Are you an FB fan, friend or follower.?
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
I think he's just friends with a couple musicians I am friends with so he came up in my feed when they commented on it.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
The bassist I played with in high school tours the world with Roy Hargrove now and is becoming a bit of a heavy, so he's my fb connection to lots of big name dudes.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
Okay, I found it. I see some familiar names,including Willard Dyson, who I just recently discovered. If I counted right,think the most posting on the thread is from you.
Have you ever met Russell IRL? He is really nice.
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
I haven't. Sometimes I think if I ever take lessons again (and am willing to drop $$$ on it) he's a guy I might holler at
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
Do you still have an electric guitar? Also I saw at least one other guitar player on that particular thread, Dan Adler. I believe he has a day job designing computer chips and/or algorithms. Israeli too, as far as I know. Maybe he will give you special rate.
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
I have a cheap electric guitar that I happen to like a lot (a Johnson). I don't have a hollow-body anymore.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link
I never liked my 90s Epiphone full-hollow anyway so I sold it a while back, figuring if I ever got back into jazz I'd just buy something nicer.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
Does he even give lessons? I guess you could FB message him and find out. My understanding of the pricing is that generally guys who play lots of gigs usually charge $100 for an hour or so lesson- this is for any instrument- and they will schedule a lesson if and when they have time.
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
Of course at his level of fame,he may charge more, but maybe not
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that's about the price I expected. Not in the market to spend that much right now, but maybe eventually.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
You should try to go at least once when you are able.
Btw, I saw one of your old guitar teachers a few weeks ago at The Bar Next Door. He had a really good trio.
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
TD?
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link
or VJ?
The former. Not sure I knew you studied with the latter.
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 02:59 (nine years ago) link
TD was a temp sub while Ted was in and out of the hospital, VJ replaced Ted permanently, and it looks like he's the only remaining member of the jazz faculty from when I was there other than Ralph Bowen, who directs the program. VJ was a really nice dude btw, but I think I was just not in the emotional state to work with a different teacher after Ted passed.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 November 2014 04:27 (nine years ago) link
Have you wished Russell a happy birthday yet?
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Bottom five (#s 25-21) of the Burning Ambulance Best Jazz of 2014 list.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Burning Ambulance Best Jazz of 2014, Day 2.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
thanks, as someone who hasn't been keeping up at all, this is great reading. it makes me happy that Criss Cross is still doing their same old thing.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
(also, lol @ the dig on a certain jazz guitarist, i've never heard him play but have backed up his very talented wife on occasion).
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
backed up his wife you say
― Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
ON DRUMS, haha
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
i'll bet you did
― 18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
*Ahem* I'll bet you guys would like this guy: http://www.willbernard.com/press/guitarplayer1007.htm
― Cutset Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
i do. i haven't heard those T.J. Kirk albums in forever but i have fond memories of them.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
In other news, I heard a while back that the young jazz guitar phenomenon with the same last name as that guy's first name has pretty serious tendonitis.
― Cutset Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
But looks like he is out playing so either he has dealt with it or is dealing with it.
― Cutset Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
i don't know who that is, but that's rough. the best jazz guitarist i know had the same thing happen...he took a year off from playing guitar and started doing yoga and writing songs, now is a singer/songwriter.
still plays jazz, but uses more space, and does it on his high school Ibanez shredder guitar rather than the hollow-body.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
fwiw I think I had Medicine Hat on CD. Don't love the guy though tbh, a little too cliche bluesy/funky for me.
― 18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
The complete Burning Ambulance Best Jazz Albums Of 2014:
25. Vinnie Sperrazza, Apocryphal24. Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans, The Freedom Principle and Live In Lisbon23. Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues22. Eric Revis, In Memory Of Things Yet Seen21. Matthew Shipp Trio, Root Of Things20. Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill and The Great Lakes Suites19. The Cookers, Time And Time Again18. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom17. Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin, Nomadic16. Matt Brewer, Mythology15. Rudy Royston, 30314. Eric Hofbauer Quintet, Prehistoric Jazz Vol. 1 & 213. Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit, Erta Ale12. William Hooker & Liudas Mockunas, Live At The Vilnius Jazz Festival11. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten10. Donald Edwards, Evolution Of An Influenced Mind9. Eric Wyatt, Borough Of Kings8. Tom Tallitsch, Ride7. Mark Lomax Trio, Isis & Osiris6. Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature5. Mike DiRubbo, Threshold4. Brian Charette, The Question That Drives Us3. Steve Lehman Octet, Mise en Abîme2. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn1. Jemeel Moondoc, The Zookeeper's House
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 5 December 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Cool, thx
― Cutset Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I'm liking the Sperazza a lot so far. Didn't even know about the new Lehman.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Good work with that list. That Jerome Sabbagh album is stunning, need to listen to more of these.
― xelab, Sunday, 7 December 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
I have now also listened to the no.1 - Jemeel Moondoc album, wow!
― xelab, Monday, 8 December 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
http://larryappelbaum.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/2014-favorites/
critic, radio dj, and Library of Congress employee
1. Billy Childs “Map To The Treasure” (Sony)
2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden “Last Dance” (ECM)
3. Otis Brown III “The Thought of You” (Blue Note)
onward to 10 plus some reissues
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
I'm looking for jazz vocalists faves
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
curm, this has a jazz vocalists faves section:Francis Davis presents his round-up of jazz crits. Intrigued by descriptions of ones I've missed, and his comments on others are mostly right-on (incl. his push-back against high ranking of Moran's half-good Waller project). But, despite Davis's opening caveats, Rollins' Road Shows Vol. 3 doesn't seem quite right for Top 10, much less No.4, considering that SR has set the bar very high---and the octogenarian diabetic doesn't spare himself on the longest tracks, or the 8-minute-plus "Solo Sonny"---but sounds like he should, just a bit (another kind of self-discipline). Still, "Patanjali" is so fucking tight, reminds me again that I need to check out yoga, and will make my P&J Singles (the album was on there for a while, and would make a Top 20)(History is a very well-chosen 2014 Rollins anth, on Spotify just below RS V3)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/12/19/371282561/the-2014-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=2045
― dow, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
thanks
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Incredible story about the stolen Smalls Buddha.
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
New Year, New Thread. "Weird Means Something You Never Heard Before": Rolling Jazz D-bag Thread 2015
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Your subtitle on the new thread suggests that once can't post there unless they go to Smalls...You New Yorkers
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
You need to post a photo of the Buddha
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Take it to I Must Protest!
― Dedlock Holiday (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link