Showing posts with label Lou Gare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lou Gare. Show all posts

4 June 2020

Keith Tippett & Larry Stabbins, Ric Colbeck Qt, Exeter Free Jazz Duo - radio broadcasts

























01 Keith Tippett and Larry Stabbins - Clay  15:58
02 Charles Fox intro to Ric Colbeck Qt - 2:58
03 Ric Colbeck Qt - Loose Joints - 11:04
04 Ric Colbeck Qt - Aphrodite - 13:44
05 Charles Fox intro to Exeter Free Jazz Duo - 1:34
06 Exeter Free Jazz Duo - Bird's Touch - 22:40

Keith Tippett  piano
Larry Stabbins  tenor saxophone
b'cast 21.11.83
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Ric Colbeck  trumpet
Mike Osborne  alto saxophone
Roy Babbington  bass
John Stevens  drums
b'cast 11.06.79
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Exeter Free Jazz Duo
Lou Gare  tenor saxophone
Fred Burwood  drums
b'cast 30.11.81

BBC Radio 3 Jazz in Britain broadcasts

19 October 2017

LOU GARE compilation 1965-1985






















Sadly, Lou Gare left us on 6th October 2017.  He was a true gentleman.

Years ago he was kind enough to send me this cassette covering the years between 1965 and 1985.

He was a woefully under-recorded saxophonist and consequently didn't receive the recognition he deserved.  Although, in his humility, I suspect he didn't mind that too much.

A1. 1965.  MIKE WESTBROOK BAND 'DEPARTURE'   5:41
A2. 1965.  EARLY AMM   8:07
A3. 1970.  AMM   7:44
A4. 1973.  AMM DUO   8:35
A5. 1978.  AMM WITH STRINGS   8:06
A6. 1978.  WEBIT   7:30

B1. 1980.  THE EXETER FREE JAZZ DUO   4:34
B2. 1983.  SOLO BY RIVER EXE   6:59
B3. 1985.  'GOD BLESS THE CHILD'   5:39
B4. 1985   TRIO AT DARTINGTON   28:26

Cassette compiled by Lou Gare

ps. Lovely stuff from a couple of years ago


17 May 2014

AMM - October Gallery 15.12.91 Set 2




















AMM

EDDIE PREVOST, percussion
LOU GARE, violin, tenor sax
KEITH ROWE, guitar, electronics
JOHN TILBURY, piano

Second set  45:09

October Gallery, London.  15 December 1991

Maybe this only applies to non-drivers like myself, but have you ever been at a gig/concert when you know you have to leave by a certain time to catch the last train/bus and, as good as the music is, you’d like it to finish, but it doesn’t, it seems to go on forever, even when there was a natural obvious ending five minutes ago?  Well this gig wasn’t like that, not for me anyway. I was getting a lift from the wonderful girl who used to drive to most of the venues around England where I made the recordings I’ve been posting.  (Eternal thanks to her.) No, I was relaxed, knowing I could hear every last note, scrape and thrum.  But John Tilbury, on the other hand, needed to catch his train and left halfway through this second set.  Thus turning AMM into the Masters of Disorientation I suppose.

Thank you to the six people who kindly left a comment to set 1.  Your encouragement gives me a sense of purpose.
 
@Maready, Lou Gare was the opposite of a front-man.  He would stand, or walk around at the back of the rest of the group.  I only met him a few times but he came across as a very humble, gentle and thoroughly nice man.  It’s a shame we don’t hear more of him.  It’s well worth hearing the AMM albums made when it was just the duo of Prevost and Gare:  ‘At the Roundhouse’ (Anomalous Records) and ‘To Here and Back Again’ (Matchless Recordings).  Also his solo (tenor) album ‘No Strings Atttached’ (Matchless Recordings).  Obviously ALL the AMM albums are worth hearing.

Lou Gare on YouTube 




11 May 2014

AMM - October Gallery 15.12.91 Set 1




















AMM

EDDIE PREVOST, percussion
LOU GARE, tenor sax
KEITH ROWE, guitar, electronics
JOHN TILBURY, piano

Set 1.  39:34

October Gallery, London.  15 December 1991



13 August 2013

EDDIE PREVOST - JOHN STEVENS DOUBLE TRIO. 1978


















Old cassette of radio broadcast transferred by Gus.  Thanks to him.

LOU GARE, tenor sax
MARCIO MATTOS, bass
EDDIE PREVOST, drums
TREVOR WATTS, soprano and alto sax
BARRY GUY, bass
JOHN STEVENS, drums

1. Charles Fox introduction  2:10
2. EARJOB  28:34

Recorded by BBC, London.  2nd August 1978

BBC Radio 3 'Jazz in Britain' broadcast 28th August 1978



9 August 2013

AMM,venue unknown, London 03.02.1970

03.02.1970
unknown venue, London, UK
unidentified stereo source* > CDR > hard drive (via EAC) > flac (level6) > dime

line-up*(Uncertain)
Lou Gare: sax, violin
Keith Rowe: g,eletr,radio
Cornelius Cardew: p,cello
Eddie Prevost: perc
Christopher Hobbs: perc

1. free improvisation (40:35)
(fades in + cuts out)


Seeder/Tapers-*notes:
- source:
"I received this as "SB", though I'm not sure the overall acoustic ambience of this recording really is the one of a SB-source.
- line-up & instrumentation:
Given above is the line-up the factsheet in "The Crypt"-box lists as the regular one for 1970. At some point in the history of this particular recording, the exact line-up hasn't been passed along, it seems. So this is a little speculative (is there really a second percussionist, Christopher Hobbs, audible?)
The instrumentation above is according to "The Crypt", so maybe not up-to-date for the group's point of development at this time (and I find it hard to clearly identify Gare's contributions)."

7 August 2013

AMM. London Lighthouse, 1989
















This was the first time I saw AMM and it had a great effect on me. Some of that being a confirmation that sound didn't have to be music as such to convey emotion, and be an uplifting and enlightening experience.  The concert took place in the London Lighthouse, a centre for people affected by HIV and AIDS.  The whole thing was of great sensitivity, beauty and I suppose a touch of melancholy.

Take time to listen.  Let me know what you think.

For Sotise, a big AMM fan.

AMM

LOU GARE, tenor sax, violin
IAN MITCHELL, clarinet, bass clarinet, wood flute, bicycle pump
KEITH ROWE, guitar, electronics, radio
JOHN TILBURY, piano
EDDIE PREVOST, drums, percussion

1. 46:39
2. 46:36

at the London Lighthouse, London.  7th October 1989


5 August 2013

MASTERS OF DISORIENTATION




















MASTERS OF DISORIENTATION

LOU GARE, tenor sax, violin
EDDIE PREVOST, drums, percussion
KEITH ROWE, guitar, electronics, radio

1. First set  46:22
2. Second set  46:06

Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham.

25th February, 1990