Peter Brotzmann: Already started, need more!

I'm very fond of his duo with Paal Nilssen-Love which has put out two bracing albums, Woodcuts and Sweet Sweat. The Fat Is Gone adds Mats Gustafsson to the mix with predictably explosive results.

Thanks yall! Good recommendations, all. I'll investigate...

His new one is absolutely fantastic. The hyperbolic language is justified here:
http://www.volcanictongue.com/tips/show/317

Peter blew me away live last year. His solo set was one of the most beautiful and intense things I've ever heard.
Caspar on the other hand I found really boring when he played Glasgow earlier this year. I'd kind of assumed it would be like his dad, but on guitar, but what we got was a joyless plod with a really boring rhythm section, muddy guitar work and dreadful goth vocals.

I've hardly been disappointed by any of his releases I've heard and I got could on and on about dozens of records, but "Never Too late But Always Too Early" with William Parker and Hamid Drake from 2003 is one of my very favorites and the one I always point people to check out.

Oooh, that's one of the best rhythm sections in the business. I'll need to hear that. Parker can do no wrong either in my eyes. His new Essences of Ellington 2LP is glorious, not least for having Dave Burrell on piano.

I saw him a three yrs ago playing with Nasheet Waits on drums & Eric Revis on bass (who plays Brandford Marsalis quartet) and it was really fantastic, esp considering when I saw them in Milwaukee they already played a show earlier that day in Chicago. I'd love to hear a record by that trio.

Oh and "Guts" Brotzmann & Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler and Michael Zerang on Okka Disk is another stand out.

To be fair to Caspar, he only started performing publicly again in about 2010 after something like a decade away. When I saw him in 1995 (his trio, Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, was opening for Helmet and Girls vs Boys), he was fantastic, like a cross between Hendrix circa 1970 and the Jesus Lizard. I don't know what he's like now, but I was a huge Massaker fan back then and would definitely go if he played New York.

That Never Too Late... record is really, really good; Guts too.

It's a bummer so little of this music is available (or was ever available - stupid 90s!!) on vinyl. I have such a hard time dropping $30+ for a CD these days, and the idea of Brotzmann / Moholo / Miller on mp3 just doesn't seem very appealing.

Ah, just noticed that that Moholo / Miller trio recording IS on vinyl! Add to cart!

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/brotzmann__peter/cover345.jpg

Fantastic cover, and a really good article too.

It is a beautiful cover, best one for a while. Who wrote the story?

A friend of mine just told me that Brotzmann played some show for kids (!) not too long ago. Maybe in Texas?

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/36305_10151058348635753_540392369_n.jpg

It is a beautiful cover, best one for a while. Who wrote the story?

That was David Keenan, another opportunist effort from him

Oh gimme a break - "opportunist." God forbid the man pen a cover story. What a cad.

Anyway, very excited for this issue

Don't got a problem with the man's writing per se, quite the contrary, he's an excellent writer and this is a great feature. OTOH he does tend to ride the zeitgeist somewhat.

didn't realise brotzmann was 'the zeitgeist'

well that's the impression I'm getting at the moment

did he coin some labyrinthine new genre this time?

Listening to Machine Gun for the first time. WOW! Who'd have thought free jazz could be so... fun? I mean actual, non-academically fun. Moments in this sound genuinely anarchic and hilarious.

Actual machine guns are fun too btw.