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John Tchicai, late 1960s

Photographs from the collections of the editor and Clive Sclater. Drawing of David Murray by Mike Underdown

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PORTSMOUTH JAZZ SOCIETY The Portsmouth Jazz Society meets on the first Wednesday of each month at The Rose In June, MIlton Road, Portsmouth at 8.15pm. New members are welcome.  If you like listening to and talking about jazz with like-minded people come along.  For information and more details of upcoming live gigs email portsmouthjazz

Hello and thanks for visiting my low tech home page, its purpose is to  let vistors know what I  like and recommend, to support creative mainstream modern jazz and in particular,  to share what information I have about David Murray and his music.  These pages will be upgraded and updated regularly . I am also especially interested in the music of virtuoso trombonist RayAnderson, other favourite players include Paul Bley,  Sonny Clark , John Scofield, Bill Evans, Ken Vandermark and Lee Konitz. A number of  scans of jazz ephemera collected over forty years of listening to jazz will also feature.

Gallery-selected images from my collection-more to come

Twelve recordings I wouldn't be without Gil Evans; Out Of The Cool; Impulse Sonny Rollins; Plus 4; Prestige Sun Ra; Heliocentric Worlds, Volume 1; ESP Richie Kamuca; 1976; Jazzz Archie Shepp; Four For Trane; Impulse Miles Davis; Filles de Kilimanjaro George Russell; New York, New York; Decca Myra Melford; Alive In The House of Saints; Hatology Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie; Quintet Of The Year;Debut Tadd Dameron; Mating Call; Prestige Herbie Hancock; Empyrean Isles; Blue Note Cecil Taylor; Looking Ahead; Contemporary

Playing Locally.  Highlights of the Turner Sims Hall University Of Southampton programme are Nothing at present Portsmouth Jazz Society continues to run concerts on a monthly basis. All concerts are held at the Garden Room at the Inn Lodge, Burrfields Road, Portsmouth.  The venue has easy access from the A3(M) , M27 and A27.  Music starts about 8.15.  See you there. For deatils go to www.portsmouthjazz.com

Kirk Lightsey, Southampton Jazz Club Novemeber  2002

Cds of the year, 2001 .  Lee Konitz; Jazz From The 1950s; Wave Paul Motian; Europe; Winter and Winter David Murray; Like A Kiss That Never Ends; Justin Time Vandermark 5; Accoustic Machine; Atavistic Brad Mehldau; Progession; Warners William Parker; O'Neals Porch; Centering Jemeel Moondoc; Revolt Of The Negro Lawn Jockeys; Eremite Keith Jarrett; Inside Out; ECM John Lindberg; The Catbird Sings; Black Saint The Herbie Nichols Project; Strange City; Palmetto Near Misses; Roswell Rudd/Archie Shepp; Live In New York; Emarcy,John Scofield; Works For Me; Verve, Ray Anderson; Bonemeal; Raybone; Baikida Carroll, Marionettes on A High Wire; Omnitone; Ben Allison; Riding The Nuclear Tiger; Palmetto      Reissues; Another splendid year for reissues.  Too many to mention but Columbia(Miles and Monk), Blue Note (the RVG series) and Fantasy have all produced reissue cds of note.  Sackville also deserve a mention for getting some of their recordings back in circulation, cds by Barry Altschul and Frank Rosolino where especially welcome.  Credit to Collectables for restoring Slide Hampton's Atlantic issues and more to the catalogue but no marks for curious couplings on many of their discs.  A big thumbs down to Verve.  A massive and important back catalogue almost totally ignored. Gigs of the Year; Vandermark 5 (October) , Uri Caine Trio (December)

Ken Vandermark's School Days at the Purcell Room, London November 2003.

2003 Cds of the year Not a good year for new recordings,  the best of the bunch was MartialSolal's outstanding Village Vanguard set.   It was, however,  a superb year for reissues, notably the Miles Davis Blackhawk recordings and the Mosaic select boxes.  Fine reissues are still coming from Fantasy and Blue Note (no marks for their copy protection though - is this why my "Passing Ships" didn't play?  And I'm not the only one).  Better marks to Verve this year for some more imaginative reissues. Albert Ayler; Nuits de la Fondation Maeght; Water (Reissue) Sonny Clark; Trio; Audio Fidelity (ex Time. Expanded reissue) Albert Ayler; The Copenhagen Tapes; Ayler Records Carmell Jones; Mosaic Select set; Mosaic (Reissue) Martial Solal; NY-! Live At The Village Vanguard; Blue Note Gerry Hemingway; Devil's Paradise; Clean Feed Miles Davis; In Person, Friday And Saturday Nights At The Blackhawk; Columbia (Expanded reissue) Roy Haynes; Love Letters; Columbia Curtis Amy; Mosaic Select; Mosaic (reissue) Andrew Hill; Passing Ships; Blue Note Ken Vandermark; Airports For Light; Okkadisk GIG OF THE YEAR; Ken Vandermark's School Days at the Purcell Room. CDs of the Year  - 2004 Warne Marsh; All Music; Nessa (expanded reissue) Dennis Gonzalez NY Quartet; NY Midnight Suite; Clean Feed World Saxophone Quartet: Experience; Justin Time Buddy DeFranco/Sonny Clark; Complete Sessions; Definitive(ex Verve) (reissue) Dennis Gonzalez; Old Time Revival; Entropy Plus a special mention for talented painist Andrea Vicari's Tryptych; 33Jazz.  CDs of the year - 2005 Albert Ayler; On The French Riviera; ESP Frank Hewitt;  We Loved You; Smalls Hugh Ragin; Revelation; Justin Time Ahmed Abdullah; Travelling The Spaceways;  Planet Arts Ahmed Abdullah; Tara's Song; TUM Billy Bang; Vietnam Reflections; Justin Time Woody Shaw; Stepping Stones; Columbia (reissue) Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane; At Carnegie Hall; Blue Note William Parker; Luc's Lantern; Thirsty Ear

2002 CDs of the year Not a lot to choose from this year but the best were very good and some outstanding Tom Varner; Second Communion; Omnitone Myra Melford; Alive In The House Of Saints; Hatology(expanded reissue) Kenny Werner; Form and Fantasy Vol 1; Double Time DKV Trio; Trigonometry; Okkadisk Billy Bang; Vietnam, the aftermath; Justin Time. Art Ensemble Of Chicago; The Pathe Sessions; Americans Swinging In Paris(Reissue) The Vandermark 5: Free Jazz Classics Vols 1 & 2; Atavistic(Reissue) Kahil El'Zabar; Love Outside Of Dreams; Delmark David S Ware; Freedom Suite; Aum Fidelity Donald Byrd; The Transition Sessions; Blue Note (reissue) GIG OF THE YEAR-The DAVID MURRAY QUARTET at the Brecon Jazz Festival.

To see my best discs of 2001 - 2005 click here

CDs of the Year 2006 No choices for this year.  Not enough quality new music heard.  Several excellent reissues though. Cds of the Year 2007 Again very little new music heard.  Notable so far Art Farmer; The Time and the Place; Mosaic Single David Murray; Sacred Ground; Justin Time Charles Tyler; Live At Sweet Basil Vols 1 and 2; Bleu Regard Dennis Gonzalez; At Tonic, Dance of The Soothsayers Tongue; Clean Feed Nice reissues continue from Blue Note and the Lonehill stable.  Very little for the majors. Recently on the cd player (January 09) Paul Desmond; Edmonton Festival '76; Gambit Sonny Stitt; My Mother's Eyes; Groove Hut ex Pacific Jazz Sonny Stitt; Don't Call Me Bird; Fresh Sound ex Verve Curtis Fuller; Complete Savoy Recordings; Lonehill ex Savoy

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Sam Rivers with Anthony Cole at the Turner Sims Hall, 12 Nov 2004