RareNoise To Release SLOBBER PUP'S POLE AXE featuring MATS GUSTAFSSON
(Published: October 09, 2015)

Two years after debuting with critically acclaimed debut album Black Aces, Slobber Pup are back with their sophomore release, titled Pole Axe. The original core lineup of renowned American keyboardist and pianist Jamie Saft (JS Trio, New Zion Trio, John Zorn's Masada, Merzbow, The New Standard, The Spanish Donkey), American guitar and double bass free music legend Joe Morris and Hungarian hardcore drummer Balazs Pandi (Wadada Leo Smith, Jamie Saft, Merzbow) is here augmented by the presence of Swedish sax titan Mats Gustafsson.

Jamie Saft's, Joe Morris' and Balazs Pandi's artistic relationship has been steadily developing on RareNoiseRecords since late 2012 : Saft and Pandi both played on Metallic Taste Of Blood; all three played on Slobber Pup's first release, and again with Wadada Leo Smith on Red Hill; Saft and Morris both played on Plymouth (with Mary Halvorson, Chris Lightcap and Gerald Cleaver) and The Spanish Donkey (with Mike Pride)

Recorded December 2013 in Jamie Saft's Potterville International Sound studio in the beautiful Catskills mountains, Pole Axe leverages the afore-mentioned chemistry and the tumultuous, monolithic yet psychedelic vigor of Mats Gustafsson's reeds, yielding three boundless free-form excursions.

This journey, which starts with the torrential "Pole Of Combustible Memory", continues with the equally extended "Bring Me My Desire And Arrows To Shoot" (a title inspired by William Blake) and concludes with Incendiary Axe, is a chiaroscuro stream of consciousness that might have been burned on 35mm analog reel. Visions relentlessly follow visions, temperature and texture changes flow into another without hardly rest.

The endless depth of Saft's and Morris' interplay, multiple analog synths and organs engaged in a at times vertiginous dance with the guitar, is here deeply complemented by Gustafsson's saxophone multiform saxophone, sustained by Pandi's at times restrained, at times virulent drumming. Here again one can sense the manifestation of the notion of glacial time theorized by Morris - a state of deep listening between musicians, when time is felt and understood by all, but does not need to be overtly stated. Everyone is experiencing the pulse, yet everyone's focus is on the larger arc of the music.

TRACKS
1. Pole Of Combustible Memory (29:35)
2. Bring Me My Desire And Arrows To Shoot (17:50)
3. Incendiary Axe (4:35)

Jamie Saft - Hammond, Analog Organs, Analog Synthesizers
Joe Morris - Guitars
Mats Gustafsson - Saxophones
Balazs Pandi - Drums


ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/ producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre.


AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON OCTOBER 30, 2015 AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM ON CD, VINYL AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS.

More Information: http://www.rarenoiserecords.com

snobb wrote: RareNoise To Release SLOBBER PUP'S POLE AXE featuring MATS GUSTAFSSON (Published: October 09, 2015) Two years after debuting with critically acclaimed debut album Black Aces, Slobber Pup are back with their sophomore release, titled Pole Axe. The original core lineup of renowned American keyboardist and pianist Jamie Saft (JS Trio, New Zion Trio, John Zorn's Masada, Merzbow, The New Standard, The Spanish Donkey), American guitar and double bass free music legend Joe Morris and Hungarian hardcore drummer Balazs Pandi (Wadada Leo Smith, Jamie Saft, Merzbow) is here augmented by the presence of Swedish sax titan Mats Gustafsson. Jamie Saft's, Joe Morris' and Balazs Pandi's artistic relationship has been steadily developing on RareNoiseRecords since late 2012 : Saft and Pandi both played on Metallic Taste Of Blood; all three played on Slobber Pup's first release, and again with Wadada Leo Smith on Red Hill; Saft and Morris both played on Plymouth (with Mary Halvorson, Chris Lightcap and Gerald Cleaver) and The Spanish Donkey (with Mike Pride) Recorded December 2013 in Jamie Saft's Potterville International Sound studio in the beautiful Catskills mountains, Pole Axe leverages the afore-mentioned chemistry and the tumultuous, monolithic yet psychedelic vigor of Mats Gustafsson's reeds, yielding three boundless free-form excursions. This journey, which starts with the torrential "Pole Of Combustible Memory", continues with the equally extended "Bring Me My Desire And Arrows To Shoot" (a title inspired by William Blake) and concludes with Incendiary Axe, is a chiaroscuro stream of consciousness that might have been burned on 35mm analog reel. Visions relentlessly follow visions, temperature and texture changes flow into another without hardly rest. The endless depth of Saft's and Morris' interplay, multiple analog synths and organs engaged in a at times vertiginous dance with the guitar, is here deeply complemented by Gustafsson's saxophone multiform saxophone, sustained by Pandi's at times restrained, at times virulent drumming. Here again one can sense the manifestation of the notion of glacial time theorized by Morris - a state of deep listening between musicians, when time is felt and understood by all, but does not need to be overtly stated. Everyone is experiencing the pulse, yet everyone's focus is on the larger arc of the music. TRACKS 1. Pole Of Combustible Memory (29:35) 2. Bring Me My Desire And Arrows To Shoot (17:50) 3. Incendiary Axe (4:35) Jamie Saft - Hammond, Analog Organs, Analog Synthesizers Joe Morris - Guitars Mats Gustafsson - Saxophones Balazs Pandi - Drums ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/ producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre. AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON OCTOBER 30, 2015 AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM ON CD, VINYL AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS. More Information: http://www.rarenoiserecords.com

Unreleased Live Art Pepper Show Due Oct. 30

Set was recorded in New York in 1981

By JazzTimes

Elemental Music will release Art Pepper Live at Fat Tuesday’s, on Oct. 30. The set, from April 1981, features five extended performances at the New York venue, with the alto saxophonist Pepper joined by a rhythm section composed of pianist Milcho Leviev, bassist George Mraz and drummer Al Foster.

The package contains a 40-page booklet that includes historian and author Brian Priestley’s 1980 interview with Pepper; an essay by French music scholar and journalist Stéphane Ollivier; producer Zev Feldman’s interview with Pepper’s widow, Laurie Pepper; a personal recollection by producer John Koenig; and a first-person account by Fat Tuesday’s general manager, Steve Getz, of Pepper’s engagement at the club, as well as previously unpublished photographs by Laurie Pepper. The set will be available on CD and digital download.

Blue Note to Release “Detroit Jazz City” Benefit Album

Compilation includes past and current Detroit jazz artists

By JazzTimes

Detroit Jazz City was produced by Blue Note Records president Don Was, who is from Detroit originally. Was assembled the album by selecting catalog tracks by Detroit-born artists from the Blue Note vaults, alternating them with new recordings that he produced featuring current Detroit jazz artists, including vocalist Sheila Jordan (who recorded her debut album Portrait of Sheila for Blue Note in 1962), bassist Marion Hayden, saxophonist James Carter, guitarist Spencer Barefield and the recently departed trumpeter Marcus Belgrave.

The catalog tracks on Detroit Jazz City include material from Detroit-born jazz artists like Joe Henderson, Donald Byrd and Elvin Jones who left Detroit for New York, and also lesser known musicians such as pianist Kenny Cox, who returned home from New York to Detroit, where he remained a fixture of the local scene as a performer, professor, WDET radio personality and founder of Strata Records.

Track Listing

1. Marion Hayden – The Uncrowned King
2. Kenny Cox – You
3. James Carter – Many Blessings
4. Joe Henderson – Mode for Joe
5. Marcus Belgrave – Lottie The Body’s Mood
6. Elvin Jones – Reza
7. Spencer Barefield – Ghost Dancers
8. Donald Byrd – French Spice
9. Sheila Jordan – Sheila’s Blues

Eberhard Weber - The Great Jubilee Concert to be released on DVD in early 2016

Fahir Atakoğlu "Live at Umbria Jazz" Featuring Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez & Alain Caron
(Published: January 05, 2016)

Fahir Atakoğlu
"Live at Umbria Jazz"
Featuring Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez & Alain Caron
Release Date: January 19, 2016

New 2016 Release Integrates Cuban Rhythms & Middle Eastern Melodies
World Tour Planned

Fahir Atakoğlu releases his latest CD "Live at Umbria Jazz" (Far & Here label) on January 19, which is the 17th album in Fahir's vast catalogue of music with plans for a 2016 world tour underway. Atakoğlu has worked to blend his own native music with sounds from the wider world, incorporating Cuban rhythms, Middle Eastern melodies, and improvisation as perfected by American jazz artists. Fahir's three previous U.S. jazz releases and his CDs have made it to #1 (three times) on the JazzWeek World Music Chart as well as charting high on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart.

Fahir's Turkish melodies smoothly blend into the context of a precision-balanced, high-powered jazz trio consisting of Fahir on piano, the great Cuban drummer Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez and renown Canadian bass player Alain Caron. In the CD liner notes, Grammy® Award winner for album notes, Neil Tesser writes "... True to his roots, Atakoğlu has used his birthright as inspiration for many of these songs. Amongst the wide palate, 'Gypsy In Me' sounds a bit like what might have resulted had Thelonious Monk visited the Topkapi Palace... The moody, introspective 'Connection' has a Turkish foundation, expressed in its introductory measures; but the main melody hews closer to a modern American standard, and its rhythms range from a bossa-nova tinge to a touch of tango. 'Connection' forges a bridge between east and west. More than anything else, that connection defines his music." 

More Information: http://https://www.fahiratakoglu.com/en/

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Naked Truth, Jazz-Rock Quartet of Graham Haynes, Lorenzo Feliciati, Roy Powell, Pat Mastelotto - New Album Avian Thug To Be Released on RareNoise

 

Recorded in the south of England at the end of their 2013 European Tour, Avian Thug is the third studio album by jazz-rock ensemble Naked Truth, after Shizaru in 2011 and Ouroboros in 2012.

Founded by Italian bassist / producer / composer Lorenzo Feliciati, Naked Truth sees Graham Haynes resuming his role as trumpet/cornet player, Roy Powell man the Hammond organ, analog synths and prepared piano and finally Pat Mastelotto deliver his usual energy on acoustic and electric drums and percussion.

Avian Thug develops its themes across seven compositions, stretching from intensely furious electric jazz cavalcades, whose ancestry can be traced back both to Miles' electric work but also more recent European progressive jazz and progressive rock, to extended soundscapes, whose colors are reminiscent of the work of Jon Hassell or Nils Petter Molvaer.

Over the last four years, Naked Truth's writing style has become progressively more incisive and focused, aided by the very tight co-production work of Lorenzo Feliciati and Bill Laswell, who also is responsible for the final mix of Avian Thug. Graham Haynes' trumpet tone has acquired clarity and expressiveness, Feliciati's bass work is now more essential as are Powell's prestidigitation on analog keyboards and prepared piano, supported by Mastelotto's polyrhythmic ever inventive and powerful electronic and acoustic drum and percussion work.

Naked Truth's music was always recognizable as erupting from a magmatic cauldron of inventions; with Avian Thug it reaches a new maturity where instrumental prowess and poetic insight are tightly knit into a vigorous but balanced weave of form and substance.

TRACKS
1. Rapid Fire
2. Lazy Elephant
3. Trap Door
4. Tense Shaman
5. Avian Thug
6. Day Two At Bedlam
7. Moon At Noon

Graham Haynes - Electrified Cornet
Lorenzo Feliciati - Electric Bass, Guitars, Production
Roy Powell - Hammond Organ, Analog Synths, Prepared Piano
Pat Mastelotto - Acoustic & Electronic Drums, Percussion


ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/ producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre. For further information and to listen please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com.


CD AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON JANUARY 22, 2016 AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM.
SINGLE VINYL, RED, AVAILABLE ON FEBRUARY 26.

from  /www.jazzcorner.com

Unreleased Live Gilberto/Getz Album from 1976 Due in Feb.

Resonance Records will also release Stan Getz Quartet set

By JazzTimes

A companion album, the Stan Getz Quartet’s Moments in Time, featuring the same personnel minus Gilberto, will be released at the same time.

The Getz/Gilberto ’76 release comes over 50 years after the release of Gilberto and Getz’s million-selling, Grammy-winning album Getz/Gilberto (1964), and its sequel Getz/Gilberto #2 (1966, both on Verve Records). The 1976 Keystone engagement represents one of few times the duo reunited after its initial collaboration in 1962. States a press release, “According to the club’s founder and owner Todd Barkan, this engagement was João Gilberto’s first public performance after a four-year hiatus.”

Getz/Gilberto ’76 is available as a deluxe CD and limited-edition 12'-inch, 33-1/3 rpm LP mastered by engineer Bernie Grundman and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Record Technology Incorporated (R.T.I.) in a limited edition of 2,000 copies. It is also available digitally for pre-sale on iTunes with three “instant gratification” tracks upon purchase: “É Preciso Perdoar,” “Chega de Saudade” and “Morena Boca de Ouro.”

Moments in Time was also recorded at the Keystone Korner, the same week as Getz/Gilberto ’76.

For more information, visit Resonance Records.

Unreleased 1969 Herbie Mann Live Set Out in March

Flutist’s band included Sharrock, Vitous, Ayers

By JazzTimes

Unreleased Live Professor Longhair Album Due in April

Recorded in Chicago in 1976

By JazzTimes