playlist is somewhat updated through March.
ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
looking for an mp3 of Khan Jamal's "Thinking Of You" for a mix I'm making... does anybody have this song or album?
this song here: https://open.spotify.com/track/6d0peOC3sIcTA2rTKz6bCZ
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 00:57 (eight years ago) link
The Rough Guide To South African Jazz starts out on the rougher or earthier side of smooth or reasonably regionally mainstream, at least compared to what I was hoping for, having read the press sheet first (try just to peek, but got pulled into the hype). Still, the music itself doesn't oversell its hospitality, and the whole thing def improved by the second listening, this time on headphones with volume up, catching more percussive subtleties and lots more bass. Second half's surprises are more varied and gratifying, beginning with McCoy Mrubata & Wessel Van Rensburg's "Jikela Emawen," which I thought at first was Abdullah Ibrahim (later, the actual Ibrahim's "Soweto" starts to remind me of "Hang On Sloopy," although with a muted yet sassy trumpet solo). Zim Ngqawana's "Ebhofolo (This Madness)," billed as the "free" track, sounds more like a novelty to me, but a good'un (I'm inclined to think of Rashaan Roland Kirk the same way, so hey). Also, I finally get to hear a bit more of the African Echoes, and Brian Thusi's "Dembese" is a strong closer.More info (amidst the hype) and audio samples of all tracks here (though the whole thing may be on spotify by now, come to think of it):http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1341/
― dow, Thursday, 31 March 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
Listening to Ibrahim Maalouf's instrumental tribute to Umm Kulthum: pretty good so far, starting low key but quickly, steadily getting more intense: http://www.npr.org/series/347139849/jazz-night-in-america
― dow, Monday, 4 April 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
Also meaning to hear this tomorrow night:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/467831394/the-2016-nea-jazz-masters-concert
Jazz Night In AmericaThe 2016 NEA Jazz Masters Concert
February 25, 2016 • In a tribute concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the National Endowment for the Arts will recognize its 2016 class of NEA Jazz Masters — the highest honor the U.S. gives to a jazz musician or advocate. The performance will be webcast live on Monday, April 4 at 8 p.m. ET here and via arts.gov, Kennedy-Center.org, and broadcast on Sirius XM radio.
The NEA honors four individuals in 2016: vibraphonist, bandleader and educator Gary Burton; musicians' advocate Wendy Oxenhorn; saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders; and saxophonist, composer and educator Archie Shepp. Each Jazz Master receives a $25,000 grant.
The concert will be hosted by Jason Moran, pianist and Kennedy Center artistic director for Jazz, and include remarks by Jane Chu, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; Deborah F. Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center; as well as the 2016 NEA Jazz Masters. The concert will feature performances by NEA Jazz Masters Chick Corea, Randy Weston, and Jimmy Heath, as well as Ambrose Akinmusire, Lakecia Benjamin, Billy Harper, Stefon Harris, Justin Kauflin, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Pedrito Martinez, Jason Moran, David Murray, Linda Oh, Karriem Riggins, Roswell Rudd, and Catherine Russell.
With this new class, the NEA has honored 140 great figures in jazz.
― dow, Monday, 4 April 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
Pharoah Sanders is at Birdland this coming week. I saw him at Iridium in the early '90s, and I think it's time I went back for more.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 4 April 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
Just came into a little bit of money so I ordered two more of those Cam Jazz boxes reissuing old Black Saint and Soul Note albums - one by George Adams (includes Don't Lose Control, Hand To Hand, Gentlemen's Agreement and Live At The Village Vanguard Vols. 1 & 2) and one by Julius Hemphill (includes Raw Materials & Residuals, Flat-Out Jump Suite, Fat Man And The Hard Blues, Five Chord Stud, and Chile New York) - for $52 including shipping.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 01:15 (eight years ago) link
Wow! Reminds me---great overview and details (by Stuart Nicholson) of the Adams-Pullen Quartet here: http://www.donpullen.de/collect/nichols.htm
― dow, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
Pullen's one I mean to investigate more thoroughly, and soon. Prior to about a week ago, all I knew of his work was his duos with Milford Graves, and I had some vague (and evidently incorrect) sense that those were outliers in his catalog, that he went in a more mainstream direction after that. But Capricorn Rising blew my mind. I'll probably end up getting that Soul Note box.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
Wayne Shorter was just awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
going to see pharaoh at the late show tomorrow night, pretty excited
trying to score tickets to cecil taylor/tony oxley for next week but no luck
― adam, Friday, 8 April 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
I tried to get Pharoah tickets but they were already sold out. He's still playing really well; interested to know how the shows have been going.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 8 April 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
Saw him there several years ago and it was awe-inspiring.
― Yer Blois (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 April 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
Ben Ratliff in the NY Times. Not seeing this album on Spotify, it features drummer Chris Dave, that Jordan hipped me too here
Marcus Strickland’s Twi-Life
NIHIL NOVI
Since 2001, the tenor and soprano saxophonist Marcus Strickland has been pursuing parallel interests in jazz as a well-defined, acoustic, instrumental tradition and, with his band Twi-Life, as a jumping-off place for satisfying other urges: R&B, hip-hop, saxophone-choir writing, West African music. “Nihil Novi” (Blue Note), his best work with Twi-Life and his broadest statement yet, feels timely: If you absorbed Kamasi Washington’s expansive 2015 record “The Epic,” with its orchestral spaciness and hard funk, you will have a framework to understand Mr. Strickland’s smaller scale. Produced by Meshell Ndegeocello and dotted with guest appearances from musicians including the singer Jean Baylor, the bassist Pino Palladino and the drummer Chris Dave, it’s a record of serene refusal, floating among traditions rather than settling within one.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 April 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link
I've liked Strickland for a while; I interviewed him back in 2011. He's a twin; his brother, E.J. Strickland, has drummed on a lot of his previous releases.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 11 April 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, EJ's cool, not so familiar with his brother.
― Yer Blois (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 April 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
Both brothers can be seen in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTaI7Rj-cJU
― Yer Blois (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 April 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
nice
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 April 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Heard a really nice, melodic-but-not-simplistic, atmospheric-but-not-boring album today - I Walk Amongst the Humans, by trumpeter Jon Crowley, with whom I was not previously familar. Kinda reminded me of Taylor Haskins' Fuzzy Logic, which came out in 2014 on Sunnyside.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 00:06 (eight years ago) link
would be interested to hear what, if anything, the rolling jazz thread thinks of this: http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_sunwatchers_sunwatchers_album_stream
― alpine static, Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:05 (eight years ago) link
Ape Phases is epic!
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 14 April 2016 09:37 (eight years ago) link
My Name Is Albert Ayler: the full-length documentary now streaming, watch it while you can
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrmIWO6UFg
― dow, Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link
If the link doesn't appear, check YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrmIWO6UFg
― dow, Sunday, 17 April 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
Didn't make it to Junior Mance's last public performance but I heard it was packed.
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 April 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dubera.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-21-at-11.12.28-AM.pngMy wife got me tickets for this year's Newport Jazz Festival. They're flex tix and I can pick any day to attend. Which one should I choose?
― Jazzbo, Monday, 18 April 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
More Artists To Be Announced, but so far) I'd go Sunday! New Lloyd, Dave Holland & co., Kenny Barron, Kamasi, Anat, Toshiko, just for a start---quite a deep 'n' wide bill.
― dow, Monday, 18 April 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
Ditto Saturday, but all those Sat. solo sets tip the scale toward Sunday for me.
― dow, Monday, 18 April 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
agree with dow... but that's a killer all round lineup!
― ulysses, Monday, 18 April 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
I'd go Sunday and see Potter/Holland/Loueke/Harland, Christian Scott, Kamasi Washington, and maybe that Gilad Hekselman/Christian Sands/Ben Williams group.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
Saw Ben Williams on Saturday at Flushing Town Hall with Helen Sung. Man, that band was good. For some reason I left a little early, should have stayed until the bitter end.
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
Thanks all! I guess I'll pencil in Sunday then.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 18 April 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Henry Threadgill has won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Music.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 18 April 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
I have been listening to the Danny Green Trio's Altered Narratives. It sounded a bit too controlled and tasteful at first but now I am starting to love it, especially some of the string arrangements.
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1105-why-pitchfork-made-a-magazine-about-jazz/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
A bunch of good jazz shows as part of this year's SummerStage programming. I'm definitely interested in seeing McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter and Roy Haynes in Central Park on June 4, and Kamasi Washington on June 14.
Also, not jazz but fucking awesome: King Sunny Ade and Orlando Julius on a double bill July 3.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
Here's the full lineup:
Jazz at SummerStage 2016: Featuring McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes, Kamasi Washington, Jason Lindner, Randy Weston, DeJohnette-Holland-Moran, Butler Bernstein and The Hot 9, The Hot Sardines, Bria Skonberg with Anat Cohen, Vince Giordano and Wycliffe Gordon, Dianne Reeves, Terence Blanchard, Nublu Orchestra, Igmar Thomas and Revive Big Band, Marc Cary, Joseph Webb, Brianna Thomas, Allan Harris, Donnie McCaslin and moreMcCoy Tyner Quartet, Ron Carter, Roy HaynesJune 4 – Saturday - 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOWKamasi Washington - Pre-Show Panel DiscussionJune 18 – Saturday - 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOWButler, Bernstein and The Hot 9, The Hot Sardines, Bria Skonberg and The NY Hot Jazz Festival All-Stars with Anat Cohen, Vince Giordano, Wycliffe Gordon, Joe Saylor and Dalton RidenhourJune 25 – Saturday - 2:00pm - Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOWLisa Simone – Film Screening: What Happened, Miss Simone?June 28 – Tuesday - 7:00pm - Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOWSoul in the Horn featuring Theo Croker,Maurice Mobetta Brown, Marcus Machado, Kendra Foster, DJ Natasha DiggsJune 29 – Wednesday - 7:00pm – Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOWA Tribute to Acclaimed Latin Jazz Musician Dave ValentinJuly 7 – Thursday – 7:00pm – Crotona Park, Bronx – FREE SHOWPaulo Flores, Herencia de Timbiquí, Monsieur Periné, DJ Greg Caz, DJ MannyJuly 17 – Sunday – 2:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOWDianne Reeves, DJ Greg CazJuly 27 – Wednesday – 7:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOWStefanie Batten Bland with Burnt Sugar the Arkestra ChamberPre-Show Master Class with Karisma JayJuly 30 – Saturday – 7:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOWQueens Family Jazz Day:Marc Cary: The Harlem Sessions, Joseph Webb: Dancing BuddhasWBGO Kids Jazz featuring Brianna Thomas and The Jazz TravelersJuly 31 – Sunday – 4:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOWTerence Blanchard and The E-CollectiveAugust 5 – Friday – 7:00pm – Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island – FREE SHOWIgmar Thomas and Revive Big Band: A Journey Through The Legacy of Black CultureAugust 7 – Sunday – 6:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOWNublu Orchestra’s “We Play for You, Butch Morris”DarkMatterHalo with Wadada Leo SmithFilm Screening: Black FebruaryAugust 10 – Wednesday – East River Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOWCharlie Parker Jazz Festival:Jason Lindner: Breeding Ground, DJ Greg CazAugust 26 – Friday – 7:00pm – Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOWCharlie Parker Jazz Festival:Randy Weston African Rhythms Sextet, Cory Henry and The Funk ApostlesThe Artistry of Jazzmeia Horn, Charles Turner IIIPre-Show Master Class with Samuel ColemanAugust 27 – Saturday – 7:00pm – Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW Charlie Parker Jazz Festival:DeJohnette – Holland – Moran, Allan Harris, Donny McCaslin, Grace KellyAugust 28 – Sunday – 3:00pm – Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
McCoy Tyner Quartet, Ron Carter, Roy HaynesJune 4 – Saturday - 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Kamasi Washington - Pre-Show Panel DiscussionJune 18 – Saturday - 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Butler, Bernstein and The Hot 9, The Hot Sardines, Bria Skonberg and The NY Hot Jazz Festival All-Stars with Anat Cohen, Vince Giordano, Wycliffe Gordon, Joe Saylor and Dalton RidenhourJune 25 – Saturday - 2:00pm - Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Lisa Simone – Film Screening: What Happened, Miss Simone?June 28 – Tuesday - 7:00pm - Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW
Soul in the Horn featuring Theo Croker,Maurice Mobetta Brown, Marcus Machado, Kendra Foster, DJ Natasha DiggsJune 29 – Wednesday - 7:00pm – Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW
A Tribute to Acclaimed Latin Jazz Musician Dave ValentinJuly 7 – Thursday – 7:00pm – Crotona Park, Bronx – FREE SHOW
Paulo Flores, Herencia de Timbiquí, Monsieur Periné, DJ Greg Caz, DJ MannyJuly 17 – Sunday – 2:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Dianne Reeves, DJ Greg CazJuly 27 – Wednesday – 7:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOW
Stefanie Batten Bland with Burnt Sugar the Arkestra ChamberPre-Show Master Class with Karisma JayJuly 30 – Saturday – 7:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOW
Queens Family Jazz Day:Marc Cary: The Harlem Sessions, Joseph Webb: Dancing BuddhasWBGO Kids Jazz featuring Brianna Thomas and The Jazz TravelersJuly 31 – Sunday – 4:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOW
Terence Blanchard and The E-CollectiveAugust 5 – Friday – 7:00pm – Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island – FREE SHOW
Igmar Thomas and Revive Big Band: A Journey Through The Legacy of Black CultureAugust 7 – Sunday – 6:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Nublu Orchestra’s “We Play for You, Butch Morris”DarkMatterHalo with Wadada Leo SmithFilm Screening: Black FebruaryAugust 10 – Wednesday – East River Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival:Jason Lindner: Breeding Ground, DJ Greg CazAugust 26 – Friday – 7:00pm – Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival:Randy Weston African Rhythms Sextet, Cory Henry and The Funk ApostlesThe Artistry of Jazzmeia Horn, Charles Turner IIIPre-Show Master Class with Samuel ColemanAugust 27 – Saturday – 7:00pm – Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival:DeJohnette – Holland – Moran, Allan Harris, Donny McCaslin, Grace KellyAugust 28 – Sunday – 3:00pm – Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link
Nice profile of Warne Marsh right now on WKCR, which you can listen to if you have an old school radio at hand I guess.
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
Check out the video of Ben Williams bass rendition of "The Beautiful Ones," which you can see on his FB page.
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
Playlist is updated through April.
― ulysses, Saturday, 30 April 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
A new Coltrane box, The Atlantic Years in Mono, is coming out June 10 on LP and CD. It includes Giant Steps, Ole Coltrane, Bags & Trane, Coltrane Plays the Blues, The Avant-Garde and the outtakes compilation Coltrane Legacy, but not My Favorite Things, Coltrane Jazz, or Coltrane's Sound, for no reason that I can figure out, since they were also released in mono at the time. (Also, if you buy the vinyl version, apparently it includes the "My Favorite Things" 45, on which the track was split in two, James Brown-style.)
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
Recently realized that the only one of his Atlantic albums I still haven't heard is Ole Coltrane---descriptions please.
― dow, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
fucking spectacular and one of my favorites. get on it!
― ulysses, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
you got me listening to it again simply by mentioning it and goddamn does the title track wail. whirlish dervish melody sweeping up mountain roads.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
Pianist Cameron Graves, who plays in Kamasi Washington's touring band, is releasing his debut album, Planetary Prince, June 10. The band includes Washington, trombonist Ryan Porter, bassist Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner, and drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., plus trumpeter Philip Dizack and bassist Hadrien Feraud. Apparently, the album contains four long tracks, and a second volume will be out before the end of the year.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
The title track of Ole is probably my favourite Coltrane. Music for climbing mountains and bellowing at bears.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
I like the Eric Revis Trio, Crowded Solitudes album, it is easily the best Clean Feed release so far this year and features the fabulous Kris Davies.
― calzino, Friday, 6 May 2016 12:46 (eight years ago) link
That's a good trio. I liked their previous album a lot, with Andrew Cyrille on drums instead of Gerald Cleaver. Haven't gotten all the way through the new one yet. Revis is an interesting dude, has a well-established spot in the sort of "modern hard bop" zone, playing in Branford Marsalis's group and with Orrin Evans, yet continually goes off and does weirder stuff like his own trio, or the album he did with Jason Moran and Ken Vandermark, or his work with Peter Brotzmann.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:03 (eight years ago) link
I have only listened once and found it quite remarkable. I only tried it on the strength of the Kris Davies connection but deffo want to hear more now.
― calzino, Friday, 6 May 2016 13:12 (eight years ago) link
The new JD Allen Trio album, Americana - Musings on Jazz and Blues, comes out next Friday, 5/20. I love this group - their music is as deep as that of Coltrane's quartet when they want it to be, but it's also got a romping, joyous energy that his music didn't always allow to permeate the atmosphere of Spiritual Questing. Plus, they keep things tight, at least on their first three or four albums; a lot of the tunes were three minutes and under. This one is still fairly compressed, with nine tracks in 45 minutes, but compare that to Victory!, which had 12 in 36. Anyway, it's a blues album, more or less, and you can hear the title track on Soundcloud.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link