George Coleman - Perugia 1983

Here's a fine short set by George Coleman with one of his finest piano accompanists, the late Ronnie Mathews, who is featured on his own "Jean Marie" at the end.

Thanks a lot to Trane (aka sparti) for trading this (and a huge load of other fine shows) to me!


Photo by Mark Sheldon

George Coleman Quartet
Umbria Jazz
Perugia (Italy), Teatro Pavone
July 14, 1983

George Coleman - tenor sax
Ronnie Mathews - piano
Walter Booker - bass
Hugh Walker - drums

1. When Lights Are Low (Benny Carter) 12:39
2. Blues Inside Out (George Coleman) 6:35 [fm voiceover at beginning]
3. Jean-Marie (Ronnie Mathews) 9:25 [RM trio, fm voiceover at beginning]

TT: 28:40

Sound: A/A-
Source: FM Radio

:: ubu edits ::
deleted fm talk before and after #1
deleted fm talk after #2
fixed mark 2/3 (was set too late)
deleted fm talk after #3
Additional Lineage: TLH > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > TLH > FLAC (8,asb)

Randy Weston - Chicago 1984 (with Johnny Griffin, Richard Davis & Art Blakey)

Quite an all star band on this one... you get Randy Weston doing three solo pieces, then a great take of "Niger Mambo" in duo with Art Blakey at the traps, followed by a tenor/bass duo of Griff & the amazing Richard Davis ("Body and Soul" - what else?), and finally they all get together for some blowing on "Now's the Time" and "Wee".

Needless to say I was all over this when it was up on dime... long story, I lost it, got it back (in trade from jazzrita - thank you!) and did the usual editing. It's one of my favourites, that's for sure!



Randy Weston
Jazz Festival
Chicago, IL (USA)
September 2, 1984

Johnny Griffin - tenor sax
Randy Weston - piano
Richard Davis - bass
Art Blakey - drums

1. Announcement by Randy Weston (0:29)
2. Night in M'Bari (5:51) [RW solo]
3. The Healers (8:39) [RW solo]
4. Penny Packer Blues (6:08) [RW solo]
5. Announcement by Randy Weston / FM voiceover (0:48)
6. Niger Mambo (7:53) [RW/AB duo]
7. Announcement by Randy Weston & Johnny Griffin > tuning (1:50) [cuts in]
8. Body and Soul (11:40) [JG/RD duo]
9. Now's the Time (9:38) [quartet]
10. Wee (5:21) [quartet]

TT: 58:24

Sound: A-
Source: radio broadcast

:: ubu edits & note ::

In the info I got the setlist was wrong (The Healers, Penny Packer Blues, Ann, Night in M'BariWeston announces #1 as being Night in M'Bari > The Healers > Penny Packer Blues!

Retracked whole show
Deleted silence & added fade-in at beginning of #1
Split up #2-7 (was #2)
Added a fade-out before the dropout at the end of #6
Merged tuning with #7 (was #3)
Deleted a bit of duplication before and after a dropout at end of #8
Split up #9-10 (was #5)

WDR Big Band feat. Bill Holman, Al Cohn, Sal Nistico & Mel Lewis - Cologne 1987

And one more... luckily, a few German radio stations still maintain their big bands, and while they have to play for (some) bread in between, plenty of fascinating and often mighty fine projects result from their collaborations with various soloists, composers and arrangers.

This post features the the WDR Big Band, which goes back to 1946. From 1957 to 1972 it was led by Kurt Edelhagen, later directors included Jerry van Rooyen and Bill Dobbins. Their recent discography includes projects with Abdullah Ibrahim, Joe Lovano, Hiram Bullock, Maceo Parker, Joe Zawinul, Gianluigi Trovesi, Eddie Harris and Pacquito d'Rivera. They also did projects dedicated to the music of Erik Satie, Kurt Weill, worked with George Gruntz and many others.

Here, you hear them with frequent collaborator Mel Lewis on drums and a great trio of tenor sax players: Al Cohn, Sal Nistico and arranger/leader Bill Holman! Hidden in the band, you'll find a few more interesting names, such as Jon Eardley. Also note Heiner Wiberny's fine soprano solo - these guys can play great jazz when it's called for, and I guess that's where there heart is anyway!



WDR Big Band & Bill Holman: Tenor Reunion
Köln (Germany), Stadtgarten
June 12, 1987 (MP2)

Bill Holman - tenor sax, leader, arranger
Al Cohn - tenor sax
Sal Nistico - tenor sax
Mel Lewis - drums

WDR Big Band, incl.
Klaus Osterloh, Jon Eardley, Rick Kiefer - trumpet
Dave Horler, Henning Berg - trombone
Heiner Wiberny - alto & soprano sax
Harald Rosenstein - alto sax
Rolf Römer, Olivier Peters - tenor sax
Paul Peucker - baritone sax
Bora Rokovic - piano
Jean Warland - bass

1. Pilgrim's Pride (Bill Holman) 11:47 [HB,tb;HW,ss;ML,d]
2. Bill Holman's comments (1:52)
3. Good Bait (Tadd Dameron/Count Basie) > Ann BH (8:09) [AC/SN/BH,ts]
4. Woody'n You (Dizzy Gillespie) > Ann BH (6:30) [AC,ts]
5. High On You (Al Cohn) 5:41 [AC/SN,ts]
6. Autumn Leaves (Kosma-Prevert-Mercer) > Ann BH (7:42) [AC/SN,ts]
7. Love For Sale (Cole Porter) 8:55 [AC/SN/BH,ts]
8. Moon Of Manacora (4:34) [inc, beginning missing]

TT: 55:13

Sound: A
Source: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

Globe Unity Orchestra - Berlin 1986

Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra is one of the longest living large band projects in free jazz. Here they are in Berlin, at roughly half of their run so far (I hope it will continue for another while!), incorporating the usual mix of musicians from Europe, the US, and Japan as well.

This comes from the same edition of the JazzFest that also yielded the 20th Anniversary album for FMP (recorded Nov. 4).



Globe Unity Orchestra
JazzFest Berlin
Berlin (Germany)
October 30, 1986

Toshinori Kondo - trumpet
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet, flugelhorn
Günter Christmann - trombone
George Lewis - trombone
Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Bob Stewart - tuba
Gerd Dudek - soprano & tenor sax, flute, clarinet
Evan Parker - tenor sax
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky - alto & baritone sax, flute, clarinet
Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano, leader
Alan Silva - bass
Paul Lovens - percussion

1. Quasar (44:58) [inc]

Sound: A
Lineage: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

Cecil Taylor - Montréal 1985

Since my previous Taylor share was rather popular, and to sweeten up the wait for the remaining bits of that Berlin piano night, here's another Taylor set in good sound.

It features a transitional band, with Lyons and Frank Wright on saxophones, William Parker on bass, and Henry Martinez on drums.

Thanks to Nocturnal_n for taping it and sharing it over on dime!



Cecil Taylor
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 29, 1985

Cecil Taylor - piano
Jimmy Lyons - alto sax
Frank Wright - tenor sax, bass clarinet
William Parker - bass
Henry Martinez - drums

1."Aliocha" (Song of the Trees) 54:03 [inc,cut]
(tapeflip at 46:27)

Sound: A-
Broadcast on CBC-CBOF FM "Jazz Sur le Vif" airdate 10/05/85
Lineage/source: CBC-fm> BASF CR-E-II(Master)cassette> (rec)Pioneer PT-1000(Dolby B)> (pb)Technics RS-T73> RealtekAC'97 soundcard> Polderbits sound recorder> Polderbits sound editor> wav> wavejoiner> flac(7)(asb)

Roscoe Mitchell / Anthony Braxton / Richard Teitelbaum / ROVA Sax Quartet - Nickelsdorf 1984

And finally one for the (even) more adventurous listeners... a compilation of partial sets from the 1984 edition of the Konfrontationen festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria.

This features a large orchestra co-led by Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton, a special project by Mitchell including a string quartet, the duo of Braxton and synths player Richard Teitelbaum, as well as Braxton sitting in with the ROVA Saxophone Quartet.

I hope you're in for a ride!



Roscoe Mitchell / Anthony Braxton / Richard Teitelbaum / ROVA
Konfrontationen '84
Nickelsdorf (Austria), Jazzgalerie, Restaurant Falb (outside in the court yard)

*** June 30, 1984 ***

Roscoe Mitchell / Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra

Roscoe Mitchell - reeds, co-leader
Anthony Braxton - reeds, co-leader
Anthony Holland - reeds
Faruq Z. Bey - reeds
Michael Mossmann - trumpet
Heinz Becker - trumpet
Conny Bauer - trombone
Johannes Bauer - trombone
Penguin Moschner - tuba
Spencer Barefield - guiter
Richard Teitelbaum - piano, synthesizer
Jaribu Shahid - bass
Tani Tabal - drums
Ponda O'Bryan - percussion

1. (9:00)
2. (12:31)


*** July 1, 1984 ***

Roscoe Mitchell Special Project

Roscoe Mitchell - reeds
Michael Mossmann - trumpet
Ponda O'Bryan - percussion
MHSK Stringquartet

3. (13:14)

Anthony Braxton / Richard Teitelbaum

Anthony Braxton - reeds
Richard Teitelbaum - moog synthesizer

4. (7:35)

Rova Saxophone Quartet with Anthony Braxton

John Raskin - baritone, alto & soprano sax, clarinet
Larry Ochs - tenor, soprano & alto sax
Andrew Voight - alto & soprano sax, flute
Bruce Ackley - soprano sax, clarinet
Anthony Braxton - alto sax

5. (6:06)
6. (2:12)
7. (4:13)


TT: 54:52

Sound: A-
Source/Lineage: FM > Cassette > HD > CD-R > WAV > FLAC

Cedar Walton (with Eddie Harris) - Ancona 1984

Here's another one... Pianist Cedar Walton and his fine trio with David Williams and Idris Muhammad, playing with the late great Eddie Harris!

They were both born in 1934 - Eddie left this place far too early! He's one of the big unsung greats, not taken nearly as serious as a bad-ass jazz artist than he should have been. But that's too late now!

This needed quite some work, and it's far from perfect, but it's great hearing Eddie in such a fine band!



Cedar Walton Quartet
Ancona (Italy), Strabacco Jazz Club
May 25, 1984

Eddie Harris - tenor sax
Cedar Walton - piano
David Williams - bass
Idris Muhammad - drums

CD1/73:48
1. Stage Intro > Cedar's Blues (8:49)
2. Close Enough for Love (10:38)
3. Satin Doll (9:25)
4. Another Star (8:23)
5. On the Trail (14:46)
6. Freedom Jazz Dance (9:22)
7. Bolivia (12:25)

CD2/48:24
1. Everything Happens to Me (5:38)
2. Blue Monk / Rhythm-A-Ning / Over the Rainbow (21:22)
3. St. Thomas (7:22)
4. Holy Land (11:24)
5. Theme for Red (2:38)

TT: 122:12

Sound: A-/B+
Source/Lineage: Aud recording-> ? -> CD-r-> wav-> Flac 6
Additional: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

:: ubu's edits ::
gap removal in EAC wouldn't work as there were tiny bits of the next track at the end (after the gaps!) of the tracks, hence I removed them manually with Cool Edit
I also fixed a couple of rough spots (most notably a glitch at the opening of "Bolivia" - there are others later on which I didn't think I could handle properly - small portions are duplicated, it seems)
Finally, the track marks were corrected

John Zorn / Tim Berne - Frankfurt 1988

Here's a set by John Zorn and Tim Berne, doing some Ornette tunes with the twin drums of Joey Baron and Michael Vatcher, and Mark Dresser on bass. This is the "Spy vs. Spy" band a few months before recording that album. Not sure why it was dubbed "W.R.U." at the concert, of if I mixed anything up... anyway, the music is great!



John Zorn / Tim Berne - W.R.U.
Deutsches Jazz Festival
Frankfurt (Germany)
March 11, 1988

John Zorn - alto sax
Tim Berne - alto sax
Mark Dresser - bass
Michael Vatcher - drums
Joey Baron - drums

1. Stage Intro (0:53)
2. Peace Warriors (3:25)
3. C & D (5:03)
4. Beauty Is a Rare Thing (7:32)
5. Space Church (6:51)
6. The Disguise (6:13)
7. Blues Connotation (9:49)
8. W.R.U. (4:12) [inc]

All Compositions by Ornette Coleman

TT: 44:04

Sound: A
Lineage: cdr in trade--eac flac level 6--dime.


:: ubu edits ::

centred files
fixed track marks
merged applause/band intros with end of #7
deleted radio talk (following #4,6,7)
added fade-outs (at end of #4,6,7)
added fade-ins (at beginning of #5,7,8)
deleted silence at end of #8

Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Note: this came as: John Zorn plays Ornette Coleman "Spy vs Spy"

George Russell - Washington 1987

George Russell, the great arranger and composer, died in July 2009. He is one of many greats that left us this year, and his music is dear to me, ever since I discovered him, which was initially through Eric Dolphy's participation on one of his Riverside albums. I was hooked quickly and became a fan of his early recordings (let's say up to the Beethoven Hall albums on MPS). Still have to find more of his later works, though I did find some here and there.

Here's a great 1987 show which I got from an anonymous donor via dime (I also shared it there a while back). I just sent a copy of it to drummer Keith Copeland - if he's able to help with the personnel, I'll post a comment or edit this post! (And of course, if anyone grabbing it from here is able to help, please do post a comment!)



George Russell
Washington, DC (USA), Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Baird Auditorium
October 2, 1987

Tiger Okoshi - trumpet
Mike Peipman - trumpet
Chip Kaner - trombone
Dave Mann - alto sax
Rob Schepps - tenor sax
Brad Hatfield - keyboards
Marc Rossi - keyboards
Bill Urmson - electric bass
Keith Copeland - drums
Pat Hollenbeck - percussion
George Russell - conductor, voice
others unknown/incomprehensibe [band intros at end of CD1#3]

CD1/65:56
1. Listen to the Silence, Part I (George Russell) 5:34
2. Cubana Be, Cubana Bop (Dizzy Gillespie-George Russell) 16:16
3. The African Game (George Russell) 47:10

CD2/38:33
1. Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature (George Russell-Jan Garbarek) 22:15
2. So What (Miles Davis) > Listen to the Silence, Part II (George Russell) 16:16

TT: 104:29

Sound: A-
Source: AUD (Sony Walkman Pro, Aiwa one-point stereo mike, Fuji chrome tapes)
Lineage: aud > dubbed from master tapes > CDR > EAC (secure, logs) > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Note: some additional musicians are announced, but I can't understand the names.

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The African Game was recorded in 1993 and released on Blue Note records (CD, 1995)
The performance is continuous so there was no need to try and break it up.
However, on the CD, it is divided into eight tracks as follows:

Event I - ORGANIC LIFE ON EARTH BEGINS
Uni-celled Beings to Amphibians
Event II - THE PALEOLITHIC GAME
Homo-erectus Africanus God Said Grace, and Rolled the Dice on the Human Race
Event III - CONSCIOUSNESS
Birth of Species Consciousness
Birth of Human Consciousness
Event IV - THE SURVIVAL GAME
Survival of the Fittest
Event V - THE HUMAN SENSING OF UNITY WITH GREAT NATURE
Event VI - AFRICAN EMPIRES
Spiritual Consciousness - The Age of Light Intelligence of the Heart, Illuminating the Unity of the Cosmic Why and How
Event VII - CARTESIAN MAN
The Ascent of Technocentricity, and Its Division of Man and Nature, The Fragmentation of All and Everything
Event VIII - THE MEGA-MINIMALIST AGE
Style Over Substance, The Decline of the Spirit
Event XI - THE FUTURE?
The Collective Level of Being Attracts the Common Future

It is said that Albert Einstein once remarked, "God doesn't play dice with the universe."
Perhaps he did, once, in Africa during the Miocene epoch some 5 to 20 million years ago when the African Game began:

God said grace
And rolled the dice
On the human race.

As the cradle of humanity, Africa is our common home; we are all Africans - white, yellow, red, brown or black.

Great Nature is on our side. We feverishly pursue the game of HOW to conquer nature, while failing to understand WHY it needs us to join her in a state of unity. Nature responds by sending signals to tell us that we are outpacing her capacity to adapt to our technical innovations. These signals are everywhere: they cannot be missed. Entropy is accelerating.

The African Game says something of a positive nature about this. It says that God (Great Nature) is on our side. It wants to win the game it began millions of years ago. But in order to win it needs the awareness and cooperation of each of us descendants from the Miocene epoch now inhabiting Planet Earth.

~ George Russell

(liner notes from "African Game", Blue Note CDP-7 46335 2, 1995)

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Electronic Sonata was recorded in three parts in 1970 and released originally on Sonet (SLP 1411/1412). A CD reissue can be found on "The Essence of George Russell" (Soul Note 121044-2, 1983)

ELECTRONIC SONATA FOR SOULS LOVED BY NATURE - The title is in itself a poem and it gives contrasting associations - a connectedness to musical and cultural patterns - at the same time a freedom and openness which is all-embracing. Yes, just this piece gives an extraordinary good example of the specific in George Russell's musical thinking of which The Lydian Chromatic Concept is another example, no cultivation of the special, of singularity as an exclusive form by itself. The reason for this comes more from solidarity with the whole, which we are all imperfect parts of, than from the perfectness of single parts. But man is not just a passive commodity in nature. As long as it includes man, it includes also the human will. "Nature likes those who give in to her, but she loves those who do not" is the motto which the title is referring to. To be a part of the whole does not then mean a loss f value or responsibility, on the contrary it gives responsibility and value beyond oneself. But why "Sonata"? If we think of sonata as a large musical form where the oppositions are parts of that whole they form, yes, then "Sonata" is right enough in this connection.

~ Kare Kolberg

(excerpt from the liner notes of "The Essence of George Russell", Soul Note 121044-2, 1983)

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1978 recordings of "Listen to the Silence" and "Cubana Be, Cubano Bop" (by the Swedish Radio Jazz Orchestra w/Sabu Martinez in his very last recording) can be heard on "New York Big Band" (Soul note SN 1039 CD, 1982)
"So What" is the title tune of an album recorded at the same concert as "The African Game" and released on Blue Note as well (B2-46391, 1987)

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The line-up from that 1983 concert (Emanuel Church, Boston, MA, June 18, 1983) is as follows (but is most likely of small relevance for this 1987 concert):

Mike Peipman, Chris Passin, Roy Okutani, Mark Harvey (t)
Peter Cirelli, Chip Kaner (tb), Jeff Marsanskas (btb)
Marshall Sealy (fhr)
David Mann, Janis Steprans (as,ss,fl)
Gary Joynes (ts,ss,fl), George Garzone (ts,ss)
Brad Jones (bari,bcl,fl)
Bruce Barth, Marc Rossi (keys)
Mark White (g), Bob Nieske (b), Bill Urmson (elb)
Keith Copeland (d), Dave Hagedorn (perc), Joe Galeota (cga)
Lazaro Perez, Kuto Perez, Amaro Laria, Enrique Cardenas (perc)
George Russell (arr,cond,comp)

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r.i.p. George Russell (June 23, 1923 - July 27, 2009)

: . : shared on dimeadozen by ubu on 2009-07-28 : . :

Andrew Hill - bundle #2

The first of these "bundles" was dedicated to Warne Marsh.

Now here are a few shows by the late great pianist and composer Andrew Hill.



Andrew Hill Quintet
AMR Festival
Alhambra, Genève (CH)
April 7, 2006

Andrew Hill - piano
Charles Tolliver - trumpet
Greg Tardy - tenor sax, clarinet
John Hebert - bass
Eric McPherson - drums

1. 11/8 (16:47)
2. Pinnacle (15:51)
3. Malachi (13:55)
4. Nicodemus (20:00)
5. Whitsuntide (6:09) [inc]

All compositions by Andrew Hill

TT: 72:44

Sound: A
Source: RSR 2 broadcast (JazzZ, Yvan Ischer) / 2006-06-02
Lineage: FM > Minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

NOTE:
This is the re-broadcast; there was a live broadcast on RSR 2, too, which included tracks 1, 2, and most of track 3. Since the re-broadcast included all of that plus more, I did only keep this version.



Andrew Hill Quartet
Concerto Jazz Rete Due
Lugano (CH), Studio 2, RSI
March 13, 2004

Greg Tardy - tenor sax, clarinet
Andrew Hill - piano
John Hebert - bass
Nasheet Waits - drums

CD1/Set1/53:23
1. But Not Farewell (11:18)
2. unknown (13:36)
3. Dedication (10:00)
4. Cantarnos (17:35)
5. 11/8 (Theme) (0:52)

CD2/Set2/64:23
1. unknown > Ann AH (11:24)
2. unknown > Ann AH (19:44)
3. Bass Intro > Ashes (15:54)
4. 11/8 (Theme) (3:11) [splice @ 2:46]
5. unknown (14:08) [encore]

All compositions by Andrew Hill

TT: 117:46

CD1 #1-2, CD2 #4 (from splice to end), CD2#5:
Sound: A-
Source: RSI 2 "Live di mezzanotte" / 2007-08-16
Lineage: Hotbird Sat > nexus-s > HDD > BeLight > Cool Edit Pro (separating tracks) > flac (hotbird sat uses MPEG1 Layer 2/192 kbps)

CD1 #3-5, CD2 #1-3, CD2 #4 (from beginning to splice):
Sound: A/A- (stereo)
Source: RSI 2 broadcast > seeded on dime by relyles (#38309)
Lineage: FM > ? > CDR > EAC > FLAC > CDR > EAC (secure) > Cool Edit Pro (see editing note below) > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Edits to previous (dime) source:
- cut 0:12-0:43 of CD2#3 (fm talk)
- corrected mark CD2#2/#3 (moved mark to after deleted fm talk)
- separated CD1#4 and CD1#5
- split mono applause onto end of CD2#4 (it was cut @ 2:46)

Note: some applause is missing on the tracks from the previous dime seed, the complete version (if only the digital source would have been used) would have been 118:23



Andrew Hill - Joe Henderson Quartet
New Morning, Paris (FR)
March 25, 1988

Joe Henderson - tenor sax
Andrew Hill - piano
Mick Hutton - bass
Mark Taylor - drums

CD1/Set1/48:20
1. Isotope (Joe Henderson) 15:45
2. Ask Me Now (Thelonious Monk) 17:49
3. Tenor Madness (Sonny Rollins) > The Theme (Miles Davis)
> Band Intros (14:45)

CD2/Set2/65:22
1. Invitation (Kaper-Washington) 18:37
2. All The Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) 19:23
3. Body And Soul (Green-Comden-Heyman-Eaton) 17:17 [voiceover 0:00-0:01]
4. The Theme (Miles Davis) > Band Intros (10:04)

TT: 113:42

Sound: A/A-
Source: France Musiques (Jazz Club) (prob. live 1988-03-25)

Edits:
- separated fm talk from beginning of CD1#1
- moved mark CD1#1/#2: +9.614sec
- separated fm talk from beginning of CD1#2
- moved mark CD2#2/#3: -1.058sec
- deleted 1.599sec of noise after CD1#3
- deleted 7.216sec of silence/applause at beginning of CD2#2
- separated fm talk from beginning of CD2#3
- moved mark CD2#2/#3: +7.759sec
- deleted 1.724sec of silence at end of CD2#3
- added fade-out at end of CD2#3
- deleted 0.460sec of silence at beginning of CD2#4
- added fade-in at beginning of CD2#4
- separated fm outro from end of CD2#
- added fade-out at end of CD2#4

Note: the first set ends after #3, as this came (from dime), "Invitation" ended disc one. If this was indeed a live broadcast, maybe "Invitation" comes from the beginnig of the first set and was broadcasted during the break until the second set began? The track was edited in a way that allows no clear judgement, but I have some doubts about an 18:17 minute track fitting into the break.



Von Freeman & Andrew Hill Trio
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), (New) Bimhuis
March 24, 2005

Von Freeman - tenor sax
Andrew Hill - piano
John Hebert - bass
Nasheet Waits - drums

CD1/First Set/41:38
1. unknown (25:24)
2. unknown (7:43)
3. unknown (8:31)

CD2/Second Set/73:40
1. unknown > Dig (?) > Sweet Georgia Brown (31:24)
2. I'll Remember April > A Night in Tunisia
> Ain't Misbehavin' > Lester Leaps In (42:15)

TT: 115:18

Sound: A-/B+ (Note from dime seeder: Von Freeman played often between bass and drums)
Source: Audience recording, second row in the middle
Lineage: Sony ECM 719 > Sony MZ-N710 > Audio Capture > HD > Nero Wave Editor (Normalize,Stereo) > CD Wave Editor > Flac Frontend 6

Additional lineage: CDR > EAC (secure, log) > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

:: ubu edits ::

separated #1 and #2


Notes on the setlist:

CD1#1 Von seems to navigate through some standards or at least standards chord changes. Around 10:50 he quotes "Isn't It Romantic" for a moment.
CD1#2 is mostly a bass, then a drum solo, Hill enters at the end.
CD1#3 sounds like another standard, or possibly "Alfie" at the beginning, then goes into what sounds like an original, but at 4:45, Von goes into "Isn't It Romantic" again and stays with it, but the very final line is the "Alfie"-opening line again...
CD2#1 opens with a lengthy drum solo implicating a typically intricate Hill rhythm, Von opens quoting "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)". Later on it sounds as if he's playing "I Can't Get Started", but he continues alluding to "I Got It Bad". When Von enters again at 22:00 they go into a bop classic (Dig?), then around 24:30 Von goes into "Sweet Georgia Brown".
CD2#2 opens with a sax cadenza, leading into "I'll Remember April", after a lengthy trio segment, Von goes into "A Night in Tunisia", not without quoting "Mr. P.C." (22:14), then quoting "What Is This Thing Called Love" and possibly alluding to the fourth movement of "A Love Supreme". Following a short solo cadenza, Von goes into "Ain't Misbehavin" (31:05), at 33:00 he then goes into "Lester Leaps In"

The following was posted on dime, I think:
Sweet Georgia Brown
Dig
I'll Remember April
A Night in Tunisia
Salt Peanuts
It sort of fits with parts of the second set...



Howard Riley / Joachim Kühn / Jason Rebello / Andrew Hill
Arts Council Contemporary Music Network Tour
Bristol (UK), St Georges's, Brandon Hill
January 28, 1991

CD1/75:34

Howard Riley - piano [34:52]

1. Outer Inner Minor (Riley) 9:28
2. Clarity (Riley) 8:10
3. The Gambit (Riley) 11:32
4. Darn That Dream (Jimmy van Heusen) > Ask Me Now (Thelonious Monk) 5:42

Joachim Kuhn - piano [40:42]

5. Bank of Memory (Kühn) 26:27
6. Chemin de la Source (Kühn) 7:06
7. Prince of Whales (Kühn) 7:09


CD2/63:55

Jason Rebello - piano [30:25]

1. Siobhan (Jason Rebello) 6:49
2. Dienda (Keny Kirkland) 5:29
3. Golden Fleece (Jason Rebello) 6:30
4. Night and Day (Cole Porter) 7:39
5. Play, Piano, Play (Errol Garner) 3:57

Andrew Hill - piano [23:11]

6. unknown (Clark Terry) 2:02
7. Retrospect (Andrew Hill) 10:30 [tape-flip @ 4:12]
8. Tinkering (Andrew Hill) 3:48
9. Here's That Rainy Day (Jimmy Van Heusen) 6:51

Andrew Hill/Howard Riley - piano [right channel]
Joachim Kühn/Jason Rebello - piano [left channel]

10. Improvisation > All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern) 10:18


TT: 139:29

Sound: A

Source: BBC radio 3 broadcast / 1991
Lineage (Hill): fm > dime > remastered (by jazzrita) with wavelab > flac > dime
Lineage (Riley #1-2): FM > master cassette > standalone cd recorder > Wav > Flac > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > Flac (8,asb,verify)
Lineage (all others): FM > master cassette > standalone cd recorder > Wav > Flac


:: jazzrita edits (Hill) ::

fixed track marks
reduced hiss
fixed tape-flip on CD2#7

:: dime comment ::

#3362164 by ladyface57 at 2009-07-10 10:44:22 GMT

I happened to find the recording date in one of my father's old Jazz Journal magazines:
St. George's Hall, Bristol, January 28th, 1991 (see Jazz Journal, February 1991, p. 3).
Thank you for the upload!


:: ubu edit ::

fixed mark CD1#1/2 (was a bit too early)
omitted fm segments of Hill part
reorganised, renamed & tagged files

:: thanks a lot to 6135terry and jazzrita! ::

Heath Brothers - Tokyo 1983

Here's a short recording by the great Heath Brothers, with Stanley Cowell at the piano!



The Heath Brothers
Tokyo (Japan)
December 1, 1983

Jimmy Heath - tenor & soprano sax
Stanley Cowell - piano
Percy Heath - bass, baby bass
Albert Heath - drums

1. Mellow Drama (4:28) [inc]
2. Prince Albert > Ann JH (14:23)
3. Ann JH > Watergate Blues (Percy Heath) 6:51
4. On the Trail (Ferd Grofé) 9:10
5. Orthodox Blues (2:18)

TT: 37:13

Sound: A/A-
Source: Radio
Lineage: Radio broadcast > ? > dime > FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

::ubu's edits::
deleted radio talk at end of #1, added fade-out/silence
deleted radio talk at beginning of #2
moved mark #2/3 (applause and all talk was at beginning of #3)
fixed mark #3/4 (added fades, moved a wee bit as #4 started at end of #3 already)
fixed mark #4/5 (#5 started 2 seconds before the end of #4)

Anthony Braxton / Malachi Favors / Don Moye - Pavia 1984

Here's a short set featuring Anthony Braxton (I just ordered his Mosaic set, finally!) with Malachi Favors and Don Moye of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

I did the usual bit of cleaning up, this was up on dime originally (thanks to the seeder!) - hope you'll enjoy it!



Anthony Braxton / Malachi Favors / Don Moye
Pavia (IT), Teatro Fraschini
May 7, 1984

Anthony Braxton - alto sax, flute
Malachi Favors - bass
Don Moye - drums

1. Drum solo > Impressions (Coltrane) 10:28
2. unknown (7:47)
3. unknown (2:51)

TT: 21:08

Sound: A-/B+
No lineage info

:: ubu edits:
deleted opening applause (was spliced w/gap)
added fade in at beginning of #1
deleted 2 second gaps at end of #1 and #2
deleted duplicated applause from end of #2 at beginning of #3
corrected marks

Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > CoolEditPro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

NOTES FROM SEEDER:
AUD (? not quite sure, might be FM) - quite nice quality
a short set by a very rare line-up

Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - January 17, 1985

This was shared by blackforest on dime - thanks a lot!

It's one of two post-scripts to my earlier seven-part series of shows by Wolfgang Dauner's "Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart" project. The links for the whole series are still good, I just checked them!



Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart
Peter Brötzmann / Albert Mangelsdorff / Wolfgang Dauner / Han Bennink
Stuttgart (Germany), poss. Villa Berg
January 17, 1985

Peter Brötzmann - baritone & tenor sax, clarinet, tarogato
Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Wolfgang Dauner - piano
Han Bennink - drums, percussion

1. First Attack (Dauner) 4:19
2. Sticks to come (Mangelsdorff) 8:16
3. Dropsticks (Bennink) 24:38
4. Jetzt stürzen wir wieder ab (Brötzmann) 20:32

TT: 57:45

Sound: A
Source/Lineage/Quality: FM – Maxell UDXL II 90 – R09 – Magix XXL 2008(mastering)

J.R. Monterose - 1970 / Warne Marsh - 1980 - In Copenhagen with Kenny Drew

Here's the first of the few in-circulation live shows by the great J.R. Monterose.
His discography can be found on Mike Fitzgerald's page.

The Warne Marsh part seems to be commercially available on Storyville.

Apologies for including it here, but I only just realized this has been released. It's in circulation among traders, alas. But the good news is that the Storyville disc has plenty of additional titles and hence should be an attractive buy!
I'm just sending in an order now!



J.R. Monterose with Kenny Drew [TT: 14:32]
Studio 11, Danish Radio, Copenhagen (DK)
April 30, 1970

J.R. Monterose - tenor sax
Kenny Drew - piano
Hugo Rasmussen - bass

1. Shafic (3:31)
2. My Old Flame (4:40)
3. Medium Blues (3:23)
4. Fast Blues (2:56)


Warne Marsh with Kenny Drew Trio [TT: 24:24]
Studio 11, Danish Radio, Copenhagen (DK)
Late April 1980, prob. April 21

Warne Marsh - tenor sax
Kenny Drew - piano
Bo Stief - bass
Age Tanggaard - drums

5. Little Willie Leaps (Charlie Parker) 4:45
6. Easy to Love (Cole Porter) 5:11
7. Star Eyes (9:38)
8. Ornithology (B. Harris-C. Parker) 4:48


TT: 38:57

Sound: A-
Source: FM
Additional Lineage: FLAC > WAV > GoldWave > FLAC (8)(asb)

Edits (GoldWave):
- separated fm talk before #1 (15sec) (kept on back-up DVD)
- deleted fm talk before #5 (4sec)
- deleted fm talk before #6 (3sec)
- deleted fm talk before #7 (2sec)
- deleted fm talk before #8 (1sec)
- lowered volume of #8 (-3dB) - volume is clipped there, and was
much louder than #1-7, for a reason not known to me.

Chet Baker & Allen Eager - Amsterdam 1982

Ever heard Chet doing a Hank Mobley tune? No? Ok, here's your chance! And the best bit of it, it's not just Chet, but Allen Eager's here, too! Read Len Dobbin's extended tribute to Allen here.

Thanks a lot to jazzrita for trading this to me, years ago!

See lexman's comment below for possible corrections!



Chet Baker/Allen Eager Quintet
Amsterdam (NL)
June 19, 1982

Chet Baker - trumpet
Allen Eager - tenor sax
Michel Graillier - piano
Jan Vogt - bass
Jon Engels - drums

1. Funk in Deep Freeze (Hank Mobley) 13:17
2. Announcement Chet Baker > Down (Kenny Dorham) 13:00
3. Mr. B (8:14)

TT: 34:30

Sound: A-/B+
Source: radio broadcast

The Golden Men of Jazz / Chris Connor / Annie Ross - Roma 1987

Here's the only unreleased live recording of the late Chris Connor I've stumbled upon. If you know of others and have them, it would be most appreciated if you'd share them!

Marc Myers did an interview with Chris Connor, posted on jazzwax - I bet it's an interesting read!



The Golden Men of Jazz / Annie Ross / Chris Connor
Concerti Telecom Italia
Roma (Italia), Teatro Sistina
November 3, 1987


CD1/63:52

Johnny Griffin - tenor sax (out on #2)
Slide Hampton - trombone (out on #4)
Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet (#6 only)
Vince Benedetti - piano
Ben Brown - bass
Bobby Durham - drums

1. Lester Leaps In (8:00)
2. Estate (Bruno Martino) 6:31
3. Stage Announcer (0:18)
4. When We Were One (Johnny Griffin) 9:36
5. Stage Announcer (0:42)
6. A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie) 9:16

Annie Ross - vocals
Tardo Hammer - piano
Ben Brown - bass
Bobby Durham - drums

7. Intro > Bye Bye Blackbird (Dixon-Henderson) 6:05
8. Twisted (Gray-Ross) 3:04
9. To Hell With Love (4:01)
10. The Beginning of the End (2:52)
11. Goin' to Chicago Blues (6:16)
12. Announcement AR (0:24)
13. Jumpin' at the Woodside (6:39)


CD2/48:03

Chris Connor - vocals
Vince Benedetti - piano
prob. Ben Brown - bass
prob. Bobby Durham - drums

1. Summertime (G. & I. Gershwin) 3:22
2. Key Largo (Benny Carter) 2:23
3. Angel Eyes (Adair-Dennis) 3:09
4. Strike Up the Band (G. & I. Gershwin) 2:05
5. A Foggy Day (G. & I. Gershwin) 3:22
6. I Get a Kick Out Of You (Cole Porter) 3:00
7. Lover (2:36)

Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
Slide Hampton - trombone (out on #9)
Johnny Griffin - tenor sax (out on #9)
Vince Benedetti - piano
Ben Brown - bass
Bobby Durham - drums
Annie Ross & Chris Connor - vocals (#11 only)

8. Stage Announcer > There Will Never Be Another You (Warren-Gordon) 6:18
9. Wave (A.C. Jobim) 8:51
10. 'S Wonderful (G. & I. Gershwin) 6:31
11. When the Saints Go Marchin' In (Trad.) 6:19


TT: 111:55

Sound: A-
Source: radio broadcast
No lineage given
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

::ubu's notes::
fixed marks
deleted some of the (stage & radio) annoucements

disc two is recorded at a much higher volume

date was given as: Febuary 26, 1980

Jimmy Heath - Stockholm 1989

This is for the hip crowd... something easier on the ears, Jimmy Heath!



Jimmy Heath
Jazz Festival Stockholm
Stockholm (Sweden), Skeppsholmen
July 2, 1989

Jimmy Heath - tenor sax
Tony Purrone - guitar
Ben Brown - electric bass
Akira Tana - drums

1. Stage Intro (0:44)
2. Invitation (Kaper-Washington) > Ann JH (10:47)
3. Gingerbread Boy (Jimmy Heath) 6:35
4. Lover Man (Davis-Ramirez-Sherman) > Ann JH (8:24)
5. Hi-Fly (Randy Weston) 12:18
6. Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham) > Ann JH (9:40)
7. 'Round Midnight (Monk-Hanighen-Williams) 7:07 [inc, fm voiceover at end]

TT: 55:38

Sound: A- (hissy)
Source: FM broadcast
Lineage: FM > ? > FLAC > dime


:: ubu edits ::

deleted bit of fm talk (0:06) preceeding #1, added fade-in
deleted 2 second gaps
fixed all marks
deleted duplicated announcement of "Hi Fly"
added fade-out at end

Additional Lineage: WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Brötzmann-Mangelsdorff-Bennink - Berlin 1985

Here's another one I posted on dime a few months ago. I got it from there and brought it back into circulation as a little Brötz-flood was going on. This features longstanding musical partners Brötzmann and Han Bennink along with the great Albert Mangelsdorff.

Brötzmann can also be heard on first and on the third of seven shows so far posted here by the various formations of the Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart (more to come!). Both shows incorporate the classic Brötzmann/Van Hove/Bennink trio into larger settings under the leadership of Wolfgang Dauner.
In addition to that, I also posted one of my own recordings by the power trio of Brötzmann/Pliakas/Wertmüller.

Albert Mangelsdorff was featured in several posts here, though of course they still fail to give you a complete picture of this great musician:
Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett - Tuttlingen 1961
(an early edition with Bent Jaedig and Hartwig Bartz in place of Heinz Sauer and Ralf Hübner)
Albert Mangelsdorff & Lee Konitz - Hannover 1982
(an NDR Jazz Workshop just in duo!)
Albert Mangelsdorff & Jean-Rémy Guedon - Saarbrücken 1997
(another duo setting with tenor sax this time)
He can also be heard on a portion of my Bud Shank homage, and finally he's also on the first of those Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart shows!

The presence of Bennink of course is always a plus! He can be heard with the ICP Orchestra on this 2001 show, and he also makes the list of great drummers to be heard here (that link will show to the way to the two Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart shows with Bennink - it's of course the same two as those with Brötzmann). And finally, Bennink was on one of the first posts that actually contained music, a Sonny Rollins trio concert from 1967 (shared in MP3 format).

Photo by Susan O'Connor

Peter Brotzmann / Albert Mangelsdorff / Han Bennink
Berlin (Germany), Quasimodo
January 14, 1985

Peter Brotzmann - tenor & baritone sax, clarinet, tarogato
Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Han Bennink - drums, percussion

CD1/45:19
1. (26:36)
2. (4:18)
3. (14:22)

CD2/44:58
1. (22:43)
2. (22:13)

TT: 90:17

Sound: A
Lineage: sbd > cassette? > cdr(n) > eac (re-appended all files) > cdwav > flac frontend > flac

:: ubu note ::
this is an exact re-seed exact for the new info-file and md5-checksums
the flacs were left as they came (no tags)

Harry Pepl / Werner Pirchner / Adelhard Roidinger - Austria Drei - 1978/81

There's been little interest in the previous post featuring the music of Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner. That's a pity! Jazz music is a niche art anyway, and it makes me all the sadder that even the lucky few who found out and were let in on the secret, even those don't check out something of which they haven't heard...

Anyway, here's the promised addition, another pair of short shows featuring the "Austria Drei", which consists of the JazzZwio plus Adelhard Roidinger, and despite its name ("drei" is German for "three"), a drummer, unknown on the first date, Alvin Queen on the second date.

Drummer Todd Canedy is on the group's studio release on Ego Records (details on discogs), recorded almost one and a half year after the first of the sessions included here.

If anyone can fill in some details, please post a comment!

: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :

Austria Drei
Innsbruck (Austria), Studio
February 1978


Harry Pepl - guitar
Werner Pirchner - vibes
Adelhard Roidinger - bass
unknown (poss. Todd Canedy) - drums

1. Philipp (7:07)
2. Wirf an! (6:33)
3. Einsiedler Silence (8:50)


Austria Drei
Wiener Festwochen
Wien (Austria), Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts
June 1, 1981

Harry Pepl - guitar
Werner Pirchner - vibes
Adelhard Roidinger - bass
Alvin Queen - drums

4. Gloriatio (Paul Angerer) 16:03
5. Lonely Frog (Roidinger) > Einsiedler Silence (Pepl) 22:59 [FM voiceover 22:10-end]


TT: 61:34

Sound: A-
Source #1-3: Private recording, Tape from Harry Pepl
Source #4-5: Austrian radio broadcast (1981 - Erich Kleinschuster, host)


:: ubu edits ::

removed 2 second gaps
removed fm talk in #4 and #5
fixed marks

Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Harry Pepl / Werner Pirchner "JazzZwio" - 1977/80/83

Here's a compilation of four shows by the legendary duo of Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner.
Pepl died much too early in 2005. Check out the nice photo gallery on Pirchner's website, dedicated to his late friend.

These were shared by a kind seeder over on dime, who's a big fan of Pepl. The music is indeed pretty good, and I urge you to check it out, even if you have never heard Pepl or Pirchner's name!
(I urge you even more as I'm consciously slowing down my posting tempo, hoping to allow people to get more of the music and actually find time to digest it, too!)



Pepl Pirchner JazzZwio

Harry Pepl - guitar
Werner Pirchner - vibes, marimba

CD1/59:10

[A] - Innsbruck (Austria) - 1977 [26:56]
1. Stage Intro (0:09)
2. unknown (5:23)
3. Big Paul der Fünfer (Pepl-Pirchner) 7:32
4. unknown (5:04)
5. unknown (8:44)

[B] - Wien (Austria), Jazzfrühling - 1980 (prob. at Sofiensäle) [32:14]
6. Gegenwind (6:50)
7. Der Tag, an dem wir erfuhren, dass Paul Desmond gestorben war (Pepl-Pirchner)
[aka Big Paul der Fünfer (Remember Desmond)] (12:23)
8. Drein sein, beinander bleib'n (trad./Pirchner) 6:03
9. Wirf an (Pirchner) 6:54 [inc]

CD2/57:12

[C] - Wien (Austria), ORF Studio 2 - October 26, 1980 [15:42]
1. Stage Intro (1:09)
2. Rot Grau-Rot (Pepl-Pirchner) 5:07 >
3. Big Paul der Fünfer (Remember Desmond) (Pepl-Pirchner) 9:24

[D] - Wien (Austria), Jazzspelunke - March 23, 1983 [41:30]
with: Marc Johnson - bass; Joris Dudli - drums
4. Hos'nt Raga (Pirchner) 15:14
5. The Carter (Pirchner) 13:00 [dropout @ 7:37, from tape-flip, 5 sec missing]
6. Das Auge des Maulwurfs (Pepl) 13:16

TT: 116:22

Sound: ranging between A/A- and A-/B+

Sources:
[A] private audience recording (tape from Harry Pepl)
[B-D] radio broadcasts

Lineage: AUD/FM > dime > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

:: ubu note ::
fixe marks
separated tracks
deleted fm talk
deleted 2-second gaps
added fades
etc.

Note: session B came as from 1983-03-23 (as session D) but the announcer clearly states that the recording comes from "Wiener Jazzfrühling 1980". Location was given as "Sophiensäle", but the announcer mentioned neither that nor an exact date.