Gary Thomas, Christy Doran, Mark Helias, Bobby Previte • Corporate Art

REPOST

This quartet date by guitarist Christy Doran, bassist Mark Helias, drummer Bobby Previte, and saxophonist Gary Thomas may have been recorded in Europe by Stefan Winter, but its feel is utterly New York. Doran's playing is far more on the jazz-rock than avant tip here, giving the entire proceeding a feeling of that beautiful, edgy walk between composition and improvisation. Thomas -- normally an outside player -- reins himself in as a soloist in order to focus on the sometimes wondrous ensemble playing at the heart of the disc. Each member of the band writes on this set and it's obvious that the groove comes from within. It's knotty, sometimes intense, and often complex, such as on the opener "Blood Sugar," and on Doran's "Heitere Gelassenheit," where staggered arpeggios intersect with scalar riffs to form a kind of contrapuntal melody line. But there are wonderfully elegiac and gently swinging tunes as well, such as the flute-driven swing in Thomas' "Chiaroscuro" or the languid tempos of Helias' "21" and "Bass Minotaur." Helias also offers a jazz-funk workout with "Skin," with furious basslines driving riffed-up guitars and a bleating saxophone that stays in the pocket. The album closes with Previte's beautiful nocturne "Theme for W.," where Thomas and Doran weave around one another slowly and purposefully to erect a floating melody that seems to float and hover while actually moving toward a complex harmonic architecture with a controlled dynamic.
AMG

1. Blood Sugar 360 Degrees
(Bobby Previte)

2. 21
 (Mark Helias)

3. Mutations
 (Christy Doran)

4. Skin
 (Mark Helias)

5. Chiaroscuro
 (Gary Thomas)

6. Heit Ere Gel As Sen Heit
 (Christy Doran)

7. Bass Minotaur
 (Mark Helias)

8. The Same But Different
 (Christy Doran)

9. Theme For W.
 (Bobby Previte)


 
Gary Thomas • Tenor Saxophone, Flute

Christy Doran  • Electric Guitar
Electric Bass • Mark Helias
Bobby Previte • Drums

Engineered by Adrian Von Ripka
Produced by Stefan F. Winter

Label: JMT Productions – 849 155-2
Format: 320
Country: Germany
Released: 1991
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz

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com·plet·ist
[kuh m-plee-tist]
a person who attempts to complete a collection or set,
especially a collector who wants to collect an example of every item in a particular field:

F. Robert Lloyd ‎• Think About Brooklyn

1. Blind Willie

2. Daly Day

3. Corkscrew Swamp Road

4. Waltzing Kate

5. Lullaby You

6. Bloody Buddy Rumba

7. Four Lives In A Day Suite

8. Proverbs From Hell

9.True Man Coyote

10. La Femme Bachir

11 .Brooklyn Fuss

12. Crossroads

13. Hellhound On My Trail

14. I Want To Drink It Straight

15. Tribute To Sun Ra

F. Robert Lloyd • guitars, words, voice

Sonny Sharrock • guitar, voice (2 to 9, 11, 14, 15)

Jean Touitou • Wurlitzer, Tibetan bells (5,8,14)

Bill Laswell • bass, fretless bass, bowed bass,

guitar sitar, percussion (1,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

Gregoire Garrigues • Bass (1 to 9, 11, 14, 15)

Anton Fier • Drums (1 to 7, 9 to 11, 14)

Recorded in seven days at Greenpoint Studio,
Brooklyn, New York

Recorded by Oz Fritz for Hish Velocity

Mixed by F. Robert Lloyd, Gregoire Garrigues,
Jean Touitou, Oz Fritz

Produced by A.P.C.

Format: 320

Country: France

Released: 1993

Genre: Jazz, Rock

Style: Blues Rock, Contemporary Jazz

RBE • Chilla Jones vs Danny Myers

Watch the other battles from this RBE event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgytqS...

Bill Laswell • Fireside Chat

Studio visionary, bass maestro and musical activist: Bill Laswell guides us through his varied and immense discography, from Herbie to Fela.

Red Bull Music Academy

 

1. Reduction • Material
2. America Is Waiting • Brian Eno & David Byrne
3. Work Song • Bill Laswell
4. Crackin • Last Exit
5. After • Massacre
6. Army Arrangement • Fela Kuti
7. Cosmic Slop • Material
8. Crooklyn Dub Syndicate • Bill Laswell meets Style Scott
9. Rockit • Herbie Hancock
10. Improvised Music #3 • Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock, 

Derek Bailey, Fred Frith & John Zorn
11. Blast / War Machine Dub • Praxis

Big Kannon VS JC Rap Battle

Rare Breed Ent

PETER BRÖTZMANN • JASON ADASIEWICZ • JOHN EDWARDS • STEVE NOBLE

Went to an excellent gig last night to see Free Jazz legend Peter Brotzmann.
Haven't been to a gig in long time, a habit I need to reanimate.
Cafe Oto in East London is the kind of venue I like, small with a sound mixer with ears.

Stylo

Peter Brötzmann • alto and tenor sax, Bflat clarinet, Taragato
Jason Adasiewicz • vibraphone
John Edwards • double bass
Steve Noble • drums

Listen to their previous gig at Cafe OTO below:

Wild Style Instrumental Beats

 

For three days in June of 1981, a movie director, a hip hop scenester and a drummer met in Blank Tapes studios in Manhattan and created the soundtrack to the most iconic hip hop movie in history. Named Wild Style, the flick was a collaboration between the aspiring filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and Fred Brathwaite (known around the downtown scene as Fab 5 Freddy); after a conversation at a Times Square show, Ahearn recalls they decided to “bring the hip hop world and the graffiti world together into focus” on the big screen. As a musical curveball, Ahearn proposed what he looks back on as a “ridiculous” idea: Instead of utilizing the popular soul and funk breaks that DJs like Grand Wizard Theodore and Grandmaster Flash were spinning at parties, they would create their own instrumental percussive grooves to score the movie.
To that end, they drafted in the talents of Lenny Ferraro (sometimes known as Ferrari), a drummer playing on the punk circuit who had originally cut his teeth backing up Aretha Franklin and Jerry Butler. The outcome of those studio sessions became known as the Wild Style breakbeats – a series of 13 short instrumentals that are now some of hip hop’s most revered and mysterious recordings.

Phillip Mlynar

Dave Harper • Bass

Lenny Ferrari • Drums

Chris Stein • Guitar, Effects

Produced by Chris Stein, Fred Brathwaite 

and Charlie Ahearn

Label: Beyongolia ‎– BEGO 12002

Format: Vinyl, flac

Country: UK

Released: 1998

Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop

Style: Instrumental, Breaks

Black Science Orchestra • Walters Room

Here's some more Beedle for your needle - if not the one attached to the tone arm, the one embedded in the digital junkie's arm at least. See bio info for Ashley Beedle over at the Ballistic Brothers post on Soundological. For his BSO effort, Ashely forsook the talents of buds Rocky & Diesel for a heavier reliance on Uschi Classen and engineer Marc Woolford. The album is named in deference to one of the early pioneers of the extended remix, Walter Gibbons. In all seriousness, if you just glossed over that link and you don't really know who Gibbons was then you better check yourself and click on that link, kiddo. You're in for a treat. Then go to the Disco Museum for a nice in-depth bio on the man you can read while listening to BSO's homage to the glory days of Philly, New York and Jersey disco. Shout out to Julian over at Play Jazz Loud for his psychic request!

AMG

1. Start The Dancer

2. City Of Brotherly Love

3. A Hot Family Day

4. Bless The Darkness

5. Just Holdin' On

6. Hudson River Revisited

7. St. Mark's Square

8.Save Us (The Jam)

9. Downtown Science

10. Rican Opus #9

11. Hudson River High

The Black Science Orchestra

Ashley Beedle • Percussion, Keyboards, Drum Programming

Marc Woolford • Keyboards, Programming

Uschi Classen • Keyboards, String Arrangements

The Brothers & Sisters

Amy Simmons • Flute

David Alvarez • Live Drum Overdubs

Dave Maggio • Saxophone

Lewis Rhone • Trombone

Charles Marin • Trumpet

Stella Hinton • Guitar

Tommy 'D' • Keyboards

Oscar Ronindéz • Percussion

Carl Walker • Vibraphone 

Vocals

The BSO, Steve Lucas, Carla Hendry, Tommy 'D', Sister Soul

Strings

The Classenic String Ensemble • Strings

All songs produced, arranged and written by

Ashley Beedle

and

The Black Science Orchestra

Except ‘Save Us’ co-produced and co-written by Tommy ‘D’

Engineered by James Brown and Marc Woolford

"Music is the first science known to man. Understand while you dance."

"The BSO would like to thank everybody who has supported us. Much love!" 

Label: Junior Boy's Own ‎– JBOCD5

Format: Flac

Country: UK

Released: 1996

Genre: Electronic

Style: Acid Jazz, Deep House, Jazzdance

Ol' Dirty Bastard

Shimmy Shimmy Ya!

Ol' Dirty Bastard Gets Muppeted!

Posted by Stanton Warriors on Saturday, June 13, 2015