TRUMPET-LIKE OBJECTS for PHIL, July 2000

1. COMMON THREADS/ The Joe McPhee Quintet/ Live at the Tractor Tavern, Seattle

With Michael Bisio on bass, Stuart Dempster, ‘multi-instrumentalist’, Loren Dempster, cello and Eyvind Kang, violin.

CD Deep Listening DL 4-1996 (Pauline Oliveros Foundation, PO Box 1956, Kingston, NY 12401)

Rec: 19 October 1995 (coincidentally, the day on which Don Cherry died.)

This is just the beginning of Part 1, Spirit Traveler (for Don Cherry).

In his liner note, Joe recalls first hearing Don Cherry at Birdland in New York with the Sonny Rollins Quartet in the summer of 1963. ‘From that moment I sought out first a pocket cornet and later the pocket trumpet… For more than 30 years, these have been my totem instruments.’

2. ZWEI/ Fritz Hauser/ duos with guest artists, in this case: Rene Krebs, ‘stereo-flugelhorn’

CD hat ART 6010

Rec: 7-12 December 1987 at Radio DRS Studio 2 in Zurich, Switzerland.

This is track 2/ Time.

3. WHEN THE SUN IS OUT YOU DON’T SEE STARS/ Peter Kowald, b; Werner Ludi, as, baris; Butch Morris, cornet and Sainkho Namtchylak, voice.

CD FMP 38

Rec: 8 July 1991at FMP Studio, Berlin

This is track 16/ The Art of Falling Apart

4. OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSIC/ Daniel Carter, as, ts, f, tp; Roy Campbell, tp, flhn, recorder; William Parker, bass and Rashid Bakr, drs.

CD SILKHEART SHCD 120

Rec: 24/25 April 1989 at Sound on Sound Rec Studios in NYC.

This is part of the first track of the Tradition’s Transitional Omissions Suite, ‘Sailing Towards The Dark Happy Voice’.

5. COMPANY 6 & 7/ in this instance, Evan Parker, sax; Leo Smith, tp; Derek Bailey, g.

INCUS CD07

Rec: 25-27 May1977 at ICA, London.

This is the final track on the release.

6. ORKA/ Rajesh Mehta solo (tp, bstp, hybrid tp & extensions)

CD hatOLOGY 524

Rec: August 1996 in Edit Point, Amsterdam.

This is track 11, ‘Not Yet’.

7. AS IT HAPPENED/ Bart Maris, tp, (of the Andre Goudbeek Quartet) with Phil Minton, voice.

CD WIMprovijf 310399

Rec: (1998?)

This is track 6, ‘Red Lips’.

8. NOCI…STRANI FRUTTI/ Pino Minafra, tp, vo, didjerido, other things; Ernst Reijseger, el & acoustic cello, voice; Han Bennink, drs, pc, vo a.o.t.

CD LEO LR 176

Rec: 14 July 1990 live at EUROPA FESTIVAL JAZZ (in Italy(?))

This is a short extract from PART 1 – which itself is an extract of some 25 minutes from a longer track…