Night Watch
Sunday December 13th, 2015 with Dāv Fot
Don Ellis Orchestra! Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette
In with the psychedelia, thru Krautrock, Fusion and jazz - out with ... whatever 'Offering' is!
| There is a prepoderance of jazz and fusion in the middle of the show, but at the beginning we rock in a psychedelic/Space-rock kinda way! R.I. P. Daevid Allen. |
| Makototen Acid Mother's Gong - Live in Nagoya |
| Surgeon's Knife Here and Now - All Over the Show |
| After a 1979 live track from one of the unsung heroes of British Space-rock, some Klassik Kraut, anyone?.... |
| Gamma Ray Birth Control - Live |
| Not much history on 'Ben' - one LP, 1971 on Vertigo, don't know anything about the players, except drummer David Sheen is from Graham Bond's band. Jazz-rock, yes, but some RIO tendencies, I swear. |
| Gismo Ben - Ben |
| Malaga Virgen Brand X - Livestock |
| Getting really close to the jazz vein... but one more rock-influence track, something funky from Nucleus. One day, I must play it back-to-back with Zappa's 'Willie The Pimp'... |
| Ballad of Joe Pimp Nucleus - We'll Talk About It Later |
| Leo's Mood Mike Tremblay Trio - Live at Gigspace 
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| If I Should Lose Time Mike Tremblay Trio - Live at Gigspace
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| NOW we're in the jazz! A long-sought-after addition to my jazz collection is now mine - Don Ellis Orchestra's 1967 release 'Electric Bath', and interesting fusion of Indian Classical music and 'Experimental Big Band' ( five trumpets, three trombones, five reeds, sitar, three bassists, drums, three percussionists, and keyboards. ). |
| Turkish Bath Don Ellis Orchestra - Electric Bath |
| New Horizons Don Ellis Orchestra - Electric Bath |
| Now, a late-70's ECM release from Terje Rypdal - it could have turned out as something forgettable, but, I believe this reviewer: "The music floats very freely, with Rypdal's piercing, stratospheric guitar soaring along on top of DeJohnette's otherworldly drumming. Vitous could have labored to keep up with the drums, yet he simply carved out his own space with his bass and bow, and the result was a resounding triumph for ECM records." So there. |
| Sunrise Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette - S/T |
| Flight Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette - S/T |
| Seasons Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette - S/T |
| The final, typically long, Nightwatch track is one of Christian Vander's post-Magma efforts, but with a different style, and that explains the different name. Here the sound is acoustic, with Spiritual Jazz and African/Soul influences. |
| Another Day Offering - Offering III-IV |
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