Bob Mintzer & WDR Big Band: The Way I Feel - live at Stadtgarten Köln 1990

Bob Mintzer – sax

Phil Markowitz – p

Lincoln Goines – b
John Riley – dr
WDR BIG BAND KÖLN

recorded live at Stadtgarten Köln, Cologne/Germany, January 27, 1990

1. Mr. Funk
2. Happy Song
3. Introduction To The Ring
4. The Ring
5. Introduction To Paul’s Call
6. Paul’s Call
7. Lunatic
8. Introduction To The Way I Feel
9. The Way I Feel
10. Like A Child

Bob Mintzer released a whole bunch of big band recordings in the 80´s and 90´s on DMP, a.o. "Urban Contours":

S.M.V. - Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller & Victor Wooten live in Leipzig 2008

Stanley Clarke - electric bass
Marcus Miller - electric bass, bass clarinet
Victor Wooten - electric bass, acoustic bass
Federico Gonzales Peña - keyboards
Derico Watson - drums
recorded live at Leipziger Jazztage, October 4, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Maestros (Clarke)
2. Grits (Miller)
3. Tutu (Miller)
4. Schooldays (Clarke)

Of course these three giants of low frequencies released the studio album "Thunder" on HeadsUp

Avishai Cohen Trio live in Berlin 2008

Shai Maestro, Piano

Avishai Cohen, Bass, Vocals
Itamar Doari, Percussion

recorded live at Jazzfest Berlin November 6, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Seattle
2. Umray
3. Yesh Li Gan
4. Eleven Wives
5. Structure In Emotion
6. Gently Disturbed
7. The Ever Evolving Etude
8. To The Bird
9. Shalom
10. Remembering

This is a re-post of this concert with two additional tracks featuring Avishai on vocals. Avishai released a great trio recording on Razdaz called "Gently Disturbed":

Bobo Stenson Trio live at Jazzfest Berlin 2008

Bobo Stenson, piano
Anders Jormin, double-bass
Jon Fält, drums

recorded live at Jazzfest Berlin, November 8, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Polska Of Dispair (Traditional/ Jormin)
2. Seli (Jormin)
3. El Mayor (Silvio Rodriguez)
4. M (Jormin)
5. Don's Kora Song (Don Cherry)

Master pianist Stenson, long term bassist Anders Jormin and alertly responsive young drummer Jon Fält have developed a richly detailed sound-world like nothing else in modern jazz – at once an extension of the jazz piano tradition and, with its windows opening onto classical music and world folklore, a force apart from it. Their latest effort on ECM is the 2008 album "Cantando":

Trio Patitucci-Rogers-Penn live Montréal-Frontenac 2005

John Patitucci - Acoustic & Electric Bass

Adam Rogers - Guitar
Clarence Penn - Drums

recorded live Montréal-Frontenac/Canada, October 18, 2005

Tracklist:
1. Evidence (Monk)
2. Up with the lark (Kern)
3. Jesus is on the main line (trad.)
4. Purpose (Rogers)
5. Here, there and everywhere (Lennon/McCartney)

John Patitucci latest album is called "Line by Line" and features - among others - Adam Rogers on guitar.

Andy Emler MegaOctet live in Berlin 2008

Andy Emler - piano, compositions and direction

Laurent Dehors - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, bagpipe
Thomas de Pourquery - alto and soprano saxophone
Philippe Sellam - alto and soprano saxophone
Laurent Blondiau - trumpet
François Thuillier - tuba
Claude Tchamitchian - doublebass
Eric Echampard - drums
François Verly - percussions

recorded live Festival Jazzdor Berlin, October 4, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Mail to Elise
2. Go Down Swimming
3. La Regamuse/Reouvertoire et Postlude
4. Introduction
5. Crouch, Touch, Engage

Through many line-up changes over the years, the MegaOctet, formed in 1989 and led by Andy Emler, has remained what André Francis once described as "a laboratory for some of the most beautiful, daring and inventive playing today". Too turbulent and festive to be just a miniature version of the conventional jazz big band, and too virtuosic and extravagant to merely provide high class musical entertainement, it continues to defy expectations.

2007 this band recorded "West in Peace", released on Nocturne:

Richard Galliano Quartet feat. Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Clarence Penn live in Mannheim 2008

Richard Galliano: accordion

Charlie Haden: bass
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: piano
Clarence Penn: drums

recorded live at Alte Feuerwache Mannheim, October 18, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Bonjour
2. Poème
3. Mister J
4. Love Day
5. Aurore
6. Laurita
7. Tango Pour Claude
8. Apple Pie
9. Hymne

Look out for "Love Day", an album Galliano, Rubalcaba and Haden recorded with Mino Cinelu:

Dee Dee Bridgewater "Red Earth" live at Jazz Open Stuttgart 2007

Dee Dee Bridgewater, vocals

Ira Coleman, stand-up electric bass, musical director
Edsel Gomez, piano
Lansine Kouyate, balafon
Baba Sissoko, n'goni
Adama Diarra, djembe
Mamadou Cherif Soumano, kora, guitar
Kabine Kouyate, vocals
Assitan Kita, vocals
Minino Garay, drums, cajon, percussion

recorded live at Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany, July 12, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Afro Blue
2. Bani (Bad Spirits)
3. Footprints
4. Demissénw (Children Go Round)
5. Sakhodougou (The Griots)
6. Massane Cissè (Red Earth)
7. Compared To What

The material of this concert was recorded on Dee Dee´s really great album "Red Earth - A Malia Journey" released on DDB Records/ Emarcy:

Axel Schlosser Quartett "Secrecy" live in Karlsruhe 2009

Axel Schlosser - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Julian Argüelles - Tenor Saxophone
Martin Sjöstedt - Bass
Jean Paul Höchstädter - Drums

recorded live at Jazzclub Karlsruhe, February 8, 2009

Tracklist:
1. Fox On Byres Road
2. Für Schiller
3. Dewayne's Brain
4. Touching The Moon

This band released recently a CD called "Secrecy". More information on Axel´s homepage:

Markus Stockhausen Group live at Leipziger Jazztage 2008

Markus Stockhausen - Trumpet, Electronics
Vladyslav Sendecki - Piano, el. Keyboards
Arild Andersen - Bass, Electronics
Patrice Héral - Drums, Percussions, Voice, Electronics

recorded live at Leipziger Jazztage, October 2, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Electric Treasures Eight Part I
2. Electric Treasures Eight Part II

This ensemble released a double album called "Electric Treasures" on Markus Stockhausen´s Aktivraum label:

Colin Vallon Trio live at Jazzfestival Cully 2007

Colin Vallon - Piano
Patrice Moret - Bass
Samuel Rohrer - Drums

recorded live at Jazzfestival Cully, Switzerland, March 23, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Trenke, todorke
2. Zombie
3. Le Paradis Perdu
4. Istanbul

This is another upcoming European piano trio from Switzerland. Check out their great CD "Ailleurs":

Wynton Marsalis & The Lincoln Center Orchestra live at Jazz Open Stuttgart 2007

Wynton Marsalis, Music Director, Trumpet
Ryan Kisor, Trumpet
Marcus Printup, Trumpet
Michael Rodriguez, Trumpet
Ted Nash, Alto and Tenor Saxes, Clarinet, Flute, Alto Flute
Sherman Irby, Alto and Soprano Saxes, Flute, Clarinet
Walter Blanding, Tenor and Soprano Saxes, Clarinet
Victor Goines, Tenor and Soprano Saxes, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Carl Maraghi, Baritone Sax
Chris Crenshaw, Trombone
Elliot Mason, Trombone
Vincent Gardner, Trombone
Dan Nimmer, Piano
Carlos Henriquez, Bass
Ali Jackson, Drums

recorded live at Pariser Platz during Jazz Open Stuttgart 2007, July 8, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Across The Track Blues
2. Happy Go Lucky Local
3. Take The "A" Train
4. The Sleeper
5. Peace
6. Dali
7. Picasso
8. Sanctified Blues

This one is especially for Señor Castillo (Listen to track 7!)! One of Wynton´s latest recording on Blue Note is called "From the Plantation to the Penitentiary":

Bootlegging bootlegs...

I´m quite annoyed about an entry I discovered yesterday. Obviously there are some (one?) guys downloading concerts from this blog and reposting it on their owns. I don´t care about that, I´m not the owner of this concerts, just created the mp3s by recording my old MCs and MDs to my hard drive. But this very guy complains in his blog about others, who "stole" the concerts from his blog without saying thank you.
I´m really concerned about the fact, that this other guy asks repeatedly for "donations" to "maintain his expensive rapidshare premium account", in other words he tries to make money out of the files you can download here for free. (And if you have any doubts about the source of these files, just compare the pub dates of the posts...).
Let me point it clearly: None of the concerts of this blog was downloaded somewhere else and reposted here. Of course, there are some concerts here that you can find in other blogs, too. That´s because we drew from the same sources by listening to and recording the same radio/ tv stations.

This blog is a complete non profit blog, I´m just a devoted jazz fan.
Enjoy the music and keep on grooving

UPDATE

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Splashgirl live at Punktfestival Kristiansand 2008

Splashgirl:
Andreas Stensland Løwe - Piano
Jo Berger Myhre - Bass
Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød - Drums
special guest:
Anders Hofstad Soras - Pedal Steel Guitar

recorded live at Punktfestival Kristiansand/Norway, September 6, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Cagepop
2. Headpiece
3. Jacob
4. Three Weeks In A Box
5. 4 is 3 is 2 are 1
6. Postludium I
7. Postludium II

"Splashgirl" are a really great Norwegian Jazz Trio with a great sense for repetitive patterns á la Steve Reich and an affinity for exploring smallest melodies somewhere between Brian Eno, Erik Satie and Morton Feldman. John Kelman wrote on www.allaboutjazz.com about this concert:

"Splashgirl was an exciting discovery and one of Punkt 08's best shows, ranking as the surprise of the year— and not just at the festival.

Featuring pianist Andreas Stensland Lowe, drummer Andreas Lonmo Knudsrod and bassist Jo Berger Myhre, the group was the ideal example of the remarkable maturity and creativity coming out of young Norwegian groups. With a sound that blended spare, near-ambient textures with majestic yet understated neoclassicism and outer-reaching but always captivating free improvisations, Splashgirl is a group that deserves a wider audience and, if it can get some proper exposure, no doubt will."

For more information visit their homepage, where you can get their latest CD "Doors.Keys":

Dave Douglas: Letters from America at JazzBaltica 2008

Dave Douglas (Trumpet, Composer)
Joe Lovano (Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet)
James Genus (Bass)
Clarence Penn (Drums)
Simon Nabatov (Piano)
NDR Big Band
Dieter Glawischnig (Conductor)

Tracklist:
Letters From America
1. The Presidents
2. Dehyphenated Americans
3. Campaign Trail
4. Perilous Times
5. Lone Wolf
6. Pyrrhic Apology
7. Sunrise Highway
8. Change The Change
9. Blockbuster