THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE NO BUSINESS RECORDS…Alexander Von Schlippenbach & Aki Takase: Live at Café’ Amores, Shay Hazan: Good Morning Universe, Bobby Naughton/Wadaa Leo Smith/Perry Robinson: The Haunt, Choi Sun Bae Quartet: Arirang Fantasy, Kaoru Abe & Sabu Toyozumi: Mannyoka

Lithuania-based No Business Records specializes on albums with free spirited interplay. Here is a cache of their recent releases. Grab a rope and hold on tight!

The two  piano team of Alexander vn Schlippenbach and Aki Takase are recorded during a 1995 concert performance in Japan. The moods range from an intuitive interpretation of Frank Zappa’s “You Are What You IS” to some reflective and conversant trails on “Na Na Na Ist Das Der Weg.” The team is strong and spacious for a take of “Dukes Choice-Boogie Stop Shuffle” and some Monk material mixes bop and freedom on creative reads of “Misterioso/Evidence” and “Skippy” while the two get percussive on “The Morlocks.” Swinging loosely!

Bassist Shay Hazan leads a team of Albert Beger-Eyal Netzer/ts, Haim E. Peskoff-Ofer Bymel/dr and Nadav Masel/cel through four compositions recorded in Tel Aviv Israel. The tenors are big and beefy, although they mostly focus on bristly and crying tones while the drums rumble and crash during “ Densho” while the team broods and Hazan veers left and right on “Compassion” and “Hope” with moments of structure connected by long wanderings of emotions and expression.

Bobby Naughton teams his vibes with all stars Wadada Leo Smith/tp and Perry Robinson/cl for five originals. There are two takes of the kinetic and playful “Slant” which has the three happily bouncing off of each other. Robinson’s clarinet has a dash of Klezmer while Smith sighs on “The Haunt” whereas the licorice stick gets loopy and Smith is spacious on the New Orleans mooded “Places.” Pre swing sounds emitted by Smith are felt on “Rose Island” and the horns create an Ornette Coleman-like “Peace” on “Ordette.” Creative and clever.

The Choi Sun Bae Quartet consists of the leader on trumpet, Junji Hirose/ts-ss, Motoharu Yoshizawa/b and Kim Dae Hwan/perc, with this recording from a 1995 concert in Roppongi, Tokyo. Bae gasps while squeezing out notes on “Blue Sky” and sighs to Hiroses veering on “Remember Bird.” Hirose screeches to Bae’s emphysemic valve musings and Yoshizawa’s throb on “Korea Fantasy” while the team rumbles in subtones on “Arirang Fantasy.” Wagnerian horns

The team of Kaoru Abe/as-ss-sops and Sabu Toyozumi/dr-perc are recorded back in 1978 for a concert in Tokyo, Japan. The two part “ Song for Mithue Totozumi”  has Toyozumi scrambling undercover and riding hard the ride cymbal whle Abe sears for the marathon meeting. Abe digs into subtones and shrills while Toyozumi gallops on the three part “Song for Sakamoto  Kikuyo.” Lots of interplay and spontaneous combustions.

 

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