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"

Space Travel, Time Travel, We Do It All

Peter Brötzmann - "German Blues"

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

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 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

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

And I guess I decide what you hear on Bug Melter...here is Sonny Simmons in London:



Sonny Simmons Quartet with Pat Thomas, John Edwards, Louis Moholo Moholo @ Cafe Oto, London, 05/14/10
Shot by Shuffleboil



Sonny Simmons Quartet with Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards, Charlie Collins @ Cafe Oto, London, 05/13/10
Shot by Shuffleboil



The Sonny Simmons Quartet

With Derek Saw (trumpet & valve trombone), John Jasnoch (guitar & oud)
and Charlie Collins (drums & cajon)
The Vortex, London
Shot by Dzgast

More Ex, more Unbound (Unbounder?)

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





Hidegen fújnak a szelek

Like watching paint dry.

Interdisciplinary at THE BONNINGTON with Steve Beresford [electronics, etc.], Tom Chant [soprano saxophone] and Marcus Heesch [eggtempera] - filmed by Chikae Tomiyama and Richard H. Parry.

Live in London, 08/18/03





trumpeter Axel Doerner and trombonist Toshihiro Koike
painter Marcus Heesch
Realtime improvisation at David Adam's atelier in Berlin, 03/09/04

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...)

Hamid Drake

Some recent Hamid Drake clips...he did a gig in Paris, but the only clip is of him playing a frame-drum:



Hamid Drake Solo at Souffle Continu, Paris, 01/27/10

And if you're in the market for a reggae version of Thelonious Monk's "Well You Needn't," here you go...



Napoleon Maddox, voice - beat box
Jeff Albert, trombone
Jeb Bishop, trombone
Jeff Parker, guitar
Joshua Abrams, bass - guimbri
Hamid Drake, drums

The Ex and Brass Unbound

The Ex & Brass Unbound, Bristol, Fleece, 01/29/10, the first gig of their U.K. tour



Here they are in Birmingham, at the Hare and Hounds, on 02/01/10. Dig Mats Gustafsson dumping the excess saliva from his baritone sax. This song has a "Fiery Jack" vibe to it, though not exactly...



UPDATE: This has been a pretty popular post (though not as popular as TheHoundblog's Jane Birkin posts), so I thought I'd throw a little more in...



Lean Left (The Ex Guitars Meet Vandermark / Nilssen-Love Duo) @ Gromka, video courtesy of plizzzzzz.



The Ex in "Beautiful Frenzy" (2004), by Christina Hallström and Mandra U. Wabäck

And Mats G. and Ken V. with Zu, in 2005: