please check a great article on GREAT monster tuba player Per- Åke Holmlander!!!!

why is there no feature article on this BEAST of a tuba player in ALL major newspapers and specialiced magazines????

the greeeeeat jazz site DIG JAZZ is publishing very many great articles on jazz – chcek it out! only in swedish so far… but google translate might help a bit…

http://www.digjazz.se/Artiklar.Per%20Ake%20Holmlander.html

amazing amazing saxophonist!!!!

and his sessionography is right here:

www.janstrom.se

the site is made by enthusiast jan ström. amazing work!!!!

Jimmy Lyons is something else!!!!!!!

CHECK IT OUT!!!!!

The great and totally kickin german artist Peter Brötzmann is presenting new and old work at the creative gallery of Epikur in Wuppertal, Germany

http://www.galerie-epikur.de/start.html

Check it out!!! Highly recomended!

Brötzmann is touring with his Brötzmann Chicago Tentet in Europe april 17 – 30. check the tour calender for more info.

But the exhibition at Galerie Epikur is NOT to be missed!!!!! in no way…..

The great and totally kickin austrian artist Mathias Pöschl is presenting new work at the creative gallery of Ping Pong in malmö , Sweden.

http://www.galleripingpong.se/html/aktuell.asp

Check it out!!! Highly recomended!

Pöschl has made vinyl covers to Mats Gustafsson in the past (and future….) : ITS ALL ABOUT on Tyyfus and recently NEEDS on Dancing Wayang, just to name two….

check this out!!!!

an amazing film by henry english on marion brown… killin footage and amazing music w ao dave burrell, sirone and bobby kapp

MINDBLOWING!

http://vimeo.com/19619667

marion brown r.i.p.

very very sad news….

Fred Andersoon, one of the greatest saxophone players and free jazz pioneers, died this morning in Chicago.

born in 1929 and one of the founding members of AACM and always active at his Velvet Lounge in Chicago, until the very end.

RIP

some of the most amazing films EVER made on music… and improvised music in particular are the films that Derek Bailey did wuth channel 4/ BBC years ago… material taken from his great book ” Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”!!!

fanfuckintastic!!!!

http://www.ubu.com/film/bailey.html

Dror Feiler… one of the most amazing musician, activist and artist!

I owe him BIG time! for it all!

”Den politiska, eller revolutionära, sprängkraften ligger i att utmana invanda mönster. På det sättet är min musik alltid politisk även om det inte är explicit. Den bygger på revolt.”

hopefully his saxophone will be brought back to him soon… Dror neads his axe!!!

FIGHT IT ALL!!!!

LOUD!!!!

http://www.tegen2.se/

its the real thing!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/video/2010/feb/02/butcher-pig-pork-italian

*Norman Mailer – The Fight

the classic boxing book…. Ali vs Foreman… a book that u NEED to read! fantastic… nuf said…

*James Ellroy – Blood´s a Rover — simply great- amazing use of language…

* Christina Kubisch – Stromzeichnungen / Electrical Drawings ( Kehrer verlag), amazing book of drawings and works 1974 – 2008. exremely inspiring! unique , totally unique and asskickin!

* Ethan Coen – Gates of Eden. amazing… completely  fascinating book and really, really well written. great short stories by one of the Coen Bros… with a smile am I reading story after story… just wanna start from the beginning after each story! they are so GOOD!!!