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[elmo]

Steve Ellington graces Sam Rivers most underrated blue note album "New jazz conceptions" I think it is a beautiful album with a superb group Hal Galper, Herbie Lewis and Steve.

My "puter" skills are useless if some one could embed "When I fall in love" from the New jazz conceptions album off youtube i'd be grateful.

Steve's work with Hal Galper trio is tremendous and talking of Hal his latest albums like Airegin revisited are quite unlike any one else's he has a very fluid approach to time, his own take on freebop.

elmo

[burning dog]

[burning dog]

[elmo]

B/Dog

Thanks for doing that for me ...... good stuff innit

elmo

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

B/Dog

Thanks for doing that for me ...... good stuff innit

elmo

I think the Ellington/Sam Rivers connection is via Boston. I have them on "Involution" a B/Note session not released until much later.


BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

good stuff indeed

[Flyposter]

Steve Ellington toured the UK with the Sam Rivers trio in 1981 ( a young Dave Holland on bass). The happy days of CMN tours!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Was that the CMN responsible for the Don Cherry Nu tour in '87? ..of blessed memory ... & the Steve Lacy Sextet ... the Phoenix of the Middle Kingdom has ne'er fared so well ...

[Flyposter]

Were CMN responsible for the Don Cherry Nu tour in '87?

Interesting what I can find in my box of old programmes! CMN were indeed responsible. I saw the band in Southampton. The great Ed Blackwell was taken ill on that tour, and we had to wait to see if he was fit to appear. (like Rooney having a fitness test before big match) He did appear, to great applause and it was a great concert. Incidentally, Nu was recorded at the 1986 Bracknell festival. The CD was issued by the BBC and soon withdrawn I think. I have copy but now unavailable?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i saw them first at the Phoenix in Leicester, and as chance would have it, was working in Aberdeen for a few days and saw them there as well ... even the compère was astonished to be introducing that band in a church in Aberdeen! great concert! those were the days eh

as i recall
Don Cherry pocket tpt
Carlos Ward saxes
Mark Johnson bass
Nana Vasconcelos percussion

[Flyposter]

...Mark Helias on bass. He is still playing. I saw him here in Holland a while back with Ray Anderson's BassDrumBone. Now there's a group that has been in existence a long time and still sounds original.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yes Mark Helias! my crap memory ... BassDrumBone sound pretty good

[Serial_Apologist]

Many thanks indeed to burning dog and Calum for those great Sam Rivers links

Interesting what I can find in my box of old programmes! CMN were indeed responsible. I saw the band in Southampton. The great Ed Blackwell was taken ill on that tour, and we had to wait to see if he was fit to appear. (like Rooney having a fitness test before big match) He did appear, to great applause and it was a great concert. Incidentally, Nu was recorded at the 1986 Bracknell festival. The CD was issued by the BBC and soon withdrawn I think. I have copy but now unavailable?

Was Bracknell the occasion when at one point Cherry disappeared backstage to re-emerge a while later leading by hand a Keith Tippett smoking the longest joint ever across the stage front as the band played on?

If so that wasn't mentioned in the broadcast.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i think this concert holds the record for longest joint ... it passed round the entire audience fifteen times i am quite certain

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Bluesnik's revox

i think this concert holds the record for longest joint ... it passed round the entire audience fifteen times i am quite certain

Monk Montgomery, Wes's excellent et tres hip electric bass playing brother, used to horrify the band in the mid 50s by rolling his own cigs in a club with a large audience of off duty cops. And lighting up...


If you want a great kickback latenight bottle of brandy CD....."Grooveyard" by the Mastersounds. (The Montgomery Bros). A gem.

BN.