The Group - Live [NoBusiness]

The Group:
Ahmed Abdullah - trumpet and flugelhorn
Marion Brown - alto saxophone
Billy Bang - violin
Sirone - bass
Fred Hopkins - bass
Andrew Cyrille - drums

NoBusiness Records 2012
Recorded in 1986

The Group - "Live" is yet another volume in the No Business unnamed "vault" series , making available dug up archive recordings that document some of the lost chapters in free-jazz history (Billy Bang's Survival Unit, William Hooker & Thomas Chapin duo and Thomas Borgmann Trio have already appeared on the blog).

It takes tjust a quick look at the names' list to know that this a heavyweight band. The Group did never got a chance to document their music in a studio which makes this release a true digger's treasure.

Jazz Alchemist radio Archives - 02.11.2009 All Saints' Day 2009. R.I.P.

Whoever's in Krakow, I invite you to come and see the evening's concert at Barka with Stefano Ferrian and Simone Quatrana. For the rest of you I bring back the playlist that was aired orginally on 02.11.2009 in which we've celebrate the life and music of such beautifull artists like Sirone, George Russell, Rashied Ali, David "Fathead" Newman, Louis Bellson, Hugh Hopper who all passed away during that year.

Sirone

01. Mike Reed's Loose Assembly - Day Of The Dead
02. Sirone-Aisha`s Serenade
03. George Russell-Nardis
04. Michael Zerang / Dave Rempis / Mark Tokar / Steve Swell / Ken Vandermark  - (from the Resonance box)
05. Rashied Ali & Louie Belogenis - Rings of Saturn
06. Doctor 3 - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
07. Duke Ellington and his orchestra - Skin Deep
08. David Fathead Newman - Hard Times
09. Soft Machine - Virtuality Part 1
10. Soft Machine - Virtuality Part 2
11. Eri Yamamoto, Whit Dickey, Daniel Carter - Rocker
12. Tim Daisy / Dave Rempis / Magnus Broo /  Michael Zerang - (from the Resonance Box)
13. George Russell - Honesty
14. Krzysztof Komeda - Sophia's Tune

Jazz Alchemist Radio Archives. All Saints' Day 2009 by Jazzowy Alchemik on Mixcloud

Oluyemi Thomas, Sirone, Michael Wimberly - Beneath Tones Floor [NoBusiness]

Beneath Tones Floor

Oluyemi Thomas - bass clarinet, flute, soprano, musette, percussion

Sirone - bass

Michael Wimberly - drums, percussion

NoBusiness Records 2010

To balance the content of last couple of reviews (big groups, orchestral compositions, string quartets etc) I jumped into the music of this improvising trio, and it's quite a big contrast.

This is free-jazz at its best. With fantastic musicianship throughout, with ideas flowing freely in and out, with the band members both reacting to one another and pushing each other forward, sometimes acting like three minds in one body. A journey, a mystical revelation, a metaphysical experience.