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...)

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

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

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

"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

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)

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

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?)

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?

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

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

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.)

I never noticed that the women in Brooklyn were especially little...

Little Women | NYC @ 538 Johnson Apt 202 | 06/04/10

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:

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...).

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

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
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Anthony Braxton and Richard Teitelbaum, NY 1994



Braxton with William Parker and Don Moye
Pomigliano jazz live 08/11/09

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: