Rolling Jazz Thread 2013

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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.

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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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Does anyone else ever go through long phases of jazz "burnout"? Maybe it's just because I started listening to jazz so young and listened so obsessively, but lately I find most jazz just doesn't scratch the right itch for me.

*raises hand*

It's weird too, the way I perceive a lot of jazz seems to have changed, like it used to feel like this edgy sonic adventure for me, and now it feels more meandery and self-indulgent. I'm massively generalizing of course.

In my case, I will still happily go see a show, but sometimes have little inclination to put on an album or listen to the radio.

I'm sure it's also age -- I don't have that many opportunities to just sit down with a good pair of headphones and really get INTO a record, and sometimes jazz requires that.

Sometimes for me I think "I should be learning how to play these tunes, not just listening for enjoyment."

totally. but then every now and then i get burnt out on electronic music too, and i just want to hear people play instruments really well.

i guess i look at it as a common vocabulary that's there for musicians to communicate with & learn, but after a point it's like, ok, what are you going to do with it? maybe it's not the end goal. and these days everyone plays everything, but you still find some jazz musicians with that true believer mentality, where it's like a holy quest to develop your voice and lead bands and gripe about the state of jazz. and that's a beautiful thing in a way, but a rough career choice.

discovered there was a new bob james/david sanborn record bc of nate chinen's smooth jazz piece in the nyt; it's acoustic and brubeck-y, which would feel cynical if it weren't holy christ incredible. steve gadd on drums.

i don't really get him but i think of bob james as the smooth jazz guy who also hires good drummers ("take it to the mardi gras" etc). i once bought an acoustic trio record of his because it had billy kilson (who makes weird smooth jazz records of his own) on it.

i tried to listen to that a bit, it's nice overall but I can't take David Sanborn's saxy sax tone