THOLLOT - RILEY - SOLAL - BLEY "JAZZ HARMONIE + CHATEAUVALLON, 1972"

JACQUES THOLLOT TRIO "JAZZ HARMONIE, 1972"

Jacques Thollot, electric piano, drums
Joachim Kühn, piano
Earl Freeman, double bass


Recorded at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris on September 3, 1972.

Note: filmed for the "Jazz Harmonie" series - Marc Pavaux (director).


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HOWARD RILEY TRIO "JAZZ HARMONIE, 1972"

Howard Riley, piano
Barry Guy, double bass
Tony Oxley, drums

Recorded at Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris on September 3, 1972.

Note: filmed for the "Jazz Harmonie" series - Marc Pavaux (director).

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MARTIAL SOLAL  "CHATEAUVALLON, 1972"

Martial Solal, piano

Recorded at Châteauvallon Jazz Festival on August 19th, 1972.


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PAUL BLEY TRIO  "CHATEAUVALLON, 1972"

Paul Bley, piano, electric piano
Arjen Gorter, double bass
Steve McCall, drums

Recorded at Châteauvallon, France on August 27, 1972.

Solal - Konitz - Scofield- Ørsted-Pedersen – Four Keys (1979-MPS,1A 064-63157)

Here's another to me rather Special lp on MPS, Lee Konitz ,and Martial Solal ,two masters with a long shared performance and recording History.

I've always felt that they played down some of their most adventurous music together..

this one is outrageously good, they run the gamut from straight Bop compositions based on standards to free improvisations ,the title track is a piece played in four Different keys,simultaneously..

N.H.O.P , and a young J.Scofield are equal participants and round off one of the great ones in the Solal /Konitz shared discography.
still out of print to my knowledge , and very worthwhile

the mp3's for those who prefer those are available from "Magic Purple Sunshine"

Lee Konitz has apparently not been well lately , having been hospitalised just before a sheduled appearance at the Melbourne jazz Festival in June this year.

I have no idea whether he has fully recovered , perhaps a reader who is more au courant can fill us in .

we wish him all the best.



Martial Solal, piano
Lee Konitz, alto saxophone
John Scofield, guitar
Niels-Henning Ørsted-Pedersen, bass

1. Brain Stream     6:43    
2. Not Scheduled     7:27    
3. Grapes             6:26    
4. Retro Active     6:03    
5. Energy             4:42    
6. Satar             4:35    
7. Four Keys             3:15

Recorded May, 1979 in Villingen at MPS-Studio.

MPS 0068.241

Lee Konitz/Martial Solal - Live Frankfurt 2008

Reading the comments about Konitz in the Murray post I thought this might be quite timely. These two guys have played in duo and quartet formats on countless occasions over the last 40 years, and it's good to see the partnership still going strong as both of them are now turned 80. The setlist contains tunes they've played many times before, but still manage to give a fresh and original twist to them.

Lee Konitz (as), Martial Solal (p).
"Alte Oper", Frankfurt/Main (Germany), September 5, 2008.
1 The Song Is You
2 What Is This Thing Called Love
3 Body And Soul
4 Solar
5 Stella By Starlight
6 Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise

This has been recorded from a digital broadcast (thanks to "hamhen") at 256kbps and is posted in MP2 format.

LEE KONITZ- MARTIAL SOLAL DUPLICITY 1977( DOUBLE LP) HORO, FLAC AND LAME

heres a great and now sadly rare and unreissued LEE KONITZ/ MATIAL SOLAL album , which was recorded in italy for the shortlived, now famed horo label.

The horo label ,is probably most remembered these days for a couple of legendary sun ra small group albums, and documents of sam rivers tuba band.
They also recorded many supposedly “mainstream ‘ gems.
I d have to disagree with anyone who thinks of konitz, as a mainstream player.

John tchicai reffered to konitz as the most avantguard sax player of the sixties after Coltrane!!!

This album contains what must be among the most radical deconstructions of standard jazz tunes ever
With konitz and solal pushing into a chromaticism so extreme on some tracks that tonal centers of tunes disappear entirely.
Often the melody is not even stated in its original form at all, and either fractured beyond the point of recognition.
Or completely pulverized after a brief passing statement.

Its easy to characterize this as cool, dry, whatever.
That there are freedoms here is an understatement, the pervasive level of thematic abstraction has its own freefloating momentum.

Check it out and understand what tchicai,( and Braxton ,for that matter) was on about.

DUPLICITY
Konitz- alto and tenor sax
Martial solal- piano

(double lp)
info and some partial scans included.

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