Kjetil Møster jazz sessions

Bergen Jazzforum invited Kjetil Møster and some friends to do a session at the USF Verftet Friday evening. Møster brought along Stian Westerhus (Khan, Puma, Monolithic), Ole Morten Vågan (Motif, Maria Kannegard Trio), Bjørnar Habbestad (Lemur) and Kenneth Kapstad (Motorpsycho, Monolithic, Animal Alpha).
Of course this turned out to be a great evening, with some free impro, some jazz, some noise and Vågan and Kapstad even built a jazz rock groove towards the end. The band seemed very happy to play, and came running on stage to do an encore. Tough gang!
I salute serious musicians who smile on stage! Always!
You may watch a video on YouTube, but be warned, the sound is terrible.

Unknown legends of Rock 'n' Roll

Unknown Legends of Rock and Roll
Originally uploaded by svennevenn

Robert Wyatt is interviewed in Richie Unterbergers book "Unknown legends of Rock 'n' Roll" (Backbeat 1998). Wyatt claims he makes music because he's got a strange feeling of a "constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done". He also talks about cover tunes, of which he has made some (I’m a believer, At last I am free, Grass etc), and he doesn't see the big difference between doing cover songs and his own material. Example: Elvis Presley was never known to sing Big Mama Thornton covers, since he made every song his own.

You'll find some obscure artists in the book, but to the well educated readers of this blog, several will be well known (of course!). More on the artists in the book here. If you read "Unknown legends of Rock 'n' Roll" you are ready for a third degree pop quiz anytime. Marc Bolan? Oh he was in Johns Children!
You also get a CD with 12 songs.

Again thanks to john b.

Ian Carr (1933-2009)

Labyrinth
Originally uploaded by svennevenn

We loose too many musicians these days, and the blog may start to resemble a graveyard, but we have to say goodbye to trumpet player and author Ian Carr who died 25 February. I listened a lot to Carr in the 70s and loved some of the Nucleus albums. Later i read (and liked) the books on British jazz and Miles Davis.
More on Ian Carr at All About Jazz, Speakeasy Jazzcorner and on the Carr/Nucleus site.

Chicago Tentet in Oslo

Check out jirdavis' pictures of Chicago Tentet on Flickr from the Oslo concerts this month. At the bottom of the post you get a drum duo from Michael Zerang and Paal Nilssen-Love, and you may watch the whole gang here.
Groove.no review (in Norwegian) Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Festival, and tell us that The Fat is Gone didn't play as scheduled. Pity for the ones who were there. Buy the CD with the live recording from Molde!

Blitz

Portugise magazine Blitz (#33, 2009) does a piece on Robert Wyatts' reissues on Domino.
They say: "As recentes reedições de ROBERT WYATT inspiram a Rui Miguel Abreu uma página de reflexão".

Electric Ladyland

We are living in times of 40 year celebrations (1968 and 1969 you know). One of the milestones of the old days is out again as Jimi Hendrix Experiences "Electric Ladyland: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition". This edition has a DVD documentary. Has anybody here seen it, and is Robert Wyatt on it (or in the booklet)?
Soft Machine and Hendrix toured together, and Wyatt has described Hendrix as a real gentleman.

Vince Taylor

Let's a get a bit of rockin' in this blog!
No, "Brand New Cadillac" is not a Clash song. I've got Vince Taylor and The Playboys' version on a sampler (various artists) with this (pretty rude) cover, and it's the only Taylor song I have so far. Now Ace have issued a new Vince Taylor album called "Jet Black Leather Machine", so my knowledge of this artist just might get a bit better.
Watch "Twenty flight rock" from 1960, or find some other ones on YouTube. Leather pants were cooler in the 60s than the 80s, weren't they?