Yuka Yoshimura on drums and Yoshimi on just about everything else (vox, perc., guitar, keys & synth). Since the Boredoms last psych/prog masterwork 'Vision Creation New Sun', from a few years back, we Boredoms fans have been eagerly awaiting their next classic disc, but have been biding our time with a number of great offshoot projects. Check out those Rovo or Yamamoto Seichii discs on Tzadik or Yoshimi & Yuka Honda's nifty cd on Ipecac. 'Kila Kila Kila' is another gem of charming spaced-out psych grooviness, sort of a stripped down version of 'Vision Creation.' There is a joyous, radiant and child-like vibe that runs through this - goofy voices, jewelry-box percussion, fun funky grooves, a chanting chorus, selective wah-wah guitar punctuation and a cosmic all-enveloping hippy dance swirl that makes will anyone feel good to be alive and celebrate life.
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TRAPIST - ballroom (Thrill Jockey 129) Trapist is Martin Brandlmayr on drums, percussion, vibes & synth, Martin Siewert on guitars, steel & mando guitars, electronics & synth and Joe Williamson (from Kletka Red) on double bass. This is the second cd from Trapist, the first was on Hatology plus the two Martins had a fine duo cd out on Erstwhile. I dug both previous cds immensely, but this one is even better. Considering they mainly play guitar, bass and drums, they've stripped everything down to its bare essence, rarely rocking out, yet always maintaining a rich dreamy flow. Drifting, haunting, desert-like sounds, rustling, floating drones and wandering spirits. Their bassist always takes his time to enter and often provides their enchanting, melodic undertow. When a small mountain of noise finally emerges, it just balances the rest just right. Here's a first for us, all four clowns who work here at DMG dig this, not bad at all. Without a doubt, my favorite minimalist disc of the month, at least until the next batch of Erstwhiles arrive.
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ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS - Rocket Redux (Smog Veil 050) Collection of 12 new studio recordings with the current lineup. Featuring David Thomas from Pere Ubu on vocals, Cheetah Chrome from The Dead Boys on guitar and vocals, Richard Lloyd from Television on guitar, Craig Bell from the Saucers on bass and vocals and Steve Mehlman from Pere Ubu on drums. David Fricke, editor of Rolling Stone, wrote of Rocket From The Tombs: "No on else in American rock underground or over in 1974 and '75 was writing and playing songs this hard and graphic about being f**ked over and fighting mad. No one else is doing it now. Jason & I caught them last year at the Village Underground and they still rule!!!
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REISSUES, RESTOCKS & HISTORIC RECORDINGS for FEBRUARY 20, 2004
CECIL TAYLOR TRIO & QUINTET - Love for Sale (Blue Note 94107/UK) Featuring Cecil's first trio studio date with Buell Neidlinger on bass and Denis Charles on drums, with Ted Curson on trumpet and Bill Barron on tenor sax added on three of the six tracks. This is an essential early studio date from April of 1959 that gives us a glance of things (modern jazz) to come. The trio covers three songs by Cole Porter, something that Cecil would soon abandon (doing covers). Cecil is already starting to spin a series of cascading lines, turning Cole Porter's melodies inside-out and freeing them up as the tunes develop. Remember, at this time (1959) no one else was playing piano like this, both Sun Ra and Lennie Tristano were working in their own worlds, not yet noticed by most journalists or serious listeners. The three quintet pieces are Cecil's originals and take those slightly twisted Monk-like themes and push them a bit further out. Ted Curson's trumpet really shines spinning intensely fueled by Cecil's amazing runs. Ted would soon be playing with Mingus' band with Eric Dolphy. The original cover of the hooker getting her cigarette lit says it all, I guess that is "Love for Sale". We only have a few of these & it is not in print here.
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CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - Sacred Bordello [Book & CD] (Alga Marghen 17) Special edition of this book (which by itself is published by Black Dog Publishing and available elsewhere -- we don't carry the book by itself; this version includes a limited CD bundled w/ the book, only available via Alga Marghen. It is a lot more expensive as a result - the book itself lists for $30. As one of the most influential figures of experimental music and performance Charlemagne Palestine has remained an enigma. Unlike his illustrious contemporaries Terry Riley, John Cale, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass, little has been written on Palestine and his continuing influence. In his own right, he was and remains today a pivotal personality whose research in musical composition and performance has been characterized over the years by its incantory repetitiveness, its flamboyance and its mysticism, but also by its violence A wonderful full color book with flexicover, 192 pages including essays, scores, original photos of both performances and installation. The most complete documentation on Charlemagne Palestine art. The compact disc will feature the 60 minutes recordings of a lecture that Charlemagne Palestine gave on March 7th, 1975 at Art Now Centre in Canada. After the performance of a strumming music concert, the author freely speaks about his music, the philosophy beyond his composition techniques and art involving the students in some kind of magic ritual. Starting as a question and answer conversation, the lecture develops into an intimate speech in which particularly private subjects are discussed. The lecture ends with a particularly touching suspended atmosphere showing how real communication in universities should be. The CD also includes a breathtaking multi-layer voice study of the early 1960s never published before on record, very similar in sound and structure to the electronic music studies just issued by Alga Marghen.
Italian import book & CD for $55
JOHN CAGE - From Zero [DVD] (Mode 130) Four films on John Cage by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver. 84 minutes with many extras. DVD only release with bonus extras of 'Making of' film and interviews. 'A Major film on John Cage' by renowned Dutch director Frank Scheffer in collaboration with Cage's associate Andrew Culver. The group of films, entitled From Zero are: '19 Questions': Cage answers 19 questions on a variety of subjects, using chance operations to determine the duration of his colorful and often witty answers. 'Fourteen': The acclaimed Ives Ensemble perform Cage's piece of the same name. Filmed with multiple cameras using chance operation to determine the position, angle, focus and aperture settings of each shot. 'Paying Attention': Agreeing on a predetermined duration, Scheffer worked with the video portion and Culver the audio from an interview with Cage. Overpopulation and Art With Ryoanji': The audio combines Cage's spoken performance of his text Overpopulation and Art simultaneously with his Ryoanji 4 voices & percussion.
DVD only release for $24
MERZBOW - Last Of Analog Sessions [3 CD boxset] (Important 022/4) Last of The Analog Sessions is a three CD box set compiling Merzbow's final three albums recorded entirely on analog equipment. These albums sat unreleased until now and mark a historic compositional change in the world of Merzbow. Upon completion of these three albums Masami Akita traded his analog equipment for an Apple laptop which he has been composing on ever since. This change in equipment marks a change in sound and a whole new period for Merzbow. This box set documents the end of one era and the beginning of another. The first 1000 copies include an embroidered Merzbow analog sessions patch. Each CD is packed in an LP mini jacket featuring cover art by Masami Akita. The entire package is housed in a deluxe silver foil-printed box featuring the EMS Synthi, one of Akita's primary instruments during Merzbow's analog era.
3 CD box-set for $25
JOHN FAHEY - Hitomi [2 LP set] (Important 030) That cranky old plectrum specialist, John Fahey's final record released in his lifetime was the discrete album titled 'Hitomi'. Previously available on CD only, Hitomi finds Fahey at peace with all his musical phases, working them together with a frail, fragile aesthetic supported by various reverb, echo and digital delays. Pressed on double 180 gram virgin vinyl and housed in a deluxe tip-on heavy-duty gatefold jacket.
2 LP set for $23
EDALAT NASIBOV - The Art of the Saz (Ocora 560181) Music of Azerbaidjan; recorded 1997. With innovative instrumental techniques of fingering and tuning and a richly ornamental style, virtuoso sz lute performer Edalat Nasibov plays tunes which explore the art of the shyq (Azerbaijani bards whose golden age lasted from the 15th to the 16th centuries).
CD for $13
IF YOU ONLY HAVE ONE WORLD MUSIC ANTHOLOGY, MAKE IT THIS ONE.
OCORA WORLD MUSIC [V.A.] - The World of Traditional Music [7CD set] (OCORA 561061-67; France) You may have seen this listed elsewhere as a 6 CD set, but we have the 7 CD version! With this set, Ocora presents an overview at its remarkably diverse collection of recordings of traditional music from around the world. Includes musical selections from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America." One disc each for: North Africa/West Asia (Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Azeraijan, Iran), South Asia (India, Pakistan), East Asia (China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia, Laos), Africa (Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Gabon, Zaire, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi), Europe (France, Belgium, Norway, Hungary, Rumania, Russia, Greece), Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela). Includes previously released material from the Ocora vaults. Buy it now as we may be forced to raise the price due to the disasterous dollar.
Import 7 CD box set for $56
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DMG IS NOW DEALING WITH THE GREAT SUB ROSA LABEL DIRECT AND WILL BE STOCKING MANY OF THE GEMS FROM THEIR BACK CATALOGUE SOON. HERE'S WHAT ARRIVED THIS WEEK:
JAMES JOYCE - the complete recordings [book & CD boxset] (Sub Rosa SR60) This contains one cd of James Joyce reading "Eolian Episode" from his novel 'Ulysses', recorded in Paris in 1924 and "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from 'Finnegan's Wake' recorded in Cambridge in 1929, plus an 116 page unpublished book called and about 'James Joyce' by Eugene Jolas, edited by and with an introduction from Marc Dachy.
CD & 116pg book for $20
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - Break Through in the Grey Room (Sub Rosa SR08) Readings and tape cut-ups from one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
CD for $15
LUNAPARK: DADAISTS AND POETS [V.A.] - Lunapark 0,10 (Sub Rosa 80; Belgium) "Sub Rosa has been working in the archives domain for a number of years and many productions are now accepted as 'classics'. After William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Antonin Artaud and before The Complete Recordings by James Joyce, Raymond Carver and an important anthology about 'Fluxus'...there is at last (after 4 years of research and work and editing) Lunapark! A sonor lunapark: the concept is from the writer, critic and close collaborator Marc Dachy. It`s really a panorama of the most important avantgarde writers and artists of the century. It begins in 1912 with Guillaume Apollinaire and ends with the Brazilian avantgarde of the seventies... 'Unique Archives' mostly never released before! Original recordings from: Guillaume Apollinaire (Father of the Avant-Garde -- Paris, 1912), Vladimir Maakovski (1914-20 in the Soviet Union), Richard Huelsenbeck (Father of Dada, in Berlin 1916), Kurt Schwitters (The Genious Father of Merz, 1932), James Joyce (Recorded in 1929 [Finnegans Wake], Gertrude Stein (New York 1934-1935), Antonin Artaud (About Death and Destroyed Minds and Bodies, 1946), Tristan Tzara (Father of Dada in Zurich [Cabaret Voltaire], 1949), Camille Bryen (French Art Brut, 1932/1939), Marcel Duchamp (Just An Enlightenment, 1957), E.E. Cummings (In Confine of the Silence), Brion Gysin (3 Permutations from 1960/1962), Julian Beck (Founder of the Living Theater, 1968), Gherasim Luca (Rare Voice of the French Poet in New York, 1969), Franois Dufrne (A Pure Fury of Words, 1961), Pierre Guyotat (Sexual Murmuring, Paris 1976) Augusto de Campos (Brazilian Avant-Garde 1970 ).
CD for $15
SOME MORE AMERICAN CLAVE TITLES RESTOCKED [that we weren't able to offer you the first time around!]
MILTON CARDONA - Cambucha [Carmen] (American Clave 1028; USA) With MILTON CARDONA, JOE SANTIAGO, ROBBY AMEEN, JOSE MANGUAL jr. , JOSE FERNANDEZ, SERGIO CARDONA, JOE TORRES (PROF.), JAMES ZOLLAR, MICHAEL BRECKER, PAPO VASQUEZ, PHILLIPE VIEUX, BILL O'CONNELL, ANDY, JOHN (YOMI) ROBINSON, CAROL ROBINSON, SANDRA (FELA) WILES, IMANI ROBINSON-FALU, THEODORE (WOOGGIE) HOLLIDAY, JOSE FERNANDEZ, ABI HOLLIDAY, KEN ROSS, GUS ONNA New York percussionist Milton Cardona is a mystical figure in the ranks of percussionist-leaders working at the juncture of jazz and Latin concepts, as heard on his first solo album, Bembe, and Cambucha (Carmen), the follow-up. Cardona and a percussion-rich entourage, also including Michael Brecker and bassist Andy Gonzalez, create a kind of allusive musical narrative (i.e. poetry in motion)....a hypnotic musical flow." - Josef Woodward, Jazz Times
CD for $16
KIP HANRAHAN - Shadow Nights 1: A Thousand Nights And A Night (American Clave 1042; USA) With DON PULLEN, STEVE SWALLOW, ROBBIE AMEEN, CARMEN LUNDY, CHARLES NEVILLE, BILLY BANG, BRANDON ROSS, EL NEGRO HORACIO HERNANDEZ, HENRY THREADGIL, MIKE CAIN, ANTHONY CARRILLO, MILTON CARDONA, ALFREDO TRIFF, ERIC SCHENKMAN, ANDY GONZALEZ Shahrazade and the opening of the first shadow night; Blue Shalimah's Tale, Opening; Blue Shalima's Tale, Continuing; Shaharazade's shadow night lover; The Blonde Woman Escapes; The Hasheater At The Gates of the Summer City ; The Hasheater in Judgement / and the Revival of the Thousand Pound Elephant; A's Trick Ghanim ibn Ayyub's Tale and Kut al-Kulub; The Jewish Doctor's Tale Continues; Shahrazade Adrift; The Sleeper Awakened; Zummarud's Tale Continues with the Thieves; The Brown Eyed Woman Escapes; The Red Headed Woman Remains with the Merchant; Shahrazade and the Closing of the First Shadow Night "complete with bawdy lyrics and lavish romanticism, Hanrahan sculpts vivid imagery with grand assistance from the late great pianist Don Pullen ... A Thousand Nights and a Night is an audacious and stimulating affair thanks to Hanrahan's exquisite production and the flawless execution of these masterful musicians. Melodramatic, peppery and articulate, this may be Hanrahan's crowning achievement, which could be a bold statement considering his already impressive discography..." - Glen Asarita, All About Jazz
CD for $16
KIP HANRAHAN - Days And Nights Of Blue Luck Inverted (American Clave 1012; USA) With FERNANDO SAUNDERS, ANDY GONZALEZ, LEO NOCENTELLI, GIOVANNI HIDALGO, JERRY GONZALEZ, MILTON CARDONA, ROBBIE AMEEN, WILLIE GREEN, CHARLES NEVILLE, JOHN STUBBLEFIELD, KIP HANRAHAN, JACK BRUCE, IGNACIO BERROA, PETER SCHERER, ANTON FIER, LEW SOLOFF, MARIO RIVERA, DAVID MURRAY, PABLO ZIEGLER, ALFREDO TRIFF, GEORGE ADAMS, CARMEN LUNDY "...Hanrahan avoids the mold; his records constitute one of the more fruitful experiments of the '80s, an experiment that people will want to listen to for a long time. It's also music that sums up the intelligent side of our age, inquisitive, open minded, sensuous. That it existed in the era of Reagan will be one of the mysteries to be debated by social historians." -Peter Watrous, Musician October 1988
CD for $16
TOMATO REISSUES RESTOCKED..!
JOHN CAGE/JAY CLAYTON/DONALD KNAACK PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE - Three Constructions (Tomato; USA) On Three Constructions the enigmatic 20th Century American composers made these works based around the poems of E E Cummings. His construction series produced a string of conceptual works for percussion and voice performed by the Donald Knaak Percussion Ensemble with the voice of Jay Clayton reciting. Spare and delicate these compositions further reveal his interests in oblique methods and chance operations in both composition and performance which in other work are often hard to tackle and arguably appeal more of a conceptual level than an audible one. This work however is closer to a song cycle and is explicit of the composers interests in Balinese music. -- Martin Walters
CD FOR $12
JOHN CAGE/RICHARD BUNGER/JAY CLAYTON - Four Walls (Tomato; USA) This beautiful piece for piano solo (Richard Bunger), with a scene for the unaccompanied solo voice of Jay Clayton in the middle, is of approximately one hour's duration. It was written originally as music for a theater piece, a "dance play" psychodrama about a family conceived by the dancer Merce Cunningham, which had only one performance in Steamboat Springs, CO on August 22, 1944. The music is played entirely on the white keys of the piano, which gives the work natural modal qualities, and the music is not complex, as it was designed to be easily played by a pianist unknown to either Cage or Cunningham, and there was no travel money for Cage to attend the rehearsals with the pianist. All of these circumstances resulted in a work of direct, evocative, mesmerizing musical gestures, some set off by silences of varying length, some of insistent rhythm with simple variation. There are 14 Scenes, plus two sections for dance alone, each with a different dynamic -- the text they were to accompany, now lost, can only be imagined by the listener. The text for the solo singer in Scene VII reads "Sweet love, my throat is gurgling, the mystic mouth, leads me so defted, and the black nightingale, turned willowly by love's tossed treatment, berefted." Written at a time when Cage was considering the serious move of ceasing to write music in order to devote time to being psychoanalyzed, the title (as in the expression "staring at four walls" for intense, cabin-fever boredom) must have taken on poignant personal significance for the composer. He resolved to keep on with music, which lead to the radical and highly influential solutions of his post-1950 work. -- "Blue" Gene Tyranny, AMG
CD FOR $12
JON HASSELL - Earthquake Island (Tomato; USA) Earthquake Island was Hassell's first project supported by a traditional lineup -- two guitarists, a bassist, and several percussionists. Rhythms from Latin American and the Caribbean appear for the only time (so far) in this world citizen's recordings, and on a couple of tracks there's even a guest vocalist named Clarice Taylor. Includes the participation of Weather Report vets bassist Miroslav Vitous and percussionist Dom Um Romeo They provide nice harmonic guidelines without getting slippery; Vitous' bass and the guitars of Claudio Ferreira and Ricardo Silviera don't use electronic effects, so they don't match Hassell's brass textures. But they all, Um Romeo, Nana Vasconcelos, and Pakistan tabla master Badal Roy, create a bottom far earthier than the experimental percussion textures of Dream Theory in Malaysia or the overworked, undermelodic funk rock of City: Works of Fiction, especially the touches of samba. Hassell's trumpet effects and stylings tend to swell up and even loom over his keyboards and rhythm sections on his finest albums. Recommended.
CD FOR $12
SAM RIVERS - Waves (Tomato; USA) An explosive late '70s set with underrated composer, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger Sam Rivers leading a strong quartet. While bassist and cellist Dave Holland and percussionist Thurman Barker merged to form a strong, challenging rhythm section, Rivers and Joe Daley, playing tuba and baritone horn, worked together to create instrumental dialogues in sequence. Their array of contrasting voicings, with Rivers on tenor and soprano sax and flute, makes for compelling listening. -- Ron Wynn AMG
CD FOR $12
AS WELL AS THESE POORLY DISTRIBUTED ITEMS
HASSAN HAKMOUN & ADAM RUDOLPH With DON CHERRY & RICHARD HOROWITZ - Gift Of The Gnawa (Flying Fish; USA) This is world fusion's true sound. A young, hip Gnawa sintir player here combines his expertise with a multi-national percussionist, a European ney player, and veteran free jazzer Don Cherry's pocket trumpet to create a soundscape that one cannot escape from. All this is done in New York City. The ney work here is perhaps the greatest contribution. The light tones wrap around all other features of the music when Richard Horowitz is playing to envelope the listener. Hakmoun's sintir playing is, of course, outstanding as well -- that's why he's the upstart Gnawa player producing an album (though other sintir players are also extremely well versed, including Brahim el Belkani, who has played with Led Zeppelin, among others). At times, the ethereal echoing of the music can become a bit cumbersome, but still not to the point of frustration. One of the real treats here could quite likely be Don Cherry's venerable trumpet. The chops and snippets he can emit fit perfectly into the whole, often la Miles, but definitely related to his days with Ornette. For someone looking into the true nature of Gnawa ritual, this is not the place to go. For someone already familiar with the Gnawa brotherhood's music, this is an extremely enjoyable excursion into more groundbreaking forms. Pick it up as an interested listener, but perhaps not as a completely nave newcomer. --Adam Greenberg
CD For $15
DAVE TRONZO/REEVES GABRELS - Night in Amnesia (Upstart; USA) An avant-roots electric acoustic collaboration between David Bowie's main guitar man in the '90s Gabrels and 'downtown' mainstay slide guitarist Dave Tronzo under the collective name Tronzo/Gabrels! CD For $15
SUN RA SEXTET - At The Village Vanguard (Rounder; USA) Sun Ra often pulled small units out of the larger Arkestra, and that was the case on this 1991 concert recorded live at the Vanguard. He led a sextet with Chris Anderson on piano,John Gilmore's rugged, soaring tenor sax taking the featured soloist role, and bassist John Ore and Buster Smithcompleting the rhythm section. Bruce Edwards provided guitar fills and accompaniment, while Ra offered synthesizer coloration, textures and swirling support. Ra's lines seem to flag a bit on the opening cut, "'Round Midnight," but he's worked out the kinks by the second number, "Sun Ra Blues," and for the remainder of the session adds looping countermelodies and phrases to Anderson's themes and statements. -- Ron Wynn
CD For $15
VERY SHORT LIST OF RECOMMENDED NYC UPCOMING GIGS [DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS]
Fri Feb 20th-
TONIC VIDEO PROJECTOR BENEFIT w/ JOHN ZORN, CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, IKUE MORI, OKKYUNG LEE, TIM BARNES, DJ OLIVE, O.BLAAT, MARINA ROSENFELD, MARCUS MILLER & more - at Tonic at 8pm!!!
THE MUSIC OF MEREDITH MONK/TORU TAKEMITSU/STEVE MACKEY at Manhattan School of Music at 8pm for free! CHRISTIAN WOLFF/LARRY POLANSKY TRIO at Greenwich House at 8pm!
RASHIED ALI QUINTET at Sweet Rhythm (formerly Sweet Basil) on Seventh Ave. South near Bleecker!
Sat Feb 21st-
MILFORD GRAVES & WILLIAM PARKER at 8 & 10pm at 288 E 10th St. at Ave. A - 212- =696-6681 - The Vision Club Series begins.!!!
JUDI SILVANO - AN EVENING OF UNCOMMON LYRICS TO THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK AND JAZZ STANDARDS
The Cornelia Street Caf Saturday, February 21 at 8:30PM and 10:30PM Ticket price - $12, students $6 for the 2nd set
Sun Feb 22nd-
BLAISE SIWULA & ADAM LANE - alto sax & acoustic bass duo here at DMG at 7pm for free! Fabulous duo offering!!
The Sunday Nite Free-Style Series at CB's Lounge begins at
7pm - michael mayednak trio;
8pm - maroon: Hillary Maroon, Benny Lackner, Derek Nievergelt, Lance Carter;
9pm - adam caine trio; 10pm - tim ziesmer, shane endsley, thompson kneeland, take toriyama
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THE DMG SUNDAY NIGHT FREE MUSIC SERIES CONTINUES EVERY SUNDAY at 7PM with:
Sun Feb 22nd at 7pm w/ BLAISE SIWULA & ADAM LANE - alto sax & acoustic bass duo; two local greats - Blaise has played w/ everyone, especially William Hooker & Adam has an incredible quartet w/ JOHN TCHICAI, PAUL SMOKER & BARRY ALSCHUL!!
Sun Feb 29th at 7pm w/ DOM MINASI/TOMAS ULRICH/KEN FILIANO/JOHN BOLLINGER CD release set here at DMG at 7pm for free - Dom is a fabulous avant/jazz guitarist and his current quartet are amongst NY finest!!
Fri March 5th at 8 & 10pm- Downtown Music Gallery presents at Tonic- TISZIJI MUNOZ COSMIC TRIO w/ DON PATE & BOB "RAHKALAM" MOSES!!! Munoz is one the finest electric jazz guitarists of all time!!!!
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