THE TOUR DE FRANCE IN JAZZ
plus Odes to Willem Breuker & Harry Beckett

Ze Eduardo Unit - Grandola Vila Morena - (A Jazzar no Zeca, Clean Feed CD)
Michel Pilz - Nasu Nohana / Down Beat - (Jamabiko, MP LP)
Gianni Basso - Little Maya - (Jazz a Centro Pirelli, Arcophon LP)
Perception - Phenobarbital / 7e Songe - (Perception, Futura LP)
Bernie McGann - Anthropology - (At Long Last, Emanem LP)
Stephen Haynes - Flowers for Ida - (Parrhesia, Engine CD)

Willem Breuker - Composition 19 in Silver-Gray - (Litany for the 14th of June 1966, Wergo LP)
Graham Collier feat. Harry Beckett - Danish Blue - (Down Another Road, Fontana LP)

Billy Martin & Socket - Purification of Wounds (Billy Martin & Socket : Amulet)
Tatsuya Nakatani - Improvisation No. 7 (Abiogenesis : HH)
Forbes Graham / Tatsuya Nakatani - Lavender (Essences : Blaq Lghtn)
Free Fall - Music for Clocks (The Point in a Line : Smalltown Superjazz)
Free Fall - Open Not Closed (The Point in a Line : Smalltown Superjazz)
FAB Trio - B.B. (Live at the Iron Works, Vancouver : Konnex)
Carlo Moreno / Joe Fonda / George Schuller - Spacey (A Drop of Water : Konnex)
The Fonda / Stevens Group - Break Song (Memphis : Playscape)
Mike Khoury - Improvisation (Mike Khoury : Bug Incision)
Faruq Z. Bey - Pre-Text (Emerging Field : Entropy)

Decoy & Joe McPhee - Breakout (OTO, Bo'Weavil CD)
Joe Rigby - Earth Flower (Music, Homeboy CD)
Steve Lacy - Tina's Tune (November, Intakt CD)
Omri Ziegele - Tintyana (Can Walk on Sand, Intakt CD)
Curlew - Now Can You Tell Me or Can It Still be Told (A Beautiful Western Saddle, Cuneiform CD)
George Cartwright/Davu Seru - Saint Joe To Himself (Rag, Roaratorio LP)
Keefe Jackson - How-a-Low (Seeing You See, Clean Feed CD)
Kali Fasteau/Kidd Jordan - Right of Return (People of the Ninth, Flying Note CD)
Howard Riley - Six with Five (Solo in Vilnius, No Business CD)

IN MEMORIAM FRED ANDERSON (1929 - 2010)

Joseph Jarman - Little Fox Run (Song For : Delmark)
Fred Anderson - Black Woman (The Milwaukee Tapes : Atavistic)
Fred Anderson & Steve McCall - Within (Vintage Duets : okka disk)
Fred Anderson / Marilyn Crispell / Hamid Drake - Destiny 2 (Destiny : okka disk)
DKV Trio w/ Fred Anderson - Our Theme (Fred Anderson / DKV Trio : okka disk)
Fred Anderson - Ladies in Love (On the Run (Live at Velvet Lounge) : Delmark)
Fred Anderson - Fougueux (Back at the Velvet Lounge : Delmark)
Fred Anderson / William Parker / Hamid Drake - IV (Blue Winter : Eremite)

As a youth in Chicago, Fred Anderson chanced to pick up a saxophone and found his life's calling. He had few lessons, which may explain how he forged his original style. Unknown until he co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the mid-1960s, Anderson performed regularly with trumpet man Billy Brimfield, and first recorded in 1966 with another associate, Joseph Jarman. Anderson played the opening night of the 1st Chicago Jazz Festival in 1979; and a few years later found himself owning and operating the Velvet Lounge, where he mentored and presented dozens of younger musicians.

“As tenor saxophonist, he invented a rugged, craggy musical language that influenced generations of ‘free jazz’ improvisers.”
-- Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

“His own music was very strange and beautiful, like nothing else . . . That’s why so many musicians hung around Fred. They wanted to figure out what he was doing and how they could learn from it.”
-- Joseph Jarman

NUSCOPE RECORDINGS (Dallas-Based Independent Label)

Georg Graewe - Off Minor (Impressions of Monk : nuscope)
Sten Sandell / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Michael Zerang - Disappeared, Day 2 (Disappeared : nuscope)
Fred van Hove - Chic-a-gogo (Passing Waves - nuscope)
John Butcher & Georg Graewe - Chromatic Aberrations (Light’s View : nuscope)
John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Peggy Lee - Handglass (Intentions : nuscope)
Achim Kaufmann / Mark Dresser / Harris Eisenstadt - Vancouver (Starmelodics : nuscope)
Alberto Braida - The Next Meal (Talus : nuscope)
Georg Graewe - Allures (Subsymbolism : nuscope)
Sten Sandell / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Michael Zerang - Disappeared, Day 1 (Disappeared : nuscope)
Georg Graewe - Introspection (Impressions of Monk : nuscope)