JAZZ FOCUS >> British jazz archival releases 2o21-2o23 on Mixcloud

Here we go with non-archival one for start: Elton Dean's tune Seven For Lee recorded by KEViN FiGES & YOU ARE HERE as first one in MY ONLY DESiRE Records 7" vinyl series of brit-jazz classics recorded by recent artists. Then there are two excellent sound quality GRAHAM COLLiER albums on MOD: British Conversations with Harry Beckett, Ed Speight and Swedish Radio Jazz Group from 1975 and sextet's Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days 1969. Next are numerous releases by BRiTiSH PROGRESSiVE JAZZ label: THE KEiTH TiPPETT GROUP on How Long This Time: Live 1970, another GRAHAM COLLiER with Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now suite, JOHN TAYLOR SEXTET's Eye To Eye: Live 1971, KENNY WHEELER BiG BAND with EVAN PARKER and CHRiS PYNE - Live 1971, MiCHAEL GARRiCK SEXTET - Fambrough Technical College 1965 and DON RENDELL SEXTET's The Odysseus Suite from 1970. One reissue by CADiLLAC Records follows: self-titled sole album by quintet JOY from 1976, featuring Jim Dvorak, Ernst Mothle and Keith Bailey. Back to BPJ catalogue with JOHN DANKWORTH ORCHESTRA on Composition with Colour: Live 1971 and concluding with ELTON DEAN QUARTET's Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan 1979, including his trademark tune Seven For Lee again.

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https://myonlydesirerecords.bandcamp.com

https://cadillac77.bandcamp.com

PLAYLiST:

00:00 KEViN FiGES & YOU ARE HERE - Seven For Lee (7" single, MOD 2023)

04:39 GRAHAM COLLiER - Halo Round The Sun (British Conversations, MOD 2021)

16:05 GRAHAM COLLiER - Lullaby For A Lonely Child (Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69, MOD 2023)

22:02 THE KEiTH TiPPETT GROUP - In A Vacant Mood (How Long This Time: Live 1970, BPJ 2022)

30:40 GRAHAM COLLiER MUSiC - Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now - Part 3 (Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now, BPJ 2023, subscribers release only) 

33:41  JOHN TAYLOR SEXTET - Awakening / Eye To Eye / Awakening (reprise) (Eye To Eye: Live 1971, BPJ 2021, subscribers release only)

43:10 KENNY WHEELER - CP EP (Live '71: The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends, BPJ 2023)

49:23 MiCHAEL GARRiCK SEXTET - Requiem (Farnborough Technical College 1965, BPJ 2022)

54:27 DON RENDELL SEXTET - The Odysseus Suite part 2: Odysseus, King of Ithaca (The Odysseus Suite, BPJ 2022)

01:01:20 JOY - Spirals (Joy, Cadillac 1976)

01:07:52 JOHN DANKWORTH ORCHESTRA - Altisidora (Composition With Colour: Live 1971, BPJ 2022)

01:12:45 ELTON DEAN QUARTET - That's For Cha / Seven For Lee (On Italian Roads: Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan 1979, BPJ 2022)

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Unreleased recordings of Keith Tippett Group from 1970 revealed

Superbness of these 2 sessions is in Elton Dean's alto and saxello playing, as well as in solid compositions by leader pianist Keith Tippett and dedicated playing from all involved. Dean was already member of Soft Machine at the times of recording.

Album was released by British Progressive Jazz label and highly reached first position of most selling jazz album on Bandcamp.

Keith Tippett - piano 

Marc Charig - cornet 

Nick Evans - trombone 

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello 

Tracks 1 - 3: 

Jeff Clyne - double bass, electric bass 

Trevor Tomkins - drums 

Tracks 4 - 6: 

Roy Babbington - double bass

Bryan Spring - drums

 

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Blind Badger & Other Jazzy Fables

In this mix I was drawing mostly from recordings of musicians, who I call Brotherhood Family - members of South African Blue Notes and associated British jazzmen. Prominently featured are drummer Louis Moholo and pianist Keith Tippett, and also Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Harry Miller, Chris McGregor, Harry Beckett, Evan Parker and others. Click mix title to see full playlist on mixcloud.

These are my first three full ECM mixes.

Album of the week: HARRY MiLLER - Different Times, Different Places - Volume Two (UK 2o16)

Second collection of unreleased recordings from Miller's family archive. Three quintets from 1977, 1978 and 1982, released by Ogun Recordings.

Collective personnel:

HARRY MiLLER - double bass
ALAN WAKEMAN & TREVOR WATTS - saxophones
DAVE HOLDSWORTH - trumpet
ALAN TOMLiNSON - trombone
BERNiE HOLLAND - guitar
KEiTH TIPPETT - piano
LOUiS MOHOLO-MOHOLO - drums



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ELTON DEAN QUiNTET - Live in Perugia 1980

 

I think this is a killer. Remastered from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68VZ2v8-tGk.

ELTON DEAN QUINTET - Live in Perugia, Moz Art, Gennaio 1980 

ELTON DEAN - alto sax, saxello

MARC CHARiG - cornet

KEiTH TiPPETT - piano

HARRY MiLLER - bass

LOUiS MOHOLO - drums

01. Improvisation inc. ?   23:37

Good audience recording.

For download go here.

More Elton Dean downloads at inconstant sol blog.

THiS iS A MAJOR ONE FOR LOVERS OF FREEJAZZ, AFRiCAN JAZZ AND BRiTJAZZ; plus some Prague gigs

Louis Moholo-Moholo Quintet @ the Vortex 17.o3.2o11: Louis Moholo-Moholo (drums), Paul Dunmall (saxophone), Alan Tomlinson (trombone), Alexander Hawkins (piano) and Olie Brice (bass).
Found through Jazz Gig Diary blog.

+ PLUS +  
SEPTOBER ENERGY: Keith Tippett conducts Viva La Black with Julie Tippetts, Louis Moholo-Moholo & Minafric Orchestra in Sant'Anna Arresi (Sardegna) on 2nd September 2oo8. Soloist on soprano sax is Roberto Ottaviano.

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Some interesting gigs @ Jazz Dock in Prague these days: On Sunday, June 24, Polish pianist Pavel Wlosok will join Ondřej Štveráček (tenor sax), Tomáš Baroš (double bass) and Tomáš Hobzek (drums).

Pianist Karel Růžička's trio with Josef Fečo (double bass) and Dano Šoltis (drums) will play together with Karel's son, Karel Růžička Jr. (saxes and flute), on Monday July 25. Karel Jr. is based in New York for years and is currently in Prague due to his participation on Czech Jazz Workshop.

Promising Czech quartet POiNTS will play octet gig on Wednesday: Luboš Soukup (saxes), Miroslav Hloucal (trumpet, flugelhorn), Tomáš Liška (double bass) and Tomáš Hobzek (drums) will be joined on stage by Dorota Barová (cello and voice), Marcel Bárta (saxes and bass clarinet), Jan Jirucha (trombone) and Petr Kalfus (alto sax). All four players were guesting on POiNTS album, released by Animal Music in 2o1o. Live album from Points appearance at Jazz Getxo festival in Spain, where they won first prize in young bands contest in 2oo9, was also released by festival label Errabal.

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Plus one actual prog song: Sluneční město / Suntown by FUTURUM, from iSLAND EARTH album, 1984 > download here.

Due to connection problems, there are actually no new additions at my Rajce gallery :(