Re: OT: Free Jazz/Avant-Garde Guitar/Bass/Drum Trios

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@q.com>]

I have only a few items from Fred, one of which is a nice video DVD that 
Hal 
sent me!  Actually, I saw Fred play in person in Oakland at Mills College 
a 
few months ago, with Bob Ostertag.  But I don't have any of his trio stuff.

So what is the title of one of his guitar/bass/drum sessions?

Kris


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> At 8:11 PM -0600 3/28/10, Kris Hartung wrote:
>>I'm doing music research for a new project I'm putting together. I need 
>to 
>>construct an audio study of free jazz and/or avant-garde 
>guitar/bass/drum 
>>trios...the more obscure the better.
>
> What say you about Fred Frith?  I know that he worked with 
> guitar/bass/drums when he teamed up with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher to 
> form Massacre in the early 80's.  Their debut effort (and only album 
>with 
> this line-up) "Killing Time" is brilliant.  But while they're quite 
> "avant", it's pretty heavy so might not really qualify as "jazz".  I 
> understand that Frith and Laswell reformed Massacre in the late '90's 
>sans 
> Maher -- drummer Charles Hayward replacing him -- 
> but I've not heard any material (no pun intended) from the later lineup.
>
> Still, the guy has worked with, like, a billion other people in the 
> avant/experimental scene.  He has to have done more traditional 
>avant-jazz 
> with guitar/bass/drums *somewhere*, eh...?
>
> --m.
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