Showing posts with label Brian Abrahams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brian Abrahams. Show all posts

3 October 2015

DiSTRiCT SiX - To Be Fee (Editions EG 1987)


This album is still widely available as a second hand article as LP or CD. A great one, with Chris McGregor, maybe on unappropriate label...

Chris McGregor - piano, vocals;
Jim Dvorak - pocket trumpet, vocals;
Brian Abrahams - drums, percussion, vocals;
Dill Katz - fretless bass guitar;
Harrison Smith - tenor and soprano saxes, flute, bass clarinet, vocals

1. Ke A Rona (Power To The People) (Dvorak) 3.35
2. Into The Light (Dvorak & Abrahams) 16.41
3. Etlon-tu (Abrahams) 4.28
4. Songs For Winnie Mandela (Abrahams) 17.30
  a) Reasons Of The Heart
  b) Kwa Tebugo (At Louis’s House)
  c) Unity Dance
5. Kali-Mba (Night Song) (Abrahams)  6.31
6. Mbiso (Abrahams) 8.31

Recorded at Woodway Manor Studios, Wokingham, Berkshire, June 1987
EGCD 53 (UK)

7 June 2013

PAUL DUNMALL'S 50TH BIRTHDAY GIG. VORTEX 2003























Get a load of Dunmall's scorching saxing on the first trio!!
Thrill to Elton Dean and Tony Bianco!!
Leave a comment Howard Cottle!!


1. PAUL DUNMALL, tenor sax
    JOHN EDWARDS, bass
    TONY BIANCO, drums 16:42  

2. ELTON DEAN, alto sax
    TONY BIANCO, drums 13:25

3. PAUL DUNMALL, tenor sax
    HOWARD COTTLE, tenor sax
    PHILLIP GIBBS, guitar
    TONY LEVIN, drums 14:04

4. PAUL DUNMALL, tenor sax
    SIMON PICARD, tenor sax
    HOWARD COTTLE, tenor sax
    ELTON DEAN, alto sax
    JIM DVORAK, trumpet
    NEIL METCALFE, flute
    PHILLIP GIBBS, guitar
    TONY BIANCO, piano
    TONY MARSH, drums
    BRIAN ABRAHAMS, drums 24:06


VORTEX, LONDON.  13 MAY 2003