The Best of 90's thread....
http://www.radiomute.com/23276-best-90s.html
As with the 90's, this will also cover Avant-Garde/Free Jazz/Free Improv/Experimental.
This time in order of preference.
First up 2000
Cecil Taylor/Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Tony Oxley - Nailed
Evan Parker/John Edwards/Marc Sanders - The Two Seasons
Alexander Schlippenbach/Evan Parker/Paul Lovens - Swinging the Bim
Eric Dolphy - Illinois Concert
John Zorn/Masada - Live in Sevilla
Mats Gustafsson - Windows: The Music of Steve Lacy
Keith Tippett - Friday the 13th
Gunter Müller/Lê Quan Ninh - La Voyelle Liquide *
John Lindberg - The Catbird Sings
John Butcher & Phil Durrant - Requests and Antisongs *
Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 94 For Three Instrumentalists
Dave Holland - Prime Directive
David Murray - Octet Plays Coltrane
William Parker - Painter's Spring
Keith Rowe/Gunter Müller/Taku Sugimoto - The World Turned Upside Down *
Joe Lovano - 52nd Street Themes
Keith Jarrett - Whisper Not
Italian Instabile Orchestra - Litania Sibilante
Uri Caine - The Goldberg Variations
Frank Gratowski - Quicksand
Andrew Hill - Dusk
Keith Rowe - Harsh
Marty Ehrlich/Michael Formanek/Peter Erskine - Relativity
Anthony Braxton - Nine Compositions (Hill) 2000
Dean Roberts/Werner Dafeldecker - Aluminum *
Mats Gustafsson/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love - The Thing
Keith Rowe/Evan Parker - Dark Rags
Assif Tsahar Trio - Ein Sof
Vienna Art Orchestra - All that Strauss
Spaceways Incorporated (Ken Vandermark/Hamid Drake/Nate McBride) - Thirteen Cosmic Standards by Sun Ra & Funkadelic
Joe McPhee/Joe Giardullo/Michael Bisio/Dominic Duval - No Greater Love
John Lindberg - Tree Frog Tonality
Otomo Yoshihide/Voice Crack - Bits, Bots and Signs *
John Tilbury/Evan Parker - Two Chapters & an Epilogue
Evan Parker/Marilyn Crispell, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton-After Appleby
Dave Douglas - A Thousand Evenings
Susie Ibarra - Flower after Flower
Myra Melford - Dance Beyond the Color
Thomas Lehn & Markus Schmickler - Bart *
Bill Dixon - Papyrus, Vol. 1
Dean Roberts/Werner Dafeldecker - Aluminum *
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd - Monk's Dream
Greg Osby - The Invisible Hand
Evan Parker - Foxes Fox
Marthy Ehrlich - Malinke's Dance
Wadada Leo Smith - Golden Quartet
Derek Bailey - String Theory
Derek Bailey - Mirakle
Derek Bailey - Drop Me of at 96th
Anthony Braxton - Ten Compositions (Quartet) 2000
Sam Rivers - Culmination
Eight Bold Souls - Last Option
Cluesone 3 - An Hour With
Mats Gustafsson/Kurt Newman/Mike Gennaro - Port Huron Picnic
John Zorn - Cartoon/S & M
Ivo Perelman - The Hammer
Wadada Leo Smith - Reflectativity
Christian Marclay/Otomo Yoshihide - Moving Parts
Dave Douglas - Soul on Soul
AALY Trio - I Wonder If I Was Screaming
Ellery Eskelin - Ramifications
John Zorn -Filmworks IX-Trembling Before G-d
Vienna Art Orchestra - Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
Nels Cline - The Inkling
Dave Douglas - Leap of Faith
Sonny Rollins - This is What I Do
M.I.M.E.O. - Electric Chair & Table
William Parker - Mayor of Punville
Wayne Horvitz - Upper Egypt
Gregg Bendian - Myriad
David Murray - Death of a Sideman **
Jim Black - Alasnoaxis
Other Dimensions in Music w/ Matthew Shipp - Time is of the Essence
Satoko Fuji - Double Take
Simon Nabatov - Sneak Preview
Brandon Evans & Anthony Braxton - Elliptical Axis 15
Pharoah Sanders/Hamid Drake/Adam Rudolph - Spirits
Tom Cora - Trace
Ned Rothenberg - Ghost Stories
Peter Brötzmann/Keiji Haino/Shoji Hano - Shadows: Live in Wels
Rashied Ali/Peter Kowald/Assif Tsahar - Deals, Ideas, and Ideals
Joseph Jarman/Leroy Jenkins/Myra Melford - Equal Interest
Derek Bailey/Keiji Haino - Songs
Keith Jarrett - La Scala
Kahil El Zabar - Africa n' Da Blues
Satoko Fuji - To West
Raphe Malik/Cecil McBee/Cody Moffett - Storyline
Uri Caine - La Gaia Scienza
School Days: Ken Vandermark/Jeb Bishop/Ingebright Håker-Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love - Crossing Division
Witches & Devils w/Ken Vandermark - at the Empty Bottle
Charles Gayle - Ancient of Days
Whit Dickey - Big Top
Jason Moran - Facing Left
David Murray - Love and Sorrow **
Cooper-Moore - Deep in the Neighborhood of History & Influence
Gunter Müller/Taku Sugimoto - I am Happy if You are Happy
Tripleplay (Ken Vandermark/Curt Newton/Nate McBride) - Expanson Slang
Marshall Allen/Lou Grassi's Po-Band - PoZest
As with the 90's, there will be some tinkering and editing.
* These are either limited edition or might as well be consiered limited edition, since it is highly unlikely label will repress anymore. In this case, Erstwhile only presses around 1000. Keep in mind, Erstwhile specializes in what is called eai aka electorinic acoustic improv.
** All recordings released by DIW might as well be considered out of print in the U.S. Soon to be Satchmo out of print.
Cecil's is on FMP and at this moment, no one is sure if the label is above ground. It's one of his best.
Evan Parker and Tony Oxley don't like each. This stems from Parker and Derek Bailey's animosity towards each other. It made it's way into their performance and infected Taylor and Barry Guy's playing.
It's basically one giant cutting contest. This is where the title Nailed comes from. It lasts a bit over 78 minutes and it's close to none stop cutting and burning.
It starts off from a slow boil, then catching fire 6 minutes into the first track. The first track alone lasts 52 minutes.
The animosity between Parker and Oxley led to this recording being left in some recording vault for 10 years. It was recorded in 1990 but wasn't released until 2000. It's the first and most likely the last time these 4 musicians will ever play together.
