HAMID DRAKE on drums

Yesterday evening I was in a bar talking to my friend George about drums and I realized that every good jazz work (free/avant-garde) that I’m listening this period is with great Hamid Drake on drums.
So here are two examples that I’ve found today on you tube.

Fred Anderson Timeless DVD Trailer
“Chicago jazz legend Fred Anderson leads Harrison Bankhead & Hamid Drake, improvising ground-breaking but warm free jazz at his own historic Velvet Lounge (since moved to 67 E. Cermak). Now on DVD & CD from Delmark Records.”

You can read here a review of this dvd.

I’ve already have the audio disc and I can’t wait to order it.



The second video with Brotzmann on sax is a little bit hard for those who aren’t used to this music, but Drake on drums with W.Parker on bass have the best rhythmic section in my opinion.

Brotzmann / Parker / Drake (2005)

I'll be back soon

Hi all,
sorry about the delay of my post's & show's on Radiophone.
I'll be back soon.

One more Jazz Festival to come - UNERHORT!

UNERHORT! ZURICH FESTIVAL 22-28 NOVEMBER 2007

Programm
22/11 BARRY GUY, CRISTOPH BAUMANN BIG BAND
23/11 KEROUAC Feat. NAT SU – AKI TAKASE, SILKE EBERHARD (ORNETTE COLEMAN ANTHOLOGY) – ULRICH GUMPERT QUARTETT - STEFAN RUSCONI TRIO
24/11 YVES REICHMUTH FRACTAL – LUCAS NIGGLI ZOOM – OLIVER KAKE, REGGIE WORKMAN, ANDREW CYRILLE Feat. IRENE SCHWEIZER
25/11 HANS HASSLER SOLO accordeon – OLIVER LAKE, CHRISTIAN WEBER, DIETER ULRICH - REGGIE WORKMAN SOLO bass – BROTZMANN, PLIAKAS, WERTMULLER
26/11 ANDREW CYRILLE drums, LUCAS NIGGLI drums – BUGGE WESSELTOFT SOLO piano
27/11 PETER SCHARLI SPECIAL SEXTET Feat. GLEN FERRIS “HOT PEACE” – SPEECH QUARTET (Amiri & Amina Baraka - William Parker – Hamid Drake)

Note: I didn’t find english version. Link on title.

Upcoming releases

Emanem
Paul Rutherford "Solo in Berlin 1975" (30 Oct.)
Recorded a year after his acclaimed masterpiece, THE GENTLE HARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, these three festival sets are at least as good. They find Rutherford at his most original and inventive, making wild music by enhancing his trombone with his voice, with mutes and other objects, as well as using his awesome speed and stunning range. No-one else has made the trombone sound like this, before or since. 75 minutes. 5 minutes originally on an FMP sampler - the rest is previously unissued. more

Tru Thoughts
Quantic Soul Orchestra – Tropidelico (22 Oct.)
Nostalgia 77 Octet – Weapons of Jazz Destruction (19 Nov.)

Manu Katché hits the charts

“Playground” the new album by drummer/bandleader Manu Katché has gone straight into the French jazz charts at #2, is also climbing its way up the French Top 50 pop albums, the German jazz charts at #4 and has already debuted in the German pop charts as well. UK magazine Jazzwise, furthermore, reports that the disc is in currently at the #1 position on HMV’s London Jazz Chart.

Blogmania issue 1

Hi guys, the purpose of blogmania is to find cool mp3-posts for you in the blogsphere. Most of these posts come from rare, hard to find and out of print records. Guys in the blogsphere deserves our respect because of the links and covers offered and moreover because of their painstaking effort to transfer the vinyls, so leave them a comment they deserve it.

Hurry up, all albums come from older posts.

Inconstantsol: Hamid Drake – Bindu (Hamid Drake's Bindu recorded at Vision Festival XI on June 16 2006), Paul Bley - Solemn Meditation (1958)
Jizzrelics: The Philadelphia Experiment
Lost-in-tyme: V.A. - What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977)
Vinyl4giants: Good-God! Heavy Funk Covers of James Brown from All Over the World 1968-1974

Radiophone show part 2

here's the second part of the "Monsieur Lu & Friends brief history in Avant-Garde/Free Jazz".

Winamp - File - play URL: http://www.archive.org/download/MonsieurLuPt.2/2_64kb.mp3

or click to download.