Recording from Gil Evans´ Concert in Jazzhouse Montmartre, Copenhagen 13. juli 1986.
Lew Soloff – Trumpet / Miles Evans – Trumpet / Shunzo Ono – Trumpet / David Taylor – Trombone / Tom Malone – Trombone / Chris Hunter – Alto Saxophone / John Surman – Barytone Saxophone / Dave Bardien – French Horn / Delmar Brown – Keyboard / Gill Evans – Keyboard / Kenwood Dennard – Drums / Marilyn Mazur – Guest (Percussions) / Palle Mikkelborg – Guest (Trumpet)
[via Ronnie Rocket]
From the album Bearer of the Holy Flame by Hamiet Bluiett, recorded on July 25 in 1983 and released in 1984 on Black Fire.
Tracks on Bearer of the Holy Flame : Footprints / EBU / Song Song / Headless Blues / I´ll Close My Eyes / Gumbo (Vegetarian Style)
Hamiet Bluiett – Baritone Sax, Clarinet, Alto flute
John Hicks – Piano
Fred Hopkins – Bass
Marvin Smitty Smith – Drums
Chief Bey – African Drums, Percussion
All The Things You Are is from the album Town Hall 1972 by Anthony Braxton, recorded on 22 May 1972 at Town Hall, NYC
For those seeking the deep roots of Anthony Braxton´s numbered series of compositions — numbering close to 200 — this 1972 concert is essential in that it features live recordings of “Composition 1″ (for percussionist Jerome Cooper), “Composition 2″ (for pianist Frederic Rzewski), and “Composition 3.” This marks a return home, albeit a temporary one, for the composer and multi-instrumentalist — Braxton left the United States for France in 1968, where he made a few recordings for European labels. Braxton showcases his work in a number of settings here — in a pair of trios with bassist Dave Holland and drummers Phillip Wilson and Barry Altschul, and on “Composition 3″ (for vocalist Jeanne Lee) saxophonist John Stubblefield and Lee herself become a part of the band. Also in the mix is in a wildly abstract but street-tough read of “All the Things You Are.” On “Composition 1,” Braxton, Holland, and Wilson establish early on what would be a trait in the composer’s improvisations, which is the notion of a theme thoroughly stated, abstracted, deconstructed, and reconstructed into something wholly other while remaining recognizable. Critics have argued this, but those who deny it just don’t listen closely enough. Here Braxton´s first quotations from Warne Marsh make their way onto tape, and his manner of shifting pitch against chromatic and even whole-tone harmonics to create the appearance of diatonic abstraction comes into play as the body of the work. Holland plays away from it, moving toward Braxton´s outer reach while Wilson moves inside the thematic construct, opening it up enough to keep Holland within reach of the subtle shifts some of the improvisation requires for articulation. [source]
Anthony Braxton – Alto Saxophone
Dave Holland - Bass
Philip Wilson - Percussion
[dedicated as a tribute to Ronnie Rocket]
Under The Sun is recorded in July 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri under the sun. The album is produced by the Committee for Universal Justice and released in 1974 on Universial Justice Records.
Side A. “Lover´s Desire” (26:00) is a free music symphony based on an Afganistan folk melody, ‘Lover’s Desire’ transcribed from radio Kabul. Arranged by Charles W. Shaw, James Marshall, Marty Ehrlich. Side B. “Hazrat, The Sufi” (22:00) is composed by James Marshall and arranged by Charles W. Shaw, James Marshall, Marty Ehrlich.
Lester Bowie – Trumpet
Oliver Lake – Alto Sax
Marty Erlich – Alto Sax, Tin Flute, Small Instruments
Carol Marshall – Vocal and Small Instruments
James Marshall – Alto Sax, Wooden Flutes, Punji (Snake Charmer Flute), Small Instruments
J.D. Parran – Bass Clarinet, Soprano Sax, Flute, Piccolo, Harmonica, Small Instruments
Victor Reef – Trombone
Charles Bobo Shaw, Jr – Drums
Butch Smith – Bass
Abdallah Yakub – Percussion, Small Instruments, Voice
Alan Suits – Tamboura
Vincent Terrell – Cello
Conference Of The Birds is the titletrack (last track on side A) on the album by bassist Dave Holland.
Conference of the Birds is an album by the Dave Holland Quartet, recorded in 1972 and released in 1973. It is jazz bassist Holland’s second collaboration with composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton, as well as his second album on EMC records. The liner notes describe how birds would congregate each morning outside Holland’s London apartment and join with one another in song.
Each piece on the album is “open form,” with a theme stated at the beginning to set key, tempo, and mood. The players are then free to improvise in whatever direction they choose. Stuart Nicholson writes: “Conference of the Birds emerged as a definitive statement of swinging free expression. It was, in essence, a return to the rugged discipline of early 1960s free improvising by working off melodic foundations using the ‘time, no changes’ principle to achieve greater control over that elusive quarry, freedom.”[source]
All compositions by Dave Holland: Four Winds / Q & A / Conference of the Birds / Interception / Now Here (Nowhere) / See-Saw
Dave Holland – Bass
Sam Rivers – Reeds, Flute
Anthony Braxton – Reeds, Flute
Barry Altschul – Percussion, Marimba
