I've added a story category: 'Projects'. Big wow, i know. The blurb that goes with says:

"to announce to the world the emergence of your new project. This will mainly be recording projects, but could be a special performance etc - though bear in mind that performances are necessarily geographically confined, so such a story wouldn't be of interest to many people, whereas an artefact is potentially of interest to the entire world."

Sorry, boring admin story:

I've changed the way that new users are treated - basically you can't create a new account without me personally vetting it any more. Most of you reading this will have accounts already, and aren't affected, but if you're new to the site and thinking of jumping in, this will affect you.

This is not strictly philosophical, but it is a two-part question from a free jazz neophyte.

This first part is a request to identify a specific recording recently heard on the radio. It was a very organic jam that the announcer said had its roots in a youth center which held a long-standing, weekly free-jazz jam. The philosophy of the jam was to provide a place where inner city youth could be totally free, and the music was good. Unfortunately, I can't recall the name of the center or the compilation album. Anybody familiar with this?

Sorry if this has been covered on here already...

I'm curious about Frank Wright's time in Europe. Did he actually live there or did he just visit? (I'm guessing because of the Center of the World band it must have been the latter). Who did he hang out with and what did he do? Also I'd like to know more about his association with the artist and musician AR Penck and his time in Germany. Also does anyone know how he died?

Any info would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Stef's Free Jazz blog [http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/] has pointed me in the direction of this 15-minute video [http://dlf.tv/2011/david-s-ware/].

This sentence added to reach the required word count.

I just listened to the new Coltrane sextet cd today. Would like to know if any of you have heard it yet? The quality is quite lo-fi but that doesn't take away from the sheer power of it. It's awesome! If you want to get rid of your neighbors once and for all then this is the way to go!

To my ears the personnel/instrument list is not exactly right though. It sounds to me like Donald Garrett is playing a Bb, not bass, clarinet. And Pharoah Sanders sounds like he's playing alto as he did on the Impulse Seattle concert, not tenor. Can anyone shed any light on this?

lately i'm taking stock again of how things sound and how the sounding of things are.
freejazz (the term not the site) is increasingly feeling like a historical moment finite and bookended with periods of inspiration that are such deep wells innovators can return to them over and over for new ideas. wonderful and powerful and much needed... but the form... the form is now known. and for that reason dust settles no matter how hard it is shaken off.
nothing new with this i know.

I've been listening to free jazz for a while now and I do love it but apart from a few names I'm really not that knowledgeable about the genre. The saxophonists I like are Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy (sounds best on bass clarinet though I think), Pharoah Sanders and Ian Underwood (Mothers of Invention/Frank Zappa); I don't think I know any others (I may have forgotten some).

Having heard the youtube video for "I Mani (Faith)" by Lonnie Liston Smith, I had just assumed it was Pharoah playing. Does anybody know whether a psuedonyn was employed for contractual reasons or did I discover another mind-blowing saxophonist?