Barney & Irene

Two short extracts from rare albums that I've never seen - the India one is out there in the blogosphere, and if you ask politely, I may even have some live material... "Zodiac" seems to be among the very rarest of Barney Wilen albums though.

Barney Wilen - vinyl tracks

from "Jazz Meets India" (2:44)
Jazz Meets India : Barney Wilen (ts) Manfred Schoof (tp, cor) Irene Schweitzer (p) Uli Trepte (b) Mani Neumaier (d) Diwan Montihar (sitar,vo) Keshav Sathe (tabla) Kusum Thakur (tamboura)
Villingen, Germany, December 23, 1967, Saba/MPS SB-1514ST
1. unknown


from "Zodiac"
Barney Wilen (ts) Raymond Court (t) Carl Heinz Berger (p-1, vib-2) Jean Francois Jenny Clark (b) Jacques Thollot (d)
2. Cancer (B. Wilen) (2) (JT out) > Gemeaux (B. Wilen) (2)

NOTE:
Barney Wilen - Zodiac - Vogue, Paris, January 19 & 20, 1966,
Sehr seltene und gesuchte Platte des Saxophonisten Barney Wilen, der 1959 durch Miles Davis Musik zum Film "Fahrstuhl zum Schaffot" / "L´ascenseur du l´echafaud" / "Lift to the Scaffold" berühmt wurde. Diese 1966 eingespielten Aufnahmen mit Carl Heinz Berger, J.-F. Jenny Clark und Jacques Thollot erschienen nur auf dem französischen Label Vogue CLVLX 9130.


Source #1: France Musique "Le jazz probablement" / 2006-05-22

Source #2: France Musiques "Jazz à contre-courant" / 2006-06-04
[Special show titled "Hommage au saxofoniste Barney Wilen"]
Lineage: FM > minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Rosario Giuliani - Fribourg 2009

Here's the second contribution from Lewojazz - thanks again!

This recording features the great Italian alto saxophonist Rosario Giuliani. He's accompanied by fellow Italians Flavio Boltro on trumpet, the great Dado Moroni on piano (I once had a chance to hear him at a private party - great musician!), and the French rhythm section of Rémi Vignolo and Benjamin Henocq. A mighty fine band, playing modern mainstream, very "in the pocket" and with plenty of groove - check them out even if you're not familiar with any of the musicians!



Rosario Giuliani Quintet
Jazz Parade
Fribourg (Switzerlad)
July 8, 2009

Rosario Giuliani - saxophone
Flavio Boltro - trumpet
Dado Moroni - piano
Rémi Vignolo - bass
Benjamin Henocq - drums

01 - DJ -Yvan Ische 01:10
02 - Anything else 12:00
03 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:18
04 - This is the answer 13:16
05 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:12
06 - Bora bora 14:11
07 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:41
08 - A winter day 11:44
09 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:11
10 - Walkin' around 09:58
11 - Walkin' around + talk 03:41
12 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:32
13 - Interview - Yvan Ischer - Rosario Giuliani 05:23

TT: 73:17
TT (without DJ+ITW): 64:50

Broadcast: Espace 2 "JazzZ" / 2010-02-28 (link)
Source: dvb-s > Humax PVR8000 / DVR Studio > mp2 > mp3DirectCut 2.08 > mp2
MPEG 1.0 Layer-2; 48,000 Hz Stereo; 256 Kbps

Recorded and edited by Lewojazz

Lee Konitz & Martial Solal - Frankfurt 2008

More MP2 shows... here's one by two elderly masters - both born in 1927: Lee Konitz and Martial Solal have often worked together throughout several decades, after their first encounter in 1968. They do the usual set of standards and originals, but with two guys such as these, it will still be all surprises!



Lee Konitz & Martial Solal
Albert Mangelsdorff Memorial Concert
Frankfurt/Main (Germany), Alte Oper
September 6, 2008

Lee Konitz - alto sax
Martial Solal - piano

1. The Song Is You (7:33)
2. Subconscious Lee (8:16)
3. Body And Soul (8:59)
4. Solar (1:58)
5. Stella By Starlight (6:06)
6. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (6:11)

TT: 39:07

Sound: A
Lineage: DVB-C (256 kbps/ 48 khz) > Technotrend C-1501 DVB-C PCI card > harddisk > ProjectX.
Edits were made made with the mp3DirectCut software.

Michel Godard - Offenburg 2004

And one more for the lovers of the tuba - a very fine AUD capture of Michel Godard's band "Cousins Germains" with the saxophones of Wolfgang Puschnig (Austrian of course) and Christof Lauer, Herbert Joos on trumpet, the devilish looks and guitars of Marc Ducret, and drummer Wolfgang Reisinger. A mighty fine band, that also has a CD out.

Godard has done many interesting projects, as I mentioned in the previous post. Among the finest are his own Castel del Monte discs, released on Enja. Medieval touches can be heard in this set as well, thanks to Godard's use of the serpent, a very old predecessor of the tuba.

This came as a crappily tracked 2CD set, I shortened it a bit here and there, retracked the whole show, and not the music can be enjoyed in all it's greatness!
Thanks a lot to the original seeder on dime, and thanks even more for dedicating this set to me, back then!



Michel Godard - Cousins Germains
Festival "Jazz d'or"
Offenburg (DE), Reithalle im Kulturforum
November 13, 2004

Herbert Joos - trumpet, flugelhorn
Michel Godard - tuba, serpent
Christof Lauer - soprano & tenor saxophone
Wolfgang Puschnig - alto saxophone, flute
Marc Ducret - guitar
Wolfgang Reisinger - drums

1. unknown (12:41)
2. unknown (12:04)
3. unknown (Lauer) > Ann MG (12:16)
4. unknown (Joos) > Ann (15:27)
5. La chanson des vieux amants (Jacques Brel) > Ann/Band Intros MG (6:52)
6. unknown (Puschnig) 17:19
7. unknown (4:04)

TT: 79:47

Sound: A-/B+
Lineage: cdr in trade--eac--flac level 8 --dime..

This is for UBU.

Here's a fantastic performance by the Maestro Godard in such a great company!
Ducret as good as always....Lauer in very fine form..
A great aud/recording...A quality IMHO..

I thanks in advance for any help with the setlist or artwork ...
More Ducret.....more Godard "tuba-tuba" performances !!!

:: ubu edits ::
to make this shorter than 80:00 min:
- deleted 28 seconds of silence & gap at end of #1
- deleted 5 seconds of silence & gap at end of #2
- deleted 3 seconds of silence & gap at end of #3
- deleted 2 seconds of silence at beginning of #4
- deleted 3 seconds of silence & gap at end of #4
- moved Ann/Band Intros from beginning of #6 (which opened disc 2)
to end of #5, spliced applause (@ 5:51), deleted faded duplications
- deleted 2 second gap at end of #6
- deleted 4 seconds of silence at beginning of #7

Michel Godard & Dave Bargeron - Köln 2001

Tuba anyone? Two big horns for two big men... Dave Bargeron and Michel Godard are among the finest tuba players in today's jazz scene. Bargeron has been around for a while and has frequently turned up on the bass trombone chair of bigger bands, Godard has done all kinds of things, including a long stint in the fine band of oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil.

Here they are together, doing the flight of the bumble bee and other crazy stuff. An there's a squeezebox as well... but don't be scared, this is actually a very musical set, too! Kenwood Dennard keeps the beat funky in this all 'round fine show!

They also released a CD that can be found at amazon.com, for instance:



Godard Michel/Dave Bargeron - Tuba Tuba
Nachtmusik im WDR
Köln (DE), WDR Funkhaus, Klaus von Bismarck-Saal
April 7, 2001

Michel Godard - tuba
Dave Bargeron - tuba
Joe Barbato - accordion
Kenwood Dennard - drums

1. Stage Intro by Ulrich Kurth (1:45)
2. To Be Tuba Or Not To Be Tuba (Bargeron?) 5:35
3. Announcement DB (0:45)
4. Valencia (Bargeron) 7:24
5. Announcement MG (1:08)
6. Poligny Montrachet (Godard) 4:34
7. Announcement DB (0:31)
8. Soji (Bargeron) 9:06
9. Announcement MG (1:13)
10. Giant Steps (John Coltrane) 3:55
11. Announcement DB (0:42)
12. The Night Is Still Young (Bargeron) 4:40 [omit acc/d]
13. Announcement DB (0:3)
14. What I See In Your Eyes (Bargeron) 6:09 [some dropouts]
15. Announcement DB (1:14)
16. Bass Bees (Godard) 2:18 [skips]
17. Announcement by Ulrich Kurth (1:41)
18. Announcement DB (0:33)
19. Tuba Tuba (Bargeron) 4:55
20. Announcement DB (1:46)
21. Indiana / Donna Lee (Charlie Parker) 7:25

TT: 67:39

Sound: A
Source: WDR broadcast (Nachtmusik im WDR)
Lineage: cdr in trade--eac--flac level 6--dime.

:: ubu edits ::
#13 was (0:42) but full of skips - I kept the two ok segments that happily make some kind of sense, too...
#17 was (2:07) but full of skips - I kept what was ok, omitting some talk by Kurth after the announcement of MG

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

John Surman / Jean-Paul Celea / Daniel Humair - Nevers 2005

Here's a beautiful trio set by the great John Surman, accompanied by Jean-Paul Celea and Daniel Humair.

Humair is a favourite in this house, and he's not only been heard on this just posted Mariano/Haurand/Humair show, but also previously on a Yosuke Yamashita Trio set, with his own trio featuring Tony Malaby and Joachim Kühn, and with Tryptich, the collective trio of Celea, Humair and pianist François Couturier. And the good news is, all these shows can still be downloaded!

While John Surman usually is more of an impressionist and lyricist, in this setting here, he's blowing hard and I love it at least as much as his more impressionist playing for ECM etc.

This wonderful show needed quite some work to present the music with as little radio talk interrupting it as possible!



John Surman / Jean-Paul Celea / Daniel Humair 
Rencontres Internationales de Jazz de Nevers
Nevers (France)
November 11, 2005

John Surman - baritone & soprano sax, flute
Jean-Paul Celea - bass
Daniel Humair - drums

1. No Finesse (Surman) 19:21
2. Canticle (Surman) 8:31
3. VladaVe (Humair) 13:14 [a few seconds missing at beginning]
4. Round Trip (Ornette Coleman) 9:50 [a few seconds missing at beginning]
5. Falling (Surman) 7:05 [a few seconds missing at beginning]
6. Westminster (Humair) 8:43
7. Revised Edition (Surman) 5:44
8. Sweet Lady (Celea) 6:24

TT: 78:35

Sound: A
Lineage: FM > WAV (Wavelab) > FLAC (frontend level 8)
Source: France Musique "Jazz Club" / 2005-11-11
Seeder: Cosmikd


:: ubu edits ::

deleted as much fm talk as possible
added fade-outs and fade-ins

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

Charlie Mariano / Ali Haurand / Daniel Humair - Genève 1999

Charlie Mariano was one of the sad losses of the past year. He seemed to go on forever though, and I'm grateful for all the music he left us! Among his finest later efforts was a great Enja released titled "Deep in a Dream" - recommended!

Recently, Enja reissued Eberhard Weber's Colours albums, with Charlie, Rainer Brüninghaus, and drummers John Marshall and Jon Christensen (one at the time).

To read more, here are some links:
Guardian obituary
Boston Globe obituary
Charlie Mariano on AAJ

I shared a 2002 concert with his electric backing band and some guests from all over the world last year, and I have two more shows ready. Here's the first of them, a stellar trio with one of my favourite drummers, Daniel Humair, and Ali Haurand on bass. It comes from a dime download (thanks to jazzrita who shared it there!), and it was fine enough for me to edit it in order to get rid of all the disturbing radio chatter between the songs.



Charlie Mariano / Ali Haurand / Daniel Humair
Festival de l'AMR 1999
Geneve (Switzerland), Alhambra
March 13, 1999

Charlie Mariano - alto sax
Ali Haurand - bass
Daniel Humair - drums

1. Round Trip (Ornette Coleman) 7:00
2. Everything Happens To Me (9:52)
3. Yagapriya (Charlie Mariano) 12:01
4. Plum Island (Charlie Mariano) 11:04
5. Yehudi Menuhin (Charlie Mariano) 6:35
6. No More Chains (Ali Haurand) 6:.36 [inc]

TT: 53:09

Sound: A
Lineage: RSR Espace2 (MPEG1 Layer 2 / 256 kbps, 48kH) > received with satellite > tracked with wavelab > flac > dime

UPLOADED BY JAZZRITA 09-08-04

:: ubu edits ::

removed fm announcements at end of #1, #3 and #4
added fade-ins/fade-outs
fixed mark #5/6

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

Michel Petrucciani Solo - Berlin 1995

Here's a special offering - a 1995 solo concert by Michel Petrucciani, shared originally on dime by "duckberry", however it was banned for having lossy lineage, and he was forced to do a new transfer of an aging tape... here we have what is the better-sounding version - never mind the minidisc/attrac file format in the lineage!

This comes with duckberry's blessings - thanks a lot!

For those who prefer the "pure" lineage with a bit lesser sound quality, go here.



Michel Petrucciani - Solo
Berlin (Germany), Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie
October 25, 1995

Michel Petrucciani - piano

CD1/45:54
1. Medley of my Favorite Songs (45:54):
Maiden Voyage > My Funny Valentine > In A Sentimental Mood >
Lush Life > In A Sentimental Mood > ? > Autumn Leaves > ? >
Take The "A" Train

CD2/46:49
1. Romantic But Not Blue (14:50)
2. Looking Up > 'Round Midnight (8:03)
3. Caravan (8:53)
4. Love Letter (8:50)
5. These Foolish Things (6:10)

TT: 92:44 - complete concert

Sound: A
Lineage: FM -> Tape -> MD -> HD -> dime

Editing: CD Wave Editor
Dehissing: MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 15 deluxe
Fade in/out: WaveLab
Rising of Level (200%) of Track #3: WaveLab
Wav to Flac (Level 8): Easy CD-DA Extractor

This concert is one of my treasures. I never saw it anywhere, so I thought it to be worth the effort. Whith only a cable as antenna and my old Denon tuner (Nakamichi or Akai tape deck) I captured it in my ground floor student room. I remember how glad I was that Michel's 1st set perfectly fitted an side A of the tape. Luckily the clapping was long enough to turn the cassette around.
About 10 years ago I copied some of my tape recordings to minidisc. This version seems to be be best I have. Only track #3 is from a fresh transfer from the old tape, because apparently ten years ago I forgot to copy it.
If there should be an audio freak out ther in cyber space who might create a superior version: I recently copied the original tape via new and pretty good soundcard (Asus Xonar D") in a 24bit version to pc. No problem to send a copy.
Please feel free to cintribute to the setlist or to create some artwork.
Do not sell or convert to lossy format.

:: ubu note ::

duckberry seeded this one dime, it was banned as he mentioned still having the original tape.
He did a new transfer with the following comment:

"About 10 years ago I copied some of my tape recordings to minidisc. Yesterday I tried to ul the minidisc version, because in my ears it sounds better then the 14 years old tape. But that torrent was banned, because in theory a fresh transfer from the master tape should be better than the one with the lossy minidisc (ATRAC) step. But the (lossy) minidisc version has come much better through the last decade than the tape ..."

and he kindly allowed me to share the lossy lineage but better sound version over here!

Paolo Fresu / Richard Galliano / Jan Lundgren - La Chaux-de-Fonds 2005

These are bare bones posts, sorry! I'm struggling to share all that's in my rapidshare account before their policy change kicks in!

Thanks to jazzrita for sharing this on dime, and even more so for dedicating this to me!



Paolo Fresu - Richard Galliano - Jan Lundgren
Gypsy Festival 2005
La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH), L'Heure Bleue
November 5, 2005

Paolo Fresu - trumpet
Richard Galliano - accordion
Jan Lundgren - piano

1. Que reste-t-il de nos amours (Charles Trenet) 7:00
2. Principessa (Richard Galliano) 8:42
3. Mare Nostrum (Jan Lundgren) 6:34
4. Vårvindar friska (Swedish trad., arr. Lundgren) 6:03 [omit Galliano]
5. Libertango (Astor Piazolla) 5:02 [Galliano solo]
6. Liberty Waltz (Richard Galliano) 4:31 [omit Fresu]
7. Years Ahead (Jan Lundgren) 7:42
8. Valse di ritorno (Paolo Fresu) 7:27
9. Love Land (Jan Lundgren) 9:05
10. Fellini (Paolo Fresu) 8:11 [omit Galliano, inc]

TT: 70:23

Sound: A/A-
Source: RSR 2 "JazzZ" (host: Yvan Ischer)
Lineage: fm > cd on trade > flac > dime

THANKS UBU FOR THE LOTS OF INTERESTING SWISS CONCERT SEEDS!!


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omitted fm intro
deleted fm talk at end of all titles
added fade-outs at end of all titles
added fade-ins at beginning of all titles
fixed a couple of marks

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

Soft Bounds - Paris 2004

Here's the final Hugh Hopper post - find the other four here.

This particular band features a pair of talented French musicians along with old buddy Elton Dean. Both Sophia Domancich and Simon Goubert were subject of an earlier post, very different in style - a 2008 show of the trio D.A.G. (with Jean-Jacques Avenel) can be found here.

Now back to Hopper... this is a fairly good and very listenable audience recording from the Sunset in Paris. If you prefer, burn it to three discs in order not to interrupt the continuing flow of the music in Set 2.



Soft Bounds
Paris (FR), Sunset
November 26, 2004

Elton Dean - saxello & alto sax
Sophia Domancich - piano & fender rhodes
Hugh Hopper - bass
Simon Goubert - drums

CD1/62:19

Set 1 (47:18)
1. The Day Before (Sophia Domancich) 15:35
2. Spanish Knee (Hugh Hopper) 6:34
3. Kings and Queens (Hugh Hopper) 11:38
4. Le retour 'Emmanuel Philibert (Simon Goubert) 13:30

Set 2 (51:02)
5. Introduction (0:28)
6. Slightly All the Time (Mike Ratledge) 7:12 >
7. drum solo (7:21)

CD2/70:24

1. Gimlet Abides (Elton Dean) 9:05 >
2. First in the Wagon (Elton Dean) 14:44
3. Grey Day Blues (Elton Dean) 12:08

Set 3 (34:22)
4. One Two One Two (Hugh Hopper) 14:49
5. La part des anges (Sophia Domancich) 19:33

TT: 132:43

Sound: A-/B+
Source: audience recording
Lineage unknown

Note: many tunes are followed by short announcements

Sophie Alour - Paris 2005

Here's a mighty fine show by French tenor sax player Sophie Alour. I've just shared this on dime, too. She's one of several mighty fine sax playing women to come out of France recently. You can check out alto player Géraldine Laurent with the band of Aldo Romano on this earlier post.

Alour is supported by a fine band including guest Stéphane Belmondo on disc two. Her duet on "Black Narcissus", accompanied only by the double bass of young Sylvain Romano, is excellent (and would make perfect blindfold material)!

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Sophie Alour
Paris (France), Sunside
November 4, 2005

Sophie Alour - tenor sax
Guillaume Naud - piano, electric piano
Hugo Lippi - guitar
Sylvain Romano - bass
David Grébil - drums
guest: Stéphane Belmondo - trumpet (Sets 2 & 3)


CD1/37:32

Set1
1. Septembre (Alour) 9:41
2. I Loves You Porgy (Gerswhin) 11:50
3. Dédale (10:49) [inc]

4. FM intro & interview (5:11)


CD2/71:23

Set2
1. At First Sight (Alour) 9:47 [inc]
2. Black Narcissus (Joe Henderson) 4:13 [ts/b duo - inc]
3. Announcement by Sophie Alour (0:23)
4. Le Samourai (Alour) 15:10
5. You've Changed (11:12)
6. Band Intros by Sophie Alour > Almost Paradise (14:54)

Set3
1. Fanny (Alour) 10:32
2. Announcement by Sophie Alour (0:07)
3. Tell Me a Bedtime Story (Herbie Hancock) 5:00 [inc]

TT: 108:55

Sound: A- (mono, a little bit of hiss)
Source: France Musiques (Jazz Club) / 2005-11-04
Lineage: FM > minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded, transferred & shared by ubu


Notes:

Set 1 was partially broadcast
- after the interview and before the beginning of Set 2:
"Dedale" only misses the final seconds
- in the break between Sets 2 and 3
"Septembre" (first track of set)
"Porgy" (third track of set)
I don't know if "Dédale" happens to have been the second track of the set or performed later on

Set 2 was broadcast live in its entirety
"At First Sight" misses a few bars of the piano intro
"Black Narcissus" misses only a couple of seconds of the piano intro
two bits of the "Announcement" are missing
"Le Samourai" is missing a couple of seconds of the bass intro
"You've Changed" has a very short bit (half a second) of FM voiceover at the beginning
"Outro/Almost Paradise" has an FM voiceover for the first few seconds

Set 3 was broadcast live but cut off as the broadcast time ended
a bit of the "Announcement" is missing
"Tell Me a Bedtime Story" has an FM voiceover during the first two seconds

As a filler in the break between Sets 2 and 3, they played a tune from Robert Glasper's then new disc...

Domancich-Avenel-Goubert - Paris 2008

Before getting to work on the shows from my dime birthday party, there are a few things I uploaded to RS a while back but never came around sharing so far.

First of these is a show by the fine D.A.G. trio:
D is Sophia Domancich, who played with Bernard Lubat, Steve Lacy, Jean-Louis Chautemps, musicians Canterbury scene like Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, and Pip Pyle, while also leading her own trio, featuring among others Paul Rogers and Tony Levin, and later Claude Tchamitchian and Simon Goubert. Domancich also held the piano chair in the Orchestre National de Jazz under Didier Levallet.
A is Jean-Jacques Avenel, the great bass player who spent many years with Steve Lacy's bands (from 1981 up to the end).
G is Simon Goubert, who has worked with far too many musicians to list them here, let's just mention Mal Waldron, René Urtreger, Joachim Kühn, Siegfried Kessler, Lee Konitz, Steve Grossman, James Carter, John Hicks, Martial Solal, and Christian Vander's "Magma".
Both Domancich and Goubert are part of the group "Soft Bounds", with Hugh Hopper and Simon Picard.
Goubert and Domancich regularly appear as a duo, for this radio session as well as a CD (2006) they added Jean-Jacques Avenel to the mix.

This show is from 2008, there's also a 2CD "Jazz Club" from 2006 as well as a "Jazz Club" by Soft Bounds (from 2004), in case there's demand - but both of them I didn't edit, I think, so it would be some work...

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D.A.G. - Domancich-Avenel-Goubert
Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Montpellier (France), Amphithéâtre d'O
July 25, 2008

Sophia Domancich - piano
Jean-Jacques Avenel - bass
Simon Goubert - drums

1. Improvisation (9:40) >
2. Pour Vous (Goubert) 13:04
3. Pourquoi pas? (Goubert) 18:30

TT: 41:15

Sound: A
Lineage: FM > WAV (Wavelab) > FLAC (frontend level 8)
Source: France Musique "Jazz sur le vif" / 2008-09-02

http://www.sefronia.com/album/DAG.html

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omitted fm intro/outro
moved mark 1/2 +0.15sec
deleted fm talk at end of #2
added fade-out at end of #2 and #3

Aldo Romano - Porquerolles 2008

Continuing the great drummers theme... check here, as well as these more recent posts featuring Max Roach, Joe Morello, Art Blakey, Tony Williams (both with Hubbard), Daniel Humair, Joe Chambers, Tony Williams again (with VSOP III), and Louis Moholo (with Keith Tippett & the MinAfric Orchestra)
The Freddie Hubbard shows also include Lenny White, Billy Cobham, Roy Haynes, and Louis Hayes, among others. Plenty of great drums, that was quite usual with Freddie!

Now here we have Aldo Romano, another of my favourite drummers, and next to Humair one of the main forces of modern jazz in France, or rather Europe more generally. Romano has played with so many musicians, it's impossible to even think of listing them all... just let me mention Don Cherry (some of the live recordings from the sixties are now available on ESP Disk), Keith Jarrett, Steve Lacy, Rolf & Joachim Kühn, Massimo Urbani, Michel Petrucciani, Joe Lovano, Philippe Catherine, Robin Kenyatta, Bill Dixon, François Jeanneau, and of course the great Romano-Sclavis-Texier trio.

In 2004, he won the renowned JazzPar price.

Here, Romano is leading his latest band (to be heard on the CAMJazz release "Just Jazz") with Mauro Negri on clarinet, long-standing buddy Henri Texier on bass, and the terrific alto player Géraldine Laurent - check out her Time Out Trio if you have a chance, she's really special!

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Aldo Romano Quartet
Jazz à Porquerolles
Porquerolles (France), Fort Sainte-Agathe
July 8, 2008

Géraldine Laurent - alto sax
Mauro Negri - clarinet
Henri Texier - bass
Aldo Romano - drums

1. Spring Tide (7:04)
2. Cité Soleil (9:44)
3. Chick Webb (3:57)
4. Handle with Care (8:26)
5. Black and Blue (Fats Waller) 8:07
6. Libero!! (6:10)
7. Lontanaza (7:05)
8. unknown (1:01)

All titles by Aldo Romano except track 6

TT: 51:39

Sound: A
Lineage: FM > WAV (Wavelab) > FLAC (frontend level 8)
Source: Jazz été, France Musique, 12 july 2008
Introduction by Xavier Prévost
Cosmikd

ubu edits:
omitted FM intro and outro
deleted FM talk at end of #1,3,5,6, added fade-out at end of #8

Daniel Humair - Strasbourg 2008

Taking a break from the Hubbard shows and returning for a moment to the topic of great drummers featured here as band leaders - check this post for more: Elvin Jones - Boston 1973.

There was a request for some more Daniel Humair, who was featured here before in a collective trio, Tryptich (with Jean-Paul Celea and François Couturier), and will be featured in another collective trio with Joachim Kühn and Miroslav Vitous.

Humair, born 1938 in Geneva, Switzerland, went to Paris early on and there quickly became part of the jazz scene, playing with many of the greats both from Europe, as well as visiting musicians. He played with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, with Don Byas, Lucky Thompson, Roland Kirk, Kenny Dorham, Bud Powell, Oscar Pettiford, Chet Baker, Eric Dolphy, Barney Wilen, Eddy Louiss, Jean-Luc Ponty, Stéphane Grappelli, Jim Hall, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Anthony Braxton, Henri Texier, Michel Portal, Dave Liebman, and many, many others.

Starting 1960, he recorded several albums with René Urtreger and Pierre Michelot, their trio was called HUM. He was a member of Martial Solal's great trio in the sixties, and in the late sixties he also was part of Phil Woods' European Rhythm Machine, and later on he was part of a great trio with Joachim Kühn (a frequent collaborator to these days) and the much missed Jean-François Jenny Clark.

In recent years, he's led various bands, among them Baby Boom (with saxophonists Matthieu Donarier and Christophe Monniot, Manu Codjia on guitar and bassist Sébastien Boisseau), Liberté Surveillée (with Ellery Eskelin on tenor, Marc Ducret on guitar and Bruno Chevillon, bass), and has performed with Bobo Stenson (in trio with Jean-Paul Celea) and Manu Codjia (in trio with François Moutin).

A series of fine releases on the now defunct Sketch label document some of these recent activities (Baby Boom, the band with Eskelin, HUM in a fine 3CD set, spanning 1960 to the late 90s, as well as another release with Marvin Stamm on trumpet, "Ear Mix").
Recent discs include "Full Contact" (with the trio featured here), "Tryptich" (see my previous post!), and "Trio Live" with Celea and Jean-Philippe Murien, as well as "Baby Boom II" (with the same line-up as on the Sketch album), "Songlines" (with the trio Codjia/Moutin/Humair), "Air Libre" (with Muvien, Celea and Louis Sclavis). You can find all of these recent releases and some more on abeillemusique.com

Besides being an excellent jazz drummer, Humair has also pursued a career as painter, with over 150 exhibitions, starting in 1965.

In October of the past year, the fine French "Jazz Magazine" did a dossier on Humair, you can check out some of it via Humair's website.

Photo credits: above: Karlheinz Klüter (website), below: Yves Dorrison



Daniel Humair Trio
Festival Jazzdor
Strasbourg (France), Maillon-Wacken
November 7, 2008

Tony Malaby - tenor sax
Joachim Kühn - piano
Daniel Humair - drums

1. Jim Dine (Humair) 21:01
2. Full Contact (Humair) 9:37
3. Ghislène (Humair-Kühn) 19:41
4. Salinas (Kühn) 13:17

TT: 63:37

Sound: A
Lineage: FM > WAV (Wavelab) > FLAC (frontend level 8)
Source: France Musique, "Jazz sur le Vif" / 2008-12-02
Introduction by Xavier Prévost (deleted!)
Seeder: Cosmikd

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

:: ubu edits ::
deleted fm announcements at end of #1-3
added fade-outs at end of #1,2,4
added fade-ins at beginning of #1,3
a splice remains audible at 19:28 of #3

Martial Solal - Paris 2001 (fm > flac)

Here's a great solo show by one of my absolute favourites, pianist Martial Solal.

Solal has recorded many albums, penned some most memorable film scores (Godard's "A bout de souffle" to name just one), and is still actively performing at the tender age of 81! Here's to him, for some more healthy years of great musicianship! Merci, Martial!


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Martial Solal
Paris (France), Maison de la Radio, Studio Olivier Messiaen de la
December 27, 2001

Martial Solal - piano

1. Zag Zig (Martial Solal) 4:45
2. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Jimmy McHugh) 3:33
3. Sophisticated Lady (+ Prelude to a Kiss) (Duke Ellington) 5:25
4. Tea for Two (Youmans-Caesar) 3:48
5. Announcement MS (1:32)
6. "Bridge"-Medley (3:46):
Body and Soul > In a Sentimental Mood > Invitation
> Caravan > Sophisticated Lady > Darn That Dream
7. Announcement MS (0:39)
8. Easy to Love (Cole Porter) > Summertime (George Gershwin) 5:45
9. Softly As In a Morning Sunrise (Romberg-Hammerstein) 3:59
10. Blue Moon (Rodgers-Hart) 3:34
11. Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eaton) 5:35
12. Frère Jacques (trad.) 2:59
13. What Is This Thing Called Love (Cole Porter) 9:28
14. Take the "A"-Train (Billy Strayhorn) 3:24

TT: 58:20

Sound: A/A-
Source: France Musique "Jazz sur le vif"
Lineage: FM > ? > FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Note: I downloaded this somewhere* in an untracked version (just 2 tracks)

::ubu's edits::
separated tracks
deleted fm talk during applause after #3, #8, #11, #13

*) I think from the comments on CIA, but I'm not sure - if the uploader happens to see this, many, many thanks for sharing!

Django Reinhardt All Star Sessions (1935-38)

Here's a little compilation - the best of Reinhardt's dates with American guests, featuring him with luminaries such as Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Dicky Wells, and Bill Coleman, and with some of the pre-eminent French jazzmen of the day like Alix Combelle and André Ekyan. Stéphane Grappelli, Django's Hot Club partner, is on piano on some of these sessions.

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Django Reinhardt & His American Friends
A Selection of All Star Sessions, 1935-38

Django Reinhardt (g)

with:

#1-4: Coleman Hawkins & Michel Warlop Orchestra:
Arthur Briggs, Noël Chiboust, Pierre Allier (t), Guy Paquinet (tb), André Ekyan, Charles Lisée (as,cl), Alix Combelle (ts,cl), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Stéphane Grappelli (p), Eugène d'Hellemmens (b), Maurice Chaillou (d)
Paris, March 2, 1935

#5-8: Coleman Hawkins & His All-Star "Jam" Band:
Benny Carter (as,t), André Ekyan (as), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Alix Combelle (ts,cl), Stéphane Grappelli (p), Eugène d'Hellemmens (b), Tommy Benford (d)
Paris, April 28, 1937

#9-11: Benny Carter & His Orchestra:
Benny Carter (as,t,arr), Fletcher Allan (as), Alix Combelle (ts), Bertie King (ts,cl), York de Souza (p), Len Harrison (b), Robert Montmarché (d)
Paris, March 7, 1938

#12-17: Dicky Wells & His Orchestra:
Bill Dillard, Bill Coleman, Shad Collins (t), Dicky Wells (tb), Richard Fullbright (b), Bill Beason (d)
note: omit Dillard and Collins on #15-17
Paris, July 7, 1938

CD rip @ 320 kbs

Danke & Hut ab! Albert Mangelsdorff (1928-2005)

It's been a bit more than three years now that German trombone great Albert Mangelsdorff died. Here's a re-broadcast from German radio (I grabbed it from dime - thanks a lot to the seeder!), featuring Mangelsdorff in duo with French sax player Jean-Rémy Guédon.

Albert Mangelsdorff & Jean-Rémy Guédon - 'Rendezvous' - Duo Concert
Saarbrücken (Germany), Johanneskirche
April 20, 1997 (MP2 @ 256)

Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Jean-Rémy Guédon - tenor sax

1. Spoken intro Albert Mangelsdorff (1:41)
2. Exercise for Improvisers (Mangelsdorff) 17:15
3. Ann AM (0:11)
4. Paredi (Guédon) > Ann AM (9:53)
5. Free Improvisation No. 1 > Ann AM (10:06)
6. Free Improvisation No. 2 (12:26)
7. Free Improvisation No. 3 > Ann AM (8:56)
8. Kartell (Guédon) > Ann AM (12:58)
9. Danke, Hut ab! (Mangelsdorff) 15:25
10. Ann AM (1:18)
11. Free Improvisation No. 4 (9:20)
12. unknown (4:01) [inc]

TT: 103:30

Sound: A
Source: DVB-S@256, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2

Jeanne Lee, Mal Waldron and ONJ - Vienne 2000 (FM/FLAC)

Here's a follow-up to my short post featuring Jeanne Lee (wiki) in duo with Ran Blake. This time, she's the headliner - together with another outstanding pianist, Mal Waldron (wiki) - with that French institution, the Orchestre National de Jazz, headed at that time by Didier Levallet (wiki).

Again, this is a show I got from dime, quite a while ago, and edited it as good as I could. It was messy how it was presented there, and sound is much more like a multi-generational 80s radio broadcast than a 2000 FM show, but the music is glorious. But still, I assume this is out in trading circles in better-sounding versions - if you have it or know someone who has this in better sound, please do share it with me! Also if you can identify any of the unknown to me songs, please post in the comments!

Here is Lee singing, just three months before her untimely death from cancer in October 2000.

Jeanne Lee in Berlin 1971
(photography by Karlheinz Klüter, check out his great site!)

Mal Waldon & Jeanne Lee
with Orchestre National de Jazz (dir. Didier Levallet)
Vienne (FR), Jazz à Vienne
July 11, 2000

Mal Waldron - piano
Jeanne Lee - vocals
Harry Beckett, Michel Feugère, Nicolas Folmer - trumpet, flugelhorn
Phil Abraham, Yves Robert - trombone
Lionel Surin - french horn
Chris Biscoe, Frédéric Couderc - reeds
Jean-Rémi Guédon - tenor sax
Richard Foy - baritone sax, bass clarinet
Serge Lazarevitch - guitar
Didier Levallet - bass
François Laizeau, Ramon Lopez - drums

1. Caravan (8:45) [JL-MW duo]
2. All Alone (6:09)
3. unknown (15:29)
4. Day Dream (7:01)
5. Ann (DL?) (0:12)
6. Warm Canto (6:11)
7. Rockin' in Rhythm > Band Intros DL (7:50)
8. When Lights Are Low (3:55) [cuts in]

TT: 56:36

Sound: A-/B+ (very hissy)
Source: France Inter
No lineage info
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > CoolEditPro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Tryptic (Humair/Celea/Couturier) - Paris 2008 (FM/FLAC)

Another edited dime seed here, this time by a great European piano trio: drummer Daniel Humair, longtime important member of the French jazz scene (he celebrated his 70th birthday a couple of weeks ago, on May 23), pianist François Couturier (he's probably best known for his collaborations with oud player Anour Brahem), and bassist Jean-Paul Celea. This is lyrical european chamber jazz of the highest order - check it out, open up your minds and ears and give a chance to something you've never heard yet!

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Tryptic
Paris (France), Maison de la Radio France, Studio Charles Trenet
May 31, 2008

François Couturier - piano
Jean-Paul Celea - bass
Daniel Humair - drums

1. Adagietto of Symphony N.5 (Gustave Mahler) 13:22
2. The Rape of Lucretia (Benjamin Britten) 5:45
3. Good Mood (Joachim Kühn) 10:00
4. Inki (Harald Pepl) 8:21
5. Allegretto of Symphony N.7 (Ludwig Van Beethoven) 4:08
6. Dramadrôme (Daniel Humair) 5:29
7. Improvisation (5:47)

TT: 52:57

Sound: A
Lineage: FM > WAV (Wavelab) > FLAC (frontend level 8)
Source: Jazz sur le Vif, France Musique, 9 june 2008
Talk by Xavier Prévost

Anne Paceo / Rick Margitza / Rhoda Scott - Paris 2008 (FM/FLAC)

I keep losing whatever I type - it really sucks. This is the third attempt to post this. Of course all the links and stuff is gone each time. And I keep getting too big spaces between paragraphs and other such things. Is blogger out with a beta version or what?

Anyway, back to the music. This is another seed departing from much of what I mostly shared so far, including hammond organ (remember my Dr Lonnie Smith post from earlier this year), played no less by the great Rhoda Scott. On tenor is Rick Margitza, who got an early start in the 80s with one of Miles Davis' last bands, then went on to produce a string of great albums under his own name, while also appearing with Maria Schneider's orchestra and more recently with the outfit Mourtin Reunion led by the French Moutin brothers. Leader of this trio is young French drummer Anne Paceo who got a carte blanche to put together a band of her choice.

On a sad note, this show - taken from dime and edited by yours truly - represents one of the last "Jazz Club" shows from France Musique. Claude Carrière and Jean Delmas have done this show since 1982 and it featured weekly two hour live shows, broadcast from clubs in Paris, but occasionally also from other places in France or neighbouring countries. It's very sad that they decided to end their programme (I don't know the reasons, I just heard the news).

Anne Paceo / Rick Margitza / Rhoda Scott
Paris (France), Duc des Lombards
May 29, 2008

Rick Margitza - tenor sax
Rhoda Scott - organ
Anne Paceo - drums

CD1/Set1/47:37
1. Jitterbug Waltz (Fats Waller, arr. Margitza) 13:52
2. Just in Time > Ann AP (12:04)
3. Nizza (Rhoda Scott) 7:45
4. Straight No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) 13:53

CD2/Set2/63:53
1. Street of Thieves (RicK Margitza) > Ann AP (10:22)
2. It Could Happen to You (Burke/Van Heusen) 10:18
3. A Child Is Born (Thad Jones) > Ann AP (8:18)
4. Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk) 9:37
5. Tom Thumb (Wayne Shorter) 11:18
6. Cry Me a River (Arthur Hamilton) 10:58
7. unknown (3:00) [inc]

TT: 111:30

Sound: A
Source: France Musique "Jazz Club" / 2008-06-20
Lineage: FM > WAV (Wavelab) > FLAC (frontend level 8)
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Note: deleted all fm talk, added fades, retained musician announcements as far as possible