THE FRANK WRIGHT QUARTET - CHURCH NUMBER NINE (CALUMET, 1973)

A. Church Number Nine Part 1

B. Church Number Nine Part 2

Noah Howard, alto saxophone
Muhammad Ali, drums
Bobby Few, piano
Frank Wright, tenor saxophone

Recorded in Paris on March 7, 1970.

Calumet ‎– C 3674

LP Rip

THE FRANK WRIGHT QUARTET - CHURCH NUMBER NINE (ODEON ‎– OP-88019)

A. チャー・ナソバー・ナインパート 1

B. チャー・ナソバー・ナインパート 2

ノア・ハワード, alto saxophone
モハメッド・アリ, drums
ボビー・フュー, piano
フランク・ライト, tenor saxophone

Japanese re-issue with extra material

LP Rip

Noah Howard Quartet live at Columbia University, NY, 1973

I noticed that our blogger chums at 9 Grey Chairs posted recently a recording of Noah Howard at the Village Vanguard in 1972, so I thought I should follow it up with this live recording from Columbia University the year after. I suppose this was taped off radio, most likely the student radio at Columbia, WKCR. I am also willing to wager that WKCR is pretty much unequaled when it comes to jazz broadcasting.

This is diiferent group from the one at Village Vanguard. Earl Freeman is on this one as well, but new to the quartet is the guitarist and drummer, about whom I know next to nothing. This is a bit of an oddity. It doesn't really sound much like what Howard did before and after. But it may be in some ways attuned to what was happening in NY at the time, what with the introduction here of guitars and liberal doses of fuzz pedals. Not too sure about how well that comes off, but perhaps it's indicative of certain musical developments at that moment in time. Think of Blood Ulmer, Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and what was to be known as harmolodics, even though that concept is somewhat hard to define. In any case, a curious addition to the Noah Howard discography, but an unreleased one.

Noah Howard Quartet 

Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University 

1973-07-05

Source: Radio

Sound: A

Noah Howard- as, perc, v,

Earl Freeman- b,

Glenn Dong- g,

Jean-Louis Mechali- perc.

Time 48:16

01. Living Space 35:40

02. Duet for Alto & Bass 12:36

Noah Howard Quartet - live in Sweden 2000

Here is a short excerpt from a concert given in Sweden. Obviously taken from a radio programme with a short presentation (in Swedish), this has about 2-3 pieces in the quartet format which to this listener is particularly significant as it probably is one of the few occasions we get to hear Bobby Few reunited with his old chum from the legendary Noah Howard and Frank Wright records from the 70s. Very timely, to say the least.

Noah Howard Quartet

Culturen
Västerås, Sweden

26 September 2000

Noah Howard - alto saxophone, vocals
Bobby Few - piano
Ulf Akerhielm - bass
Gilbert Matthews - drums

01. Title 02:39
02. Radio Announcer (in Swedish) 02:48
03. Title 11:15
04. Title 06:35

Total Time: 23:17

No titles here, but the first two pieces are quite familiar, but I can't quite recall the titles right now. Another item off the Dime network, so heartfelt thanks are extended to those responsible for capturing the broadcast and spreading it wider.

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Noah Howard & Marion Brown... are both gone now!

Noah Howard -live at the village vanguard 1972 FLAC, Rashied Ali- den haag 19th of august 2006 (mp2)

heres a favourite, which i promised to brent/1oo9 a few weeks ago before moving.

this was uploaded @192 some ways back last year at ch#9...

and if anyone is interested in the mp3 rip its in the comments to an earlier post of N.H's ole.

im not quite sure of the historical status of this release this ..bootleggy reissue which i bought on line a few years ago, appears to have been a cd r only release, its a marvelous concert and is undoubtedly one of noah howards stronger records.

i wont waffle... im just about to travel to melbourne interstate , to play a few gigs with some friends and so will be absent again for a few weeks to come.

thanks to T ,for the use of his scanner( mine is broken)

while i'm at it heres something i uploaded 6 weeks ago but havent got around to posting.

one of the most impressive concerts ive heard from dime.. both in terms of sound and performance quality..

Rashid Ali QuintetPure Jazz Fest, Nieuwe Kerk, Den Haag/NL, 19th August 2006 (MP2)
Rashid Ali-dr,Lawrence Clark-reeds,

Jumaane Smith-tpGreg Murphy-p

Joris Teepe- b
setlist:
01 Sky Refrain.mp2 15:1202 You're Reading My Mind.mp2 07:2803 Big Bush.mp2 19:5104 Multi Kulti.mp2 05:4105 Cherokee.mp2 25:10
TT: 1:13:22
source: DVB-S@256, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2 (lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

thanks to the original seeder/ taper and traders

Noah Howard "Space Dimension" (1970, America 30 AM 6108) FLAC

Not much time at the moment so I'll just upload an old rip already on my hard drive (but don't worry it does not mean this is second rate music !). Should complement nicely the other Noah Howard posted recently by Sotise. It is also one of the America titles which have not been reissued on CD a few years ago by Universal.

I think this one has been uploaded already on Church Number 9 or another site in mp3 so I provided only .flac files this time, in .rar archives for everyone who had problems with the .zips.

For those who might have missed it, Mr. Howard's "Black Arc" LP with its masterful A-side has been reissued by Bo'Weavil Recordings.

To conclude, be sure to check the documentation post (here), which has been updated with extensive interviews of Derek Bailey, David S. Ware, William Parker, John Tchicai as well as some others. Contributions are still welcomed !

noah howard- ole (chiaroscuro lp-2016) 1979, flac, lame vbr

Noah howard, One of the great musicians of that second wave of new jazz from the 60’s..Was born in new Orleans in 1943.
Apparently he was inspired to play by hearing paul gonsalves, monster solo on diminuendo and crescendo in blue from Ellington’s great Newport 58 concert.
In the mid sixties after a stint in san Francisco he moved to new york , playing with sunny murray , frank wright ,archie shepp ,sun ra and the aeoc, howard was also documenting his work prolifically , and it was at that time that he started his altsax label ,the catalogue of which is still sporadically in circulation.

In 69-70 ,he went to Europe where being surprised by the level of respect accorded the new jazz , he was to return and settle in 1973.
Howards got an intense and personal sound, though I guess after the critical success of classics like the black arc, live at the village vanguard and at Judson hall people thought they had him pigeon holed and lost sight of him after he( confounded expectations and) moved on into other more subdued and or eclectic areas.

This is a record I quite love now though initially I was pretty disappointed having heard , the esp albums and the black arc first, to be fair I didn’t much like the black arc at the time either.
Anyway this is a great band.

Personnel is as follows
Noah howard –alto sax
Takashi kako- pno
Kent carter- db, oliver Johnson- dr on ole (only)
Muhammad ali- dr ( on the rest)

Track list
Side- a
1)Ole-12’’
2)kanpai- 9’’
side b
1)creole girl- 11’
2) new arrival- 6’’
3)lift every voice and sing- 4’

there aren’t too many references to this on the net, sadly I cant find a professional review or intact cover.

Check out howards homepage, which also previews new releases on his altsax label, provides info on tours and new projects and some sample mp3’s
Here
http://www.noahhoward.com/