Reform ART unit Featuring The Americans - West East Suite

 RAU - 121610
Vinyl, Limited Edition of 95 copies
Released 21 Sep 2017

A1 - Songs Of July (Including <Witchi Tai To>)      
5:11
Bass Guitar – Dill Katz
Double Bass – Bleda Elibal
Drums – Brian Abrahams
Oud – Rabih Abou Khalil
Percussion [Tomback] – Mohammed Thamassebi
Piano – Paul Fields
Santoor – Levent Tarhan
Saxophone, Voice – Fritz Novotny, Jim Pepper
Vocals – Leena Conquest
Composed By Novotny, Pepper, Fields

A2 - East        
6:21
Clarinet – Fritz Novotny
Drums – Andrew Cyrille
Composed By Cyrille, Novotny

A3 - Pannonica. Pannonia
8:53
Percussion – Glen Hahn
Piano – Burton Greene
Soprano Saxophone – Fritz Novotny
Composed By Greene, Novotny, Monk

B1 - Ghana
6:30
Reeds, Percussion – Fritz Novotny, Walter Malli
Brass – Clifford Thornton, Franz Koglmann, Joseph Traindl, Sepp Mitterbauer
Keyboards – Giselher Smekal, Paul Fields
Bass – Heinz Jäger
Drums – Walter Schiefer
Composed By Thornton, Novotny

B2 - Double Three
12:32
Alto Saxophone – Anthony Braxton
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Fields
Soprano Saxophone – Walter Malli
Clarinet – Fritz Novotny
Double Bass – Heinz Jäger
Drums – Walter Schiefer
Composed By Braxton, Novotny

A1 — recorded 1990, July 6 at Vienna Town Hall (Rathaus, Wien)
A2 — recorded 1984, April 15 at Jazzforum Mödling
A3 — recorded 1982, November 27 at Podium Thürnthal
B1 — recorded 1978, October 1 at Krems Town Hall
B2 — recorded 1978, September 30 at Krems Town Hall

All titles released 1978 and 1999 on the millenium CD recorded by Granit Records

Michael Fischer, Burton Greene, Andi Menrath - These Spirits Of Elsewhere

Extraplatte, EX 434-2
CD
2000

Andi Menrath - Drums, Table
Burton Greene  - Piano, Percussion
Michael Fischer - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone

1 - Prospect     13:37    
2 - Polyzoon     0:15    
3 - Painting The Blues Red     7:22    
4 - Relativity     3:24    
5 - Spirits Abroad     25:24
 
Music By Menrath, Greene, Fischer

Recorded at Tapeless Studio, Amsterdam, January 30th 2000

PETER VAN DER LOCHT - BOY RAAYMAKERS "AT DIFFERENT TIMES" (GMP, 1970)

Boy Raaymakers, trumpet, bugle
Peter Van der Locht, alto saxophone
Robert Scholer, bass
Noel McGhee, drums
+
Burton Greene, piano (Side B)


Side A. 29 Augustus 1970  (20:43)

Side B. 4 September 1970  (18:13)


GROUP MUSIC PRODUCTIONS ES 46136 (1970)

Narada Burton Greene - European Heritage - 1978 (circle)

Narada Burton Greene -  Acoustic Piano, Prepared Piano, Bell, Wooden Flute, Misc. Percussion

A1 - Renaissance Variations I. Languan Lijornson     6:20    
A2 - Variations on Roumanian Folk         14:55    
B1 - March Sun                 9:00    
B2 - Museums                 5:54    
B3 - Renaissance Variations II. Kalenda Maya         5:32    

Recorded live in De Koepelkerk, Purmerend, Holland, November 12, 1978

Circle Records, RK 121178/18
Vinyl, 1978

Burton Greene Quartet - One World Music (Cat records 1984)

Burton Greene - piano, percussions, voice
Fred Leeflang - sax soprano alto and tenor
Raoul van der Weide - bass
Clarence Becton - drums, percussions

A1 - Portugese Impressions         16:17    
A2 - 63rd And Cottage Groove         7:07    
B1 - Round Robbin'             6:13    
B2 - Cokertme             11:25    
B3 - When You're In Front Get Off My Back     4:40    

recorded januaary 18, 1984 in Holland
music by Burton Greene except track 4, traditional

Cat records, CAT LP-49
vinyl rip

Burton Greene, Daoud Amin - Trees (Button-Nose 1973)

Daoud Amin - bongos ans percussion
Burton Greene - piano, percussion, lotus flute

A1 - Suite: Variations On Darbari Kanada In Three Movements (1973)   25:55
B1 - Woodstock Vibrations (1967)     11:38
B2 - Vishnu (1972)     13:09

all compositions by Burton Greene,  A1 is based on a theme by Jamaluddin Bhartiya

side A recorded live at the Doelen Alternative Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, June 1973
side B recorded live at the Central Museum Utrecht, September 1973

Button-Nose Records - 002
vinyl rip

New Age Jazz Chorale - Light (Button-Nose 1976)

New Age Jazz Chorale - Light (Button-Nose 1976)

music Burton Greene, poetry Vincent Gaeta

A - Manifesto For Angels     30:33    
B - Tarot             30:44    

Daoud Amin - Percussion
Ernst Reijseger - Electric Cello
Wally Shortz - Flute, Bass Flute
Gerrit Jan Herring - Flute, Recorder (Tarot)
Charles Green - Trumpet (Manifesto)
Frank Grasso - Trumpet (Tarot)
Sean Bergin - Saxophone (Manifesto)
Harvey Wainapel - Saxophone (Tarot)
Martin Koeman - Violin (Tarot)
Maurice Horsthuis - Viola (Tarot)
Christian Landry - Electric Bass (Tarot)
Burton Greene - Piano, Conductor

Vocals:
Phil and Marga Arosa
Hans Van Winsen (bass)
Andrea Goodzeit (alto) on Tarot
Wilma Bos (alto) on Manifesto
Cornelia Van Der Horst (soprano) on Tarot
Linda Haslach (soprano) on Manifesto

 
"Manifesto For Angels" recorded June 1976
"Tarot" recorded June 1975

Button-Nose Records  03
Vinyl rip

on vinyl the tracks are actualy split, and has been digitalised so

David Murray's -Live at Peace Church, Revisited,.an appeal to Collectors,(and a few Recollections by Dan Serro, its producer)

Recently, in email Conversations with Dan Serro former Kharma label boss and also  producer of David Murray's wonderfully vivid, viscerally exiting, live at the Peace Church, released in 1991, he shared some recollections about the circumstances relating to its creation,
which with his permission i'd like to relay here in edited form...

Before i do that i'll state that i also want to unashamedly ,advertise the fact that D.Serro ,is interested in releasing a couple of very worthwhile projects,on lp, including a duo from the 70's by Byard Lancaster and Yusef Yancy..
a costly exercise that requires a lot of money... i told Dan that we have no hesitation , advertising the fact that he has new Sealed copies of Live at peace church for sale for twenty dollars U.S , about half the price that second hand copies sell for.
My appeal is to Vinyl Aficionados, who might want to buy or are considering buying peace church , to do so directly from Dan Serro, in the knowledge that  you will be helping fund further releases.

i asked Him about the circumstances of its recording and release, saying i felt it was the most vivid aural document he had produced!
here are a few ruminations by him

"It was something that happened by accident.   I had just gotten my recording equipment and a friend told me that i should record this concert at the Peace Church.  I did not know who David was at the time.
 He had just come from California and was new on the scene.   I asked if the musicians would mind and was told no. So i got a truck and took the equipment to the Church and set up.   Just 4 mikes and a small mixer with 4 inputs.
 Many years later i played the tape for a Japanese  custmer who had come in from Japan and was at my place buying records.
 By then David was famous and had a lot of records out.  the guy was a big Murray fan and he wanted me to put out the record.
 I had ran out of money for the records i had pt out on Kharma and told him and he said he would go partners with me on it.
 I contacted David and we made a deal (expensive) and then after paying David and the others i contacted the guy in Japan.
 The Japanese had just had a big stock market loss and he said he couldn't come up with the money.
 Since i had already paid David i could do nothing else but put the record out.
 Limited by contract to 1500 copies.
I agree that it is the best job of recording i ever did....    Don't know if maybe it was the Church that helped or just the way i had miked them but it came out fantastic.

Things happen in strange ways sometimes.   Like the Burton Greene record.   Keshavan was not supposed to be on that record.
He got up on stage while i was recording and i was afraid i would not have enough to put the record out.
It was supposed to be a solo piano record.It is my second favorite record of all of the ones i put out."
Dan Serro

Again,Please consider buying a copy directly from Dan , who is a nice , approachable Man, in the knowledge that you will be helping fund worthwhile projects.
he can be contacted at.
Danola@aol.com


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PS ... hope my confreres here don't mind if this stays at the top of the page for awhile...
We don't go in for paid advertising here on this blog , nor do we use spurious disclaimers about our shares or ask for donations for ourselves  ...,.i'd like to state categorically that neither i or anyone else here is being paid in cash or kind for this !

Narada Burton Greene-The Past is also the Future-1979

Monsieur, Just one more wafer thin slice of.....another wonderfully eclectic piece of the 70's Solo B.Greene , puzzle, the usual mix of bop tunes, free improvisation, compositions , with a little Dadaism thrown in!

Check out "Milestones"and you'll no what i mean.....

We hope in all sincerity that the many Greene albums here will whet your appetite for more recent stuff, Greene also has a Klezmer ensemble , which is a lot of fun!

An interesting ,Paris Transatlantic interview,, 
Some great CD's out, on C.I.M.P , Cadence, and NoBuisness, among others! (incidentally though..the Cimp Cadence , Klompfoot site is still down)

We've always felt Greene got short shrift in shitty coffee table Jazz guides , especially the Penguin Guide to Jazz which in the early editions seemed to dismiss him  almost entirely as uneven at best , or as a mediocrity at worst... Much loved classics like aquariana , only rating a meagre, 2 stars...and nothing much rating above that.

Fuck it , throw those old jazz guides away and lend Greene's genius your  Actuel ears!!

NARADA BURTON GREENE ‎– ZEPHYR (BUTTON-NOSE RECORDS, 1983)

A1. Autumn Song
A2. When You're In Front, Get OFF My Back

B1. Karasar Zeybegi
B2. Zephyr



Narada Burton Greene, harpsichord, piano, prepared piano, percussion, voice

Side 1, in concert, France, Autumn 1983. B1, NOS Studios, Hilversum, Holland, 11 Apr 1983. B2, Odeon Theatre, Amsterdam, Holland, 12 December 1982.

Button-Nose Records ‎– BN 06

Vinyl Rip

NARADA BURTON GREENE ‎– IT'S ALL ONE (HORO RECORDS, 1978)

A1. Buddy's Blues
A2. It's All One... Fun
A3. In Your Own Sweet Way
A4. Django

B1. Renaissance Variations
B2. Daoud
B3. Hey, Little Mama!

C1. Sbruce
C2. Trees Revisited

D1. March Sun
D2. Nicolai Covaci
D3. Cycling Thru The Cycles


Burton Greene, piano, percussion, recorder


Recorded in Rome, April 12, 1978 at Mama Dog Studio.

Horo Records ‎– HDP 27-28

Vinyl Rip

Burton Greene Quartet - Lady Bug Dance (Cat Jazz 1980)

A1 - Renephanie     10:57   
A2 - Sunny Monk     5:00   
A3 - Embryonic Change     10:50   
B1 - Sphyrinx     7:18   
B2 - Biedronka Tanz (Lady Bug Dance)     10:57   
B3 - Na-Calm (After The Strom)     5:32   

Burton Greene - Piano, Percussion
Fred Leeflang - Saxophone, Flute
Mark Miller - Bass
Max Bolleman - Drums, Percussion

recorded at
Hilversun, Holland april 2, 1980  (1,5,6)
Zurich, september 23, 1980        (3)
Haarlem, Holland, october 13, 1980  (2,4)

all compositions by Burton Greene
vinyl rip

Burton Greene-Alan Silva-Sunny Murray-Firmanence 1979

Here's another superb piano trio, the beautiful Firmanence , on the Elusive, Fore (Rare tone,Music library) label , an independent Italian label , that briefly flourished    between 1980 and 1982, with a handful of releases ranging from Bill Dixon's Considerations , posted here a few years ago , to Scelsi string quartets, and a couple of albums by Alvin Curran.

A reunion of old friends , all Had previously played and performed together in the mid to late 60's,
its a subtle, restrained largely spacious , session consisting of one free improvisation, 3 tunes by Greene ,and one by Silva..
 All in all , a spirited generous record by three venerable free jazz,21st Century Masters!
still out of print , and sadly unlikely to be reissued , who knows ?one can only hope for a deluxe complete edition!


Firmanence- 
Fore (2), (Rare Tone Music library) published 1980, recorded 1979
A1 Introduction-Encounter 
 Composed By – Silva*, Greene*, Murray*  
A2 Firmanence 
 Composed By – Greene*  
A3 Sunny Monk 
 Composed By – Greene*
B1 Any Resemblance Between A Double Aquarian Mother And Planet Earth Is Purely Coincidental 
 Composed By – Silva*
B2 Mints Are Fo(u)r Moon People 
 Composed By – Greene*


Burton Greene -Piano, Piano ,Prepared, Percussion, Voice 
Alan Silva -Bass, Vibraphone, Percussion, Voice  
Sunny Murray -Drums, Percussion 


BTW , all three  are still vigorously productive , and have numerous Cds and Lp's currently In print
some recommendations , here , here, and here
please support them!

ENJOY!

BURTON GREENE "CELESPHERE" (FUTURA, 1970)

A little addendum to the recent Maarten Altena thread and a very little known Burton Greene recording (for me it was completely new). Thank you, Nick!






BURTON GREENE "CELESPHERE"


Burton Greene, piano, piano-harp, electric piano, percussion
Maarten Altena, bass


A1. Prins Hendrik Garden 17:12
B1. Astral Projection 09:02
B2. Lyric For Brother John 15:02

Recorded live at Gill's Club, Paris, France on 1st November, 1970.


FUTURA GER17 (France)
[this version from EPIC EPCL-10 (Japan)]

(lp rip)

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Baden Baden-Free Jazz Meeting ,Dec 1971-Dudu Pukwana,C.Mcgregor,B.Phillips, T.Rypdal, B.Greene,M.Pilz, H.Joos, M.Falay.A.Skidmore

Here's ,an Incredible document of several
concerts recorded over a few days in Dec 1971.


Got this from an online acquaintance recently , who Sourced it from soul seek , Unfortunately all i have is an Mp3 Version ... we would certainly welcome a loss less share of this.. if anyone who has it is willing to oblige.


This set sort of ties in with the numerous,quality South African selections on offer here recently...

Not much point talking about the performers themselves ,since most have already been introduced here and elsewhere.
As far as i Know The free jazz meetings in Baden Baden ,were inaugurated in the mid 60'S by Critic Joachim E. Berendt.. and are still an occasional feature of the live scene...

Herbert Joos may be unfamiliar , he's probably best Known as a mainstay of the Vienna Art Orchestra , though back in the 70's , he made a few interesting solo albums ,and even recorded in trio format for FMP.

Fans of GUO, Alan Silva's Celestial Orchestra, Francois Tusques inter communal music and other Sonic LOVE fests will Find plenty to enjoy! .. a gamut ranging from 'Afro Rock,' Qwela Tinged pieces through to freebop, psychedelicious 'Bitches Brew 'style rock vamps... great percussion jams,and best of all ferocious Free improv over long droning horn ostinati ... this has it all!

Among the highlights featuring Some of the most electryfying performances in this set, for me are the trio-to quintet pieces featuring Terje Rypdal in completely free mode..taking it beyond Hendrix and even early Sonny Sharrocks fiercest sonic abstractions.
Splendid stuff which clearly presages the material on Rypdal's Great album 'What comes after' ECM 1031, a few of which pieces are present in skeletal form.

There's also a magnificent sprawling version of Barre Phillips, just 8.. (disc-2) which some may remember from the unique, Japo LP 'For all it is'( Japo, 60 003) recorded in March of the same year.

Grab it, enjoy.. and consider buying some of the performers discs .... Early Rypdal for example is on the whole pretty special.
Kudos to whomever taped this ... !


va - Baden Baden Free Jazz Meeting 1971
recorded in Baden-Baden, Südwestfunk Studios
(Dec 1971, bootleg)

Herbert Joos, Marc Charig, Maffay Falay - trumpet, flugehorn
Malcolm Griffiths, Nick Evans - trombone
Elton Dean - soprano sax,sss, saxello ,Alan Skidmore - soprano sax, tenor sax Dudu Pukwana - alto sax, saxello
Karlheinz Wiberny - alto sax, Michel Pilz - bass clarinet
Terje Rypdal - guitar Chris McGregor, Burton Greene - electric-piano, piano
Barre Phillips, Adelhard Roidinger, Roy Babbington, Ron Mathewson - bass
Stu Martin, Alan Jackson - drums ,Okay Temiz - percussion

-Disk 1:1 Titel [Unknown personnel] 11:59 2 Titel [Unknown personnel] 19:44 3 The Serpent's Kindly Eye (ChMcG,comp) [rehearsal] [Joos, Charig, Falay, Griffiths, Evans, Dean, Skidmore, Pukwana, Wiberny, Pilz, Rypdal, McGregor, Greene, Phillips, Roidinger, Babbington, Matthewson, Martin, Jackson, Temiz] 22:21 4 Announcement 1:54 5* The Serpent's Kindly Eye (ChMcG,comp) (incomplete) 12:46

-Disk 2:6 Announcement 0:10 7 Marco (DP,comp) [Charig, Pukwana, McGregor, Matthewson, Jackson] 13:52 8 Announcement 0:13 9 Announcement 0:30 10 Just 8 (BPh,comp) [Phillips, Babbington, Martin (L); Matthewson, Roidinger, Temiz (R)] 10:26 11 Announcement 1:5912 Preshrev Yavos (OT,comp) [Falay, Pukwana, Babbington, Temiz] 10:3013 Announcement 1:01 14 Wiberny's Piece (KHW,comp) [Charig, Griffiths, Wiberny, Pilz, Greene, Roidinger, Martin] (incomplete) 5:16 15 Announcement 0:23 16 Unknown Title 22:25

-Disk 3:17 Announcement 1:58 18 From Love to Hate (HJ,comp) [Charig, Griffiths, Wiberny, Pilz, Greene, Roidinger, Martin] 10:3819 Announcement 1:53 20 Room for Everybody (BG,comp) [Part 1] [Charig, Griffiths, Wiberny, Pilz, Greene, Roidinger, Martin] 8:3121 Room for Everybody (BG,comp) [Part 2] 17:58 22 Room for Everybody (BG,comp) [Part 3] 7:18 23 Announcement 1:5924 The Serpent's Kindly Eye (ChMcG,comp) [Joos, Charig, Falay, Griffiths, Evans, Dean, Skidmore, Pukwana, Wiberny, Pilz, Rypdal, McGregor, Greene, Phillips, Roidinger, Babbington, Matthewson, Martin, Jackson, Temiz] 14:37 25 Announcement 0:33

-Disk 4:26 Announcement 2:04 27 Come On (BPh,comp) [Griffiths, Skidmore, Rypdal, Phillips, Roidinger, Martin] 10:25 28 Announcement 2:34 29 Hypnosis (TR,comp) [Joos, Charig, Griffiths, Evans, Dean, Skidmore, Wiberny, Pilz, Rypdal, Phillips, Roidinger, Babbington, Matthewson, Martin] 17:59 30 Announcement 0:52 31 Your Eyes Are Full of Tears (TR,comp) [Rypdal solo] 7:21 32 Announcement 1:24 33 Turn the Lights Off (RR,comp) [Rypdal, Phillips, Martin] 12:1534 Announcement 0:06 35 Introduction [from stage] 0:19 36* Titel [Rypdal, Phillips, Roidinger, Martin] 19:55

-Disk 5:37 Titel [Rypdal, Phillips, Roidinger, Martin] 17:49 38 Titel [Rypdal, Phillips, Roidinger, Martin] 14:46 39 Titel [Rypdal, Phillips, Roidinger, Martin] 8:0340 Titel [Rypdal, Phillips, Roidinger, Martin] 16:5141 Titel [Rypdal, Phillips, Roidinger, Martin]

Presenting Burton Greene-1968(columbia lp cs 9784)320kbs

A christmas present from anonymous ..left in the comments to the previous post.
Dan Warburton-It's about time Presenting Burton Greene was reissued!

Burton Greene-Yes, it's enjoyed much more creative life in the cut-out bins than it ever did on the shelves! You know, that was the first time a Moog was used on a jazz record. I first met Robert Moog in 1963 at an electronics show in New York where he was running around saying "does anybody want to try my instrument?" I went up and introduced myself: "I'm a piano player, I can use that.." He said, "I can't offer you any money, but my wife is a great cook and if you feel like coming up to Ithaca, you're welcome to stay." Well, man, I hadn't eaten in a month so I said, "Erm, yeah I think I have a little free time at the moment..!" (laughs) and I went up to Ithaca and had a ball. And after that I was the synthesizer expert..! I tried to work a deal with Norman Seaman to do a solo Moog concert - that was even announced on my first quartet record - but he was losing money and it didn't happen. Anyway, John Hammond at Columbia had heard about that. "You're the cat who plays the synthesizer. Burton, you've got to add the synthesizer to that record." The record was already done, but he said, "we'll pay you to work on the synthesizer." The magic word. Five hours at $100 an hour. Normally I don't drink, but I remember that day when I went to the studio to get that extra $500 out of Hammond, I drank a quarter bottle of Scotch. I rolled in the studio like Napoleon (laughs). There were wall-to-wall Moogs in the studio and five assistant Walter Sears engineers each getting $80 an hour to help me create. They said: "What will it be sir?" I said, "I'd like a Sine Generator 17 to start with, please. 17B." "OK, sir, yes.." (imitates the noises of a Moog) I said, "Hmm it's a little thin.." They said "what about a BX.." I didn't know sine from sawtooth! Hammond was like, "that's my boy!" We ended up with all this weird shit and had to find a place to put it. I said to [drummer] Shelly [Rusten]: "There's a little part of your solo there that we can.. enhance." He said "don't you put that shit on top of my solo, man!" (laughs)

http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/greene.html

PRESENTING BURTON GREENE
Columbia LP, CS 9784, 1968?

side 1
1. BALLAD IN B MINOR 6.40
2. SLURP! 7.37
3. NIRVANA VIBRATIONS 8.55

side 2
4. LEBANESE TURN-A-ROUND 3.45
5. EASTERN FOLK SONG 6.30
6. VOICE OF THE SILENCES 11.33

Byard Lancaster - as, tpt
Steve Tintweiss - bs
Shelly Rusten - perc
Burton Greene - pno, pno harp, elec harpsichord, chants
moog synth on (2)

Thanks Anon!!

Burton Greene - Aquariana

Since there is a recent Burton Greene posting on this blog, I thought I'd recycle one of my old postings for the C#9 blog. This one did not make it to the front page, so it's quite possible it might have passed unnoticed by many.

Not one of the more significant releases in the Byg Actuel series in my view. I haven't quite made up my mind about this one. Very free-wheeling and blow-outish as was the style at the time. I believe I've read somewhere that Greene disowns his earliest recordings. Be that as it may, but here it is for others to have the opportunity to make up their minds about it.

Tracks:

1. Aquarius Suite
2. Out of Bartok
3. Two One-Two Vibrations

Full line-up for each track can be found in the attached scans of front, back and inner covers.

Recorded in June 1969 in the Saravah Studios, Paris.

BURTON GREENE, ALAN SILVA- 'THE ONGOING STRINGS' 1980 FLAC and LAME

the post has dissapeared

blogger is screwing up.

BLOGGER SUCKS

I DID NOT DELETE MY POST

fucked if im going to write out the info again

heres the basic info on this session

Greene Burton / Silva Alan - "The Ongoing Strings"
Rec. live at the Bim Huis in Amsterdam 14 February 1980
Hat Hut Fifteen 2R15 - 2LP

Greene Burton, piano, prepared piano, percussion, voice on first setSilva Alan, bass, cello, percussion, voice on second set.

CD1 = LP1
1. Side A first set2. Side B first setCD2 = LP21. Side A second set2. Side B second set

No track titles given.