Henry Threadgill, alto & tenor saxophone, flute
Fred Hopkins, double bass
Steve McCall, drums
01 - Sir Simpleton 21:53
02 - Substration 11:59
03 - Somebody Got The Wrong Shoes (For Rafael Garrett) 19:28
04 - C.T., J.L. - Ann SMcC 19:56
Recorded May 28, 1981 at Festival d'Angouleme, Theatre Municipal, Angouleme.
(FM - 16bit48)
This is the complete concert
Muhal Richard Abrams, piano, composer, voice
Henry Threadgill, alto & tenor saxophone
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Wallace McMillian, alto & baritone saxophone
Reggie Willis, double bass, voice
Steve McCall, drums, voice
Suite (Song For / The Sage / Scatterbrain / The Bell) 61:11
1. [part I] 49:45
2. [part II] 11:26
Recorded at Berliner Jazztage on November 4, 1973
[this is an uninterrupted performance - tracks were probably added for convenience by the trader]
For the first day of spring, what better than a live Air?
Rec. live at "Teatro Giardino Scotto", Pisa, Italy,
on June 27, 1979 (mics recording)
Henry Threadgill,reeds,flute
Fred Hopkins,bass
Steve McCall,drums
1. Unknown/Portrait Of Leo Smith (14:36)
2. Midnight Sun (13:22)
3. Sir Simpleton (12:37)
4. Untitled Tango (16:09)
5. Open Air Suit [encore] (05:56)
Total Time 1:02:42
excerpt from Midnight Sun
For all Air lovers.
Rec. live in Lovere, Italy, on June 17, 1979
(mix recording)
Henry Threadgill,reeds,flute
Fred Hopkins,bass
Steve McCall,drums
1. Through A Keyhole Darkly/Dance Of The Beast/G.v.E./
Keep Right On Playng Thru The Mirror Over The Water (47:23)
2. Midnight Sun [encore] (06:10)
Total Time 53:34
For the end of the year (and for closing this little ex-cursus about
the 70s/80s Big Bands) i want to propose one of the rare recordings
of the J.Hemphill B.B. : God Bless Julius!
And Happy New Year To You All.
Rec. live at "The Public Theatre", NYC, on November 1980
(mics recording)
Julius Hemphill,reeds,composer,conductor
Stan Strickland/John Purcell/Marty Ehrlich/Henry Threadgill,reeds
Baikida Carroll/John Clarice/Charles Stephens/Erritt McDonald,brasses
Ed Schuller,bass
Warren Smith,marimba
Pheeroan akLaff,drums
1. The Hard Blues (16:47)
2. For Billie (08:51)
3. Open Air (02:23)
4. Border Town (11:56)
5. All Harmony (15:07)
6. Unknown [inc.] (02:43)
Total Time 57:49
This is (with the exception of George Lewis replacing
Anthony Braxton) the same lineup that recorded,
some months before, 1-OQA+19 for Black Saint.
From that album are taken the two long pieces here
performed as a suite.
A real "Dream Team"!
Rec. live in Laren, Holland, 1978
(radio broadcast)
Muhal Richard Abrams,piano
Henry Threadgill,alto saxophone,flute
George Lewis,trombone
Leonard Jones,bass
Steve McCall,drums
1. Charlie In The Parker_Arhythm Songy (1:06:38)
The Threadgill project with the Zooids and the Young Salzburg Filarmonic String Orchestra, worldy premiered here, took place in the final day on the main stage of the Festival.
The composition was ” Dedicated to Jazzfestival Saalfelden and Thomas Stöwsand”.
I think this is one of the most important efforts in Threadgill’s last years compositions and has been. I think, a great bet and a risky piece of music. Two were perhaps the most risky musical facts; first the integration of jazz improvisationals methods with the writing in an almost classical contemporary way, on the other, no less important, hand the difficulty of playin’ Threadgill’s music for a Young Austrian String Orch. with probably few rehalsals and the total lack of previous ensemble playin’.
I must say that Mr Threadgill has win his bet and has totally overcome every possible obstacle. He managed to do this in the most simple, probably the only, possible level. He wrote a piece in which the string parts works sometimes as a counterpart, others had the first place and others too are a background and armonical-timbrical completion to his music. But in every moment he had clear that the SFSO isn’t the string section of the Dance Situation Band, and he had to use it another totally different way. The little rehearsal and the difficulty of playin such a music sometimes is little evident in SFSO but the scoring is excitin’ and the ZOOID ensemble and solos parts are among the best ever heard in the last years.
One thought came to my mind listening to this short (sic) recording. Threadgill as Ellington in his live Sacred Concerts and others should have felt the importance of the event so he, being a terrific musician and composer, and the whole ZOOID are here at their best.
Note: the term Zooid refers to an organism cellular able to independently stir inside another and points out the great flexibility of the formation, able to operate within an ample ghost of references, jazz and not.
Henry Threadgill’s ZOOID
& the String Orchestra of the
Recorded at the Main Stage of the 28th Saalfelden Jazz Festival
on Sunday 26 august 2007 at 2:30pm
Henry Threadgill conduction, alto saxophone, flute
Liberty Ellman guitar
Rubin Kodheli cello
Dana Leong cello, trombone
Jose Davila tuba, trombone
Elliot Kavee drums
String orchestra of the Salzburg Young Philharmonic Orchestra
Elizabeth Fuchs conductor
The recording comes (trough Dimeadozen) from a
BBC Radio Broadcast “Jazz on 3, 27th June
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzon3/pip/j04kg/
Some images of the concert here: http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=2095
I don’t know of other Threadgill’s music on that night
but if someone else has more informations here are welcome.
ENJOY THE MUSIC!
Thanks to "giu" for some informations about the conductor an the link to images
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Here’s another all too rare air concert.
This is a collaboration with controversial radical African American nationalist poet Amiri Baraka formerly Leroi Jones , probably best known to jazz fans as the author of Black Dada Nihilisimus, performed on the New York Art quartets eponymous album on esp.
Baraka was initially friends with the beats whom he had come to know after moving to Greenwich Village in the late 50’s.
Baraka moved on, I think becoming increasingly disillusioned with their flabby romanticism and lack of specific political engagement.
I don’t know too much about Baraka ,other than a few basic facts, and of course some of the background to the explosive controversy that exploded in the headlines ( here in Australia) when Baraka lost his status as poet laureate of new jersey after publishing a poem titled “somebody blew up America’ about the events of sept 11 2001.
Anyhow this is a great concert, and Air are providing much more than mere support but are interacting fully with both Baraka and each other.
A great one … many thanks to JeffMorris for taping and seeding this show.
Lineage: CD on trade ( FM, unknown gen ) -> Extracted & converted to FLAC using EAC -> DIME
Disc 1
1. Zoodoo 04:29
2. Bad News 04:22
3. I Love Music 03:57
4. Against Bourgeois Art 06:04
5. Afro-American Lyric 05:43
6. Wailers 05:05
7. Am/Trak 10:37
8. Class Struggle In Music 12:01
Lineup:
Amiri Baraka - recitation
Henry Threadgill - reeds
Fred Hopkins - b
Steve McCall - dr
ENJOY!!!
read Baraka's poems here
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/baraka/onlinepoems.htm
This is somewhat of a curiosity. The 3 great altoists improvising together, without rhythm section. I know nothing about this concert apart from basic details:-
1980-August-16
Nickelsdorf, Austria,
Konfrontationen 1980
Oliver Lake,as
Jimmy Lyons,as
Henry Threadgill,as
It is just a single piece of about 30 minutes. Thanks go to jazzrita for seeding. I'm not sure whether it is an FM broadcast or an audience boot, but the sound quality is very good. If anyone knows anything at all about this trio (was it a one-off gig ?) then I'd be pleased to hear from them. See if you can distinguish which player is which. I can make out Lyons's distinctive style, but can't tell between the other two.
I've put up an mp3 link. I have it in flac, which I'll upload if there is enough interest.
Link in comments.
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more, great live ..Air..
a stunning show in decent sound ( for an audience tape)
for centrifuge, ghostrancedance neeroonoo1
and other air lovers.
Last track is a jimmy garrison dedication, which the great fred hopkins ...lord bless him takes solo.
AirSalzburg (Austria)Jazz im Theater – Elisabethbühne
Henry Threadgill as, ts, fl,
Fred Hopkins db
Steve McCall dr
1) 08:50 Subtraction2) 11:29 R.B.3) 29:374) 09:235) 05:58
enjoy
HERE'S, a stunning live album by one of the all time
great free jazz groups, this the first album of theirs i ever bought, and Ive loved the collective sound of this group ever since.
threadgill has now like anthony braxton transcended the idiom, and there are plenty of pointers to this (rampantly eclectic )future direction throughout this GLORIOUS slab .
this bands palette was as broad as it was subtle, almost everything can happen,a truly rich and rewarding listening experience.
i never tire of listening to this, one could spend a lifetime and find continual renewal.
who knows why the aeco became more acclaimed than AIR or the Revolutionary ensemble for me along with Leo smith and anthony braxton's mammoth oeuvre.
the most joyous and satisfying listening experiences Ive ever had, contemporary free jazz is hugely mannered by comparison.
fred hopkins and steve mccall -are sadly no longer with us.
this is a very clean vinyl rip, and shame on bmg or whomever owns novus for not deeming air's albums worthy of full hansomely packaged reissue.
its almost criminal.
many people are starving for this, and if they dont step in and fill the gap, we will continue to share it in the form of crackly vinyl rips!!
a pox on their stingy bottom line mentality, and bottomless profit mongering.
as well as there ephemeral taste shaping on a mass toxic scale.
BUY REISSUED AIR.
VISIT HENRY THREADGILLS PAGE (the only one i can find)
http://www.ejn.it/mus/threadgi.htm
album info
air suisse , recorded live at montreux jazz fest july 22, 1978, released by novus( now bmg)
side 1
lets all go down to the footwash
abra
side 2
suisse air
henry threadgill- saxes, fl
fred hopkins -db
steve mccall- dr
many thnks to yann ,for his help with this current batch of rips!