Also, listening to this dude now and really not feeling it at all. Jazz-rock Liberace. #countmeamongthehaters
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 24 January 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know that he really has much in the way of 'wide commercial success' though, and at the same time he's getting backlash from the jazz world where he's paid serious dues.
i have no interest in listening to his current stuff either, but i wish you could have heard him with elvin.
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Thursday, 24 January 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but I'm trying to figure out who the characters are in this (maybe apocryphal?) story that I only very vaguely remember: bandleader asks for a drum solo, drummer goes off, bandleader tells drummer to start over and play it at half speed--doing so, bandleader says, is actually more challenging/beautiful/etc. I'm probably butchering the tale, but does anyone know? Is Buddy Rich involved? This came up in conversation recently and it's bugging me. Don't want, of course, to butcher it any longer. Thanks in advance and sorry for the little thread hijack.
― Darvin H.A.M. (AlexPh), Friday, 25 January 2013 07:30 (eleven years ago) link
it was monk + frankie dunlop:http://shipdrummer.blogspot.com/2011/04/frankie-dunlop-on-monk.html
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Friday, 25 January 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yes!!! Thank you so much. God, that is an excellent read.
― Darvin H.A.M. (AlexPh), Saturday, 26 January 2013 07:21 (eleven years ago) link
Tom Hull year end list always turns me on to jazz things. sent away for his #2 (jazz) from last year by The Group (Ahmed Abdullah, Marion Brown, Billy Bang, Sirone, Fred Hopkins, Andrew Cyrille) - Live (1986, NYC) i like all those guys think this would appeal to Ornette fans. just listening now for the first time and it sounds great
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
frankie dunlop is prob my favorite non-canonized drummer
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
The Group album is excellent. All the players are great, but for me, things really take off when Billy Bang solos. Beautiful version of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.
No Business is such a great label - everything they put out is worth hearing. The Liudius Makunius/Barry Guy CD, Lava, is fantastic - hugely inventive and elemental sax and bass duet. There's also a terrific album by Bobby Bradford and a top notch band of Scandinavian free jazzers.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
thx for the recs, Stew i only know Barry Guy from Amalgam's Prayer for Peace but that's enough to make me know i need to hear Lavaand no doubt - Mr. Bang is playing his freaking heart out on this Group show
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
NoBusiness sends me everything they put out (CDs, and CD-Rs of the vinyl-only stuff). Unfortunately, the package that included that Group CD was completely destroyed by rain - the booklets were all melted onto the CDs. Would have liked to hear it.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Wayne Shorter's new album streaming here, for a little while: http://www.npr.org/2013/01/27/170099510/first-listen-wayne-shorter-without-a-net?ft=3&f=126134671&sc=nl&cc=jn-20130203Also, an intriguing interview, with excerpts of this 'n' that--downloadable, even: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/02/170882668/wayne-shorter-on-jazz-how-do-you-rehearse-the-unknown
― dow, Sunday, 3 February 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, the Shorter is sounding great so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 3 February 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like a pretty good band. Will have to check it out.
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 February 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
that's been his working band for a WHILE now. They're sick.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 February 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty much the only jazz eminence gris whose new releases I still look forward to
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 February 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
The quartet's been together 12 years now. I interviewed Brian Blade last week - it'll be up on Blue Note's website on Tuesday.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 4 February 2013 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
They must be playing in places I can't get into.
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 February 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think they do many club or theater shows outside NYC - mostly festivals. I saw them in 2011 at Town Hall.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 4 February 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
Flushing Town Hall?
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 February 2013 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
No, probably not, because in that case I might have gone.
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 February 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
Anat Cohen on Fresh Air now: started with a slow, sly "La Vie En Rose", based on Louis Armstrong's version, with her clarinet instead of trumpet, keeping the orig duet w trombone (Wycliffe Gordon here), plus a more modern beat, though not too much--instantly killing me. Also demonstrates how she applies a touch of her tenor sax technique to the clarinet's lower register. Plus The Three Cohens Sextet, of course--anyway, here tis (can download it too) http://www.npr.org/2013/02/06/171176294/anat-cohen-bringing-the-clarinet-to-the-world
― dow, Thursday, 7 February 2013 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
Also this tonight at 9 p.m. ESThttp://www.npr.org/event/music/170717638/chris-potter-quartet-live-at-the-village-vanguard
― dow, Thursday, 7 February 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of downloads and The Three Cohens, their Newport '12 set is still posted:http://www.npr.org/event/music/158020922/three-cohens-live-in-concert-newport-jazz-2012
― dow, Thursday, 7 February 2013 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
Who are the other two Cohens, her brother and the bass player with the same name as him?
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 February 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I didn't know about the one who plays saxophone
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 February 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
kinda cool that john patitucci has gone from being associated with one of the corniest, least-loved eras of jazz ('80s fusion/Elektrik Band/GRP) to being in one of the most respected acoustic quartets out there.
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
OTM. I've heard good things about when he plays R&B gigs on electric too, although I haven't seen for myself.
― Listicle Traces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
I love how you can always really hear the room in VV recordings, and because of all the famous recordings there, you wind up hearing echoes of them in new ones.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
really love this record by nathan hanson and brian roessler, discovered via Destination:Outhttp://nhbr.bandcamp.com/album/selenographia
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
digging into the jose james record and i'm really, really feeling it. there's a lot more chris dave than i expected too (it's killing that i don't have track-by-track credits for this record....you'd think blue note of all labels would post them somewhere!).
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
I've been digging through criss cross stuff on Spotify a lot lately, and I'm kind of surprised by how many one-offs there are by randos featuring sick backing bands who seem to be playing at 80%. It's always like "Introducing Jorm Stiegmuller" feat Brian Blade, Peter Bernstein, Christian McBride and Chris Potter. Tight but forgettable record of standards/bop classics/dated-sounding "modern" originals.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
OTOH I have been revisiting Tim Warfield's releases on Criss Cross (got into him briefly after seeing him with Nicholas Payton once), and I really like them -- very straight ahead, but band just has a vibe. Cyrus Chestnut, Clarence Penn, Tarus Mateen, Terrell Stafford on the one I'm listening to right now
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ "introducing jorm stiegmuller".
copying my list of criss cross faves from the 2012 thread:
billy drummond, dubaiclarence penn, penn's landingralph peterson, the art of warmelvin rhyne, mel's spellconrad herwig & brian lynch, que viva coltraneherlin riley, cream of the crescent
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
btw my favorite tim warfield is on that christian mcbride record, 'a family affair'. have you heard that? the opening track is one of my all-time faves, and it's got some other serious cuts.
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Warfield's got a new one out this week with Nicholas Payton (who's become such a loudmouth asshole it actually dissuades me from listening to his playing), Cyrus Chestnut, Rodney Whitaker and Clarence Penn. I'm hoping to give it a listen soon, and might interview Warfield for Burning Ambulance.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
So far this year very impressed with new Omar Sosa (homage to Kind of Blue but in afrocuban style), Teri Lyne Carrington (homage to Money Jungle), and Hiromi (2013 on these shores so I'm counting it). Some other stuff too -- that Wayne Shorter sounds all right to me, but Patricia Barber is not something that can be listened to casually so I'm still up in the air about her new one.
― @GracieLoPan #fyi (Display Name (this cannot be changed):), Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
Released last year but I'm making my way through Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers now. First disc has string quartet and piano all over it. A few 'free' sections but all is planned, the intense passages you usually get with that kind of music are cut-off, but this is just the kind of mix between classical ensemble and improvisation I'm interested in.
Just starting...choosing this thread as a notepad of lame impressions if I have anymore.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 February 2013 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
Title almost made me spit my iced tea out:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KO7MgTorL._SY300_.jpg
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to it now. It may very well end up working as an introduction to Shipp.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
It's a good compilation, but the title (and the art) have to be a deliberate, very dry joke.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't read it yet, but there's a big article on Jason Moran in this week's New Yorker (not available online).
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely worth a listen.http://www.freshselects.net/darryl-reeves-dillaquarium-jazz-covers
― tsrobodo, Sunday, 10 March 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
Got a new album by tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens in the mail yesterday - well, new as in it's a 2013 release, but it was recorded in 2010. The band is Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, Jaleel Shaw on alto sax, Taylor Eigsti on piano, Joe Sanders on bass, Justin Brown on drums, and Gretchen Parlato sings on two tracks. I liked Stephens' last album, so I'm interested to hear this one. It's called That Nepenthetic Place, and it comes out mid-April.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 10 March 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
This is sort of interesting/depressing:http://robbennion.com/wordpress/how-much-money-do-jazz-musicians-make/
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Hurting, that's why you have to start taking guitar lessons again, to do your part. Or come to Terraza 7 every once in a while. Tonight you can see Ari Hoenig- in case you missed him at the Winter Jazzfest mentioned upthread- play a duet with that quietly intense guitar genius from the island of Guadeloupe, Jean-Christophe Maillard. Tomorrow there is a bass player who plays with the guy who is linked in that article, Greg Diamond, who might end up showing up so you can ask him about the pie chart.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, he didn't play guitar last night but another instrument, some kind of custom-made eight-string bass saz.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
IDK, I looked up that guy and he looks a bit too natty dread for my taste. Does his music sound like his hair looks?
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
Are you sure about that? I couldn't find him on this thread: GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER...
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Answer to second question: no.
Almost forgot to post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDoAofL_hw
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/08/adam-lane-goes-traditional.html
finally got a chance to hear one of these new/old adam lane albums, 'oh freedom', some good loose blowing on it.
― j., Saturday, 30 November 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
The Burning Ambulance 25 Best Jazz Albums of 2013 are rolling out in five parts. Here are #s 25-21.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 9 December 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
hmm, that jeremy pelt track is on some erik truffaz vibes. can't decide if i'm into it or not. the drumming is the best part.
i'd love to check out the tim warfield and chris potter records when i get a chance.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 9 December 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
I really wish ECM would put their shit on Spotify so I could embed something from the Potter.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 9 December 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
I forgot that I have an eMusic subscription, and it just sparked back into life after I suspended it for three months, so I downloaded three Donald Byrd albums: Street Lady, Stepping into Tomorrow and Places and Spaces.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
Anyone heard the Dawn of Midi album, Dysnomia? Not sure if it's jazz or postrock or just really, really minimal. 9 songs, 46 minutes, piano, bass, drums, recorded live, feels like one long track. Reminds me of The Necks, Fugazi, VERY minimal techno perhaps. Very metronomic, repetitive, subdued, but absolutely fascinating. Know almost nothing about them.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 09:29 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I like it a lot. If you like it, you should check out early albums (the ones not on ECM) by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, who do a similar thing but slightly more organic-sounding, even though they're driven by electric rather than acoustic piano.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:01 (ten years ago) link
I wish I liked Dawn of Midi more than I do.
Currently enjoying Next Collective, Cover Art: songs by D'Angelo, Kanye/Jay-Z, N*E*R*D, Pearl Jam, Stereolab, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bon Iver, Dido, and Little Dragon.
― Noblesse J. Blige (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
heh, here's another Cover Art that came out this year: http://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/cover-art
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Well-said http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/12/the-quietly-revolutionary-guitar-of-jim-hall.html(Forgot Hall was in Jimmy Giuffre 3, who turned out to be quite the forerunners of atmospheric woodsy etc. Here they are, performing "The Train and the River" in Jazz On A Summer's Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLsEH4csQ4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLsEH4csQ4 So good.
― dow, Thursday, 12 December 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
What happened there---sorry, here they are with *Hall*, not Brookmeyer (this is the original recording)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-4ZqhHOFsM
― dow, Thursday, 12 December 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
The Burning Ambulance 25 Best Jazz Albums of 2013:
25. Meg Okura and the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, Music of Ryuichi Sakamoto24. Tim Warfield, Eye of the Beholder23. Tarbaby, Ballad of Sam Langford22. Chris Potter, The Sirens21. Jeremy Pelt, Water and Earth20. David Ake, Bridges19. Joel Harrison 19, Infinite Possibility18. JD Allen, Grace17. Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 216. Melodic Art-Tet, Melodic Art-Tet15. Various Artists, Long Story Short14. Nicolas Masson/Roberto Pianca/Emanuele Maniscanco, Third Reel13. Rich Halley 4, Crossing the Passes12. Little Women, Lung11. Dead Neanderthals, ...And It Ended Badly10. William Parker, Wood Flute Songs9. Dave Douglas Quintet, Time Travel8. Michael Bates/Samuel Blaser Quintet, One From None7. Aaron Parks, Arborescence6. Matthew Shipp, Piano Sutras5. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile4. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Slippery Rock3. Ghost Train Orchestra, Book of Rhapsodies2. Hush Point, Hush Point1. Nick Hempton, Odd Man Out
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 13 December 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
nice. i got excited thinking that the aaron parks was a new group record, oh well.
judging from your list i think you would dig this record i posted upthread.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 13 December 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Cool; I like the people in his band. I'll check it out as soon as The Wire tops off my Paypal account.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 13 December 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
Francis Davis, with comments on the year in Jazz and overall poll results (agree w his disappointed minority opinion of the latest Shorter), but I prefer reading about his own choices and comments on same (damn, a New York Art Quartet box?!)http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013/2013/12/18/252001963/wayne-shorter-and-the-years-other-passing-scenery
― dow, Friday, 20 December 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
I'm on his side w/r/t Shorter too (that album was never even in contention for my ballot).
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 20 December 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
oh shit there was a new mary halvorson?
― j., Friday, 20 December 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
There several mary halvorson cd´s this year.i guess this one was too late for Davis´ list:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxBE7SyKzoAIt was reviewed at Stef´s freejazz blog.
There was also a bass/guitar release on Intakt with Halvorson and Stephen Crumb calles ´Super 8´.A new Meg Okura cd? Nice.
― EvR, Saturday, 21 December 2013 09:19 (ten years ago) link
Started new thread, hopefully the title will not confuse you: I don't know what they mean when they say 'swing hard' anyway. Rolling Jazz Dflat 2014 Thread
― Can One Hear the Shape of a Ron Decline Bottle? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 January 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link