Which one of these Shipp gigs would you go to?
Definitely the one with Butcher and Lehn.
Seconded.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Just got a new Eric Revis album in this morning's mail - In Memory of Things Yet Seen, out in March on Clean Feed. Pretty ferocious band - Revis on bass, obviously, plus Chad Taylor on drums, Bill McHenry (who I've grown to like a lot more since Paul Motian died; I know that sounds weird, but his band with Motian sucked, to my ear, and the one he formed afterward with Orrin Evans and Andrew Cyrille was a million times better) on tenor sax, Darius Jones on alto, and Branford Marsalis guesting on two tracks. It's a really good disc so far.
Another one I'm excited about is alto saxophonist James Brandon Lewis's Divine Travels, out Tuesday on the revived OKeh label - it's a trio date with William Parker and Gerald Cleaver, and I'm told it's pretty free. I should be getting a download later today.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
I would listen to William Parker and Gerald Cleaver accompanying a dog's farts
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
i saw Revis play once, in Kenny Garrett's band about 14 years ago. it was in a church and a young Chris Dave was on drums, the first time i ever heard him. completely ruinous. i remember feeling bad for Revis during a hyperspeed tune (something off Songbook i think), but he sounded fine of course and eventually it turned into a drums/sax duet. also remember losing my mind when Chris Dave dropped a stick and just switched over to playing the ride pattern with his left hand for awhile.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
I second Jazzbo's recommendation of Kelley's Monk bio, and agree it's one of the best jazz biographies - or artist biographies - I've ever read. Hard to imagine anyone writing a book on Monk after this one; seems definitive in every sense. The style took some getting used to (fans of minutiae, rejoice: You will learn about who drove Monk to certain gigs, and who drove him when the other guy was busy, etc), but once I became immersed, I (pardon the cliche) couldn't put it down. Really, really great.
I've had Nica's book on my Amazon wishlist for over two years. One of these days I'll read it. A jazz fanatic friend of mine says it's great, with lots of insights about Monk, etc, but honestly, after the Kelley bio, I didn't feel like I was missing any piece of the Monk puzzle.
I bought one of the new Rempis titles - the one with Abrams and Ra, because I'm a big Josh Abrams fan. Haven't listened yet (it arrived today) but will report back.
Also, surprised no mention on here about the passing of Arthur Doyle.
And I too vote we not video-bomb this thread with Youtube clips if possible. I don't even open that Takoma thread anymore because it takes ten minutes to load. Links work just fine!
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
Turn off your images and they will be links!
― festival culture (Jordan), Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:19 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I didn't realize that was a thing I could do. Thanks!
BTW loved that Rempis interview.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link
Hadn't realized that Howard Brofsky had passed away. http://www.nepr.net/blog/howard-brofsky-rip-1927-2013RIP, Dr. Bebop.
― The Crescent City of Kador (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 February 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Something neat for nerds: Bonham quotes Max Roach at the beginning of his Moby Dick solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edPEBB6VjRQ
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:02 (ten years ago) link
So far I am loving 2014 for jazz releases—nothing high profile, no Major Statements (though I'm sure everyone's gonna jizz all over Vijay Iyer's piano-and-string-quartet thing on ECM; I haven't listened to it yet), just great, accessible records by players who can fucking swing. Sunnyside and Posi-Tone in particular coming out of the gate early and hard. Really looking forward to hearing the new Ambrose Akinmusire on Blue Note, too, and there are at least three (out of four) new titles on Criss Cross that I want to hear.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
First on my list to hear of those would be the Misha Tsiganov.
― The Crescent City of Kador (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 February 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
See, that's the one I'm least interested in, though it's a very tight race. For me, in order: Seamus Blake/Chris Cheek, Donald Edwards, Zach Brock, and then Tsiganov. They all look good, though.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 10 February 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
Somehow I knew you would say exactly that
― The Crescent City of Kador (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 February 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
TERRY WALDO "The Soul Of Ragtime"Available March 25th, 2014 on Tompkins Square
Ragtime. The word itself evokes images of corny movies, bad record covers, overblown caricatures with baggy pants, cigars, funny hats, and those elastic bands around the sleeves.
Forget that.
Tompkins Square has released music across many genres : Folk, gospel, jazz, blues, old-timey, British pop, American Primitive, Cajun, Greek, singer/songwriters. But this is the first Ragtime album released by the label, from perhaps the most important living artist in the genre, Terry Waldo.
Terry's new album 'The Soul of Ragtime' is the culmination of decades of performance and study. Ragtime is one of America's truly unique and precious art forms. Comprised of original and traditional tunes, the album is stylistically so varied that to simply label it "Ragtime" is nonsensical. At times dissonant, rollicking, spacey, gospel-influenced and complex, "The Soul of Ragtime" celebrates tradition but moves the entire enterprise forward in surprising ways.
Terry Waldo has literally written the book on Ragtime. 'This Is Ragtime' is a definite history of the music, originally published in 1976, with a new version published in 2009 by Jazz At Lincoln Center, forward by Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis says about Waldo, "What he's done for Ragtime - in terms of the integrity of the approach, and the knowledgeable approach, and the playing of it - is the greatest service that can be done for any art."
Terry Waldo 'The Soul Of Ragtime" Available March 25th, 2014.Hear/Post A Track: https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/just-a-closer-walk-with-thee
― dow, Monday, 10 February 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
I reviewed the James Brandon Lewis album on OKeh; also talked about his self-released 2010 debut, which is quite interesting at times.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Ethiopian keyboardist Hailu Mergia sounded real Jimmy Smith like last night live at a free gig at the Kennedy Center. Mergia's the taxicab driver whose mid-80s solo album was discovered and reissed by Awesome Tapes from Africa. He melds that jazzy organ sound with Ethiopian modal sounds nicely. He's backed now by Brooklyn guys, some of whom played in the "Fela" show band and one who was in Antibalas.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/keeping-jazzs-rhythm-with-a-shutter/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140226
Great old-school photos of Miles, Duke and others by Aram Avakian and described by Aram's daughter Alexandra
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
誤訳侮辱, just checked out that interview you posted with Dave Rempis upthread. Good piece (I've seen him and Daisy play a few times in Europe), but I'm interested in why you have a problem with the word "scene" in relation to Chicago. I don't know the city but it seems like a perfectly innocent word to me.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
"scene" can convey to some a phony aspect where musicians can't be themselves, but I don't know much about the NY one and its traits that are being referred to and compared to Chicago's
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
In that case, I was avoiding the word "scene" because to my mind, especially in NYC jazz, it has a "seeing-and-being-seen" aspect that I feel/felt is less emphasized in Chicago. It's more collaborative, less showboaty.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
ArtistShare newsletter: Gil Evans Project live at the Jazz Standard,the recording of which will be fan-funded, material, from 40s to late 60s, incl. newly discovered, prev. unissued. Also: Maria Schneider Orchestra at Lincolm Center (plus: Ute Lemper's Neruda Project, Fabian Almazan)http://www.artistshare.com/newsletter/3-6-2014.html
― dow, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Come to think of it, I liked the Gil Evans (Centennial) Project's Newport 2012 set, which gets a surround sound mix here; good on headphones: http://www.npr.org/event/music/170167531/ryan-truesdells-gil-evans-centennial-project-on-jazzset Original mix posted here:http://www.npr.org/event/music/158020421/ryan-truesdells-gil-evans-centennial-project-live-in-concert-newport-jazz-2012
― dow, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
nice, thanks for posting!
― Brad C., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
Could someone recommend a jazz site/blog for keeping up with popular new jazz? Guardian seems cool but I wouldn't know http://www.theguardian.com/music/jazz+tone/albumreview
Some jazz sites publish 1000s of reviews every month, this is not what I need.
― niels, Monday, 14 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
The ArtistShare newsletter is good on the jazzers in their loose joint, like the xpost Gil Evans Project--here's a new update on their May shows, also GEP live video, Robin Eubanks and others (register and get even more,oowee)http://www.artistshare.com/newsletter/4-8-2014.html
― dow, Thursday, 17 April 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
Saw the Cookers last night at Iridium. David Weiss and Eddie Henderson on trumpets, Billy Harper on tenor sax, Donald Harrison on alto sax, Dave Kikoski on piano, Cecil McBee on bass, Billy Hart on drums. They were great, and there were maybe 50 people in the audience. Oh, well.
Also picked up a 4CD Proper box, Big Ben, gathering Ben Webster stuff from the 1930s to the early '50s. I've never listened to Webster, so for under $30 I feel like this is a good starting point.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 20 April 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
Great lineup, wish I could have seen it, made it a deck of 51 in the audience. Suspect maybe people out of town or staying in Saturday night with the holiday.
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 April 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
omg
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/20/303773614/first-listen-brian-blade-the-fellowship-band-landmarks
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
I tried to listen to this but it played The Boards of Canada instead.
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
OK, I see.
― Kid Creole Meets Señor Coconut at a fIREHOSE Show (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Brian Blade album is v enjoyable. Is there something new by BoC up there too??
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Blue Oyster Cult?
Oh, you mean Boards of Canada. That was from last year. Maybe it is targeted ad for you.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
Oh sorry that was me making a joke about the way the first track sounded.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
I doubt there's another person within a three block radius of where I live now that knows who Mary Halvorson is. Brooklyn and Queens are very different animals.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
Oh ha
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
Got interrupted listening to this. Starting again. Meanwhile see that I have some two year old Newport sets on the NPR app from Gretchen Parlato and Conrad Herwig which I will listen to next.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
Not jazz, but I guess the audio for that Ted Leo Aimee Mann collabo already came and went over there.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
But there is a Tiny Desk.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
From The Wire's newsletter:
http://www.thewire.co.uk/2013/12/17/460x200xMarshall-Allen.jpg.pagespeed.ic.ItFlQKNLKj.jpg
Armin Büttner, a Swiss Sun Ra collector who provided some historical information for Val Wilmer's article on Marshall Allen's experiences in postwar Paris in The Wire 363, has formed a one off label, Little Rocket*, with fellow Swiss Sun Ra fan Hubi Horst to issue a new album by the current director of The Sun Ra Arkestra. *http://crownpropeller.wordpress.com/
Two Stars In The Universe was recorded in Poschiavo in Switzerland during the 2012 Uncool festival, where The Arkestra performed as part of a music theatre production, Oedipus-Akhenaten. It features the saxophonist, who turns 90 in May, in a series of duets with Arkestra member Kash Killion, who plays cello, sarangi and bolong. It has been produced in an edition of 250 copies pressed on 180 gm vinyl with hand printed silkscreen covers.
The album was recorded in the living room of Cornelia Müller, who runs the Uncool festival, and according to Büttner: "Marshall and Kash played beautiful improvised music for two and a half hours without ever talking about what to play next and visibly having fun doing so. We just sat there in awe not daring to interfere or make any suggestions. Apart from choosing the tracks for release we did not do any editing or much post production. The end product is a surprisingly quiet (for Marshall that is) moody, melancholy, beautiful record of many colours.
"Besides alto saxophone and flute Marshall also plays one of those old cheap Casio keyboards. I always think he is channeling messages from Sun Ra with it. If you listen to his Casio playing on "Cosmic Blues-Life Of Two", hearing the rattling sound of its keys struck by Marshall, you'll notice that he uses the same wobbling up and down hand movements that he uses when producing the freaky alto sounds he is known for."
The album will be launched during The Arkestra's forthcoming concert in Zurich on 22 May, the 100th anniversary of Sun Ra's birth, and is available by mail order direct from the label. Email dj at crownpropeller.ch for details. Büttner has posted a promo clip on YouTube filmed during the recording. Watch it below:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUMI7X7Xl8
― dow, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
Also from The Wire:
Saxophonist Charles Gayle will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award by Arts For Arts in New York, at the 19th edition of Vision festival. Gayle will also play three sets on the evening of 11 June: as a trio with Daniel Carter and Miriam Parker, as the Charles Gayle Quartet with Dave Burrell, William Parker and Michael Wimberly, and with his Vision Artist Orchestra, with a stint in the middle by poet David Henderson.
This year's Vision festival also includes performances by Mary Halvorson, Henry Grimes, Matthew Shipp, a trio of Peter Brötzmann, William Parker, and Hamid Drake, and many others, plus panel discussions on the legacy of Amiri Baraka. The festival runs 11–15 June. More details here.http://artsforart.org/event/vf19/schedule
7:00PM - 8:00PM - Charles Gayle Trio + Dance
Daniel Carter – reedsMiriam Parker – danceCharles Gayle – bassMichael T.A. Thompson – drums
8:15PM - 9:00PM - Charles Gayle Quartet
Charles Gayle © Luciano Rossetti©Phocus
Charles Gayle – tenor saxophoneDave Burrell – pianoWilliam Parker – bassMichael Wimberly – drums
9:45PM - 10:45PM - Charles Gayle & The Vision OrchestraCharles Gayle – piano, conductionKidd Jordan, Hamiet Bluiett, Ingrid Laubrock – saxTed Daniel – trumpetSteve Swell – tromboneJason Kao Hwang, Mazz Swift – violin, violaNioka Workman – celloShayna Dulberger – bassAndrew Cyrille – drums
― dow, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
on first listen the Brian Blade album is lovely as usual, if not as stunning as Season of Changes. i'll have to give it some good non-streaming listens when it comes out.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
i feel like the Fellowship tracks that deviate from their 'standard' mode are really important to the records, like say the pygmy samples + drum solo from the first record. Season of Changes is sequenced amazingly, there's the no-solos 'Stoner Hill' (one of my favorites ever), the heavy backbeat track, the solo sax + drone tracks leading into the killer closer. the new one doesn't have nearly as much of that, but the songs are really nice anyway.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
Still haven't gotten a chance to listen to this properly. Is Steve Cardenas on it? Didn't hear any guitar on what I got to listen to yesterday.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Also another guy told me a little while ago that Jon Cowherd pronounces his last name pretty much like Noel Coward.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
Heard from another source that Cardenas likes to use the Harmonic Major scale, as namechecked on the Theory thread. Not saying that this is a reason for anyone here to use or not use that scale, just saying.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
R.I.P. Steve Backer, championed Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, and Henry Threadgill (among others) at Arista and RCA.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
there's definitely some guitar, though not on every track (i think so, only listened to it once). NPR mentions Marvin Sewell (not familiar) and Jeff Parker (!), definitely no Rosenwinkel.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
Oh, Martin Sewell's good too, on Jason Moran's fairly ingenious jazz-bluesoid Same Mother; also did some things in the same vein with Cassandra Wilson, but Moran takes it further.
― dow, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
In a very good way!
― dow, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
Lots of good free music tonight at the QJOG Spring Jazz Festival. Check out the stellar lineup:
http://www.flushingtownhall.org/events/event.php?id=1167
― Choogle Plus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 April 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
http://larryappelbaum.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/2014-favorites/
critic, radio dj, and Library of Congress employee
1. Billy Childs “Map To The Treasure” (Sony)
2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden “Last Dance” (ECM)
3. Otis Brown III “The Thought of You” (Blue Note)
onward to 10 plus some reissues
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
I'm looking for jazz vocalists faves
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
curm, this has a jazz vocalists faves section:Francis Davis presents his round-up of jazz crits. Intrigued by descriptions of ones I've missed, and his comments on others are mostly right-on (incl. his push-back against high ranking of Moran's half-good Waller project). But, despite Davis's opening caveats, Rollins' Road Shows Vol. 3 doesn't seem quite right for Top 10, much less No.4, considering that SR has set the bar very high---and the octogenarian diabetic doesn't spare himself on the longest tracks, or the 8-minute-plus "Solo Sonny"---but sounds like he should, just a bit (another kind of self-discipline). Still, "Patanjali" is so fucking tight, reminds me again that I need to check out yoga, and will make my P&J Singles (the album was on there for a while, and would make a Top 20)(History is a very well-chosen 2014 Rollins anth, on Spotify just below RS V3)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/12/19/371282561/the-2014-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=2045
― dow, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
thanks
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Incredible story about the stolen Smalls Buddha.
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
New Year, New Thread. "Weird Means Something You Never Heard Before": Rolling Jazz D-bag Thread 2015
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Your subtitle on the new thread suggests that once can't post there unless they go to Smalls...You New Yorkers
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
You need to post a photo of the Buddha
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Take it to I Must Protest!
― Dedlock Holiday (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link