Rolling Jazz Thread 2022

xpost Airto said that he and his friends loved Stan Getz, but considered the bossa nova albums to be "comedy records."

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— Kehinde 🇳🇬 (@kalonge93) April 28, 2022

xpost Airto said that he and his friends loved Stan Getz, but considered the bossa nova albums to be "comedy records."

Wait, Bryan McCann wrote a 33 1/3 about Getz/Gilberto and nobody told me?

That book has a lot of great context on Brazilian cultural history and the birth of bossa nova, and then its popularization in the States. It goes well beyond the circumstances of that particular record.
I'm listening to last year's compilation Directions in Music 1969 to 1973: Miles Davis his musicians and the birth of a new age of jazz. I already knew three of the tracks and I'm sure people on this thread would know more. The path the compilers chose seems to have been to emphasize the multiplicity of, uh, directions that the music took; there's almost nothing that you could imagine on a Miles album. So it's eye-opening but certainly not a smooth, coherent listen.

I can believe it. Some other stuff I’ve read by him is amazing.

His book Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil is incredibly good.

I can't believe I've never heard of this album before now, but I'm listening to "Night Train" saxophonist Jimmy Forrest's All The Gin Is Gone and it's fantastic. Forrest started out as an R&B player before turning to hard bop, and this album features Harold Mabern on piano, Grant Green (making his debut!) on guitar, Gene Ramey on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. It was recorded in 1959, but wasn't released until 1965. It's on Delmark, and is easy to find on all the streaming services.

Damn reminds me I used to see that in the Delmark catalog, but let myself fall of their mailing list----he also did Live At The Barrel with Miles Davis, and it's been around under several titles, vinyl and CD---here's some (with an mp3 link, also a download option right under the vid, like that's an official YouTube feature now, though I
m guessing not--some other tracks from this are also posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElgNAg2OtJ4

I'm curious and want to to know where to look on Larry Goldings' long discography. I'm betting a bunch of those records are worth hearing as I really like Bill Stewarts drumming with John Scofield, his drums really breathe and kinda got his own style. That trio record Golding did with Scofield and DeJohnette is really agressive too.

Goldings has done a bunch of records with Stewart on drums and the guitarist Peter Bernstein. I'm kind of curious to what that band sounds like and considering they got like 10+ records together or with some others, how it has changed over that long a period of time. Any takers?

Haven’t listened to all those records but did see that trio live and they were pretty damn good.

Brave New World Trio featuring David Murray (ts), Brad Jones (b) and Hamid Drake (d) will release their first album Seriana Promethea on May 20.

Album coming from virtuoso youtube sensations DOMi & J.D. Beck (sounds like Thundercat on there too), on Anderson Paak's label:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmRppchB8vs

Much respect to @thomaspinnock for this superb cover story on the electric period!

The roll call of former band members he interviewed for this piece is amazing but to be quoted among them is truly surreal. pic.twitter.com/lAuz3AxRH9

— the Heat Warps (@theheatwarps) May 7, 2022

I was reading a review of the Where Is Brooklyn re-issue and thought I'd give it a listen cos I'm only vaguely familiar with it and remembered that I love just about anything with a Grimes/Blackwell rhythm section

otm.

Did not know about this collab

https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/409/418466446409/418466446409:1000.jpg

Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk [Deluxe Edition] Available in CD and LP Rel. Date: 05/20/2022

DISC: 1

1. Evidence (with Thelonious Monk) [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
2. In Walked Bud (with Thelonious Monk) [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
3. Blue Monk (with Thelonious Monk) [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
4. I Mean You (with Thelonious Monk) [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
5. Rhythm-A-Ning (with Thelonious Monk) [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
6. Purple Shades (with Thelonious Monk) [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers

DISC: 2

1. Evidence (Take 2) [with Thelonious Monk] [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
2. In Walked Bud (Take 2) [with Thelonious Monk] [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
3. Blue Monk (Take 9) [with Thelonious Monk] [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
4. I Mean You (Take 3) [with Thelonious Monk] [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
5. Rhythm-A-Ning (Take 2) [with Thelonious Monk] [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
6. Purple Shades (Take 4) [with Thelonious Monk] [2022 Remaster] - By Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers

In May of 1957, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers went into the studio with Thelonious Monk to record a one-off album for Atlantic. The Jazz Messengers were a loose collective of young Jazz musicians, with a constantly rotating lineup to keep the music fresh and help launch new careers. In this iteration we find Art Blakey on drums, Thelonious Monk on piano, Johnny Griffin on tenor saxophone, Bill Hardman on trumpet and Spanky DeBrest on bass. Blakey had recorded with Monk on various occasions, but this was the first time Monk sat in with the Jazz Messengers. This also marks Thelonious Monk’s only appearance on Atlantic Records. The result is a true meeting of the minds, a beautiful union of Monk’s melodies with Blakey’s unshakable sense of swing. This 65th Anniversary deluxe edition includes an extra disc ofunreleased outtakes, celebrating the most sensational jazz collaboration of the 1950s.

Not sure if this belongs here or in the ambient thread but it's wonderful, therapeutic ambient jazz. Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZr8T86ujM8

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lynn-avery-cole-pulice-to-live-and-die-in-space-and-time/

Like almost everything they have done together, To Live & Die in Space & Time is as gentle as cherry blossoms on a spring breeze. Pulice plays saxophone and wind synthesizer, Avery plays piano and synthesizer, and both are credited with additional electronics, which they tend to daub on in translucent background layers. The music is too lush to be called minimal, at least by the term’s more austerely digital connotations, but they keep their tools simple, their tempos slow, and their playing unfussy. Channeling a mix of whimsy and wide-eyed wonder, they come off a little bit like contemporary heirs of Penguin Cafe Orchestra, a Brian Eno-produced group that spun bits of folk, jazz, and classical into a loose ambient weave; another reference point might be the new-age jazz of the British group Dif Juz’s 1985 album Extractions and their Elizabeth Fraser collaboration “Love Insane.”

Spanky DeBrest

not one, but TWO Mary Halvorson albums out today.

Both are tremendous! Exceeding my already-high expectations.

Guardian jazz album of the month: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/13/mary-halvorson-amaryllisbelladonna-review-new-landmarks-in-an-inimitable-jazz-discography

Amaryllis is extremely fucking tremendous indeed! I haven't even got to t'other one yet.

not really got anything incisive to say other than I think she's a singularly great artiste ploughing her own distinctive path and bits of it made me think of Carla Bley and George Lewis.

Both are glorious, Amaryllis esp! It does feel like she's having a bit of a moment currently.

It does feel like she's having a bit of a moment currently.

The music's great (I prefer the out-jazz one to the strings one, so far), but moving from Firehouse 12 to Nonesuch will do this for a person.

Seeing Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola tomorrow, should be pretty fun live

Indexed, I've been bumping that Lynn Avery/Cole Pulice record since it came out a few months ago— really great stuff.

Yeah that one is really nice. I quite liked the label sampler Moon Glyph put out last year, though I've been slow to actually dig into the catalog: https://moonglyph.bandcamp.com/album/amethyst-new-sounds-from-moon-glyph-records

Not much of it is "jazz" I should mention

New Bad Plus album with the pianoless quartet lineup coming in September. Here's the first song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Grt0-y4bM

It's good, but I don't see what makes this the Bad Plus rather than just the Chris Speed/Ben Monder/Reid Anderson/Dave King Quartet.

Sounds great (nice to hear some serious compression on the drums again, rather than the very unadorned jazz sound they've had on their last few recordings).

It's hard to articulate, but when I saw this lineup live it felt very "Bad Plus-y" throughout the whole night, although in a different way than with the trio. An intense focus on mood and melody rather than on soloing, in a way that's distinct from when I've seen the members in different groups, for one? And 100% of the tunes were originals by Reid or Dave.

It might make sense to think of this as a new band rather than "the Bad Plus", but it's very much a band and has a lot in common with the goals & aesthetic of the Bad Plus, in my mind.

And 100% of the tunes were originals by Reid or Dave.

Tbf this is actually not what the Bad Plus was mainly known for! This also sounds more focused on mood and melody than the Iverson-era group to me. It's nice, though!

That's true, to most people they're "that band that does jazz versions of Nirvana and Aphex Twin", even though they've probably always done at least as many originals as covers. And this band dispenses with the more "humorous" side of things, it's all pretty serious and emotional.

Monder is almost playing like he could be in an atmospheric postpunk group or on an ambient record.

Totally, his stuff was reaaally textural and in the background live, and even his solos were more like rock shredding, but kind of quiet and acting like white noise. Like no treble or transients at all. I'm pretty curious to hear how that sounds on the rest of the record.

RIP 55 Bar.

I didn't go there myself too often but still.

My latest Stereogum column is up. I interviewed South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini, who told me he's been listening to Matthew Shipp and Andrew Hill and explained the spiritual concept of Ntu to me.

Oh yeah, RIP 55 Bar, RIP fusion. Glad I got to go there that one time and see Ari Hoenig.

(not that Ari Hoenig is fusion, but I guess I associate the 55 Bar more with that Wayne Krantz type thing)

one from thee aromatic tyme capsule, my friends: Richard C. Walls considers a Shepp platter I'd never heard of, for the earliest issue of Creem in for-now free archive (you may or may not have to create an account, as I already had before searching, but simple enough):https://archive.creem.com/article/1969/03/01/archie-shepp

I should really go see Makaya tonight, but could use a night in. I should really go though.

Thumbscrew tonight at Blues Alley

Latest episode of Jazz Police https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/jazz-police-live-with-stewart-smith-4/?fbclid=IwAR2EeplxrakwFZKIGwWcUQJz58GGGioyuvHfEKvA09hfOPYyu-Pg0_qDDyQ

Music from Brandon Seabrook, Cooper Moore, Gerald Cleaver, Kaja Draksler, Zoh Amba, Devin Brahja Waldman & Hamid Drake and much more!

New Cecil Taylor album out today — Respiration, a solo performance recorded by Polish radio in October 1968. One of the earliest known solo Cecil recordings — only Praxis, from April 1968, is earlier, and that's been out of print for decades.

great mix Stew, thanks for posting! the peachfuzz is a particularly nice find:

https://silentwater.bandcamp.com/album/peachinguinha

unperson, i really enjoyed the makhathini interview, will be ordering the record.

for my part i was excited to hear there was a new szun waves record on the way, but i was pretty underwhelmed by the sample track:

https://szunwaves.bandcamp.com/album/earth-patterns

Thanks Budo Jeru - I've reviewed the Peachfuzz album for the forthcoming Wire. Joao Almeida is doing loads of great stuff - definitely one to watch.

Don't think there's been much chat about Zoh Amba on here - really impressive young talent. Both her Tzadik and 577 albums are excellent and there's another on the way!

Re: Zoh Amba. Ok I’m inherently suspicious of overnight success—how does some one so young arrive in New York last autumn and then they’re playing with the cream of the NYC jazz crop? But I should shut up and listen first without prejudice.

I've listened to her two albums and so far I'm not amazed. Reminds me of when Assif Tsahar popped up 20 years ago or so and all I could hear when I listened to his music was his record collection — it was all imitation Ayler, imitation Coltrane, imitation Pharoah. In her case I hear a lot of Ayler and a little Charles Gayle, but there's not much there yet beyond waves of youthful energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rFCqxsdLaQ