almost Cecil Taylor wonderful in parts!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
I've been digging the by-way-of-Sweden African jazz of Bengt Berger & Don Cherry's Bitter Funeral Beer Band. The 80s fashion disasters can dissuade, but the music is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4hKAS_tQ9w&index=5&list=PL9E8643186918FD23
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
Also, Soviet-era Vagif Mustafazade explorations connecting jazz to Azerbaijan's folk and classical traditions. His straight up 1970s jazz is great, but stuff like this is particularly intriguing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BId54VzErTU&index=23&list=PLB290E8FF6C96C1D6
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
ok this is going to get messy and isn't necessarily going to be straight jazz
eastern bloc jazz - lost of it. really great polish jazz, of course, well-known enough that i figure you won't need me to recommend you for instance zbigniew seifert or tomasz stanko. but also the soviet union itself had some sweet jazz musos, i'm gonna break these links so they don't clog up the thread
melodiya ensemble's labyrinth: fgwNtnGYBAgyuri morozov from "jazz night": 4a_PbwuuO_Emarimba plus: sE-Ya6rL66c
japanese jazz - a couple of great comps out this year, "j-jazz" it gets called. here's a random comp off the youtube: kNRIFhkYONc - for more modern stuff i really like "soil & 'pimp' sessions", here's a video of them AQMgXPFzdg8 - oh and of course i LOVE LOVE LOVE shibusashirazu orchestra, goddamn you cannot go wrong with these people UfW2j5tFVGI
african jazz - aside from ethio-jazz the biggest jazz scene i know is the south african jazz scene, a lot of these folks came to england and are well-known, chris mcgregor etc, also abdullah ibrahim (FXfWLrLwW_4). the guy known as the south african charlie parker was kippie moeketsi, he didn't record much but here's one of his songs: (k3mMEr5UnRI). like a lot of jazz music jazz in africa mutated into forms we might not necessarily recognize as "jazz" - kwela and suchlike, and of course there's stuff like the famous "skokiaan" by the cold storage band from zimbabwe in the "tsaba-tsaba" style (and the b-side of which is a charming take on "in the mood" with vocals, see: https://soulsafari.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/african-dance-band-of-the-cold-storage-commission-of-s-rhodesia-in-the-mood.mp3) which i'm not going to cover here but much of which is damn good. for more modern south african stuff you want to hear Nduduzo Makhathini: sTr5a93n4fw
cuban jazz - you're talking after the "afro-cuban" heyday, i'm assuming, you don't need to know about machito. jazz in cuba post this of course developed into the well-known "boogaloo" style but also into something called "descargas", one of the best albums in this genre is cachao y su ritmo caliente - "cuban jam sessions in miniature 'descargas'", here: B6KenosUuJ8. some good trombone here, also in this vein worth hearing el trombon majadero by generoso jimenez, ub_l9M3GVWo. for more modern stuff i like yosvany terry's "contrapuntisco", it is definitely very complex and academic, apologies for that, that's just how i tend to like my jazz QCbkJbQLku8
i'd also recommend jan johansson's "jazz pa svenska", this is european jazz but it uses traditional swesish melodies as its basis, see t2D5HlKLh34&list=PLKUyqLlH6brkzzJgD6Gdriga4mdtCAMBJ
you probably got more on brazilian jazz than me, i'd be remiss if i didn't recommend the quarteto novo album tho y374WwqZtOI
a good australian jazz record is yaarandoo by rob thomsett 5ym3rzdx-Bc
anyway. lots of good jazz.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
that's ok! thank you!! i am trying to show students how the concept/basic idea of jazz spread all over the world and cross-pollinated with other cultures. they are really interested in cross-cultural stuff.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
well, let me give you another swedish song, "be-bop accordeon": vwzVWxyyp7Ei also like stuff like rufus harley's jazz bagpiping, but rufus harley was all-american as they come
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_(music)
apparently the "Afro" of Afro-Cuban jazz is mostly derived from the music of Mozambique.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
oh, hell, let's take this from another direction. this isn't jazz, but the saxophone is way more associated with jazz than it is from carnatic music:
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― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
ok wait sorry check this out this is some some great shit i just stumbled into, the title track of masahiko togashi's "spiritual nature" album from 1975, seriously goddamn wow, just this great pile of basses and flutes and percussion
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― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 29 October 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
https://i2.wp.com/latinjazznet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Carlos-Averhoff-Jr.-Jazz-Meets-Cuban-Timba-CD-Cover-August-2018.jpg?w=500&ssl=1
this a more current Cuban release I've been liking recently, another bandleader who is the son a Cuban legend, which might suggest nepotism rules over there!
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
No idea why youtube urls pull from the address bar aren't working, so here's a attempt at pasting in my links through the share buttons
https://youtu.be/ALp9N_lS_b8
https://youtu.be/BId54VzErTU
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Monday, 29 October 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
I can't find any excerpts on YT, but as far as Russian/Central Asian free improv goes, I strongly recommend Astreja (or Astrea depending on the transliteration)'s Music from Davos. It features Sofia Gubaidulina (still one of the greatest living composers) and Viktor Suslin playing a variety of traditional instruments from the Caucasus region, alongside percussionist Mark Pekarsky and singer Valentina Ponomareva. It may not count as jazz if we go by a stricter definition, but that can make for an interesting discussion in its own right.
― pomenitul, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3461509042_10.jpg
good noisy Russian Free Jazz group here!
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
on the cross-cultural/jazz-influenced end I'd be tempted to include some african big band stuff like congolese soukous a la Franco Luambo & OK Jazz, Fela Kuti & more recent afrobeat disciples like Lagbaja, or Salah Ragab's egyptian jazz. you could also have some 50s jamaican ska but I don't enough to recommend.
otherwise surely a bit of Django Reinhardt/gypsy jazz, perhaps L Subramaniam's indo jazz/fusion, or John Zorn/Masada-style klezmer-jazz
baku in azerbaijan is supposed to have a strong jazz history, idk anything about it tho
― ogmor, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
Hungarian avante garde Jazz meister Szilard Mezei is another interesting player, sort of surreal Marching Music, Bartok and Jazz influences. His last album was a concept album about postwar genocide in the East. Perhaps a bit much for some!
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
there is one tune he did which was a homage to Mal Waldron, and it was one of the most moving pieces of music I'd heard in years!
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVkXT3xQr0Q
this type of stuff
― calzino, Monday, 29 October 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
i am getting to fela etc in a later lesson -- have no fear!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
Japanese jazz fusion had a surge of international recognition at the start of the 1980s, and there's been a wave of renewed interest in the last few years. Acts of note include Ryo Kawasaki, Sadao Watanabe, Hiroshi Fukumura, Casiopea, Genji Sawai & Bacon Egg, Teruo Nakamura, Pacific Jam, Arakawa Band, Himiko Kikuchi, Nobuo Yagi.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 29 October 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
Re African jazz, this group is from thee tyme of far-out sounds making their way even unto Voice of America etc., also increasingly demanded in clubs, and they always had several schools of body language grooving simultaneously---no perfect gateway, so pick any (if it doesn't show, search Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo Cotonou)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pLdM12yx4
― dow, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet – Afro-Latin Soul Vols 1 & 2 (1966 LPs reissued this year) He plays billowing, rattling vibes over his own piano and percussion---very early, imperfect, but he's already got it, also some hip guests show up occasionally (what is that trumpet player on, I want some)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCxFDt4xSXA
― dow, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
we have a thread for japanese jazz fyi
Japanese jazz, "j-jazz"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
Don't sleep onRough Guide To Ethiopian Jazz, with several approaches, all roads leading to a splendid gateway.Haven't really followed Abullah Ibrahim or South African jazz overall as much as I should, but certainly his Ekaya was a white sky desert rose in my brain, Water from an Ancient Well also an old favorite; he has a way of blending echoes of Monk, Ellington, various homegrown colors, taking 'em a bit further on African Space Program. Still need to check the one with Gato Barbieri, from when AI was still billed over here as Dollar Brand.Speaking of Gato, I'm still mostly familiar with his nutty romantic music for/in the notoriousLast Tango In Paris and especially Latin America: Chapter I---now that's what I call magic realism (also epic folklore and more romance). Follow-up, Bolivia, brings in some Americans, which works, and then later he goes to New York but haven't heard that one.
― dow, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
I am getting better at this! week 2 is the week where we have a LOT of vocabulary and talk about the elements of music. It's probably the most fun because we can talk about ANY KIND OF MUSIC as long as it illustrates a principle we are trying to learn. I also brought a bunch of instruments to try out and demonstrate the elements of music. This is more fun than I ever expected to have at work and it is because I stepped up and redesigned the whole curriculum. Thank you ilx for helping me!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
Is this your third time through teaching this? Pretty curious to see the lecture titles or rough outline.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
yes, this is my third time. i have two sections now, and plan to open a third (and find another teacher) in the fall. enrollment is booming!
the class is structured in 4 parts -- intro/vocabulary/what is music and how do i talk/write about it? ---> folk music of the world (description practice, students do a presentation) ---> intro to jazz/jazz diaspora (also includes a presentation) --> popular music by the decade starting in the 1950s (this part could change depending on who is teaching the class, it happens to be something i know just enough about to teach other people)
they also have two larger writing assignments -- observing and writing about a musical performance of their choice (i also host outings) and interviewing a person who works in the field of music (volunteer interviewees welcome! if you are interested webmail me your contact info! no jokers)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
I've just started reading something that seems like it might be helpful: Playing Changes: Jazz For The New Century, by Nate Chinen---starts on an evening in 2017! But skimming ahead, can see it loops back aways, tracing M Base Collective and its influence, for inst. Cover flap assures us that this traces the rise of jazz historicism, institutionalism, and and beyond, w increasing influence of R&b, hip-hop, other, also how "shape-shifting elders," like Shorter and Threadgill, "have moved the aesthetic center." Blurbs by Sonny Rollins, Alx Ross, Herbie Hancock.
― dow, Friday, 15 February 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
just a little update --
the smaller of my two classes meets at night and i gave them the option of putting together an end of semester show as their final project. today is flyer/flier-making/digitizing/distributing and the show is in 2 weeks. we have a stylistically and culturally diverse lineup and everyone is giving it their best so far, self included. so far, so good!
my other class is going ahead with the regular curriculum so it's also interesting to see the difference between the two classes.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
by show, you mean mixtapes or something like that?
― bendy, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
No we’re going to put on a real performance!! In our classroom! Room 169 is about to get lit 🔥
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
!
― bendy, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
yeah! it's the first time i am trying this project and its success depends entirely on my students not dropping the ball on ANYTHING buttheir attendance and participation has been so reliable and of such a dedicated quality that i have faith in them
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
Any chance that you might post this on the 'Tube? Maybe a student will---
― dow, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
we do have someone in charge of photography and documentationi would like to have a video, idk if we will post it but if we have it we probably will!
it's about 45 min of live performance (like a small variety show i guess? a very unusual one) followed by karaoke party (to blow off steam the week before finals, naturally)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
we did it! still sorting through our media, not sure if any of it will wind up on youtube but i posted some myself(not linking here because i value the piddling shred of anonymity this website provides me)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
update: * should have two sections again this upcoming semester, good news bc fall is much more lively in the "free concert" department than winter/spring* upgraded my equipment to a retired phone + bluetooth speaker. I can put my own music onto the phone and play at will or use school wifi to stream. nice! better than relying on the old laptops we have on the carts! way better than carting around a zillion CDs, which I will do to show that they exist but dnw to cart bags of them around town) * this means i am going to buy a spotify subscription and use it in conjunction w youtube (not thrilled about this but a lot of students use spotify and I can make/share better/more reliable playlists)
we are also using a new LMS this year so cheers to tech upgrades, however late or antiquated they are, and to music appreciation, which almost singlehandedly fuels my zest for life in these trying times:)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 10 August 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
Not completely unrelated, I found this videos on youtube last week and loved the idea:
https://youtu.be/JjfOKyTfLa4
For his final exam at the state music university in Stuttgart, flo koenig formed a band to reinterpret songs into a live format. Covers include: Jasmine by Jai Paul, Our Love by Caribou and Nothing Thought by Sonnymoon.
I love the idea and the challenge of taking these songs that rely heavily on studio work - could be considered electronic music even - into a live setting.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 10 August 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
#goals !!!!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 10 August 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
This is probably too basic for your age group, but last year, with my 3/4 class, I a) did a kind of history of music video, playing around 10 videos that I thought were among the best ever (a mix of obvious ones and personal favourites: "Nothing Compares 2U," "Walking Contradiction," "Man on the Moon," etc.), then b) had them produce their own video, preferably one that was more abstract than just lip-synching along. I had four groups: we were getting near the end of the year, so one group didn't finish, but of the other three, one of them produced something that wasreally good!
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 August 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
Posted this on fb but I am also posting here because I want the widest possible range of options:
One of the assignments in my Music Appreciation class is to attend a live performance and write about it, sort of fly-on-the-wall description with some personal observations as well. As you can imagine, this is going to be impossible now.
What I need:I am making a list of performance/concert films currently streaming and also full sets that are available on youtube. I plan to share this with students as soon as I can so they can use some of their quarantine time to enjoy live music/also complete their coursework. (I can share it here as well)
* What are your favorites?* ALL GENRES WELCOME, the broader the selection the better* For films, please type the TITLE of the film, the ARTIST if it is not obvious from the title, and what service it's streaming on* For youtube links, just list the artist's name and if you want a few words about why you think it's a good choice!
THANK YOU
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
"stop making sense" (talking heads) - criterion channel
― na (NA), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace on Hulu made me cry a few timeshttps://www.hulu.com/movie/amazing-grace-fdfa744d-1fe1-4982-8a70-157246d148c1
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
YESS we already watched that one but they LOVED it, they were mesmerized thank you for posting, please do not worry about overwhelming me with options, i am making a googledoc and i can share if it anyone wants to see
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2-5-g8boIc
Gil Evans and his Orchestra, Live in Lugano, 1983
57:36 HD color TV show, nice presentation of Evans' 19-piece big band with Billy Cobham on drums
― Brad C., Monday, 16 March 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.deseret.com/2020/3/16/21181909/metropolitan-opera-streaming-free-performances-covid-19-coronavirus
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
"storefront hitchcock" (robyn hitchcock), amazon prime
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
i believe "sign o' the times" (prince, obvi) is still on amazon prime, too.
and there is of course a ridiculous treasure trove of live prince shows on youtube, though they tend to come and go so it's an ever-mutating list.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
fugazi "instrument" (has optional spanish subtitles on youtube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqfvlPZk0R0
― na (NA), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
YESSS thank youURLs appreciated for Prince performances if you know of any in particular
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
an old youtube favorite: replacements live at the 7th street entry, september 1981, in six parts starting here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUFWnbz2siM
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link