Bley/Peacock/Motian - Trevano 1999 - now on dime

For once again I share something over on dime - a partial re-seed, with two more tunes added from my own "vault":
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=194242

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This is an extended version of unclewolfi's seed here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=193547

#1-7 are unchanged, so you can copy them from the previous folder into the new folder created by this torrent. Just start this torrent, wait till it picks up, check the respective folder, overwrite #1-7 with the files from wolfi's torrent's folder, and you'll only need to grab #8-9!

#8-9 come from the same source I seeded previously (see the info jazzrita posted in the comments to wolfi's seed)

No art included, just in case - the setlist was screwed up on wolfi's seed anyway - maybe you want to create new art adapting your previous one, wolfi?

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Paul Bley - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian
Trevano (Switzerland), Aula, Technische Hochschule
March 18, 1999

Paul Bley - piano
Gary Peacock - bass
Paul Motian - drums

1. Hackesack (Thelonious Monk) 6:49
2. Set Upet (Gary Peacock) 5:34
3. Mambo Jambo (Paul Motian) 11:21
4. Ostinato (Paul Bley) 9:58 [p-solo]
5. Dialogue (comp. unknown) 6:12
6. When Will the Blues Leave (Ornette Coleman) 5:27
7. I Loves You Porgy (George Gershwin) 4:48
8. Moor (Gary Peacock) 6:55
9. New Sphere (comp. unknown) 5:36

TT: 62:45

Sound: A (1-7), A/A- (8-9)

#1-7:
Source: dime seed by unclewolfi (files unchanged) (RSI 2 "Jazz Concerto" / 2008-04-20)
Lineage: astra sat > nexus-s > hdd > nero wave editor > flac
(astra sat uses MPEG1 Layer 2/256 kbps)

#8-9:
Source: DRS 3 broadcast (Jazz Special) / prob. 1999
Lineage: FM > Tape > Minidisc > analogue transfer to hd (GoldWave) > CDR > FLAC (Level 6)


Notes:

Wolfi's seed (#1-7) had the titles #2/#3 and #5/#6 reversed

I did NOT change anything about #1-7 though, in order to make this seed faster and allow people to pick up with #1-7 from Wolfi's seed. #8/9 are tagged fully and include the corrected setlist, too (in the comments field).

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Unerhört 2007 - a little series of seeds over on dime

I attended and taped two nights of last year's Unerhört Festival here in Zurich. As usual, it was quite good. The first night I taped took place at the Rote Fabrik, the second at Moods, a local jazz club (THE local jazz club, I guess).

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Unerhört 2007 - Zürich (Switzerland), Rote Fabrik - November 24, 2007


Yves Reichmuth "Fractal"

Lucien Dubuis - bass clarinet
Yves Reichmuth - guitar, composer
Jonas Tauber - bass
Lionel Friedli - drums

1. Stage Intro (1:26)
2. Angles (18:33)
3. Windows (18:55)
4. unidentified (15:16)
5. La connaissance de l'invisible chemain (1:53) [encore]

TT: 56:04

Sound: A-/B+
Source: audience recording, front/centre
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > minidisc > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded, transferred & shared by ubu

Notes:
I had to delete a few short gaps, hiccups remain - more gaps may be still in there.
This ended up more or less mono although it was recorded in stereo modus.

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Lucas Niggli "Zoom"

Nils Wogram - trombone
Philip Schaufelberger - guitar
Lucas Niggli - drums

1. (10:08)
2. (9:02)
3. (11:33)
4. (25:15) [possibly this track consists of several tunes performed in sequence]

TT: 55:59

Sound: A- (very modest stereo #1-3 / mono #4)
Source: audience recording, front/centre
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > minidisc > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded, transferred & shared by ubu

Notes:
This ended up more or less mono although it was recorded in stereo modus.
At the end of #3 the left channel dropped out (I had to re-adjust the microphone), so I duplicated the right channel, making #4 an actual mono recording

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Trio 3 (Lake-Workman-Cyrille) feat. Irene Schweizer

Oliver Lake - alto sax
Irene Schweizer - piano
Reggie Workman - bass
Andrew Cyrille - drums

1. (9:16) [quartet]
2. (7:28) [quartet]
3. (5:26) [piano/bass]
4. (6:28) [quartet]
5. (7:46) [quartet]
6. (4:55) [piano/drums]
7. (6:54) [trio]
8. (5:01) [piano/alto sax]
9. (6:54) [trio]
10. (5:52) [quartet - encore]

TT: 66:05

Sound: A- (mono)
Source: audience recording, front/centre
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > minidisc > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded, transferred & shared by ubu

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The highlight of that night of course was the pairing of Irene Schweizer with the fine trio of Lake/Workman/Cyrille. It took them a while to find common ground, but after the first of three marvellous duos, they were ready to play, continuing a marvellous set!

The second night again featured Workman and Lake:

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Unerhört 2007 - Zürich (Switzerland), Moods - November 25, 2007


Oliver Lake / Christian Weber / Dieter Ulrich

Oliver Lake - alto sax
Christian Weber - bass
Dieter Ulrich - drums

1. (7:43)
2. (6:46)
3. Valley Sketch (6:34)
4. (8:30)
5. (10:56)
6. (7:53)
7. (4:26)

TT: 52:49

Sound: A-
Source: audience recording / left from stage (turned out more or less mono)
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > minidisc > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded, transferred & shared by ubu


Note: there was a 1.5sec dropout @ 3:35 into #7 which I removed, a hiccup remains there.

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Reggie Workman Solo

Reggie Workman - bass

1. Sketch (30:42)

Sound: A- (mono)
Source: audience recording / left from stage (turned out more or less mono)
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > minidisc > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded, transferred & shared by ubu

Notes:
This was recorded in stereo but the left channel wasn't ok (not just low level but also distortion), so I only used the right one (double up to create "stereo" files that can be encoded to FLAC and burned to CDR)
There were quite a few dropouts that I did remove, some hiccups remain, alas.

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Peter Brötzmann / Marino Pliakas / Michael Wertmüller
(link will be added later, once this is up on dime)

Peter Brötzmann - tenor & alto sax, clarinet
Marino Pliakas - electric bass
Michael Wertmüller - drums

1. Stage Intro (1:26)
2. unknown (12:34)
3. unknown (9:53)
4. unknown (23:56)
5. unknown (3:48)

TT: 51:41

Sound: A-/B+ (#1-2 in mono)
Source: audience recording / left from stage (turned out more or less mono)
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > minidisc > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded, transferred & shared by ubu

Notes:
This was recorded in stereo but it turned out mono, more or less, as I sat far from center
For the first title (plus the stage intro), the left channel wasn't ok (not just low level but also distortion), so I only used the right one.

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The highlight of this second night, to me, was the opening show which saw Oliver Lake playing with lots of fire, backed by the loose drumming of Dieter Ulrich and the great, earthy and boomy bass of Christian Weber. To me, whom it took a while to get to like Lake a bit, this was easily the best playing I ever heard of him. I do own two Trio 3 albums (the one on Palmetto plus the recent Intakt, Lake's Ballad quartet album, and a few other things where he turns up as a sideman, further recommendations for strong discs of his would be welcome!
The Brötzmann set was physical... not sure what to make of it, but it definitely was an experience. The volumes were almost impossible to take, some glasses broke, the whole place was vibrating from Wertmüller's bass drum and Pliakas' extremely fast bass lines. Yet the music was static and not going anywhere, just sort of happy to stay within itself. And imagine that: on tenor, Brötz had trouble cutting through the others' playing... on alto though, his playing got so piercing as to almost hurt.

Emil Viklicky Trio with Daniel Pezzotti & special guest Franco Ambrosetti - Round about Martinu - Basel 2007 (FM) - now on dime!

Emil Viklicky Trio: Uhlir, Tropp, Viklicky (l. to r.)

Here's a very special concert by czech pianist Emil Viklicky's trio with two swiss guests, Daniel Pezzotti on cello and Franco Ambrosetti on trumpet. The concert took place as the one jazz even during the Bohuslav Martinu music festival in Basel in November and the first set was broadcast on swiss radio DRS 2.

Viklicky is probably unknown in the US and also remains little-known around here, but Franco Ambrosetti should be a bit better known. He's one of most important contemporary jazz musicians (hey, not "adult contemporary" or how that crap is named in the US!) of Switzerland, kind of an elder statesman by now, who has played with just about everyone and has a lot of disc availabe, some of them on the great Enja label. He was also subject of some previous seeds of mine (one as a leader only, I think).
Daniel Pezzotti has also worked with Thierry Lang's project dedicated to Swiss folk music (their Cully 2007 was subject of a seed of mine).
Anyway, this isn't really a third stream thing or some such, rather a very successful integration of different strains of music into one organic and very beautiful project. I was aware of Viklicki (the only other show I have is mostly commercially released, alas), but this still caught me totally off-guard - a stunning recording, in my humble opinion!

Check out the samples or just give something new a chance!

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Emil Viklicky Trio featuring Daniel Pezzotti, special guest: Franco Ambrosetti
"Round about Martinu"
Internationale Musikfesttage B. Martinu
Basel (Switzerland), Musée Tinguely
November 14, 2007 (Set 1)
Emil Viklicky - piano & arrangements
František Uhlír - bass
Laco Tropp - drums
Franco Ambrosetti - trumpet
Daniel Pezzotti - violoncello

FM intro (1:50)
1. Moravian Girl (Bohuslav Martinu) 12:52
2. Band Intros & Announcement Pezzotti (1:56)
3. Highlands, Lowlands (Emil Viklicky) 14:43
4. Announcement Pezzotti (0:24)
5. unknown (Bohuslav Martinu) 15:14
6. Announcement Pezzotti (0:22)
7. Blame It On My Youth (Levant-Heyman) 12:02
FM outro (0:23)

TT: 59:51

Sound: A
Source: DRS 2 "Jazz Live" / 2008-01-11
Recording engineer: Martin Pearson
Lineage: FM > HD > WAV > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded, edited & shared by ubu

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=180703

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Mainz 2007

Alexander von Schlippenbach will soon turn 70. Last year, he was the winner of German radio station SWR 2's jazz award.

I just posted this one on dime tonight, too. As it's in original digi-fm format (MP @ 320 kbs), I post it here as well - hope you'll enjoy!

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Alexander von Schlippenbach - SWR-Jazzpreisträger 2007
Mainz (Germany), Foyer, SWR-Funkhaus
June 13, 2007


Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano

1. Trinkle Tinkle (2:26)
2. The One (2:11)
3. Twelve Tone Tales (3:06)
4. Out There (4:08)


Evan Parker - tenor sax
Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano
Paul Lovens - drums

5. Winterweise (31:05)


TT: 42:57

Sound: A
Source/Lineage: digital FM (MPEG-1 Layer 2, 320kbit/48kHz) - mp3directcut (direct cutting, no conversion)

DL link

Johnny Griffin live in 1969 - on dime and right here, too!

The "Little Giant" has always been one of my favourite tenor sax players. The solo on the opening title of "Congregation" (Blue Note) is one of my favourites, and both "Way Out" and "Johnny Griffin Sextet" on Riverside are terrific albums.
Then there was his tenor combo with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - smokin'!


Johnny Griffin in Dortmund 1969
© Karlheinz Klüter

Here's a great radio show from 1969, recorded at the Hungarian Albia Regia festival with the rhythm section of Kenny Drew (who plays on both mentioned Riverside albums, too), Jimmy Woode, and Art Taylor.

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Johnny Griffin Quartet
Alba Regia
Szekesfehervar (Hungary)
May 16, 1969 (NOT May 21 as originally stated!)

Johnny Griffin - tenor sax
Kenny Drew - piano
Jimmy Woode - bass
Art Taylor - drums

1. Stage Intro / Announcement JG (4:16)
2. The Jamfs Are Coming (Johnny Griffin) 16:33
3. Announcement JG (0:24)
4. All the Things You Are (14:06)
5. Announcement JG (0:49)
6. Body and Soul (Green-Sour-Heyman-Eaton) 13:45
7. Announcement JG (0:33)
8. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie-Papparelli) 17:42
9. The Theme (Miles Davis) 2:17

TT: 70:25

Sound: A/A- (mono)
Source: FM BDC>?>CDR
Lineage: CD from trade > EAC > FLAC > dime (seeder: matt23)
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit > WAV
Edited & shared by ubu


Edits:
- split up tracks (came as just two, see notes below)
- cut duplication/spliced the one earlier mark between #4 and #5

Googling around to make sure this hasn't been released commercially, I found this:
http://www.fidelio.hu/hir_o.asp?id=12379
The date given there is May 16, 1969 - now I don't understand Hungarian, so most of the hits google delivered I'm unable to understand - can anyone clarify the date, please?
I took the date from the original seed!

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Here's the dime link:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=178610

The link to the MP3 @ 320 kbs version will be in the comments, as usual.

Dr. Lonnie Smith - Zurich 2007 - now on dime

This was one of the best concert experiences of this year, the Turbanator rocked the house!

Here's a short review I posted elsewhere:

Holy smokes! Smith was da shit, as they say!!!!!!!!
The band really got it together in the second (almost 90 minute! the first was more than an hour already) set. They did some standards (Sweet and Lovely, Willow Weep for Me, a beautiful alto feature Harlem Nocturne), the Beatles' Come Together in the funkiest ever version, and several Smith originals - great great music, loud and stinky as that kind of music ought to be! (I did some thinking and I'm quite sure Larry Goldings' Trio was the only organ group I've heard live before... now that was a whole different thing last night!)

The encore closes disc 1, as the second set + encore was too long for one CDR.

The sound rating is conservative, the sound was shitty at the concert, and I think I caught it about as good as possible with my equipment.

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Dr. Lonnie Smith & The Original Grooves
jazznojazz 2007
Zurich (Switzerland), Theater an der Sihl
November 3, 2007

Dr. Lonnie Smith - organ & voice
Miguel Martinez - alto sax
Martien Oster - guitar
Gijs Dijkhuizen - drums


CD1/78:51

Set1/67:36
1. Stage Intro + Dr. Lonnie Smith Warmup (2:14)
2. Sweet and Lovely (Arnheim-LeMare-Tobias) 9:34
3. Back Track (Smith) 16:29
4. The Whip (Smith) > Ann MO (17:57)
5. unknown > Ann MO (8:25)
6. Scream (Smith) 12:55

Encore from Set2
7. unknown (11:15)


CD2/Set2/76:18

1. Applause + Warmup (0:55)
2. Willow Weep for Me (Ann Ronell) 22:32 >
3. Mambo (George Shearing) > Ann MO (18:52)
4. Harlem Nocturne (Earle Hagen) 7:05
5. A Smooth One (Charlie Christian) > Ann MO (10:17)
6. Come Together (Lennon-McCartney) 16:34


TT: 155:09

Sound: B+
Source: audience recording (mono to MD)
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > MD > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Taped, transferred & shared by ubu


Note:
This is the complete set, taped from the gallery to the side of the stage (only location where it was possible to tape at all, on the floor it was standing room only and very crowded).
I cut some atmosphere before and some applause after the encore, would have been a bit too long to fit on one disc with set 1, otherwise

Please help identifying CD1#5 and CD1#7 - both are very familiar!

Erika Stucky - Willisau 2002 - now on dime

Here's a great concert in its entirety - please check it out!
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=170507

Stucky is a Swiss-Californian singer mixing various influences to her own special brew. 60s psychedelia (she was invited for the second edition of Christy Doran/Fredy Studer's Jimi Hendrix project and handled those songs in a fantastic way!), traditional Swiss music, jazz, folk, whatever fits in - the result is something very special, music like you've never heard it before, I'm sure!

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Erika Stucky Bubble-Family
Jazzfestival Willisau 2002 - Impros & Voices II
Willisau (CH)
September 1, 2002 (evening)

Erika Stucky - voice
Luli Gurgauer - keys
Oli Harting - guitar & banjo
Hansueli Tischhauser - guitar
Vonne Geraedts - vocals & trumpet
Jean-Jacques Pedretti - trombone, alphorn
Robert Morgenthaler - trombone, alphorn
Peter Horisberger - drums
Martin Schumacher - accordion, baritone sax
Jon Sass - tuba
Knuth Jenssen - guitar, bass, keys, vocals
Rodolfo Ernst - ?
Urs Amstutz - ?

*** complete concert ***

1. (5:43) >
2. (5:51)
3. (2:40) >
4. (5:12)
5. (8:03) >
6. (6:02)
7. (2:15) >
8. (4:31)
9. (2:13)
10. (1:59)
11. (7:55)
12. (4:22)
13. (7:45)
14. (3:20)
15. (3:18)

TT: 71:17

Sound: A
Recording engineer: Martin Pearson
Source: DRS 2 live broadcast / 2002-09-02
Lineage: FM > minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Taped, transferred & seeded by ubu

Jan Brönnimann's "Brinkmanship" feat. Nils-Petter Molvaer - Willisau 2007 - now on dime

I've been neglecting the blog now for quite a while - apologies for that. There have been a couple of things that needed to be done in real life, and honestly I'm not quite sure what the future of my blog is... anyway, after a little while, here's a new upload on dime to announce, at least - last night's concert of Jan Brönnimann's "Brinkmanship" with special guest Nils-Petter Molvaer. Spacious ambient jazz with lots of quiet lyrical passages but lots of good grooves, too - I enjoy this band quite a bit, and the addition of Molvaer doesn't do any harm, for sure!

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Jan Brönnimann's Brinkmanship feat. Nils-Petter Molvaer
Willisau (Switzerland), Jazzfestival
Next Waves I
August 31, 2007

Jan-Petter Molvaer - trumpet, electronics
Jan "Galega" Brönnimann - saxophones, clarinets, electronics
René Reimann - guitar
Emanuel Schnyder - electric bass, double bass
Christoph Staudenmann - drums, samples
Nya - vocals, electronics

*** complete concert ***

CD1/47:29
1. 1937 > Aussenbezirk > String Remix > Ann JB (47:29)

CD2/47:00
1. Signpost > Ann JB (26:08) [splice @ 24:10.5]
2. Silberfisch (11:41)
3. unknown (9:09)

TT: 94:29

Sound: A/A- (mono)
Source (CD1,CD2#1 to splice): DRS 2 broadcast / 2007-08-31 - 2007-09-01 (after the concert)
Source (CD2#1 from splice to end): RSI 2 broadcast / 2007-08-31 (live)
Lineage: FM > HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)


Note: RSI 2 started their live broadcast early in CD2#1 (around 5-6 minutes were missing) and went on to the end of the concert, while DRS 2 broadcast a large part of this long concert after their live broadcast of the second set of the day. The parts broadcast by DRS 2 were the opening parts of the Brinkmanship set, as the announcer said, and included CD1 and CD2#2 minus applause/announcement.

Töbi Tobler - Altdorf 2007 - now on dime

Here's one fresh off the press - yesterday's solo recital at the great Alpentöne festival in Altdorf by Töbi Tobler on Hackbrett (hammered dulcimer). Quite a nice surprise! I like this honest and simple kind of folk music - though his horizon is much broader and he incorporates some of it in his music, too. Anyway, folk music shouldn't just be conserved as is, rather it should evolve, and here's a fine example for that!



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Töbi Tobler Solo
Alpentöne 2007
Altdorf (Switzerland), Schlüsselsaal
August 17, 2007

Töbi Tobler - Hackbrett & voice

1. Introduction TT (0:38)
2. Medley / Improvisation (22:09)
3. Zäuerli (9:02)
4. Heurigentanz (9:22)
5. Family Goes Shopping (3:13)
6. unknown (Schluss / Ending) (8:15)
7. [encore] (3:18)

8. Interview (by Kjell Keller) (6:30)

TT: 62:30

Sound: A- (mono)
Source: DRS 2 "Weltklasse auf DRS 2" / 2007-08-17 (live)
Lineage: FM > HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)


Note: much of this music is improvised, partly it's based on traditional melodies/songs, partly on Tobler's own tunes. The encore possibly is an old Swiss folk song, but I'm not quite so familiar with that kind of music... traditional folk music (not of the commercialised crap kind marketed on German/Austrian/Swiss TV) lies at the core of this music, though, paired with Tobler's experience as a drummer with various well-known Swiss musicians, as well as his own band, "Appezeller Space Schöttl".

Andrew Hill - Lugano 2004 - now on dime

Here's a partial re-seed, partial new seed of one of the most beautiful and accessible Andrew Hill shows I've heard:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=158665

A belated memorial for the late great Hill, one of the most idiosyncratic composer and musician in jazz.

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

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

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

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

All compositions by Andrew Hill

TT: 117:46


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


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


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


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

Tete Montoliu & Dusko Goykovich - now on dime

The last two shares of my Tete flood on dime are up now:

a fine trio show: Tete Montoliu Trio - Köln 1990
and a sideman appearance: Dusko Goykovich - Schwabach 1971

Tete recorded two fine albums under Dusko's leadership, in quartet they did "Ten To Two Blues" (Ensayo), also known as "After Hours" (on Enja under that title), and "It's About Blues Time" (Ensayo - CD reissue on Freshsound Records) inquintet with Ferdinand Povel on tenor sax. The rhythm section on both is Robert Langereis (bass) and Joe Nay (drums), the albums were recorded in November 1971 in Barcelona. Both are recommended!

Original cover & Ensayo CD reissue:


Enja reissue, and finally the second album

Check out the Dusko Goykovich Discography on the Cosmic Sounds site!

And if you really feel like checking out Dusko, don't forget his classic album, "Swinging Macedonia" (I just got the CD version of that, courtesy of Enja, while I was in Vienna). A great album!

Anita & Tete - now on dime

Another nice Tete show I put up on dime includes the great Anita O'Day, one of my favourite jazz singers and all 'round great lady. Part two of that show is just Tete in trio (with another singer, Lilian Terry, sitting in on one tune).

This was done in Antibes 1966 and has been out on a Moon bootleg release.
The second "easter egg" is also from that festival... check the comments!

Tete with Tenors - now on dime!

I put up two more sessions on which Tete Montoliu appears as a sideman, backing Joe Henderson and Messrs Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, the later date also including two other masters filling out the rhythm section: NHOP on bass and Art Taylor on drums!

Here are the links:
Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Hamburg 1975
Joe Henderson - Düsseldorf 1981

Bright Moments - Roland Kirk on dime & right here, too!

In between the Tete flood, I put up some Roland Kirk shows on dime, some with Tete and/or Walter Bishop one with George Gruntz, and one with Andrew Hill (yup, the Newport 1962 concert).

Here are the links to the dime seeds:
Roland Kirk - Berlin, Milan & Paris 1964 (with Tete & Walter Bishop)
Roland Kirk - Copenhagen 1963 (with Tete)
Roland Kirk - Bremen 1963 (with George Gruntz)
Roland Kirk - Newport 1962 (with Andrew Hill)

These shows further include some very fine rhythm sections, such as Paul Rovère/Daniel Humair (w/Gruntz), Vernon Martin/Clifford Jarvis (w/Hill), Jimmy Woode or Tommy Potter/Kenny Clarke (w/Tete & Walter Bishop, add Sonny Stitt and J.J. Johnson for some tracks, too), and of course NHOP/J.C. Moses on the Copenhagen show w/Tete, the same band as on the official live material released as "Kirk in Copenhagen" and in its entirety (well, almost) on "Rahsaan", the fantastic 10CD complete Mercury box.

Now the Newport and Bremen shows have partly been released: one title from the Newport set appeared as a bonus on the Rahsaan box, and several Bremen titles have been part of a great 3CD set on one of Joel Dorn's doomed operations, 32 Jazz, titled "Dog Years in the Fourth Ring", which was a fantastic compilation of 2CDs worth of live material from various concerts, and on disc 3 brought the great Atlantic album "Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata" into CD age. This came out in 1997 and is highly recommended (but I guess it's also highly unlikely to stumble over by now).

Anyway, look for the download links in the comments to fill the gaps in my dime seeds - these tracks have *not* been lifted off the Mercury and 32 Jazz sets, but are from the same source my dime seeds were taken from - hence sound is less good, it's just that I find it nice to have these shows in their entirety, even more so as the Bremen seed has some announcements for tunes that then don't follow...

Bright Moments!

Tete Montoliu - more on dime

I've put up a few shows by various tenor sax players with Tete in the backing group:

Ben Webster/Don Byas - Karlsruhe 1968
Dexter Gordon - Molde 1964
George Coleman - Laren 1977

More to follow - with Kirk, Joe Henderson, Griffin/Lockjaw, Anita O'Day, as well as more shows Tete led himself!

I'll also put up a bunch of related items on dime, with some hard-to-get-by tracks excluded, those tracks will be put up here, as well as a full (fairly short, though) show by one of jazz's giants...

Let it be a surprise for the moment!

 

Braff-Oester-Rohrer & George Gruntz - now on dime

Posting some more piano music, after the Tete seeds (some may remember I did a loose series called "ubu's pianos" a year ago or so).

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Here's a rather unusual show... Gruntz is one of the best writers for big band music in recent years (make that decades... he's been active since the 60s!) and leads a fantastic unit, his "George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band", featuring many great soloists from different parts of the world.
He himself is a very fine pianist, although in the context of his band, he most often takes a backseat and is happy to steer the proceedings and act as a very charming MC.

He did one of the piano solo albums for German ACT label's recent series of piano solo releases - his was titled "Ringing the Luminator". It brought back to memory that Gruntz is a fine pianist and can easily do a full solo programme. So he did here, at the festival Generations, founded/lead by tenor saxophonist Roman Schwaller (who was with the Vienna Art Orchestra for long years and has several fine releases on pianist Joe Haider's JHM label, including a great quartet disc with Jimmy Cobb on drums).

Have a look at the setlist, can't be bad, can it?

His announcements are in Swiss German, with a heavy accent from Basel, Gruntz's hometown. He tells some funny stories, most notably after performing the "Guggisberglied" (meaning "Song from the Guggishill"), an old and very beautiful Swiss traditional song (Stephan Eicher also did a version of this, by the way). It's the only Swiss folk song, says Gruntz, that's in minor...


George Gruntz
Generations 2006
Frauenfeld (CH), Eisenwerk
October 10, 2006

George Gruntz - piano

1. So If Love's a Triumph of Illusions (Gruntz) 5:38
2. Well You Needn't (Monk) 5:55
3. Announcement GG (2:01)
4. All Blues (Miles Davis) 8:38
5. Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eyton) 5:49
6. Announcement GG (2:05)
7. Summertime (Gershwin-Gershwin-Heyward) 5:50
8. Guggisberglied (Traditional) 2:21
9. Announcement GG (3:14)
10. The Train and the River (Jimmy Giuffre) 4:00

TT: 45:36

Sound: A (mono)
Source: DRS 2 "Jazz Live" / 2007-08-03
Lineage: FM > HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded & shared by ubu


Note:

This broadcast starts with the second tune Gruntz played in this concert
Gruntz played a trio set with Fabian Gisler (b) and Dominic Egli (d), but none of it was broadcast, to my knowledge.

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Here's a partial recording of one of the greatest concerts I ever heard! I have made a few dimers turn into fans of Malcolm Braff and this specific trio and I hope more will check it out and enjoy it! (I, for one, enjoy the sh*t out of it!)
Oester is a bit low in the mix here, I'm afraid, even though I sat like two metres straight in front of his bass, with Braff to his left, back to me - Oester was standing next to the grand piano, where it gets smaller - and Rohrer sandwiching Oester on the right... Rohrer is so creative, really one of the most astonishing drummers I've seen so far (and that includes guys like Max Roach, Idris Muhammad or Leon Parker, just to set things into the right perspective!)

Here's the website of the great unerhört festival.


Braff-Oester-Rohrer
Unerhört 2006
Zürich (CH), Rote Fabrik, Fabriktheater
November 25, 2006

Malcolm Braff - piano
Bänz Oester - bass
Samuel Rohrer - drums

1. (18:26)
2. (13:48)
3. (14:02) [inc]

TT: 46:17

Sound: A-/B+
Source: audience recording, right in front of the band (2 metres)
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > MD (LP2) > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded & shared by ubu


Note:

this is part of the first set of a nocturne concert, lasting from around midnight until 2:30 a.m. the following day (it could also be dated Nov. 26)
this is all my MD recorder would do that night, after that it stopped recording, alas, as the music grew more and more unbelievable - one of the greatest concerts I've witnessed so far!
the third track is marred by drop-outs - I deleted them, but some hiccups remain audible.

Taktlos 2007 - now on dime

Here's the first of three broadcasts, upped yesterday:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=156711
The second seed, including my own audience taping of the Sclavis 5 gig:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=156992
And here's the third, just getting started:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=156857

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Taktlos 07 (1/3)  - Zürich (CH), Rote Fabrik
 
Guy-Crispell-Lytton - June 2, 2007
Marilyn Crispell (p), Barry Guy (b), Paul Lytton (d)
1. 17:26 [inspired by Max Ernst's painting "Phases of the Night"] (short dropout @ 5:16)
2. 8:43 [inspired by an Yves Tanguy painting]
3. 12:18 [inspired by a Dorothea Tanning painting]
4. 15:40 [inspired by a Wilfredo Lahm painting]
TT: 54:09
Note: this is the complete set

Das Kapital - June 1, 2007
Daniel Erdman (sax), Hasse Poulsen (g,elec), Edward Perraud (perc)
5. 23:07 [excerpt]

Note: this is part of the opening event which also included film shown simultaneously with the music, the music actually interacted with the film material (or so said the radio announcer - I wasn't there that night...)


TT: 77:16

Sound: A (mono)
Source: DRS 2 "Neue Musik im Konzert" / 2007-07-18
Lineage: FM > HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded & seeded by ubu

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Taktlos 2007 (2/3)  - Zürich (CH), Rote Fabrik


CD1 - Louis Sclavis - L'imparfait des langues - June 3, 2007
Louis Sclavis - bass clarinet, soprano sax
Marc Baron - alto sax
Paul Brousseau - keys, samples, electronics
Maxime Delpierre - guitar, electronics
François Merville - drums
1. Le verbe (12:50)
2. Archéologie (11:15)
3. Annonce (11:03)
4. Story of a Phrase (12:44)
5. L'idée du dialecte (20:05)
6. Applause (1:55)
7. Palabre (6:55) [encore]
TT: 76:50

Notes: this is the complete concert. some tracks may begin with or end in another tune - I am not very familiar yet with the quintet's disc (ECM 1954 / 2007)


CD2 - Homberger-Demierre-Schütz-Lovens - Matthäus Passion - June 2, 2007
Christoph Homberger - tenor (vocals)
Jacques Demierre - piano
Martin Schütz - violoncello & electronics
Paul Lovens - drums
1. Matthäus-Passion (J.S. Bach + Free Improvisation) 24:59 [excerpt]


TT: 101:50


*** CD1#2-5,CD2 ***
Sound: A (mono)
Source: DRS 2 "Neue Musik im Konzert" / 2007-07-25
Lineage: FM > HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

*** CD1#1,6,7 ***
Sound: A-/B+ (very narrow stereo, in fact mono, too...)
Source: audience recording (center, third or fourth row)
Lineage: crappy Sony mic > MD > analogue to HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Recorded & seeded by ubu

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My comments to the third seed:

This is a much more experimental seed than the first (and second), if I hadn't seeded the first as jazz, I might have put this under avantgarde... but still, there's plenty of interest in the music, I hope!

The first band is a young experimental trio. They often have guests, but this was the first time, I think, that they had someone coming from "serious" music (E-Musik, as the darnded germans call it... fegh that differentiation between E and U!). Anyway, this is a sounds-based project, beats and bells and whirrs and birdcalls...

The second band is a pretty earthy one, in comparison... noise, rock, psychedelic influences melded together, originally in songs, by now in free improvs which incorporate elements of these songs. Both Flo Stoffner and Flo Götte are familiar from joerg and my own Harald Haerter seeds. Here they invited cellist/electronician Martin Schütz (part of the hardcore chambermusic trio Koch-Schütz-Studer).
Homepage: http://www.lauschangriff.ch/

The archives of the new taktlos.com website:
http://www.taktlos.com/archiv.html


Taktlos 07 (3/3) - Zürich (CH), Rote Fabrik

Superterz & Marianne Schröder - June 1, 2007
Marcel Vaid (guitar, digital repeater, sampler, kalimba)
Ravi Vaid (synthesizer, sequencer, sampler)
Oliver Schmid (drums, e-drumpads, sampler, xylophon)
guest on #2: Marianne Schröder (piano)
1. Improvisation (22:03)
2. Improvisation (23:36)
TT: 45:39

Lauschangriff & Martin Schütz - June 3, 2007
Joy Frempong (voice) , Flo Stoffner (guitar), Flo Götte (electric bass), Luca Ramella (drums)
guest: Martin Schütz (electric cello, laptop)
3. Improvisation (27:51)
4. Improvisation (5:36) [inc]
TT: 33:28


TT: 79:08

Sound: A (mono)
Source: DRS 2 "Electronica" / 2007-08-01
Lineage: FM > HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded & seeded by ubu

Tete Montoliu - now on dime

I just put up some short Tete shows on dime:

Tete Montoliu Trio - Leverkusen 1993-10-17
Tete Montoliu Solo - Hamburg 1994-10-11
Tete Montoliu Solo & Trio - Marciac 1987-08-14
Tete Montoliu Solo - Marseille 1983-07-24

Tete Montoliu (Vicente Montoliu Massana) was born March 28, 1933 and died August 24, 1997. He was a great piano player from Spain. He did lots of good recordings, many of them for the Danish Steeplechase label.
A friend of mine compiled a discography that's online here:
http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Montoliu/index.htm
Of course I did help as much as I could. To my knowledge, the discography will need a major update and hence will become even better!

During his career, Tete played with many great musicians, Americans and Europeans, such as Lucky Thompson, Dusko Goykovich, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Chick Corea, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Herbie Lewis, Billy Higgins, David Murray, Jackie McLean, Ben Webster, Peter King, Roland Kirk, and many many more. However, his best discs I find, are usually his trio or solo albums. I can't really name a favourite disc, but if you want to check Tete out, you may go for "Catalonian Fire", "Tootie's Tempo", Dusko's "Ten To Two Blues" (also known as "After Hours"), or his album with Lucky Thompson, "Soul's Nite Out".

There's a good book on Tete, written by Miquel Jurado: "Tete. Quasi Autiobiografia" (first edition by Pòrtic Proa, Barcelona, 1998 - I received a copy of the Spanish translation from said friend).

There's also a modest wiki entry.

Ali Farka Toure - Lugano 2000 - now on dime

Here's a show I put up on dime a minute ago - terrific music by one of my favourite discoveries of recent!
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=156601

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Ali Farka Toure (Mali)
Estival Jazz 2000
Lugano (CH), Piazza della Riforma
July 14, 2000

Ali Farka Toure - vocals, guitar
Hamadoun Bocoum - [bass?,] vocals
Samba Toure - [bass?,] vocals
Oumar Diallo - bass
Oumar Hamadoun Toure - conga
Suleymane Kane [Souleye Kane?]- djembe
Alpha Ousmane Sankare - percussion


1. Goye Kur (7:53)
2. Karaw (4:54)
3. Soukora (6:22)
4. Kadi Kadi (6:43)
5. Ai Du (6:04)
6. Dofana (8:13)
7. Hilly Yoro (6:26)
8. Gomni (6:04)
9. Diaraby (6:39)
10. Jangali Famata (4:10)

TT: 63:32

Sound: A/A- (mono)
Source: RSI 2 "Live di mezzanotte" / 2007-07-30
Lineage: FM > HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded & shared by ubu

Jacky Terrasson Trio - Lugano 1996 - now on dime

Here's one I put up on dime again, for a change... more to come here, by the way: a ScoLoHoFo set from Lugano's Estival Jazz 2002 and a short but sweet 1979 set by The Police!

Note: there has been an upgrade to this seed of mine, with nothing missing from #1 and stereo quality, too - find it here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=156003

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Jacky Terrasson Trio
Estival Jazz 1996
Lugano (CH)
July 6, 1996

Jacky Terrasson - piano
Ugonna Okegwo - bass
Clarence Penn - drums

1. Ornithology (Charlie Parker) 5:15 [cuts in]
2. Love for Sale (Cole Porter) 11:05
3. unknown (9:21)
4. unknown (5:56)
5. unknown (9:16)
6. Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk) 10:09
7. Reach (Jacky Terrasson) 17:02
[with interpolation of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern-Harbach)]

TT: 68:08

Sound: A/A- (mono)
Source: RSI 2 "Live di mezzanotte" / 2007-07-26
Lineage: FM > HD > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded & shared by ubu

Note: 1-3 minutes of music missing at beginning of #1