MARIO PAVONE ‎– SHODO (ALACRA RECORDS, 1981)

A1. Shodo
A2. Favors
A3. 1638

B1. Heads First
B2. Passage
B3. Double
B4. Mops


Phil Buettner, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, flute
Mario Pavone, double bass
Pheeroan akLaff, drums
Emmett Spencer, drums (B3)
Bobby Naughton, marimba
Nick Makros, tenor saxophone, flute
Peter McEachern, trombone
George Alford, trumpet, flugelhorn


Recorded on Feb. 6, 1981 at RBY Studios, Southbury, CT.

Alacra Records ‎– ALACRA 1004

LP Rip

NATURE'S CONSORT ‎– NATURE'S CONSORT (OTIC RECORDS, 1969)

A1. Around Again
A2. Nital Rock

B1. Taking Steps
B2. Snow
B3. From The Center


James Duboise, brass
Mario Pavone, bass
Laurence Cook, percussion
Bobby Naughton, piano
Mark Whitecage, reeds



Recorded in an outdoor concert at Silvermine College of Art, New Canaan, Connecticut, on 12 October 1969.

Otic Records ‎– OTIC 1001

LP Rip

MARIO PAVONE ‎– DIGIT (ALACRA RECORDS, 1979)

A1. Digit
A2. Nine Note
A3. Wood
A4. AB

B1. The Dom
B2. Toledo
B3. Bones
B4. As Is


Mark Whitecage, alto & soprano saxophone, flute
Mario Pavone, bass
Pheeroan akLaff, drums
Bobby Naughton, vibraphone


Recorded on 11 April 1979 at RBY Studios, Southbury, CT.

Alacra Records ‎– ALACRA 1002

LP Rip

Dan Rose-Close Opposites-1978,Alacra LP 3007

A rare early album , by Dan Rose, a conceptually interesting  , adventurous guitarist who is too little known, .

wide variety of tunes here,delivered with subtlety and urgency.. great band featuring the only slightly less neglected masterful Perry Robinson...plus Mark Whitecage, John Betsch and Mario Pavone..

Rose is still recording, including several recent albums on enja..
here's a link to his site which includes a broad biographical overview
Enjoy!
S

Paul Bley Trio-Canada 1968

For an Australian friend...
A great Paul Bley trio session, put out by radio Canada international transcription service, recorded in Montreal in December 68, i believe this was Bley's last  entirely acoustic release from the sixties and for some time until ECM'S, Open to Love, last in a glorious sequence spanning ten or so indispensable records, and one of the few which has never made it to cd ..

Four great tunes by Annette Peacock , his wife at the time, with Mario Pavone's only stint in Bleys acoustic trio.
 For some inexplicable reason this album is not mentioned In the Paul Bley entry on the Jazz discographies project site.
this album's been posted as mp3's at lucky psychic hut , and may well still be available somewhere in that format.
Bley's website, a rich source of articles , interviews and home of  the IAI label

BILL DIXON TRIO "WORCESTER, MA, NEW ENGLAND, USA (1981)"

....................................................(picture of Bill Dixon by Hans Kumpf)



The concert in the New England Repertory Theater comprised two sets separated by an intermission.

Dixon's trio with Pavone and Cook debuted at this engagement.
"I had to do this concert in Worcester for the radio station, and they wanted a trio. So on the spur of the moment, I called Laurence in Boston, asked him if he wanted to work in Worcester and if he could get Mario. It worked so well, that was it."
Dixon explains part of the high level of this music through Cook's and Pavone's attentiveness in this new situation. There was no rehearsal for the concert.

Dixon's minimal verbal instruction (as above), hand signals, figures implied in his playing, and eye contact often represented the only notation or instructions for pieces the group played. He occasionally wrote out parts for Pavone.

The trio concept stuck immediately and (in one form or another) became Dixon's the modus operandi for playing in and outside of Bennington for most of the next seven years.
"Every year during the existence of the Division, I would do 2 or 3 concerts. If I wanted to rehearse something, I would have Cook and Pavone come up on an honorarium. That kept the group together, and it let me work, but it wasn't just a selfish endeavor. I wanted students to see a working group. As an artist who happens to be a teacher, it was necessary for students to see me play 'seriously' (In fact, although they might not have thought of it that way, I was just as serious playing with them as I was with Mario and Laurence.) Sometimes I would have a workshop for students with the trio. Overall it worked very well."

Source: Dixonia: A Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon, compiled by Ben Young, Westport, Connecticut / London, 1998 (=Discographies, Number 77), p. 255.




BILL DIXON TRIO "WORCESTER,MA,NEW ENGLAND,USA (1981)"


Bill Dixon, trumpet
Mario Pavone, bass
Laurence Cook, drums

1. announcement by BD & (unknown titel) 16:36
2. (unknown titel) 19:20
3. (unknown titel) 11:26
4. (unknown titel) 06:50
5. (unknown titel) 08:58

Live at the New England Repertory Theater, Worcester, MA,  New England - June 15, 1981.



"Dixonia" by Ben Young says:

Unknown ["Play your open 'E'..."] 14:18
Unknown [starts with BD unacc] 18:18
Unknown [starts with BD unacc] 10:47
Unknown ["...Latin..."] 6:22
Unknown [starts with BD unacc] 8:26


Enjoy!


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THE CREATIVE IMPROVISORS ORCHESTRA "THE SKY CRIES THE BLUES" (CMIF, 1981)

THE CREATIVE IMPROVISORS ORCHESTRA "THE SKY CRIES THE BLUES"


Leo Smith,tp,flh
George Alford,tp,flh
Genghis Nor,tp,flh
Bill Lowe,tb,tu
Oliver Lake,ss,as,fl
Marty Ehrlich,as,cl,bcl,fl
Phil Buettner,bs,cl,bcl,fl
Cliff White,ts,bs,fl
Bobby Naughton,vib
Robert de Sesa,vib,perc
Allan Jaffe,g (only tr.3)
Wes Brown,b
Mario Pavone,b
Joe Fonda,b
Gerry Hemingway,dr
Yohura Ralph Williams,perc
Harryson Buster,perc,voc

1. Black Fire in Mother-land My Soul 05:09
2. Return to my Native Land II 14:38
3. The Interstices of a Dream (for Henry Miller) 10:44
4. Picric Wobble 07:41


Recorded: January 12, 1981 at RBY Studios, Southbury,CT.

Front Cover Collage by Yohura Ralph Williams.

CMIF 1