This column is dedicated to albums and entire series that have been unavailable for some time. They are out of print and circulate in the parallel market of second-hand records. This is an area in which internationally renowned and lesser-known musicians find themselves.
Lost Recordings
Notes from an Almanac: Paul Rutherford in Moers
Henry Lowther was the one who found Paul Rutherford’s body, after forcing open the door of his flat with a police officer and a friend. The date was 6 August 2007; the death was determined to have occurred the previous day. Rutherford had not been heard from for several days. For at least a year, it was known that he had once again fallen into depression (“I’m seriously, seriously depressed,” he had said in an interview with All About Jazz) and that he was in precarious financial conditions. Rutherford — a 67-year-old Londoner — had been one of the leading figures of European jazz, particularly within the radical scene. He was central to the Copernican revolution that began in the mid-1960s, overturning musical forms as well as the ways in which music was managed, experienced and conveyed. His path was uncompromising, sustained by a clear political stance: he was an […]
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A Lost Item in Hamburg: The 1975 New Jazz Festival Album
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Barry Altschul: sounds from another space/time
A member of some of the most innovative groups of the seventies, a faithful partner of Dave Holland in an unforgettable rhythm section, Barry Altschul left us some important records
Tony Coe and the Pink Panther: A Canterbury Tale
Plas Johnson was the first saxophonist to take on the iconic theme—but from then on, it was the British musician’s turn to leave his mark on the later films in the series. Yet Coe did much more
Joys and sorrows of self-management: “Groups In Front Of People”
From Guus Janssen to Evan Parker, through Maarten Altena, Günter Christmann, Paul Lovens, Terry Day, Peter Cusack, Paul Termos and Paul Lytton.
Martin Davidson’s orphans: records from the Emanem catalog
Over the years, the British producer and his wife Madaleine have built a monument to improvised music that is now in serious danger of being lost
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Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky: before and after the GDR
With the disappearance of the saxophonist from the former GDR, an indispensable figure in European jazz and improvised music, the protagonist of a thousand adventures, especially with his old Zentralquartett pals: Sommer, Gumpert and Bauer. We commemorate his life and work
Mort Garson and the Moog: Hair and Toupees
Summer edition of our column of assorted follies; a journey into the "new sounds" of engineer Moog's strange invention, among bald composers and jazz musicians incognito.