Re: OT: Free Jazz/Avant-Garde Guitar/Bass/Drum Trios

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 8:11 PM -0600 3/28/10, Kris Hartung wrote:
>I'm doing music research for a new project I'm putting together. I 
>need to construct an audio study of free jazz and/or avant-garde 
>guitar/bass/drum trios...the more obscure the better.

What say you about Fred Frith?  I know that he worked with 
guitar/bass/drums when he teamed up with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher 
to form Massacre in the early 80's.  Their debut effort (and only 
album with this line-up) "Killing Time" is brilliant.  But while 
they're quite "avant", it's pretty heavy so might not really qualify 
as "jazz".  I understand that Frith and Laswell reformed Massacre in 
the late '90's sans Maher -- drummer Charles Hayward replacing him -- 
but I've not heard any material (no pun intended) from the later 
lineup.

Still, the guy has worked with, like, a billion other people in the 
avant/experimental scene.  He has to have done more traditional 
avant-jazz with guitar/bass/drums *somewhere*, eh...?

        --m.
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