Norman Howard - Burn Baby Burn

Here's a rare tape release from Norman Howard. A portion of these recordings has made it to CD (under the same title) on ESP-Disk' - go get it! Some titles are identical, but there are others here and some different versions (edits?), too.

Clifford has kindly allowed me to use his write-up - though it took me ages to finally get this up here... it's an honour to present a few more missing parts of the puzzle that is Norman Howard!

In November 1968 this quartet recorded nearly enough material for two records in a Cleveland studio session, some of which was sent to ESP but remained unreleased (though there is talk of Bernard Stollman's label revisiting the music on CD in the future [see link above! - ubu]), the remainder later issued as a limited-edition cassette by UK collector-musicologist Roy Morris (Signals, Homeboy Music 1, 1989). Both the ESP master and Signals were subsequently reissued together on the Burn, Baby, Burn cassette (Homeboy 2), a release that disappeared underground almost immediately. Rumor has it that Howard's technical abilities as a trumpeter kept his music from being issued at the time, but his conception as a soloist reveals much more. The fat smears of sound on Albert Ayler's "Spirits" prefigure his brother Donald's scattershot explosions and reference a school of brass playing uniquely suited to energy music and complementary to the fire of Ayler and post-Ayler saxophonists. And yet Howard's playing at slower tempi is disarmingly tentative, wrought with the wavering uncertainty of an Alan Shorter translated into a series of pointillistic stabs. With all the conviction voiced in a weighty, measured theme like "Soul Brother Genius", which opens Signals, it is a tense uncertainty that Howard produces in his startlingly brittle opening statements. Howard, Phillips and an arco Cliff voice the minor ghetto dirge over scattered percussive rolls, the composer's solo a series of persistently morbid and instantly shattered statements never more than a few bars in length. "Burn, Baby, Burn" is a manic, brief collective theme very much in the spirit of Ayler's "Bells," in which Howard's quick, blurred solo is followed by Phillips' first alto evisceration of the session (Arthur Jones clearly had precursors in Cleveland), a passionate yet carefully assembled paean to the wild leaps of Ayler and Eric Dolphy. The theme of "Haunted" returns to the measured delicacy of the opener, yet Cliff's perversely bent Silva-isms pull it apart into a psychoactive tone poem, mocking and goading Howard's trumpet. Phillips' huge vibrato follows, sticking close to the theme in a careful soliloquy before Cliff is given his own space to sonically upend the bass, after which Millsap edges in a rare unaccompanied bashing before the theme returns.
Norman Howard's compositions do have their limitations and cracks – there are only two tempi / moods as such, either excruciatingly slow pathos or inordinately fast, raw runs on very simple thematic elements. "Bug Out" introduces a few bars of singsong melody that merely open into a set of screaming solos from the participants (though Phillips's is especially strong), never quite holding the atmospheric weight of the dirges. The exploratory openness in pieces like "Haunted" and its uptempo analogue "Soul Resurrection" makes thematic simplicity an asset rather than a hindrance. Most of the ESP demo, false starts and voice-overs included, is made up of Phillips's compositions (though "Burn, Baby, Burn" does make an appearance):"Sound From There" offers a uniquely delicate pan-tempo ballad, unison alto-bass drones girding and then engaging Howard's glassy trumpet line, while "Satan's Holiday" is essentially "Bug Out" at a slower tempo."Sadness Holiday" also resembles other ballads in the set; though sadly marred by several false starts and voice-overs, the Hodges-like sweetness that characterizes Phillips's tone reveals his versatility as an improviser and his allegiance to his colleague Arthur Jones – also a player of searing intensity and warm delicacy.

~ Clifford Allen, from: Paris Transatlantic, Dec. 2005

Norman Howard
Burn, Baby, Burn

Norman Howard – trumpet
Joe Phillips – alto sax
Walter Cliff – bass
Corney Milsap – drums

10/68, Cleveland, OH

1. Soul Brother Genius
2. Burn Baby Burn
3. Haunted
4. Bug Out
5. Deep Black Mystery
6. Soul Resurrection
7. Divine Tiding
8. Sound from There
9. Satan's Village
10. Sadness Holiday (Sad Miss Holiday)
11. Time and Units
12. Burn, Baby, Burn

Homeboy Music 2 (includes tracks from Homeboy Music 1, Signals)

Marion Brown - Yale 1982

Got this one from "trane" in a trade a while back - thanks a lot!
It makes for a very, very nice coda to the Brown sets I shared last fall.

Marion Brown
Yale, Ohio (USA), Yale University
1982

Marion Brown - alto sax

1. Hurry Sundown - 6:32
2. Since I Fell for You - 5:01
3. Black and Tan Fantasy - 5:36
4. I Can't Get Started - 7:29
5. Don't Take Your Love from Me - 3:15
6. Monk's Mood/Epistrophy - 10:23

TT: 38:18

Sound: A-
Source: SDB

:: ubu edits ::

removed 2 second gaps

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

James Brown - Hartford, CT, 1974

This set seems to be from just a few days after the Apollo set just posted. The band is on fire, playing some great funky music. And JB himself reacts with an energized show.

We only get two opening tracks by the J.B.'s this time and the whole show runs shorter, but there's some great funk all the way through!

Again, sound is rough here, but to me, it's good enough to enjoy the music (the famous Kinshasa show is similar, soundwise... these two might even be a bit better, less muddy).

Again, if you have any further information, be it on the line-up, the date or location, please do post a comment!

Both of these sets come from dime, and these are the original FLAC files I got from there - thanks go out to the kind folks over there sharing all this amazing stuff!

James Brown and the J.B.'s
Hartford, CT (USA) (prob. Hartford Civic Center)
1974 (prob. December 3, 1974)

James Brown - vocals
prob. line-up:
Russell Crimes - trumpet
Fred Wesley* - trombone
Maceo Parker*, prob. Jimmy Parker - alto sax
St. Clair Pinckney - tenor sax
Jimmy Nolen & Hearlon "Cheese" Martin - guitars
Fred Thomas - bass
John Morgan - drums
Johnny Griggs - congas & percussion
Lyn Collins & Martha High - vocals

*) confirmed

MC: Danny Ray


J.B.'s
1. Rockin' Funky Watergate (3:32)
2. Soul Power 74 (4:52)

3. Intro (1:29)

STAR TIME
4. The Payback (2:37)
5. Soul Power (2:15)
6. I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Want to Dance) (2:28)
7. Doin' It to Death (4:20)
8. Try Me (3:50)
9. What My Baby Needs Now Is a Little More Lovin' (1:35) [cuts in]
10. Gimme Some More (1:39)
11. Get on the Good Foot (6:13)
12. Stone to the Bone (5:05)
13. Sex Machine (1:23) [inc]

TT: 41:27

Sound:
Source: audience tape


:: dime seeder's comments ::

Received this in trade, around 1992.
This is a nice audience recording,some distortion in the lower frequencies.
To me this is a good example how tight the JB's were in the early seventies.You can hear the excitement,
for instance in Gimme Some More where James probably did some splits.
Listen to Get On The Good Food, when the bass drops out you can here why funk isn't funk without a good bass.

Enjoy!
Mantra
September, 2009


:: dime-comment #4271084 by kingmike at 2010-09-25 22:56:18 GMT ::

probably "Hartford Civic Center" and I'd estimate the date to be December 03, 1974 based on gigs in the North East at the time etc.....educated guess on the date....I'm pretty sure on the venue....

James Brown - Apollo Theater, NYC 1974-11-30

Another JB show - one more to come... sound is much less good than on the Swiss set, but the band and its boss is on home turf and livelier than in the previous set. Brown strays a bit during "Crossroads" and "Try Me" and the bad sound becomes a bit of an issue during these more quiet parts, but the opening bits by the J.B.'s and the final quarter of an hour are some dead heavy funk!

If you have any further additions or corrections to the line-up, please post a comment!

James Brown and the J.B.'s
Harlem, NY (USA), Apollo Theater
November 30, 1974

James Brown - vocals
prob. line-up:
Russell Crimes - trumpet
Fred Wesley* - trombone
Maceo Parker*, prob. Jimmy Parker - alto sax
St. Clair Pinckney - tenor sax
Jimmy Nolen & Hearlon "Cheese" Martin - guitars
Charles Sherrell* - bass
John Morgan - drums
Johnny Griggs - congas & percussion
Lyn Collins* & Martha High - vocals

*) confirmed

MC: Danny Ray


1. Intro (0:30)

THE J.B.'s
2. All for One (4:32)
3. Intro by Danny Ray (1:19)
4. Same Beat (4:05)
5. Damn Right I Am Somebody (4:55)
6. Pass the Peas (2:53)

STAR TIME
7. The Payback (3:37)
8. Soul Power (2:16)
9. The Boss / Make It Funky (4:01)
10. Doin' It to Death (5:25)
11. James talking (2:10)
12. Man Has to Go Back to the Crossroads (15:31)
13. Try Me / Gimme Some More (7:05)
14. Cold Sweat / Can't Stand It (4:12)
15. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (4:39)
16. Sex Machine (1:20)
17. Papa Don't Take No Mess (5:13) [incomplete]

TT: 73:57

Sound: B+
Source: audience tape

James Brown - Switzerland 1973

I'm still deeply into James Brown's music, proceeding roughly chronologically (but so far without also playing the Hip-O-Select 2CD sets compiling all the Singles... Vols. 1, 2, and 5 are far gone, Vol. 6 has been around and several of the others shall be here soon, too). Some listening protocols and stuff will be published on my new blog (in German only, sorry) over here:
http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.com/

Anyway, I've arrived at the 1971-75 period recently and yesterday, it was all 1973. There's a pretty good live set around that seems to be from early 1973 - Brown embarked on a five week European tour within days after recording "Mind Power" for the album The Payback). The stage announcer also mentions an exclusive concert by José Feliciano coming up on March 30 in Lausanne... so my best guess for this is: poss. Lausanne (Switzerland), February/March 1973.

The line-up is taken from what I heard... Maceo, Fred, St. Clair, Nolen and the two funky divas are announced, the rest is guesswork on my part. Thomas, Starks and the trumpet players were around at that time - and I do think there are three trumpets audible in CD1#6 during those fanfare kinds of thing they play there.
The mystery remains if there's a third sax player or not... in "Shaft", Maceo's on flute and there's a tenor and baritone (? or two tenors ?) audible. Maceo to my knowledge never played tenor with Brown at that time, so Eldee Williams (who was present on some sessions in that time) would be my best guess - but I'm really not sure there!

If you have any additional information to add, please do let me know! I'd also like to know the two unknown tunes in the opening J.B.'s set!

The band here isn't as exciting as it was at the time of the Paris concert in 1967 - Brown had the Collins brothers and their exciting rough bred of youngsters pushing the funk to its limits for a year in 1970/71, but by early 1971, they had defected as well and were soon to take a ride on George Clinton's spaceship. Brown hurriedly had Fred Wesley put together a new band, which included loyalists St. Clair Pinckney and "Jabo" Starks. Wesley simplified the music, put together tight grooves that were very effective and fun to hear, yet were adapted to the abilities of the new band. By late 1972 they got a major rhythmic push by Jimmy Nolen returning on guitar, and in early 1973, finally, another fine horn soloist was added: returning star Maceo Parker!

We hear the J.B.'s at that point - with Lyn Collins (ably supported by Martha Harvin aka Martha High) doing some very mean funky songs towards the end of the opening set. The J.B.'s are putting on a mighty fine show here though, playing some of their own hits like "Pass the Peas" and having their go at Isaac Hayes classic theme from "Shaft". Lyn Collins' features then are the icing on the cake!

The Startime set is alas cut short, and as I hear it, things only fully gel in "Sex Machine", while before, it's good but not great. The final few cuts are great though, and the ten minutes of "Sex Machine" and "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" are the highlight of the whole set, to me!

James Brown and The J.B.'s
Avalanche Of Funk (liberated boot)
Switzerland (poss. Lausanne)
1973 (prob. February/March)

James Brown - vocals, organ, drums
prob. Darryl "Hasaan" Jamison, prob. Isiah "Ike" Oakley & prob. Jerone "Jasaan" Sanford - trumpet
Fred Wesley - trombone
Maceo Parker - alto sax, flute
St. Clair Pinckney - tenor sax (& baritone sax?)
poss. Eldee Williams - tenor sax
Jimmy Nolen & prob. Hearlon "Cheese" Martin - guitar
prob. Fred Thomas - bass
prob. John "Jabo" Starks - drums
prob. John Morgan or Johnny Griggs - percussion
Lyn Collins, Martha High - vocals
Danny Ray - MC

CD1/49:23 - THE J.B.'S
01. Intro (1:06)
02. Backstabbers (4:43)
03. Hot Pants Road (3:04)
04. Theme from "Shaft" (3:27)
05. instrumental (4:18)
06. instrumental (3:40)
07. Pass the Peas (6:14)
08. Parrty (5:51)
09. Me & Mrs. Jones (1:51) [Maceo Parker, vocals]
10. I'll Take You There (2:59)
11. Never Gonna Give You Up (3:05)
12. Do Your Thing (4:39)
13. Think (4:20)

CD2/52:18 - JAMES BROWN
01. Intro (1:19)
02. Get On the Good Foot (3:48)
03. Soul Power (4:22)
04. Make It Funky (4:25)
05. Bewildered (8:04)
06. Super Bad (5:51)
07. Try Me (3:51)
08. Hot Pants (2:23)
09. Sex Machine (7:23)
10. I've Got a Brand New Bag of My Own (3:00)
11. It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World (2:42)
12. Please Please Please (2:06)
13. I Can't Stand Myself (1:21)
14. Cold Sweat (1:38) [inc]

TT: 101:41

Sound: A-
Source: SBD

A complete recording of a 1973 James Brown Show/Revue concert including the full JB's opening set. I have not listened to this in quite a while... It was nice to kick back and check this show out. The band is tight!
The CD's I obtained was released by Big Fro Discs


:: ubu notes ::

In the Intro on CD1, an upcoming event (Jose Feliciano) for March 30th is mentioned, and Brown was on tour in Europe for five weeks beginning early February 1973 (see Alan Leeds' liners to the CD reissue of "The Payback")
First time that JB plays in Switzerland
Martha High is announced with her birthname as Martha Harvin
Not sure about Eldee Williams, but I seem to hear ts and bari during "Shaft", while Maceo is on flute there (and never seems to have played ts with Brown at this time anyway).
Also not sure about the number of trumpet players - the three listed were the regulars in studio sessions of the time - but ther may be only two present, but there are parts (for instance in CD1#6) where there seem to be three audible.

Steven Bernstein "Diaspora Soul" - Berlin 2000 (re-post)

So then, here we go again, upon request - had to re-rip (with EAC in secure mode, of course) from my CDR as I didn't have the FLAC stored anywhere.

Here's a great recording by Steven Bernstein's "Diaspora Soul". It's the only live show I have by this band. With Briggan Krauss (also part of Sex Mob), Paul Shapiro (check out his album "Twilight"!), the great Michael Blake and the Rodriguez Brothers, there's plenty of talent in this band!

Steve Bernstein's Diaspora Soul
Jazz Across the Border
Berlin (Germany), Haus der Kulturen der Welt
June 23, 2000

Steve Bernstein - trumpet, slide trumpet
Paul Shapiro - tenor sax
Michael Blake - tenor sax
Peter Apfelbaum - tenor sax
Briggan Krauss - baritone sax
Brian Mitchell - wurlitzer electric piano, organ
Tony Scherr - electric bass
Robert Rodriguez - postizo drums, percussion
EJ Rodriguez - congas, bongos, maracas, clave

1. Manishtana (10:52)
2. Chusen Kalah Mazel Tov (8:47)
3. Cha (Steven Bernstein) 6:44
4. Let My People Go (9:09)
5. Mazinka (5:54)
6. Shabbat Candles (aka Hannuka Candles) (12:18)
7. band intros > Ani Mamin (16:50)

All music arranged by Steven Bernstein
All songs traditional except where noted

TT: 70:36

Sound: A
Lineage: FM > ? > CDR > dime > CDR (data) in trade

:: ubu edits ::

fixed marks
delete fm talk at end of #6
added fade-out/fade-in at mark #6/7
added fade-out at end of #7

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

Notes:
#6 is not from the CD I think
This came as from June 24, 2000, but the (deleted) announcer stated 23rd as the date!
This also came with no location (again, the announcer gave it)
And lastly, this came as SBD, but it's obvious it's from an FM broadcast...
The Bernstein announcement at the end of #3 was repeated during the opening of #7 - seems someone in the radio studio goofed when they chose and spliced the parts of the concert for broadcast.
I deleted the announcement there, as there seemed to be a splice just after it anyway!

2011 EAC re-rip

The Unthanks - BBC 2010 (re-post)

Usually I don't take requests for re-posts, but The Unthanks have been on my mind and in my player again recently - their disc "Here's the Tender Coming" was one of the bigger discoveries in the past few months... so here we go again... again: beautiful voices, haunting tunes, great instrumental arrangements... got this one from dime.



The Unthanks - BBC World Routes
London (UK), Maida Vale Studio
January 23, 2010

Rachel Unthank - vocals
Becky Unthank - vocals, feet
Niopha Keegan - vocals, second violin
Adrian McNally - piano, autoharp
Chris Price - electric bass, drums, ukelele, chord organ
Dean Ravera - drums, double bass
Lizzie Jones - vocals, trumpet
Hannah Peel - first violin, trombone
Becca Spencer - viola
Jo Silverstein - cello, accordion

1. Intro (0:31)
2. The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw (4:01)
3. Interview 1 (0:40)
4. Interview 2 (1:11)
5. Nobody Knew She Was There (6:32)
6. Interview 3 (4:39)
7. Sad February (4:31)
8. Interview 4 (3:54)
9. Felton Lonnin (5:21)

TT: 31:23

Sound: A
Source: BBC Radio 3 FM World Routes / 2010-01-23
Lineage: AKAI MT M11L > SOUNDCARD > CDWAVE > TRADERS LITTLE HELPER AMP > FLAC8

ubu cinéphil (reloaded)

Update...

This is by far not a complete list. I started going to the movies earlier, and I didn't take any notes about new films I saw for a long time. Anyway, I think this list may represent about two thirds of what I saw, and from 2004 on, it should be pretty complete.



::: 1996 :::

La vie et rien d'autre (Bernard Tavernier)
prob. O Thiasos (Theo Angelopoulos)



::: 1997 :::

prob. Nosferatu (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)
prob. Faust (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)
prob. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)
prob. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
prob. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
L'atalante (Jean Vigo)
prob. M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (Fritz Lang)
Un chien andalou (Luis Bunuel)
L'age d'or (Luis Bunuel)
prob. They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
prob. Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (Sergej Eisenstein)
prob. Der Tod in Venedig (Lucchino Visconti)



::: 1998 :::

prob. La belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau)
Streik (Sergej Eisenstein)
Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (Sergej Eisenstein)
Oktober (Sergej Eisenstein)
prob. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
prob. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
prob. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
prob. Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski)
prob. Asche und Diamant (Andrzej Waida)
La famiglia (Ettore Scola)
C'eravamo tanto amati (Ettore Scola)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Zelig (Woody Allen)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah)
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
Kleine Margeriten (Very Chytilova)



::: 1999 :::

prob. Stalker (Andrej Tarkowski)
prob. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
prob. The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
prob. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Die Liebe einer Blondine (Milos Forman)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
Malina (Werner Schroeter)
Accatone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Il vangelo secondo Matteo (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Uccellaci e uccellini (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
I raconti di Caterbury (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Salo o le 120 giorante di Sodoma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut)



::: 2000 :::

plenty of Luis Bunuel (European films mostly)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Casino (Martin Scorsese)
most of Robert Bresson's films
Ekstase (Gustav Machaty)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Betolucci) ?
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
films of Laszo Moholy-Nagy
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Le jour se lève (Marcel Carné)
Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné)
Les enfants du paradis (Marcel Carné)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
A bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
Le mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
Masculin - Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard)
Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Jean-Luc Godard)
Prénom Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
For Ever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard)



::: 2001 :::

Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol)
Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
Les noces rouges (Claude Chabrol)
Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol)
Les phantomes du chapelier (Claude Chabrol)
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
Otto e mezzo (Federico Fellini)
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
Le bal (Ettore Scola)
Cronaca familiare (Valerio Zurlini)
La prima notte di quiete (Valerio Zurlini)
Il deserto dei Tartari (Valerio Zurlini)
Das Glück (Alexander Medwjedkin)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter (Errol Morris)
Les quatre cent coups (François Truffaut)
Antoine et Colette (François Truffaut)
La peau douce (François Truffaut)
La nuit américaine (François Truffaut)
La chambre verte (François Truffaut)
Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
Exodus (Otto Preminger)
Sweet Bird of Youth (Richard Brooks)
Harper (Jack Smight)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston)
The Mackintosh Man (John Huston)
The Verdict (Sindey Lumet)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Die Ballade von Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Iwans Kindheit (Andrej Tarkowski)
Andrej Rubljow (Andrej Tarkowski)
Serkalo (Andrej Tarkowski)
Stalker (Andrej Tarkowski)
Solaris (Andrej Tarkowski)
Nostalghia (Andrej Tarkowski)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
Ivan Grosny (Sergej Eisenstein)
Wenn die Kraniche ziehen (Michail Kalatosow)
La terra trema (Lucchino Visconti)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
The Lawless (Joseph Losey)
The Young One (Luis Bunuel)
M.A.S.H. (Robert Altman)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
Novecento (Bernardo Bertolucci)



::: 2002 ::::

no notes taken, guessed with help of archive websites of the the two cinemas I mostly frequent (here and here)

January
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson) ?
Il gattopardo (Luchino Visctonti) ?

February
Roman Holiday (William Wyler) ?
Roberto Succo (Cédric Kahn)
Cerný Petr (Milos Forman)
Lásky jedné plavovlásky [Die Liebe einer Blondine] (Milos Forman)
Horí, má panenko [Feuerwehrball] (Milos Forman)
Ragtime (Milos Forman)

March
The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
The Roaring Tenties (Raoul Walsh)
They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh)
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
La règle du jeu (Jean Renoir)

April
The Third Man (Carol Reed) ?
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)

May
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) ?
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder) ?
Sabrina (Billy Wilder) ?
The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder) ?
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) ?
Metropolis (Fritz Lang) ?
Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) ?
Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang) ?
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang) ?
Lucky Luciano (Francesco Rosi) ?
Zelig (Woody Allen) ?

June
Stavisky (Alain Resnais)
Providence (Alain Resnais) ?
Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais) ?
La vie est un roman (Alain Resnais) ?
Smoking (Alain Resnais)
No Smoking (Alain Resnais)
Sans soleil (Chris Marker) ?
Uckermark (Volker Koepp)
Bitterfeld, 1992 (Mathias Knauer)

July
La ley del deseo (Pedro Almodovar)
Matador (Pedro Almodovar)
Manhattan (Woody Allen) ?
The Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) ?
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards) ?
The Misfits (John Huston)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
Ieri, oggi, domani (Vittorio da Sica) ?

August
Tokyo monogatari (Yashuiro Ozu) ?
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima)
Sans soleil (Chris Marker) ?
Messer im Kopf (Reinhard Hauff)
Fish and Elephant (Li Yu)
The Box (Echo Y. Windy)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston) ?
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)

September
Absolut Warhola (Stanislaw Mucha)

November
some films by Polanski (Rosemary's Baby for sure, and I guess: Knife in the Water, Cul-de-Sac, Repulsion)

December
Week End (Jean-Luc Godard) ?



::: 2003 ::::

no notes taken, guessed with help of archive websites of the the two cinemas I mostly frequent (here and here)

January
Unagi (Shohei Imamura)
Nippon konchuki [The Insect Woman] (Shohei Imamura)
Narayama bushiko [Die Ballade von Narayama] (Shohei Imamura)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
Sciuscia (Vittoria da Sica)
Ladri di biciclette (Vittoria da Sica)
Riso Amaro (Giuseppe de Santis)
Umberto D. (Vittoria da Sica)
Paisà (Roberto Rossellini)


February
Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger)
Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni) ?
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper / Ernest B. Schoedsack) ?
Ekstase (Gustav Machaty)
The Accident (Joseph Losey)

March/April
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)

May
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) ?

June
The Parallax View (Alan Pakula)
Todo Modo (Elio Petri)
La grande illusion (Jean Renoir) ?

July
Das Glück (Alexander Medwjedkin)

September
Key Largo (John Huston) ?
La strada (Federico Fellini)
I vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
Otto e mezzo (Federico Fellini)
Giulietta degli spiriti (Federico Fellini)
Fellini: Roma (Federico Fellini) ?
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Federico Fellini)

October
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles) ?
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) ?

December
Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais) ?



::: 2004 :::

January
03 - Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
10 - La petite Lili (Claude Miller)
11 - Scarface (Howard Hawks)
17 - The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
23 - Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

February
07 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph Mankiewicz)
07 - Suspicious River (Lynne Stopkewich)
12 - Late George Apley (Joseph Mankiewicz)
13 - Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
14 - Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
16 - The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
18 - All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz)
19 - A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph Mankiewicz)
28 - Europa (Lars van Trier)

March
01 - House of Strangers (Joseph Mankiewicz)
02 - Element of Crime (Lars van Trier)
04 - The Barefoot Comtessa (Joseph Mankiewicz)
05 - Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
06 - Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph Mankiewicz)
09 - The Quiet American (Joseph Mankiewicz)
10 - The Honey Pot (Joseph Mankiewicz)
11 - Sleuth (Joseph Mankiewicz)
13 - Godfather I / Godfather II / Godfather III
25 - Le mani sulla città (Francesco Rosi)
27 - Temps du loup (Michael Haneke)

April
03 - Underground (Emir Kusturica)
10 - Elephant Man (David Lynch)
12 - Der Redner (?)
15 - Shoah (first half) (Claude Lanzman)
17 - Lucky Luciano (Francesco Rosi)
22 - Shoah (second half) (Claude Lanzman)
23 - Cadaveri eccellenti (Francesco Rosi)
24 - Návrat Idiota (Sasa Gedeon)
26 - Il caso Mattei (Francesco Rosi)
28 - Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Francesco Rosi)
29 - Otosanek (Jan Svankmajer)

May
01 - Kuhle Wampe (Slatan Dudow)
05 - Werckmeister Harmoniak (Bela Tarr)
07 - Die Dreigroschenoper (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
17 - The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
23 - Five Obstructions (Lars van Trier)
23 - Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
25 - iXième (Stéphane Blok/Pierre-Yves Borgaud)
30 - L'histoire du Marie et Julien (Jacques Rivettte)

June
05 - Nathalie (Anne Fontaine)
09 - Stupeur et tremblement (Alain Corneau)
13 - Darling (John Schlesinger)
25 - Djävulens öga (Ingmar Bergman)
26 - Tokyo boshoku [Tokyo Twilight] (Yasujiro Ozu)
27 - Soshun [Early Spring] (Yasujiro Ozu)
29 - Peccate che sia una canaglia (Alessandro Blasetti)

no entries done for July and first half of August, probably most of Ozu's other great filmes, incl. Early Autumn, Late Autumn, Early Summer, Drifting Weeds and one or two others

August
15 - Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
19 - The Ghost Train (Géza von Bolváry)
21 - Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)
26 - Wunder der Schöpfung (Hanns Walter Kornblum) / La reine des papillons (Ladislaus Starewitch)
28 - Eva (Joseph Losey)
29 - Viva Maria (Louis Malle)
31 - Les liaisons dangereux (Roger Vadim)

September
02 - Count Basie film shorts
04 - Fantome de la Liberte (Luis Buñuel)
08 - Journal d'une femme de chambre (Luis Buñuel)

probably nothing for two months... (it does happen!)

November
14 - Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming/David O. Selznick)

December
27 - Le serviteur de Kali [Nizhalkkuthu] (Adoor Gopalakrishnan)

no other entries for late 2004... probably just too lazy to fill in my diary back then.



::: 2005 :::

January
09 - Les noces rouges (Claude Chabrol)
12 - Themroc (Claude Faraldo)
21 - Max et les ferrailleurs (Claude Sautet)

February
01 - In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
13 - La belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
26 - 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)

March
07 - The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
13 - Accordion Tribe (Stefan Schwietert)
16 - 92 Minutes of Mr. Baum (Assi Dayan)
19 - Two Weeks in another Town (Vincente Minelli)

April
02 - Rebellion [Jî-uchi Hairyô tsuma shimatsu] (Masaki Kobayashi)
10 - Senso (Visconti)
16 - Sedmikrasky (Very Chytilová)

May
07 - Viskningar och rop [Cries and Whispers] (Ingmar Bergman)
12 - Sommaren med Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
25 - Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grossstadt (Walter Ruttmann)
27 - Entr'acte / Ballet Mécanique etc.
27 - Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)

June
16 - Rat der Götter (Kurt Maetzig)

no entries for all summer and fall

November
09 - History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
16 - Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
21 - La belle dame sans merci (Germaine Dulac)

December
02 - Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
04 - Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
07 - The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie)



::: 2006 :::

January
14 - Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
18 - Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
19 - Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
21 - Radio Days (Woody Allen)
21 - Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
21 - Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)

February
06 - Nora Inu [Stray Dog] (Akira Kurosawa)
14 - Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
15 - The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
18 - The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
25 - Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan)

March
08 - Przypadek [Blind Chance] (Krzystof Kieslowski)
10 - four shorts/documentaries by Kieslowski
13 - Decalogue I & II (Krzystof Kieslowski)
14 - Decalogue III & IV (Krzystof Kieslowski)
17 - Decalogue V & VI (Krzystof Kieslowski)
20 - Decalogue VII & VIII (Krzystof Kieslowski)
21 - La double vie de Veronique (Krzystof Kieslowski)
25 - Decalogue IX & X (Krzystof Kieslowski)

April
05 - L'appartment (Gilles Mimouni)
26 - Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
27 - La société du spectacle (Guy Debord)
29 - Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini)

May
02 - Institute Benjamenta (Stephen & Timothy Quay)

July
18 - Dites-lui que je l'aime (Claude Miller)
19 - Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
20 - Le dernier métro (François Truffaut)

September
29 - Under the Volcano (John Huston)

October
10 - La dignidad de los nadies (Fernando Solanas)
12 - La nube (Fernando Solanas)
14 - Nachbarn (?)
15 - Ung flukt (Edith Carlmar)
25 - El sur (Fernando Solanas)
28 - Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
?? - Memoria del saqueo (Fernando Solanas)

November
03 - Black Dahlia (Brian de Palma)

no more entries in 2006



::: 2007 :::

January
05 - Pasolini short films
16 - The Following (Christopher Nolan)
21 - Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
27 - Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

March
12 - Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
15 - L'année dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
17 - Futarizuma (Wife! Be Like a Rose) (Mikio Naruse)
21 - Ukigumo (Floating Clouds) (Mikio Naruse)
22 - A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks)
27 - Les témoins (Eric Rohmer)

April
06 - Zazie dans le metro (Louis Malle)
09 - Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard)
14 - I pugni in tasca (Marco Bellocchio)
28 - Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)

May
03 - Do You Remember Dolly Bell (Emir Kusturica)
05 - Bin-Jip (Kim Ki-duk)
06 - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
10 - Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
13 - Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
16 - Junta/Garage Olimpo (Marco Bechis)
18 - Prima della rivoluzione (Bernardo Bertolucci)
19 - Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
20 - Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci)
20 - Prima della rivoluzione (Bernardo Bertolucci)
31 - Tsisperi mtebi anu daujerebeli ambavi [Blue Mountains] (Eldar Shengelaya)

June
12 - The Last Show (Robert Altman)
26 - Black Book (Michael Verhoeven)

July
03 - Laura (Otto Preminger)
13 - Infernal Affairs (Wai Keung Lau/Siu Fai Mak)
22 - La société du spectacle (Guy Debord)
26 - Le locataire (Roman Polanski)

August
06 - Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
10 - Avanti (Billy Wilder)
14 - Batalla en el cielo (Carlos Reygadas)
19 - Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
23 - Indigènes (Rachid Bouchareb)
27 - Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller)

September
01 - Dark Passage (Delmer Dawes)
02 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)
03 - Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
06 - Lola (Jacques Démy)
08 - Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
19 - The Bubble (Eytan Fox)
27 - Anna (Pierre Koralnick)

October
10 - Il grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 - L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
17 - L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
20 - L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
21 - Chung Kuo - Cina (Michelangelo Antonioni)
25 - The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
27 - Il deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni)

November
04 - Eros (Michelangelo Antonioni/Steven Soderbergh/Wong Kar-Wai)
07 - Professione: reporter (Michelangelo Antonioni)
10 - Identificazione di una donna (Michelangelo Antonioni)
15 - Al di là delle nuvole (Michelangelo Antonioni)
18 - Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
22 - Atonement (Joe Wright)
27 - Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)

December
03 - Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
21 - Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch) ?
22 - Bluebeard's Eight Wife (Ernst Lubitsch) ?
28 - Lo meglio gioventù (Marco Tullio Giordana)
31 - Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)



::: 2008 :::

January
10 - Die Walze & die Geige (Andrej Tarkowskij) / Une journée d'Andrej Arsenevitch (Chris Marker)
12 - Serkalo (Andrej Tarkowskij)
14 - Moscow Elegy (Alexander Sokurow)
16 - La chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
26 - Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud / Marjane Satrapi)
29 - The Italian Job (Peter Collinson)

February
01 - Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
07 - The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)
14 - Mad Dog and Glory (John McNaughton)
22 - Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)

March
04 - I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
07 - Le notti bianche (Luchino Visconti)
08 - Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
11 - Taking Sides (Istvan Szabo)
15 - Oberst Redl (Istvan Szabo)
20 - The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
21 - Breath (Kim Ki-duk)

April
04 - Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah)
05 - Le joli mai (Chris Marker)
08 - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
09 - Loin du Vietnam (Chris Marker a.o., incl. Jean-Luc Godard / Alain Resnais)
10 - Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)
18 - Monte Walsh (William A. Fraker)
24 - Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
29 - Mio fratello e figlio unico (Daniele Lucchetti)
30 - Le fond de l'air est rouge (Chris Marker)

May
15 - Le magnifique (Philippe de Broca)
28 - The House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
29 - Actrices (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)

June
01 - Navigators (Ken Loach)
07 - Anatomy of Murder (Otto Preminger)

July
03 - Julia (Erick Zonca)
29 - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)

August
07 - J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster (Samuel Benchetrit)
21 - Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock)
22 - The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
27 - Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock)
28 - An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho)
30 - El dependiente (Leonardo Favio)
31 - Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)

September
01 - Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho)
04 - North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
12 - The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, US remake)
17 - Tres veces Ana (David José Kohon)
26 - Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock)

October
17 - Twilight (Robert Benton)
18 - Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
20 - Te'alat Blaumilch [Blaumilchkanal] (Ephraim Kishon)
23 - Baader Meinhof Komplex (Uli Edel)
28 - Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)

November
03 - The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
07 - Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
13 - Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

December
02 - Iklimler (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
09 - Izganie [The Banishment] (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
12 - Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski)
13 - Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
18 - Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
20 - Buddenbrocks (Heinrich Breloer)
27 - Un conte de Noël (Arnaud Desplechin)



::: 2009 :::

January
23 - The Deadly Affair (Sidney Lumet)
25 - King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (Sidney Lumet)
27 - Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
29 - Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Glauber Rocha)

February
10 - Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
15 - Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis)
19 - Entre les murs (aka La classe) (Laurent Cantet)

March
12 - The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
19 - La forteresse (Fernand Melgar)
26 - Der Knochenmann (Wolfgang Murnberger)

April
03 - La chienne (Jean Renoir)
05 - Une partie de campagne / La vie est à nous (Jean Renoir)
06 - Le crime de M. Lange (Jean Renoir)
07 - Boudu sauvé de l'eau (Jean Renoir)
10 - Toni (Jean Renoir)
15 - Diary of a Chambermaid (Jean Renoir)
17 - Les bas-fonds (Jean Renoir)
23 - La bête humaine (Jean Renoir)
27 - Comizi d'amore (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
29 - La règle du jeu (Jean Renoir)

May
01 - Swamp Water (Jean Renoir)
02 - La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir)
04 - The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
06 - French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
07 - The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir)
08 - The River (Jean Renoir)
09 - Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Jean Renoir)
13 - No More Smoke Signals (Fanny Bräuning)
15 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
15 - La salamandre (Alain Tanner)
18 - L'invitation (Claude Goretta)
21 - Messidor (Alain Tanner)
22 - Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 (Alain Tanner)
25 - Le fou (Claude Goretta)
27 - Le retour d'Afrique (Alain Tanner)
30 - La lune avec les dents (Michel Soutter)

June
04 - Ricky (François Ozon)
06 - Angels & Demons (aka Illuminati) (Ron Howard)
09 - The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
19 - No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese)

July
13 - Kærlighed på film [Just Another Love Story] (Ole Bornedal)
22 - Alle andern (Maren Ade)

August
10 - Otto e mezzo (Federico Fellini)
20 - Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
24 - Viva Zapata (Elia Kazan)
25 - Los abrazos rotos (Pedro Almodovar)
27 - Bardelys the Magnificient (King Vidor)
29 - On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
31 - Klostret i Sendomir (Victor Sjöström)

September
02 - Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné)
04 - East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
05 - The Rounders (Charles Chaplin) / Beggars of Life (William A. Wellman)
06 - Les tricheurs (Marcel Carné)
09 - The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan)
16 - Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
22 - Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch)
23 - Antichrist (Lars van Trier)

October
07 - Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

November
05 - Das weisse Band (Michael Haneke)
18 - Szegénylegények [Die Hoffnungslosen] (Mikos Jancso)
25 - Csillagosok, katonák [Die Roten und die Weissen] (Miklos Jancso)
26 - Fényes szelek [Die Konfrontation] (Miklos Jancso)
29 - From Russia with Love (Terence Young)

December
02 - Csend és kiáltás [Stille und Schrei] (Miklos Jancso)
05 - Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr, Pesten [Die Laternen des Herrn in Budapest] (Miklos Jancso)
06 - Sommernattens leende (Ingmar Bergman)
09 - Még kér a nép [Roter Psalm] (Miklos Jancso)
13 - Andrey Rublyow (Andrej Tarkowskij)



::: 2010 :::

January
06 - Ai to kibo no machi [Stadt voll Liebe und Hoffnung] (Nagisa Oshima)
09 - Seishun zankoku monogatari [Nackte Jugend] (Nagisa Oshima)
11 - Nihon no yoru to kiri [Nacht und Nebel über Japan] (Nagisa Oshima)
15 - Shinjuku dorobo nikki [Diary of a Shinjuku Thief] (Nagisa Oshima)
16 - Nihon shunka-kô [A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs / Sing a Song of Sex] (Nagisa Oshima)
21 - Koshikei [Death by Hanging] (Nagisa Oshima)
22 - Sult [Hunger] (Henning Carlsen)
23 - Shonen [Boy] (Nagisa Oshima)
24 - Gishiki [The Ceremony] (Nagisa Oshima)
25 - Muri shinju: Nihon no natsu [Japanese Summer: Double Suicide] (Nagisa Oshima)
28 - Un prophère (Jacques Audiard)
31 - The Man from London (Bela Tarr)

February
03 - Kaette kita yopparai [Three Resurrected Drunkards /Sinner in Paradise] (Nagisa Oshima)
05 - Ai no borei [Empire of Passion] (Nagisa Oshima)
12 - Furyo / Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima)
19 - Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer)
23 - The Trial (Orson Welles)

March
11 - Silentium (Wolfgang Murnberger)
19 - After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

April
02 - Quai des orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
08 - Le corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
12 - Reisender Krieger (Christian Schocher)
13 - L'assassin habite au... 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
15 - Le salaire de la peur (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
16 - Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard)
22 - Io sono l'amore (Luca Guadagnino)
26 - Reisender Krieger (Christian Schocher)
29 - Les 400 coups (François Truffaut)

May
02 - Les mistons (François Truffaut)
02 - Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)
02 - Charlotte et son Jules (Jean-Luc Godard)
02 - Une histoire d’eau (Jean-Luc Godard / François Truffaut)
03 - Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)
04 - Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
06 - Baisers volées (François Truffaut)
07 - La peau douce (François Truffaut)
07 - Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard)
11 - La sirène du Mississippi (François Truffaut)
11 - Le mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
14 - Domicile conjugal (François Truffaut)
14 - La mariée était en noir (François Truffaut)
15 - 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (Jean-Luc Godard)
16 - L'homme qui aimait les femmes (François Truffaut)
18 - Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut)
18 - Masculin-féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
21 - L'amour en fuite (François Truffaut)
21 - La nuit américaine (François Truffaut)
22 - Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
25 - La truite (Joseph Losey)
25 - La vie est un roman (Alain Resnais)
28 - Un héros très discret (Jacques Audiard)
29 - L'an 01 (Jacques Doillon / Gébé / Alain Resnais / Jean Rouch)

June
03 - Les herbes folles (Alain Resnais)
12 - Violanta (Daniel Schmid)
15 - Miriam (Daniel Schmid)
15 - Heute Nacht oder nie (Daniel Schmid)
16 - Sur mes lèvres (Jacques Audiard)
18 - De battre, mon coeur s'est arrêté (Jacques Audiard)
20 - Hécate (Daniel Schmid)

July
13 - Il bacio di Tosca (Daniel Schmid)
14 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
15 - Shake! Otis at Monterey (D.A. Pennebaker)
15 - Jimi Plays Monterey (D.A. Pennebaker / Chris Hegedus)
19 - Key Largo (John Huston)
23 - Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
24 - The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
28 - Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)

August
03 - In nomine di popolo Italiano (Dino Risi)
26 - El secreto de sus ojos (Juan José Campanella)
27 - Wild At Heart (David Lynch)
28 - A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger)

September
04 - Metropolis (2010 restored version) (Fritz Lang)
09 - City Girl (F.W. Murnau)
14 - St. Kilda: Britain's Loneliest Island (Paul Robello / Bobbie Mann)
14 - Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (Merian C. Cooper / Ernest B. Schoedsack)
17 - The Vagabond Queen (Géza von Bolváry)
25 - Black Narcissus (Michael Powell)
30 - Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)

October
06 - One Week (Buster Keaton)
06 - Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)
13 - The Paleface (Buster Keaton)
13 - The Navigator (Buster Keaton)
16 - Cops (Buster Keaton)
16 - Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
17 - Der amerikanische Freund (Wim Wenders)
20 - The Frozen North (Buster Keaton)
20 - Go West (Buster Keaton)
23 - Flickorna (Mai Zetterling)
27 - Steamboat Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton)
28 - Au revoir Taipeh (Arvin Chen)

November
03 - The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
10 - The General (Buster Keaton)
12 - The Goat (Buster Keaton)
12 - College (Buster Keaton)
20 - Khane-ye doust kodjast? (Where Is the Friend's Home?) (Abbas Kiarostami)
21 - Jeanne la Pucelle: Les batailles (Jacques Rivette)
23 - Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
28 - Jeanne la Pucelle: Les prisons (Jacques Rivette)

December
11 - Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
13 - Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
14 - Five (Dedicated to Ozu) (Abbas Kiarostami)
22 - Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami)

James Brown - Paris 1967

Good gawd! Papa's got a brand new bag!

One of my latest musical discoveries - or rather in this case a re-discovery - is James Brown. I've had his "CD of JB" ever since I was in High School, but I never quite followed up digging into his music, although I did get to know Maceo Parker's music a little bit better over the years (his disc "Soundtrack" on Minor Music was one of the most-played back in those years).

Anyway, JB... give the drummer some! Gotta give the funky drummer some!

As all too often, I wasn't just content owning the "Star Time" 4CD set, but rather I went out and got all those fine Polydor compilations, too: "Roots of a Revolution" with lots of early sides beginning with his very first sessions and leading up to 1964, "Messing with the Blues", mostly from around the early 60s, and as a companion to those, the amazing first "Live at the Apollo".

Then on with the finest band he ever had, convered on the great compilation "Foundations of Funk - A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969", which has a nice companion in "Jazz". From the same era, there's "Soul Pride: The Instrumentals 1960-1969", and then the album "Soul on Top", cut with Louie Bellson's big band (playing Oliver Nelson arrangements and including Maceo on tenor as the sole soloist).

There are a few live recordings of that band, first of them is "Live at the Garden" (actually recorded at the Latin Casino), then there's the smoking hot "Live at the Apollo - Volume II", and finally "Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68".

This live show from Paris falls in there, some months after the second Apollo gig, and if anything, the band is even tighter and the show even hotter! It's also around on DVD and it's unbelievable to watch! One track (It's a Man's Man's Man's World) was officially released on a US DVD set (not internationally released, to my knowledge, and useless to me as it's Code 1... haven't seen it myself), hence that track is absent here. Would be very welcome to see a commercial release of this one, too - the sound quality is great, for sure - matching the quality of the actual performance!

Just check out "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"!
And dig what might be the very best "Prisoner of Love" ever!

The line-up below has been amended compared to the tags and info you'll get. The number of musicians is correct at least, and Maceo, St. Clair, Waymon Reed and Pee Wee Ellis, as well as the Byrds are definitely confirmed. Also two drummers and two guitar players are visible on the video. JB plays organ during one of the tunes (on the others it's Pee Wee, I think), and at the end of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", those weird drum rhythms are his, too...

JB and the Famous Flames on Stage and the Olympia

James Brown and the Famous Flames
Paris (France), L'Olympia
November 25, 1967

possible line-up:
James Brown - vocals
Waymon Reed, Joe Dupars - trumpet
Levi Rasbury - valve trombone
Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis - alto sax, organ
Maceo Parker, Eldee Williams - tenor sax
St. Clair Pinckney - baritone sax
Jimmy Nolan - guitar
Alphonso Kellum - guitar, bass
Bernard Odum - bass
John "Jabo" Starks - drums
Clyde Stubblefield - drums

The Famous Flames: Bobby Byrd, Bobby Bennett - vocals

string section (Richard Jones and two more, poss. Vivian Robinson, Marilyn Jones)

The JB dancers (prob. Ann, Cookie & Joann)

MC's: Danny Ray and Maceo Parker

01. The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) 6:34 [instrumental]
02. Our Delight (Tadd Dameron) 0:43 [instrumental]
03. I Wanna Be Around (3:22)
04. That's Life (4:05)
05. Kansas City (4:49)
06. Our Delight (Tadd Dameron) 2:36 [instrumental]
07. Out of Sight (1:34)
08. Try Me (2:48)
09. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (15:07)
10. Prisoner of Love (6:44)
11. My Girl (0:22) [instrumental]
12. Cold Sweat (10:14)
13. Maybe the Last Time (5:05)
14. I Feel Good / Please, Please, Please (2:52)
15. Cold Sweat (Reprise) (2:58)

TT: 70:00

Sound: A
Source: FM or SBD or TV

Lisette Spinnler "Siawaloma" - Schaffhausen 2010

After all the commemorative posts, here's one by a young and very much alive singer from Switzerland, Lisette Spinnler. Her music is a mix of various influences, the most prevailing being of course jazz, but there's a defining African bent to much of it.

To make up your mind before downloading (which I of course highly recommend you do!), you can check out two songs on her homepage

The music isn't just about her, but also about a great band, including one of the finest pianists to arrive on the scene in the past years, Colin Vallon.

Lisette Spinnler - Siawaloma
Jazzfestival Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen (Switzerland), Kulturzentrum Kammgarn
May 8, 2010

Lisette Spinnler - vocals
Alex Hendriksen - tenor sax, flute
Colin Vallon - piano
Patrice Moret - bass
Michi Stulz - drums

1. FM intro (2:11)
2. Mazad (Dave Holland) 11:13
3. Announcement by Lisette Spinnler (0:20)
4. Little One I Miss You (Abbey Lincoln) 11:25
5. Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock) 14:44
6. Announcement by Lisette Spinnler (0:22)
7. River Man (Nick Drake) 5:54
8. Announcement by Lisette Spinnler (0:36)
9. L'hiver après (Colin Vallon) 12:07
10. Announcement by Lisette Spinnler (0:12)
11. Namaste (6:31)
12. FM outro (0:41)

TT: 66:19

Sound: A
Source: DRS 2 "Jazz Live" / 2010-11-05
Lineage: DVB-S@256, 48kHz > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)
Edited & shared by ubu


:: blurb from http://jazzfestival.ch ::

Samstag. 8.5.2010
21.30 Uhr
Lisette Spinnler voc, Colin Vallon p, Alex Hendriksen sax./flute, Patrice Moret b, Michi Stulz dr.

Mit ihrer Gruppe Siawaloma zelebriert die charismatische Basler Sängerin Lisette Spinnler eine organische, atmende Musik, die sich an den Zyklen des Werdens und Vergehens in der Natur zu orientieren scheint. Nichts wirkt hektisch oder überstürzt, auch wenn es mal schnell gehen muss. Die Band nimmt sich Zeit, atmosphärische Stimmungsbilder heraufzubeschwören und zu umkreisen. Ab und zu taucht eine solistische Stimme aus dem Ensemble auf, um Zeugnis von ihrer Einzigartigkeit abzulegen: wie ein Vogel, der plötzlich aus dem dunklen Wald herausfliegt, um am strahlend blauen Himmel seine Bahnen zu ziehen. “Siawaloma” bedeutet Gemeinschaft – und tatsächlich: Spinnlers Band ist eine Gemeinschaft. Jedes einzelne Individuum ist unzertrennbar mit jedem anderen Individuum verbunden.
www.lisettespinnler.com

Marion Brown - Solo & w/Gunter Hampel & Karl Berger

r.i.p. Marion Brown

This is the final upload in a little series dedicated to the late Marion Brown - a hodge-podge of music from the sixties and the eighties. Hope you enjoy the ride and hope you'll keep a special place for Marion in your hearts.

Karl Berger - Total Music Ensemble
Hamburg (Germany)
December 1968

Marion Brown - alto sax
Becky Friend - flute
Karl Berger - vibes
Alan Silva - cello, bass
Kent Carter - bass
Jacques Thollot - drums

1. D'Accord (Berger) 5:38
2. Announcement (1:09)
3. E.D. (Berger) 7:49
4. Announcement (0:43)
5. Blue Early Bird (Berger) 6:13
6. Announcement (0:19)
7. Tune In (7:49) [inc]

TT: 29:41

Sound: A-

Lineage: fm > ? >c dr > eac(secure mode) > flac(level 8)

:: ubu edits ::

- separated talk before #3(#2) from music (1:07)
- separated talk before #5(#3) from music (0:40)
- separated talk before #7(#4) from music (0:15)
- moved marks between #1 & #2 and #6(#3) & #7(#4)
- deleted tape-noise at end of #7(#4)

Additional lineage (2005): FLAC Frontend > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8)
Additional lineage (2010): SBE fixed in TLH, tags & checksums added

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Gunter Hampel & Marion Brown
Berlin (Germany)
October 28, 1983

Gunter Hampel - bass clarinet
Marion Brown - alto sax

1. Funky Getdown (8:16)

Sound: A-

Lineage: fm > ? > 7" reels of unknown lineage > AKAI GX-4000-D
> Numark EQ 2250 20 band equalizer > HHB CDR 830 > cdr > cdr
> eac(secure mode) > flac(level 8)


:: ubu edit ::

deleted silence before and after track

Additional lineage (2005): FLAC Frontend > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8)
Additional lineage (2010): SBE fixed in TLH, tags & checksums added

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Marion Brown
New York City (USA), Greenwich House
September 7, 1985

Marion Brown - alto sax

1. Black and Tan Fantasy (4:55)
2. (4:11)
3. (3:00)
4. 'Round Midnight (3:52)
5. (4:40)

TT: 20:41

Sound: A-
Lineage: Aud > Marantz PMD340 > cass > Peak > Xact > flac

Marin Brown - St. Georgen 1980

r.i.p. Marion Brown

Show #4 of my little tribute to the great Marion Brown.

Marion Brown Quartet
St. Georgen, Germany
February 8, 1980

Marion Brown - alto sax
Hilton Ruiz - piano
Jack Gregg - bass
Freddie Waits - drums

CD1/63:54
1. Sunshine Road (19:06)
2. November Cotton Flower (14:36)
3. Afrodisia (14:46)
4. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (15:25)

CD2/46:16
1. Pleasant Street (15:39)
2. Sweet Earth (14:42)
3. Body and Soul (10:05)
4. La Placita (5:49)

TT: 110:10

Sound: A-

Lineage: sbd > ? > 7" reels of unknown lineage > AKAI GX-4000-D>Numark EQ 2250 20 band equalizer > HHB CDR 830 > cdr > cdr > eac(secure mode) > flac(level 8)

Edits (GoldWave):
- Moved track marks to beginning of tracks (some were early, some late)
- Deleted silence at beginning of Discs and beginning of CD2 #3
- Deleted silence at end of CD2 #4

Marion Brown - Köln 1977

r.i.p. Marion Brown

The third of five sets I'll be sharing for the moment - there are more around, of course, but these five were all shared five and a half years ago on EZT/dime and I figure there must be some interest, after all these years!

Marion Brown Quartet
Köln (Germany), Funkhaus
March 13, 1977

Marion Brown - alto sax
Brandon K. Ross - guitar
Jack Gregg - bass
Steve McCraven - drums

1. 08:15
2. 08:22
3. 12:48
4. 13:38
5. 11:49

TT: 54:55

Sound: varying between A- and B+
Source: fm > ? > cdr > eac(secure) > wav > shntool > flacfrontend > flac(7)

Edit:
- deleted 2 second gaps
- moved mark #0/#1 (#1/#2) (-2 sec)
- added fade out at end of #2 (#3)
- moved mark #3/#4 (#4/#5) (+5 sec), deleted half a second of duplication there, too
- moved mark #4/#5 (#5/#6) (-2 sec), deleted silence after #5 (#6)

Note: omitted fm announcer at beginning and end (#1 and #7 of Flac-files) when
burning (files saved on back-up DVD)

Marion Brown - NYC 1976

Here's Peter Keepnews' NYTimes obit, also find some more information in my first post dedicated to Brown.

Note that the information below is somewhat more complete than what you'll get in the tags and info-file, so please update those!

Marion Brown Sextet
New York, NY (USA), The Village Gate
August 27, 1976

Marion Brown - alto saxophone
Aurell Ray & Butch Campbell - guitars
Jack Gregg - bass
Chris Henderson - drums
Jumma Santos - percussion

1. unknown (8:22) [inc]
2. Introductions (0:45)
3. Moment of Truth (10:23)
4. La Placita > Announcement by Marion Brown (11:23)

TT: 30:56

Sound: A-
Source: FM broadcast > unknown gen. analog cassette

Lineage:
-Cass >WAV via Sony PCM R500 DAT with SBM as A/D converter
-CoolEdit Pro 2.0 >CD Wave >CDR >EAC (secure) >FLAC Frontend (L8 w/SBA)

Note from EZtree seeder:
Incomplete. A more complete version would be a nice find!

Yusef Lateef - Montreux 1970

Sorry I missed Brother Yusef's birthday... he got ninety 17 days ago (well, make that 18 now that it turned past midnight while I was typing the following).

Lateef was born William Evans Huddleston (no relation to Father Huddleston, I assume) on October 9, 1920 in Chattanooga, TN. His family moved to Detroit in 1925 and that's where he remained rooted for a long time. In the mid and late 50s, he packed his quintet (Wilbur Harden on trumpet or Curtis Fuller on trombone, Hugh Lawson on piano, Ernie Farrow on bass, Louis Hayes or Oliver Jackson on drums) into his car, drove to NYC and recorded some mighty fine albums for Savoy or Prestige, and one for Verve, too. His brand of hardbop belongs to the most exciting committed to record in those years - check out albums like "Yuser's Mood", "Jazz for Thinkers", "Before Dawn", "Other Sounds" or "The Sounds of Yusef Lateef" to hear what I'm talking about.

In earlier years though his career started when - 18 years of age - he started playing professionally and appeared with Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge and others, and landed a gig with Dizzy Gillespie's exciting bop band in 1949. The next year, he returned to Detroit and started mingling in one of the finest local jazz scenes in these years of hardbop... Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, Paul Chambers, the Jones brothers (Hank, Thad and youngster Elvin, whom he'd have on drums on one of his finest hours, "Into Something" from 1961), Curtis Fuller, Kenny Burrell, and Lucky Thompson are just the cream of the crop of Detroit's finest from those heady years. Lateef's masterpiece from these years might well be his Riverside release "Eastern Sounds". The sounds are not "other" any longer, but a direction is given by now... Lateef opened up to oriental and Indian sounds early on, becoming one of the (unacknowledged) pioneers of any kind of world-jazz-fusion.

Lateef also played with Charles Mingus (playing da sh*t out of "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" on Ming's great EmArcy album "Pre-Bird") and then joined the band of Cannonball Adderley - enlarged to a sextet on the occasion of Lateef joining in. With little brother Nat Adderley, a youngster from the Austrial alps playing funky piano and going by the name of Joe Zawinul, as well as the seasoned rhythm team and backbone of the band, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes, Lateef was part of the finest band Cannonball ever led. Among the best recordings they left is "Nippon Soul", captured during a series of 1962 concerts in Japan. There's also Lateef's oboe feature on "Trouble in Mind" on the album "Cannonball in Europe" - the meanest oboe playing this side of free jazz!

But Lateef didn't just play tenor sax and oboe. At that time, he was one of the acknowledged masters of the flute - playing in an exciting, non-Western style, chanting and moaning, expanding the common vocabulary of the instrument. He also started playing oriental and far eastern instruments such as the argol/arghul, and he had his band play "exotic" instruments in the fifties already.

In the 60s, Lateef played with Miles Davis, Babatunde Olatunji, and again with Dizzy, and after a series of fine albums on Impulse - including some extraordinary live material captured at Pep's in Philadelphia with Richard Williams and Mike Nock in his quintet - he started recording for Atlantic and his music got more and more eclectic. With new sidemen such as young pianist Kenny Barron (who came from Lateef's former boss Dizzy's band), he recorded a series of concept albums: The Blue, The Diverse YL, YL's Detroit, etc etc. Lateef also wrote works for large bands and orchestras, and founded his own record label, YAL.

His music took another several other turns... he did world music, new age, fusion and CTI-disco sessions, but he remained an imposing, impressive figure. A very deep and soulful person, he was portrayed in Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel's film "Brother Yusef", showed in 2005 on the German/French arte TV channel. His playing still gives me chills down the spine and goose bumps all over... a recent excellent release was published in 2005 as well: "Influence", a collaboration with the French brothers Lionel and Stéphane Belmondo and bunch of excellent European musicians.

About a year ago, he was captured (an amateur recording) in concert in Paris, appearing with Archie Shepp and his regular band, as well as Leon Parker on added percussion instruments. And on 22nd of October, he has performed in duo with his longtime collaborator Adam Rudolph in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral.

The most amazing thing is that he's never lost his amazing, huge, rough and earthy, breathy, raspy, gruff, emotional and touching sound on tenor saxophone. Even today, at age 90, he's got a force on his instrument that is very rare.
He will forever remain my favorite among the several Bill Evans' in jazz, that's for sure!

To celebrate Lateef's 90th birthday, here's a set recorded forty years back, at Montreux Jazz Festival. Hope you'll enjoy! And hope this will send some of you down memory lane, and prompt some others to (finally!?) explore and discover some of Lateef's great music!

Yusef Lateef
Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux (Switzerland), Casino
July 20, 1970

Yusef Lateef - tenor sax, flute, oboe
Barry Harris - piano
Bob Cunningham - bass
Albert "Tootie" Heath - drums

1. Yusef's Mood (Yusef Lateef) 9:54
2. These Foolish Things (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) 8:57
3. Soul Flute (6:11)
4. The Road Back (Yusef Lateef) 7:00
5. Stone Henge (Yusef Lateef) 11:50
6. Off Minor (Thelonious Monk) 5:49
7. (blues) (14:26)
8. Vibration (Yusef Lateef) 8:52

TT: 73:04

Sound: A/A-
Lineage: FM? > ? > CDR > EAC > FLAC

http://www.montreuxsounds.com/detail2006.php?fiche=93

Noah Howard - NYC 2001

Final Noah Howard post... check out the first of this five-part series for some more information about Howard. This set here features him with the great Alan Silva, playing at 2001's Vision Fest. Bobby Few is on piano and on drums we find Leroy Williams who has played with everyone from Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan and Bill Hardman, to Lee Konitz, Anthony Braxton, Andrew Hill, Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef.

I do hope you've enjoyed the ride and Noah will live on in your hearts and ears!

Noah Howard Quartet
Vision Fest 2001
New York City (USA), Frank Wright Center of the World
May 28 , 2001

Noah Howard - alto sax
Bobby Few - piano
Alan Silva - bass
Leroy Williams - drums

1. (18:43)
2. (13:29)

TT: 32:13

Sound: A-/B+
Lineage: MD aud -- cdr -- flac

Marion Brown - Esslingen 1970

Beginning my homage to the late great Marion Brown before even closing with the final Noah Howard post... but gee, Brown... he was such a great, lyrical musician. Got to love his music!

First, some food:
Pieces of a Conversation (by Clifford Allen, 2005)
AAJ Fireside Chat (by Fred Jung, 2003)
Online Discography

Then, some music... again, proceeding (roughly) chronological, here's a 1970 set of the band by Brown and Leo Smith, featuring none other than Manfred Eicher on bass. New information suggests it's actually a radio broadcast (SDR, Süddeutscher Rundfunk II, "Leo Smith-Marion Brown Gruppe in Esslingen" 1971-02-12), and took place at Club Laboratorium (Webergasse 22).

All thanks for all the following Brown shares go to the original seeders on dime - mostly c, but also pj and a few others. These were mostly up in a little "flood" in 2005 and it's my pleasure to share them again both over on dime and here, too.

Thank you, Marion, for all the great music you left with us.

Marion Brown
Esslingen (Germany)
December 18, 1970

Marion Brown - alto sax, etc
Leo Smith - trumpet, etc
Thomas Stoewsand - cello, flutes
Manfred Eicher - bass
Fred Braceful - percussion

1. part I [29:30]
2. part II [17:33] (fades out, inc?)

TT: 47:06

Sound: B+
Lineage: sdb? > ? > cdr > xact > flac8

Note from EZtree seeder:
as part of the 'unissued' recordings listing in the marion brown
discography, this possible soundboard document (with traces of static)
is of a rare vintage, made during the same year that brought about the
incredible duets with leo smith as 'creative improvisation ensemble,'
and the larger ensemble opus 'afternoon of a georgia faun.' the use of
small percussive instruments, and in fact, multi-instrumentation in
general; an attention to spaciousness, especially the premium on
carefully place notes, and of course, carefully considered silence;
the active gestures to extend timbre and color, all contribute to
place this performance hotly on the heels of legendary issues such
as 'porto novo,' 'gesprächsfetzen,' and 'in sommerhausen,' though,
i would say, probably not as explicitly incendiary as those earlier
releases. but it burns true with its own distinctive flame ... strongly
recommended, essential, for any admirer of marion brown's and leo
smith's music.

Noah Howard - NYC 1997

There's a great tribute to Noah over on Streams of Expression. Here's the penultimate set of my own little tribute, featuring Howard at the Knitting Factory with the great Wilber Morris on bass.
All thanks go to N_n who shared this one over on dime, several years ago.

Noah Howard Quartet
New York City (USA), Knitting Factory, Tap Bar
June 16, 1997

Noah Howard - alto saxophone
Chris Chalfont - piano
Wilber Morris - bass
Calyer Duncan - drums

1. (24:05)
2. (6:37)
3. (7:25)

TT: 38:07

Sound: A/A-
Source: FM
Lineage: fm > ? > cd-r > eac(secure mode) > wav > flac(7)(asb)

Note: a very short fm intro preceeds #1

Noah Howard / Bauer-Parker-Moss / Howard-Carl-Schweizer - Stuttgart 1984

More Noah Howard... and in the meantime we had to learn of Marion Brown's death. A little series dedicated to his music will follow (as will the promised Bill Dixon sets).

This one here features Howard in a solo performance (one of Marion Brown's specialties, btw!) as well as in a trio with Rüdiger Carl and Irene Schweizer. In between, you'll hear another trio with whose members I'm sure you're all familiar as well!

Nat Dove & Noah Howard in Jazz Concert, at Dore Theater CalState Bakersfield June 22, 2007 

Noah Howard
Johannes Bauer / Evan Parker / David Moss
Noah Howard / Rüdiger Carl / Irene Schweizer

Stuttgart (Germany), Akademie der Künste/Kunstakademie, am Weissenhof 1
November 21, 1984

Noah Howard - alto sax
1. (15:49)

Johannes Bauer - trombone
Evan Parker - tenor sax
David Moss - percussion, noise instruments
2. (27:36)

Noah Howard - alto sax
Rüdiger Carl - tenor sax
Irene Schweizer - piano
3. Dedicated to Albert Ayler (29:05)

TT: 72:29

Sound: A/A-
Source/Lineage: ECM 155 - Sony TCD-5M - Edirol R09 - HD - MAGIX XXL 2008 (mastering) - flac - dime

the beginning of a very special event at the Kunstakademie, am Weissenhof 1, Stuttgart (Germany), November 21, 1984: The Louis Moholo Workshop (which I don't have... anyone?)

Bill Dixon...

...would have been 85 years old today.
And just today, I received my copy of the new CAM box collecting all his Soul Note albums.

Read Ben Ratliff's NYTimes obit, Ben Young's official obit, and Clifford Allen's post about Dixon's funeral and check out his other blog entries on Dixon (hopefully more are going to come).

Me, I hope to be able to post some of Dixon's music in the coming days or weeks, but real life interferes again these days - just too busy to spend time here.
For starters, I recommend you check out this Verona 1980 concert.

Spirits Rejoice - Guy Kopelowicz' Photographs

 

 
Check out the amazing photos Guy Kopelowicz took during Albert Ayler's "Spirits Rejoice" session at Judson Hall in NYC.

Noah Howard - Stuttgart 1977

Thanks go out to jazzrita who shared this fixed version of a show by the same band as on the SAJ album "Schizophrenic Blues" (recorded in Berlin a few days later).

This is #3 of the little Howard memorial series.

  
Noah Howard Quartet
Stuttgart (Germany)
May 11, 1977

Itaru Oki - trumpet
Noah Howard - alto sax
Jean-Jacques Avenel - bass
Oliver Johnson - drums

1. (20:36) [fade-in]
2. (15:57)
3. (5:32)

TT: 42:07

Sound: A-/B+
Lineage: fm > cdr trade > remastered with wavelab > flac > dime