Shadow Vignettes Presents Birth of a Notion, an LP from 1986, led by Ed Wilkerson, with Ari Brown, and Ernest Dawkins, Kahil El’Zabar, and Reggie Nicholson to name a few players. A wild set, with a glance at early jazz influences. Not too edgy or over the top, offering a sense of humor and playfulness along the lines of Lester Bowie’s Great Pretender.
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@RonP, hopefully you have completely recovered from your headache!
While by no means a perfect Stitt set, and the first cut Baltimore Blues is a bit over extended, but that’s part of the live experience. I returned to it again this afternoon based on your comments. Yup Sony is ahead of the beat, fast, lightning fast. I’m good with it. I get the impression they can’t hear each other on stage to the degree they should, again not all that uncommon.
As far as a second sax, it has been rumored it may be Baltimore’s Mickey Fields. I’m not familiar with Mickey so no validation here. My understanding is Mickey limited his performances to the Baltimore area. Any east coasters care to comment or confirm?
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Birthday Boy!
July 13, 1936
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I thought you meant my birthday. (August 12th, )…‘1936’!! Not quite 
Amazing second cd from this excellent trio.
Zeena Parkins - electric harp/objects
Mette Rasmussen - sax/objects/voice
Ryan Sawyer - drums/objects
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1926, right? Happy B-day a month early old timer, 
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“1926” that makes me a year older than my Dad 
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I always knew you were amazing.
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As this, Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost is handy at the moment and it is Albert’s birthday I should probably work in one or two CDs from this Revenant Box set tonight.
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I totally forgot about this one until a received a nudge from Ken Vandermark. Just bought tickets, and apparently got the last of them.
BTW, GADS MUST-OFTSSEN is Mats by any other name.
This event is in celebration of John Corbett’s birthday. The show is a bit of a holy grail on the Chicago creative music scene. I wonder if it will be documented. I should add, Joe McPhee and Roscoe Mitchell have never played together.
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Real nice new quartet release….
Billy Childs — piano
Ambrose Akinmusire — trumpet
Scott Colley — bass
Brian Blade — drums
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