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

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?)

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

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.

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

You can vote for your favorite band member; just click on the header...

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.