more jazz, less reggae and more adventurous Hollie Cook
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
Also for those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:
ILM's 2017 Rolling Jazz Thread Spotify Playlist
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
ulysses if you don't like it then i'd be shocked
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
it's good!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the playlist, ulysses.
― Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 December 2017 02:46 (six years ago) link
Salute!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 21 December 2017 05:54 (six years ago) link
I like the Zara McFarlane one too, ty
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 December 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
I normally hate jazz vocals, but two vocal records really clicked with me this year - the McFarlane and the new Cecile McLorin Salvant. And Alicia Hall Moran (Jason Moran's wife) just threw an album up on Bandcamp tonight - Harriet Tubman is her backing band on at least 3 tracks. It's $20, like her husband's work, but I think I'm gonna spring for it just so I can write about it in January's Stereogum column.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
Would FP you for disliking Jazz Vocals but I guess you’re not the only one.
― Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 December 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link
Which reminds me, RIP Kevin Mahogany
― Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 December 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
wait, what?
― Beret McKesson (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2017 06:29 (six years ago) link
oh man, i missed that. i really don't know anything about the guy, but i used to listen to a jazz radio station like 20 years ago that played mahogany's "oh! gee!" a lot, and i have a lot of residual fondness for him because of it.
― Beret McKesson (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2017 06:31 (six years ago) link
My podcast interview with Stanley Cowell is live now.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 22 December 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
two vocal records really clicked with me this year
ONE OF US, ONE OF US
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 22 December 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
Hilary Gardner & Ehud Asherie's The Late Set might be a bit too much of a mannered + polite Jazz Vocal album for some folk, but I find it quite elegant and lovely.
― calzino, Friday, 22 December 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
_two vocal records really clicked with me this year_ONE OF US, ONE OF US
― Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 December 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
(whispers into the wind)(I don't like most jazz vocals either...........)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 22 December 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
A friend on FB has just posted "RIP Roswell Rudd" but without a confirming link at the moment.
― WilliamC, Friday, 22 December 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
Aw, fuck, I hope not but I wouldn't be surprised. When I was interviewing him last month it was like a whisper from the grave.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 22 December 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
would like to see that cecile mclorin salvant on more people's best of lists.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 22 December 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
Just heard a track from this on NTS (Beatrice Dillon) and now I need to track it down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharoah_Sanders_Live...
Doesn't look like it's easily available digitally unfortunately.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 22 December 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
Richard Williams @rwilliams19478h8 hours ago
RIP great trombonist Roswell Rudd, 82. Going to remember him by listening to School Days, Four for Trane, New York Art Quartet, New York Eye & Ear Control, Liberation Music Orchestra (“We Shall Overcome”!), JCOA, etc. A vital figure in the ‘60s new jazz. Even if reports of his death are wrong, this seems like a good list for the weekend.
― dow, Saturday, 23 December 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
Oh and just heard this, mostly re RR's 2016 album work:https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/572609610/trombonist-roswell-rudd-packs-a-lot-of-wisdom-into-every-note-of-embrace
― dow, Saturday, 23 December 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
this should be right up any spiritual hat head's alley:https://open.spotify.com/album/7CRS4CTIm4E5uUcwSoQ2pL^^Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam
― niels, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
This could be called chamber jazz, but these excerpts set off little lights in my morning fog, hocketing and all (beats the Radiohead I've heard, anyway): https://www.npr.org/2017/12/28/574044466/marta-s-nchez-creates-a-truly-international-sound-with-danza-imposible
― dow, Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
Definitely; this is what I said about it for Stereogum:
Marta Sanchez, a pianist from Spain who’s lived in New York since 2011, recorded her third album with a great band: saxophonists Roman Filiu and Jerome Sabbagh, bassist Rick Rosato, and drummer Daniel Dor. Despite being written for a traditional jazz quintet, the compositions have a weird energy that reminds me of modern classical and/or abstract electronic music. The title track, “Danza Imposible,” begins with a just slightly off horn figure over a hypnotic piano melody. When the two saxophones begin to go their separate ways, coexisting without exactly harmonizing, Sanchez, Rosato and Dor create a lurching, fractured rhythmic bed for them. Her piano style is extremely delicate, but focused at the same time; she’s got a lot of power that she holds in reserve for just the right moment.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
I see it has already been noted itt that ECM is streaming - it's fantastic!!
first albums I saved were Streams by Jakob Bro (with Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron), Swept Away by Marc Johnson and Eliane Elias (with Joey Baron and Joe Lovano) and One is the Other by Billy Hart Quartet (BH, Ethan Iverson, Ben Street and Mark Turner)
― niels, Saturday, 30 December 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
Crazy story about busted water pipe at Mezzrow.
― Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 December 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link