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."

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"

Call Him Ishmael

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith recently had a residency at the Cafe Oto in London. Here are a couple of clips shot by Shuffleboil:



Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Pat Thomas at Cafe Oto, 07/25/10



Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Mark Sanders at Cafe Oto ,07/24/10

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

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...).

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.

Former Fall Guy conducts Orchestra

The London Improvisers Orchestra conducted by Dave Tucker, with Steve Beresford on piano and guest soloist Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet at the Freedom of the City Festival, London 2010. Filmed by Helen Petts.

Vandermark has grown his hair out...

justifying his position as the Madonna of the jazz world (click on the title)...



Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, John Edwards @ Cafe Oto, London, 04/23/10
Shot by Shuffleboil, as was this:



Eddie Prevost, Guillaume Viltard, Philip Somervel @ Cafe Oto, 01/22/10

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.

Dare I say it? I guess I will...one of the worst puns, Sax and Violins...

Mats Gustafsson, Pat Thomas, Phil Wachsmann @ Cafe Oto, London, 04/09/10



Jon Rose and Chris Cutler @ Cafe Oto, 04/08/10

Both filmed by Shuffleboil



Tony Conrad, Genesis P. Orridge, Morrison Edley - 1st Piece (live at F Serralves)

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:

Spooky/Shipp

The prequel to Butcher/Shipp?


DJ Spooky & Matthew Shipp - Optometry // live at Banlieues Bleues, 03/19/03 // a film by Jacques Goldstein // DJ Spooky - turntables, samples / Matthew Shipp - piano / William Parker - bass / Guillermo Brown - drums, laptop //

Born on 03/04

Halim, El-Dabh, composer, born on 03/04/1921:



Angus MacLise, musician and poet, born 03/04/38:



Angus MacLise - Drum Solo (NYC 1968) from "Brain Damage In Oklahoma City"

Jan Garbarek, musician, born 03/04/47:



Jan Garbarek - "Beast of Kommodo" from "Afric Pepperbird" (1970)
Jan Garbarek (Sax, Flute)
Arild Andersen (Bass, Xylophone, Piano),
Terje Rypdal (Guitar, Bugle),
Jon Christensen (Drums, Perc.),

Buck 65 (Richard Terfry ), rapper, songwriter, born 03/04/72:



Buck 65, "Food," video by Deanvideo

El-P (Jaime Meline), rapper, producer, born 03/04/75:



"Sunrise Over Brooklyn," El-P featuring The Blue Series Continuum Services

People at the Foot of the Mountain*...

...have been stopping by here recently to check out Roscoe Mitchell and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, so I thought I'd put up a few more things that I've stumbled upon.







From the "Jazz Solos" series by Daniel K. Berman



Roscoe Mitchell + Muhal Richard Abrams + George Lewis

Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell have a new album out on Mutable Music. For more info, click on the header.

*From Piemonte/Piedmont in Italia/Italy.

Butcher/Shipp

Nice, could be the title of a "Saw"/"Hostel"-ish zombie bloodbath movie...



Matthew Shipp, John Butcher duet @ Cafe Oto, London, 02/14/10, filmed by Shuffleboil

Here's some solo Shipp:



At A38, Budapest, September 2008.

Click on the header for some Matthew Shipp bonus beats.

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!"

More Snow

Michael Snow, Alan Licht, and Aki Onda at the Music Gallery, Toronto, March 2009



Michael Snow, "Wavelength" (1967) excerpt

Hat (and Beard)

Shuffleboil the video documentarian has posted a version of Thelonious Monk's "Shuffle Boil" as performed by the combo Hard Evidence (Steve Noble on drums, John Edwards on bass, Adrian Northover on soprano sax, and Pat Thomas in a suitably Monastic hat) at the New Year New Sounds festival, Battersea Arts Centre, London, 01/23/10.



Bonus:

Noble and Edwards flipping out with Peter Brötzmann at the Cafe Oto, London, last night (01/30/10)...