April 2026 schedule

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PetHaus, Pispalan Valtatie 47, FI-33250 Tampere, Finland.

https://www.pethaus.fi/

#PetHaus #events #gigs #clubs #café #experimental #electronic #alternative #indie #techno #noise #jazz #freejazz #PispalanValtatie #Pispala #Tampere #Finland

Nuit Du Surréalisme

Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Saturday, April 18 at 07:00 PM CDT

4th installment of the mini festival celebrating the Surrealist movement. Featuring performances from some of the most exciting experimental artists in the midwest, playing a variety of styles:
Anja Sieger, Army of Frankensteins, Bryon Cherry, Feral Kid Theory, Michael Firman, MRS. FUN, Red Mage, Tarek Sabbar, and Tontine Ensemble.
Not to be missed!

7pm, $10, All Ages

https://mkeshows.com/event/nuit-du-surrealisme

It's Not Up to Us is the debut album by saxophonist/flautist Byard Lancaster released in 1968 on the Vortex label, an Atlantic subsidiary.

Pitchfork's Andy Beta stated "What strikes me first is the overall melodic sensibility of each of the players. Lancaster, on alto sax and flute, would go on to play with outsider luminaries like Sun Ra, Bill Dixon, and Fred Hopkins. Sharrock's violently strummed strings on Black Woman and Monkey-Pockie-Boo led to the vortices of Sonic Youth, Fugazi, and pretty much all future physical guitarists. Eric Gravatt would soon join an early version of Weather Report, yet everyone defers their skronkier, unrestrained abilities to the overall structure of each tune. This gives the Anglo folk base of some of Lancaster's compositions plenty room to be heard and hummed" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJk4RUQVBYQ

#ByardLancaster #SonnySharrock #EricGravatt #Jazz #FreeJazz #Music #JazzFlute

Your Prayer is the second album by saxophonist Frank Wright. It was recorded in May 1967 in New York City and was released by ESP-Disk later that year. On the album, Wright is joined by saxophonist Arthur Jones, trumpeter Jacques Coursil, bassist Steve Tintweiss, and drummer Muhammad Ali

Writing for Stereogum, Michael Nelson commented: "The other horns treat the melodies like fanfares, announcing Wright before he steps up for a fierce solo, but on pieces like 'No End' and particularly the nearly 13-minute 'Fire of Spirits,' everyone gets to have their say. Tintweiss's extended bass solo is actually a highlight of the disc, though the real secret weapon is Coursil's trumpet. Ali's drumming is frantic and ferocious throughout, wiping out the landscape like a forest fire." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBCuFyIxJII

#FrankWright #Jazz #FreeJazz #ESPDisk #Music #AthurJones #JacquesCoursil

Mama Too Tight is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1967. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, trombonists Grachan Moncur III and Roswell Rudd, tuba player Howard Johnson, clarinetist Perry Robinson, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Beaver Harris in August 1966.

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states: "Shepp had hit his stride here compositionally... lots of free blowing, angry bursts of energy, and shouts of pure revelry are balanced with Ellingtonian elegance and restraint that was considerable enough to let the lyric line float through and encourage more improvisation. This is Shepp at his level best." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkg_fO9fhpk&list=RDJkg_fO9fhpk&start_radio=1

#ArchieShepp #TommyTurrentine #GrachanMoncurIII #RoswellRudd #HowardJohnson #PerryRobinson #CharlieHaden #BeaverHarris #Jazz #FreeJazz #ImpulseRecords #Music

Three for Shepp is an album by American saxophonist Marion Brown featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.

The authors of the Penguin Jazz Guide wrote: "Brown's Impulse! records are routinely overlooked... In the wake of this, his first successful record, Brown took to the road, playing tirelessly but curbing his studio activities. Impulse! had already released Shepp's Four For Trane. This was explicitly intended as a companion project and its arresting opening... establishes it as one of the most inventive in the label's distinguished catalogue... Brief as it is at just 35 minutes, Three For Shepp is so densely packed with musical information that it takes many, many listens to deconstruct: a living lesson in musical history, a passionate manifesto for the future." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkKHe9WHOsk&list=PLon2-cxcP6JNr2o78td9OqXl_AajKn62-&index=1

#MarionBrown #GrachanMoncurIII #DaveBurrell #StanleyCowell #Sirone #BeaverHarris #Jazz #FreeJazz #ArchieShepp #Music #ImpulseRecords

The Avant-Garde is an album credited to jazz musicians John Coltrane and Don Cherry that was released in 1966 by Atlantic Records. It features Coltrane playing several compositions by Ornette Coleman accompanied by the members of Coleman's quartet: Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. The album was assembled from two unissued recording sessions at Atlantic Studios in New York City in 1960.

On "Focus on Sanity", Cherry and Coltrane complement each other with contrasting sound as Coltrane "leaps into [the music] like a man possessed, while Cherry answers with a feathery tone." - Wikipedia

An LP I first heard back in the 80s as a teen, having borrowed it from Preston Library when libraries had vinyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqLi9xhm_Uc

#JohnColtrane #DonCherry #EdBlackwell #PercyHeath #CharlieHaden #Jazz #FreeJazz #OrnetteColeman #Music #LoringEutemey