Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Translucent Fresnel (Nan Trueshole Tape 72/73 Live) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

David Friesen and Glen Moore, two of the more influential bassists in jazz, recently teamed for a tour through Europe concluding with this, their third duo recording over the last 40 years. Add the decade between their initial meeting in Seattle before their first recording, 1977's InchIn ConcertInch (Vanguard), and the total time they've been working together comes to 50 years. Named for the two-humped camel native to the steppes of central Asia, InchBactrianInch offers ample new proof that these old friends continue to take great glee in surprising and challenging each other, their listeners, and themselves. InchBassist David Friesen is a phenomenon, a player whose musicianship, tone, time and imagination are uncategorizable.Inch

Captain Beefheart & Magic Band - Nan Trues Hole Tapes Vol.3 [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/06/2012

CD reissue. The word 'genius' is very much over-used by music journalists, and there are a very few people within the rock music genre who are actually deserving of the term. Don Van Vliet, better known by the soubriquet of Captain Beefheart, is one of those few. Eccentric to the edge of insanity, and legendarily brutal to his musicians, he released a string of records from the mid-60s until he retired from the music business in 1982, disappearing with his wife into the desert to be a painter. This is a collection of previously unreleased recordings from 1965-67, which includes demos for such perennial favorites as 'Yellow Brick Road'. Truly, they don't make music like this anymore, and I seriously doubt that they ever will.