Aug 292020
 

it’s not been a great week for music, nothing has seemed right, so friday i pulled out a 6-night run by elvin jones at seattle’s jazz alley.  only made it around 4 hours into it by the end of the day (thanks, conference calls!), and am playing it with breaks until the full 13+ hours runs out.  these are pretty good audience recordings.  anyway, feeling much better now.  also bought a digital download version of will calhoun‘s celebrating elvin jones, “sight unseen” just to round out the week.

lineup
elvin jones – drums
antoine roney – tenor & soprano sax
darren barrett – trumpet
eric lewis – piano
steve kirby – bass


elvin jones’ jazz machine
jazz alley
seattle, wa
may 16th, 2000
both sets

ej-drums
antoine roney-ts/ss
darren barrett-tp
eric lewis-piano
steve kirby-bass

cd 1
1 25:04
2 14:36
3 15:47

cd 2
1 30:46
2 20:19
3 19:24

tt 2:05:56


elvin jones’ jazz machine
jazz alley
seattle, wa
may 17th, 2000
both sets

ej-drums
antoine roney-ts/ss
darren barrett-tp
eric lewis-piano
steve kirby-bass

cd 1
1 22:02
2 14:57
3 35:59

cd 2
1 24:34
2 28:47
3 18:47
4 3:53

tt 2:28:58


elvin jones’ jazz machine
jazz alley
seattle, wa
may 18th, 2000
both sets

ej-drums
antoine roney-ts/ss
darren barrett-tp
eric lewis-piano
steve kirby-bass

cd1)set 1 cd1
cd2)set 1 cd2
cd3)set 2

set 1

cd 1
1 25:58
2 37:00

cd 2
3 24:19

set 2

cd 3
1 21:18
2 10:16
3 37:40

tt 2:36:32


elvin jones’ jazz machine
jazz alley
seattle, wa
may 19th, 2000
both sets

ej-drums
antoine roney-ts/ss
darren barrett-tp
eric lewis-piano
steve kirby-bass

cd1) early set part 1
1 27:08
2 11:15
3 12:53

cd2) late set part 1
1 23:39
2 47:48

cd3) part 2’s
1 13:02
2 17:06

tt 2:32:50


elvin jones’ jazz machine
jazz alley
seattle, wa
may 20th, 2000
early set only

ej-drums
antoine roney-ts/ss
darren barrett-tp
eric lewis-piano
steve kirby-bass

1 23:18
2 11:57
3 44:43

tt 1:19:58


elvin jones’ jazz machine
jazz alley
seattle, wa
may 21st, 2000
both sets

ej-drums
antoine roney-ts/ss
darren barrett-tp
eric lewis-piano
steve kirby-bass

last track of 2nd set cuts off…
damaged on the original disk

cd 1
1 18:11
2 10:10
3 24:58

cd 2
1 25:36
2 0:24
3 25:09
4 19:43
5 4:30

tt 2:08:42


samples

2000-05-18_d1_t2.mp3

downloads

ElvinJonesJazzMachine2000-05-16JazzAlleySeattleWA.zip
ElvinJonesJazzMachine2000-05-17JazzAlleySeattleWA.zip
ElvinJonesJazzMachine2000-05-18JazzAlleySeattleWA.zip
ElvinJonesJazzMachine2000-05-19JazzAlleySeattleWA.zip
ElvinJonesJazzMachine2000-05-20JazzAlleySeattleWA.zip
ElvinJonesJazzMachine2000-05-21JazzAlleySeattleWA.zip

image copied from http://elvinjones.jazzgiants.net/ 

  9 Responses to “elvin jones – 16-21 may 2000, jazz alley, seattle, wa, usa”

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  2. FANTASTIC!…APPRECIATED!…
    HUGE THX!…

  3. AMAZING!! AWESOME!!

    I had a dvd of a concert by Elvin Jones at Vienne, France.
    I think it was this exact lineup.
    beautiful deep music. me and my friends we didn’t get enough of that, always consulting that session, discovering new details or just enjoying again.
    I miss that dvd.

    I can’t thank you enough for sharing this!!
    cheers

  4. This is a stupendous gift, Pete, and thanks very much. Always like and respect Elvin’s groups and how can you argue with one of the great drumming geniuses of all time??? Many thanks and hope you get to the end of your Elvinathon!

    • the elvinathon is 10 hours in & going strong. thought i’d listen to it over the weekend, but was too busy, and then more phone calls today… probably finish it tomorrow.

  5. A million of thanks!

  6. Wow! Merci beaucoup, Pete !

  7. Merci beaucoup, super !!

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