ITARU OKI – OPERA NIGHT / ITARU OKI FROM PARIS (PADDLE WHEEL, 1986)

A1. I Remember Clifford
A2. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
A3. Sombre Dimanche
A4. In A Sentimental Mood

B1. Opera Night
B2. Days Of Wine And Roses
B3. Like Someone In Love



Itaru Oki, trumpet, flugelhorn
Alain Jean Marie, piano
Jean Jacques Avenel, bass
Oliver Johnson, drums



Recorded at Sysmo Record, Paris, 6 December 1984

Paddle Wheel - K28P 6409

LP Rip

TOSHINORI KONDO & TRISTAN HONSINGER "THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER" (ITM, 1987)

Toshinori Kondo, trumpet, electronics, voice
Tristan Honsinger, cello, voices
Sean Bergin, saxes, melodica, voices
Tiziana Simona, vocals
Michael Moore, clarinet
Jean Jacques Avenel, bass
Steve Noble, drums


01. Talk     0:35
02. La Strada     4:26
03. Cello And Kondo     0:38
04. Television / Pineapplesass     4:11
05. Morehands     0:59
06. Crazy     2:43
07. Aveva Paura     2:33
08. Kate's Back     2:29
09. Jack's Field     2:28
10. Tell Me Another Story     1:46
11. La Rapina Della Scala     11:01

Recorded in Monster, Netherlands at Studio 44, 1 & 2 April, 1987.

Originally on ITM 0021 (LP) and ITM 971421 (CD)
BASIC 50007 (CD rip)

CLARENCE PETERS "THE MAGNETIC ATMOSPHER"

Steve Potts, alto & soprano saxophone
J.P. Gauthier, piano
Jean-Jacques Avenel, bass
Clarence Peters, drums, voice, piano


A1. The Magnetic Atmospher   07:47
A2. Born And Shake           09:27
B1. The Man Named Peters     06:33
B2. Black Meeting            12:54


Released in France 1980 (Recorded probably 1971 in Paris).

Private pressing - no label.

(lp rip)

JEAN-LOUIS MÉCHALI "CINE CLUB" (QUOI DE NEUF DOCTEUR, 1993)

Here's Méchali's second release - my appreciation goes to mew23 who gave his permission to re-post it here at IS.


Jean-Marc Larché - tenor sax
Jef Sicard - tenor sax, baritone sax, bass clarinet
Philippe Sellam - alto sax
Elton Dean - alto sax (Disc 2)
Jacques Di Donato - clarinet
Jean-François Canape - trumpet, flugelhorn
Michel Godard - tuba
Jean-François Ott - cello (Disc 1)
Denis Tuvéri - accordion, bandoneon (Disc 1)
Malo Vallois - guitar
Jacques Labarrière - piano, keyboards
Sophia Domancich - piano (Disc 2)
Jean-Jacques Avenel - bass
Paul Rogers - bass
Jean-Louis Méchali - drums, percussion



Disc 1 - Le film

01. Le billard de Milos et les quatre saisons [11:53]
02. Amnios [03:48]
03. Caribbean Lullaby [02:47]
04. Takawira [04:23]
05. Le coq et l'âne [01:12]
06. Le tango du gardien de phare [07:20]
07. Le marché aux épices [04:33]
08. Zapping [05:40]
09. Morceau choisi [04:55]
10. Foggy Night à la Transat [02:28]
11. La démarche du canard [01:42]
12. Le chasseur de lunes [03:44]
13. Le départ de Gulliver [04:02]
total time [58:27]

Disc 2 - Le débat

01. La main chaude [01:47]
02. Okavongo [06:45]
03. Elzévira [03:15]
04. El suspiro del moro [02:41]
05. Allégorie always Albert [05:03]
06. La baleine mimétique [05:13]
07. Le bar de l'entracte [05:57]
08. Mezzanine pour un suspense [06:57]
09. White Spirit [08:39]
10. Gena et John [04:54]
11. "L'Emile" [03:39]
12. Berceuse pour deux jumelles [06:11]
13. Clepsydre [03:26]
14. Wim [06:31]
15. Happy End [03:59]
total time [74:57]

Compositions by Jean-Louis Méchali
Disc 1 recorded at Studio Paraphernalia, Paris, 1993. Disc 2 recorded at Studio Aladin, 1993
Quoi de Neuf Docteur DOC 028 (France) double CD
http://www.discogs.com/Jean-Louis-Méchali-Ciné-Club/release/4677463 (with scans)

Ripped not from the original CDs but from CD-R copies. My scans were made from b&w photocopies of the booklet.

From the (translated) liner notes by Jean-Louis Méchali
"Music and rhythm of images: images and colours are music: Cinéma and music become interwoven in my mind's eye. I have imagined a film in which images are sounds and music.
I first, with digital magic, delineate background, extras and secondary roles.
Then I invite fourteen friends - musicians - to play as principals in a dreamscape.
They arrive separately, one by one, to play, each on a different day.
Queries: Where are they? Their likes and loves? A birth? A traffic jam? They react suddenly to what flashes over the headphones. One take only. Others watch, attendant upon the master performance.

Their scattered spontaneity is finally integrated into the soundscape through mixing and montage.
INTERMISSION ... ICE-CREAM/POP-CORN ... PROJECTION

We listened to the "film", we felt the urgent need to share impressions, to single out details, to re-scan, to switch roles, to laugh, to say something new ...
Fragments and whole chunks of the "film" triggered a musical colloquium in the studio.
I realised I had in hand the two halves of the double CD "Ciné-Club"."

Surprisingly litte information on JL Méchali can be found online.
Clifford Allen mentions in passing " the brotherly pairing of drummer Jean-Louis and bassist François Méchali, who were on call for a number of excellent French avant-garde recordings and concerts in the ‘70s and early ‘80s." The Méchalis played "small-combo post-psychedelic jazz" with the Cohelmec Ensemble that released three LPs in the early 70s. One of them was shared at Mutant Sounds long ago. Three pieces from that LP can still be downloaded from WFMU.
It seems that JL Méchali released only two recordings as a leader, "Tie-Break" (1987) and "Ciné-Club" (1993) which bear the label of MFA, the official agency promoting French musicians and their work, but strangely none is listed in the MFA disc directory.
Since 2000 he has concentrated on his work at "Lutherie Urbaine", an organisation that "creates music drawing from all genres, from contemporary urban music and jazz to world music and sound art. The project brings together composers, musicians, lute makers and technicians, not to mention actors, authors, dancers, plastic artists and film makers…"

JEAN-LOUIS MECHALI "TIE-BREAK + 2ND SET" (LE CHANT DU MONDE, 1987/88)

This is a post on behalf of E-mile.

Let us read what he says about this recording and how he came to post it:



Well, I made a mess of things...
also way back in the days when I recorded
this music....
Memory doesn't serve me well, but it seems I rented
the CD version of the Jean-Louis Mechali album...
Not the vinyl.
A TDK cassette 90 minutes is 45 minutes A+B each.
I would program the CD-player in order to get as close
to those minutes as I could.
In other words: I didn't tape the whole darn thing!
If you want to hear all of this, spend at least 18 euro's
and try to obtain this CD:
http://www.cdandlp.com/item/1/1378-2407-0-1-0/106079711/jean-louis-mechali-tie-break-2eme-set.html

This is the original CD version's tracks:

1.5:30 ricochets
2.8:16 lembranca
3.4:19 dream-ambulation dans la ville blanche
4.4:31 halogene
5.4:28 villa les mimosas
6.8:50 la grive ... envine
7.4:59 la criee
8.2:43 big bang
9.5:37 ballade a contre-jour
10.2:48 tamaris marine
11.3:27 la galerie aux portraits
12.4:46 night light + halflight
13.2:34 the underdog
14.3:47 derive de chaleur
15.3:42 le fil du temps

info from:
http://music-downloader.ru/info/21390/
or
http://cdtrrracks.com/bid117641.html

This is what is on the LP version (without the 2nd set):

A1 Halogène 4:28
A2 Ballade À Contre Jour 5:33
A3 Villa Les Mimosas 4:25
A4 Big Bang 2:41
A5 The Underdog 2:32
B1 "La Grive"... Enfin 8:47
B2 Tamaris Marine 2:44
B3 Night, Light, And Half Light 4:42
B4 Dérive De Chaleur 3:43

info from discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/Jean-Louis-Mechali-Tie-Break/release/1792832

And this is what I got on tape:

1-Underdog 2.34
2-Tamaris Marine 2.48
3-Night Light and Halflight 4.46
4-Derive De Chaleur 3.47
5-Ballade a Contre-Jour 5.37
6-Villa des Mimosas 4.28
7-Halogene 4.31
8-La Grive + Enfin 8.47
9-Lembranca 8.16
10-Ricochets 5.30

Alto Saxophone – Philippe Sellam
Drums, Marimba, Vibraphone, Percussion – Jean-Louis Mechali
Double Bass – Jean-Jacques Avenel
Piano – Jacques Labarrière

Recorded at Studio Adam, Feb 1987.

hope you enjoy the music,
it's in decent 320 mp3,
alas no FLAC for ancient TDK cassettes [:-)


(Update - new rip courtesy mew23 in comments)

MASAHIKO TOGASHI TRIO "VOICES" (TRANSHEART, 1988)

MASAHIKO TOGASHI TRIO "VOICES"


Steve Lacy, soprano saxophone
Jean-Jacques Avenel, bass, calimba
Masahiko Togashi, drums


1. Door (Lacy) 08:43
2. Orange (Togashi) 08:07
3. Action (Togashi) 09:40
4. In The Pot (Togashi) 08:37
5. Cliches (Lacy) 14:38


Recorded at the FM TOKYO HALL, Tokyo, June 14, 1988.

TRANSHEART THU-9501

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Rev. Frank Wright Quintet - Live in Moers '81

Just come back from Rome where i've spent some nice
days with "Ilario", drunk the bottle of "Brunello di
Montalcino" and copied some great recordings from
"Ilario"'s archive.
I want to start with Rev. Frank thinking this will make
many people happy.

Rec. live at the 10th "Moers Festival", Moers, Germany,
on June 6, 1981 (mics recording)

Frank Wright,tenor saxophone,bass clarinet,vocal
Arthur Jones,alto saxophone
Bobby Few,piano
Jean Jacques Avenel,bass
Muhammad Ali,drums

1. Burkhard Hennen Intro (0:45)
2. Track #1 (25:29)
3. Track #2 (12:10)
4. Track #3 (28:03)

Total Time 1:06:29

STEVE LACY SEXTET - WUPPERTAL 1983

Steve Lacy Sextet

Wuppertal, Germany,1983-January-14

Steve Lacy,soprano sax
Steve Potts,soprano and alto sax
Irene Aebi,cello,voice
Bobby Few,piano
Jean-Jacques Avenel,bass
Oliver Johnson,drums


Total timing 54:31

1 Announcement Speaker 2:10
2 Sands Suite: Stand 9:10
3 Sands Suite: Jump 10:48
4/5 Sands Suite: Fall 6:39/2:15
6 Gay Paree Bop 19:41
7 Announcement SL/StP 0:32
8 Announcement Speaker 0:16/0:08
10 The Whammies! (fade-out) 2:52

Lineage: fm > cdr trade > flac > dime

Sound Rating: A-



From this concert exists some more files:

Stamps/The Blinks/Raps 16:21/The Whammies! complete

Thanks to JAZZRITA who uploaded this on dime in 09.04.19

Steve Lacy with his "classical" and enduring band. An astonishing group with Potts, Aeby and Avenel. In my opinion one of the best groups of the eighties. In 1983 Steve Lacy was still at the top of his form and with this same sextet recorded that masterpiece called Songs.

Enjoy the music!


I had this new graphic design program and enjoyed myself thinking to this fake album cover. The shot was taken by me in the court of a marvellous ancient villa in northern Italy just before a marvellous concert given by Roberto Ottaviano (sop, sax) and Han Bennink (drums). I thought this, as the whole concert by the way, could be a fine homage to Mr. Steve Lacy.

DAUNIK LAZRO "SWEET ZEE" (hatART, 1983/84)

Here’s something I like by Daunik Lazro who's own contributions don’t quite match those on his stellar recent records.
Still Kondo, Lewis and Joelle Leandre have plenty to contribute.
That alone should be recommendation enough.



Hat 2010 (2 lp’s)
Disc 1- ‘sweet zee ‘
Daunik Lazro - alto sax
Toshinori Kondo - trumpet and voice
Jean Jacques Avenel - db

Disc 2 side 1 ‘empire’
(dedicated to jac berrocal)

Daunik Lazro - alto sax,
Raymond Boni - guitar
Carlos Zingaro - violin

Disc 2 side 2  ‘enfances’
Daunik Lazro - alto sax
George Lewis - trb, toys
Joelle Leandre - db, voice


All tracks collectively improvised
Sweet Zee: recorded live at Jazzfestival Willisau on August 27, 1983.
Empire: recorded live at 3rd Sens Music Meeting, France on May 28, 1983.
Enfances: recorded at Dunois, Paris on January 8, 1984. ----

Again a post by sotise which I dare to take over. The above text is by primarely by sotise.
I would like to add that for the re-up the two tracks of  'Sweet Zee' (side A and side B of the double LP) were reinstalled as a continous performance. (This is a new rip not the previous one altered)

And not at least I want to point out that the concert released on the fourth side of this LP was released as CD in 2016. Actually the CD has the complete concert from this day. Available through the label Fou Records .

daunik lazro @ discogs

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Daunik+Lazro