“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

B & W trumpet and drums

Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London

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