Bill Dixon...

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

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

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

Spirits Rejoice - Guy Kopelowicz' Photographs

 

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

Noah Howard - Stuttgart 1977

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

This is #3 of the little Howard memorial series.

  
Noah Howard Quartet
Stuttgart (Germany)
May 11, 1977

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

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

TT: 42:07

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

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

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

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.

---------------

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

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)

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

Araxi Karnusian - Lausanne 2008

Here's a beautiful set by saxophonist/clarinetist and composer Araxi Karnusian.
She's got a disc out on the yvp label with this group, which is called Strange Sounds, Beautiful Music. This concert stems from the CD release tour. Check out her website for more information and do buy her official releases!

Araxi Karnusian - Strange Sounds Beautiful Music
Lausanne (Switzerland), Studio 15 de la Radio Suisse Romande
February 15, 2008

Araxi Karnusian - tenor saxophone, alto clarinet, composition
Jürg Bucher - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, contra alto clarinet
Colin Vallon - piano
Daniel Schläppi - bass
Dominic Egli - drums, percussion
Simon Heggendorn - violin
Tobias Preisig - violin
Dorothee Schmidt - viola
Bruno Fischer - violoncello

1. Interrupted - part I (21:23)
2. Interrupted - part III (21:58)
3. I Took a Trip to Yendi (7:14)
4. Palace of Winds (5:37)
5. Interrupted - part II (17:17)

TT: 73:33

Sound: A
Source: RSR 2 "JazzZ" / 2008-08
Lineage: hotbird sat > nexus-s > hdd > nero wave editor > flac
(hotbird sat uses MPEG1 Layer 2/256 kbps)

OM - Schaffhausen 2010

After a lenghty break, here's the most recent of OM's one-off sets (they first reunited for a concert in Lucerne in summer 2006, then they played Willisau in 2008 (Dragan Tasic's photo below is from that concert) and that concert was released on Intakt. Their third reunion took place in May of this year, and it's this concert you can listen to here.

OM were kind of a supergroup of Swiss jazz in the seventies. Taking their name from one of Coltrane's weirdest records, the quartet of Leimgruber, Doran, Burri and Studer recorded a series of fine albums for JAPO. Alas, ECM has gone the sampler route, releasing OM - A Retrospective a couple of years ago. At least their fourth album, "Cerberus," is included in full, along with selections from their earlier albums "Kirkikuki," "Rautionaha", and "Om with Dom" (that's Dom Um Romao who guested on their third album).

The four musicians took very different roads after that - Doran went free as well as electric (with his own band New Bag, as well as with several Hendrix tribute projects), Leimgruber went on to become one of the most impressive avantgarde saxophone players, and Studer became, among many other activities, a member of the great trio Koch-Schütz-Studer... about Burri I don't know much, though. Closest they got before their reunion was a special "Om-Night" at Jazzfestival Schaffhausen's 2002 edition, where all four musicians performed separately with their current bands (the highlight, to me, was a magnificient duo of Leimgruber's with drummer Fritz Hauser). But now listen to the music!

OM
Jazzfestival Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen (Switzerland), Kammgarn Kulturzentrum
May 6, 2010 (Thursday,20:15)

Urs Leimgruber - tenor & soprano saxophones, flutes
Christy Doran - guitar
Bobby Burri - bass
Fredy Studer - drums, percussion

1. radio intro (2:46)
2. Don't You Feel Underdressed? I Suppose You Don't Wear the Passport on You - Part 2 (57:18)
3. radio outro (0:37)

TT: 60:43

Sound: A
Source: DRS 2 "Jazz Live" / 2010-08-06 (Friday, 22:30)
Lineage: dvb-s (MPEG1 Layer 2/256 kbps) > tracked in mp3directcut


:: radio blurbs ::


Zwischen 1970 und 1980 hat die Luzerner Gruppe OM die Schweizer Jazzszene aufgemischt wie niemand sonst vorher. Jetzt, gute dreissig Jahre später, beginnen die vier Musiker wieder, ab und zu Konzerte zusammen zu geben. Und sie fahren nicht dort fort, wo sie aufhört haben, sondern dort, wo sie heute stehen. Das ergibt jedes Mal eine Musik die so frei, unbändig, spannend und unvorhersehbar ist, wie Musik nur sein kann. Klangreisen in unerhörte Gegenden!


OM hat die Energie der Rockmusik mit der Kraft der freien Improvisation vereint. Der Journalist Bert Noglik formulierte es in einer Laudatio zur Luzerner Preisverleihung so:
"OM brachte die Erfahrungen einer jungen, mit den Beatles und den Rolling Stones aufgewachsenen, von Jimi Hendrix elektrisierten und vom Free Jazz faszinierten Generation auf einen musikalisch sinnvollen Nenner." Nach einer langjährigen Spielpause vereinte sich die Band wieder und spielte umwerfende Konzerte. Christoph Merki im Tages-Anzeiger nach dem Willisauer Konzert, schrieb: "Auch die neuen OM, diese ganz neuen OM haben wieder das Zeug zur Legende".

Greg Osby - Birthday at the Vanguard

Alto saxophonist Greg Osby has celebrated his 50th birthday at the Village Vanguard in New York City. The concert as well as an interview with WBGO's Josh Jackson can be listened to on the NPR website.

Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden - Listen at Stomp Off!

Chris has shared an amazing bit of history from his closet over on his great Stomp Off blog. Listen to these two great masters chatting and performing some great music for his Philadelphia radio show in 1959 here.

More Last Chances

I'm pulling together more links - these will be around until Sunday, 1st of August, roughly.
Find them >> here <<

Grab now, listen later... last chance for some older goodies!

The blog will remain closed for another while, but I'm in the process of deleting many old files, as the change of rules on rapidshare is highly in favour of downloaders and against file-sharing folks like me.

So here's the deal... check >>here<< for some of the old goodies, and act fast, they'll be gone soon!

Do a search on the main page to find details about the recordings, please.

The files will soon be deleted (I guess around next weekend, or in about a week from this posting).

shhhhh!

this blog is not dead, it just smells funny...

Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Amsterdam 2009

Here's the promised long show by this fine band - check yesterday's post for a short/preview set if you're unsure, but this is highly recommended!



Moppa Elliott & Mostly Other People Do The Killing
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Bimhuis
May 29, 2009

Jon Irabagon - tenor sax
Peter Evans - trumpet
Matthew Thomas "Moppa" Elliott - bass
Kevin Shea - drums

CD1/41:25
1. Drainlick (M.T. Elliott)
Round Bottom, Square Top (M.T. Elliott)
Dunkelbergers (M.T. Elliott)
All the Things You Are (J. Kern)
Hop Bottom Hop (M.T. Elliott) - 31:48
2. East Orwell (M.T. Elliott) - 9:37

CD2/65:03
1. Pen Argyl (M.T. Elliott)
Mars and Venus (M.T. Elliott)
Two Boots Jack (M.T. Elliott) - 28:00
2. Little Hope (M.T. Elliott)
My Delightful Muse (M.T. Elliott)
A Night in Tunisia (D. Gillespie)
Shamokin (M.T. Elliott)
Sinners (B. Alexander) - 35:51
3. Lost Voices (D. Toure) - 1:11

TT: 106:28 - complete!

Sound: A
Source: NL Radio6 > DVB-S (48 khz/256kbps) > TechniSat SkyStar HD2 > DVB Viewer > Audacity > flac

:: ubu edits ::
this came as FLAC @ 48kHz and had SBEs
TLH > WAV > BeLight/BeSweet > WAV @ 44.1kHz > TLH > FLAC (8,SBE fixed)

Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Moers 2009

Here's a partial set im MP2, short and small, for those who're not sure... a full two-set concert will be posted later on. MOPDTK are a fabulous band led by bassist Moppa Elliott and featuring the great trumpet player Peter Evans, saxophonist Jon Irabagon, and Kevin Shea on drums. Their music is both modern and reaching back at the tradition at the same time, but tradition in their case means not only hard bop but also music by the likes of Ornette Coleman, Roy Haynes and Roland Kirk, as can be seen from their funny album covers quoting classics.

Thanks to dime seeder fbauer for this set!



Mostly Other People Do The Killing
38th Moers Festival
Moers (Germany), Schlosspark, Grosses Zirkuszelt
May 30, 2009

Peter Evans - trumpet
Jon Irabagon - tenor sax
Moppa Elliot - bass
Kevin Shea - drums

1. (fm intro) 2:48
2. Per Argyl >
Round Bottom, Square Top >
Dunkelbergers >
Little Hope (27:22)
3. (fm outro) 0:04

TT: 30:14

fm recording in a good quality, recorded by HJWEIS
aired by german WDR3 'Konzert' live on 2009-05-30
aired by german WDR3 'Jazznacht' on 2009-06-07
http://www.wdr.de/unternehmen/presselounge/pressemitteilungen/2009/05/20090527_moers_festival.phtml
source: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)


http://www.moers-festival.de/index.php?id=619&L=1
Peter Evans, one of the musicians who stands out in the memory from last year’s festival,
returns to Moers with a streetwise quartet headed by the bassist Moppa Elliott.
The group’s album “This is our Moosic” is a tongue in cheek reference to the legendary
Ornette Coleman album from 1960 and is testimony both to their respect for the history of jazz,
but also to their intention to redefine “jazz” in the 21st century.

seeded by FBAUER on 2009-06-11

Ellington Legacy Orchestra - Aarau 1999

I was contacted about this by Peter Ugrin, the son of trumpet and violin player Petar Ugrin (1944-2001) playing here. Peter is himself a violin player. There are two beautiful tracks by Petar on his page, in particular, "Ozri Se V Gnevu" is stunning!

Ugrin was the only one to possibly take the role of Ray Nance, playing both trumpet and violin. The band here is a star-studded one, including a handful of Ellingtonians, most notably Aaron Bell, Duke's longtime bass player, who's on piano here. John Lamb and most of the brass players were with Ellington at one time or the other, too. In addition, there's another late trumpet great, Benny Bailey, and the late great John La Porta who can be heard playing a beautiful clarinet solo. Charli Persip is a fine big band drummer - one of his first gigs was with Dizzy Gillespie's 1956/57 orchestra!

So let me dedicate this post to Petar Ugrin and to his family.
And please pay a visit to Peter Ugrin's page and hear the fine music there!



The Ellington Legacy Orchestra
Aarau (Switzerland)
April 17, 1999

"Celebrating Duke - A Tribute to the Ellington Orchestra"

Benny Bailey, Barry Lee Hall, Wayne Bargeron - trumpet
Petar Ugrin - trumpet, violin
Art Baron, Britt Woodman, Buster Cooper - trombone
Fritz Renold - alto sax, clarinet
Bobby Watson - alto sax
John La Porta - tenor sax, clarinet
Tommy Smith - tenor sax
Bernd Konrad - baritone sax
Aaron Bell - piano
John Lamb - bass
Charlie Persip - drums
Bill Berry - conductor

Such Sweet Thunder (Ellington-Strayhorn) [TT: 40:25]
01. Such Sweet Thunder (Cleo) (3:30) [Bailey]
02. Sonnet For Caesar (2:44) [La Porta]
03. Sonnet To Hank Cinq (1:50) [Woodman]
04. Lady Mac (3:57) [Renold, Bailey]
05. Sonnet In Search Of A Moor (2:15) [Lamb]
06. The Telecasters (2:52) [Konrad]
07. Up And Down, Up And Down (3:42)
(I Will Lead Them Up And Down) (Puck) [Bailey, Ugrin]
08. Sonnet For Sister Kate (3:01) [Baron]
09. The Star-Crossed Lovers (4:16)
(aka Pretty Girl) [Watson, Smith]
10. Madness In Great Ones (Hamlet) (4:03) [Bargeron]
11. Half The Fun (aka Lately) (4:19) [Watson, Bell]
12. Circle Of Fourths (3:46) [Smith]

Toot Suite (Duke Ellington) [TT: 25:05]
13. Announcement BB (0:25)
14. Red Garter (4:21) [Woodman]
15. Red Shoes (5:11) [La Porta, Ugrin]
16. Red Carpet (8:43) [Renold, Hall, Baron, Bargeron]
17. Ready Go (6:24) [Smith]

TT: 65:30

Sound: A
Recorded by Swiss Radio
Source: DRS2 Broadcast/1999
Lineage: FM > Tape > Minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > CDR > EAC (secure) > FLAC (8)(asb)
Additional: EAC (secure) > Cool Edit Pro (centred all tracks, separated #13 from #14) > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Shared on dimeadozen by ubu in January 2009

This project was initiated by Fritz Renold

ubu cinéphil

Updating my old post here.

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)
Edipo Re (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 (Mikio Naruse)
21 - Ukigumo (Floating Clouds)
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)

Ceu - Cologne 2009

In my humble opinion, CéU is one of the hottest new acts that has appeared in the past few years. I got both her CDs and was lucky enough to see her on her CD release tour last fall. Here's a radio broadcast of another concert from that tour. Check her out!

I couldn't positively i-d #10 - it's on neither of the CDs.



CéU
Köln (Germany), Stadtgarten
October 25, 2009

Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças - vocals
Guilherme Ribeiro - keyboards, guitar, accordion
Lucas Martins - electric bass, vocals
Bruno Buarque - drums
DJ Marco - turntables

1. fm intro (0:38)
2. Sobre O Amor E Seu Trabalho Silencioso (1:21)
3. Espaçonave (3:37)
4. Comadi (3:49)
5. Malemolência (4:10)
6. Lenda (4:29)
7. Grain de Beauté (4:25)
8. Nascente (4:49)
9. Cangote (5:41)
10. Visco da Jaga (4:59)
11. Bubuia (3:26)
12. Ponteiro (4:57)
13. 10 Contados (3:34)
14. Papa (1:23)
15. Cordão da Insônia (4:50)
16. Ave Cruz (4:41)
17. Rainha (6:35) [fm voiceover at beginning]

TT: 67:33

Sound: A
Lineage: FM (analog cable) - SpinDoctor - Audacity 1.3.2 - xACT

Funkhaus Europa
World Live
2009-12-13

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Gil Evans Orchestra - Stuttgart 1974

Here's an MP2 set I just came across... thought I could just as well share it...
Thanks a lot to the original seeder on dime!



Gil Evans Orchestra
Stuttgart (Germany), Mozartsaal, Liederhalle
July 22, 1974
(MP2)

Gil Evans - piano, conductor
Lew Soloff, Marvin Hannibal Peterson - trumpet
Peter Gordon, Pete Levin - french horn
Tom Malone - trombone, tuba, synthesizer
Howard Johnson - tuba
David Sanborn - alto sax, flute
John Stubblefield - tenor sax, flute
Trevor Koehler - baritone & soprano sax, flute
John Abercrombie, Paul Metzke - guitar
Don Pate - bass
Bruce Ditmas (?) - drums
Susan Evans, Warren Smith - percussion, vibes

1. Short Visit (7:00)
2. Kirisame (18:59)
3. Up from the Skies (9:53)
4. Cheryl (15:58) [inc, fades]
5. Amadama (9:40)

TT: 61:30

Sound: A-
Source: SWR 2 "Jazz Session" / 2006-10-12
Lineage: DVB-S@192, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast format)

Lenny Popkin - Paris 2002

Now here's a very special contribution, shared kindly by bhowani. It took me a while to edit the raw files I got, I did my best to remove clicks and make the listening as seemless as possible (since the moderators of the fine French jazz live show "Jazz Club" talk in between most tunes, there were a lot, and there remain some rough cuts).

Anyway, let's skip the technicalities and delve into the music. Popkin is one of the survivors of the Lennie Tristano school - and arguably one of the finest performing tenor players of these days where individualism is so trendy but can hardly be found. Popkin was born in 1941 and together with his wife Carol Tristano (son of Lennie's), pianist Connie Crothers (known also for collaborations with Max Roach) and a few others carries the flame and keeps the Tristano brand of jazz alive.

Also, Lenny Popkin doesn't take place in the web... or hardly does.

A video from this very concert can be viewed here. Another video with Gilles Naturel on bass can be found here.

And finally, there's a french interview here (including a discography at the end).



Lenny Popkin
Paris (France), Sunset
April 2, 2002

Lenny Popkin - tenor sax
Jean-Philippe Viret - bass
Carol Tristano - drums

CD1/63:01 - Set 1 & Set 2
1. unknown (4:14)
2. Just Friends (3:25)
3. Body and Soul (4:20)
4. All the Things You Are (2:46)
5. You Don't Know What Love Is (7:46)
6. unknown (5:03)
7. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (4:54)
8. How Deep Is the Ocean (10:43)
9. It Could Happen to You (8:22)
10. Out of Nowhere (5:44)
11. I'll Remember April (5:37)

CD2/39:26 - Set 3 & Interviews
1. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (2:03)
2. unknown (4:32)
3. (Back Home Again in) Indiana (5:18)
4. Embraceable You (5:05)
5. On Green Dolphin Street (7:09)
6. There Will Never Be Another You (4:07)
7. Stella by Starlight (5:26)
8. Lenny Popkin Interview (2:05)
9. Jean-Philippe Viert Interview (3:37)

TT: 102:27

Sound: A/A- (some glitches, noise, rough cut-ins/outs etc)
Source: France Musique "Jazz Club" / 2002
Lineage: FM > ? > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > TLH > FLAC (8,asb)

:: ubu edits ::

on all tracks: left channel 4.5dB boost, then 6dB boost on both channels
removed many clicks in CD1#5-7, CD2#5-6
deleted some dropouts where I found them
smoothened marks, added fades & silence between tracks where necessary


:: note from bhowani ::

bon voilà ce concert du trio de popkin à paris retransmis par la radio en FM.
comme je le disais dans mon post, j'avais demandé à un de mes amis de l'enregistrer..je ne suis donc pas capable de préciser les données techniques...

il y a les imperfections classiques des broadcasts radio et quelques morceaux sont TRES douloureusement coupés..
mais pour les amoureux de Popkin, le Pierrot Lunaire encore plus lunaire que Marsh, quasi désincarné, cet enregistrement est unique...

J'étais au premier rang...hypnotized...Grand souvenir musical, goose flesh while writing these lines...
N'hésitez pas à me demander plus de détails...j'ai laissé les 2 interviews en français.... .

Le tout est l'intégrale du concert retransmis sur France Musique en 2002...il y a eu 3 sets au total
les 2 premiers sont sur le CD 1
et le 3ème avec les 2 interviews sur le CD 2

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)

Wayne Shorter - Village Vanguard 1965 (with Herbie Hancock)

There was a request for this set in a recent Sonny Rollins set I put up, where Hancock was among the sidemen. This, alas, is no pleasure to listen to, sound is really bad. But of course it's still worth trying... probably a good way is to play one or two songs, and then once your ears got used to the sound, start anew again.

So what do we get here? A pure classic show by Wayne Shorter, recorded at the Village Vanguard with Herbie Hancock, Gary Peacock and Tony Williams - if this was in prime sound, it might as well be a favorite, but as it is, it's more a curiosity of historical value.
This seems to come from the midst of a period of inactivity of Miles' band - Peacock was one of the bass players who subbed occasionally when Carter was unavailable (others were Richard Davis and Al Stinson). Coincidentally, Miles' return to the scene took place at the Village Vanguard and with Peacock as well, in late 1965 (see here).



Wayne Shorter Quartet
New York City (USA), Village Vanguard
August 1, 1965

Wayne Shorter - tenor sax
Herbie Hancock - piano
Gary Peacock - bass
Tony Williams - drums

1. The Eye of the Hurricane (10:15)
2. Just in Time (9:35)
3. Oriental Folk Song (12:02)
4. Virgo (7:09)
5. Fran-Dance (6:06)

TT: 45:09

Sound: B
Lineage: aud? > tape > cd-r > EAC(secure mode) > wav > flac(7)(asb)
Edited by ubu, ripped today from CDR (w/EAC, secure, log) > TLH > FLAC (8)

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (5/5)

Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974

For the fifth and final volume, we mostly stay with Johnny Hodges, starting out with some cuts from a session featuring Ray Nance, Jimmy Hamilton, Lawrence Brown, Billy Strayhorn, and the mid-50s ducal rhythm section of Jimmy Woode and Sam Woodyard. Then we go on with Hodges, Hamilton and the rhythm section but get Clark Terry, Quentin "Butter" Jackson and Ray Nance added for another pair of tunes. To end this off, there are Carney's features from a 1961 concert by a Johnny Hodges touring unit, again with Lawrence Brown and Ray Nance in the band.
In between, we get a short but sweet and intriguing rarity: an audio recording (how great would it be to have this on video!) by an Ellington all star formation including Hodges, Carney, Oscar Pettiford and... Max Roach! Yes indeed!

Happy listening - hope you'll enjoy the great music in this little series!

Harry Carney lives!

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (4/5)

Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974

Volume four of the series goes into Johnny Hodges territory, and for the largest part, we're going to stay with Rabbit's band up to the end! The two partial dates included here are from when Hodges took time off the Ellington band to lead his own band, in the early fifties (he would be back by 1956). You hear one of the underrated Ellington trumpet greats, Harold "Shorty" Baker, on the first date, Clark Terry on the second, while Jimmy Hamilton and Lawrence Brown are on both. Call Cobbs (later with Albert Ayler) and a young Coltrane (not heard in solo) are on the first, as is early 50s Ellington drummer Louie Bellson, whom we heard on volume three of this compilation. On the second date, we get to hear the great Sonny Greer - one of the most important sidemen of Ellington's long career - as well as Ellington alter ego Billy Strayhorn on piano.

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (3/5)

Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974

The third volume takes the story a step further, including just two sessions: the entire Capitol date by Louie Bellson, featuring an intriguing mix of swing and modern musicians including Clark Terry, Juan Tizol, John Graas, Willie Smith, Wardell Gray, Wendell Marshall, and Billy Strayhorn, and then the full glorious "Harry Carney with Strings" album done in 1954 for Norman Granz' Clef label.
Programmed out of sequence, but I thought it fits in here better, you'll get the two Ellington sides from Granz' "The Jazz Scene" album - both featuring Harry Carney, backed by an orchestra, and of course he plays magnificently!

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (2/5)

Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974

The second volume continues the great small group sessions from the 1940s, including Carney's own H.R.S. session. He composed "Chili Con Carney" for Sandy Williams' session for the same label, and he was featured on a magnificient "Why Was I Born" on the Wax session with Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Jones, Lawrence Brown and Billy Strayhorn.