Rolling Jazz Thread 2013

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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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

I didn't know anyone else here was into Kadri Gopalnath! What were you listening to? (Don't know Mahanthappa's work. Maybe I'll try some.)

yeah I started getting into carnatic music in general and then discovered him just by poking around. Right now I'm listening to this live thing on Spotify, part of the "Gems of Carnatic Music" series. It says it's 2006 but there's no venue listed.

i think rudresh is good but somehow i haven't been able to make myself stick with the last several albums now.

Hey New Yorkers, Burnt Sugar with go-go musicians free Thursday May 16 (tonight) for 2 shows at David Rubenstein Atrium; then in W. DC
Monday May 20. Could be good.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44299/drums-along-the-potomac-may-20-at-the-kennedy-center

Listening to the new Terence Blanchard album, Magnetic; comes out 5/28 and features guest spots from Ravi Coltrane, Ron Carter and Lionel Loueke in addition to the core band (Brice Winston on tenor, Fabian Almazan on piano, Joshua Crumbly on bass, Kendrick Scott on drums). Pretty hot stuff, not as moody as some of his previous records (which I also liked).

Also, I just ordered one of those Complete Black Saint & Soul Note Recordings boxes, this one by Muhal Richard Abrams. Eight CDs for $40 including shipping, and it seems to be mostly big band/orchestra stuff. Intrigued to hear it; I know almost nothing about Abrams' work, so this is basically a starting point for me.

The Hearinga Suite is pretty nice.

Thread of missing Mulgrew Miller.

Only 57 I think. Too young to go.

https://soundcloud.com/tedsirota/sets/philly-joe-jones-rutgers

Like this guitarist a lot, has a new record coming out with Ches Smith on drums:
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/premiere-nick-millevoi-and-ed-ricart-quartet-linive

New site dedicated to Lowell Davidson, including two newly-discovered recordings.

Been listening to this Jemeel Moondoc Trio record from 1982, with Ed Blackwell on drums. I love his drumming so much. I've actually loved his drumming pretty much as long as I have been listening to jazz, since when I first heard him on Ornette Coleman records.

moldy figs i'm selling

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I would have sex with all this cool jazz, if I actually had a working turntable and stero right now.

debated keeping the red norvo trio EP just in case i decided to become a Mingus completist, but i don't think i have enough time or money to become a Mingus completist. plus, i have the collected trio 2XLP and i think that's probably good for me. the original math rockers.

the defranco/tristano and the chico hamilton trio records in particular intrigue me

spent hours last night reading about SEECO Records and DAWN Records. that's where i'm at. stuck in the 50's.

http://www.bsnpubs.com/latin/seeco.html

http://www.bsnpubs.com/latin/dawn.html

would like to be a dawn records completist, but again, time, money...

Just got a download of the new Nick Hempton Band CD, Odd Man Out. It's coming out on 8/13 (available digitally starting 7/30). It's his second for Posi-Tone, third overall. He's an alto saxophonist, originally from Australia but living/working in NYC since 2004. The band is a quartet (piano, bass, drums) but they add a trombonist on several tracks here. His music is straightahead, mostly uptempo hard bop and blues (he's on Posi-Tone), but his tone is clean and the band is tight, and I always like his albums.

I saw that guy downtown at B-flat a few months ago, subbing for the regular guy on their jazz night, he was pretty good. There are a few Aussie jazz musicians around town along with people who may have lived down there and may have been married to some of them at some point, a few of them are named Matt, playing piano and having spiky hair. The elder statesman of the down under scene is actually a Kiwi, I believe, Mike Nock.

I posted on Facebook that with his new beard, he kinda looks like Jandek:

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a Soundcloud stash: http://e2.ma/message/6g1af/mdpv1d