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

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

"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

Full Blast!

Please pardon my long absence; I just got back from my space-cation...
To help make up for it, here's some brand-new footage of Peter Brötzmann and Full Blast:



@ A38, budapest 2010



F16 taking off with afterburner switched on and doing a few loopings.

Presented at the Airshow in Berlin-Schönefeld on May, 20th 2006 near the airport.

If you have a subwoofer, turn the volume up to full blast and enjoy the roaring afterburner sound. while annoying your neighbours! ;-)

Sound distortion occurs at 0:14, no faulty camera microphone!

Do not attempt to annoy your neighbours! ;-}

Not The Horns From Hell

And that is not a five-dollar trombone...



Ian Smith, Ricardo Tejero, Katarzyna Kuchnicka @ Boat-ting, London, 08/02/10

Ian Smith: Trumpet
Ricardo Tejero: Sax
Katarzyna Kuchnicka: Trombone

Like a stripped-down Roxy Music,

like a bride re-dressed by her bachelors, even, Kurzmann & Vandermark & Brandlmayr at Konfrontationen 2010:



Click on the header for a slew of clips from the Konfrontationen festival, shot by MuzicaDeVest...

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

Don't Jones Me...

Darius Jones (Sax), Adam Lane (bass),Jason Nazary (drums)
Local 269, NYC, 06/21/10
"Take the A Train".

Shot by Shuffleboil

Saxophone & Other

Darius Jones (saxophone) & Martin McCavitt (other) at the Ratward in Hampton, Virginia, 08/11/04

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:

Steve Noble

One day in the late 80s or early 90s, I was woken by a familiar Southern voice and an unfamiliar English voice, while in the small guestroom/storage-space at a friend's apartment on E. 13th Street in NY. The voices belonged to Davey Williams, the great guitarist from Alabama, and Steve Noble from England. I got up, said Good Morning, and I think I babbled something nonsensical to Noble about how impressed I was with the sound of his bass drum at the gig I had seen him at the night before (don't remember who else was playing...). That may have been the same trip where I was leaving the apartment and the NYPD grabbed me, threw me down on the floor, and put a gun to my head, etc. (Upon further reflection, I think I was on my way out to see Noble play with Ernst Reijseger at the old Knitting Factory when New York's Finest decided that I was a Public Enemy...)



Steve Noble Quartet @ the Vortex, London, 05/19/10.
Steve Noble with Orphy Robinson (e-vibes), Jason Yarde (Sax), John Edwards (Bass)
Shot by Shuffleboil

At this point I would like to comment on the unit on Jason Yarde's scalp; it looks like a brilliant synthesis of the singer from Stump, and Sonny Rollins when he sported a mohawk...

Further research reveals that Noble and Williams recorded two albums with the tuba player Oren Marshall...

Say What! with Steve Noble, Oren Marshall, 1992
Transmutating with Steve Noble, Oren Marshall, 1993

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:

I don't have much to say about...

the recently deceased Dennis Hopper, but I won't pass up an opportunity to put up some beatnik jazz combo music, especially if it's in a cellar joint. It would have been even better if they could have gotten Steve Lacy or Ornette...



Dennis Hopper and Linda Lawson in Curtis Harrington's "Night Tide" (1961, the upside-down year)

Here's some more common Bug Melter fare:



Diagram A Live @ basement show in Providence, R.I.



Tiger Hatchery, 05/09/09 @ Now That's Class Champagne Of Fests
Shot by Loumnz

No knife-fight...

...but this guy sometimes bears one in his teeth:



You will probably need that pic because this video is so dark...



浦邊雅祥(Masayoshi Urabe) live @ Shinjuku URGA, 02/22/10


"I am so happy to see he is performing again." posted one viewer.
If you can call that seeing...

Two Wongs don't make a Wright...

as you would know if you were a fervent viewer of Woody Allen's movie "What's Up, Tiger Lily." Here is Jack Wright, not with two guys named Wong, but rather Pascal Battus from France and Michael Johnsen from the Pittsburgh area:





Pascal Battus (France) : Objects, contact mics
Jack Wright : Reeds
Michael Johnsen : original electronics
04/21/10 at the Red Room, Baltimore, Maryland
(a/k/a Bal'More and Charm City)



Videos courtesy of Dennisovich

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.

Must bust in early May

Or possibly Free Games for May...films courtesy of Helen Petts:



John Butcher (saxophones), Okkyung Lee (cello) and - in the dark - Christian Marclay (turntables) and Steve Beresford (electronics). Cafe Oto, London, 05/07/10.



Beresford & Marclay



Lee & Beresford, 05/08/10



Lee & Marclay, 05/07/10



Marclay & Butcher, 05/07/10

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