“Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall”: 2007 Jazz D-bags Thread

...predictably, then, I love it so far.

Nick Barscht's Ronin, Stoa (minimal as fuck, not jazz but on ECM)
Dave Holland Quintet, Critical Mass

but yeah plz recommend things and Cibula ... alt-ish? bluesy? COUNTRY PROG??? yik4s

You call that avant-garde?! My grandmother used to whistle more avant-garde things than that!

Vijay Iyer is one of those artists I want to like, but I haven't been into anything I've heard by him.

I like Mike Ladd's solo stuff (Nostalgiator etc.) better than his jazz-collab records.

Did I send you that Still Life disc, mc? I know I sent it to somebody for review in GR.

Matt D: don't do that anymore please.

Lotsa stuff happening here that I'm too old/lazy to check up on but maybe I can help:

Fave drinking spots: Danny's, Matchbox
Historical: Green Mill, Rainbow
Trendy: Sonotheque
Plus the usual regular venues: Empty Bottle, Hideout et al

loads of good eats and great architecture

fucking nasty.

As for what I'm into--I'm just starting to expand into freer territory --I've been digging Brotzmann and Archie Shepp recently--but I'm also interested in dropping into open mike nights and just listening to standards.

Honestly, I'm pretty psyched on it all right now and am trying to gobble up as much as I can.

Hey, thanks for the warning. You know who you are. That was the only review I clicked on, because the guy's name looked interesting.

David Torn - Prezens

It's been ten years since his last album and this time he will be backed by Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Craig Taborn.

ECM
April 17th

Haha, this is finally coming out.

Why do I have a bad feeling I won't like this?

Little-known album that I loved in high school. Jaco/Hiram Bullock/Kenwood Dennard, bootleg quality, playing standards and Hendrix and Sly Stone songs. It sounds like garage jazz and made me think "hey, me and my friends can do this maybe!"

I recently d/loaded the most recent Dave Douglas alb, Meaning and Mystery - has that been issued yet? I missed Chris Potter from the line-up, and while it's another wonderfully played/composed alb it doesn't sound THAT different from the last cpl of Douglas recs - I think he poss. needs to ring the changes again

dude lip synching to Bird and Diz with Monk and Buddy Rich (playing Leap Frog, i'm told, 1952)

Only given it the once over so far - but I'd say its a keeper!!

(hey Julio!)

(hey Jordan!) xp

http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/

Sorry to interrupt.

Back when I was starting to get into jazz — mainly the avant-garde end, like Trane, Braxton and the Art Ensemble — in the 70's, I wrote off mainstream critics like Balliett and Leonard Feather, who had little good to say about the stuff I liked. But, here and there, I've come across their words online, or quoted by other writers, in the last few years (plus my in-laws gave me Balliett's Collected Works for Xmas a couple of years ago), and found them to be quite good, even if I don't/didn't share their mindset. And it's not like good jazz writers grow on trees these days, after all. R.I.P.

This takes some of the edge off my two-martini buzz (hey! my first drunken ILM post!) — I've just gotten back from seeing Charles Tolliver's big band.

(When I see this thread title, I think of Monk's side of the story — "Miles got killed if he hit me.")

One black coffee, please.

Anyway, I already posted this on the whirled music thread a week and a half ago:

Joe Zawinul's "revisit"-ation ("for the first time") of "Weather Report classics" on his new 2-CD Brown Street features some intriguing salsa interpolations in the title track and "Carnavalito" and maybe "Black Market", but not enough of them, and they're not compelling enough to get me interested in the rest of the album, which is generally pleasant nonetheless, and does make me think I should investigate Weather Report sometime. (I never have before.)

And right now I'm listening to and liking Enrico Rava Quintet's The Word and the Days on ECM. Or at least I am liking it more than I liked Steve Kuhn Trio's Live At Birdland on Blue Note last week. Which was a surprise and a disappointment, given how much I've liked three other Steve Kuhn albums over the past few years (Promises Kept by Steve Kuhn With Strings, Quiereme Mucho by Steve Kuhn Trio, and the reissue of his 1975 Trance.) Someday maybe I'll even try to figure out how come.

Vandermark 5 tour kicks off tomorrow in St Paul, Mn, excited for that

Not strictly 2007, other than the fact that you may be reading this in 2007, but WKCR-FM in NYC started a week-long Sam Rivers Celebration today.

The Rivers/Holland/Altschul trio (that overlapped with Anthony Braxton's 70's quartet) will reunite next Friday, which does, in fact, make it a 2007 thing.

I'm a little worried about this new Abbey Lincoln record with the non-jazz backing.

I forget to mention that I went to that Vijay Iyer show and it was pretty cool, especially Roy Haynes's grandson Marcus Gilmore on drums. Roy himself was in the audience, but I manage to restrain myself from asking him to autograph my copy of Smoke Stack.

It's 90s week at Destination Out. Lists and mp3s. Two parts so far.

http://destination-out.com/

I can't remember what I actually did put on the list I submitted; all I remember is that one minute after I hit "send," I realized I had forgotten to list Charles Gayle's Touchin' On Trane. Luckily, lots of other folks remembered to include it in their rankings.

ILM Best Jazz Albums of the '90s - RESULTS thread!

I went to see this show and Ben Ratliff OTM as usual.

Matt, control yourself when you see the picture of the bass player.

I'm a little worried about this new Abbey Lincoln record with the non-jazz backing.

Is it Beatles covers? (She hates the Beatles.)

No, it's just some non-jazz musicians, I think. Why does she hate the Beatles- too much like songwriting-for-hire?

kenny are you talking to me or one of the other matts around here?

the bassist in question. she's from the five oh thrizzy!

It had to be you, Matt.

She resents what the Beatles and rock did to popular music (moving it away from the whole jazz singer thing). Or she did. I may have read a very old inrterview, I'm not sure.

Her and Sammy Cahn and millions of other people.

That bass player played a little while ago at the Jazz Standard leading her own trio.

As mentioned on the salsa thread, this dude is playing a freebie in my neighborhood this afternoon.

Hey guys so end of June and all, what're your personal faves thus far?

Christ, I'm not sure I've heard a single new jazz record this year.

For me, lately, Mario Adnet and his sister Muiza Adnet have been killin' it on Adventure Records; their albums Jobim Jazz and Sings Moacir Santos were both pretty much recorded at the same time and the same way, and they're both amazing. Brazil is way out ahead of us here.

Also: Helene Corrini & Beatrice Graf, 2 Ailes; Lafayette Gilchrist, 3; Jerry Granelli & V16, The Sonic Temple; Kartet, The Bay Window; David Binney & Edwardo Simon, Oceanas; Hiromi's Sonicbloom, Time Control; Anat Cohen, Noir and Poetica; Brad Shepik Trio, Places You Go; Anat Fort, A Long Story; Miroslav Vitous, Universal Syncopations II; Antonio Adolfo & Carol Saboya, Ao Vivo; Misha Piatgorsky, Uncommon Circumstances and Aya.

Still loving Ned Rothenberg's Inner Diaspora. (I'm not sure I ever made it back to this thread to say how much I liked it after initial ambivalent listens, which, as I said above, were ambivalent mostly becasue of the instrumentation.)

And I bet the Brazilians could learn something from it.

Haven't heard much but the new Joshua Redman trio disc is excellent, as is the recent David S. Ware farewell disc Renunciation. I just got four CDs by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin in the mail, and am gonna check those out this week. Also, the new Arve Henriksen album Strjon is great, if that counts.

Yeah, I'm really pretty bad about keeping up with new jazz releases myself.

But I'm really enjoying Mal Waldron - The Quest and Paul Bley - Closer right now

hmm, anybody going to see this 70th b-day celebration for Ron Carter in NYC this week? Looks pretty sweet, Hancock, Hall, and a bunch of others. I would go, but I cannot.

Met Carter the other day at a studio session being run by Bob Belden - an album of former Miles Davis sidemen doing Indian-tinged versions of Davis-identified tunes, with Indian musicians punching in their parts from studios in Bombay. Some of it sounded pretty interesting - the bop-era stuff didn't work all that well, but there were really good versions of early '70s tracks like "Ife" being laid down, too. Lots of good people supposed to be on the final product - Michael Henderson, Pete Cosey, Badal Roy, Gary Bartz (he was there in the studio that day too), Carter, Rudresh Mahanthappa (who obviously never played with Miles but turned up and was invited to play something), Jimmy Cobb...a bunch more, too.

I happened to see Ron Carter play one song yesterday at J&R Music World but then I had to go to be somewhere else.

hmm, anybody going to see this 70th b-day celebration for Ron Carter in NYC this week? Looks pretty sweet, Hancock, Hall, and a bunch of others. I would go, but I cannot.

They should have gotten Wadada Leo Smith for a VSOP-style quintet.

All right, I think I'm going to keep on the trombone tip and go see Ray Anderson tonight at The Stone.

I went to 55 Bar and saw this Latin jazz thing led by Marco Marcinko and it was pretty good. Dude on guitar name Vinnie Valentino was burning it up, although if you listen to the stuff on his website, it is way too smoov jazz fusiony for my taste.

Roswell Rudd and Yomo Toro = a joy. Thanks for the tip, Phil! Although I don't actually know if that's a 2007 release.

We're discussing Yomo Toro on this thread? Cool.

I guess we are now. Is there another? I should search.

People on this thread might be interested.
Rolling salsa, merengue, bachata, and reggaeton thread 2007 (Ladies get in for free)

Although Phil is on both threads. I guess the reason I was surprised is that for a second I thought this was on the other thread.

You're discussing Yomo Toro on this thread?

Well, his name has been mentioned.

Although if we were to have a discussion, the participants in this thread are basically a superset of those of the other one, so we could probably just as well have it here.

I pretty much know him from Asalto Navideño, in particular "La Murga," which I think might have been a hit at the time.

Unfortunately my discourse on the Espiritu Jibaro album will probably be limited to "Whooo! That's funky!"

Is there a good web site or e-mail list for NYC area jazz shows? Like an Oh My Jazzness or something?

is this quote referring to tony shalloub ?

I don't have anything much to say about Yomo Toro either, except that he seems to me to deserve his enormous reputation. Also, he appears on lots and lots of recordings, into the present.

Is there a good web site or e-mail list for NYC area jazz shows? Like an Oh My Jazzness or something?

The monthly newspaper, All About Jazz, is a good source - you can find it in jazz clubs and record stores around the area.

You could also try their website:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/calendar/calendar.php

For some reason that calendar site seems to be missing a lot of things that are listed in the print edition. I'd recommend downloading the PDF of the print version from here, and scrolling through to the Event Calendar section:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/

All About Jazz is good. I think I'm going to try to see this month's cover boy this weekend, even though I don't like the venue he is at.

A good starting point is the Times Jazz Listings that comes out on Thursday night. Here is the latest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/arts/music/13jazz.html

which also can be accessed through a link in the middle column of

http://nytimes.com/pages/arts/music/

Coming September 18:

MILES DAVIS – The Complete On The Corner Sessions 6-CD box set (Columbia/Legacy)
By 1970, Miles Davis was on his way to creating a new orchestral approach to jazz music, one that drew from Ellington, incorporated electronic sounds and colors. His “jungle sound” would be developed out of these early-seventies experiments, and in his music would retain the spirit of renewal of an artist ever-changing. Don Alias remembers the time preceding the On The Corner sessions. “We had finished this tour of Europe [fall of ’71] and Miles had decided to go for a more funk oriented sound.” Jack DeJohnette rejoined the band upon its return to Europe. Keith Jarrett left by the end of 1971. The musical continuity that had begun with Coltrane ended with Jarrett and David Liebman. There would no longer be a majority of musicians within the band who had strong musical ties to the Davis tradition. Davis had moved closer and closer to the funk based sound of James Brown and Sly Stone, and the musicians he hired began to reflect this direction in his tastes. The first musician Davis would hire was Michael Henderson, an accomplished funk bass player. Henderson’s “locked in” bass grooves simplified the ground that Davis wanted to walk on. Davis’ sound headed to the bottom of the band. On The Corner has achieved a level of devotion among the hip cognoscenti. The LP, when issued, was received favorably by the newly converted Davis fans, as well as by the black music audience that had been following Miles. But the jazz critical establishment, which was still hung up on “Jazz-Rock-Fusion,” couldn’t find a kind word to say about it. On many levels, On The Corner was ahead of its time in the jazz world, but not so in the contemporary classical world. Tape manipulation was developed by the Paris and Darnstadt schools during the 1950s. Emerging from this world came Karlheinze Stockhausen, who became a “celebrity” in this world. Soon, all known musical boundaries were challenged, as much as Schoenberg did in the late nineteenth century. Paul Buckmaster brought that influence into Davis’ musical world and freed up Davis’ idea of “groove.” Buckmaster’s early experiments as a composer with what we would call today “looping” opened the mind of Davis and paved the way for his modus operandi from 1972 until 1980.

Plus, Hurting, if your question is serious, you could just check the websites of the various places like

http://www.jazzstandard.net/red/secondary/jazzCalendar.html
http://www.kitano.com/default.htm
http://www.55bar.com/

I'm thinking of going to one of the Monday or Tuesday shows at the Standard, if not both.

http://cahlsjukejoint.blogspot.com/2007/08/bassist-art-davis-dies.html

Coltrane bassist Art Davis RIP

I saw this vocalist Mina Agossi the other day at the Jazz Standard. She performs with bass and drums and that's it (she loves Jimi Hendrix).

Would ya pay money for a cd from her? Did you think she was good?

You mean you want me to post my opinion, my honest opinion, Steve? The next day I went out and bought a CD and I still can't make up my mind. She does lots of percussive sound effects that go along well with what the drummer is doing and I liked what they did with the trio format, they took their time to work a groove and didn't just go into a freakout jam to fill the space (the bass player could be considered to have cheated a little I guess, by hitting a little switch to loop a line and then playing against that, but this turned out to be a good idea), but there is something about her vocals that are a little too major key, breathy and "look at me, I'm singing and smiling!" that I can't decide whether I like or dislike.

Got Andrew Hill's Change from Amazon yesterday. It's a 1966 quartet date with Sam Rivers, originally paired with Rivers' Dimensions & Extensions under the double-album title Involutions, now out as part of Blue Note's Connoisseur Series. It's not as free as Compulsion, but it's pretty out with some nice trio cuts to moderate the generally headlong pace, and highly recommended.

I've really been liking Eric Reed - "Here." I forget when it's from at the moment (2004?) -- trio album with Rodney Whitaker and Willie Jones. It's not groundbreaking, but it's such a nice, tight piano trio album and it sounds so good. Falls on the headier side of straight-ahead, with a lot exploration in the middle range of the piano and very little pyrotechnic work. Maybe a bit of Herbie Nichols in it, and a bit of Keith Jarrett.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uR47Id14L._SS500_.jpg

I don't even really like John McLaughlin, but that cover!

Dear Jazz Douche-Bags,

Four years after leaving Boston for LA, I still miss going to see The Fringe at the Lizard Lounge. "Pretend" I know nothing about jazz. Where can I go or what can I legally buy to get a similar experience?

xoxo,

Lukas

Went to see Franciso Mela lead a quartet at Cachaça last night. Hardly anybody was there for the 9 o'clock set so they waited until almost ten to start. It was cool, especially the young dude on guitar, Nir Felder, who was really burning it up.

Does anyone have anything interesting to say about Paul Desmond? I always enjoyed his playing with Dave Brubeck a lot more than Brubeck's playing. I just picked up a quartet recording of him w/Jim Hall - Desmond has some really nice improvisatory surprises in his playing, although at other times he sounds kind of rudimentary - at least he generally avoids bop cliches of his time though. Great sound, obv.

Sorry, I got nothing for you.

i haven't heard all that much Desmond -- just the big Brubeck recordings. One of my favorites is the Jazz Impressions of Japan LP, which at first glance sounds kind of cringe-worthy, but it's actually a really deep, melancholy recording. Desmond sounds great on that one. He's good on that Concierto record with Jim Hall, too. That's a nice album, for sure -- Chet Baker and Ron Carter are on there as well.

I originally opened this thread to rep for my neighbor, guitar player Jim Hershman, who last night did excellent versions of "Embraceable You" and then "Little Wing," with all the bells and whistles, at his usual Monday night gig at a nice bar/restaurant down the block called Novo.

what city?

New York. Borough of Queens.

A funny thing happened last night while I was at the jazz club- you know those weird humming/grunting noises you sometimes hear on jazz recordings, presumably from one of the players being picked up by a drum or piano mic? (I think they have their own thread). Well, I heard some yesterday, but they weren't coming from the stage, but from the audience.

It was the guy next to me. He was a musician himself, but I don't know if that is a valid excuse.

Here's that other thread: Jazz pianists who make weird humming noises during their improvisations

guys that new meshell ndegeocello record is really good

Cooper-Moore going wild on mouth bow

I went looking for videos because I put on Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar's America earlier, and it remains one of my favorite albums from the last several years. I like the degree of control on this album, and I like the variety.

just saw George Cartwright, who lives in Mpls now but has been in the free/improv scene forever and played with Ornette, Sharrock and a bunch of famous people...Saw him with a standup bass, drummer, and Andrew Broder from The Fog on guitar...was really great, Cartwright can flat out wail and Broder, who's def. not a school musician in the same way obv as the other dudes, does well by not trying to keep up, but using lots of delay and volume pedals to do atmospheric and textural stuff...they also did a stellar version of "Oxford Town" by Dylan that sounded like Dylan fronting Crazy Horse circa 72 with Steve Mackaye from the Stooges records... so great, I bought a CD by Cartwright called "A Tenacious Slew" which is poetry and the some pretty funky free/funk/improv stuff....local mpls super drummer JT Bates is on that.

http://www.georgecartwright.com/

also bought this record with is fucking AMAZING...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q73F5BZRL._AA240_.jpg

the vinyl orig. i bought has a way better cover though...

also bought Louis Armstrong - The Town Hall Concert Plus...am liking it...i really like it mostly...for some reason i have trouble with listening to armstrong on the vocal stuff, which i feel bad about for some reason, i guess it seems cheesy to me, but it shouldn't...too much overexposure to "what a wonderful world" over the years...also this is late 40s so maybe a little past his prime?

any Byrd/Armstrong recommendations would be very welcome..thx jazz d-bags thread.

if yo don't already have the hot 5/hot 7 armstrong stuff, you need it. there are various versions of this material floating around -- I've got the Columbia/Legacy 4-disc set, which can be found for pretty cheap, I think. It's as good as everybody says. I also like some of Armstrong's 50s recordings -- his albums of Fats Waller and W.C. Handy are very nice. As for Donald Byrd, you need "Black Byrd"! One of my fave jazz/fusion/disco/funk records. I actually haven't heard a lot of his earlier hard bop records, though he's good as a sideman on the prestige Coltrane dates.

i have trouble listening to the good armstrong stuff because of the recording quality :(

This has a lot of fans over at AAJ. Has anyone here heard it?

http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=094639153220&itm=1

That's: Terence Blanchard: A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina)

Only listened to clips. I was hoping it would have the second-linish track that plays over the photo montage on the When the Levees Broke dvd, but I don't think it does.

have you guys heard david sanchez?

i saw him live in chicago on a weekend trip....live was amazing, not sure if he has any good records...

ok guys what are our best of 07 lists

mine is predictable

Mingus & Dolphy - Cornell 64
Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, - Time and Time Again
Herbie - River: The Joni Letters
Robert Glasper - In My Element

that's all i got.

My list is currently being thrown into turmoil by the fact that I'm listening to everything from this year, like, all at once. DAMN, this Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra album, which I thought was small cheese at the time, is actually shit-hot and fabulous, he's leading a huge band of French jazz dudes through his very AACM pieces, and only soloing once on the balafon, and whoa it's maybe making its way onto my overall list and I only have a couple of days left to firm that up, argh.

I'll make a top 20 jazz list in a couple of days.

okay not really in order except for the top ten or so

1. Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra, Transmigration
2. Hiromi's Sonicbloom, Time Control
3. Helene Corrini / Beatrice Graf, 2 Ailes
4. Sean Noonan Brewed by Noon, Stories to Tell
5. Jerry Granelli V16, The Sonic Temple
6. Dee Dee Bridgewater, Red Earth -- A Malian Journey
7. Bobby Santabria, Big Band Urban Folktales
8. Lafayette Gilchrist, 3
9. Norah Jones, Not Too Late
10. Jan Larsen, Strange News From Mars
11. Muiza Adnet, Sings Moacir Santos
12. Marlon Simon & the Nagual Spirits, In Case You Missed It
13. Jose Peixoto f/ Maria Joao, Pele
14. Misha Piatagorsky, Aya
15. James Carney, Green-Wood
16. Josh Roseman & New Constellations, Live in Vienna
17. David Binney & Edward Simon, Oceanos
18. Anat Cohen, Noir
19. Misha Piatagorsky, Uncommon Circumstance
20. Brad Shepik Trio, Places You Go
21. Baja, Maps/Systemalheur
22. Anat Fort, A Long Story
23. Kartet, The Bay Window
24. Myra Melford & Tanya Kalmanovitch, Heart Mountain
25. Anat Cohen, Poetica

wow the Lafayette Gilchrist album is way too low at #8, and Muiza Adnet should be higher. also I have to find that Baja album, that thing is KRAYZEE.

significant things I haven't heard:

David Murray, Sacred Ground
William Parker, Corn Meal Dance
Mingus at Cornell '64
the new Paul Motian

(xpost)
Wow, I didn't know anybody else had that Lafayette Gilchrist record. I saw him play with David Murray, Ray Drummond and Andrew Cyrille in the Black Saint Quartet (stepping in the shoes of the late John Hicks) and it was very nice.

I want to hear that Erik Friedlander album, but I want to hear his installment of Zorn's Book of Angels even more. (I guess I don't need to mention that his playing on Ned Rothenberg's Inner Diaspora is excellent, since even Sundar was teasing me about mentioning the Rothenberg album over and over again.)

I loved Friedlander's last solo record. Also pissed that I haven't heard the new Cuong Vu (we used to be like THIS) or the Maria Schneider record that everyone is oohing and aahing about.

And yeah GILCHRIST IS FUNKY YO.

My favorite (so far, I usually end up buying a bunch more stuff after seeing the best of the year lists) is that wonderful live Billy Bang/Frank Lowe album.

Oh I love Billy Bang, haven't heard that record though.

also I forgot Chris Gestrin's after the city has gone: quiet and Michael Blake Sextet and Colin Vallon Trio.

This Trio M thing sounds promising (was on somebody's personal list over at AAJ):

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7517504

Oh crap that's another one I liked! On the same label as an even better one, Alan Pasqua's The Anti-Social Club!

Last night I went to see Toninho Horta play at Cachaça. It was cool, but too much fusion-y noodling for my taste, and no sing-along Brazilians in the audience like I read about in the review of the last time he played there.

"I want my money back, there were no sing-along Brazilians!"

Word up! THEY TOLD ME THERE WOULD BE SING-ALONG BRAZILIANS.

There were three world-weary Italians at the next table, but that did not compensate.

Here's the Ben Ratliff review of the other show, if you think I am inventing.

Also available here.

There was also some glad-hander promoter/manager/crony type with a Cousin Brucie DJ voice trying to strong-arm the good people into buying CDs.

My favorite jazz albums of 2007:

1. Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora
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My favorite albums (all categories) of 2007:

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Five albums I suspect will eventually make it onto the general list: Rahim AlHaj - Home Again; Wu Fei - Distant Youth; Erik Friendlander - Book of Angels Vol. 8; Nina Virdee - Gurbani Keertan; Nejo & Dalmata - Broke and Famous.

sorry I didn't get back to you about that show KL. Couldn't have gone anyway.

band practice

Maybe I should have bought you one of those CDs off of Cousin Brucie.

The Top 10 I submitted to the Voice jazz poll (haven't come up with a Pazz & Jop 10 yet):

Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake, From The River To The Ocean<BR>David Torn, Prezens<BR>Arve Henriksen, Strjon<BR>Supersilent, 8<BR>Satoko Fujii Quartet, When We Were There<BR>David S. Ware, Renunciation<BR>Matthew Shipp, Piano Vortex<BR>Jacques Coursil, Clameurs<BR>Other Dimensions In Music, Live At The Sunset<BR>Burnt Sugar, Live From Minnegiggle Falls<BR><BR>Reissues of the year:<BR>Miles Davis, The Complete On The Corner Sessions (duh)<BR>Andrew Hill, Compulsion (John Gilmore, fuck yeah!)<BR>Noah Howard, The Black Ark<BR><BR>Honorable mention (couldn't vote for it because a Wire piece I wrote was borrowed for the liner notes): Borbetomagus, Live In Allentown.

The Top 10 I submitted to the Voice jazz poll (haven't come up with a Pazz & Jop 10 yet):

Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake, From The River To The Ocean
David Torn, Prezens
Arve Henriksen, Strjon
Supersilent, 8
Satoko Fujii Quartet, When We Were There
David S. Ware, Renunciation
Matthew Shipp, Piano Vortex
Jacques Coursil, Clameurs
Other Dimensions In Music, Live At The Sunset
Burnt Sugar, Live From Minnegiggle Falls

Reissues of the year:
Miles Davis, The Complete On The Corner Sessions (duh)
Andrew Hill, Compulsion (John Gilmore, fuck yeah!)
Noah Howard, The Black Ark

Honorable mention (couldn't vote for it because a Wire piece I wrote was borrowed for the liner notes): Borbetomagus, Live In Allentown.

I'm glad they're doing that again.

I have heard like zero new jazz albums this year, except for New Orleans albums like Shamarr Allen's debut (which is fantastic), Harry Connick Jr., and Bob French's one on Branford's label. I meant to hear Alvin Batiste's last record too, but haven't yet.

Last year I was way into the Nik Bartsch and Dave Holland Quintet records, nothing like that this year.

I think I say this every year, but here we go again: Jordan we should get together sometime and listen to stuff, or I should burn you a disc, or something.

I know it's not going to happen, but isn't it nice to know we could?

Haha, yes! I would love a cd at least.

Btw I feel bad, you have a knack for showing up at, like, whatever the worst Digd0wn gig of the year is. :> (New Year's at the Majestic, though!)

Oh snap -- I might have to flee my family for that. But my bro-in-law will be in town, so we might be getting sloshed and playing Wii all night.

I thought you guys sounded pretty good at that weird park in Fitchburg this summer! The kids liked it, anyway. DIGD0WN IS FOR THE CHILDREN!

And if you ever want to tour, I think I can help Digdown get a DC gig.

Yeah, I think I don't like that gig because we end up playing old people-friendly songs, but overplay because we're outside, in one spot, without amplification. Thanks anyway. :>

C, that would be sweet, we were talking about that recently just because it would be great to see the trombone shout choir at United House of Prayer and some go-go shows.

(btw dudes we put up the new single at our myspace site, now i will stop talking about my band and resume talking about jazz records that i did not hear)

New Nik Bärtsch record in February, btw. He switches from Fender Rhodes to acoustic piano. It's great.

awes!

Earl May - R.I.P.

Haikynum, is it true that Thelonious Monk could have or would have not only taken your little ass but also throw it against a wall?

ok, morning lambic = bad idea

Just heard a luscious Dakota Staton song on the radio. I'm a sucker for jazz balladry of that kind.

So is someone gonna start a 2008 jazz thread? Not me, I just dabble and don't keep up on things.

That's not gonna stop me. Here's the new thread "If That Arm Heals, It Ought To Be Broken Again" 2008 Jazz D Minor Bags Thread