#NowPlaying John Tchicai and Cadentia Nova Danica - Afrodisiaca (MPS, 1969).

First side is the almost unbelievable 22 minutes title-track, with the large ensemble Cadentia Nova Danica led by trumpet player/composer Hugh Steinmetz.

Side 2 is just as great smaller group numbers.

A masterpiece featured in Thurston Moore's 'Top Ten Free Jazz Underground' records.

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#NowPlaying Misha Mengelberg/John Tchicai/Han Bennink/Derek Bailey - Fragments ICP 005 (Instant Composers Pool, Netherlands 1978).

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A year or so prior to his death, I spent a wonderful afternoon with John Tchicai, who stayed with a neighbour after a weird short gig (at a school nearby, with his longtime friend Giancarlo Nicolai). The neighbour couldn't pick him up and I was happy to oblige. We went for his luggage, got some pastries and then sat in my kitchen and he patiently answered all of the questions I could think up ... fondest memories indeed!

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New York Art Quartet, S/T, 1965. #zb_arecordaday2023 #milfordgraves #lewisworrell #roswellrudd #johntchicai #freejazz #creativemusic #music

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Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock & Sunny Murray:
🎵 Don's Dawn

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