Four for Trane is a studio album by tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1965. Four of the five tracks were composed and originally recorded by John Coltrane (released on his albums Giant Steps and Coltrane Plays the Blues) and rearranged by Shepp and trombonist Roswell Rudd.,,,

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested "Core Collection" calling it "one of the classic jazz albums of the '60s and a fascinating glimpse into how thoroughly different what was already thought of as the Coltrane revolution might sound." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiroNgSTn7I&list=RDqiroNgSTn7I&start_radio=1

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Instant Composers Pool by Han Bennink / Misha Mengelberg / John Tchicai, released on Instant Composers Pool in 1968.

Instant Composers Pool (ICP) is an independent Dutch jazz and improvised music label and orchestra. Founded in 1967, the label takes its name from the concept that improvisation is "instant composition".

In 1967 saxophonist Willem Breuker, pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink founded the ICP label in Amsterdam. Mengelberg and Bennink had been playing together since 1961 and found success as members of Eric Dolphy's quartet in 1964...ICP's first records documented Breuker and Bennink's New Acoustic Swing Duo, and a trio of Mengelberg and Bennink with John Tchicai, whose album was titled Instant Composers Pool

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Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five is a live album by the New York Contemporary Five recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on November 15, 1963, and featuring saxophonists Archie Shepp and John Tchicai, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Don Moore and drummer J. C. Moses. The album was originally released on the Sonet label in 1964 as New York Contemporary 5 in two separate volumes on LP

John Barron wrote that the album declared "the arrival of a bold musical endeavor, intent on championing new sounds, heavily influenced by Ornette Coleman, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor," and "Having stood the test of time, this historically important — but shamefully underappreciated — live recording of The New York Contemporary Five sounds fresh and far-reaching almost fifty years later." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JlqtW5aBPk&list=RD7JlqtW5aBPk&start_radio=1

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Consequences is the debut album by the New York Contemporary Five featuring saxophonists Archie Shepp and John Tchicai, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Don Moore and drummer J. C. Moses. The album was released on the Fontana label in 1966.

...A reviewer for Rough Trade wrote: "Their scorching music — aided by the supple and hard-hitting rhythm section of Don Moore and J. C. Moses — is a thrilling mix of adventurous soloing and post-bop structures, memorable heads and go-for-broke improv... What's still remarkable about these tunes is their sense of internal tension. They're wound tighter than a magnet coil, without sacrificing any spontaneity. There's little that's strictly free about this jazz, but it's full of reckless and unexpected drama all the same."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0X9SkyaJ3I&list=PLB54RHM640SIsBtfNb4A29vzlWeB_2shs&index=3

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Tetterettet by ICP Tentet, released on Instant Composers Pool in 1977.

Recorded in 1977, the Instant Composers Pool’s Tetterettet is the first classic of the band’s larger incarnations. Assembled out of elements recorded live in Uithoorn, Utrecht, and the band’s home base of Amsterdam, with Misha Mengelberg using a cut-and-paste collage method akin to Teo Macero’swork with Miles Davis, the record features an all star lineup that added three leading lights of free music: bassist Alan Silva and saxophonists John Tchicai and Peter Brötzmann. In this period, Brötzmann made the long train trip from Wuppertal, Germany, to A’dam on a weekly basis to rehearse with ICP, bassist Silva coming in from Paris...

https://corbettvsdempsey.bandcamp.com/album/tetterettet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aNlEXiDkiM&list=RD9aNlEXiDkiM&start_radio=1

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#MichelWaisvisz #MishaMengelberg
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New York Art Quartet is the debut album by the group of the same name. It was recorded on November 26, 1964, at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, and was released in 1965 by ESP-Disk ..

Writing for All About Jazz, Clifford Allen commented: "Cooking through contradiction, the New York Art Quartet cut some of the most powerful music in the free jazz underground..Graves is defiantly in his own orbit. Rather than providing a canvas to free the soloist a la Sunny Murray, Graves is impulsive and either ignores or counteracts the soloist with non-isometric phrases, creating tension through non-unison collectivity. Yet there's propulsion and swing by dint of disparity, a pulse that's kinetic even if it's multidirectional."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY-oMH_H4Ho&list=PLGWAK_TiMgIhy6YCFoUJwMahQOmTlA0wJ&index=1

#JohnTchicai #RoswellRudd #LewisWorrell #MilfordGraves #LeRoiJones #ESPDisk #freejazz #music #thenewthing #jazz

Mohawk is the second album by the New York Art Quartet. It was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on July 16, 1965, and was released later that year by Fontana Records. It features John Tchicai on alto saxophone, Roswell Rudd on trombone, Reggie Workman on bass, and Milford Graves on percussion.

In the album liner notes, Tchicai wrote: "The important thing about our music is that it must be heard and listened to without preconceived ideas as to how jazz should sound – listen to it as MUSIC and let that be the only label!"

David Toop described the group's sound on the album as "deliberately ragged, bleary themes tumbling out in spasms, notes tailing away as if lost to daydream, the music so open that total collapse seems perpetually imminent... quite unlike the music of their peers." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCwiKzsDwZ0&list=RDlCwiKzsDwZ0&start_radio=1

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#NowPlaying John Tchicai and Cadentia Nova Danica - Afrodisiaca (MPS, 1969).

First side is the almost unbelievable 22 minutes title-track, with the large ensemble Cadentia Nova Danica led by trumpet player/composer Hugh Steinmetz.

Side 2 is just as great smaller group numbers.

A masterpiece featured in Thurston Moore's 'Top Ten Free Jazz Underground' records.

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#NowPlaying Misha Mengelberg/John Tchicai/Han Bennink/Derek Bailey - Fragments ICP 005 (Instant Composers Pool, Netherlands 1978).

#MishaMengelberg #JohnTchicai #HanBennink #DerekBailey #InstantComposersPool #FreeImprovisation