The dog trots freely thru the Rolling Jazz Canto Thread 2016

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

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.

playlist is up to date

ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

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

Wow, that is so cool!

the double life of a new jersey prep school boy.

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.

great photo, look at all those hipsters

RESONANCE RECORDS PRESENT
TWO NEVER BEFORE RELEASED INSTANT CLASSICS:
JOÃO GILBERTO & STAN GETZ — GETZ/GILBERTO ‘76
STAN GETZ QUARTET — MOMENTS IN TIME
Recorded at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner May 11-16, 1976
Getz/Gilberto’76 is a rare follow-up to two of the best-selling bossa nova record
of all time, 1964’s Grammy-award-winning Getz/Gilberto, which sold more than
one million copies, and 1966’s Getz/Gilberto #2
Moments 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 Hart
Both 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Feb. 19, include extensive 28- and 32-page liner notes containing newly commissioned essays, interviews and previously unpublished photos from acclaimed music photographer Tom Copi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

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.

Basically Getz with Brackeen's trio, definitely something I want to hear.

Brackeen is super underrated imo. Wish her records had had better producers/engineers, not crazy about the sound of them but love the music.

Saw Mary Halvorson last night, it was excellent

And I can't wait to get this

http://eremite.com/album/mte-59-60

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.

Saw Mary Halvorson last night

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."

that's awesome

wow, that's great. my guitar teacher would have made a face and moved onto the next track from Surfing with the Alien.

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).

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

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.

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

Cecil Taylor was in court over the $500,000 Kyoto Prize money he was swindled out of by a contractor "friend"; the guy fired his lawyer in court, apparently, so his sentencing was pushed back to March 4. Cecil's already gotten over $200,000 back, and will get the rest back when the guy's sentenced, apparently.

Very glad to see that he at least got some of the money back.

Next week's Kamasi Washington show at Webster Hall is sold out. As I've mentioned before, the room he's playing - the Grand Ballroom - holds 1500 people, which is more than every major/legendary NYC jazz club (Vanguard, Blue Note, Birdland, Iridium, the Stone, Minton's, Jazz Standard) put together. Crazy. I might try to get on the guest list, just to see what it's like to experience jazz in a crowd that size. (I don't do festivals.)

i was gonna say

Got a promo of The Comet Is Coming the other day - Shabaka Hutchings' (Sons of Kemet, Melt Yourself Down) new project. Saw, synths, and drums, playing osmische jazz. Very nice

kosmische

that sounds gooood

xp to ambulance:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/kamasi-washington-jazz-summerstage/

swangin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUzBfmLq9M

The new album by alto saxophonist Logan Richardson, Shift, comes out next week on Blue Note. It's his debut for the label, and the band is great: Pat Metheny on guitar, Jason Moran on piano, Harish Raghavan on bass, Nasheet Waits on drums. I didn't like his first two albums at all - way too intellectual and tricksy - but this one's really good. Recommended. Here's a really cool video for the track "Slow":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gftN8IQpp0k

xxxxxpost, sure wish I hadn't missed Sheila Jordan holding forth on WBGO. Here's a video of her on stage a few years ago, posted to promote a forthcoming show, which will promote a new CD of a 1991 show. She's swinging the early years of her saga, from sharing a birthday with Mickey Mouse, to getting vamped up at 14, the better to fake her way past the age limit at a Deetroit club, while chasin' the Bird. Her voice doesn't seem to have aged at all. She doesn't really need a band---does fine with just a bass, in several other shows I've heard, and on studio albums---but she's got a reet li'l combo here (also check the band she co-led with Steve Kuhn, made a couple of albums, at least)
http://nationalsawdust.org/event/theo-bleckmann-presents-sheila-jordan/

playlist is updated.

ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Rough Guide To South African Jazz

Out March 25

Encompassing the marabi, kwela and jive styles of mid-twentieth century urban South African music, this compilation covers the sounds, styles, assemblages and musicians that reside under the umbrella of South African jazz – from the golden age of 1960s and 1970s to the new wave of musicians in the twenty years of post-apartheid democracy.

Recently re-issued releases from musician-in-exile Ndikho Xaba demonstrate the strong transatlantic dialogue between the civil rights movements in the USA and the anti-apartheid struggle through the language of jazz, with the rare single ‘KwaBulawayo’ as performed by his group The African Echoes. The Sowetan spiritual Afro-jazz of Batsumi on the track ‘Emampndweni’ contributes to the narrative of music at home during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and similarly slots into the category of undeservedly lesser-known artistry. From a period considered by some as the golden era of South African Jazz, these artists and their compositions are pertinent and vital reminders of the intrinsic link between this music and the dismantling of oppression.

One of the most prominent figures of the South African jazz movement is the composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, whose career spans over 50 years, including a performance at Nelson Mandela’s 1994 Presidential inauguration. Having played alongside Abdullah Ibrahim, the late Zim Ngqawana was a leading proponent of the exploration of free improvisation.

Gospel, hip-hop and electronic music now dominate mainstream music in South Africa. But against this backdrop, the new school of South African jazzers have embraced the diversity of musical output, with many making the crossover themselves. Bokani Dyer regularly performs with fellow band member and bassist Shane Cooper, in his electronic music alias Card On Spokes. Furthermore, it could be argued the trajectory of popular music in South Africa over the last twenty years is personified by Thandiswa Mazwai, who rose to prominence through her work with kwaito group Bongo Maffin in the mid-1990s, before going on to encompass gospel and delve into maskanda and electronic music in her solo career.

You only have to look at the success of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, Joy Of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg and the National Youth Jazz Festival to recognise the legacy of the pioneering musicians and the continuation of their collaborative spirit in the wealth of burgeoning jazz talent in South Africa.

Track List
01 African Jazz Pioneers: Yeka Yeka
02 Bokani Dyer: Vuvuzela
03 Allen Kwela: Seven Days Ago
04 Errol Dyers: Dindela
05 The African Echoes: KwaBulawayo
06 Kippie Moeketsi: Clarinet Kwela
07 McCoy Mrubata & Wessel Van Rensburg: Jikela Emaweni
08 Dolly Rathebe: Tlhapi Ke Noga
09 Thandiswa: Ntyilo Ntyilo
10 Zim Ngqawana: Ebhofolo (This Madness)
11 Batsumi: Emampondweni
12 Abdullah Ibrahim: Soweto
13 Brian Thusi: Dembese

World Music Network
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London, SW4 7BX www.worldmusic.net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSqGkVlb9BI

I interviewed pianist Lisa Hilton, who's not on jazz critics' radar at all as far as I can tell, but she makes an album a year with some really impressive sidemen.

Think I've heard of her, maybe she was quoted in a story about somebody else---? Will check her music.
Before I forget, I heard Snarky Puppy on Jazz Night In America, while doing several other things, but they grabbed some of my attention on the fly, with goofy, sometimes dorky exuberance, reminding me of recent discussions on What Are You Listening To In 2016? of Larry Coryell's early excursions---haven't had time yet to revisit, but here's the set, on same page w recent xpost Eric Lewis etc.
http://www.npr.org/series/347174538/jazz-night-radio

Really good article comparing Snarky Puppy to Weather Report, Return to Forever, and the early '70s Maynard Ferguson band (who I've never heard).

those are good comparisons as far as "because we can" as a reason for existence.

(i'm reaaally not a fan, but it's true that high school musicians love them, and i probably would have loved them in high school)

I'm not a fan, either. I found their music pleasant enough while researching an article on them, but immediately deleted it all from my iPod once I turned in the piece. They're like Dream Theater to me: talented as hell, super nice guys, zero interest in ever listening to them.

I have avoided so far because I figured it was something like that.

totally. and i listened to Dream Theater in high school, because i was very concerned about being able to play well (and have been moving farther and farther away from that ever since).

cross-posted this to the rap thread but Corey Fonville is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm38BpDahNs

Got this CTI Records 40th anniversary box set on eBay for $19 and free shipping:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FhtXiVuVL.jpg

Just got the Herbie Mann 2CD Live at the Whisky 1969: The Unreleased Masters in today's mail. Over two hours of brand-new music by the Sonny Sharrock/Roy Ayers/Steve Marcus/Miroslav Vitous/Bruno Carr band, plus Linda Sharrock, and they do versions of "Black Woman" and "Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black." Can't wait to check it out tomorrow.

I set up a conversation between saxophonist Melissa Aldana (whose new album Back Home is really good, and comes out today) and one of her biggest influences, Sonny Rollins. Here's the link.

curious to hear what the 2cd is like, sounds like a great band

That Aldana/Rollins conversation is great!

thought i'd post this one from a now-old Herlin Riley record that i go back to all the time. the thing that Wynton does at 1:34 is so sick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ8WvqIyhlA