I May Have Forgotten How to Do This...

But here is a message from Dan Wenninger: 1Way returns this Tuesday (2/24) with Oblique Orchestra at 9pm. After our set there will be an open, large group collective improvisation starting at 10pm. Anything goes, any instrument or sound making device. There is a house drum kit. Once the piece has started feel free to join or leave the improvisation when you want. This takes place at the Go Factory. 1935 W. 96th off of Madison. 3rd floor. Park in the large fenced in parking lot and use the door closest to the street. Donations are graciously accepted. Doors open at 8:30pm. Music starts at 9pm. Dress warm, there is a wood burning stove but it's still a warehouse in Cleveland, in February. -Dan

One third of the followers of this blog are former members of the Ragged Bags...

(Actually, the blog just lost one of its six followers, so now 40% of the followers are former members of the Ragged Bags...)

Which is neither here nor there. Right now I am blogging in a vain attempt to hold onto what's left of my sanity. I would have liked to be at this gig:



Eli Keszler/Adam Bohman/Steve Beresford live at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, 04/01/11

Or at any of the three performances of the musical that Talibam! wrote and performed with Sam Kulik: "Talibam! Goes To Bed with Sam Kulik and Discovers Atlantis" (click on the header and read more, if you care, or dare, to...)

Mea culpa...Happy Belated Birthday to Waldo Drogulus

Yesterday was Waldo Drogulus's birthday, as well as being April Fools Day. Here are some things that might amuse him:



Full Blast Trio

Peter Brötzmann, reeds
Marino Pliakas, bass
Michel Wertmuller, drums
Recorded at Norrköping Museum of Art, Sweden 2011-03-03



extrait du film RAGE ! de Bernard Josse, Photos de Gérard Rouy





This was at 361,136 views when I looked at it last...

Happy Birthday to Ornette Coleman

Born March 9th, 1930, in Fort Worth, Texas. By the way, what year was it when he surpassed Miles Davis as the best-dressed man in jazz?



Germany, 1978 (Thanks, Weasel...)
Ornette Coleman: alto saxophone, trumpet
James Blood Ulmer: guitar
Bern Nix: guitar
Fred Williams: bass guitar
Denardo Coleman: drums
Ronald Shannon Jackson: drums

"Macho Woman" live in Germany July 1978



Roma, 1974
Ornette Coleman: saxo ; James Ulmer: guitarra ; Sirone: bajo; Billy Higgins: batería



Ornette in black and white, outside the Beacon Theatre, NYC, 09/10/10

The Other Green Phlegm

Thanks to Waldo for being concerned about my absence. It was partly due to connection problems, from being in Tremont, then due to the storm, and partly due to band commitments and not finding much of anything that I wanted to post about. Her's something, a U.K. artist named Phlegm:



As usual, you can click on the header for more info. If I understand correctly, he either lives or frequently works in Sheffield, an old steel town, and home of Derek Bailey.

Gayle & Gale

Charles Gayle Trio @ Cafe Oto, London, 01/14/11
Charles Gayle - Saxophone, Piano
Christopher Sullivan - Bass
Michael Thompson - Drums

Shot by Shuffleboil



Microdisney, "Gale Force Wind"
(Sorry I couldn't find the rabid Charity Concert version, but:
" saw a dead man in the street today,
And he'll stay there because he never paid,
He was a stranger who would not go home,
Blinded by sun on the streets of gold.")

Toronto Basement

Weasel Walter/ Peter Evans/ Mary Halvorson



At least I think it's a basement...

Tonguing on Monday, 01/10/11, at Now That's Class

(Nate, but not with Tonguing. Shown here with Jack Wright.)

More info here: http://tonguing2010.blogspot.com/

Crinkle Cut is a good cut.

Life and career advice from a man who had played Frankenstein's monster to a man who would play Frankenstein's monster:



"More or less, you know..."



Steve Noble - drums
Fyfe Hutchins - piano
@ the Vortex, London, 12/19/10. Filmed by shuffleboil.

Luvverly. Reminds me of the Steve Beresford/Han Bennink LP, "Directly to Pyjamas."

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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"

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

"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

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