Tim Berne - 7x (June 2021 Screwgun Records)

1. Chang 06:55

2. The Water People (For Brian Horner) 08:45

3. 7x 09:43

4. Flies 07:17

5. A Pearl In The Oliver C. 04:15

6. Showtime (For Don And Thelma Cline) 12:07

Tim Berne: Alto Saxophone on all selections

Alex Cline: Percussion on Chang, Water People, Flies and Showtime

Nels Cline: Electric 6-String Guitar on Chang, 7X and Showtime Electric 12-String Guitar and Hawaiian Steel Guitar on Water People

Vinny Golia: Baritone Saxophone on Chang, 7X, Flies, Pearl and Showtime Flute, Bassoon and Khene on Water People

Roberto Miranda: Bass on all selections

John Rapson: Trombone on Flies, Water People and Showtime

All Compositions Tim Berne Party Music BMI

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Recorded at Intermix Studio in Los Angeles, January 8, 1980 Special thanks to Michael Preussner for the wonderful gong Recording equipment supplied by Recording Services Co., Studio City

Recording Engineer: Bruce Bidlack Mastered by Bob Ludwig, Masterdisk Album Cover Design by Kikuchi-Oji Design, Inc., New York Front Cover Photography: Alan Kikuchi

Executive Producers: Gary Halvorson and Big Al Produced by Brian Horner, Alex and Nels Cline and Tim Berne

Back Cover Photos: Harry Zeitlin

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Texas Singer-Songwriter VINCE BELL Reading & Performance w/ RATZO HARRIS and VINNY GOLIA Sunday, August 12th 7 PM

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Please join us for a Rare Evening with Texas Singer-Songwriter VINCE BELL. He will be reading from his original show, One Man's Music, and performing songs from his recent, critically-acclaimed album, Ojo (Produced by Bob Neuwirth, Dave Soldier, Patrick Derivaz). Accompanying Vince Bell are beloved New York bassist RATZO B. HARRIS, who plays on Ojo, and VINNY GOLIA - an award-winning composer, bandleader and celebrated multi-woodwind performer.

Singer-Songwriter MASON SUMMIT, already with 4 records released by age 21, opens the evening. Also featuring a reading by Playwright/Poet/Essayist LEON MARTELL, widely produced + most recently, the author of the hit play ICE, a commission by LA's 24th Street Theatre. $10 Admission includes dessert. Free Parking. Tickets available NOW @ www.ruskingrouptheatre.com. 

Library Girl is now in its 9th Year. Created, Produced + Curated by Susan Hayden. Managing Director: Mike Myers. Production Support: William T Ensley, Nicole Millar + Paul Denk. All proceeds will be donated to Ruskin Group Theatre.

About Vince Bell's album, T Bone Burnett writes: "Ojo is shamanism." Bell's songs have been performed and recorded by such diverse talents as Little Feat, Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith, and both a ballet and musical have been set to his work. Along with five critically acclaimed CDs and a live performance DVD, he is the author of an autobiography, One Man’s Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell and one-man performance piece, One Man’s Music: A Monologue with Song. "Vince is a poet," said the well-loved late Townes Van Zandt. Vince Bell has been a stalwart of the Texas singer-songwriter scene since he emerged in Houston in the early 1970s. A rising star, until a devastating car accident in 1982 which resulted in a serious brain injury and a 10 year-recovery. “His determined rehabilitation and subsequent comeback is a personal journey that ends triumphant in the here and now," from Joe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life. 

L to R - Steven Soles, T Bone Burnett, Dave Mansfield, Tony Gilkyson, Bob Neuwirth, Bob Thiele, Jr. at McCabes.

July 15, 2018

In 1975 and 1976, T Bone Burnett toured with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue; when the Revue ended, Burnett and two other members of Dylan's band, David Mansfield and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band, which released three albums: The Alpha Band (1976), Spark in the Dark (1977), and The Statue Makers of Hollywood(1978).

Vince Bell

Golia / Kaiser / Moses / Smith / Walter - Astral Plane Crash (BALANCE POINT ACOUSTICS August 1, 2018)

"Astral Plane Crash" features almost 80 full minutes of detailed, colorful and communicative free improvisation by a special quintet of veteran musicians including Vinny Golia (reeds), Ra Kalam Bob Moses (drums), Henry Kaiser (guitar), Damon Smith (bass) and Weasel Walter (drums). The core PLANE CRASH trio of Kaiser, Smith and Walter is a long-running unit, having worked together extensively in numerous contexts on releases like "Plane Crash" (ugEXPLODE, 2009) and "Plane Crash Two" (New Atlantis, 2015). Kaiser was amongst the first wave of 1970's US free improvisers and his diverse, endless discography is legendary. Since 2005, the versatile rhythm section of Smith and Walter has collaborated on almost 25 releases together.

Los Angeles-based workhorse mult-reedist Vinny Golia and mythic journeyman drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses join the fray here in their first time musical meeting. Golia brings a virtuoso articulation to a wide range of woodwind instruments here, multiplying the timbral variety of the group sound greatly. Those more familiar with Moses as a first rate jazz drummer for icons like Gary Burton, Steve Swallow, Pat Metheny & Dave Leibman may surprised at his current advanced free improvisation concept documented here.

The results resound with clarity, as space opens up spontaneously for every combination of the players, all captured in a beautifully transparent studio mix. Although the momentum is constant, this isn't another blaring energy music blow-out - the density crackles with sensitivity, support and mutual respect.

This quintet unleashes an orchestral arsenal of articulated abstraction and explores longer narrative lines, culminating in the two epic forms revealed here. The release comes with a 12 page color booklet featuring the stunning artwork of artist Jordan Belson as a mystical visual counterpart to the sonic mindscapes of the audio.

BALANCE POINT ACOUSTICS

Lisa Mezzacappa - Glorious Ravage (NEW WORLD RECORDS 2017)

"I am doing what a woman can hardly ever do . . . , " wrote British world traveler Isabella Bird in an 1872 letter from Hawaii. "And I can fall, I can fall into anything." San Francisco Bay Area composer, acoustic bassist, and bandleader, Lisa Mezzacappa used those lines - and more from the writings of Bird and other women adventurers of the 19th and early 20th centuries - to fashion lyrics for her ten-part "panoramic song cycle for improvisers." Sung by the extraordinary vocalist Fay Victor, those two lines might also be taken to reflect Mezzacappa's place in the world of progressive and avant-garde jazz.

With Victor's voice at the core, and musical ideas percolating up from the texts, Mezzacappa tailored the open-ended structure of Glorious Ravage to the gifts, sensibilities, and personalities of the individual musicians. That required her to develop a bigger compositional framework than she had ever built before, and one that could both reflect and refract the multifaceted stories and personas of the women she met in her research and meet the challenge of keeping the composition, in her words, "open to the kind of collective wisdom that emerges from any given musical community."

Mezzacappa has written that initial inspiration for her work "comes from a messy, unfocused, overwhelming, brilliant, seductive, and terrifying pool of sensations, ideas, gut reactions, intellectual concerns, moral ambiguities." From that pool has bubbled up something that retains many of those qualities, but that also manifests focus, chemistry, communication, and an emergent sense of both order and transcendence. 

Glorious Ravage is a musical exploration of what is possible. Soaring with it can trigger an experience of the sublime, similar to the altitude sickness that Isabella Bird, Ida Pfeiffer, and Annie Smith Peck fell into during their lofty adventures, an ecstatic mind state South Americans called  veta  or  soroche. When Bird wrote in her letter from Hawaii, "This is the height of the last and most glorious ravage," she could not have foreseen that Lisa Mezzacappa would bring us another of equal magnificence.

1. I. Veta  4:06

2. II. Make No Plans  6:16

3. III. Heat & Hurry  7:15

4. IV. Taxonomical  4:59

5. V. Great Green Gloom  8:03

6. VI. Soroche  4:42

7. VII. For the Dusky Mourner  13:26

8. VIII. Marianne  5:03

9. IX. Shut Out the Sun  7:29

10. X. City of Wonders  8:18

Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass, conductor

Fay Victor voice

Nicole Mitchell  flute

Kyle Bruckmann  oboe

Vinny Golia  woodwinds

Cory Wright  woodwinds

Darren Johnston  trumpet

Michael Dessen  trombone

Dina Maccabee  viola

John Finkbeiner  electric guitar

Myra Melford  piano, harmonium

Kjell Nordeson vibraphone, percussion

Mark Dresser acoustic bass

Tim Perkis  electronics

Jordan Glenn drum set, percussion

Nathan Hubbard / Vinny Golia - Hunter's Moon (CASTOR & POLLUX MUSIC LABEL 2017)

1. What Are You Looking For? Oh, Two Doors Down . . . 01:10:18

Vinny Golia - Alto Flute, Alto, Sopranino & G Mezzo Soprano Saxophones, Tubax (Contrabass Saxophone), Eb, Bb Clarinets & Basset Horn 

Nathan Hubbard - Percussion, Field Recordings/Samples/Sound Design

Recorded under the Hunter's Moon Saturday October 15th 2016 

Bread and Salt San Diego CA 

Nathan Hubbard - recording and mix engineer 

Field recordings recorded CA/AZ/Baja MX 2011-2016 Nathan Hubbard - engineer 

Rafter Roberts - mastering