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

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"

Sax's Birthday

Seymour Wright, Martin Küchen, Keith Rowe



Darius Jones Quartet At Roulette New York July 2010
Darius Jones Matt Mitchell Trevor Dunn and Ches Smith

Film: Simon J Harper



Nate Scheible & Dan Wenninger Duo at Bela Dubby

Space Travel, Time Travel, We Do It All

Peter Brötzmann - "German Blues"

Shuffleboil presents Straight Horns & Tubs

Steve Noble (drums), Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet) @ Boat-ting, 07/05/10



Paul Dunmall (soprano sax) (also tenor), Chris Corsano (drums) @ Cafe Oto, London, 07/23/10



Lol Coxhill (ss), Steve Noble (dr), John Edwards (bass) @ Boat-ting, London, 08/02/10

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

“The artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-Disk."

And, for a limited time, you can get those sounds cheaper...with the ESP-disk Summer Sale, which runs through Monday, August 9th. Includes the Albert Ayler "Holy Ghost" box set, nine CDs plus book, for $40.00, a slew of CDs for $6.50 and $9.00, even some vintage vinyl (I almost wrote "even a seal" from the 70s commercial for the clothing stud kit: "Seven free patterens; patterens like owl, mushroom, star, guitar, male-female symbol, even a seal!" Yes, the announcer couldn't pronounce 'patterns'...)





(From Alan Roth's "Inside Out In The Open," an hour-long documentary on DVD, included in the sale)



ESP 4058 Paul Dunmall & Chris Corsano - "Identical Sunsets"



Giuseppi Logan - "Mantu"
Giuseppi Logan: alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Milford Graves: drums, percussion
Reggie Johnson: bass
Don Pullen: piano
recorded 01/05/65, Town Hall, NYC


from "More" (ESP 1013)

The Ex & Brass Unbound

RAUCHVERBOT mit cowbell...



the ex & brass unbound @ konfrontationen 2010, http://www.muzicadevest.ro

The Ex & Brass Unbound - UK Tour - Long from Mintonfilm on Vimeo.

Christine Sehnaoui & Andy Moor
Konfrontationen 2010, shot by Shuffleboil

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

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

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...

More Ex, more Unbound (Unbounder?)

Świetny koncert w ramach lubelskiego festiwalu jazzowego z kwietnia 2010.
04/26/10





Hidegen fújnak a szelek

Little Women, et al., live in Lakewood

Little Women at Bela Dubby on Friday, 04/09/10, performing "Throat part 1" from the album "Throat" (Aum Fidelity Records)

Travis Laplante, tenor sax; Darius Jones, alto sax; Andrew Smiley, guitar; Jason Nazary, drums.

Shot by westsalemcongress...

The dark circles on the wall are paintings done on 12" vinyl records (Bela Dubby is a cafe and gallery; it also serves beer). My favorite non-musical part of their set was during one of the segments where the saxes drop out and the guitar and drums duet. Darius Jones stood over by one of the walls in front of one of the record paintings, and it looked like he had a black halo...

Opening were the duo of Dan Wenninger on tenor sax and Nate Scheible on drums:



Rounding out the show was Mike Forbes (also of Tiger Hatchery and the Forbes/Young/Walter trio) on tenor and J. Guy Laughlin on drums:



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Coming up at the same venue:

http://ruggedbugs.blogspot.com/2010/07/wednesday-august-11-2010.html

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Bonus pics of Little Women in Cleveland, 2008, by Lou Muenz:

http://www.pbase.com/tremont/image/91926460

http://www.pbase.com/tremont/image/91927573

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

Dolphy00 (Party over, oops, out of time!)...

...has posted some clips of a recent performance in Paris 2010 by Jack Wright and Claude Parle






Jack Wright (as, ss) & Claude Parle (acc)
Societe de Curiosites - Paris
03/23/10

McPhee, Corsano, Dunmall, Edwards

Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano, John Edwards, and Paul Dunmall @ Cafe Oto, London, 03/09/10, courtesy of Shuffleboil

What did that bass ever do to Edwards? Beautiful.

(Click on the header for some bonus beats...the Bald Soprano and the Short-Back-and-Sides-Soprano.)

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.

Freaky Dancing in Poland

...with the Art Ensemble of Chicago:



1995, Poznań Jazz Fair
Lester Bowie - trumpet
Roscoe Mitchell- tenor sax
Malachi Favors Maghostut - bass
Don Moye - drums

Poznań is "twinned" with Toledo, Ohio. Maybe they could have a cultural exchange with Tony Packo's.


Place? Date? Don't know, but it is funky.

And a sweet tribute to Lester Bowie, replete with accordion:



Joe Bowie, Antonello Salis, Gerald Brazel, Don Moye, Riccardo Lay, Mauro Ottolini, and Sousaphonix - Remembering Lester Tribute to Lester Bowie - part 1 - European Jazz Expo 2009 Jazz in Sardegna

(Spot the former Contortion...)

"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!"

barn, barn, Barn, BARN, COW BARN!

Live at the Silent Barn in Brooklyn:



Drummer Weasel Walter brings his quintet to the Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY. Shown in the video from l - r:
Matt Nelson - tenor saxophone, Peter Evans - trumpet, Tom Blancarte - bass (behind Peter Evans during most of the video) Weasel Walter - drums (he's in between Peter Evans and Darius Jones - alto saxophone).
Courtesy of Marc Edwards...



Brown Wing Overdrive: Chuck Bettis - electronics + vocals and Derek Morton - electronics + banjo