Saturday, December 18, 2010
I could have sworn that I posted this before...
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, "Ant Man Bee" off of "Trout Mask Replica"
Video by alargedog
Rest In Peace, Don Van Vliet
Labels:
bass clarinet,
beefheart,
drums,
guitar,
haberdashery,
saxophones
Saturday, December 11, 2010
11:11 on 12/11/10 (11/12/10 if you're in the UK)
Quaqua Tutti - opening set at Mopomoso November 2010
(Mopomoso= Modernism, Post-Modernism, So What?)
Tutti - opening set at Mopomoso, the Vortex, London, 11/21/10
Filmed by shuffleboil.
Yoko Arai (piano)
Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone)
Max Eastley (arc)
Satoko Fukuda (violin)
Dominic Lash (bass)
Henry Lowther (trumpet)
Hannah Marshall (cello)
Phil Minton (vocals)
John Russell (guitar)
Hideaki Shimada (violin)
Roger "What's the plan, Jack?" Turner (drums, percussion)
You can check out the Mopomoso website, newly adorned with Christmas lights, by clicking on the header.
(Mopomoso= Modernism, Post-Modernism, So What?)
Tutti - opening set at Mopomoso, the Vortex, London, 11/21/10
Filmed by shuffleboil.
Yoko Arai (piano)
Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone)
Max Eastley (arc)
Satoko Fukuda (violin)
Dominic Lash (bass)
Henry Lowther (trumpet)
Hannah Marshall (cello)
Phil Minton (vocals)
John Russell (guitar)
Hideaki Shimada (violin)
Roger "What's the plan, Jack?" Turner (drums, percussion)
You can check out the Mopomoso website, newly adorned with Christmas lights, by clicking on the header.
Friday, December 10, 2010
I like the way the doodads fly...
The stridulating sounds of Steve Noble:
Steve Noble @ Boat-ting, London, 11/15/10
Decoy @ the Vortex, 11/20/10
Steve Noble - Drums
John Edwards - Bass
Alexander Hawkins - Hammond Organ
Both shot by Shuffleboil
Steve Noble @ Boat-ting, London, 11/15/10
Decoy @ the Vortex, 11/20/10
Steve Noble - Drums
John Edwards - Bass
Alexander Hawkins - Hammond Organ
Both shot by Shuffleboil
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Yes, they are rockin' it.
Catatumbo : Ingrid Laubrock, Olie Brice, Javier Carmona @ the Vortex, 11/10/10
Ingrid Laubrock, John Edwards, Mark Sanders @ the Vortex, 08/10/10
Both shot by Shuffleboil
The Fearless Four- "Rockin' It"
1982 Enjoy Records.
Side B- "Instrumental".
Musical Accompaniment by Pumpkin & Friends.
Music based on Kraftwerk- "The Man Machine".
Produced by Bobby Robinson.
They also brought us "F-4000" & "Problems Of The World" & "Fearless Freestyle".
Old School New York Electro / Rap!
Labels:
bass,
drum machine,
drums,
flum,
sax,
synthesizer
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Should Bbob and I grow our hair long again, or wear wigs?
The Tom Rainey Trio was one of Nate Scheible's touchstones when forming his new band...\
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at Jazz and More festival, Sibiu, Romania, 10/17/10.
Tom Rainey - drums
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Ingrid Laubrock - tenor saxophone
Thanks to jaddmec
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at Jazz and More festival, Sibiu, Romania, 10/17/10.
Tom Rainey - drums
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Ingrid Laubrock - tenor saxophone
Thanks to jaddmec
Labels:
drums,
flum,
guitar,
sagxouiphtonear,
sax,
smooth brrzzap jazz
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Do Not Adjust Your TV Set
Adjust your computer instead, because this stuff is absurd!
Tamio Shiraishi
Live at the Silent Barn,10/29/10.
Rye.
Same gig.
Andrew Smiley, dry ice performance with Liquid State Bypass
Tamio Shiraishi
Live at the Silent Barn,10/29/10.
Rye.
Same gig.
Andrew Smiley, dry ice performance with Liquid State Bypass
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
What the guys from "Moonlighting" did
when they found out what was really happening...
Polish Festival at Cafe Oto, London 2010
Shot by theuglyonewithjewel
Moonlighting is a 1982 British drama film written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It is set in the early 1980s at the time of the Solidarity protests in Poland. It stars Jeremy Irons as Nowak, a Polish builder leading a team working illegally in London.
Polish Festival at Cafe Oto, London 2010
Shot by theuglyonewithjewel
Moonlighting is a 1982 British drama film written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It is set in the early 1980s at the time of the Solidarity protests in Poland. It stars Jeremy Irons as Nowak, a Polish builder leading a team working illegally in London.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
A Dogon good groove...
Versions of Julius Hemphill's "Dogon A.D.":
First ten minutes of the album "Dogon A.D". Recorded in 1972
Julius Hemphill - alto sax, flute
Baikida E.J. Carroll - trumpet
Abdul Wadud - cello
Philip Wilson - drums
Defunkt - "Dogon A.D." - Live in Stuttgart 1996
pianist Vijay Iyer, double bassist Stephan Crump & drummer Marcus Gilmore play "Dogon A.D"
First ten minutes of the album "Dogon A.D". Recorded in 1972
Julius Hemphill - alto sax, flute
Baikida E.J. Carroll - trumpet
Abdul Wadud - cello
Philip Wilson - drums
Defunkt - "Dogon A.D." - Live in Stuttgart 1996
pianist Vijay Iyer, double bassist Stephan Crump & drummer Marcus Gilmore play "Dogon A.D"
Monday, November 15, 2010
Haiku
Check out Waldo Drog-
ulas's spanking new blog
It is called sh1tt3r
(Click on header.)
Slapp Happy, "Haiku"
chris corsano & massimo zu & antoine chessex @ Music Unlimited 24, Wels
shot by muzicadevest
ulas's spanking new blog
It is called sh1tt3r
(Click on header.)
Slapp Happy, "Haiku"
chris corsano & massimo zu & antoine chessex @ Music Unlimited 24, Wels
shot by muzicadevest
Thursday, November 11, 2010
"I see longer arrows are back in fashion..."
N.E.W. @ Music Unlimited 24, Wels, Austria, 11/07/10
Steve Noble - Drums
John Edwards - Bass
Alex Ward - Guitar
Chris Corsano, John Edwards,Paul Dunmall @ Music Unlimited 24, Wels, Austria, 11/07/10
Both shot by Shuffleboil
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Sax's Birthday
Seymour Wright, Martin Küchen, Keith Rowe
Darius Jones Quartet At Roulette New York July 2010
Darius Jones Matt Mitchell Trevor Dunn and Ches Smith
Film: Simon J Harper
Nate Scheible & Dan Wenninger Duo at Bela Dubby
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
Full Blast!
Please pardon my long absence; I just got back from my space-cation...
To help make up for it, here's some brand-new footage of Peter Brötzmann and Full Blast:
@ A38, budapest 2010
F16 taking off with afterburner switched on and doing a few loopings.
Presented at the Airshow in Berlin-Schönefeld on May, 20th 2006 near the airport.
If you have a subwoofer, turn the volume up to full blast and enjoy the roaring afterburner sound. while annoying your neighbours! ;-)
Sound distortion occurs at 0:14, no faulty camera microphone!
Do not attempt to annoy your neighbours! ;-}
To help make up for it, here's some brand-new footage of Peter Brötzmann and Full Blast:
@ A38, budapest 2010
F16 taking off with afterburner switched on and doing a few loopings.
Presented at the Airshow in Berlin-Schönefeld on May, 20th 2006 near the airport.
If you have a subwoofer, turn the volume up to full blast and enjoy the roaring afterburner sound. while annoying your neighbours! ;-)
Sound distortion occurs at 0:14, no faulty camera microphone!
Do not attempt to annoy your neighbours! ;-}
Labels:
a reasonable guide to horrible noise,
bass,
drums,
sax
Saturday, August 7, 2010
feliz aniversário, caetano veloso!
"Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist."
"De Cara" / "Eu quero essa mulher" [ "Araçá Azul" - (1973) ]
"É proibido proibir" (1968) Caetano sings while an audience riots because of his using a rock band for accompaniment.
"O Estrangeiro" (1989)
"De Cara" / "Eu quero essa mulher" [ "Araçá Azul" - (1973) ]
"É proibido proibir" (1968) Caetano sings while an audience riots because of his using a rock band for accompaniment.
"O Estrangeiro" (1989)
Friday, August 6, 2010
Not The Horns From Hell
And that is not a five-dollar trombone...
Ian Smith, Ricardo Tejero, Katarzyna Kuchnicka @ Boat-ting, London, 08/02/10
Ian Smith: Trumpet
Ricardo Tejero: Sax
Katarzyna Kuchnicka: Trombone
Ian Smith, Ricardo Tejero, Katarzyna Kuchnicka @ Boat-ting, London, 08/02/10
Ian Smith: Trumpet
Ricardo Tejero: Sax
Katarzyna Kuchnicka: Trombone
Monday, August 2, 2010
Shuffleboil presents Straight Horns & Tubs
Steve Noble (drums), Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet) @ Boat-ting, 07/05/10
Paul Dunmall (soprano sax) (also tenor), Chris Corsano (drums) @ Cafe Oto, London, 07/23/10
Lol Coxhill (ss), Steve Noble (dr), John Edwards (bass) @ Boat-ting, London, 08/02/10
Sunday, August 1, 2010
So fresh and so clean
Andrew D'Angelo leads his big band through a blazing version of his song "Gay Disco"...I'm tired listening to it, let alone having to play it.
At the Bleecker Theatre, NYC, May 2010
At the Bleecker Theatre, NYC, May 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
“The artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-Disk."
And, for a limited time, you can get those sounds cheaper...with the ESP-disk Summer Sale, which runs through Monday, August 9th. Includes the Albert Ayler "Holy Ghost" box set, nine CDs plus book, for $40.00, a slew of CDs for $6.50 and $9.00, even some vintage vinyl (I almost wrote "even a seal" from the 70s commercial for the clothing stud kit: "Seven free patterens; patterens like owl, mushroom, star, guitar, male-female symbol, even a seal!" Yes, the announcer couldn't pronounce 'patterns'...)
(From Alan Roth's "Inside Out In The Open," an hour-long documentary on DVD, included in the sale)
ESP 4058 Paul Dunmall & Chris Corsano - "Identical Sunsets"
Giuseppi Logan - "Mantu"
Giuseppi Logan: alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Milford Graves: drums, percussion
Reggie Johnson: bass
Don Pullen: piano
recorded 01/05/65, Town Hall, NYC
from "More" (ESP 1013)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
The Ex & Brass Unbound
RAUCHVERBOT mit cowbell...
the ex & brass unbound @ konfrontationen 2010, http://www.muzicadevest.ro
The Ex & Brass Unbound - UK Tour - Long from Mintonfilm on Vimeo.
Christine Sehnaoui & Andy Moor
Konfrontationen 2010, shot by Shuffleboil
Labels:
baritone-mania,
clarinet,
cowbell,
drums,
saxophones,
trombone,
trumpet
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Like a stripped-down Roxy Music,
like a bride re-dressed by her bachelors, even, Kurzmann & Vandermark & Brandlmayr at Konfrontationen 2010:
Click on the header for a slew of clips from the Konfrontationen festival, shot by MuzicaDeVest...
Click on the header for a slew of clips from the Konfrontationen festival, shot by MuzicaDeVest...
Labels:
drums,
electronics,
sax,
synthesizer
Call Him Ishmael
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith recently had a residency at the Cafe Oto in London. Here are a couple of clips shot by Shuffleboil:
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Pat Thomas at Cafe Oto, 07/25/10
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Mark Sanders at Cafe Oto ,07/24/10
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Pat Thomas at Cafe Oto, 07/25/10
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Mark Sanders at Cafe Oto ,07/24/10
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Welcome, Neil.
I so seldom have a new follower that I thought I'd take this opportunity to welcome Neil Packer (click on the header) with a Neil-centric post...
Neil Diamond, "The Pot Smoker's Song," from "Velvet Gloves and Spit"
Jim Dvorak, Neil Metcalfe, John Edwards, Dave Fowler
Dvorak (trumpet), Metcalfe (flute), Fowler (drums) and Edwards (bass) at Mopomoso free improvisation night at the Vortex Jazz Club, London. Filmed by Helen Petts on 04/19/09
Blood Stereo with Neil Campbell at Rowf Rowf Rowf Fest in Manchester, August '09
Neil Landstrumm, "Sniff And Destroy"
Neil Diamond, "The Pot Smoker's Song," from "Velvet Gloves and Spit"
Jim Dvorak, Neil Metcalfe, John Edwards, Dave Fowler
Dvorak (trumpet), Metcalfe (flute), Fowler (drums) and Edwards (bass) at Mopomoso free improvisation night at the Vortex Jazz Club, London. Filmed by Helen Petts on 04/19/09
Blood Stereo with Neil Campbell at Rowf Rowf Rowf Fest in Manchester, August '09
Neil Landstrumm, "Sniff And Destroy"
Thursday, July 22, 2010
time and chance happeneth to them all...
Werdna Kemilk of Bug Melter/Bug Me Later and Waldo Drogulus of Rugged Bugs will perform together for the first time in 19(?) years.*
"Ants have colonised almost every landmass on Earth. The only places lacking indigenous ants are Antarctica" (Ironic, huh?)
Kenji Suzuki (鈴木健二, Suzuki Kenji?, born 16 January 1950, in Japan), universally known as Damo Suzuki (ダモ鈴木)
Damo Suzuki's Network live at Gheroartè (MI) with Xabier Iriondo, Paolo Cantù and Cristiano Calcagnile
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Happy Birthday, Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler
July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970
Albert Ayler - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght 1970 "Spiritual Reunion"
"New Ghosts" (demo fragments)
"Truth Is Marching In"
Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone), Donald Ayler (trumpet), Michel Samson (violin), Bill Folwell (bass), Beaver Harris (drums).
Recorded November 3, 1966 at Berlin Philarmonie: Berlin, Germany.
From "Holy Ghost - Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70)", Revenant Records
George Gershwin's "Summertime"
Some tributes to Albert Ayler:
Tongues Of Fire: "New Ghosts"
Peter Brotzmann Quartet ''Die Like A Dog'' ( Berlin , 1995 )
Joe McPhee, Roy Campbell, William Parker and Warren Smith quartet: a tribute to Albert Ayler
live at A38 in Budapest, Hungary on September 5th, 2008
Broetzeseinkumpel, "Long Live Albert Ayler!"
July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970
Albert Ayler - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght 1970 "Spiritual Reunion"
"New Ghosts" (demo fragments)
"Truth Is Marching In"
Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone), Donald Ayler (trumpet), Michel Samson (violin), Bill Folwell (bass), Beaver Harris (drums).
Recorded November 3, 1966 at Berlin Philarmonie: Berlin, Germany.
From "Holy Ghost - Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70)", Revenant Records
George Gershwin's "Summertime"
Some tributes to Albert Ayler:
Tongues Of Fire: "New Ghosts"
Peter Brotzmann Quartet ''Die Like A Dog'' ( Berlin , 1995 )
Joe McPhee, Roy Campbell, William Parker and Warren Smith quartet: a tribute to Albert Ayler
live at A38 in Budapest, Hungary on September 5th, 2008
Broetzeseinkumpel, "Long Live Albert Ayler!"
Sunday, July 11, 2010
"Go ahead."
Chick Corea, Roy Haynes
and many other friends play
James Brown @ Ghent Jazz (2010)
Shot by TheLumixusMan
The Flying Lizards, "Sex Machine"
The Real Deal, live at l'Olympia, Paris, 1971
On the Mike Douglas show, 1971
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Lean Left Last Night
It's loud. And short.
The Ex guitars meet the Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love Duo
Paal Nilssen-Love er et kjent og kjært navn for alle med hang til frijazz. Verdens største jazznettsted "All About Jazz" har uttalt: "He has taken the drums to new creative levels". Ken Vandermark framstår ofte som en kraftfull og energisk saksofonist, men eksponerer også mer neddempede og lyriske sider. The Ex er et underlig band som det er vanskelig å sette navn på, noen har prøvd med anarcho-punk og punk-rock. Gitaristene fra The Ex: Terrie Ex og Andy Moor bidrar til voldsom, tøff og energisk musikk, fredag 9. juli kl 22.00 på Det Lille Extra
The Ex guitars meet the Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love Duo
Paal Nilssen-Love er et kjent og kjært navn for alle med hang til frijazz. Verdens største jazznettsted "All About Jazz" har uttalt: "He has taken the drums to new creative levels". Ken Vandermark framstår ofte som en kraftfull og energisk saksofonist, men eksponerer også mer neddempede og lyriske sider. The Ex er et underlig band som det er vanskelig å sette navn på, noen har prøvd med anarcho-punk og punk-rock. Gitaristene fra The Ex: Terrie Ex og Andy Moor bidrar til voldsom, tøff og energisk musikk, fredag 9. juli kl 22.00 på Det Lille Extra
Labels:
drums,
flum,
guitar,
sax,
the drummer is not fat but pretty smooth
Don't Jones Me...
Darius Jones (Sax), Adam Lane (bass),Jason Nazary (drums)
Local 269, NYC, 06/21/10
"Take the A Train".
Shot by Shuffleboil
Labels:
bass,
drums,
sax,
the drummer is not fat but pretty smooth
Monday, July 5, 2010
Do the Dance
Do the Dance
Do the Dance
Do the Dance
Arto Lindsay em Laranjeiras
No further data at this time. Is that Moreno Veloso playing with Arto?
Do the Dance
Do the Dance
Arto Lindsay em Laranjeiras
No further data at this time. Is that Moreno Veloso playing with Arto?
Labels:
ethereal circuses of south america,
flum,
fluxed-up,
guitar
Saturday, July 3, 2010
As Albert Ayler once sang...
There's a New Generation. Of course, that New Generation is kind of old by now, but there's a new New Generation:
Little Huey's Sextet + @ Campos Plaza playground, NYC, 06/21/10
Lewis Barnes - trumpet
Asim Barnes - guitar
Shayna Dulberger - bass
William Parker - horn thing & composition
Gerald Cleaver - drums
? - vocals
Children - Percussion and vocals
Filmed by Shuffleboil. I was wondering why he hadn't posted anything recently; I guess it's because he was on his way to New York...and here is some stuff he shot in my old neighborhood:
Chris Lightcap's Big Mouth @ Red Hook Festival, Brooklyn, 06/20/10
Chris Lightcap - bass
Chris Cheek - Sax
Craig Taborn - Fender Rhodes
Gerald Cleaver - Drums
Tony Malaby - Sax
Little Huey's Sextet + @ Campos Plaza playground, NYC, 06/21/10
Lewis Barnes - trumpet
Asim Barnes - guitar
Shayna Dulberger - bass
William Parker - horn thing & composition
Gerald Cleaver - drums
? - vocals
Children - Percussion and vocals
Filmed by Shuffleboil. I was wondering why he hadn't posted anything recently; I guess it's because he was on his way to New York...and here is some stuff he shot in my old neighborhood:
Chris Lightcap's Big Mouth @ Red Hook Festival, Brooklyn, 06/20/10
Chris Lightcap - bass
Chris Cheek - Sax
Craig Taborn - Fender Rhodes
Gerald Cleaver - Drums
Tony Malaby - Sax
Labels:
bass,
drums,
guitar,
horn,
New Generation,
percussion,
piano,
saxophones,
trumpet
Some American Freedom Music
For this weekend...
Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel
Live at the Yippie Cafe, NYC, on Tuesday, 06/15/10
Part IV - 'Mystic Mountain'
L-R: Takuma Kanaiwa - Electric Guitar; Marc Edwards - Drums, Twirling Tubes, & Bells; Gene Janas - Bass, Tor Snyder - Electric Guitar
Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel
Live at the Yippie Cafe, NYC, on Tuesday, 06/15/10
Part IV - 'Mystic Mountain'
L-R: Takuma Kanaiwa - Electric Guitar; Marc Edwards - Drums, Twirling Tubes, & Bells; Gene Janas - Bass, Tor Snyder - Electric Guitar
Monday, June 28, 2010
Dot Stuff
Mary Halvorson discusses her guitars and guitar-playing in a couple of new videos courtesy of Gearwire:
"Be sure to spot Mary's hidden superpower - the ability to spontaneously wear a jacket."
Also, Stop! Everyone WILL be searched for beer and liquor...
(Click on the header for a pic of Mary as a suedehead.)
(Also, you can have a crutch WITH ornamentation on it, like jewels or sequins.)
"Be sure to spot Mary's hidden superpower - the ability to spontaneously wear a jacket."
Also, Stop! Everyone WILL be searched for beer and liquor...
(Click on the header for a pic of Mary as a suedehead.)
(Also, you can have a crutch WITH ornamentation on it, like jewels or sequins.)
Labels:
crackling as an effect,
drums,
guitar
Saturday, June 26, 2010
I never noticed that the women in Brooklyn were especially little...
Little Women | NYC @ 538 Johnson Apt 202 | 06/04/10
Bass & Other
Gus Garside (double bass) and Dan Powell (other) at Mopomoso Free improvisation night at the Vortex Jazz Club in London. Filmed by Helen Petts, 06/20/10.
Labels:
bass,
electronics,
ethereal circuses of london,
percussion
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Two Bass Hit
Actually, it's two clips of one bass; Guillame Viltard, filmed by Helen Petts at Mopomoso, London, 06/20/10...
Play them simultaneously for optimal confusion.
Play them simultaneously for optimal confusion.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Saxophone & Other
Darius Jones (saxophone) & Martin McCavitt (other) at the Ratward in Hampton, Virginia, 08/11/04
Labels:
electronics,
ethereal circuses of the South,
sax
You could make a fire with the seats. You could boil up some [...] dips. Or get into the subway for the icecream to come around.
Who doesn't like some bass clarinet for a sunny Sat'day afternoon? Esp. paired w/ bull fiddle and guitar?
Misha Feigin gtr.
Ned Rothenberg bs. cl.
Kevin Ray bs.
At The Stone, NYC, 04/23/10
Perhaps you'd prefer some balalaika:
Misha Feigin gtr.
Ned Rothenberg bs. cl.
Kevin Ray bs.
At The Stone, NYC, 04/23/10
Perhaps you'd prefer some balalaika:
Labels:
balalaika,
bass,
bass clarinet,
guitar
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I'm searching for the now. I'm looking for the real thing, yeah. Head through a blue haze. Waiting for the musical craze...
Pat Thomas shown here...
han bennink-drums
pat thomas-piano and electronics
john coxon electric guitar
surreal gig @ pizza express dean street, london, 05/26/10
And a rare chance to just experience Han at the kit, without him getting up to play chairs or kick cymbals around (even though he is good at it...).
Friday, June 11, 2010
One of Cleveland's Contributions to Out Music
along with, say, Albert and Donald Ayler and Screamin' Jay Hawkins, is Elliott Sharp, shown here in London with John Butcher, John Edwards, and Tony Marsh:
At Cafe Oto, 06/05/10
Shot by Shuffleboil
Unfortunately, this cuts off shortly after the beginning of a duo passage between the two Johns...here you can go directly to it, if you so wish:
And here is Sharp in a solo spot:
At Cafe Oto, 06/05/10
Shot by Shuffleboil
Unfortunately, this cuts off shortly after the beginning of a duo passage between the two Johns...here you can go directly to it, if you so wish:
And here is Sharp in a solo spot:
Labels:
bass,
drums,
ethereal circuses of london,
flum,
guitar,
Irritating Tapping,
sagxouiphtonear,
sax
Thursday, June 10, 2010
"We like Birdland, we like Birdland!" and the 'imperfections' of filmmaking
George Landow Aka Owen Land - "Film In Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc" (1965-66)
Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns - "We Like Birdland"
I didn't get hip to this song until I saw Half-Japanese do it at Folk City...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Steve Noble
One day in the late 80s or early 90s, I was woken by a familiar Southern voice and an unfamiliar English voice, while in the small guestroom/storage-space at a friend's apartment on E. 13th Street in NY. The voices belonged to Davey Williams, the great guitarist from Alabama, and Steve Noble from England. I got up, said Good Morning, and I think I babbled something nonsensical to Noble about how impressed I was with the sound of his bass drum at the gig I had seen him at the night before (don't remember who else was playing...). That may have been the same trip where I was leaving the apartment and the NYPD grabbed me, threw me down on the floor, and put a gun to my head, etc. (Upon further reflection, I think I was on my way out to see Noble play with Ernst Reijseger at the old Knitting Factory when New York's Finest decided that I was a Public Enemy...)
Steve Noble Quartet @ the Vortex, London, 05/19/10.
Steve Noble with Orphy Robinson (e-vibes), Jason Yarde (Sax), John Edwards (Bass)
Shot by Shuffleboil
At this point I would like to comment on the unit on Jason Yarde's scalp; it looks like a brilliant synthesis of the singer from Stump, and Sonny Rollins when he sported a mohawk...
Further research reveals that Noble and Williams recorded two albums with the tuba player Oren Marshall...
Say What! with Steve Noble, Oren Marshall, 1992
Transmutating with Steve Noble, Oren Marshall, 1993
Steve Noble Quartet @ the Vortex, London, 05/19/10.
Steve Noble with Orphy Robinson (e-vibes), Jason Yarde (Sax), John Edwards (Bass)
Shot by Shuffleboil
At this point I would like to comment on the unit on Jason Yarde's scalp; it looks like a brilliant synthesis of the singer from Stump, and Sonny Rollins when he sported a mohawk...
Further research reveals that Noble and Williams recorded two albums with the tuba player Oren Marshall...
Say What! with Steve Noble, Oren Marshall, 1992
Transmutating with Steve Noble, Oren Marshall, 1993
Monday, June 7, 2010
This week in Cellular Chaos
Weasel Walter & co. bring the heat:
Cellular Chaos live at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn, New York City, 06/02/10.
Filmed and Edited by (((unartig)))
Audio Recorded and Engineered by Weasel Walter
Cellular Chaos live at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn, New York City, 06/02/10.
Filmed and Edited by (((unartig)))
Audio Recorded and Engineered by Weasel Walter
Friday, June 4, 2010
Braxton at 65
"MUSC293: Music of Sun Ra and Karlheinz Stockhausen" @ Wesleyan University, Spring 2008
Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Quartet live in Moscow, DOM Cultural Centre, 06/29/08
Anthony Braxton - alto, soprano, sopranino, baritone, bass and contrabass saxes, electronics,
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn, piccolo, bass trumpet, trumpbone, mutes and shell,
Mary Halvorson - electric guitar,
Katherine Young - bassoon
Category:
Music
Anthony Braxton and Richard Teitelbaum, NY 1994
Braxton with William Parker and Don Moye
Pomigliano jazz live 08/11/09
Labels:
bass,
bassoon,
drums,
electronics,
guitar,
Study them.,
synthesizer,
trumpet
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Brötzmann/Van Hove/Bennink
Some vintage footage of this redoubtable trio:
Recorded live on February 4, 1974 at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Jazzworkshop held at the NDR Funkhaus in Hannover, DE.
Peter Brötzmann - reeds
Fred van Hove - prepared piano, percussion
Han Bennink - drums, percussion, reeds
"Einheitslied" by Hanns Eisler
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Recorded live on February 4, 1974 at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Jazzworkshop held at the NDR Funkhaus in Hannover, DE.
Peter Brötzmann - reeds
Fred van Hove - prepared piano, percussion
Han Bennink - drums, percussion, reeds
"Einheitslied" by Hanns Eisler
You can vote for your favorite band member; just click on the header...
Stylophones & Sunglasses
Tania Chen and Steve Beresford in an improvised duet at the Usurp Gallery in London, 05/30/10, Beresford well-dressed and pressed as per usual, and Chen is sporting some hip shades:
Speaking of sunglasses, here is Tania Chen discussing her collection of vintage eyewear:
Tania Chen and Steve Beresford duo at Usurp Gallery from Tania Chen on Vimeo.
Speaking of sunglasses, here is Tania Chen discussing her collection of vintage eyewear:
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Perhaps somewhere in here there is possibly a solution
to the undersea hemorrhaging of oil taking place in the Gulf of Mexico. But probably not. At any rate, here is an odd little performance by Adam Bohman
on amplified objects and Steve Beresford on electronics performing at the Usurp Gallery, Harrow, filmed by Helen Petts. Worth seeing full-screen.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
The Suzuki Method
is pretty similar to the Chuck Berry method; Damo Suzuki comes to a town, and the promoter has a band of local musicians set to back him up...except he's not doing Chuck Berry songs (or songs by Can, for that matter), he's doing all improvisations.
Here are clips of some recent performances:
DAMO SUZUKI feat. CHATEAU LAUT - LIVE @ AUSLAND, BERLIN, 04/30/10
REnDeR PLaNT & Damo Suzuki
Part of a three-day Experimental Music Festival at the Luminaire in Kilburn in May 2010
Damo Suzuki and The Vultures, The Luminaire, 05/03/10
Damo Suzuki and the Dominic Lash Quatertet, The Luminaire, 05/03/10
Ricardo Tejero (sax), Javier Carmona (drums), Dominic Lash (bass), and Rodrigo Montoya (Japanese shamisen), perform at the Luminaire in the vicinity of Kilburn.
And sometimes the Chuck Berry method works really well:
Saturday, May 29, 2010
I don't have much to say about...
the recently deceased Dennis Hopper, but I won't pass up an opportunity to put up some beatnik jazz combo music, especially if it's in a cellar joint. It would have been even better if they could have gotten Steve Lacy or Ornette...
Dennis Hopper and Linda Lawson in Curtis Harrington's "Night Tide" (1961, the upside-down year)
Here's some more common Bug Melter fare:
Diagram A Live @ basement show in Providence, R.I.
Tiger Hatchery, 05/09/09 @ Now That's Class Champagne Of Fests
Shot by Loumnz
Dennis Hopper and Linda Lawson in Curtis Harrington's "Night Tide" (1961, the upside-down year)
Here's some more common Bug Melter fare:
Diagram A Live @ basement show in Providence, R.I.
Tiger Hatchery, 05/09/09 @ Now That's Class Champagne Of Fests
Shot by Loumnz
Friday, May 28, 2010
No knife-fight...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Two Wongs don't make a Wright...
as you would know if you were a fervent viewer of Woody Allen's movie "What's Up, Tiger Lily." Here is Jack Wright, not with two guys named Wong, but rather Pascal Battus from France and Michael Johnsen from the Pittsburgh area:
Pascal Battus (France) : Objects, contact mics
Jack Wright : Reeds
Michael Johnsen : original electronics
04/21/10 at the Red Room, Baltimore, Maryland
(a/k/a Bal'More and Charm City)
Videos courtesy of Dennisovich
Pascal Battus (France) : Objects, contact mics
Jack Wright : Reeds
Michael Johnsen : original electronics
04/21/10 at the Red Room, Baltimore, Maryland
(a/k/a Bal'More and Charm City)
Videos courtesy of Dennisovich
Saturday, May 22, 2010
That's the Long and Short of It...
Jack Wright/Johan Nystrom/Forbes Graham/Pascal Battus
Dad City, Amherst, MA
04/13/10
Jack Wright/Pascal Battus duo
That's not really short, is it?
This is:
Pascal Battus/Jamie Coleman/Sebastian Lexer
The microphone guitar finally rid of her.
Labels:
electronics,
percussion,
piano,
sax,
trumpet
Saturday, May 15, 2010
“The artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-Disk”.
And I guess I decide what you hear on Bug Melter...here is Sonny Simmons in London:
Sonny Simmons Quartet with Pat Thomas, John Edwards, Louis Moholo Moholo @ Cafe Oto, London, 05/14/10
Shot by Shuffleboil
Sonny Simmons Quartet with Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards, Charlie Collins @ Cafe Oto, London, 05/13/10
Shot by Shuffleboil
The Sonny Simmons Quartet
With Derek Saw (trumpet & valve trombone), John Jasnoch (guitar & oud)
and Charlie Collins (drums & cajon)
The Vortex, London
Shot by Dzgast
Sonny Simmons Quartet with Pat Thomas, John Edwards, Louis Moholo Moholo @ Cafe Oto, London, 05/14/10
Shot by Shuffleboil
Sonny Simmons Quartet with Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards, Charlie Collins @ Cafe Oto, London, 05/13/10
Shot by Shuffleboil
The Sonny Simmons Quartet
With Derek Saw (trumpet & valve trombone), John Jasnoch (guitar & oud)
and Charlie Collins (drums & cajon)
The Vortex, London
Shot by Dzgast
B & W trumpet and drums
Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London
Labels:
drums,
ethereal circuses of london,
trumpet
Monday, May 10, 2010
Must bust in early May
Or possibly Free Games for May...films courtesy of Helen Petts:
John Butcher (saxophones), Okkyung Lee (cello) and - in the dark - Christian Marclay (turntables) and Steve Beresford (electronics). Cafe Oto, London, 05/07/10.
Beresford & Marclay
Lee & Beresford, 05/08/10
Lee & Marclay, 05/07/10
Marclay & Butcher, 05/07/10
John Butcher (saxophones), Okkyung Lee (cello) and - in the dark - Christian Marclay (turntables) and Steve Beresford (electronics). Cafe Oto, London, 05/07/10.
Beresford & Marclay
Lee & Beresford, 05/08/10
Lee & Marclay, 05/07/10
Marclay & Butcher, 05/07/10
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Former Fall Guy conducts Orchestra
The London Improvisers Orchestra conducted by Dave Tucker, with Steve Beresford on piano and guest soloist Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet at the Freedom of the City Festival, London 2010. Filmed by Helen Petts.
Labels:
orchestra,
piano,
trumpet,
Tuckered out.
Friday, April 30, 2010
More Ex, more Unbound (Unbounder?)
Świetny koncert w ramach lubelskiego festiwalu jazzowego z kwietnia 2010.
04/26/10
Hidegen fújnak a szelek
Labels:
bass,
clarinet,
drums,
saguxitar,
sagxouiphtonear,
saxophones,
trombone,
trumpet
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Vandermark has grown his hair out...
justifying his position as the Madonna of the jazz world (click on the title)...
Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, John Edwards @ Cafe Oto, London, 04/23/10
Shot by Shuffleboil, as was this:
Eddie Prevost, Guillaume Viltard, Philip Somervel @ Cafe Oto, 01/22/10
Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, John Edwards @ Cafe Oto, London, 04/23/10
Shot by Shuffleboil, as was this:
Eddie Prevost, Guillaume Viltard, Philip Somervel @ Cafe Oto, 01/22/10
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Little Women, et al., live in Lakewood
Little Women at Bela Dubby on Friday, 04/09/10, performing "Throat part 1" from the album "Throat" (Aum Fidelity Records)
Travis Laplante, tenor sax; Darius Jones, alto sax; Andrew Smiley, guitar; Jason Nazary, drums.
Shot by westsalemcongress...
The dark circles on the wall are paintings done on 12" vinyl records (Bela Dubby is a cafe and gallery; it also serves beer). My favorite non-musical part of their set was during one of the segments where the saxes drop out and the guitar and drums duet. Darius Jones stood over by one of the walls in front of one of the record paintings, and it looked like he had a black halo...
Opening were the duo of Dan Wenninger on tenor sax and Nate Scheible on drums:
Rounding out the show was Mike Forbes (also of Tiger Hatchery and the Forbes/Young/Walter trio) on tenor and J. Guy Laughlin on drums:
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Coming up at the same venue:
http://ruggedbugs.blogspot.com/2010/07/wednesday-august-11-2010.html
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Bonus pics of Little Women in Cleveland, 2008, by Lou Muenz:
http://www.pbase.com/tremont/image/91926460
http://www.pbase.com/tremont/image/91927573
Labels:
drums,
saguxitar,
sagxouiphtonear,
saxophones,
tenor-mania
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