Rolling Jazz Thread 2013

lol @ "introducing jorm stiegmuller".

copying my list of criss cross faves from the 2012 thread:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Title almost made me spit my iced tea out:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KO7MgTorL._SY300_.jpg

Listening to it now. It may very well end up working as an introduction to Shipp.

It's a good compilation, but the title (and the art) have to be a deliberate, very dry joke.

I haven't read it yet, but there's a big article on Jason Moran in this week's New Yorker (not available online).

Definitely worth a listen.
http://www.freshselects.net/darryl-reeves-dillaquarium-jazz-covers

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.

This is sort of interesting/depressing:
http://robbennion.com/wordpress/how-much-money-do-jazz-musicians-make/

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.

Sorry, he didn't play guitar last night but another instrument, some kind of custom-made eight-string bass saz.

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?

Are you sure about that? I couldn't find him on this thread: GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER...

Answer to second question: no.

Almost forgot to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDoAofL_hw

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What day is today?

Jazzday?

(tho never you mind me, i'm still listenin' to synth pop at the mo:)

Bargain Day.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand. Despite the rastaesque appearance, Hurting, in this case you would be very wrong to judge a book by its cover, he plays with an icy precision, as if his fingers were transmitting the results of the cold equations directly from brain to instrument.

Sorry, just wanted to say The Cold Equations.

Anyway, tonight at the same venue, my bass playing neighbor and a few cats from Paquita D'Rivera's band. They are playing a few Coltrane tunes but surprisingly not Equinox.

ingrid laubrock, 'anti-house':

http://www.instantjazz.com/instantjazz-cd.php?id=2081
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/03/ingrid-laubrock-anti-house-strong-place.html

from last year, just reviewed on stef's freejazz site. sounds very nice! good to hear mary halvorson in a group with a piano.

just reviewed in the nyt too i guess

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/arts/music/albums-by-kris-davis-and-ingrid-laubrock.html?pagewanted=all

Listening to Barry Altschul's The 3dom Factor, a trio date featuring Jon Irabagon on tenor sax, Joe Fonda on bass, and Altschul on drums. For anyone who doesn't know, Altschul is a fucking amazing drummer who was part of Sam Rivers' 1970s trio, Anthony Braxton's quartet as heard on Five Pieces 1975 and The Montreux/Berlin Concerts, the band on Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds, the group Circle (with Braxton, Holland and Chick Corea), and on and on. He worked with Irabagon (who's best known as 1/4 of Mostly Other People Do The Killing) on the saxophonist's album Foxy in 2010, and he and Fonda have been part of the FAB Trio with violinist Billy Bang for decades. This is a killer album of free-but-swinging post-bop with amazing solos from everybody. Highly recommended.

jessie used to teach hindustani classical music when i was at uni, he never liked me very much, but i was always in awe of his playing and teaching, here he is playing with seb rochford and others, really great music, i love this sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvNSXDQP-uc&feature=youtube_gdata

I've bought a bunch of stuff by saxophonist Tim Warfield from eMusic and Amazon MP3 in the last couple of weeks - six albums in all - and I'm interviewing him tomorrow. He's a straightahead tenor player who works with Nicholas Payton, Orrin Evans and guys like that.

yeah we discuss him upthread a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qwv2f5m0xM

tight

the fellowship always kind of surprises me, inasmuch as they don't sound like what I would imagine a Blade-led group to sound like (i.e. they're not what I imagined his taste to be)

how so?

or have you forgotten:

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http://irockjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/brianblade_mamarosa_albumcover.jpg

idk, his playing is so hip and edgy, and their sound is relatively easy-going

btw is it just me or does that piano have kind of an odd sound

i love that he's a folkie at heart and that the fellowship is so melody-based. my favorite band in jazz.

he's def my favorite working drummer in jazz

there are so many hip, super-accomplished drummers these days but he's got that elvin thing where he can just kill you with one hit.

yeah I think there are probably more killer jazz drummers than ever in terms of versatility and chops and groove, but he all that plus a ridiculous amount of style

I guess I attribute the first part of that to the proliferation of jazz schools?

i wonder how much could be attributed to Youtube, like young kids watching gospel chops videos for inspiration/competition/ideas before they get to musical school.

Never listened to Darcy James Argue before but I'm really enjoying this: http://www.npr.org/2013/04/21/177514421/first-listen-darcy-james-argues-secret-society-brooklyn-babylon

I don't actually like it very much, compared with their last album. But I need to give it another chance or two.

Infernal Machines is the last album? Is it similar?

I am really close to really digging the new Rudresh Mahanthappa, but I can't quite get into the way it sounds -- it has that shiny metallic 90s jazz sound that I thought had mostly died out. I hate the way the drums are recorded to sound more like rock drums.

gave up on it and decided to listen to some Kadri Gopalnath instead, guy was a motherfucker on the sax

I just came here to say that I heart Hurting's new name