Toronto Basement

Weasel Walter/ Peter Evans/ Mary Halvorson



At least I think it's a basement...

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

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

Welcome, Neil.

I so seldom have a new follower that I thought I'd take this opportunity to welcome Neil Packer (click on the header) with a Neil-centric post...



Neil Diamond, "The Pot Smoker's Song," from "Velvet Gloves and Spit"



Jim Dvorak, Neil Metcalfe, John Edwards, Dave Fowler
Dvorak (trumpet), Metcalfe (flute), Fowler (drums) and Edwards (bass) at Mopomoso free improvisation night at the Vortex Jazz Club, London. Filmed by Helen Petts on 04/19/09



Blood Stereo with Neil Campbell at Rowf Rowf Rowf Fest in Manchester, August '09



Neil Landstrumm, "Sniff And Destroy"

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

Braxton at 65

"MUSC293: Music of Sun Ra and Karlheinz Stockhausen" @ Wesleyan University, Spring 2008



Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Quartet live in Moscow, DOM Cultural Centre, 06/29/08

Anthony Braxton - alto, soprano, sopranino, baritone, bass and contrabass saxes, electronics,
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn, piccolo, bass trumpet, trumpbone, mutes and shell,
Mary Halvorson - electric guitar,
Katherine Young - bassoon
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Anthony Braxton and Richard Teitelbaum, NY 1994



Braxton with William Parker and Don Moye
Pomigliano jazz live 08/11/09

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.

“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

B & W trumpet and drums

Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London

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.

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

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.

I enjoyed this performance

(At least I enjoyed these little films of this performance, presented here in reverse order.)



Cut Paste Featuring Weasel Walter,



Peter Evans,



Cory Smythe, Steve Lehman



@ Le Poisson Rouge, NY, 03/16/10

Shot by MarcEdwards5050

But then again, I am also enjoying researching videos by Wendy & Lisa...

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.)

Almost Autumn in South America

Alan Courtis en Santiago de Chile



Lee Ranaldo in Chile, 03/28/09



São Paulo Underground, video by Akin

Springtime Addendum:



"Dark 'N' Lovely," as Stevie Wonder might say...

El jueves, 04 de marzo de 2010
Espacio Ecléctico, Humberto Primo 730
Buenos Aires

Nicolás Diab: Bajo
Fernando de la Vega: Batería
Alan Courtis: Guitarra

Courtisy (heh) of Suciotraporojo

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...)