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| Two New ESP-Disk' Releases Alan Sondheim + Bud Powell: Live at the Blue Note Café On October 28, ESP-Disk' will reissue a Bud Powell classic and release a new Alan Sondheim album. Sondheim and his cohorts will celebrate with a release party at JACK in Brooklyn on November 12. Alan Sondheim with Christopher Diasparra & Edward Schneider: Cutting Board (ESP5004) Alan Sondheim is the first artist from ESP-Disk's 1964-75 heyday to return, since it was revived in 2005, to issue an album of new material on the fabled label. Sondheim joined the roster with a 1967 session, Ritual-All-7-70, then followed up with 1968's T'Other Little Tune. The Ritual All 70 band's debut The Songs (Riverboat, 1967), reissued by the Fire Museum label, was included on the notorious Nurse with Wound list of outsider/avant-garde influences. Sondheim has created a highly original sound utilizing a vast array of instruments from around the world. Cutting Board, his eighth album, is his first instrumental group album; his other albums have always either been solo (and there are two solo tracks on Cutting Board as well) or featured female vocalists. To listen to samples of each track and order, go here: http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/5004.html The November 12 event is a joint release concert for the ESP-Disk' album Cutting Board and the Azure Carter/Alan Sondheim album Avatar Woman on the Public Eyesore label. Both ESP-Disk', which celebrated its 50th anniversary with a concert at JACK last November, and the younger but no less adventurous Public Eyesore, are record labels that could not care less about defining the genre of the music they release, as long as it pushes the envelope. Headliner: Alan Sondheim/Azure Carter/Chris Diasparra/Edward Schneider Support bands: Mike Pride's trio Period (Public Eyesore), Ras Moshe Trio (Straw2Gold), Theoretical Mustache Between-sets DJ: Coeruleum (MechaBenzaiten) Tickets are $10. JACK is located at 505 1/2 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn NY 11238 between Fulton St. and Atlantic Ave. in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. 15-minute walk from BAM or the Barclay's Center. http://www.jackny.org/music.html Bud Powell: Live at the Blue Note Café, Paris 1961 (ESP4036) What would have been pioneering bebop pianist Bud Powell's 90th birthday was celebrated this past September 27. This edition of a classic ESP release restores the original LP cover art by Francis Paudras, who did so much to shelter Powell, literally and figuratively, during his time in France. Powell moved to Paris at the end of March 1959 and soon hooked up with drummer Kenny Clarke, with whom he had made history in the previous decade on the jam sessions and recordings in which bebop was created. He and Clarke played at the Blue Note for all of April; in December, they reconvened at the club, with bassist Pierre Michelot and—with time out for tours and festival appearances—they worked there for much of 1960 and '61 The first three tracks here (added on the first CD edition), with Zoot Sims, date from January 1961. The longer trio set, recorded by Alan Douglas, is from later the same year and is the material that ESP issued on the original 1966 LP. Though Powell's mental health and drug problems had impacted his playing, his time in France rejuvenated him and spared him the hassles and, to some degree, the temptations of New York that had dragged him down. Nearing the sunset of his career, his musical light could still burst through the clouds and dazzle his faithful listeners. Just listen to him navigate the fleet tempos of these bebop standards. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |