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The Living Music
By Alexander von Schlippenbach
Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Living Music; Into The Staggerin; Wave; Tower; Lollopalooza; Past Time.
William Hooker/Roger Miller/Lee Ranaldo: Out Trios, Vol. 1: Monsoon
by Clifford Allen
While the idea is consistently maligned by the improvised music cognoscenti, it is nevertheless a fact that the heaps of praise and credibility given improvised music by members of Sonic Youth – specifically guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo – have helped provide free jazz the boost in popularity that it enjoys today. Moore is of ...
Peter Br: FMP130
by AAJ Staff
Until last year you would be hard pressed to get your hands on any historic recording by this European free improv trio. Peter Brötzmann, Han Bennink, and Fred Van Hove originally appeared on the German FMP label in 1970 with Balls, finally reissued last year by Atavistic's Unheard Music Series. They picked up Albert Mangelsdorff for ...
Sun Ra: Spaceship Lullaby
by Jay Collins
Sun Ra watchers have to be thrilled with Atavistic’s recent efforts to present rare and previously unreleased Saturnistic material. The label's first release was the Cold War-era classic Nuclear War, followed by Music From Tomorrow’s World, a compendium of two previously unreleased live sessions from the tail end of the Chicago Period. The series’ latest issue ...
George Gruntz: Mental Cruelty
by AAJ Staff
The original issue of George Gruntz's 1960 soundtrack to Mental Cruelty was as obscure as it gets. The 100 LPs printed at the time immediately disappeared into the abyss due to some corporate bullshit, leaving a gaping black hole at the start of the Swiss pianist's recording career and a severe market price for the record ...
Baby Dodds: Talking and Drum Solos
by AAJ Staff
Talking and Drum Solos represents yet another step back into jazz history for Atavistic's Unheard Music Series, which made a point of mostly documenting avant jazz until this year's reissue of George Gruntz's straight-ahead Mental Cruelty soundtrack from 1960. And it's a big leap indeed. Baby Dodds (1898-1959) is regarded as one of the most influential ...
Boxhead Ensemble: Quartets
by AAJ Staff
You can tell this book by the cover. The dull steel blue, the framed papery textures, the conservative font, each letter out of contrast and nearly illegible. From the very beginning, it's pretty damn obvious that you aren't likely to be able to discriminate the voices that make up the Boxhead Ensemble. Pay the price, reap ...
George Gruntz: Mental Cruelty
by Mark Corroto
Atavistic's Unheard Music Series, curated by John Corbett, has unearthed some obscure and curious music. So far most of it has been avant-garde and experimental sounds, pressed on vinyl years ago and hitherto available only to collectors. This session by pianist/orchestra leader George Gruntz is an exception to the UMS rule and proves itself to be ...
Peter Br: FMP 130
by Jay Collins
Without a doubt, the cooperative consisting of saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, pianist Fred Van Hove and drummer Han Bennink is one of the most celebrated, if not the most influential, free improv trios in Europe. Recorded for FMP three years after the group's astonishing and portentous 1970 debut, Balls, this accurately titled record, known as FMP 130, ...
Peter Br: More Nipples
by Jerry D'Souza
For all those who have played Nipples and enjoyed doing so, the fact that there are More Nipples should come as joy exemplified. Saxophonist Peter Brötzmann thought that the three tunes from 1969 which make up this record were discarded, but they were discovered last year by FMP founder Jost Gebers. Glory be to that moment, ...
