Rolling Jazz Thread 2012

There now. This is some kind of Diamanda Galas/Yma Sumac stuff. Kinda cool

More explanation please. Who is performing Diamada/Yma Sumac type stuff?

http://www.giancarlatisera.com/, at least to my ears. With Elio V on piano.

Cathy Berberian maybe? Maybe none of the above.

Elio did not list the gig on his website. I guess it was just for those in your hood.

I am still confused who was the singer? What was her name? She sounded like the others you mentioned, right (but was not one of them)???

Another Cuban jazz pianist:

Geoff Himes in the W. Post on Cuban pianist Fabian Almazan who has been playing with Terrence Blanchard and now has a album out of his own

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/music-events/fabian-almazan,1230687/critic-review.html

Gian Carla Tisera as her URL would indicate

Thanks.

Got the new JD Allen Trio disc, The Matador and the Bull, in today's mail. It's the fourth album by one of my favorite current groups - Allen on tenor, Gregg August on bass, Rudy Royston on drums. The first three albums were on Sunnyside, this one is on Savant. Allen's thing is concision - the last album, Victory!, had 12 tracks in 36 minutes; this one has 12 in 40, and one of them, "Muleta," is only 1:55. Victory! was one of my favorite albums of last year, and this one is just as good. It comes out on June 19.

Today's mailbag included the new Branford Marsalis disc, Four MFs Playin' Tunes. He's got an interesting quote in the press release - "What we are trying to do is figure out the emotional purpose of each song we play and then play according to that purpose, as opposed to musicians who spend their time developing what they call a concept."

Also got a reissue (first time on CD!) of a 1972 Don Cherry double album, Organic Music, recorded in Sweden with a bunch of local musicians, an orchestra, and Nana Vasconselos on one track.

C'mon Pi put out MP3s of the new Threadgill already

Dr. Lonnie Smith celebrating 70th birthday next month at the Jazz Standard. Think I would like to see the "In the Beginning" octet.

Didn't find new Threadgill mp3's on that page, nor on the "audio" page?

Speaking of Threadgill, I think Stomu T is playing next week around the corner from my house.

I'm not sure what the deal was with MP3s so I went ahead and ordered the CD from a place near me .... surprised by the delay

i'm pretty curious about that new branford album

xpost to myself

er delay in releasing MP3s, that is

i'm pretty curious about that new branford album

It's good stuff. I wish it didn't have any tracks where he plays soprano sax (the instrument I hate most in the world), but whaddya gonna do. And the drummer kicks unbelievable amounts of ass. I believe it hits stores first week of August.

cool, will check for it.

long-time chicago dude matt ulery recently put this out on dave douglas' label, sounds nice:

http://www.greenleafmusic.com/byalittlelight

new Threadgill streaming at NPR. Quite good on first listen.

Sweet, thanks for heads up

Newport mostly live on NPR, today and tomorrow, some will be posted later. DeJohnette's usual group at 12:40, later w All Stars, incl Jason Moran. Frisell plays a couple of times today also, w Bad Plus, later songs of Lennon. NPR always posts these schedules from bottom up. Usually works better to mute the video, use audio-only as soundtrack to the video, or just use athudio-only w vid blank. Link for all (though they've got thumbnails on today's performers elsewhere)
http://www.npr.org/event/music/156120628/newport-jazz-festival-2012

Really liking Bill McHenry's new one, La Peur du Vide. Since Paul Motian died, he had to form a new band, so now he's working with pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Andrew Cyrille - a much more aggressive group than guitarist Ben Monder, bassist Reid Anderson and Motian, with whom he made three albums. This one was recorded live at the Village Vanguard back in March, and they're playing there this weekend to celebrate its release. Uptempo, hard-swinging stuff, a million miles from the murmur-and-rattle thing he was doing with Motian. I like it a lot - it might make my year-end list, in fact.

so someone posted the cover to the Greg Foat Group's "Girl And Robot With Flowers" on the noteworthy album covers thread, and I was intrigued enough to give it a listen.

i *love* it.

i'm definitely a jazz neophyte, so i'm wondering:

1) what any of you "rolling jazz" folks think of it, if you've heard it and

2) what other artists you might recommend i seek out if i totally dig the vintage/mid-fi and mellow/spacey qualities of this GFG album.

Dunno if I'd call it 'jazz' really - library music? Still nice though.

I'm hearing David Axelrod in there, early Jan Hammer Group, Sensations Fix, Luke Vibert's library music comps, Cinematic Orchestra

OK, I am officially convinced that Criss Cross Jazz (which has no publicity budget, and I'm told may be fucking its artists out of royalties) is the underrated label of the year. I've heard four of their 2012 releases this week - Dayna Stephens' Today is Tomorrow, Clarence Penn's Dali in Cobble Hill, Conrad Herwig's A Voice Through the Door, and now Yosvany Terry's Today's Opinion - and they're uniformly awesome. The first three are hardcore post-bop with ferocious swing, and occasional interjections of funk and groove, and terrific clean/basic production, and the fourth is the best Latin jazz album I've heard in forever. Latin jazz normally does almost nothing for me, but this shit is red-hot and perfectly blends the two approaches. And aside from seeing Terry's album on one of the New York Times critics' year-end lists, I've heard exactly nothing about any of these records from jazz writers (again, because no publicist).

i used to be way into Criss Cross, they've been doing exactly these types of records for years and years. favorite CC records off the top of my head:

billy drummond, dubai
clarence penn, penn's landing
ralph peterson, the art of war
melvin rhyne, mel's spell
conrad herwig & brian lynch, que viva coltrane
herlin riley, cream of the crescent

some of my favorite records ever, they're heroes over there.

and I'm told may be fucking its artists out of royalties

oh, that's too bad if true.

Well, what I was specifically told is that they don't pay royalties. Which may just mean that they offer artists a flat fee up front to make the albums, knowing that they're not gonna sell more than a few hundred copies.

This seems like the best place to post this...

Anyone heard Lucien Dubuis Trio & Marc Ribot's Ultime Cosmos?

I found it in the jazz section, and it does have more or less jazz instrumentation, but it sounds more like balls-out rocknroll (with lots of crazy bari sax) than jazz. Everyone I've played it for has been blown away. My friend who's a jazz trumpeter (and who has played with a lot of punk bands) said "this is exactly what I always wished punk rock sounded like". Which were pretty much my thoughts exactly.

Sounds interesting. I haven't heard it, but I usually like Marc Ribot in a jazz context.

Well, what I was specifically told is that they don't pay royalties. Which may just mean that they offer artists a flat fee up front to make the albums, knowing that they're not gonna sell more than a few hundred copies.

this doesn't seem like the worst thing in the old-world model, since there's not much profit in most jazz records anyway, and they're fronting the studio time + manufacturing costs etc (and i think they gave the artists some portion of the discs to sell on their own? at least i've seen them being sold at gigs). and i appreciate that they're giving some jazz musicians a chance to document their work every year or couple of years, '50s blue note style. however, i wonder how it works with digital rights & sales now.

i love that they have the exact same website that they did when i was in college.

Somehow this made the shooting tragedy hit home with me much more

http://www.spinner.com/2012/12/15/jazz-saxophonist-jimmy-greene-mourns-daughter-school-shooting/

fuck

weirdly, I think but am not positive that I played with Jimmy Greene once when he first came to New York. I have a memory of an early gig I did through school where Larry Ridley put me and some older students together in an ensemble to play at the Schomberg Center in Harlem and there was also a dude not from our school who was supposedly just starting to get known in NYC. I remember the name being Jimmy Greene. This would have been 97 or 98, which makes sense since that's around when Jimmy Greene apparently started to gig a lot in NYC. I remember saying something about how there was so much I could hear that I couldn't play yet, and he kind of laughed and said "yeah, well, that's everybody." I was like 17 or 18 at the time. Anyway. Fuck.

Just got Smalls email about this. Fact that I have and will cross paths with people who have played with the guy made it hit home for me as well, despite previous ability to compartmentalize.

I re-loaded Greene's last three albums into my iPod; I'd previously dropped them because I didn't like his work as much as some other current players (JD Allen, Stacy Dillard, Walter Smith III), but I'll give him another shot.

Has anyone heard Ten Freedom Summers?

Wadada sent me a signed copy, but honestly, I only made it through the whole thing once. I mean, it's four CDs - something like five hours of music. I'll come back to it someday. I really like his playing.

From what I'm reading like quite a challenging work -- not only conceptually, but getting a chamber group to improvise is a major risk too.

Unless they have experience in doing so, which they appear to not have. In a "life's work" this is new.

Jeff Parker - Bright Light in Winter (restrained, but this seems to work well)
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet - Stellar Pulsations (it's the pianist that really shines here)
Jenny Scheinman - Mischief & Mayhem (features both Nels Cline and Jim Black)
Uri Caine Trio - Siren (ok, this is from 2011 but the rendition of 'Foolish Me' needs to be heard)
John Zorn - Music and Its Double (at times sounds like a combination between 'modern composition' and 'impro')
Nazoranai - s/t (Keiji Haino, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley)
Imikuzushi - Keiji Haino/Oren Ambarchi/Jim O'Rourke - best purchase of this year.

That Mazurek disc is one of the most straightforward, least experimental things he's ever done, but I like it.