Rolling Jazz Thread 2013

i haven't listened to DD in awhile, but i really liked his quintet with chris potter/james genus/uri caine/clarence penn, and that's the only band i live.

saw live, duh

something about anat cohen's phrasing reminds me of the video of that robot playing giant steps

xp, oh yeah that was the band on Leap of Faith, which is the first Dave Douglas record I heard and the one I like the most, it's actually a really good record

oh right, that's the other one i really like. i think it has no piano + ben perowsky on drums, who i love. his trio record is a secret classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LRMxQX3D9s
(not my favorite track on it but it's the one on youtube)

oh yeah sorry, didn't really read your post carefully and LOF definitely has no piano and i think ben perowsky on drums, yes

Don't really know from AC but I'm not a big fan of the trumpet playing brother- don't know from the third sibling- but reluctant to say a thing negative in a public forum about these future Grammy winners.

Charity shop near me has got loads of jazz records in. Didn't have time to look in any real way but grabbed some Jazz Messengers albums. Kind of housebound at the mo, but gonna try to get out for a peek. Get anxious at the thought of hidden gems being bought by folks who aren't me. :(

xp, I kind of felt a little bit bad about knocking AC. I feel bad about knocking any living jazz player too much -- it's such a meager industry to begin with and everyone needs all the help they can get.

You know who is great though, the other Avishai Cohen, the bass player.

Yes on both counts. Also, I know drummers love the bass player's percussionist. Can't spell his name, iateemai, or something like that.

I feel bad about knocking any living jazz player too much -- it's such a meager industry to begin with and everyone needs all the help they can get.

I disagree. There are lots of players—entire schools of jazz, in fact—who should be actively discouraged, or at least convinced to change course, because (I think) what they're playing is driving, or at least keeping, audiences away.

this dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcajf4GHwCU

Still can't spell his name but found a 108 page bachelor's thesis about Avishai.
(Xp)

Yeah, Itamar, that's it.

pretty common israeli name, as is avishai (obviously!)

for some reason thought the bassist ac played with danilo perez. Maybe I just saw them live together, don't see him on any of the records.

nm he was on Panamonk

This is fucking AWESOME:

http://o.scdn.co/300/0e6378ce0cd4dee06184f79c4b16602e5a783e8a

I was a little skeptical of it, like "Oh, Drake and some euro rando" but this guy is an incredible guitarist and the vibe between them is totally there

it has the energy of that one great late night stoned college jam session that you are never able to replicate again

How widely do you guys interpret jazz? Just because I saw not one but two copies of Gil Scott-Herons's The Bottle. which for a small scottish town is weird. Of course, Heron was born here, and his Dad played for Celtic, but still...

Anyone heard the Sons Of Kemet album? Seb Roachford group; two drummers, clarinet, and tuba. The tuba essentially plays acid-house-y bass, like a didgeridoo emulating a 303. Wicked fun. Very danceable.

Yep, I really like it. Always admired Seb Rochford as a drummer, but found his groups a little underwhelming: trained musos trying to do simple rock riffs but not really being dumb or noisy enough. But the double drum action on this is great, plus that fat tuba and Shabaka Hutchings' African-Caribbean melodic sensibility.

ooh that sounds good!!

it is good!! https://soundcloud.com/sons-of-kemet

Yeah, I liked it - a lot of fun.

Yeah, outside Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland his other groups have left me cold; didn't get Fulborn Teversham. But this is great fun, really enjoyable.

This is good!

I've been getting my jazz on properly for the first time in my life. I'm starting to get a bit addicted. As well as obvious stuff like the Shape Of Jazz To Come, A Love Supreme etc, I'm currently digging Abdullah Ibrahim - Water From An Ancient Well which is fairly mellow, but never boring and very beautiful in places)

Macarthur Foundation Genius grant winners announced, including:

Jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer is another recipient working a narrow artistic niche: “The business of making hit records is not the business we’re in,” the 41-year-old New Yorker says. “I don’t even see it as a business.”

It is “something larger,” he says. “In a way it’s not about success.”

Iyer performs regularly, and his work aims to help broaden the cultural conversation. Consider Iyer’s latest recording, “Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dream Project,” which sets harrowing yet poetic recollections of returned warriors against haunting violin and piano scores.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/macarthur-foundation-awards-24-genius-grants/2013/09/24/d16de652-2555-11e3-ad0d-b7c8d2a594b9_story.html?hpid=z4

dog latin, you should check Ibrahim's album Ekaya, the one that got me into his music; it's the also name of his group now (or at least recently). Just got this press release:

SCANDINAVIAN FREE JAZZ, GARAGE TRIO, THE THING, SHARE "INDIA"

NEW ALBUM, BOOT!, OUT NOV. 12 ON THE THING RECORDS

THE THING PLAY THE GUGGENHEIM IN NEW YORK - WED. NOV. 20
Scandinavian free jazz, garage trio, The Thing -- Mats Gustafsson (bass, baritone, tenor and soprano saxophones), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (electric bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) - are releasing BOOT!, their most hard-hitting, open and epic release to date, on November 12th. It follows their collaborative release with Neneh Cherry, 2012's The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound), and is their sixth studio album and the first album on their own label, The Thing Records. With dedicated fans in the rock, noise and jazz communities, BOOT! takes The Thing's music to new, uncompromising levels and continues to solidify The Thing's special and important position in the contemporary independent music world.
Recorded over three intense days, BOOT! breathes life and energy, capturing the deep riffs and distorted activities of the electric bass, the attack of the snare drum, the depth of the bass sax and epic lines of the tenor sax. It marks an important development in the trio's endless search of musical poetic meltdowns. Throughout, they transform their roots, combine their own free jazz and punk aesthetics with elements of Ethiopian music, soul, funk and noise, and re-work album-oriented material by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. Take a listen via "India," premiered yesterday via The FADER.
STREAM/SHARE THE THING'S "INDIA" -

https://soundcloud.com/thingjazz/india
"'India,' their cover of John Coltrane's gorgeous piece from Impressions, swings pretty heavily with some raw sax and some incredibly excitable drums." - The FADER

Formed in 1999 and named after Don Cherry, The Thing are known for playing a variety of compositions, including material by PJ Harvey, The White Stripes, The Stooges, The Sonics, The Cramps, Lightning Bolt, The Ex and many more. They transformed the music of these other artists into a contemporary context, making it their own. As individuals or as a group, they have collaborated with those including, Peter Brötzmann, Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, David Grubbs, Eye, The Ex, Pat Metheny, Arto Lindsay, Steve Reid, Kieran Hebden, Merzbow, Christian Marclay, The Nomads, Guy Picciotto, Neneh Cherry and more.
on Wednesday, November 20th, those in New York can see The Thing live at a special show at the Guggenheim curated by John Corbett and Christopher Wool. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/1bGdV72

this is nice stuff:

http://www.npr.org/event/music/237080011/matt-ulerys-loom-tiny-desk-concert

i know the drummer, he's really great.

really like that Jordan

Will check it out. Speaking of drummers, check this out: hum.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/60th/pdfs/38sorrentino.pdf Look for "Do the drummers in black hoods rumble anything out of their drums?"

Just ordered the Woody Shaw and Dexter Gordon Complete Columbia Albums boxes - 7 CDs for Gordon, 6 for Shaw. I listened to some of each on Spotify before pulling the trigger - seems like pretty great stuff.

Also just shot some video interviews with Matthew Shipp and William Parker tonight in Parker's apartment - I'll have a piece up on Burning Ambulance next week with the two of them talking about David Ware, on Ware's birthday (11/7).

Sad to hear that Frank Wess passed on Wednesday at the age of 91. RIP, Frank. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/10/31/rip-frank-wess-d-c-jazz-flutist-and-tenor-saxophonist/

Memorial on WKCR right now.

Guess it started yesterday and will go on for much of today.

With Joe Cohn on guitar and Jackie Williams on drums right now.

Phil Schaap schooling us now.

Atomic Basie time.

Sorry, that's over now it's Battle Royal.

u guys which of the year's christian mcbride records do u like better

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18706-matana-roberts-coin-coin-chapter-two-mississippi-moonchile/

the next chapter of coin coin is out!!

chapter one was transcendent

Anyone heard Satelliti? Italian electronic / jazz duo - details & music here: http://www.satelliti.org/ and also here: http://satelliti.bandcamp.com/

The album (Transistor) was out last week and is really good; driving, jazzy, 70s fusion stuff with swirling keys and lots of early electronica bubbling underneath. Quite krauty, but definitely feels more jazz than anything else. Meant to be intense live, in a Bitches Brew in a nightclub way.

Matthew Shipp's (solo) Piano Sutras and his collaboration with Guillermo E. Brown, Telephone Popcorn, are both great. I would just post this to a Matthew Shipp thread but there is none and I haven't got enough to say about him to justify starting one.

Piano Sutras feels more expansive than One (but that is to say what exactly, considering how minimalist One was?). I haven't quite got a handle on it, but I love recognizing the moves he makes that are so simple and yet so distinctively his own. I think I'd need some music theory to describe them more concretely than that.

Title track of Telephone Popcorn is hilariously Raesque.

man that wayne shorter album this year. snooze. right? mad respect to the man, tho. he's a living legend.

dow: just saw your recommendation. cheers, i'll check it out.