Other Afternoons is an album by American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, recorded in 1969 and released in 1970 on the BYG label as part of their Actuel series.

In his AllMusic review, Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 4.5 stars, stating "this album stands out as containing much superior playing, springing from what seems to be a fully realized conception of just where the music was going". He wrote: "The combination of Lyons with Lester Bowie is simply marvelous. The alto saxophonist's speciality is a kind of pungent yet unsentimental tone, kind of a thinking man's Charlie Parker, while trumpeter Bowie seems to pack every note, whether it is blasted or delicately blown, with deep pockets of potential comedy or melancholy..." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dst7aiCc4k4&list=RDDst7aiCc4k4&start_radio=1

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Les Stances a Sophie is a 1970 soundtrack album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Paris for a French film of the same name directed by Moshé Mizrahi. It was released on the Pathé Marconi label in France and on Nessa Records in the U.S. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Fontella Bass and Don Moye. Moshé Mizrahi commissioned the original music for the film when the band had only two weeks left on their French visas.

Rolling Stone writer Robert Palmer observed: "Sophie is a film score and the group essays bop, free music, a neo-dixieland and pounding R&B. There are saxophone solos by Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell, solid walking from bassist Malachi Favors, aggressive percussion from Don Moye and a searing Fontella Bass vocal."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmN9rkVfsmo

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Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances à Sophie (1970) [full album]

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Tribute to Lester - ECM Records

When AEC trumpeter Lester Bowie died in November 1999 at the age of 58, the jazz world lost one of its great originals –­ a flamboyant sound-painter, a great soloist, a musical philosopher, and a charismatic performer. On this memorial album his friends and colleagues give a sense of his freewheeling, larger-than-life character. Powerful and […]

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#NowPlaying Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender (ECM Records, Germany 1981).

Lester Bowie's first album for the ECM label.

A fun record.

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#NowPlaying Gittin' To Know Y'all (MPS Records, 1970).

Recorded during the annual Baden-Baden Free Jazz Meeting in 1969.

Four different groups :
- Baden-Baden Free Jazz Orchestra (Lester Bowie, Dave Burrell, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Albert Mangelsdorff, Barre Phillips, Kenny Wheeler, Claude Delcloo…)
- The Terje Rypdal Group (with Joseph Jarman, Steve McCall…)
- Karin Krog
- The Willem Breuker-John Surman Duo

Monster record!
And that cover art 🖤

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Wishing you all a smooth Sunday.
Radio Teleocene, Episode #6 is now streaming via Soundcloud. This is what it sounds like in my studio while I am painting. An hour of music you are probably familiar with and wish you could play more often but just can't find where it is. Including tracks by:
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Radio Teleocene Episode #6

This is what it sounds like in my studio when I am painting. It's an hour long music which you probably heard and wish you could play more often but you just can't find where it is. Herbie Mann, Leste

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@jrosen707 +Leaders!!!

Saw 'em at Graham Chapel in St Louis, on the Washington University campus.
Epic.
Thanks for the reminder!
1993-03-19, they closed with Blueberry Hill, I don't know the rest of the setlist.
#LesterBowie

#NowPlaying Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons (BYG Records, France 1970).

Lester Bowie (trumpet), Jimmy Lyons (alto sax), Alan Silva (bass), Andrew Cyrille (drums).
Recorded August 15, 1969.

Last step on my quest to gather all the BYG/Actuel record collection.

This one is 🔥🔥🔥

#jimmylyons #lesterbowie #alansilva #andrewcyrille #bygrecords #freejazz