Han Bennink & Sabu Toyozumi​:​ DADA 打、打 (December 2021 Chap Chap Records)

Han Bennink & Sabu Toyozumi live in Yamaguchi City,Japan. October 01,1995

1. Han Bennink - Han's SOLO 14:31

2. Sabu Toyozumi - Sabu's SOLO 12:29

3. Dadakko 駄々っ子(off the beaten track children) 22:38

PRE ORDER

Peter Brötzmann Octet – Machine Gun (Alternate Takes) TROST RECORDS 2018

First time issued on vinyl: alternate takes from the essential "Machine Gun" album on Brotzmann's BRO label in 1968, aggressive but astute music from now-legendary players Brotzmann, Evan Parker & Gerd Dudek on tenor sax (Brotzmann doubles on baritone sax), Peter Kowald on bass, Fred Van Hove on piano, Buschi Niebergall on bass, and two drummers - Han Bennink & Sven-Ake Johansson.

"Alternate versions, never before released on vinyl from Peter Brotzmann Octet's Machine Gun (1968)."-Cien Fuegos

"The Tet Offensive. The Democratic National Convention In Chicago. The MLK and RFK assasinations. And if 1968 wasn't violent enough, West German avant garde tenorman Peter Brötzmann unleashed Machine Gun unto the world.

Unhinged, utterly devoid of subtlety. In your face. Of all the entries that may follow in my Whack Jazz series, none will be as extreme an expression of free jazz as this one, John Zorn's Naked City with Yamatsuka Eye notwithstanding.

Major eruptions are followed by minor ones. Occasional rat-a-tat-tats on the drums by Han Bennink for the various takes of the title song is a simple reminder of the theme. The other saxophonists Willem Breuker and Evan Parker join PB for some impromtu faux choruses but despite everyone blowing at their hardest, Brötzmann's tenor always manages to rise above the chaos; the man has steel lungs. Pianist Fred Van Hove is barely audible most of the time and even having two bassists...Peter Kowald and Buschi Niebergall...doesn't make for a consistently strong presence on the low end, either, although where they are heard, they make the most of the opportunity. Just as the alert ear can begin to pick up some semblance of a simple melody rising from the chaos, the ensemble blows it up into total disintegration, as if to be playing an evil game of creating enemies for the pleasure of cutting them down; an influence of the then-living Albert Ayler.

Virtually all the players on this record were at the beginning of their careers and have since become some pretty significant jazz players in Europe and the world. Bennink himself will merit his own entry on this blog one day.

So while it's pretty cool to say that Peter Brötzmann is a favorite tenor player of the former Leader Of The Free World, it's even more cool to explore his music and discover how he's become such a giant in both European jazz and free jazz. Machine Gun is where the greatness begins."-S. Victor Aaron, Something Else Reviews (originally published in Whack Jazz)

Peter Brötzmann: baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone

Peter Kowald: acoustic bass

Buschi Niebergall: acoustic bass

Sven-Ake Johansson: drums

Han Bennink: drums

Fred Van Hove: piano

Evan Parker: tenor saxophone

Willem Breuker: tenor saxophone

SIDE A

1. Machine Gun (Second Take)

SIDE B

1. Responsible / For Jan Van De Ven (First Take)

Anthony Braxton - Sextet (Parker) 1993 (TRI-CENTRIC FOUNDATION March 2, 2018)

"I think he exemplifies the spirit Charlie Parker had - the fact that he dares to do something different, to try another direction." (Max Roach discussing Anthony Braxton) 

On March 2nd, 2018, the Tri-Centric Foundation and New Braxton House Records will release Anthony Braxton's "Sextet (Parker) 1993" - an epic 11-CD deluxe box set meticulously documenting Braxton's now legendary European tour performing music composed by and associated with Charlie Parker. As Stuart Broomer writes in his extensive liner essay, "we've come across a signal here in which two of the greatest minds of African-American music have somehow crossed their signals, crossed and combined, fused, modulated, and combined with others." 

Widely revered as one of the most original composers and conceptualists of the past fifty years, Anthony Braxton has also pursued his own idiosyncratic path through the jazz repertoire throughout his career - from his 1974 recording "What's New in the Tradition" to his seven-album tribute to Lennie Tristano, "Quintet (Tristano) 2014". This Charlie Parker project stands as the centerpiece of that journey, a body of music that simultaneously acknowledges, expands, and explodes the bebop tradition, re-radicalizing Parker's musical revolution. 

As Braxton approaches his 75th birthday (arriving in 2020), and increasingly his own compositions became favored repertoire of emerging musicians from both the jazz and new music communities the world over, it is fascinating to see his in-depth examination of another artist's oeuvre. This recording offers insight on both Braxton and Parker - demonstrating the clear roots of a still-searching experimentalist, and reminding the listener of the joyful liberation inherent in Parker's genius. 

Braxton is joined by an extraordinary band well-versed in both the jazz tradition and creative music practice: pioneering Dutch pianist Misha Mengelberg, the undersung trumpet master Paul Smoker, Chicago tenor sax stalwart Ari Brown, the rock-solid bassist Joe Fonda, and the volcanic drummer Pheeroan akLaff. (Another Dutch jazz innovator, drummer Han Bennink, substitutes for akLaff on one disc). Representing multiple communities, styles, and generations, the interplay between the performers is sublime. Each musician is pushed to the height of their skills and rises to the challenge in this one-time only meeting - never again would this group assemble. (With the recent passing of Smoker and Mengelberg, the set also serves as a worthy tribute to their brilliance.) 

Near the 25th anniversary of the original recordings, this reissue massively expands upon the original two-disc set released in 1995 by Hathut Records under the title "Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project 1993." The deluxe 11-CD box set, with a 26-page booklet including Broomer's insightful essay and rare historical photographs, will be solely available in a limited-edition run of 500 copies. (The music will also be available for streaming or digital download via Bandcamp.) As Broomer writes, "The music satisfies a special need, engendered by jazz as history and idea, for simultaneous movements in time, both forwards and back, these ecstatic arcs in time that link these musicians and this art in a thousand ways, the ways in which this music never sounds contrived, the way it shares with us its own expansive space."

1. Confirmation 10:27

2. Quasimodo 10:33

3. Don't Blame Me 12:05

4. Repetition 05:06

5. Klactoveedsedstene 06:44

6. Relaxin' At Camarillo 15:39

7. Darn That Dream 11:49

8. Hot House 14:06

9. Laura 08:43

10. Scrapple From The Apple 05:18

11. Bebop 17:06

12. Charlie's Wig 06:51

13. Klactoveedsedstene 06:49

14. Autumn In New York 09:10

15. Parker Melodies 34:47

16. Yardbird Suite 09:25

17. Ari/Misha Duo 01:48

18. Charlie's Wig 06:36

19. Klactoveedsedstene 06:51

20. A Night In Tunisia 08:30

21. Another Hair-Do 10:37

22. Sippin' At Bell's 04:10

23. An Oscar For Treadwell 09:00

24. Bongo Bop 07:14

25. Blues For Alice 11:13

26. Dewey Square 15:33

27. Mohawk 03:34

28. Repetition 04:17

29. An Oscar For Treadwell 07:56

30. A Night In Tunisia 06:23

31. Quasimodo 10:01

32. Cardboard 08:16

33. Koko 07:30

34. Milestones 07:47

35. Hot House 12:52

36. Klactoveedsedstene 07:07

37. Yardbird Suite 08:10

38. Passport 06:20

39. Repetition 04:20

40. A Night In Tunisia 06:22

41. Hot House 15:51

42. A Night In Tunisia 08:59

43. An Oscar For Treadwell 19:22

44. Dewey Square 12:25

45. Repetition 05:11

46. Klactoveedsedstene 10:49

47. Hot House 15:18

48. Another Hair-Do 16:26

49. April In Paris 04:59

50. An Oscar For Treadwell 28:32

51. Repetition 05:12

52. Don't Blame Me 10:37

53. Confirmation 13:03

54. A Night In Tunisia 11:41

55. Dewey Square 14:52

56. Klactoveedsedstene 05:34

57. Darn That Dream 12:05

58. Autumn In New York 07:56

59. Sippin' At Bell's 05:35

60. Bebop 08:25

61. Another Hair-Do 10:32

62. Koko 07:13

63. Repetition 05:03

64. Cardboard 10:10

65. Blues For Alice 10:34

66. Confirmation 10:12

67. Don't Blame Me 13:05

68. Cheryl 09:39

Released March 2, 2018 

Anthony Braxton - alto and soprano saxophone, flute, contrabass clarinet, piano

Ari Brown - tenor and soprano saxophone

Paul Smoker - trumpet, flugelhorn

Misha Mengelberg - piano

Joe Fonda - bass

Pheeroan akLaff - drums (all tracks expect 41-46)

Han Bennink - drums (tracks 41-46 only)

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