"Music doesn't go seasonable to me." Rolling Jazz Dm7♭5 Thread 2017

Also, the final act of the night was supposed to be a trio of Charles Gayle on sax, William Parker on bass, and Marvin TA Thompson on drums, but Gayle (who lives in Buffalo now) didn't show up, allegedly because his plane was delayed a half hour and he got impatient and went back home. So Joe McPhee took the sax spot, and Matt Shipp joined, making it a quartet.

what a quartet!!!

yeah, sounds fun!

Just bought 2 of the 3 albums Jason Moran has for sale on Bandcamp - the live trio date from the Village Vanguard, and the one with Mary Halvorson on guitar and Ron Miles on cornet. Gonna be interviewing him for the site soon.

he's the best; i can't think of anytime i've seen him live where i haven't been impressed.

Yeah, I saw him in the early 2000s at the Iridium, with Sam Rivers. It was fantastic.

Speaking of Bandcamp, did y'all see this On Bandcamp Daily?
"FMP Records’ Free Jazz Legacy is Alive and Well at Destination: OUT"
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/06/07/destination-out-feature/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=Destination%20Out

just blasting out that lost Monk soundtrack to roger Vadim's Les Liaisons Dangereuses movie. I love it so far.

It is essentially slow contemplative versions of numbers from Brilliant Corners, Monk's Dream and the Art Blakey album.

This was touching (Gary Burton): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DadW138UE

Although I think there's also something touching about old jazz musicians not being able to play like they used to, but having the full weight of experience and history on their side.

(and his mom's 101!)

"Pay particular attention to that jaimie branch album, 'cause it fucking rules."

yeah, fine album is that.

I've been spinning it a lot, incl. this morning. More fun than Nickelback, I concluded.

(After reading an article advocating for Nickelback as good simple fun music)

This Jack DeJohnette/Scofield/Grenadier/Medeski album is really really enjoyable. Just feels really good.

https://hudson-music.bandcamp.com/releases

yeah the first track is especially brilliant

Hm, that group is playing here Saturday as part of the jazz festival. Maybe I should note that one down.

I find the first track a little too abstract and too long but I really like the playing.

so you like it then!

Hm, that group is playing here Saturday as part of the jazz festival. Maybe I should note that one down.

Ha, well, there are a lot of interesting things happening so I'm trying to pick. After listening, though, this will be a priority. Wow @ Scofield's solos on "Lay Lady Lay". "Song for World Forgiveness" was a highlight for me, too. I'll admit to skipping through the tracks with vocals.

Tremendous profile of Craig Taborn in this week's New York Times Magazine.

This is really nice too, although I'm sure they're going to take down the video and re-upload it so the url doesn't work anymore, because they do that every single time. Brian Blade is always a joy to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9MyPALmYM

(Old and New Dreams tribute w/Joshua Redman, Ron Miles, Scott Colley, and Blade)

pharaoh sanders tonight

New Stereogum column is up. I hope Cooper-Moore doesn't get mad that I called him "somewhere between hillbilly and holy fool"...

That NYT Craig Taborn profile was a really interesting portrait of the artist as a social recluse, without the mythologising b/s that sometimes goes with that type of thing. His Daylight Ghosts + Ljubljana (w/Gustafsson) are both sick albums imo.

just noticed there is another Craig Taborn (w/Ikue Mori recorded live at Village Vanguard '16) album out on Tzadik.

Going to see Ambrose Akinmusire at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Pretty psyched, as his newest live album is really good. Unfortunately, that's about all I can afford among the plethora of good stuff. But I do plan to check out some of the free stuff.

I really think the Hudson show from last night was among the better shows I've ever seen! All four guys were killing it and the sound was great, which is not always the case in that space. They brought their own engineer, which probably helped. I expected great things from Scofield and deJohnette but Medeski blew me away. He had three keyboards: an acoustic piano, an organ (Hammond?), and an electronic keyboard. (The programme said "synth"; might have been a Fender Rhodes with a tonne of pedals?). (I obv can't ID keyboards as well as guitars.) With the latter, he got way noisier than he does on the album. I sometimes felt like I was hearing polytonality during the jams, with Medeski playing in a different key than the other guys? Scofield could get a really piercing, penetrating sound while staying fairly clean and clear. DeJohnette maintained a light touch throughout.

I love DeJohnette, he has got to be one of the greatest living drummers rn

He sounded great, yeah.

Wasn't he on a recent (past few years) tribute to Herbie Hancock at the Kennedy Center?

Him and Vinnie Colaiuta both

Haven't listened to that Hudson album yet, but intrigued by the personnel and what you guys are saying, despite the fact that it has (at least) two Dylan songs and one Band song, which might otherwise put me off in a jazz context.

Listening to that xpost Old And New Dreams trib to a trib on the radio (Jazz Night In America): "It became less of an Ornette cover band and more about their own music", and this gets more involving as it slows down and digs in---more about the present musos' own playing (esp. bass and drums, for me).

Scott Colley's arco bass is damn near bass sax at the moment---backstory here: http://www.npr.org/event/music/533834836/still-dreaming-joshua-redmans-tribute-to-a-tribute

J. Redman's "Blues For Charlie" with Ron Miles' cornet taking a stroll, whole crew sidling up to shifty tempi, kinda Mingus so far, good finale.

"Charlie" as in Haden, not Mingus tho

thanks for another inspiring column, phil - that BJ Jansen album got me back into hard bop!

RIP Geri Allen :(

I need to dig into her catalog; I really only know her from the two albums she did with Ornette Coleman. Right now I'm listening to the 2016 album she did with David Murray and Terri Lynne Carrington (no bassist).

Hm. Guy in my neighborhood plays bass with Teri Lynne Carrington. Now wondering if he played with Geri Allen as well.

Nope

should i go see oliver lake tonight?

Sure.

Lots of nice Geri Allen tributes on Facebook, from the usual suspects and others as well.

Yeah, Lake is good. I saw his steel pan band once, and his new album with a string quartet is really interesting (and enjoyable).

I have been listening to Geri Allen's recording of Mary Lou Williams Zodiac Suite, today. And the In The Year of the Dragon album w/ Haden, Motian. RIP again :(

Yeah those last three are all gone now

I mean that last trio *sigh*

Hey, Kirk Lightsey is at Smalls tonight, which might be a good thing to go see under the circumstances. Actually last time I saw him another great pianist had just passed way, John Hicks, and he invited us all to head over to the memorial with him after the show.

xp That sounds promising. He's playing with Hamid Drake, Josh Abrams, and Ed Wilkerson (who I am not familiar with) which is also promising.

Been having a good festival so far: going to see Bad Plus tonight. Last night, I saw Sonoluminescence Trio (David Mott, Jesse Stewart, William Parker), who were really great, better than the first time I saw them, probably, with a lot of variety and dynamics and even some memorable melodic and rhythmic hooks. Mott integrated his circular breathing and multiphonic techniques into the improv really effectively. Stewart is probably one of my favourite percussionists going right now, on kit as well as waterphone; Parker was obv fantastic, playing a variety of instruments, two of which I couldn't identify, as well as singing on one piece. I picked up their brand-new LP. I can't play the LP until I reunite with my turntable in the fall but the mp3s sound excellent. It's a two-track analogue live (in Ottawa!) recording with a lot of warmth. The day before, I saw the Garry Elliott Quartet play totally straight-ahead stuff, which was really nice for a change.