Live at the Knitting Factory Volume 1
PO Band:
Lou Grassi - drums
Marshall Allen - alto sax, flute
Paul Smoker - trumpet
Steve Swell - trombone
Perry Robinson - clarinet
Wilber Morris - double bass
Porter Records 2010
recorded at Knitting Factory on September 26, 2000
While some of the most active avant-garde / free-jazz musicians release a handfull of records each year other remain criminally underrecorded which makes each available cd/lp even more precious. Bill Dixon comes to mind - an extraordinary artist of immense vision whose almost entire recorded output fits comfortably into one small box ("Complete Recordings on Soul Note and Black Saint" box set). What makes the recording presented here worthwile is obviously the music, but the fact that You get to hear such musicians like Perry Robinson, Paul Smoker or Marshall Allen (whose recordings outside of the Sun Ra Arkestra are extremely rare) makes it also one of a considerable historic value for jazz maniacs like You and me (or maybe just me). This is also somehow of an archival set since the concert presented took place a decade ago.
