Denigrating post Wyatt Soft Machine is overrated and often pathetic... Cheers Leonardo/MoonJune...
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Neil Saunders
JekyllBoote@...
Jul 3, 2011 8:26 pm
... True! And while Mr Kirk was pretty far out in a lot of respects, he - and, in his rather different way, Anthony Braxton - were/are actually closer to the...
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Neil Saunders
JekyllBoote@...
Jul 3, 2011 8:27 pm
Mahavishnu really hit their stride with Birds Of Fire, which has to be one of the most amazingly intense records ever made. Perhaps this observation belongs...
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Frederic Janosy
pupeej
Jul 3, 2011 8:27 pm
Hello to you all. I was curious to know if anyone had heard the Phil Manzanera project called "CONCHERRO" I know that Robert Wyatt was involved but in what...
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John Denley
johndenley...
Jul 3, 2011 8:29 pm
I recall seeing the original lineup of the rock band Curved Air in 1972 featuring both Francis Monkman on keyboards and Darryl Way on violin. The bass player...
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Stefano Peppoloni
fastone_pg
Jul 3, 2011 9:15 pm
The project s actually named "Corroncho" and RW is guesting: <http://expressionrecords.com/blog/?page_id=23>...
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Stephen Nelson
snelson54
Jul 3, 2011 9:17 pm
... I was expecting AL to close this down as off-topic but since he hasn't... I saw the mighty Rahsaan Roland Kirk and band and I saw and heard the impossible....
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Dan Kurdilla
dkmjf
Jul 4, 2011 6:37 am
Another tenor and baritone sax player is Ken Vandermark. As to alto/soprano doublers -- maybe you wouldn't consider all of these 'well known', but -- Anthony...
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John Denley
johndenley...
Jul 4, 2011 6:40 am
Thanks Aymeric - So I didn't see Copeland with Eddie Jobson the latter whom I certainly did see with Curved Air. I have checked and there was a chap named...
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Steven W. Brown
swbrown22...
Jul 4, 2011 6:41 am
... I agree with Leonardo on this one. There was much fine music made after "Four"......
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Joerg Reinicke
propylaen2001
Jul 4, 2011 12:15 pm
The full performing credits of the release are: Phil Manzanera (guitar, vocals), Robert Wyatt (trumpet), Annie Lennox (vocals), Chrissie Hynde (vocals), Paul...
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Neil Saunders
JekyllBoote@...
Jul 4, 2011 4:46 pm
Dan, Thanks for this! I don't think it's any coincidence that so many of these players are associated with free jazz or the avant-garde more broadly considered...
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Jeff Sherman
alembicsn7452
Jul 4, 2011 5:39 pm
Steven, As much of a fan of the Classic Third lineup of Soft Machine as I am, both you and Leonardo are right. There was a LOT of good SM music after Fourth. ...
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Dan Kurdilla
dkmjf
Jul 4, 2011 6:31 pm
The soprano sax has no significant tradition in more mainstream styles of jazz. Between early jazz players like Sidney Bechet and 'avant garde' players like...
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Julian Christou
julian_christou
Jul 4, 2011 6:51 pm
And one more here: Darryl Way and Stewart Copeland - Curved Air Darryl Way and John Etheridge - Darryl Way's Wolf (with Dek Messecar on bass and Ian Mosley on...
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stereom@...
multirodent
Jul 5, 2011 9:01 am
Well, some of the post-Wyatt music is pretty decent, but I can't help but think: doesn't the acceptance of post-1971 SM require, as part of its reality, that...
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Neil Saunders
JekyllBoote@...
Jul 5, 2011 9:03 am
... Quite true about the sop (I have an arranging textbook from the late 1930s that refers to its "displeasing quality"). On the topic of that unlovable...
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masonrs@...
Jul 5, 2011 5:15 pm
Was Francis Monk man slated as Dave MacRae's replacement in Matching Mole (before that band's untimely demise)? [Yes, and before that Monkman and Robert Wyatt...
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masonrs@...
Jul 5, 2011 5:16 pm
My favorite soprano sax is Lyn Dobson's abrasive work on "Third."...
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Steven Hale
vxppl
Jul 5, 2011 5:19 pm
A doubler with Canterbury connections Jimmy Hastings: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone saxes; trombone; flute; piccolo; tin whistle; clarinet, bass clarinet. Not...
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John Trimble
johntrimble1952
Jul 5, 2011 5:44 pm
I am not sure that criticism of art qualifies merits the dreaded adjective of "pathetic"; but hey... I am totally comfortable repeating my earlier statement...
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Hans Voigt
helloder2
Jul 5, 2011 6:58 pm
Check the Curved Air single "Sarah`s concern" (1972). I.m.o. very canterburish! Hans V....
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Nick Loebner
nick_loebner
Jul 5, 2011 7:00 pm
... "Solar Flares" is an essential Wyatt release IMO. Thanks for reminding me. You've prompted me to play it again! - Nick...
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Julian Christou
julian_christou
Jul 5, 2011 7:55 pm
In terms of Post Waytt Softs, I still think that "5" has a lot of the originality because of the presence of Dean and Hopper. I tend to think of the post-Dean...
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Wyatt Moss-Wellington
wmmwyatt
Jul 6, 2011 8:24 am
... More like this, apparently: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZYY5m9MZLI>...
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Jon Hall
killingjar2001
Jul 6, 2011 8:24 am
Just seen that Curved Air and Caravan are playing a joint gig not 6 miles from me in October - I'll be there :) Holmfirth, Yorkshire btw. Jon...
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Julian Christou
julian_christou
Jul 6, 2011 8:28 am
It's a good album Nick and quite diverse. I especially like the Wyatt/Monkman BBC sessions. Back in the day I recorded them of the radio with a mike in front...
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ls618090@...
ls618090
Jul 6, 2011 8:30 am
The Wyatt+Hopper+Ratledge trio was a kind of magic. In this way, vol 2 is an extraordinary achievement. Third, with all its beauties, begins a unconventional...
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John Denley
johndenley...
Jul 6, 2011 10:47 am
It might have been nice to have had a complete Softs studio album with the Phil Howard lineup. I thought that live he was pretty darned fine, albeit I missed...
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Ian Chippett
irchippett
Jul 6, 2011 12:13 pm
... More like this, apparently: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZYY5m9MZLI> Arithmetically speaking, it's more Matching Mole (Phil Miller, Robert Wyatt and...
