Rolling Jazz Thread 2020

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

I went to see Pharoah Sanders at Iridium this past weekend, with Benito Gonzalez on piano, Nat Reeves on bass, and Johnathan Blake on drums. They played three pieces, each one 15-20 minutes long, and honestly, for a lot of it it was the Benito Gonzalez Trio featuring special guest Pharoah Sanders. But when Pharoah was actually playing, he was on. Not doing the whole T. Rex-roaring thing but digging deep into hard bop language, like Coltrane in 1958. On the last number, his son Tomoki came out, also playing tenor, and took a decent solo that was more in a '60s Fire Music vein. I hadn't seen Sanders live in about 25 years, and/but I'm glad I went.

It's inevitable that this would be the case. Still, I missed him when he was in the bay area and regret it.

thanks for sharing, phil. really hoping i can catch him in the very near future

also, bringing this over from last year's thread:

haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so posting here as it may be of interest: earlier this year austrian label black-monk reissued franz koglmann's "flaps" and "opium for franz" on both vinyl and CD.

i've found it incredibly difficult to track down even an mp3 rip of "opium for franz" (to say nothing to say of an original LP), so this is most welcome !

looks like some of the european distributors still have copies, but americans might have better luck sending an email directly to the label.

http://www.blackmonk.at/blog

― budo jeru, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 3:23 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Opium/For Franz was reissued on CD in ‘99 or 2000, but it was a needledrop. Curious if this new reissue (the vinyl, particularly) is mastered from a different source.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, December 31, 2019 4:10 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

looked into this, i think what happened is the so-called "opium" CD (from 2001 it turns out) was composed of bits from both "flaps" and "opium" tho neither record was reissued in its entirety. so here is a chance to have both. as for the sound quality, i can report back when i receive the "opium" LP

Ah, interesting. I mainly purchased the '01 CD for the Bill Dixon collaboration; the Lacy stuff was a nice bonus.

Just finished listening to all of Ben Monder's Day After Day from last year. Was pretty surprised to hear a disc of easygoing tuneful interpretations of 70s pop tunes after a disc of knotty solo jams. Very nice, as usual.

I've decided to dig into Johnny Hodges' albums with organist Wild Bill Davis from the mid '60s. They've just been given the cheapo Euro reissue treatment, so I bought four CDs (one of them is a 2CD set) that include between them the albums Blue Hodge, Sandy's Gone, Mess of Blues, Blue Rabbit, Con-Soul & Sax, Wings & Things, Blue Pyramid, In Atlantic City, Blue Notes and Stride Right, all for about $30 including shipping from Spain (I think).

I love Johnny Hodges- for me the smaller the group, the better

Tortoise’s Jeff Parker and his ensemble the New Breed have announced a new record. Suite for Max Brown features a version of John Coltrane’s “After the Rain” and an interpretation of Joe Henderson’s “Black Narcissus.” The album comes out on January 24 via International Anthem/Nonesuch. Check out Jeff Parker & The New Breed’s new track “Go Away,” along with the Suite for Max Brown artwork and their European tour dates, below.

https://pitchfork.com/news/tortoises-jeff-parker-announces-new-album-suite-for-max-brown/

Excited for this. Was a big fan of 'The New Breed' album.

Same, very excited

It's pretty good. A lot of it is more D'Angelo-esque bedroom-R&B (as in "music made by a dude in his bedroom" not "soundtrack to bedroom activities") than jazz, but definitely worth hearing.

Looking forward to Winter Jazzfest this weekend. Here's a list of what I recommend, if you're gonna be there:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10
6:00 – Nasheet Waits by Sea @ Zinc Bar
7:00 – Run into Webster Hall, throw a water balloon full of piss at Joey
Alexander, run away
7:15 – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ SOBs
8:15 – Ambrose Akinmusire @ Webster Hall
8:30 – Kokoroko @ SOBs
9:30 – Makaya McCraven @ Webster Hall
10:00 – Ted Poor/Cuong Vu/Kris Davis @ Zürcher Gallery
10:45 – Igmar Thomas’ Revive Big Band @ Webster Hall
12:15 – Jaimie Branch @ The Dance
1:30 – Simona Premazzi @ Zinc Bar

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11
6:30 – Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn @ Zinc Bar
7:00 – Brandee Younger @ Webster Hall
7:30 – Tia Fuller @ SOBs OR The Cookers @ Subculture
8:30 – Nduduzo Makhathini @ Zürcher Gallery
9:15 – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ Mercury Lounge
9:45 – Susan Alcorn Quintet @ The Dance
10:30 – Kassa Overall @ Mercury Lounge
11:45 – Theo Croker @ Mercury Lounge
12:15 – Anna Webber @ The Dance
12:30 - Gregg August @ Subculture
1:00 – Heroes Are Gang Leaders @ Mercury Lounge

Love the two advance tracks.

Thank god for Bandcamp credits, that's Makaya on drums on 'Go Away'

The 20 best jazz albums of the 2010s, according to Stereogum/me.

20 Nicole Mitchell – Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE, 2017)
19 Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Real Enemies (New Amsterdam, 2016)
18 Branford Marsalis Quartet – Four MFs Playin’ Tunes (Marsalis Music, 2012)
17 Orrin Evans – Flip The Script (Posi-Tone, 2012)
16 Cécile McLorin Salvant – Dreams And Daggers (Mack Avenue, 2017)
15 Donny McCaslin – Beyond Now (Motéma, 2016)
14 Linda May Han Oh – Aventurine (Biophilia, 2019)
13 Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society (Heads Up, 2012)
12 Ambrose Akinmusire – The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint (Blue Note, 2014)
11 William Parker – Wood Flute Songs (AUM Fidelity, 2013)
10 Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation, 2013)
9 Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse!, 2018)
8 Irreversible Entanglements – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem, 2017)
7 Tyshawn Sorey – The Inner Spectrum Of Variables (Pi, 2016)
6 Nduduzo Makhathini – Ikhambi (Universal Music, 2017)
5 Kamasi Washington – The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015)
4 Mary Halvorson Octet – Away With You (Firehouse 12, 2016)
3 Henry Threadgill 14 Or 15 Kestra: Agg – Dirt… And More Dirt (Pi, 2018)
2 Jaimie Branch – Fly Or Die (International Anthem, 2017)
1 Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope, 2017)

There's probably little reason to dedicate a thread to International Anthem that isn't covered by this one, but good lord have they put out an amazing pile of records--I haven't even gotten to the first Fly Or Die or the Irreversible Entanglements albums yet (nor the Jeff Parker or Angel Bat Dawid ones).

V cool list. 2, 3, 5, and 10 are albums I own and have listened to a lot. 9 and 20 I listened to a decent amount but never bought. Halvorson, Spalding, Parker, and Argue have other albums I've liked or loved but I somehow didn't get around to these ones. The Makaya McCraven from 2018 didn't make it?

I thought a lot about McCraven. I think this is my favorite of his albums:

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-come-from-chicagoxlondon-mixtape

Everything he does has some brilliant stuff and some filler, but that one's the most front-to-back satisfying for me as a listener.

I've just picked an album off that list that I've never heard of to listen to on Spotify, moreorless at random, bcs the name sounded interesting: William Parker – Wood Flute Songs (AUM Fidelity, 2013). It's got 44 tracks and is 9 and a quarter hours long. This is why I'll only ever be a jazz dilettante.

https://whitdickey.bandcamp.com/album/peace-planet-box-of-light

Parker plays on half of Walt Dickey's very good Tao Quartets - Peace Planet Box Of Light album from this year. A much more bite sized project - only 2 hours long!

Yeah, Wood Flute Songs is a box set of live recordings. If you just want to get an idea of what that band sounds like, try their regular albums: O'Neal's Porch or Sound Unity or Petit Oiseau.

Parker also plays in the Sonoluminescence Trio, who are v good imo. Pretty free/out.

Anybody else at Winter Jazzfest? I’m about to see Hypnotic Brass Ensemble at SOBs.

always have a conversation about this with various friends but I am afraid my metabolism and schedule don’t really allow for it

Saw Hypnotic, who were preceded - and briefly joined - by a Chicago footwork troupe. Now I’m at Webster Hall for Ambrose Akinmusire and then Makaya McCraven. I was gonna have to run out and come back, but Kokoroko didn’t get visas, so this is where my night ends.

Too bad Kokoroko didn't get visas. Alas, that's happening more and more under current administration.

Are there any 20-something Latin Jazz musicians? Any Latin jazz musicians who listen to reggaeton or Latin pop as well as old stuff and jazz?

Was looking at some guy's list of his top 2019 Latin Jazz albums and those questions came to mind (in addition to why doesn't he like Eddie Palmieri)--

1-Carlos Henriquez- Dizzy Con Clave

2-Siguarajazz- De Pelicula

3-John Rodriguez- Brutal

4-Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet- The Rhythm Of Invention

5-Oscar Hernandez & Alma Libre- Love The Moment

6-Poncho Sanchez- Trane’s Delight

7-Chucho Valdes- Bata Jazz 2

8-Bill O’Connell and The Afro Caribbean Ensemble- Wind Off The Hudson

9-Steve Khan- Patchwork

10-Gunter Brock- Entre Amigos

11-Machito Jr. & Cubology- For My Grandsons

12-GC and The Cuban Cowboys

13-Michel Camilo- Essence

14-Joe Gonzalez- 62nd & 10th

15-Carlos Sarduy- Luz

16-El Comite- So What?

17-Andy Williams & Alabama All Stars- De La Habana A Alabama

18-Patricio Bonilla- Volando Bajito

19-Classico Latino- Havana Classico

20-Samuel Torres- Alegria

21-Humberto Ramirez- 8 Doors

22-Trombeatz- A Caribbean Thing

23-Ryan Timoffe Timba Jazz- Cuban Safari

24-Cuban Jazz Report

25-Juan Alamo & Marijazz-

26-Enrique Lazaga

27-Chemi Nakai- Ascendent

28-The Cuban Latin Jazz- Juntos Por Siempre

29-Owen Watt & Bobby Carcasses- Carlito’s Tune

30-Sr. Ortegon- The Latin Experience

https://latinosunidosonline.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/el-condado-de-la-salsa-y-jazz-latino-the-best-latin-jazz-cds-of-2019-by-nelson-rodriguez/

lol, unperson: you and i had much the same itinerary! I did Theo Bleckmann/Hypnotic/Ambrose/Gretchen Parlato/Todd Sickafoose. I wish i had the gumption for Jaimie Branch but I have tickets to see her in March and I'm doing this again tomorrow and then globalfest on Sunday.... like 18 hours of festival in three days!

also pissed i missed McCraven AGAIN but i'm definitely seeing his Gil Scott Heron show tomorrow come hell or high water

this probably doesn't answer your questions in the right direction but do you know this album curmudgeon?

https://www.thenation.com/article/ile-almadura-album-review/

Driving home the back roads from Louisville, caught this show on the radio tonight.

https://www.bealestreetcaravan.com/weekly-show/bsc2414/

The stuff about the Stax school is really cool but I really liked Paul McKinney's music too.

Got curious to look Paul McKinney online and his profile is so small, considering how talented he is as a musician and educator. He has shockingly little at all out there. One might think there would be at least phone videos or something, but I could not find much at all. Which considering how much odd and terrible music out there is kinda wild, considering this guys obvious high level of skills.

I bugged out early so missed McCraven last night, but apparently it was an incredible band: Marquis Hill on trumpet, Greg Ward on alto sax, I'm not sure who on tenor sax, Brandee Younger on harp, Joel Ross on vibes, Junius Paul on bass...

I'm trying for Steve Lehman + Craig Taborn, Brandee Younger, the Cookers, and Nduduzo Makhathini tonight.

X-post to J, I do know iLe, from Calle 13, and her musical interests seem broad.

I did find a Miguel Zenon Instagram post from Christmas morning where he posted a photo of albums - Bad Bunny x100pre and Fran Sinatra- Only the Lonely and said eclectic Christmas list this year and then described them as #1 albums 61 years apart both killers

Unperson: waiting out front at Brandee now!

Couldn’t get into Webster Hall because of something I forgot I had in my bag, so I’m at Subculture for The Cookers and so I don’t miss Nduduzo Makhathini down the block in an hour.

Ndusuzo is dope

Yeah, his set was fantastic. The Cookers were really good too - they had Ralph Peterson on drums instead of Billy Hart, and he was hitting hard.

Saw Uri Caine and a vocal choir do this at Zurcher; it was shockingly good... learned a lot too!
http://downbeat.com/news/detail/uri-caine-pays-tribute-to-octavius-catto

Caught Kat Edmonson doing her thing, which included a lovely, lilting samba-d out cover of 'just like heaven'

Theo Croker's set was very enjoyable but I think i like his band better when he's not playing!

The late Jimmy Heath featured on WKCR-FM all day today.

Okay, not quite. Only during the jazz shows

http://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/19/

NPR Jazz Critics poll by voter

Jimmy Heath, age 21

Paris Jazz Festival, May 1948 pic.twitter.com/IvCnVhvKUY

— Sonny Rollins Bridge (@RollinsBridge) January 19, 2020

he looks so young and suave in this pic from '48. RIP

Webber/Morris Big Band album is really good (I know Webber has some big fans on this board)
like a distilled, crystalline mingus

Oh hey there was a Comet Is Coming Tiny Desk --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfpYTmohAk

Nice!

Vijay Iyer's going to be at the Jazz Standard next week, with Linda Oh on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums, and on Saturday 2/1, Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet. The trio has an album coming out later this year and will be premiering the new music.

This is a really good piece.

Wow

Think about that kind of thing all the time.

i really hated it but i'll only say that i really didn't appreciate the snide dismissals of george shearing and buddy rich

Yeah that wasn't good imo. Sounds like his main beef is with hacky writers of tv & movies. He should try watching some movies about painters and see if the level of understanding gets any better or less cliched.

i'm down with anything brandee does, period.

one album I liked at the time but somehow foolishly forgot about for ages was Quin Kirchner's The Shadows and The Light. It's one of the best.

Advance track from xpost Shepp-Moran. If link doesn't work, look for their "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJuO7v20dWQ
Let My People Go Tracklist:
01.Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
02. Isfahan
03. He Cares
04. Go Down Moses
05. Wise One
06. Lush Life
07. Round Midnight

Of course he really means the best on bandcamp, leaving out quite a few that I would have picked, although does inc. Irreversible Entanglement's Who Sent You?, which is exemplary Moor Mother and International Anthem just for a start, and Mary Halvorsen's Code Girl's Artlessly Falling, which is also very satisfying, though he says it's "a Robert Wyatt homage of sorts," which had not occurred to me even with Wyatt himself appearing (to good, lingering effect) on several tracks, and p. sure I wouldn't think of him if he hadn't. Need to check most of these for the first time:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2020/the-best-jazz-albums-of-2020

Holy shit, this Angel Bat Dawid live album is incredibly powerful.

Got Got $2.5 million lying around? You could live in Cecil Taylor's old house....5 million lying around? You could live in Cecil Taylor's old house...

Some really nice Rhodes & drums duets:
https://deedsone.bandcamp.com/album/bookends

Matt Shipp has written a very interesting piece on what he calls the Black Mystery School of pianists. The school consists of Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, Mal Waldron, Randy Weston, Cecil Taylor, Andrew Hill, Hasaan Ibn Ali, Sun Ra, and Horace Tapscott, with partial credit given to Dave Burrell, Geri Allen, Rodney Kendrick, and Ran Blake (who is white). What's just as interesting as who's in is who isn't — Ellington, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Mary Lou Williams, McCoy Tyner...read the whole thing. It's a fascinating window into how Shipp thinks about the piano.

Wow, very interesting, thanks.

Hasaan Ibn Ali - here's someone you don't see getting mentioned very often, he was a big influence on Monk and was clearly brilliant on the evidence of his one album with Max Roach. But he faded into obscurity and iirc he was homeless when he died.

aka The Legendary Hassan

BTW, RIP Stanley Cowell, apparently - another pianist you don't see mentioned often but who did a lot of interesting work as an improviser and composer

RIP Jeff Clayton, too.

xp okay Shipp is including Those who cultivate a certain mysterioso air and vibe to go with a high level of (sufficiently, for him) autodidactic idiosyncracy and proficiency and stylistic distinctiveness and apparently dramatic flair, innkeepers of thee flame, proprieters and high priests of the mystery religions of the Ancient World as Now(also "fock the world")--but, although he keeps referring to Waldron, doesn't say what brings him into this circle, or Randy Moses, compared to some who are excluded. Maybe he'll write some more about it, or could be drawn out by an interviewer (unperson?)
Don't (yet) know that this is a very useful way to think about these artists, or ones excluded, beyond obvious connotations. Obviously some kinds of playing are more likely to be successfully taught.

"fuck" the world, that is.

RIP Diane Moser too. Probably not known to most of you. I used to go see her big band sometimes on Tuesdays at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium. https://www.njarts.net/jazz/diane-moser-jazz-pianist-composer-bandleader-and-educator-has-died/

new Cortex album is excellent.

― calzino, Thursday, December 10, 2020 10:21 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Are you referring to the 70s jazz-funk band with the album Troupeau Bleu? Regardless, thanks, calz: because of your post, I discovered Troupeau Bleu and am loving it.

Love the Shipp essay, and I wouldn't be inclined to argue as if he's setting up some sort of objective criteria. It's clearly his personal canon and a really interesting read. Also intuitively makes sense, there are artists in every genre who set up their own world with its own rules, and their influence tends to be more spiritual since trying to use their language directly is an obvious copy (maybe this is true about, say, Prince?).

Jordan otm.

More interesting to me than 'Sincerity' in Music

Seems like he has used that term before he wrote that essay.

RIP Jeff Clayton, too.

Now Kurt’s friend Patti Austin

xps

lol no PBKR. I meant the Scando acoustic-skronk meisters with Gard Nilssen on the sticks latest album called Legal Tender! But I wouldn't be surprised if there is some vague connection or influence there!

I was wondering as it seemed heavier on the funk than the jazz. It's a great album!

I will check out the newer Cortex, thanks.

So this is very, um, cellular, but micros v. gradually reveal a vein of continuity, as B's bass instruments become seamless shades of his other reeds' full tones, no squeals---I snoozed out briefly, but woke up & got more and more tuned in past the 20-minute mark of first track (had been tuned into some segments before)---now about 3/4 way through second track, which flows from first:
released June 4, 2020

Anthony Braxton: sopranino, soprano, alto, baritone, bass, and contrabass saxophones, contrabass clarinet

Eugene Chadbourne: Gibson Marauder electric, Gibson acoustic, bajo sexto, Deering 5-string banjo, Deering fretless 5-string banjo, Regal 5-string banjo, prepared guitar

1.
Improv One 57:38
2.
Improv Two 54:13

3.
Improv Three 56:14
4.
Improv Four 57:07
5.
Improv Five 57:42
6.
Improv Six 59:48
7.
Improv Seven 54:05
8.
Improv Eight 59:26

https://newbraxtonhouse.bandcamp.com/album/duo-improv-2017

Chadbourne's good too, esp, high picks and pecks x bass instruments (fave is that "tuba" sound, now to sopranino, banjo not that far from "You Really Got Me" riff before arpeggio)

One for the true headz, but/and if you think you might like it, you probably will, at least some of the time.

(Later today I'm gonna check xpost Thumbscrew's The Anthony Braxton Project, also on bandcamp.)

Basser still!

and now, along w hungry bass beasts, prepared guitar, I take it, is what's going from "snaredrum" figures to strumming, picking...

bass gettin' lonely, some subterranean blues suggested, crisp kinda-Spanish strings say, "That's the breaks, bass." I'll shut up now.

lol no PBKR. I meant the Scando acoustic-skronk meisters with Gard Nilssen on the sticks latest album called Legal Tender! But I wouldn't be surprised if there is some vague connection or influence there!

― calzino, Saturday, December 19, 2020 5:59 AM (sixteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks, this Cortex is great as well.

Great band at Smalls right now.

Will prob just take their word for the Metheny, but the rest of this looks pretty appealing: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/21/the-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2020. Some Brits I hadn't heard of, though did already know several now on Blue Note Re:Imagined, and glad to see it here---not as far-ranging as Soul Jazz Records comp Kaleidoscope, but v. fortifying.

Was it here that someone rec'd the Shiroishi 'Descension' record? It's making my afternoon, such deeply felt playing and processing.

hell yeah @ braxton / chadbourne

Dave Kikowski playing Xmas tunes at Smalls right now in a duet with Matt Clohesy.

Was it here that someone rec'd the Shiroishi 'Descension' record? It's making my afternoon, such deeply felt playing and processing.

I'm not super familiar with Shiroishi, but I reviewed a duo album he did with drummer Dylan Fujioka, Neba Neba, for The Wire this summer. Pretty good stuff.

Really appreciate this thread guys

cool! well, this is the first track of the Shiroishi I was talking about— the feedback mostly cuts out after the first minute, and it becomes just absolutely rending stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uow-5jtdVdE

Nice dreamier/ECM-ier approach on this Fuubutsushi (風物詩) collab btw Shiroishi/Jusell/Prymek/Sage on Cached Media (all tracked separately in self-iso this summer and released in September):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWzDuxyISy4

Trumpet player encounters all that shit jazz:

I am furious!!! We see this crap happening all the time, but it hits different when it hits home!!! I typically try to keep things positive, but nothing about this video is positive.
The lady in this video assaulted my 14-year-old son and me as we came down from our room in the @arlohotels Arlo Soho to get breakfast. This person quote on quote “lost” her iPhone, and apparently, my son magically acquired it, which merely ridiculous. This incident went on for five more minutes, me protecting my son from this lunatic. She scratched me; she Tackled and grabbed him. He is a child!!! Now watch it again. This lady is not even a guest at the hotel. She checked out of the hotel on the 23rd of December; today is the 26th. Now watch as the manager advocates for the lady who is not even a hotel guest, insisting and attempting to use his managerial authority to force my son to show his phone to this random lady. He actually empowered her!!! He didn't even consider the fact we were actually the guests! Now think about the trauma that my son now has to carry, only coming downstairs to have box day brunch with his dad. Then... her phone was magically returned by an Uber driver a few minutes after this incident. No apology from her after this traumatic situation to my son, not me. No apologies from the establishment. This shit happens so often. It needs to stop!!! If anyone recognizes this person, please tag or DM. (NYPD:charges have since been upgraded, search is on for this apparent tourist.) video on https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJR6LviHFkd/?utm_source=ig_embed

jeeeeeeeeezus, how ugly.

Pertinent recent New York Mag piece along the same lines:
https://www.thecut.com/article/montclair-new-jersey-permit-karen.html

That Keyon Harrold story made the news. It's getting around.

Countering that news, a little bit, this is coming up:
In 1977, the first Jazz Alive New Year's Eve special was broadcast live from The Cookery and The Village Gate. The tradition continues with Toast of the Nation, NPR's annual holiday special that rings in the New Year with jazz.

This year features some of the best jazz collectives performing today. Hear four solid hours of festive music from the Catherine Russell Trio (recorded live at Dizzy's Club at Jazz At Lincoln Center), The Jazz Gallery All-Stars (recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), KOKOROKO (recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London) and Pink Martini (recorded live from bandleader Thomas Lauderdale's home).
News followed by links to prev. live sets from all participants:
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/948032453/toast-of-the-nation-202
Will listen for the sake of KOKOROKO and Jazz Gallery All-Stars, whom I didn't know about, but incl. Miguel Zenón, alto; Melissa Aldana, tenor; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Charles Altura, guitar; Aaron Parks, piano; Ben Williams, bass; Kendrick Scott, drums; Jessica Boykin-Settles, vocals.) Will give the other bands a shot also.

Couldn't find a good thread to bump for this, but there's a new Maceo Parker album in 2020 and it's a great example of the form (the form being Maceo Parker albums). It's also one of his New Orleans-y albums, in terms of the players and the tune selection.

new thread?

Rolling Jazz Thread 2021