Sirone Bang Ensemble - Configuration (2004)

Sirone Bang Ensemble - Configuration

Tracklist:
1 Jupiter's Future 15:51
2 Freedom Flexibility 6:06
3 We Are Not Alone But We Are Few 14:05
4 I Remember Albert 13:56
5 Notre Dame De La Garde 7:28
6 Configuration 8:34

Drums - Tyshawn Sorey
Violin - Billy Bang
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone - Charles Gayle
Bass - Sirone
Composed By - Billy Bang (tracks: 1, 3, 5), Sirone (tracks: 2, 4, 6)

The session was recorded by Nicholas Gardere on November 9th, 2004,
at CBGB's Gallery, 313 Bowery, NYC.

Exiting ensemble of Sirone, Billy Bang and Charles Gayle.

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Leroy Jenkins with Jazz Composer's Orchestra, The - For Players Only (1975)

Leroy Jenkins with Jazz Composer's Orchestra, The - For Players Only (1975)


Tracklist
A For Players Only [Part One] 15:45
B For Players Only [Part Two] 20:35

Personnel:
Artwork By [Design] - Paul McDonough
Bass - David Holland , Sirone
Cello - Diedre Murray
Clarinet [Contrabass] - Anthony Braxton
Clarinet, Bagpipes [Musette], Horn [Banshee Horn] - Dewey Redman
Drums, Percussion - Charles Shaw , Roger Blank
Drums, Percussion, Piano - Jerome Cooper
Flute, Piccolo Flute - Becky Friend
French Horn - Sharon Freeman
Guitar - James Emery
Saxophone [Soprano] - Charles Brackeen
Saxophone [Tenor] - Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre*
Synthesizer - Romulus Franceschini
Trombone - Joseph Bowie
Trumpet - Leo Smith
Tuba - Bill Davis
Violin, Conductor, Producer, Composed By - Leroy Jenkins

Engineer - Tony May
Engineer [Mixing] - Michael Mantler
Mastered By - Harry N. Fein
Other [Assistance] - Fred Ehrhardt
Photography - Matthew Klein
Producer - The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, The


This is the final of series of JCOA with solo leader. This time, leader is Leroy Jenkins.

Sounds like middle period of Stravinsky's orchestral music. Very skillful, taste of modern classic music, rather than jazz.

Side B is series of solos by each instrument and player. This is very unique.

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Dave Burrell - High Won / High Two

Dave Burrell - High Won / High Two

Track list:

1 West Side Story (Medley)
Arranged By - Dave Burrell
Written-By - Bernstein 19:35

2 Oozi Oozi 3:07
3 Bittersweet Reminiscence 2:10
4 Bobby And Si 2:10
5 Dave Blue 2:35
6 Margie Pargie (A.M. Rag) 2:58

7 East Side Colors
Drums - Sonny Murray 15:15

8 Theme Stream (Medley) 15:23

Personnel:
Piano - Dave Burrell
Bass - Norris Jones
Drums - Bobby Kapp (tracks: 1 to 6, 8)
Tambourine - Pharoah Saunders

Written-By - Dave Burrell (tracks: 2 to 8)

Producer - Alan Douglas
Producer [Additional Production] - Michael Cuscuna
Artwork By - Malcolm Walker
Photography - Raymond Ross

Recorded in New York City, 6th February 1968 except East Side Colors (9th September 1968)

Last track Theme Stream (Medley) is subdivided in six parts :
(a) Dave Blue
(b) Bittersweet Reminiscence
(c) Bobby And Si
(d) Margie Pargie (A.M. Rag)
(e) Oozi Oozi
(f) Inside Ouch

This is re-issuance of vinyl of 1968 in 1995 with unissued trucks.

Dave Burrell plays rather normal style which includes free taste in limited level. But young Noris Jones (Sirone) seems to try to play in free style so that he can take Dave's piano and music into new and advanced style at that time.

Happeining of such inbalance plays between session members and tensions generated by such is one of interests of Jazz music, I guess.


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Cecil Taylor - 3 Phasis (1978)

Cecil Taylor - 3 Phasis (1978)

Track list
1 3 Phasis 11:10
2 3 Phasis 9:17
3 3 Phasis 11:52
4 3 Phasis 11:55
5 3 Phasis 13:06

personnel :
Piano - Cecil Taylor
Alto Saxophone - Jimmy Lyons
Trumpet - Raphe Malik
Violin - Ramsey Ameen
Bass - Sirone
Drums - Ronald Shannon Jackson

Engineer - Don Puluse
Producer - Sam Parkins

Recorded at April 1978.

Together with "Cecil Tylor unit 1978" and "Live at Black Forest", this "3 Phasis"
were recorded by Cecil Taylor Unit of 1978.
Since Alan Silva left the unit in 1966, Cecil Taylor unit had been in principle without bass.
And in this unit, combination of bass of Sirone (who once joined with Cecil in "Spring of two blue-J's in 1973) and
drums of Ronald Shannon Jackson generates different rhythm groove from Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille.

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Cecil Taylor - Live In The Black Forest (1978)

Cecil Taylor - Live In The Black Forest (1978)

Track list
A The Eel Pot 24:57
B Sperichill On Calling 25:08

Personnels:
Piano, Written-By - Cecil Taylor
Bass - Sirone
Drums - Ron Jackson
Saxophone [Alto] - Jimmy Lyons
Trumpet - Raphe Malik
Violin - Ramsey Ameen

Recorded live on 3 June 1978 in SWF-Radio Jazz Concert in Kirchzarten, Black Forest, West Germany.

This is one of four records of Cecil Taylor Unit of six personel in 1978 year. Live recording.
Cecil Taylor unit would remind us of Unit Structure and Conquistdor in 1966 year. Good mixture and balance of composed parts and free improvisation parts are similar to both units. On the other hand, passing of twelve years and different members (only Jimmy Lyons and Cecil Taylor himself are same personnels in both units) bring about changes in characteristics of music.

This is converted from casset tape into mp3. I think quality is enough to introduce this wonderful music, though not ideal.

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Cecil Taylor Unit (1978)

Cecil Taylor Unit (1978)

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.
"Idut" - 14:40
"Serdab" - 14:13
"Holiday En Masque" - 29:41

Personnel
Cecil Taylor: piano
Jimmy Lyons: alto saxophone
Raphe Malik: trumpet
Ramsey Ameen: violin
Sirone: bass
Ronald Shannon Jackson: drums

Recorded : April 3–6, 1978


Cecil Taylor Unit is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded in April 1978
and released on the New World label. The album features three
performances by Taylor with Raphe Malik, Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen,
Sirone and Ronald Shannon Jackson. The album was recorded during the
same sessions that produced 3 Phasis.

This unit existed for five months only. But, during this five months,
four albums were recorded.


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Noah Howard - The Black Ark

NOAH HOWARD - The Black Ark (Freedom, 1969)

Noah Howard: alto saxophone
Arthur Doyle: tenor saxophone
Earl Cross: trumpet
Leslie Waldron: piano
Norris Jones (Sirone): bass
Juma (Juma Sultan): congas
Mohammed Ali: drums

1. Domiabra
2. Ole Negro
3. Mount Fuji
4. Queen Anne

Noah Howard's 1969 album The Black Ark has, in an unintended way, lived up to its name in recent years. It has become, to free jazz obsessives, a sort of Ark of the Covenant, a fabled and much sought after grail and jazz message boards lit up when it was announced that the British label Bo'Weavil would be putting the album out on CD.

Recent years have also shown a renewed interest in Howard's career, with new recordings on CIMP, Cadence, Ayler and Boxholder and an important reissue on Eremite pairing his 1971 album Patterns (by a sextet that included Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg) with an unreleased 18-minute track from 1979 called "Message to South Africa" (with Johnny Dyani, Kali Fasteau, Noel McGee and Chris McGregor), recorded for Mercury in France but unissued because of its perceived militancy.

The Black Ark was Howard's third record as a leader. Released by Polydor after two ESP titles, it should have been his breakthrough. Instead it broke him. Unhappy with the lack of support for free jazz in the states, within three years he had left for Paris, eventually moving again to Belgium where he still lives. Record labels at the time were scrambling to figure out what was going on in jazz as well as rock and many worthy albums didn't get the proper promotion and distribution and were lost in the shuffle.

But The Black Ark was one that should have risen to the top. It is, in a sense, the missing link between Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp. Simple yet insistent melodies scream through the twin saxophones of Howard and, on his recording debut, Arthur Doyle before breaking down into strident, freeform marches. Like Ayler and Shepp, Howard here favors tunes that feel like work songs, or even nursery rhymes. With a third horn (Earl Cross on trumpet), the front line flies over the rumbling rhythms of Leslie Waldron (piano), Norris Sirone Jones (bass), Mohammed Ali (drums) and Juma (conga). Compared to the mountains of recordings released in today's market, the discography of revolutionary (politically and musically) jazz from the late '60s is rather small and it's fantastic to hear another piece of the picture. (from AAJ)

HERE

Revolutionary Ensemble - Beyond the Boundary of Time

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE:
Leroy Jenkins: violin
Sirone: bass
Jerome Cooper: percussion, balafon, chiramia, keyboard

2008 BEYOND THE BOUNDARY OF TIME
Review

Revolutionary Ensemble - And Now ...

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE:
Leroy Jenkins: violin, harmonica, bells
Sirone: bass
Jerome Cooper: drums, percussion, keyboard

2004 AND NOW ...
Review

Revolutionary Ensemble - Manhattan Cycles

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE:
Leroy Jenkins: violin, viola
Sirone: bass
Jerome Cooper: drums, percussion, flute, bugle

1972 MANHATTAN CYCLES (LP)

Revolutionary Ensemble - Revolutionary Ensemble

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE:
Leroy Jenkins: violin, flute, kalimba
Sirone: bass, flute
Jerome Cooper: drums, percussion, flute, piano

1977 REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE (LP)

Revolutionary Ensemble - Vietnam

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE:
Leroy Jenkins: violin, viola, harmonica
Sirone: bass, cello, wooden flute
Jerome Cooper: percussion, bugle

1972 VIETNAM
Review

Revolutionary Ensemble - The Psyche

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE:
Leroy Jenkins: violin, viola
Sirone: bass
Jerome Cooper: drums, piano

When the Revolutionary Ensemble formed in the early ‘70s, the New Thing in jazz, disbursed mainly through the ESP label, had flamed brightly, been co-opted by political influences and developed into a more violent strain of free improvisation, a move from which it has yet to recover. What was happening concurrently was a total acceptance of any instrument into the jazz fold. Beneficiary of this benevolence was Leroy Jenkins, heir to the heritage of Stuff Smith but also the first to apply the dulcet tones of violin to a more experimental setting (at least in jazz).

After work with Archie Shepp and Alan Silva, and as a member of the woefully short-lived Creative Construction Company, Jenkins hooked up with bassist Sirone (né Norris Jones, who had been with Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown, Gato Barbieri and others) and younger drummer Jerome Cooper (fresh from Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s group). They formed the Revolutionary Ensemble and began working on “chamber jazz.” What this entails usually is an emphasis on string instruments (a reaction to the screeching saxophones that overpowered everything in their midst) and jazz-cum-classical compositional forms.

Sadly, for such an influential group, their five albums were released on five different labels, all out of print until now. Originally self-released, The Psyche was the third and thus far most accessible with three long pieces, one by each participant, featuring Jenkins’ cerebral tone, Sirone’s rich arco and Cooper’s percussion and surprisingly understated piano.

Though two of the three compositions are lengthy (accounting for 39 of the 47 minutes), you can focus on the subtle interactions between Jenkins and Sirone rather than struggling through the usual soup of a horn-based avant-garde session.

This review originally appeared in AllAboutJazz-New York .

1975 THE PSYCHE

Revolutionary Ensemble - The People's Republic

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE:
Leroy Jenkins: violin, viola, percussion, vocals
Jerome Cooper: drums, percussion, piano, bugle, vocals
Sirone: bass, percussion, trombone, vocals

1975 THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC