Iron Path is a Laswell album featuring the members of Last Exit.
What do you think of his production on the later Pharoah Sanders records?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 23 June 2023 20:11 (ten months ago) link
I am not an expert but feel lucky to have seen him play once with Heather Leigh - and while there was some ferocious playing, it is the tender passages that I remember most, felt like he was articulating distant memories, very beautiful.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Friday, 23 June 2023 20:13 (ten months ago) link
Saw him in a duo with Derek Bailey in London, maybe 1996. Way more abstract and less full-on than I was expecting at the time, but all the better for it. RIP, bonus shout-out too for having sired Caspar.
― darts macabre (Matt #2), Friday, 23 June 2023 20:22 (ten months ago) link
don't like to chime in on RIP threads usually but this one hurts. my neighbors called the cops once when i played one of his records kinda loud, i wasn't absolutely blasting it or anything. i'll never forget that.
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Friday, 23 June 2023 20:30 (ten months ago) link
I have mentioned it elsewhere but this record is the one that first opened me up to his work. I was 19 and just bobbing through the freeform CDs and picked it out cuz I usually liked Okka Disk stuff. among my favorite records upon first hearing it and one that has always been close. https://peterbroetzmann.bandcamp.com/album/the-wels-concert
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 23 June 2023 21:59 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, I just wrote a long piece about his work with Gnawa musicians, and even got a short quote from him via email, from last month.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 23 June 2023 22:14 (ten months ago) link
my neighbors called the cops once when i played one of his records kinda loud, i wasn't absolutely blasting it or anything. i'll never forget that.Ha, I listened to No Nothing (one of his solo records, and a favorite of mine) a lot at home one summer with the windows open, and the neighbors asked my mom if I’d just taken up the saxophone and was struggling with it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 June 2023 22:16 (ten months ago) link
Peter Brötzmann (1941–2023)As a tribute to the German saxophonist who has died at the age of 82, we have made David Keenan’s epic two-part 2012 interview, and Daniel Spicer’s guide to Brötzmann’s many recordings, free to read in our online library:https://t.co/RoMUBJrgqq— The Wire Magazine (@thewiremagazine) June 23, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 24 June 2023 11:01 (ten months ago) link
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/an-exceptional-human-being-tributes-to-peter-brotzmann
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:39 (ten months ago) link
Slightly belated obituary in the Guardian in the course of which it's revealed that Bill Clinton was a fan! Who knew?!?!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/11/peter-brotzmann-obituary
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 11:56 (nine months ago) link
Also I saw Joe McPhee play last night and he talked quite movingly about Brotzmann.
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 12:05 (nine months ago) link
"revealed that Bill Clinton was a fan! Who knew?!?!"
Lol
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 14:15 (nine months ago) link
Somehow I remember hearing about that.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 July 2023 14:28 (nine months ago) link