Willem Breuker Kollektief - Preparations and Farewell (Willem Breuker Kollektief : About Time)
Willem Breuker Kollektief - My Resistance is Low (Misery : BVHaast)
Willem Breuker Kollektief - A Daily Stroll (Hunger : BVHaast)
Michael Musillami - Old Tea (Old Tea : Playscape)
Brad Shepik - Crossing (Places You Go : Songlines)
Joe Morris - Purple Distant (Colorfield : ESP-Disk’)
Omar Tamez - Anonymizer (Intersections : Muse Eek)
The Respect Sextet - Stray Alligator (Farcical Built for Six : Roister)
The Respect Sextet - Displaced (Farcical Built for Six : Roister)
The Respect Sextet - Farcical Built for Six (Farcical Built for Six : Roister)
FOCUS ON REMI ALVAREZ
Craneo de Jade - Taygeta - (Pleione : Quindecim)
Remi Alvarez Trio - Recorcholis
Remi Alvarez - Intuicion 1
Mexican Vision Trio w/ William Parker & Hamid Drake - In memoriam 3 (for Rashied Ali)
Craneo de Jade - Celaeno - (Pleione : Quindecim)
Astillero - Rompecabezas - (Lo uno y lo otro : label unknown)
Remi Alvarez & Pere Soto - Dialogo 1
Remi Alvarez & Gerry Rosado - Monologo + 1
Remi Alvarez & Mark Dresser - Eternal Present - (Soul to Soul : Discos Intolerancia)
Craneo de Jade - Merope - (Pleione : Quindecim)
Remi Alvarez was born in and resides in Mexico City. He studied flute at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica and is self-taught on the saxophone. He has studied with Don Cherry, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, George Lewis and Evan Parker. He plays in a variety of different musical contexts that include jazz, new music, electro-acoustic, and pure improvisation. He has toured Europe on at least two occasions and has also played in New York at the Vision Festival.
Some of the recordings featured in this program have not been commercially issued, and were provided by and played with the permission of the artist. My interview with Remi Alvarez was recorded immediately before his concert in Austin this past January. (He played in a trio with Ingebrigt Haaker-Flaten and Stefan Gonzalez.)
Richard Landry - Solos, Part One (Solos, Chatham Square LP)
Dickie Landry - Kitchen Solos (Fifteen Saxophones, Wergo LP)
Lawrence Weiner & Dickie Landry - Having Been Built on Sand, Part 3 (Having Been Built on Sand, Rudiger Schottle LP)
Richard Landry - Vivace Duo (4 Cuts, Chatham Square LP)
Wadada Leo Smith - The Burning of Stones (Spirit Catcher, Nessa CD)
Memorize the Sky - I am the Founder of This Place (In Former Times, Clean Feed CD)
TRIBUTE TO WILLEM BREUKER (1944 - 2010)
with special guest Alex Coke
Willem Breuker Kollektief - Our Day Will Come - (Live in Berlin : SAJ)
Gunter Hampel - Leoni Antoinette - (Gunter Hampel : Wergo)
Leo Cuypers - Joplin - (Zeeland Suite : BVHaast)
Willem Breuker & Leo Cuypers - There’s No Business Like Show Business - (Superstars : BVHaast)
Willem Breuker & Leo Cuypers - Kirk - (Superstars : BVHaast)
Willem Breuker Kollektief - Summer Music - (Summer Music : Marge)
Willem Breuker - Psalm 122, part 5 (Shir Lamaalot) - (Psalm 122 : BVHaast)
Willem Breuker Kollektief - Minimal - (Willem Breuker Kollektief meets DJazzX : BVHaast)
Willem Breuker - Psalm 122, part 12 - (Psalm 122 : BVHaast)
Willem Breuker Kollektief - The Joy of Dance in 190 Measures - (WB Kollektief meets DJazzX : BVHaast)
Trio Henk de Jonge - Jumping Shark - (Jumping Shark : BVHaast)
Willem Breuker Kollektief - Hap Sap - (Misery : BVHaast)
Eric Dolphy Project - Something Sweet, Something Tender - (The Compositions of Eric Dolphy : BVHaast)
Alex Coke was in the studio for a tribute to the saxophonist, bandleader and composer Willem Breuker, who passed away last week in Amsterdam. Breuker was an important figure on the European music scene for more than 40 years. In the mid-1960s, he co-founded the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) with Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg, as well as performing with the Globe Unity Orchestra and Gunter Hampel. But he is better known for leading his Kollektief, a band he created in 1974. He established the record label, BVHaast, in the same year.
Alex Coke played with the Willem Breuker Kollektief for nearly a decade.