The Chicago Octet/Tentet
   Peter Brotzmann (reeds)
   Mars Williams (reeds)
   Ken Vandermark (reeds)
   Mats Gustafsson (tenor saxophone & flutophone)*
   Joe McPhee (brass & soprano saxophone)*
   Jeb Bishop (trombone)
   Kent Kessler (bass)
   Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello)
   Michael Zerang (drums)
   Hamid Drake (drums)
   *tentet only

Already a classic!  The follow-on, albeit 30 years later, recording to Brotzmann's seminal Machine Gun.  No words necessary to describe this 3-cd box set.  If Okka had never released another recording, they would have justified their existance with this one.  A combination of live and studio recordings with compositions by Brotzmann, Gustafsson, Vandermark, Bishop, Lonberg-Holm, Zerang, and Drake.  Comes with our highest recommendation.

Disk 1: 4 tracks in 73:53 minutes
Disk 2: 4 tracks in 64:44 minutes
Disk 3: 4 tracks in 70:38 minutes

More Okka

If you missed this cd, you might enjoy listening to:

Stone Water (Brötzmann's follow-on Chicago Tentet)

Transatlantic Bridge (Vandermark's Chicago Nonet)

Fuck de Boere (Brötzmann Group--alternative version of Machine Gun)

Broken English (Brötzmann Tentet Plus Two)

Short Visit To Nowhere (Brötzmann Tentet Plus Two)

ATLAS (Territory Band - 2)