"If That Arm Heals, It Ought To Be Broken Again" 2008 Jazz D Minor Bags Thread

Also got an Anita O'Day sampler which is pretty good.

OK, now onto The Complete Atomic Basie.

The new Jenny Scheinman instrumental disc Crossing the Field is good, as expected. I'm curious about the vocal disc Jenny Scheinman but haven't heard it yet. The instrumental stuff has a big Americana flavor but in a very eclectic way - "jazz" seems a bit too limited as a description: elements of rock, folk, and classical are almost as prominent. Bill Frisell seems to be a big influence, also Tom Varner's The Window Up Above: American Songs 1770-1998.

atomic basie is so so good.

Got the new Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet disc in the mail today. It's a whole new GQ, with Vijay Iyer and Ronald Shannon Jackson.

I saw Jenny Scheinman recently sit in with Robbie Fulks and Robbie Gjersoe. Robbie F did a funny thing where he sang a song about her in the voice of country singer John Anderson.

atomic basie is so so good.
I'm big fan of Walter Page and Jo Jones, but this New Testament band is pretty good too.

SPeaking of whom, I just watched this thing called Dizzy's Dream Band, which features lots of name players, including a young and skinny Jon Faddis. Very special guest Max Roach takes a hi-hat and does a little tribute to Jo Jones and then Papa Jo himself walks on, waves and walks off. The other very special guest is Gerry Mulligan,who is presented here as a Bird protégé. And I always thought of him as a West Coast lightweight.

you can't fuck with sonny payne!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZMnEsWvktA

btw, roy haynes' group was great the other night, although i had to leave just as they were getting nasty on "windows".

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Yeah, he's breaking it up pretty good right now on "Fantail."

Who else was playing with Roy?

The other very special guest is Gerry Mulligan,who is presented here as a Bird protégé. And I always thought of him as a West Coast lightweight.

seems like Bird liked West Coast lightweights! i think he was always extolling the virtues of mulligan, chet baker, paul desmond -- who isn't west coast, but might be considered lightweight by some jazz d-bags.

jaleel shaw on alto, somebody wong on bass, and i didn't catch the piano player's name (though he was my favorite). he gave the bass player a whole unaccompanied tune to himself (on "darn that dream"), which was cool since the audience was staring at roy the whole time and not his young sidemen, but i could only stay for 45 mins so i was itchin' for roy to throw down before i had to go.

Google cache tells me it was this guy you saw.

I saw Jaleel Shaw last year in a band led by Johnathan Blake.

I wish I could say more about him, but I was paying more attention to the other sax player, Donny McCaslin and the bass player, Hans Glawischnig.

HI

anything here about the new herbie hancock reissue?

Nothing yet.

Hm, looks like our friend Jaleel just won an ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award.

he was great and all but didn't make much of an impression on me. :/

Same by me. But maybe I'll catch him somewhere else and that will be the time.

Brian Blade is in town this weekend. Paquito D'Rivera too. Maybe I'll go see one, maybe the other.

Looks like all the 9 o'clock Brian Blade shows are sold out. Maybe I'll go for broke and go to the 11.

VV?

The other very special guest is Gerry Mulligan,who is presented here as a Bird protégé. And I always thought of him as a West Coast lightweight.

You need to hear this:

http://i30.tinypic.com/112hpit.jpg

not that there's anything wrong with the lighter stuff he did either

Yeah, VV.

Did you not want to push past the Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell fans so did not go to this. Went to the Jazz Standard to see Bill O'Connell's Triple Play featuring Dave Valentin and Richie Flores.

i'm leaving tomorrow to play at a new orleans/trad jazz festival overseas. looking forward to seeing: herlin riley (GOAT), donald harrison, john allred, marcus miller.

Leaving to play some hot brass in an awesome oompah show in Switzerland?

yes but there's nothing oompah about it!

oompah yrself

I thought that was going to be James Chance.

ha

I've got a big (4500 words or so) feature on Bill Dixon in the July 08 issue of The Wire (it's got Mark Stewart on the cover). As an online-only bonus bonanza, you can visit their website to stream MP3s of my entire 75-minute phone interview with Dixon. Each question and its answer is a separate MP3, so you can listen to as much or as little as you like. The link is here.

The Downbeat interview/discussion with Vijay Iyer, Matthew Shipp, and Jason Moran (I think it was the May issue of this year) is worth checking out. (Of those three, I'm mostly interested in Shipp, although I don't know that I've heard much by Jason Moran.)

Moran does some nice work on Jenny Scheinman's new album, Crossing the Field - check out the extended blues-funk vamp "Hard Sole Shoe".

some vinyl i picked up:

George Russell Presents: Jan Garbarek - Esoteric Circle (dude ended up kinda being new agey on ECM in the 70s, but this is from 69 some kinda righteous norweigian fusion/free jazz with a pretty rock influenced guitarist)

George Russell Sextet - 1 lp comp of tracks from his three riverside records from around 61-62....features Don Ellis and Dolphy on most of it...just an AMAZING record, not really "out there" but not really normal either...i guess he invented some Lydian musical theory that had a lot to do w/coltrane and miles going to modal scales...anyway, their are nicely arranged and sort of trad bop but permutated in odd ways, sounds a bit "off" in a great way

Hurting, please to go to free Cindy Blackmon show at Newark Museum tomorrow and free Bobby Sanabria show and master class next week and report back.

I bet the Sanabria thing will be nice. I saw him down here leading a band once (and he also was featured in a videotape lecture thing about clave and stuff in a Smithsonian exhibit on Latin-Jazz). Informative and entertaining without being either simplistic or highbrow.

He almost verges on being a blowhard, but he ends up being a smart, funny guy as well as being a great player and bandleader.

i saw herlin riley about 10x last week. he is the best drummer.

I saw these guys from Bhutan last week for free in a specially built Bhutanese shrine building covered in artwork set up down on the mall grounds between the Capitol and the Washington Monument for the Smithsonian Folklife fest. All sitting cross-legged against one wall with two guys blowing didgerdoo-like long horns, two others on bugle/trumpet hybrid things, another guy on a weird funky little keyboard thing. It had an Asian goes free jazz vibe...

So, my dad is looking for eMusic recommendations based on what he's been listening to lately: "Melvin Gibbs, Harriet Tubman(both Miles-like guitar bass drums); Marc Ribot, Chocolate Genius (not too big on CG, he's a singer songwriter who happens to be black , but that's what I have been listening to) . Roscoe Mitchell. Lester Bowie."

I don't have eMusic, so I don't know what's in their catalog. Anyone wanna take a swing?

I dunno if emusic has Henry Threadgill's Very Very Circus, but it sounds like it's tailor made for your dad's stizzo.

listening to some lafayette gilchrist clips, sounds good. it seems like he does a way better job of mixing a love for rap and hard beats w/acoustic jazz than, say, roy hargrove (too jammy) or christian scott (too smooth). anyone have a favorite record?

Yeah, Matt does.

I read something really cool that Lafayette Gilchrist said about mixing and matching genres, something about how you can't just go and switch hats in your laboratory/studio and say "now I will be funky!" and record your funk track, the process has to be a little more organic. Maybe I'll post a link if I can find it.

Actually, I came to this thread to recommend a really intense album I got from the Dusty Groove bargain section, Richard Davis's Now's The Time. Really intense stuff, very free but without going to the Olatunji Concert Point Of No Return. With the great Hannibal Marvin Peterson on trumpet.

Going back to the eMusic recommendations question, sounds like Dad would like Burnt Sugar a lot.

OK, I couldn't find the exact interview I read before, but I found a couple of other good ones, he's very thoughtful and articulate. This one is especially interesting and relevant.

Ha, I guess the thing I was talking about was the first link in that link, where Lafayette took Strongo's Blindfold Test.

Both of those pieces are nice

agreed, thx