Hi Theo, Tim Berne is, for me, one of the most important jazz composers and musicians today. His output is incredibly original, personal and at some points, a bit hermetic, which makes his palette even wider. The Bloodcount albums are all very interesting, among the best he's done imho, specially those released through his own label Screwgun. I guess the one you have is a triple concert he released through one of his former labels, JMT. It's called, pretty obviously, "The Paris Concert" and it has Marc Ducret as a guest (and a very good one indeed). I wouldn't say the material is exactly similar to that of the Screwgun era, although it wears the composer's imprint. His other works with the Bloodcount Qtet are a bit less dispersed, spacious, and has more aggressivity & heavy rythms thrown in-between of those slow, soft collective improvisations. However, the tone is expect the unexpected in all of those albums. Any of them are good starters (and all of them are live albums as well) but maybe you could jump in with the triple box "Unwound". If you don't like it, it's a perfect album to show to your guests with that incredible presentation and artwork :-) "The Shell Game" maybe is closer to Bloodcount in terms of spacious improvisations and slow paced developments as opposed to the more dynamic Big Satan album or "Science Friction". They're probably easier listenings, although it's very easy to discern such a personality as Berne's. There's a recent double album, "Open Coma", which is a very complex example of his compositional stylings. More a chamber work than a jazz-oriented project, sure enough, although a good portion of his work has a chamber-ish feel due to his taste for long passages with little or no rythmic pulse (or at least in its standard sense). If you want Berne at his rawest, try with his improv trio Paraphrase. They have two live albums on Screwgun and it's about wild improvisations without the complex structures of most of his works. There's a very interesting interview with Tim Berne at Perfect Sound Forever (www.furious.com/perfect) and I also did one last December 2002 for www.tomajazz.com (can't remember the exact link but the section is "Perfiles). Mine is not so interesting! All the best, Efrén del Valle n.p: Paul Shapiro "Midnight Minyan" (Tzadik) --- Theo Klaase <river_of_dogs@yahoo.com> escribió: > Any Tim Berne fans on the list? I saw a Big
Satan show Friday and was blown away! Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey - Wow!
His album "Science Friction" is amazing and I was curious as to the opinions of some of his other releases... The only ones I have are: The Shell Game, Science Friction, Big Satan's Winter & Winter release and an old BloodCount disc with Jim Black on drums...
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