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...

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.

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

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

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"

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

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?

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:

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

Guitar is the new drum...

as James Brown or Lydia Lunch might say. Weasel Walter in some recent appearances:



WW-drums
Reuben Radding-bass
Daniel Carter and Aram Shelton-reeds
At Goodbye Blue Monday, 03/21/10



Cellular Chaos, Silent Barn, Queens, 04/08/10
WW-guitar
Ceci Moss-bass
Marc Edwards-drums



Michael Forbes, Andrew Scott Young, Weasel Walter @ Death By Audio, BKLN, 04/11/10

http://nowave.pair.com/ugexplode/af.html



Weasel Walter / Sheik Anorak / Mario Rechtern Trio - live Hamburg, 04/19/10
Shot by elkessommer

My money, such as it is, i.e., not much, is on the black...

Roulette, a performance space in NYC, specifically Manhattan (and that's becoming a rarity, with most of the action now taking place in Brooklyn, and probably eventually in Queens, Staten Island, or Yonkers...and doesn't that just roll off the tongue) has put up some interesting video tidbits on Vimeo. I suggest you watch these while downing a bottle of Vitameatavegamin:

Roulette TV: MARY HALVORSON from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.

MARY HALVORSON QUINTET:

Jon Irabagon- alto saxophone
Jonathan Finlayson- trumpet
Mary Halvorson- guitar
John Hébert- bass
Ches Smith- drums

Roulette TV: DARIUS JONES from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.

DARIUS JONES QUARTET

Lisle Ellis: Bass
Angelica Sanchez: Piano and Wurlitzer
Jason Nazary: Drums
Darius Jones: Alto Sax and Composition

Mr. Jones was just in town (CLE) with his collaborative combo Little Women, a gig to be treasured by all who were there...

Oh yeah, and click on the header to be taken to an hour of Henry Threadgill, commissioned by Roulette with funds by the Baisley Powell Elebash Trust.

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Lagniappe:

Travis LaPlante, the tenor player in Little Women, shown here not at Roulette, but at 751 Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, 03/31/10...apparently shot by Michael Snow on a balance board.

Two Views of Mats at Oto

Is that a tongue-twister?



Mats Gustafsson, Phil Minton, John Russell @ Cafe Oto, London, 04/10/10
Shot by Shuffleboil...



Shot by Helentonic

Git-boxes, etc.

Paul G. Smith (piano) and John Russell (guitar) at Mopomoso free improvisation night at the Vortex Jazz Club, London. Filmed by Helen Petts on 03/21/10.



Pascal Marzan at Mopomoso free improvisation night at the Vortex Jazz Club, London. Filmed by Helen Petts on 03/21/10.



DJ /rupture & Andy Moor: Live Improvisation on guitar + turntables. Recorded in Orleans France, March 2007. Slideshow fotos by Andy Moor.

Parker/Bailey can't lose:



Derek Bailey and Evan Parker, 04/22/85, The Arts Theatre - Incus Festival London, England

Nor can Bailey/Stevens:

Almost Autumn in South America

Alan Courtis en Santiago de Chile



Lee Ranaldo in Chile, 03/28/09



São Paulo Underground, video by Akin

Springtime Addendum:



"Dark 'N' Lovely," as Stevie Wonder might say...

El jueves, 04 de marzo de 2010
Espacio Ecléctico, Humberto Primo 730
Buenos Aires

Nicolás Diab: Bajo
Fernando de la Vega: Batería
Alan Courtis: Guitarra

Courtisy (heh) of Suciotraporojo

Chair vs. Chair

Chris Cooper : guitar
Nick Becker : moog, electric guitar
Stewart Mostofsky : electronics

High Zero, Baltimore, MD, 09/12/09
Video by Dennisovich

OTO (CAFE)

Chino Shuichi, Alex Ward, John Russell, Roger Turner, Phil Wachsmann @ Cafe Oto, 02/17/10.

Video by Shuffleboil.

"Eric!"

Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop

Antibes Jazz Festival, Juan-Les-Pins, France, 07/13/60

Ted Curson (tpt); Eric Dolphy (as); Booker Ervin (ts); Charles Mingus (bass, pno); Dannie Richmond (dr); Bud Powell (pno).



Eric Dolphy - "Epistrophy" -
ERIC DOLPHY(as･bcl･fl)
MISHA MENGELBERG（p）
JACQUES SCHOLS（b）
HAN BENNINK（ds）

Recorded at Hilversum,Holland, 06/02/64



Broohaha - "The Eric Dolphy Shopping Spree" - Pulse Bar, Barnsley, 02/18/10

The title comes from an anecdote that Kyle Farrell (click on the header) told me about a visit to NY; he was outside The Stone when a guy walked by carrying a 'cello, and, thinking it might be Erik Friedlander, he hollered "Erik!"

"Hello, Mr. Seoul"

Unidentified bass player in Seoul, Korea.

YOKO (ONO), w/ Mirror and Dash

Plastic Ono Band w/Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, "Mulberry," 02/16/10

Update: the link in the header now leads to Mirror's new blog, NYC Ghosts & Flowers & Cream, instead of a clip of Henry Flynt holding forth in front of 112 Chambers Street, site of the building where Yoko Ono had her loft and produced a historic series of concerts in the early sixties.