But, you know, if you're looking to Robert Christgau for thoughts on jazz, you're an idiot anyway. It's never been a genre he's had time for in any serious way.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
i never ever understand critics who levy the "too long" argument.
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
I love that Christian Scott album now, for some cloth eared reason I didn't like it on my first listen.
― calzino, Thursday, 14 January 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/01/14/arts/14ROVA/14ROVA-superJumbo.jpg
NYT review
I had "The Celestial Septet" with Cline and Rova on cd, but didn´t like it too much. This sounds interesting though.
― EvR, Thursday, 14 January 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
This new-ish Esperanza Spalding song is pretty cool imo. I'm not sure that it fits in this thread, exactly, but I don't think there's a rolling psych-funk thread. I think Matt Stevens is on guitar. Also classic for the Youtube comment "...this kind of variety gives bands like Ulver a run for their money".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 21 January 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link
The new Sonny Rollins album - the fourth in his Road Shows series of live collections - comes out in April. Most of the material is from 2001 and later, but there's one surprise: a version of "Disco Monk," from his Don't Ask album, from 1979. He hasn't played that song since that tour, so it's kind of interesting to hear it preserved here.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 21 January 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
This is fun:http://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463589100/comedian-jon-benjamins-jazz-album-is-full-of-real-untapped-un-talent
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 21 January 2016 04:41 (eight years ago) link
interesting to read greg tate's thoughts on kamasi, was just listening to burnt sugar last night and thinking how much better than kamasi it sounded
― the late great, Thursday, 21 January 2016 05:28 (eight years ago) link
Really interesting interview with Stanley Jordan (who I admit I've never listened to).
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 21 January 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
omg this Jon Benjamin thing
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 21 January 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
NPR: Yeah! He knows what he's doing.JB: He really does. But that's just not as interesting.NPR: Do you think it lacks the complete sense of free-form surprise that you're after?JB: He's not taking any risks. He just knows how to do it.NPR: How safe, to actually—JB: [Laughs.] I feel bad for people like that.
JB: He really does. But that's just not as interesting.
NPR: Do you think it lacks the complete sense of free-form surprise that you're after?
JB: He's not taking any risks. He just knows how to do it.
NPR: How safe, to actually—
JB: [Laughs.] I feel bad for people like that.
Benjamin is so much more right than he knows.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 January 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
This Kamasi Washington story from the New York Times Magazine is fantastic - really in-depth and provides a massive amount of context and history of L.A. jazz and '70s spiritual jazz. Really a great piece, well worth reading.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
oh rad, that's adam schatz! Great guy!
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
I want to put together a mixtape of the kind of newish kind of jazz (is it jazz? or jazz-influenced stuff) spanning Sons of Kemet to Bohren and Der Club of Gore, Girls In Airports and Go Go Penguin. Might put some earlier stuff like Pat Metheny Group's 'Offramp' on there. So nothing really 'free' or too abstruse but still kind of skewed, minimalish, atmospheric. Is there much else I should include?
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Dawn of Midi.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
Melt Yourself Down, Fire! Orchestra, Supersilent kinda thing?
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Sunday, 24 January 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
Vijay Iyer, whose music I don't like as much as a lot of other jazz critics do, gets profiled in this week's New Yorker, because if the New Yorker is going to profile a jazz pianist, it's either going to be Vijay Iyer, Brad Mehldau, or Ethan Iverson. (Note: This comment is about marketing and image-making, not about race. And Iyer is keenly aware of how he's perceived and how he's promoted; he even mentions it in the article. But he doesn't seek to change it, because that's how you get your grant money to dry up and blow away.)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Phil,It's up to you to spread the word about Benito Gonzalez.
― Hang Onto Your Selfie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
My first thought when I read your otherwise apt comment was "what about Jason Moran"? Sure enough: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/jazz-hands
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
I actually wouldn't be surprised to see something on Cecil Taylor, to coincide with his appearances at the Whitney Museum in April. But if they do run something, it won't be as in-depth as this story on Professor Iyer, I'll guarantee you that.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
I have it on good authority that a certain musical funny man, member of a famed jazz family, likes to tease his friend Ethan Iverson by calling his band "The Bad Pus."
― Hang Onto Your Selfie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Huh, didn't know Iyer was teaching at Harvard these days.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, somebody I know was up there for a little bit for another reason, teaching in a clinic, I think, and mentioned it to me.
― Hang Onto Your Selfie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
Just got an album featuring alto saxophonist Ricardo Tejero, tenor and baritone saxophonist Colin Webster, and Marco Serrato and Borja Díaz (aka Spanish avant-doom band Orthodox) on bass and drums. It's called Spain Is The Place, and it's coming out next month on Raw Tonk. Skronk doom, basically. I'm into it.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:44 (eight years ago) link
That sounds goooood
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link
http://www.benitogonzalez.com/itinerary.php
Pianist has a couple of Baltimore dates among the NY and Senegal ones...
Thanks for the tip about him James Redd
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/astral-spirits-records/rosso-corsa-excerpt-from-amaranth-by-icepick-as018
An excerpt from the track "Rosso Corsa" off the upcoming Amaranth LP by Icepick. Amaranth features the first studio recordings from Icepick (Nate Wooley, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten & Chris Corsano) and builds upon their debut cassette "Hexane" on Astral Spirits in 2014."Amaranth" is also one of the first vinyl LP releases on Astral Spirits. Out January 22, 2016 in an edition of 300 LP's.
"Amaranth" is also one of the first vinyl LP releases on Astral Spirits. Out January 22, 2016 in an edition of 300 LP's.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 29 January 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
just picked up the Roland Kirk "volunteered slavery" reissue ... SO DOPE
― the late great, Friday, 29 January 2016 22:59 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/magazine/a-playlist-fit-for-a-harlem-renaissance-painter.html?ref=arts
The Schaap cousins on artist Archibald Motley, music and drinking---Keppard, Beiderbecke, Jaxon, C. Hawkins, Basie, Armstrong
I told Phil that Motley was born in New Orleans, raised in Chicago and lived briefly in Paris. I said that the paintings that interested me most were from the years 1926 to 1945. And I couldn’t help mentioning that, yes, there’s a lot of drinking going on. With only these pieces of information, Phil devised this six-song playlist
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 February 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
Saw the Motley show at the Whitney Museum last month. I like his stuff.
Remember Freddie Hendrix, the trumpeter I mentioned at the beginning of this thread? I interviewed him for Burning Ambulance; you can stream three tracks at the link, too.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 1 February 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
playlist is up to date
ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― ulysses, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
BEST picture of my dad as a teenager hanging with stan kenton at Birdland. dad's on the left. sitting next to chico hamilton, i think. looks like chico.
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12669440_10156523808750298_4211091960178335000_n.jpg?oh=5d80d02db335cf6d731a661f9b22e6d1&oe=576BB8E7
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
Wow, that is so cool!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
the double life of a new jersey prep school boy.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
too cool!
I had the pleasure of seeing Jakob Bro perform with Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron this Monday - great show. Apparently they're releasing a record later this year, looking forward to it.
― niels, Thursday, 11 February 2016 13:24 (eight years ago) link
great photo, look at all those hipsters
― Brad C., Thursday, 11 February 2016 13:27 (eight years ago) link
RESONANCE RECORDS PRESENTTWO NEVER BEFORE RELEASED INSTANT CLASSICS:JOÃO GILBERTO & STAN GETZ — GETZ/GILBERTO ‘76STAN GETZ QUARTET — MOMENTS IN TIMERecorded at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner May 11-16, 1976Getz/Gilberto’76 is a rare follow-up to two of the best-selling bossa nova recordof all time, 1964’s Grammy-award-winning Getz/Gilberto, which sold more thanone million copies, and 1966’s Getz/Gilberto #2Moments in Time is the deluxe CD companion to Getz/Gilberto ’76, capturing Stan Getz’s most adventurous quartet with Joanne Brackeen, Clint Houston and Billy HartBoth albums, out Feb. 19, include extensive 28- and 32-page liner notes containing newly commissioned essays, interviews and previously unpublished photos from acclaimed music photographer Tom Copi---yadda yadda, the main interest to me is the quartet:
...Moments in Time was also recorded at the Keystone Korner, the same week as Getz/Gilberto ’76 and features Stan Getz’s same adventurous rhythm section. Moments in Time and Getz/Gilberto '76 document the only time this dynamic quartet recorded together.The accompanying 28-page book includes essays by producers Feldman and Barkan, journalist Ted Panken, a tribute by Steve Getz, interviews with Brackeen and Hart and statements from saxophonists Branford Marsalis and Joshua Redman. The album cover is beautifully designed by the acclaimed Japanese artist Takao Fujioka.Ted Panken describes Moments in Time as capturing the artists on this recording as a “unit of thirty-something masters-in-the-making.” Keystone’s Barkan recalls: “Stan explained to me quite a few times backstage at Keystone Korner that ‘I have never felt as free and as totally supported as I do with this band with Joanne Brackeen, Clint Houston, and Billy Hart. They are happy and free to go with me wherever I go . . .’” Barkan relates that Getz frequently told him that he felt the most comfortable at the famed San Francisco club, more than he did at any other club.Brackeen talks about playing with Getz in her interview with Feldman: “I think that it kind of really also displays the quartet at its best, which we rapidly became and stayed. And he had to be really daring to hire us. He already had his thing. He was already famous. He didn’t have to have this band. And this band was crazy! I mean, we would do anything and everything we possibly could. We weren’t just there as accompaniments . . . And then you hear how he played on it, it’s so lyrical. He doesn’t play one note that he doesn’t mean. At any time. That’s the one thing I guess that I would say about him that was so unique to me. And he also talked that way, when he was speaking.”The release features eight tracks, including Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “O Grande Amor,” Wayne Shorter’s “Infant Eyes,” Horace Silver’s “Peace,” Dizzy Gillespie’s “Con Alma,” Jimmy Rowles’s “Morning Star” and others. These tunes were staples of Getz’s repertoire and remained so for many years. Pre-order digitally via iTunes and receive three tracks instantly: “Summer Night,” “The Cry of the Wild Goose” and “Peace.”In his contribution to the album package for Moments in Time, saxophonist Joshua Redman pays homage to Getz: “His virtuosity — he could play any tune in any key at any tempo, with command and control and a sense of relaxation.” And he further celebrates Getz’s “. . . incredible storytelling ability — the natural, organic logic in the flow of his phrases and ideas.” Resonance Records is pleased to unearth these notable historic recordings of Stan Getz/João Gilberto and the Stan Getz Quartet and to share them now with the public.For more information, check www.ResonanceRecords.org
― dow, Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:20 (eight years ago) link
Resonance is turning into a hell of a label. I don't care about that Gilberto/Getz thing (hate bossa nova), but the other one looks good.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 12 February 2016 02:14 (eight years ago) link
Basically Getz with Brackeen's trio, definitely something I want to hear.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
Brackeen is super underrated imo. Wish her records had had better producers/engineers, not crazy about the sound of them but love the music.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:20 (eight years ago) link
Saw Mary Halvorson last night, it was excellent
And I can't wait to get this
http://eremite.com/album/mte-59-60
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 12 February 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I want one of those for sure. I loved TEST back then. Saw them perform at Kim's on St. Mark's, and interviewed them for Alternative Press of all places.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 12 February 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
Saw Mary Halvorson last night
― Tin Machine Mole (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 February 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
I mean I got the impression that they more or less show up for a first lesson and say "make me sound like Mary Halvorson."
― Tin Machine Mole (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 February 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
that's awesome
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 12 February 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
wow, that's great. my guitar teacher would have made a face and moved onto the next track from Surfing with the Alien.
― tlopson (crüt), Friday, 12 February 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
There were plenty of younger folks at the show, which possibly could be cuz it was a free concert at an art museum, but there were at least as many youths as there were old heads (like me).
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 12 February 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
Watching this Eric Lewis thing now, he's an interesting figure (and I've been checking for him ever since seeing him with Elvin Jones in the early '00s, he was the most thunderous pianist I've ever seen live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLfq17MLPwc
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 12 February 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
Enjoying listening to Sheila Jordan on WBGO with Michael Bourne on Singers Unlimited. I always regret when I miss this show. She is telling great stories, about the late Mark Murphy, about how she came to record "You Are My Sunshine" with George Russell. Playing tonight at Cornelia Street with excellent piano and bass accompaniment.
― Have I The Right Profile? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 February 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
I'm just getting into pianist Lisa Hilton, whose album covers make her seem like a smoothie who sings. Turns out she's decidedly not that—she's a swinging hard bop player, and her sidemen are killer: Jeremy Pelt, JD Allen, Terell Stafford, Larry Grenadier, Gregg August, Antonio Sanchez, Rudy Royston...these are all dudes whose work I love. She's put out 18 albums, but I think the last half dozen are the ones I need to dig into. Here's a video for the title track of her new one, Nocturnal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4W8lgbcVUQ
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 18 February 2016 00:34 (eight years ago) link
love that record--"lowrider" is a mega jam imo
― adam, Sunday, 18 December 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
The new Forebrace album Steeped, like their last one shows a lot of Last Exit influence and their more hard edged stuff is excellent. Probably not a great album but definitely a work in progress.
― calzino, Sunday, 18 December 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
I interviewed Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado for Bandcamp.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2016/12/la_la_land_s_clich_d_confused_depiction_of_jazz.html
Not surprising I guess
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
I interviewed Kamasi Washington's bassist, Miles Mosley, for Bandcamp. His album Uprising comes out 1/27; it's not a jazz disc, more of a '70s funk/R&B album, but with massive, fuzzed-out, almost Hendrixian bass solos on pretty much every track. It's really good.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 23 December 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
speaking of The Bad Plus, pretty enjoyable set w Frisell at Newport, still here (get it while you can, never know about npr jazz staying up)http://www.npr.org/event/music/158004697/the-bad-plus-with-bill-frisell-live-in-concert-newport-jazz-2012
― dow, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
There is a great bit of audience interaction on Joe McPhee's Flowers live album where he explains that when he was in the army he couldn't quite explain to his fellow soldiers why he had a watercolour tribute to Ornette Coleman in his locker door rather than the standard girlie pics.
― calzino, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 12:07 (seven years ago) link
ha
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
I played drums on a little New Orleans jazz album earlier this year: https://darrensterud.bandcamp.com/releases
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Somehow I missed that the Bad Plus even released an album this year, much less Bad Plus-ed Prince:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjtvIi_T0lY
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
(or more likely i knew and forgot)
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Oh damn, Alphonse Mouzon passed away.
https://youtu.be/psfHjIVd8VI?list=PLHlcpNxyojhFStR2pUzMsxZmcYE_OTu2r
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
How'd you miss that?
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Stuck in electronic music land I guess
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Ha, I missed it too. The NPR clip with Frisell is good btw!
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 December 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
Flag posting both of you for that
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 December 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
Da Capo al Fine
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
(Aka new thread for new year)
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
My fav bass player at the moment is the young German livewire dude by the name of Noah Punkt, his work with Protean Reality and his Ordnung Herrscht album are both quality imo. I'm not usually too bothered about no-wavey influenced stuff but there is something about his style I love.
― calzino, Saturday, 7 January 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link