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Date: 21 Dec 2000 08:06:34 -0800
From: Dan Given <dlgiven@altavista.com>
Subject: Schlippenbach (was Re: 2000)
> From: Scott Handley <thesubtlebody@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: BEST OF 2000
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> - --- Dan Given <dlgiven@altavista.com> wrote:
> > Alexander von Schlippenbach -- Light Blue (Enja)
> > Joelle Leandre/Tetsu Saitoh -- Joelle et Tetsu
> > (Omba)
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> What's this Schlippenbach like? For whatever reason,
> it seem like an unusual prospect for Enja to release
> Schlip. And how's that Leandre/Saitoh?
Light Blue is subtitled Schlippenbach plays Monk. It is a really good straight ahead jazz album, with Ino Nubiyoshi on bass and Sunny Murray on drums. If you are familiar with Smoke (the Schlippenbach/Murray duo on FMP) then imagine that with a bassist. Though on the surface AvS seems an odd person to record for Enja, it fits right in to their catalogue.
Schlippenbach is, in my opinion, one of the "avant garde" players who most has the ability to work closely in the jazz tradition; his playing and composing can both be seen as extensions of Monk, in the same way that Misha Mengelberg can be rooted in Herbie Nichols. I think the stuff that most blows me away are the compositions on the Backgrounds for Improvisers, which are very Monk-ish.
I'm curious about the Schlippenbach 3 (or is it 4?) disc on Atavistic. Anyone here heard it and want to recommend it? How's the performance, sound, etc. I haven't gotten around to picking it up yet.
And, to answer Scott's question, the Leandre/Siatoh disc is sheer beauty. Two virtuoso players in complete harmony. One of my favorite Leandre discs.
Dan
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:19:25 -0400
From: mwoodwor <mwoodwor@is2.dal.ca>
Subject: top 15
Okay - it's all starting to blur together - but thanks to everyone
else who's posted 'best of' lists my 'wanted Cd's' list has
increased substantially. For what it's worth here's my top 15 of the year
the - the top 5 are in no particular order!
15. The Fonda/Stevens Group - Live at the Bunker
14. Vandermark 5 - Burn the Incline
13. Susie Ibarra - Flower after Flower
12. Joe Morris - Live at the Knitting Factory
11. Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
10. Dave Douglas - A thousand Evenings
9. Chicago Underground Trio - Flamethrower
8. Thomas lehn/Marcus Schmickler - Bart
7. Mats Gustafsson/Flaten/Nilssen-love - The Thing
6. Dean Roberts - And the Black Moth plays the Grand Cinema
5. Stockhausen and Walkman - Organ Transplants Vol 2
4. Bill Dixon - Berlin Abbozzi
3. Burnt Friedman - Con Ritmo
2. Jim Black - Alas No Axis
1. Fred Frith - Traffic Continues
Top 2 Albums from 1999 that I am still listening to in 2000
1. John Wall - Constructions I-IV
2. Arto Lindsay - the prize
Top 2 Albums that have just been released in 2000 that I'm almost
positive would have been in my top 15 if I had heard them
1. Joe Mcphee/Hamid Drake (new on Okka)
2. Ellery Eskelin Trio - Secret Museum (new on Hatology)
Actually, has anyone heard either of these 2 new releases???
wudzy.
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:15:46 +0100
From: Tim Blechmann <TimBlechmann@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: 60's jazz
I just want to add:
John Coltrane - Ascension
John Coltrane - Live in Japan
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Carla Bley - Escalator over the hills
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Early 70's, but you can call it 60's jazz:
Sun Ra - Space is the place
Keith Jarrett - Death And The Flower
PEACE
Tim mailto:TimBlechmann@gmx.de
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:35:03 +0100
From: "Robert van Heumen" <robertvanheumen@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: top 15
> 1. Fred Frith - Traffic Continues
oops, missed that one! i wonder if i heard this music at this modern dance
performance? is it very soundtrack-like? with traffic sounds, distorted
