| I may be out of bounds a bit but Vernon Reid's solo 
albums are great and they are essentially trios +keys.   t 
  ----- Original Message -----  Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 11:52 
  AM Subject: Free Jazz/Avant Guard... krispen-
 my knowledge of jazz stuff is very limited. and 
  these aren't straight gtr, bass, drums....but what i know that's 
  close:
 
 -there is the scofield loop album-that has a band w/ it, came 
  out a few yrs ago. it's decent, he uses an boss rc20 for looping in it 
  (uberjam)
 -any of nels cline singers discs are good-i'm not sure how i'd 
  categorize them, honestly. but he uses gtr-drums-bass...
 -one of my fave 
  discs of late is the david torn "prezens" disc-that's gtr, drums, horn, 
  keyboards (& electronics)-but i love that disc (there are youtube clips 
  too, dt usually says they're pretty limited in audio content, but i like them 
  for sound reference)
 -there is also the polytown disc, dt w/ bozzio and 
  mick karn, trio improv from early 90s-also a great disc-
 dt also played on 
  marty fogel's "many heads a bobbin" & lonely universe- are band projects 
  that he contributed guitar too. they are good i think. and there is also his 
  'cloud about mercury' dics w/ a band
 oh, and the BLUE disc and the live 
  disc from that-are excellent -i love the live disc-it's bruford and levin, and 
  dt and crhis botti plays trumpet.
 
 there is also:
 the henry kaiser 
  "plane crash" power trio-it's not really jazz, more improv, experimental. but 
  it's good. HK probably has a few other band project discs, but i'm
 drawing 
  a blank sitting here....
 
 oh, michael "nemoguitar" klobuchar has an old 
  band called "Klutter" -it was a gtr bass drums improv group he did, i have 2 
  or 3 discs of it. of things recorded to 4-track. some interesting band 
  interaction on it, again-i'm not sure if it's "jazz" more outthere 
  improv/experimental. maybe he can comment on it.....
 
 oh, the live 
  frisell east/west double disc it hink is straight guitar/bass/drums. it's 
  good. he does some loop things, oh and his other live disc from the 90s 
  ("Live") is good.
 i just realized i have a scary amt of bill frisell 
  discs...most are good (unspeakable, good dog happy man, intercontinentals, 
  frisell motian carter, bf w/ holland & jones)
 do you have his "power 
  tools" disc-w/ ronald shannon jackson and melvin gibbs-from back in '87-i had 
  this on album, it was actually REVIEWED in rolling stone back in 80s -how i 
  heard about it. it's also good. and i know that there are some live discs from 
  this band, but the guitarist pete cosey fills in for frisell-i've always been 
  curious about it.
 
 another disc i had back in the 90s. sonny sharrocks 
  "ask the ages", it was a trio w/ pharoah saunders on horn on a few cuts-i 
  think it's out there. i sadly got rid of this yrs ago, and wish i still had 
  it. copies of it now are kind of pricey, and i've not wanted to plunk down the 
  $$ for it....
 
 these are the ones off the top of my head (& my very 
  limited knowledge....)
 s----
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