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

Intrigued by this new venue 75 Club, at 75 Murray. Same address also seems to host some Wilbur’s Warehouse related events.

http://75clubnyc.com/
https://tribecacitizen.com/2017/10/12/a-new-jazz-club/

Even though you can’t play anymore, it must bring you some satisfaction to know that you gave people so much through your music.
Not really.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/jazz-icon-sonny-rollins-on-giving-up-playing-and-his-legacy.html

Amazing interview

Yes, very inspiring

And yet in parts surprisingly close to that New Yorker piece everyone got so pissed off about...

Which New Yorker piece is that?

This one:
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/sonny-rollins-words

Sonny himself thought it was funny.

That Vulture interview is iconic.

I got an assignment to review the new album by Swedish saxophonist Bernt Rosengren, and I liked it a lot - so much so that I ordered his three previous albums, all recorded with the same band and for the same label, from Sweden. They just arrived today, and I'm very much looking forward to checking them out. Two of them feature a mix of standards and originals, but one is entirely made up of pieces by other Swedish jazz musicians, which ought to be cool.

I wrote up the best jazz albums of 2017 for Stereogum.

thanks for the lists unperson, checking out these albums today

My friend who is a lover of clarinet music is going to be in NYC in January. What gigs shall I point him to?

Ken Peplowski, if he is playing.

Maybe the Ear Inn Earegulars or whatever they are called

Or something at Mona’s

Yeah, definitely Dennis Lichtman at Mona’s.

Tuesday’s at 11 til late

Thanks!

This story about Irvin Mayfield just keeps getting more remarkable, not always in a good way---The Great Jazzby doesn't say all of it, but (despite music, saga-wise it's better reading than hearing; I missed some of the audio version while some while trying to absorb previous):
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/12/18/571718936/irvin-mayfield-new-orleans-jazz-pillar-indicted-for-laundering-library-funds

I saw Dave King w/the Chris Speed trio last night in a tiny gallery space, truly a great set. They had some tunes that operate in an interesting zone of 'free', but with a lot of rhythmic information. Honestly wasn't sure at times if there was a consistent pulse or if they were just playing shapes that would at times converge and stop on a dime.

I can't think of anyone else who I'd rather hear play drums in this context, DK just has so much intention and emotion behind it, he's a joy to watch even for civilians who would never normally mess with avant-garde gallery jazz.

I'm listening to their album and it's a good representation, but of course this sort of thing is much better in the room.

Funny, another writer I know was there and he hates King; he said on FB that his playing basically wrecked the whole set for him.

Haha, I would love to read that.

I'll quote him without naming him:

"Disconcerting for the almost instant visceral dislike I had to King's antics behind the kit, so much so [that at] this point I'm pretty sure it's me & not him. Chops are there, but in the service of this hyperactive compulsion to strike nearly every surface w/ dynamics & subtlety a distant afterthought. There were times when he outright drowned Speed out. Only a single energy improv piece that set several of the blue-hairs dining in the audience on edge & had King once again banging away w/ a goofy grin. The rest was open-ended, smoothly-contoured freebop salvaged by Speed's focus & Tordini's flexibility."

I liked the album, and wouldn't mind checking the group out live at some point.

i don't know if i can accurately judge King because he's such a "thing" in minneapolis

early happy apple was a force of nature

He was busy, sort of an uninterrupted free-time flow, but I thought it was extremely dynamic and subtle (which is not easy to do with that kind of density). Lots of brushes. Only the occasional bass drum or hi-hat bomb, which really stood out and was usually locked in with the bass or sax in a way I didn't see coming.

And god forbid someone seem like they're enjoying themselves playing jazz.

I have been heavily listening to that Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray Trio, Jump Up album this last week. He was one hell of a drummer, ffs! It was sad to read in an obituary that in his last years he was struggling to get by on benefits and bootlegging his own music for extra cash.

Not heard the Dave King album but another drummer bandleader I like at the moment is Billy Mintz, his Ugly Beautiful album is brilliant.

Sonny Rollins‏ @sonnyrollins 22h22 hours ago

On February 16, Craft Recordings will release a deluxe edition of Way Out West, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the recording session.

I also notice there is a campaign to name a bridge after him. I really love Way Out West, it's just perfect.

Wasn't there already a deluxe edition of Way Out West with a whole bunch of bonus tracks? How much more could there be?

quite correct really!

I really dig that Zara McFarlane album you put on your list unperson, reminds me of a more jazz, less reggae and more adventurous Hollie Cook

The track 'Crooked Teeth' on the Chris Speed record is a good example of their free interplay. I probably wouldn't like it as much if I hadn't caught a set. Everything else on the record is pulse-based for the most part.

CS has a really beautiful sound btw.

Everything else on the record is pulse-based for the most part.

Actually that's not true, Spotify was just playing tracks in an unexpected order, lol.

more jazz, less reggae and more adventurous Hollie Cook

Also for those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Jazz Thread Spotify Playlist

ulysses if you don't like it then i'd be shocked

it's good!

Thanks for the playlist, ulysses.

Salute!

I like the Zara McFarlane one too, ty

I normally hate jazz vocals, but two vocal records really clicked with me this year - the McFarlane and the new Cecile McLorin Salvant. And Alicia Hall Moran (Jason Moran's wife) just threw an album up on Bandcamp tonight - Harriet Tubman is her backing band on at least 3 tracks. It's $20, like her husband's work, but I think I'm gonna spring for it just so I can write about it in January's Stereogum column.

Would FP you for disliking Jazz Vocals but I guess you’re not the only one.

Which reminds me, RIP Kevin Mahogany

wait, what?

oh man, i missed that. i really don't know anything about the guy, but i used to listen to a jazz radio station like 20 years ago that played mahogany's "oh! gee!" a lot, and i have a lot of residual fondness for him because of it.

My podcast interview with Stanley Cowell is live now.

two vocal records really clicked with me this year

ONE OF US, ONE OF US

Hilary Gardner & Ehud Asherie's The Late Set might be a bit too much of a mannered + polite Jazz Vocal album for some folk, but I find it quite elegant and lovely.