Duos on Rune

I´m a bit late with these two albums on Rune Grammofon, but finally having had time to listen, consider this a recommendation of the two, and check them out yourselves!
And with great music, you are never too early or too late. True?



Evan Parker & Joe McPhee: "What/If/They Both Could Fly" (Rune 2013) is a recording from the Kongsberg Jazz Festival 2012, and you may even watch a few minutes from the concert in the video above.



James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love: "Death Rattle" (Rune 2013) is a wild, raw and fantastic guitar - drum duo album! Just listen to the track "The Skin, The Colour", worth the money by itself!

News from Rune

Two new ones and one upcoming on Rune Grammofon

Evan Parker & Joe McPhee: "What/If/They Both Could Fly":



James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love: "Death":



Bushman´s Revenge: "Thou Shalt Boogie!"

Concert for Fukushima

Pan Rec and Trost Rec will release a benefit concert film with Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet and guests, from the Music Unlimited Festival (Wels, Austria) 2011.
Proceeds from the concert and film go to the Japanese organization "Save Takata" and to "Project Fukushima!" (launched by among others Yoshihide Otomo).

Musicians: Johannes Bauer, Jeb Bishop, Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Per-Âke Holmlander, Kent Kessler, Toshinori Kondo, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, Yoshihide Otomo, Akira Sakata, Ken Vandermark, Michiyo Yagi, Michael Zerang.

More info on the film and support projects on YouTube.

Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1 22/04/2011

Krioet recently uploaded several videos of Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1 at Café Ada in Wuppertal (Germany), from April 2011.

Musicians: Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Joe Mcphee, Johannes Bauer, Jeb Bishop, Per-Åke Holmlander, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerang, Paal Nilssen-Love.

More videos over here.

November festival

Lemur at Gråmølna from Lemur on Vimeo.

To kick off November, we are having a little festival today. The artists (top to bottom):

Michiyo Yagi Double Trio : Michiyo Yagi (21-string koto, vocal), Todd Nicholson (bass), Takashi Sugawa (bass), Tamaya Honda (drums), Noritaka Tanaka (drums) Live at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo (Japan), 2 September 2011.

Decoy: Steve Noble (drums), Alex Hawkins (piano), John Edwards (bass) + Joe McPhee (sax, trumpet). Cafe Oto (London) 29 October 2011.

Liarbird: Ola Kvernberg (violin), Bergmund Skaslien (viola), Håkon Kornstad (sax), Eirik Hegdal (sax), Ingebrikt Håker Flaten (bass) ,Ole Morten Vågan (bass), Torstein Lofthus (drums), Eirik Nylander (drums), Mathias Eick (trumpet). Bergen Jazzforum (Norway) 28 October 2011.

Lemur: Bjørnar Habbestad (flute), Michael Francis Duch (bass), Hild Sofie Tafjord (French horn) and Lene Grenager (cello). Gråmølna Art Gallery, Trondheim (Norway) (2011).

Joe McPhee and Ken Vandermark

Joe McPhee and Ken Vandermark at The Stone (NYC) in March 2011 (YouTube).

Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet +1 touring

The great Chicago Tentet are touring these days, and stopped for three days at Café Oto in London. Let´s have three videos from London, right here!
The musicians: Peter Brötzmann (Reeds), Joe McPhee (Pocket Trumpet/Reeds), Mats Gustafsson (Reeds), Ken Vandermark (Reeds), Paal Nilssen-Love (Drums/Percussion), Fred Lonberg-Holm (Cello), Per Åke Holmlander (Tuba), Johannes Andreas Bauer (Trombone), Michael Zerang (Drums/Percussion), Kent Kessler (Bass), Jeb Bishop (Trombone).

A film on Peter Brötzmann, named "Rage", also seems to be on it´s way.

All Ears 2011

The program for All Ears 2011  is ready! The festival is held in  Oslo 13 - 16 January. It might be really cold in Oslo at that time, but at least your ears will be warm.
Zeena Parkins and Maja S. K. Ratkje are on the first day, Joe McPhee will play solo and in a trio,  Fred Lonberg-Holm will play solo and in a band with among others Kjetil Møster, the two fine men of Isglem (Terje Isungset and Karl Seglem) are ready and  Peter Brötzmann is coming, just to mention a few.

All Ears is run by Lasse Marhaug, Guro S. Moe and Paal Nilssen-Love.

Video festival

I could not make up my mind, to make best-of- lists or not today, and made a little video festival instead. I have got the impression that YouTube videos stops restarts and stops again more often than before,  but hopefully you can enjoy these great musicians.

These are quite fresh videos on YouTube, and from the top you may watch:
- Sidsel Endresen, Michiyo Yagi and Håkon Kornstad.
- The Thing with Joe McPhee (lots of new The Thing videos out there!).
- Trio Sonore (Vandermark, Gustafsson, Brötzmann).
- Free Fall (Vandermark, Wiik, Håker Flaten).
- Peter Brötzmann, Takashi Sugawa and Inage Candy.

Joe McPhee & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

Joe McPhee (sax) and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten´s "Blue Chicago Blues" ( Not Two 2010) is out there to grab.
These guys have played together in The Thing, and the album is so great! We don´t get standard blues numbers here, but it´s blue enough. Listen to the howling  "Requiem for an empty heart", with McPhee sing-playing the saxophone, the whirling "The shape of blues to come", with Flaten using the bow and the sad final number, with the nice title, "Legend of the three blind moose"!
Almost too cheap on iTunes!

Joe McPhee has recorded lots of duo albums, among others "Tomorrow came today" with Paal Nilssen-Love (Smalltown 2008), so when  Mats Gustafsson  hopefully get´s his duo recording with McPhee, all the fine men of The Thing have got their own.