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A Night at the Jazz Riots
DEATH RATTLE LOCOMOTIVE Peter Brotzmann and Bill Laswell Low Life Celluloid : 1987 PB, bass saxophone; BL, electric bass, loops, etc. “Yeah, so maybe I was looking for a fight that night. But mainly I was jacked up to see the Twitch City reunion. Even Asshole Chuck was playing drums for them again. My buddies and I swallowed some speed and were [...]
Publ.Date : Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:06:58 +0000

Solo Tubes : A guest post by Dave Douglas
We at D:O are incredibly honored to be able to present the following guest post from composer, trumpeter, blogger, label magnate, and all-around brass advocate Dave Douglas. If you like what you read and hear here, be sure to check out Dave’s own wonderful recent work. Enjoy. * * * It’s an unusual breed, the solo trumpet recording. [...]
Publ.Date : Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:28:49 +0000

Power to the Polka
DOING THE POLKA Frank Wright Quartet Last Polka in Nancy? Center of the World : 1973 FW, tenor sax; Bobby Few, piano; Alan Silva, bass; Muhammad Ali, drums. What? Yeah: polka. The title of Frank Wright’s 1973 live album is no joke and neither is “Doing the Polka.” This is a genuine free jazz polka. No wait! Keep reading — because [...]
Publ.Date : Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:40:20 +0000

World Party
BEAMS MOVEMENT FACE IN THE CROWD The Joe Harriott Quintet Movement Columbia : 1964 JH, alto sax; Shake Keane, trumpet, flugelhorn; Pat Smythe, piano; Coleridge Goode, bass; Bobby Orr, drums. “I don’t want to be equal. I want to be superior…. All the others, they play inside the room, in here. What I play is out de window, out de window!” –Joe Harriott So there [...]
Publ.Date : Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:53:44 +0000

Choreography
IOLA BELLY BUTTON THE ART OF LEVITATION Ronald Shannon Jackson and The Decoding Society Man Dance Antilles : 1982 RSJ, drums; Vernon Reid, electric guitar and banjo; Henry Scott, trumpet and flugelhorn; Zane Massey, saxophones; Melvin Gibbs, electric bass; Reverend Bruce Johnson, electric bass. Of all the neglected jazz from the 1980s, one of the most fertile untapped veins is the music of Ronald [...]
Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:51:08 +0000

EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREVIEW: Steve Lehman Octet
ECHOES Steve Lehman Octet Travail, Transformation, and Flow Pi : 2009   SL, alto sax; Jonathan Finlayson; trumpet; Mark Shim, tenor sax; Tim Albright, trombone; Jose Davila, tuba; Chris Dingman, vibraphone; Drew Gress, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums. At D:O we mostly focus on uncovering the buried riches of jazz’s past. But of course there’s lots of vital jazz being made now. To help spotlight [...]
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:55:44 +0000

Better Git It in Your Soul
BRA JOE FROM KILIMANJARO > JABULANI-EASTER JOY > WAYA-WA-EGOLI > SWAZI > WAYEAH-WAYEAH-O The Third World Underground Trio : 1972 Don Cherry, trumpet, percussion, vocals; Carlos Ward, also sax, percussion, vocals; Dollar Brand, piano, vocals. This is pure pleasure. The sole album from The Third World trio is so rare that it’s easy to discount. There’s the slightest tang of collector-bait obscurity, the [...]
Publ.Date : Tue, 26 May 2009 20:59:00 +0000

YAWP!
ALTO SOLO 1 Kaoru Abe Solo, Thursday Evening 1972 [Mokuyoubi no yoru ] PSF. Records : 1995 KA, alto sax. Summer may be about to kick into full swing, but before people head off into holiday weekends, short Fridays, and beach sojourns — here’s something to serve as a palette cleanser. Think of this track as a tonic to clear all the residual bad shit [...]
Publ.Date : Wed, 20 May 2009 03:23:45 +0000

The Limits of Reality
DOCTOR ONI PULADI Carla Bley / Mike Mantler / Steve Lacy / Kent Carter / Aldo Romano Jazz Realities Fontana : 1966 CB, piano; MM, trumpet; SL, soprano sax; KC, bass; AR, drums. So this is–  what, exactly? Too knotty for post-bop. Too compositional for free improv. Not harmolodic enough to be mistaken for Ornette. Not skronky enough to have been released on ESP. Not [...]
Publ.Date : Tue, 12 May 2009 21:28:01 +0000

Ware in the World
AQUARIAN SOUND YESTERDAYS David S. Ware Flight of I DIW : 1992 DSW, tenor sax; Matthew Shipp, piano; William Parker, bass; Marc Edwards, drums. The David S. Ware Quartet was the great working group of the 1990s. Given how much this band touches on the key tropes of D:O — forging links between New Thing and old traditions; melding beauty with [...]
Publ.Date : Thu, 07 May 2009 15:51:50 +0000

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