http://www.bagatellen.com/ en-us 2008-07-15T12:06:37-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/002050.html The missive from Mosaic that multitudes have been waiting for appeared in Inboxes across the globe the morning: The Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton now has an official ballpark street date of October. I’m not as jazzed as some... frontpage derek 2008-07-15T12:06:37-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/002049.html KMB Jazz 015 Ideal Bread is a quartet consisting of baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton (a former Chicagoan who studied with Allan Chase, Ari Brown, and Ken Vandermark), trumpeter Kirk Knuffke, bassist Reuben Radding and Boston-based drummer Tomas Fujiwara. Their... reviews clifford 2008-07-13T21:25:36-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/row/002048.html Paypal-funded old farts rejoice: come next autumn, Rér will issue the definitive Henry Cow box, nine CDs of previously unreleased archival materials and, get this, a DVD containing the only existent footage of the group. This should definitely carve... row massimo 2008-07-13T08:02:11-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/002047.html Been waiting for this one for awhile, ever since learning of Fat Possum’s acquistion of rights to the George Mitchell tape archives. Mitchell is probably familiar to most readers here, a guy who took the Lomaxes perigrinations as his... frontpage derek 2008-07-11T11:03:40-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/002046.html Triple Bath A visionary ability in the assemblage of concrete and electronic sources can take you a long way, the constrictions of low budgets notwithstanding. Greek label Triple Bath, run by Themis Pantelopoulos, published only 96 copies of Red... reviews massimo 2008-07-10T12:05:37-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/002045.html Apologies for another meme post, but rest assured that its only purpose is to inform one & all that the Bags remodel is progressing apace. The Bags Hardhat Diving Brigade (pictured above in snapshot formation by deckhand Tintin Benoit)... frontpage derek 2008-07-08T10:10:31-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/002043.html Porter In a business where top billing recording gigs aren’t usually elusive to deserving musicians, drummer Joe Chamber’s path to the driver’s seat was oddly fraught with delays and detours. He kept busy during the Sixties with sideman dates,... reviews derek 2008-07-07T14:07:42-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/002042.html RéR The fact that Biota release an album every seven years or so certainly hasn’t helped in generating the attention that their work fully deserves. Half A True Day - published quite a while ago, but only recently arrived... reviews massimo 2008-07-06T13:06:57-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/row/002044.html Summertime is always Norteno time at Rancho de Taylor and this generously packed platter is a new found favorite this year. Zimmerle (surname stemming from a German grandfather) adroitly leads the trio with fleet-fingered button accordion (doubling on guitar... row derek 2008-07-06T05:02:13-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/002041.html BRO C Reuniting after nearly a quarter-century of absence in 2005, the pairing of reedman Peter Brötzmann and drummer Han Bennink was long a formidable one in European free improvisation. A listing of their appearances from 1968 through 1980... reviews clifford 2008-07-03T10:01:36-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/002039.html Clean Feed 105 The debut disc of Lisbon guitarist Luis Lopes continues in the Clean Feed tradition of Portuguese-American freebop combos, something that is fast becoming a hallmark of the label’s aesthetic. Lopes is joined by tenor saxophonist Rodrigo... reviews clifford 2008-06-30T21:20:01-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/002038.html Clean Feed 107 Unassumingly ambitious is one way to characterize the debut disc on Clean Feed of trumpeter Kirk Knuffke’s quartet. Knuffke is a relative newcomer to New York, who has worked in the ensembles of Butch Morris and... reviews clifford 2008-06-29T21:29:32-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/row/002040.html There’s something of a cruel joke in Lucky Thompson’s sobriquet. Over three decades as an active influential musician and only a smattering of sides as a leader to show for it. This set is commonly touted as his finest... row derek 2008-06-29T04:28:58-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/interviews/002037.html By Massimo Ricci This interview came out from many months of email conversation between 2007 and 2008 with guitar explorer Gary Smith, following a review of his “SuperTexture” CD (Sijis) on Paris Transatlantic. Those who know Mr. Smith’s work need... interviews massimo 2008-06-28T12:51:37-08:00 http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/002036.html Intakt 138 There is something tremendously fitting about Barry Guy engaging the piano-trio format, as he has for three releases with pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Paul Lytton. After all, the bassist was at the forefront of European free... reviews clifford 2008-06-27T21:31:13-08:00