Mary Halvorson - Search

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1BSF_WeEcE

^The youtube videos are p/good and saw her when Braxton came round town a few years ago. Any interesting recordings about?

I'd like to learn more as well. There was a really good Halvorson/Joe McPhee live set on WFMU a couple of years ago, that was where I first heard of her. Who is the saxophonist in this clip?

Never mind, it says there on the video, Ingrid Laubrock.

cream of the crop imo: both 13th assembly albums (winsome cubist pop instrumentals w/ extemporisation), pavone/halvorson/hoff/smith "calling all portraits" (fantastic no-wavey scrabbling noisy chamber pop jazz), both People albums "misbegotten man" & "people" (on i+ear records) ( mary sings ! crazy lyrics written by vaudeville maniac drum loki kevin shea - rattlin' avant pop more akin to us maple than braxton )
didn't really dig "saturn sings" much. anything w/ weasel w. is good. "cracklenob" w/nate woolley & reuben radding is splattery clattering fun with seamless segues into swoon. all pavone duets are good but "thin air" had some kinda distortion problem in the recording process. her work w/ braxton is uniformly great, but then i like braxton (i know not all do)

Wow, I'll have to check those out, thanks---was thinking I'd like to hear her in a diff setting; her Newport band can be pretty boring, though mostly on the first two performances (which are very long). But the other three songs work well enough, and it's a free download. Here's her whole NPR stash to date. I gotta delve into it more http://www.npr.org/artists/96514352/mary-halvorson

I generally like her work and find it difficult to enter at the same time. I would never turn down the chance to see her live.

both People albums "misbegotten man" & "people" (on i+ear records) ( mary sings ! crazy lyrics written by vaudeville maniac drum loki kevin shea - rattlin' avant pop more akin to us maple than braxton )

one of my favorite bands of all time!

i like saturn sings best. haven't really cottoned to any of the things she's appeared on since then, though the fault is neither here nor there.

tx for the recommendations.

For those of you who may not be convinced by ´Saturns Sings´ or 'Bending Bridges´, last year´s ´Illusionary Sea´ is very good. And I like her playing on ´Blarvuster' by Matthew Welch on Tzadik.

i love her -- illusionary sea is in frequent rotation here.

new tune! i like it http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/premiere-mary-halvorson-sadness

A new record is coming up in September (a solo record), here´s a review

Here's someone else who likes it

Washington City Paper and Jazz Times magazine contributor M*chael West says---
I've called Mary Halvorson "the greatest guitarist of her generation," or some variation thereon, more than once. Never has that been more apparent than on her newly released solo guitar album, Meltframe, a set that's by turns scalding, plaintive, haunting, and startlingly lyrical. Throughout, she paints with her trademark colors, including glowing resonances and notes that don't merely bend, they take hairpin turns

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2015/09/10/kencen-sk8rjazz-jazz-setlist-sept-10-16/

I interviewed her.

:)

i went to school with her!

my fave halvorson so far is her work in the tom rainey trio on the "pool school" album.
"plymouth" w/joe morris & pals wasn't terribly successful (they were going for "psychedelic", saft leaves no space, maybe they needed to spin a few gravitar discs before pressing "record"). similarly despite all doing individually fantastic work the "thumbscrew" album (fujiwara / formanek/ halvorson) pitter patters around aimlessly (i like aimless pitter pattering, but...).
hoping davis / laubrock /halvorson hit the studio as "death rattle" that cannot fail !

Just got a Tom Rainey Trio disc in yesterday's mail - Rainey on drums, Halvorson on guitar, Ingrid Laubrock on saxophone. Hotel Grief, on Intakt.

i shall belay my excitement until such time as i can get lucky w/ a remainder or ex promo sold on the wrong day on ebay or some such! dang those intakts are pricey

maaaan she's great huh

i like the tom rainey disc a lot but i am kinda a sucker for a half-evocative title, i think her own quartet record 'reverse blue' might be even better

I am suffering from insomnia tonight and Meltframe is making everything feel good.

Her stint with Ribot in Young Philadelphians yielded a recent iTunes release. A quick listen learns they're soul covers with strings.

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/convallaria

The new Thumbscrew (Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson) album is quality!

yeh that first one grew on me after a while. not sure fujiwara was mixed loud enough

surprised i haven't raved endlessly about ingrid laubrock's anti-house on this thread. MH plays - compositions are iIL's. it's the epitome of that supremely herky jerk RIO/Hermeto /Beefheart chamber-skronk. asymmetrical melodies blossoming & dissolving out of hiccuping grooves

heavy GATEWAY vibes on new thumbscrew. splitting the diff zwischen tal farlow & flying luttenbachers always gonna get my vote

Halvorson’s Out Louds (her,fujiwara +goldberg) also have a new album out, not heard it yet.

She has added the brilliant steel pedal guitarist Susan Alcorn (whose Soledad album is a personal fave) to the septet that did Illusionary Sea on her new album Away With You. It sounds quite ace on the first listen.

Ghost Loop is a great record. I love the interplay between her and Ches Smith

The latest Book Of Angels with Halvorson and Miles Okazaki is totally sick!

Saw her playing with Ingrid Laubrock last night - Kris Davis, piano, Tom Rainey, drums - didn't like the stuff they were playing much but she is jaw droppingly good.

She is so good, although I'm not sold on her latest album with vocals on it, despite it getting lots of good reviews - might need another listen. Kris Davis' work with Eric Revis and her Borderlands Trio has been pretty great as well. Could deffo relate to a Laubrock band not being someone's thing tho!

the latest double lp of her Thumbscrew trio is totally badass, and the cd 2 of covers/deconstructions of standards is totally ace as well imo.

She just won a MacArthur Fellowship. I think I'll see if I can borrow twenty bucks.

Oh wow, that's great.

I need to acquaint myself with her post-Saturn Sings catalog. I liked that one but kind of lost touch for a while there.

Code Girl was really good.

Paimon is my fave Halvorson so far.

I liked Code Girl, but I think the septet and octet albums are my favorites.

https://maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/illusionary-sea

https://maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/away-with-you

I fucking love Code Girl, I was very happy to hear about this award

Digging the sound of this octet album.

Man I always enjoy her so much and don't spend enough time listening to her, maybe because it's "challenging" enough that I have to be in the right frame of mind and setting. WKCR played something last night from Ingrid Laubrock's zurich concert which features her, Tom Rainey, Drew Gress and others and I was loving the guitar on it.

Recommended her to a student today when she was interested in doing a project on a woman instrumentalist. She said there were too many men in jazz 💜

the new tomeka reid quartet record she plays on is unreal — really a fantastic record: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/old-new

Co-sign on the new Tomeka Reid album--it's climbing up the rankings in my jazz faves year-end list

Recommended her to a student today when she was interested in doing a project on a woman instrumentalist. She said there were too many men in jazz 💜

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

She is unequivocally correct.

Honestly the three guitarists I'm find most interesting lately are women: Halvorson, Adrianne Lenker, and Vanessa Wheeler who uses the moniker VAVA

new Tomeka Reid Quartet dropped

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/old-new

She's got a duo album with pianist Sylvie Courvoisier coming out the end of this month.

new Tomeka Reid Quartet dropped

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/old-new🕸

lmao i hadn’t seen it before and thought it was new 😳

sorry to raise hopes!

Aw it's so great though. Halvorson's playing is sensational on there.

new sextet album sounding very nice this morning: https://maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudward

this album is exactly what i want to karen to right now. Gorgeous and surprising

its terrific

lol, uh I mean LISTEN to

lol i pictured you objecting to the service you received or frantically calling the police on a harmless stranger while listening to mary halvorson :)

I'm really into this

Can't say I know much of her back catalogue but this one is really striking. I love it!

she's so prolific it would take a bit of exploring. Ones I've loved in recent years are the Paimon album on tzadik, the Thumbscrew band, the Johnny Smith tribute album, Maid With the Flaxen Hair. Not really listened to her latest yet.

New thumbscrew album coming out this fall

Thx for the recommendations calzino. I'm inspired to get into her properly

she's such a great player, there is nobody like her imo

love some of the interplay between her guitar and the cello on the latest Tomeka Reid 3+3 album.

Been really really enjoying Cloudward and Amaryllis lately. That sextet is a vibe

Surprise! New Thumbscrew album coming out tomorrow:

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wingbeats

Yup! They already have a show coming up at the Jazz Gallery to promote it.

Been really really enjoying Cloudward and Amaryllis lately. That sextet is a vibe

Same here actually. (Nothing against Belladonna, I like it, but the two sextet albums are hands down my favorites.)

long may Thumbscrew keep doing their thing, love the new one.