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Monday, December 27, 2010

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)

Friday, November 19, 2010

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

Sunday, November 14, 2010

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

Monday, November 01, 2010

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

: : . : . : . : :

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

Sunday, October 31, 2010

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

Friday, October 29, 2010

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)

Thursday, October 28, 2010

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!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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

Saturday, October 23, 2010

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

Friday, October 22, 2010

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?)

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

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.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

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.

Friday, October 01, 2010

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

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Noah Howard - Bremen 1975

Next one of the Noah Howard series - as you'll notice, this is into the mellowing phase... beautiful music, informed by all the avantgarde sensibilities and experiences that Howard had made in his early years in music.

















Noah Howard Quartet
Bremen (Germany), Sendesaal
January 27, 1975


Noah Howard - alto sax
Takashi Kako - piano
Kent Carter - bass
Oliver Johnson - drums

1. Ole Negro (11:59)
2. Paris Dreams (13:03)
3. New Arrival (6:38)
4. Siki (6:50)

TT: 38:33

Sound: A/A-
Source: FM

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Barry Altschul - Nancy 1977

Here's the companionpiece to the Kalaparusha - a very nice set by Barry Altschul's quartet with great playing by George Lewis and Byard Lancaster. Holland, at that time, was into some quite great stuff, too!

Barry Altschul 1976


Barry Altschul Quartet
Nancy (France), Jazzpulsations
October 12, 1977


George Lewis - trombone
Byard Lancaster - soprano & alto sax, flute
Dave Holland - bass, cello
Barry Altschul - drums

2. You Can't Name Your Own Tune (34:11)

Sound: A-
Source/Lineage: FM - Copy from master - Maxell XLII 90 – Denon CDR 1000 –flac –dime

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Noah Howard - NYC 1972

photo by Juma Sultan
Noah Howard passed away on September 3rd. In the following days, I'll share the few boots of his that I've collected in the past years. Thanks go out to all the tapers and generous folks keeping the music in circulation.

John Fordham's obituary can be found here, and for those who still only own bloggity files of "The Black Ark", the LP reissue is still available from BoWeavil - I finally put in an order. The CD version is gone already.

The quote below is from The Wire (Jan 2006, pp. 26-33), the story was
based on a lenghty interview and was done by Phil Freeman (typos are
entirely mine, though).

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Howard grew up surrounded by music. "If you're a child and you grow up in New Orleans - and I was a child in the 50s - the music was just there," he explains, sitting in New York's Cornelia Street Cafe. "My people came out of the Baptist church, so I was introduced right away to gospel music. When I was a little kid, I was singing in the junior choir, the medium choir and then the high choir." His background wasn't purely creative though - a fact that would have a substantial impact on the course of his later life as a professional musician. "My people in New Orleans were business people," he says. "I grew up understanding how you do business and have fun. You can do both and be creative. It's not contradictory. Now, it's becoming more and more a reality. At that time, I think I was a little bit ahead of the game."

Howard wasn't always a saxophonist. His first instrument was the trumpet, but he found it difficult to master and packed it in. "I admire people like Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, and all the rest of them who play that instrument. I just couldn't deal. I think you have to be basically crazy to go into trumpet, because you've only got three valves anyway and there's a lot of blowing - it's a whole story. Talk about hard times. So I moved on to saxophone."
When he arrived in New York in the early 1960s, the free jazz scene was already in full creative flower. The revolution that had begun with Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman was slowly but surely becoming impossible to ignore. But rather than imitate other, better known players and thus doom himself to eternal second-tier status, or arrange quickie blowing sessions with the prevailing big names, he gathered a working band of similarly unknown and hungry player, and began gigging whenever he could get a spot. "Slug's Saloon wouldn't give me a week, they would only let me play on Sunday afternoons, and then both Sunday and Mondays, and gradually moving up the ranks like that," he says. "The other guys were a little bit older than me, like Pharoah and all those guys, so they got the big slots." Howard's quartet featured British trumpeter Ric Colbeck, bassist Scotty Holt and drummer Dave Grant - all virtual unknowns. "We were doing our own little thing," Howard says of that group. "Later, a lot of people that came out of my bands ended up playing with everybody else. But I brought them into the scene, which gave me my own identity."
Just as John Coltrane is credited with getting Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders signed to Impulse!, Ayler got Noah Howard his ESP deal. "Me and Albert Ayler were very good friends," Howard recalls. "And Albert was the star at ESP at that time... [he] was like the Sonny Rollins of this new label that was putting everybody out. So he said, 'Listen, call this guy and go see him.' Bernard [Stollman] was living on Riverside Drive in the upper 90s. Albert told me to send him a tape, so we recorded some stuff from a rehearsal. He put it on and sat there and listened and after about 60 seconds, he said 'So when do you want to record?' I said, 'Excuse me?' This was on a Saturday, and he said, 'Is Monday OK? Are you available on Monday at 10am to go in the studio?' So I said yes, and went out shaking. This guy had just offered me a recording contract! We had been rehearsing, the band was together, but it just hit me in the face because I didn't know it was coming down."

[...]

Howard was part of the great 1969 mass migration to France that engulfed Archie Shepp, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sunny Murray and dozens of others. "There was supposed to be a Paris jazz festival," Howard says, recalling the now legendary summer, when French security forces, still jumpy a yaer after the May 68 riots, and fearing that a festival of avant garde music might fan the flames of insurrection all over again, kicked it out of the city. "The authorities moved the thing to the Belgian/French border, to a little village called Amougies - a farm, really, like Woodstock. 30,000 people, I'll never forget that." This festival was the fanfare that began the great (if short) life of BYG Actuel Records, for which dozens of incredible albums by Shepp, Murray, The Art Ensemble, Alan Silva, Jacques Coursil, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Sonny Sharrock, Grachan Moncur III, Clifford Thornton and many others were recorded over a period of two years, but mostly in a series of marathon sessions in August 1969. [...]
So with all this high quality studio work going on, why didn't Howard record any albums for BYG? "The problem was," he says, "I negotiated with them that we'd come in, play the festival and do two record deals, one for me and one for Frank [Wright]. So they did the Frank thing first and they didn't pay him."
This doesn't mean Howard sat idle during the summer of 1969 - far from it. It just means that, in typical fashion, he chose not to move with the herd, preferring to stick close to the confederates and collaborators with whom he had arrived - Cleveland-born saxophonist Frank Wright, pianist Bobby Few and drummer Muhammad Ali, brother of Rashied. "Being away from home, [the other American expatriates] sort of bonded together," he recalls. "When they were in the studios, they all worked with people that they knew. Whereas I went off into a real strange thing, because when I got there, there was Kenny Clarke and Art Taylor, who had been longtime residents. They had been there almost ten years before I arrived. The first person I got together with was Art Taylor. I called him for a session, because we used to hang out together. So I said, 'Look, I got this session tomorrow morning. You wanna hit it? We'll go in, we'll rehearse for five hours, then we'll tell 'em to turn on the machines and we'll do it.' I wrote the music out, and we just did it. That was the Uhura thing that just came out. It's got Frank's name, but that's my session. I did two sessions, Uhura and Space Dimension. I wrote all the songs." Indeed the question of why Uhura Na Umoja, recently reissued by Universal, was released under Frank Wright's name, when Howard wrote all the music, is an interesting one. In any case, the facts of its creation provide some clues as to why it sounds the way it does. The stripped-down ensemble - Howard on alto sax, Wright on tenor, Few on piano and Art Taylor on drums, no bassist - turns each composition into a pummelling gospelised workout. The melodies are slow and delicate; that's where Howard's influence is most readily apparent. But when things actually get rolling, Uhura Na Umoja really is a Frank Wright record. It's unfettered, more concerned with power than poetry - Fire music at its most paradigmatic and breathtaking. Theres a passage near the end of "Aurora Borealis" when Few and Taylor drop almost entirely away, leaving Wright and Howard blowing long spirals of notes at each other, that's one of the mos beautiful in all of post-Coltrane free jazz. In fact, it's very reminiscent of similar Coltrane-Sanders exchanges on Meditations or various live recordings from 1966 and 1967.

[...]

In free jazz circles, The Black Ark is a legend, an album that simply must be heard to be ranked among the truly knowledgeable - and if you actually own one, you're a god amongst men. Out of print since its first pressing, its rarity burnishes its reputation, but once one actually hears it (the tracks are out there in Filesharingland, and two of them appear on Howard's self-released Eye of the Improviser compilation), the inescapable judgment is that it measures up to the hype. Each of the four tracks marries a hard bopper's love of bluesy hooks to raucous, gospelised free blowing and a hint of Asian melody. The group are on tremendous form: trumpeter Earl Cross, pianist Leslie Waldron, bassist Sirone, drummer Muhammad Ali, percussionist Jumma Santos (who had a very good year in 1969, working with Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix) and saxophonist Arthur Doyle making his professional debut.
Doyle's playing on The Black Ark is arguably the best of his career. As part of a unified ensemble, he's an accent rather than a dominant voice. He's been the same 'technique is for the weak' berserker since day one, but Howard's compositions limit his time in the spotlight - the pianist and even the rhythm player get as much solo space as he does. Furthermore, the spacious mix frequently places him off to the right, so he's sputtering in the corner rather than screaming in the listener's face. "Doyle was going in the direction of Frank [Wright], of Pharoah, of Trane, and he was a young guy," says Howard. "I said, well, fuck it, I'll put him inside my compositions and just let him express himself and do his thing." And it's precisely that containment, keeping him firmly within the limits of The Black Ark's four artfully constructed compositions, that makes it such a powerful debut. Doyle has always needed an editor; The Black Ark is one of the rare occasions where he had one.

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For a first share, going chronologically, here's a 1972 set with quite a band... hope you'll enjoy!

Noah Howard
Village Vanguard, NYC, NY (USA)
August 1972


Noah Howard - alto sax
Frank Lowe - tenor sax
Richard Dunbar - french horn
Robert Bruno - piano
Earl Freeman - bass
Art Lewis - drums, percussion
Mustapha Rahim - percussion*

1. unknown (27:28)
2. Greensleaves (trad) 19:30 [glitch/duplication at end? cuts out]

TT: 47:01

Sound: A-/B+
Source: FM

Friday, September 24, 2010

Muhal Richard Abrams - George Lewis - Roscoe Mitchell - Sant'Anna Arresi 2009

Here's a digi-fm capture of this Chicago all star trio - missing a short encore, but otherwise this is the entire concert. With best wishes to the fresh octogenarian Muhal Richard Abrams, who's playing great these days!














Muhal Richard Abrams / George Lewis / Roscoe Mitchell
Ai confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2009
Sant'Anna Arresi (Italy)
August 29, 2009


Muhal Richard Abrams - piano
George Lewis - trombone, electronics
Roscoe Mitchell - saxophones

1. (61:05)

Sound: A/A-
Source: Rai Radio Tre / 2010-02-27
Lineage: DVB-T Radio (MPEG Layer 2 / 192 kbs) > Rai Radio Tre > HD > Mp3Direct Cut > Mp2 192 kb/s

Freddie Hubbard - Comacchio 1984

So boisterous grandiloquent Freddie and his black a** have been dead for quite a while now... needless to say he is missed! But then he was missed already during the last years of his lifetime. Here's the longer of two circulating sources (not sure how sound compares) of an all star concert with a mighty fine band that comes as a nice addition to the lengthy tribute I did for him early last year.

Thanks to to "trane" for sharing this over on dime!














Freddie Hubbard All Stars 5tet
Comacchio (Italy), Piazzetta Trepponti
July 8, 1984


Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Joe Henderson - tenor sax
Michel Petrucciani - piano
Buster Williams - bass
Billy Hart - drums

CD1/57:11
1. Impressions (Coltrane) 17:59
2. Announcement by Freddie Hubbard (3:53)
3. Birdlike (Hubbard) 17:29
4. Little Sunflower (Hubbard) 17:49

CD2/56:29
1. Here's That Rainy Day (Burke-Van Heusen) > 'Round Midnight (Monk-Hanighen-Williams) 17:35
2. Regina (Petrucciani) > In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington-Kurtz-Mills) 8:18 [MP solo]
3. Red Clay (Hubbard) 20:56
4. Rhythm-A-Ning (Monk) 9:37

TT: 113:40

Sound: A-/B+
Lineage: AUD> ? > CDR in trade > EAC (secure)* > TLH > FLAC (checked for SBE)

:: ubu edits ::

deleted gaps
smoothened marks (glitches, rough cuts)
separated announcement from CD1#3
mark CD2#1/2: spliced together (8:26.5)/deleted duplication (the disc change was there, weird enough!)

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

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - Nancy 1977

Danilo Parra's film about Kalaparusha (posted ten days ago on the Guardian website) has created quite some stir on the web - and rightly so!

I'm at a loss of words about this... just go watch the film yourself. And as a little footnote, read on here (and watch the beautiful film-stills).

Heartbreaking indeed!

In 2003, Fred Jung has conducted a short interview, which can be found on AAJ.


Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre Quartet
Nancy (France), Jazzpulsations
October 11, 1977


Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - tenor sax
Ahmed Abdullah - trumpet
Brian Smith - bass
Charlie Persip - drums

1. Morning Prayer (19:18)


Sound: A-
Source/Lineage: FM - Copy from master - Maxell XLII 90 – Denon CDR 1000 –flac –dime