Various – The Bottle Tapes: Selections from the Empty Bottle Jazz and Improvised Music Series (1996-2005) 6CD

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**6 CD Set! Not Available For Mailorder!!

For the first time, a release of select music performed at Chicago’s Empty Bottle in the heyday of the creative music boom of the 1990s. From 1996-2005, writer and producerJohn Corbettand musician and composerKen Vandermarkteamed up to curate a series of concerts, theEmpty Bottle Jazz & Improvised Music Series. Together with annual international festivals, the series comprised more than 500 performances over its nine-year span, which was lauded in the international press and helped focus attention on Chicago as a hotspot for improvised music. The majority of the music was dutifully documented byMalachi Ritscher, from whose archivesThe Bottle Tapes: Selections from the Empty Bottle Jazz & Improvised Music Series (1996-2005)is drawn. Over the course of six CDs, arranged in chronological sequence, the box set revels in the span of the music presented at the Bottle, from the hardest blown free jazz to microscopic free improvisation and other kinds of experimental music. The lineup incorporates nearly 100 international musicians, includingPeter Brtzmann(who formed hisChicago Tentetat the Empty Bottle in 1997),Milford Graves(performing solo), aBobby Bradfordquartet withFred Anderson,Hamid DrakeandWadada Leo Smith,Nicole Mitchell‘sBlack Earth Ensemble, the Dutch bandsAvailable JellyandClusone 3,Von Freemanin his only performance withMisha MengelbergandHan Bennink,Jim O’Rourkeduetting withCor Fuhler,Mats GustafssonandThurston Moorein their first face-off,Chicago Underground Quartet,Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet, and much more. The package comes with a lavishly illustrated 64-page book, loaded with never-published photos and vintage ephemera, includingDan Grzeca‘s beautiful posters, as well as an in-depth essay by Corbett, with play-by-play notes on the music. Also featuringWillie Pickens, Wilbur Campbell,Ron Dewar, Joshua Abrams, Robert Barry,Alexander Schlippenbach Trio,Franois Houle,In Zenith,Fred Anderson, Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake,Mars Williams,Misha Mengelberg,Aaly Trio, Dkv Trio,Irene Schweizer,Evan Parker, Ned Rothenberg,Andr Jaume,Floros Floridis, Peter Kowald, Gnter Sommer,John Butcher, Kevin Drumm,Holz Fr Europa,Joe Mcphee,Philipp Wachsmann,Daniele D’agaro Quartet,Erik Friedlander, and theAnthony Coleman Quartet.