I am a big fan of Cecil Taylor and have seen him a couple of times in the past. I was wondering if there were any places I can get information about his performance dates. He doesn't seem to have a website.... Whenever I have seen him play, it was just by chance that I found it on the venue's website.

If somebody could tell me of a place where I can get this kind of information about Cecil, or any Free Jazz players playing in America, it would be much appreciated.

Thank you!!

Hi All,

I am new to free jazz and wish to learn more. What is your favorite free jazz that is less structured sounding and harsher? Right now I am liking:

Arthur Doyle's Loveship
Peter Brotzmann - Nipples,
Paul Flaherty with Chris Corsano - Last Eyes,
Mats Gustafsson - The Education of Lars Jerry,
Steve Lacy - Clinkers
Blue Humans the live CD (I love Rudolph Grey)
And pretty much all things Lambsbread.

From the Stet Lab (a space for improvised music in Cork, Ireland) site:

‘Lab report 2007-2009: how to run an improvised music club’

On the eve of our highest profile event, with 13 events behind us, this might be a good time to reflect on the stuff I’ve learned (and am learning) about running a space for improvised music.

Found this on rec.music.bluenote this morning...

"I'm also forwarding another sad information.

Information about this great altist and singer can be found at

http://www.montywaters.de/HOME.htm

Best,

Marcus

Dear friends,

for all who don't know yet the sad news: Monty Waters died the day before
christmas due to a very serious cancer disease. The funeral will take place
on

Wednesday 7th of january

9.15 a.m.

Krematorium des Ostfriedhofs in M?

Sankt-Martin-Stra? 41

(S-Bahn-Station St.-Martin-Stra? - not to mix with the main entrance of

Ostfriedhof)"

i'm posting the year's download stats here, not for bragging purposes, but cos a lot of you are involved in these releases in one form or another. The figures are a bit crude, in that i've just divided the total download figure by the size of the total file to come up with a number: people might not have downloaded the whole thing. Over the year there's been more than 150Gb of downloads.

whi004: a present from the pickpocket: phil hargreaves & Lee Noyes

MP3: 40 downloads FLAC: 180 downloads

whi005: Blind Chaos Free Dada

I eagarly awaited listening to this album when it finally arrived in the mail. it was july, and i was living in hawaii at the time. the item itself had been on back order through forced exposure for weeks, and i had no idea when or if it would ever arrive. so, it was a pleasant suprise. my eyes glittered like a kids would i guess. but the more grown up aspect of me wanted to wait for the right time, which i had decided later that day: the first appearance of snow (as i was set to move back to michigan soon).

hiya peeps

i was sent this query by a young pianist of my acquaintance: it seemed like a big question, and that any response would only be my own anyway (ie one person's alibi), so i'm throwing it open to the community to tackle. i'm kind of suspecting there might be as many answers as players:

Just saw this on allaboutjazz.

On vancouverjazz.com, musician and broadcaster Gavin Walker reported hearing
from John Handy that Prince Lasha has passed away: