Byron Allen of ESP legend was a good friend
of mine in SF in the mid-1980s. He moved to
LA, I believe, in 1987. I have had no news of
him since then, nor have online searches been
productive. Has anyone knowledge of Byron's
life or whereabouts or work in these last two
decades? Thank you.

Does anyone know whether Cecil Taylor practices dance?

I thought I heard somewhere that there is a radio show in Chicago that has live sets? What's the skinny on that?
Apparently I need 25 words to post so hopefully this gets me up over the top. Word em up.

In the past year, my greatest musical revelation has been finally discovering the music of Marion Brown. I have listened to/purchased whatever my finances and the album's availability have permitted me to...I am naturally somewhat dismayed at the unavailability of the "Georgia Trilogy"- the Sweet Earth Flying, Afternoon for a Georgia Faun, and Gechee Recollections cds. I I know that free music lore is littered with romanticism of out of print gems, but from what I gather, this music is not some obscure document...many people seem to feel that it's Mr. Brown's greatest work.

For those of tou interested. Several days ago I found a great Documentary on the production of Roswell Rudd's MaliCool on YouTube posted by the good folks at Soundscape Presents.

Just go there and type Malicool in the search engine to find it...

www.youtube.com

hey all-
years ago i had a record label called ricecontrol. i'm gearing up to release records again. should i use the old name or a new one? i'm going to use the new one to promote concerts, but i'm tempted to roll it all up into one thing. that being said, part of me thinks i should keep the label name different from the promotion thing because i dont want the promotion thing to be instantly associated with me.

i'm not posting the name cos i don't want y'all laughing at me! ;)

Dear Freejazz.org Community,

I am writing to mention a number of new projects and with an update about some underground freejazz activities, transposed from NYC to central Illinois and Portland, OR.

I check this site weekly still, but I have not posted in some time, largely due to the arrival of my new baby, lovingly named Roscoe Mitchell, and other life business.

For years, I kept this community in touch with my NYC freejazz duo, Fire&Flux, which “adjourned” in the summer 2006 so that Ben and I could start new lives in different parts of the country.

Did anybody see or has anybody heard about the recent concerts of Cecil
Taylor - Anthony Braxton - William Parker - Tony Oxley quartet in Italy.
There is rumour, that Taylor left the stage during Braxton's solo. I cannot
believe it.

As I type this, I'm listening to the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet blast their way through a triple CD set on Okkadisk. But there's something curious about the credits on this release that I'd like to get people's opinions on. All the tracks have a composition credit. On three of the twelve tracks, the credit goes to Brötzmann himself. On the other nine, it goes to other members of the tentet. So, my question is: to what extent was this music composed by individual members of the ensemble?

I'll be playing at the Brecht Forum on Friday November 23, 2007. This will be my first show in NYC. Please come and see the show if you're in NYC on Friday. We'll start at 8 PM and there are other great players performing before and after us. We'll be playing high energy free jazz and the show will be a lot of fun and the music will be a nice way to help everyone heal from the prior day's festivities.

The players in the group are:
Matt Lavelle (www.myspace.com/mattlavelle) bass clarinet and trumpet
Robert W. Getz (www.myspace.com/robertwgetz) piano
Francious Grillot bass