vendredi 27 janvier 2012

Beaver Harris 360° Music Experience – From Rag Time To No Time (1975)


Beaver Harris 360° Music Experience – From Rag Time To No Time

Tracklist:

Drum Solo
A1 A.M. Rag - Drum Solo 2:43
Transition (0:23)
A2 Can There Be Peace? 2:21
A3 It´s Hard But We Do 6:57
Transition (0:19)
A4 I Wish I Knew 2:44
Transition (0:23)

B1 Round Trip (Part 1) 13:13
B2 Round Trip (Part 2) 9:47
Introduction (Bass Duet, African Percussion, Space Notes, Prayer) Is Glo There (Transition) Down In Brazil (Transition) African Drums (Cadenza) No Time (Space Notes, Drum Solo)

Arranged By – Dave Burrell (tracks: B), Marshall Brown (tracks: A)
Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Howard Johnson (3)
Bass – Cecil McBee, Jimmy Garrison (tracks: A2, A4), Ron Carter (tracks: A1, A3, B)
Clarinet – Herb Hall
Conca, Quica, Cymbal [Finger], Percussion [Lingala] – Titos Sompa
Conga, Percussion [Lingala] – Coster Massamba, Auguste Malonga Quasquelourd*
Drums – Beaver Harris
Drums, Cymbal [Finger] – Beaver Harris
Flute – Keith Marks
Percussion – Leopoldo
Piano – Dave Burrell
Sitar – Sunil Garg
Steel Drums – Francis Haynes
Trumpet – Doc Cheatham
Valve Trombone, Euphonium – Marshall Brown
Vocals – Bill Willingham, Maxine Sullivan

A recorded on January 20th and February 11th, 1975
B recorded on December 11th, 1974

Ripped from lp.

https://rapidshare.com/files/2971438261/360-FMRGTMNOTM.zip

Raymond Boni and Joe McPhee - Voices & Dreams (2000)



Raymond Boni / Joe McPhee - Voices & Dreams

1 Voices I 7:12
2 Dream I 10:00
3 Voices II 12:28
4 Dream II 6:47
5 Voices III 11:10
6 Dream III 8:20
7 Voices IV 11:03

Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet [Pocket Trumpet] -Joe McPhee
Electric Guitar - Raymond Boni

Live recorded at Horlieu (Lyon) on May 5th (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6) and at Parentheses (Marseilles) on May 9th & 10th 2000 (tracks 3, 5, 7)

Wonderful album. McPhee's sax and trumpet sing on Boni's guitar sounding like fantastic curtain.

https://rapidshare.com/files/3327827821/RB-JM-VD.zip

samedi 14 janvier 2012

Joe McPhee With Bill Smith Ensemble - Visitation (1983)


Joe McPhee With Bill Smith Ensemble - Visitation

Tracklist :
1. Exuma
Composed By - Joe McPhee 4:15
2. Eleuthera
Composed By - Joe McPhee 10:03
3. Home At Last
Composed By - Bill Smith 6:14
4. Ghosts
Composed By - Albert Ayler 7:05
5. If I Don´t Fall
Composed By - David Prentice 5:34
6. A-Configuration
Composed By - Bill Smith 8:05

Bass - David Lee
Drums - Richard Barnard
Flugelhorn, Trumpet [Pocket], Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone - Joe McPhee
Soprano Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Producer, Design - Bill Smith
Violin - David Prentice

Recorded at McClear Palace Studios, Toronto on November 6, 1983.

Joe's work in 80s. Jazzy and bluezy in avand-garde spirit.


http://www.multiupload.com/98SMDCB5NH

vendredi 13 janvier 2012

Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio - Big Cliff (1994)


Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio Special Guest Billy Bang - Big Cliff

1 Another Kind Of Groove 10:13
2 Big Cliff 19:47
3 For The Love Of My Father 13:06
4 Blue Rwanda 21:16


Bass - Malachi Favors
Drums, Percussion [African Drums], Performer [Thumb Piano] - Kahil El'Zabar
Saxophone [Tenor], Piano - Ari Brown
Violin - Billy Bang

Recorded on 3 September 1994 at Underground Fest.

https://rapidshare.com/files/1196355808/KEZ-BC.lzh

mercredi 11 janvier 2012

Joe McPhee - As Serious As Your Life (1996)


Joe McPhee - As Serious As Your Life

1 The Death Of Miles Davis 6:28
2 A Wish In One Hand 6:42
3 Ain't Nothin' But The Blues 5:30
4 As Serious As Your Life 1 9:11
5 Haiku Study 1 4:43
6 Conlon In The Land Of Ra 5:10
7 The Man I Love
Composed By - George Gershwin 6:47
8 Tok 2:27
9 As Serious As Your Life 2 3:21
10 After The Rain
Composed By - John Coltrane 5:26
11 Party Lights 1:03

Trumpet [Pocket], Reeds - Joe McPhee

Recorded on 27 May 1996

Wonderful solo works of Joe in the middle of 90s.
This is rare album. difficult to find out

http://www.multiupload.com/5AL9F1DTQJ

lundi 9 janvier 2012

Arthur Blythe - In Concert: Metamorphosis / The Grip (1977)

Arthur Blythe - In Concert: Metamorphosis / The Grip

1 My Son Ra 3:22
2 Lower Nile 4:01
3 As Of Yet 12:35
4 The Grip 7:11
5 Sunrise Service 7:51
6 Metamorphosis 8:08
7 Spirits In The Field
Composed By - Walter Lowe 8:32
8 Duet For Two 17:59
9 Shadows 7:48

Composed By - Arthur Blythe (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 9)


Alto Saxophone - Arthur Blythe
Cello - Abdul Wadud
Drums - Steve Reid
Percussion - Muhammad Abdullah
Trumpet - Ahmed Abdullah
Tuba - Bob Stewart

Recorded live at The Brook, 40 W. 17 Street, New York City, February 26, 1977.

This combination of two lp (issued from India-Navigation) of Live recording, namely
"The grip" and "Metamorphosis". These two lps have been already reissued in one CD with changing orders of titles. But this CD is very rare and difficult to be found out.

Hoping this hot live will be reissued again.

mardi 3 janvier 2012

Joe McPhee Quartet - Legend Street One (1996)



Joe McPhee Quartet - Legend Street One

Tracklist:
1 Loweville 2:12
2 What We Do 7:12
3 Memorium 5:33
4 For Panama, Parts 1&2 7:42
5 Up, Over And Out 9:16
6 July The 13th 5:22
7 Not Yet 6:05
8 Trading Space 9:40

Tenor Saxophone - Frank Lowe
Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Trumpet [Pocket], Flugelhorn - Joe McPhee
Typography [Typesetting] - Hillary J. Ryan
Violin - David Prentice
Drums - Charles Moffett

Recorded at The Spirit Room, Rossie, NY, June 1 & 2, 1996.

Two avangarde tenor giants .... Joe McPhee and Frank Lowe collaborate!

http://www.multiupload.com/BDY2PRYQKN

Steve Lacy - Wordless (1971)


Steve Lacy - Wordless

Tracklist:
1 Existence 5:55
2 The Way 3:35
3 Bone 7:30
4 Name 8:30
5 The Breath 9:00
6 Prologue A Life On Its Way 5:30

Bass - Kent Carter
Cello - Irene Aebi
Design [Graphic] - Gilles Coussine
Drums - Jerome Cooper
Soprano Saxophone, Composed By - Steve Lacy
Trumpet - Ambrose Jackson

Recorded at the Theatre de l'Epee de Bois, Paris on January 4, 1971.

Starting of "Steve Lacy's unit" in Europe.

https://rapidshare.com/files/4286724019/SS-WDL.zip

Sonny Sharrock Trio - Dance With Me Montana (1982)


Sonny Sharrock Trio - Dance With Me Montana

Tracklist:
1 Dick Dogs 3:58
2 Dance With Me Montana 10:06
3 Slow Drag 5:09
4 Marpasa Dawn/Song To Chester 4:21
5 74-75 2:40
6 She´s Only Fourteen 8:44
7 Purple, Blue, Green And Yellow
Written-By - Pharoah Sanders 5:17
8 74-75 2:47
9 Marpasa Down / Song To Chester 4:19
10 Slow Drag 6:45
11 Dance With Me Montana 11:41
12 Dicks Dogs 3:52

Guitar, Composed By - Sonny Sharrock
Bass - Kendall Buchanan
Drums - Levender Cope

Rec at Jazz Unite (Paris - La Defense)29 and 30 March 1982

Sonny Sharrock's 80s work. Sounds like James Blood Ulmer of 80s.

https://rapidshare.com/files/2776153296/SS-DWMM.zip

lundi 2 janvier 2012

Anthony Braxton - Five Compositions (1986)

Anthony Braxton - Five Compositions (Quartet)

Tracklist:
1 Composition No. 131 7:09
2 Composition No. 88 (+108C) 5:56
3 Composition No. 124 (+108D+96) 9:07
4 Composition No. 122 (+108+96) 9:33
5 Composition No. 101 (+31+86+30) 11:31

Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Saxophone [C-melody], Clarinet, Flute - Anthony Braxton
Bass - Mark Dresser
Drums - Gerry Hemingway
Piano - David Rosenboom

Recorded July 2 and 3, 1986 at Barigozzi Studio, Milano.

Nice work of Braxton in the middle 80s, though maybe not a masterpiece. Well-balanced composed part and improvisation show
his intelligent attitude to music. Braxton uses a rare one in saxphone family .... C-melody saxphone.

http://www.multiupload.com/M8D6FDVUTW