Rolling Jazz Thread 2020

I'd like to hear that. The only other examples I can think of are more, um, commercial--chiefly Supersax--refresh my memory, wiki:
Supersax was a jazz group created in 1972 by saxophonist Med Flory and bassist Buddy Clark as a tribute to saxophonist Charlie Parker. The group's music consisted of harmonized arrangements of Parker's improvisations[1] played by a saxophone section (2 altos, 2 tenors, and a baritone), rhythm section (bass, piano, drums), and a brass instrument (trombone or trumpet), Notable brass soloists that recorded with the group included Conte Candoli (trumpet), Frank Rosolino (trombone) and Carl Fontana (trombone). On the group's recordings their music was tightly orchestrated, with arrangements by Flory that contained little or no calls for improvisation (although members of the band would often solo at live performances).[2]

Saxophonist Warne Marsh was a member in the first edition of the group, and although he was never given freedom to solo on any officially released materials, Lee Konitz has stated that there are bootleg tapes of the group where Warne played a solo.[3] Jeez, they even had Blue Mitchell in there for a while. What the hell, it was a living. Ironic that a jazz-based concept group had so little room for inprov (they played the jazz festivals, of course).

They won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Group in 1974. They were also part of the Grammy-nominated 1983 recording "Supersax & L.A. Voices, Volume 1", in which the L.A. Voices were nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group. Med Flory also wrote the vocal arrangements for this recording.[4]

Maybe the inspiration for Jazz At Lincoln Center concerts of yore, featuring the historically correct solos of even yore-er, recreated before your eyes (oh yeah, ears too).

One that still gets Sunday afternoon play on my local jazz etc. station: Quincy Jones cover of Herbie Hancock's "Tell Me A Bedtime Story," with strings sailing through arrangement based on transcription of Hancock's keyboard solos, worked up by violinist Harry Lookofsky, Dad of Left Banke's Michael Brown. Sweet! But would def like to hear such means taken further.

Oh god, Supersax sounds terrible.

Did JaLC really do that (play transcribed solos off the record)?

At least one concert on PBS, think it was a certain Ellington live album being re-created. This was early in Wynton's tenure, though; he got less-tight-assed later.

It was while he was under the evil influence of Albert Murray and Stanley Crouch, in the Giddens telling.

Supersax is pretty meh -- my hs jazz band teacher was a slightly cheesy alto player and made us listen to it

Meh Flory, should be. Club Meh. Gary *Giddins*, is. Sorry G.

title track of xpost Splatter: transcribed flight, sometimes breathtaking---strings-wings sensitive, formidable, could be movie dream theme from Hell, in a good way.

New Makaya today!

It's sounding sick so far

agreed; it's great top to bottom

budo jeru, The Wels Concert is among my favorite jazz records ever released— one of those records that absolutely stuns everyone who's actually listening. I agree with your assessment of The Catch of a Ghost, unperson— it's wonderful but just not as full as its predecessor.

new Makaya album is indeed the shit!

https://milesokazaki.bandcamp.com/album/tricksters-dream

new Miles Okazaki some conceptual Rona bollox, but sounds pretty good!

https://ohadtalmor.bandcamp.com/album/long-forms

this is a much more choice one featuring Okazaki imo. Also new Christian Sands album is ace and features the voice of Bruce Lee philosophising about water.

i dunno if the jazz thread is the right place for this, but i'm quite taken with Miyamoto is Black Enough's first LP Burn/Build (which, fair play, i am repping)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utRms52fIis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hef27h7jXYY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLAB6svMvvY

i like the ohad talmor record

My neighbor just hipped me to this which is on right now:
https://www.newportjazz.org/revival

And then tomorrow as well

very nice 1961 Coltrane set, ty

You're quite welcome.

Right now: Thelonius Monk combo cookin', thanks!
https://www.newportjazz.org/wp-content/uploads/NewportJazzRevivalRadio-1080x1350-WEEKEND.jpg

Monk as accompanist! As satisfying as soloist.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/thelonious-monk-quartet/1966/festival-field-newport-ri-23c0acab.html

July 2, 1966. Personnel: Charlie Rouse (ts), Thelonious Monk (p), Larry Gales (b), Ben Riley (d).

Sessionography 1966-1969 - Thelonious Monkwww.monkbook.com › sessionography › sessionograp.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/899489411/helen-jones-woods-groundbreaking-female-trombonist-has-died-from-covid-19

Helen Jones Woods, who played trombone with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a history-making all-female big band that toured widely during World War II, died of COVID-19 on July 25 in Sarasota, Fla. She was 96....In addition to their pioneering role as women on the jazz circuit, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm were an interracial band in the era of Jim Crow. Their extensive itinerary through the South, where they traveled by sleeper bus, reportedly inspired jazz piano giant Earl Hines to call them "the first Freedom Riders." They also toured Europe, playing in occupied Germany for American soldiers — both white and Black, though not at the same time.

As a Black musician, Woods endured mistreatment and indignity on the road. "Music broke her heart," says Hughes. "In the '30s and '40s, and even the '50s, which was the last time she played, they wouldn't get paid regularly. They couldn't find housing accommodations."...After the Sweethearts disbanded in 1949, Woods joined the Omaha Symphony, only to be fired after her first performance. Her father, who had a darker complexion, came to pick her up, which prompted symphony management to realize she was Black. This was the last straw for Woods, who chose to end her musical career. She became a registered nurse, spending the next 30 years devoted to nursing and social work.

Finally being reissued, after 54 years:

Milford Graves & Don Pullen: The Complete Yale Concert, 1966

this came, i'm playing it now, it totally rules

Mine has been lost in the mail for about 10 days now and I'm pissed.

sorry to hear that :(

Thanks to Youtube recommendations for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6PTHYCHqk8

Great band! In particular so glad Julian Lage is making good on his Wunderkind origins.

A few initial impressions of highlights on Ill Considered 9---East/West:
1 hour, 47 minutes, 58 seconds, rolls right along, segmentation down in there, tiny mile markers: seconds of distorted audience sounds back in the headphones every now and then, a even a little back-and-forth of musos and crowd at one point, also distorted---all part of the carnival scrim, incl dub-associated effects, on the fly or might as well be. Sax turns into a swarm of bassoons about 8 minutes in, bass gets more distorted, needs no other guitars as suggestions of Last Exit just behind the curtain---in the vast Jazz Park (don't stick your fingers in there) on a windswept gray-green summer's day. Later clearing for a Middle Eastern view of the Med, which comes back later as s slow modal ferris wheel, empty but still turning-- for a minute,'til the bass has enough, and everything gets zigzag funky---going to night skies, night sweats, emltting the ECM Sound expansions--the bass goes toward a metal chant, everybody falls into a funeral procession, like Ishmael at the beginning of Moby Dick: it's a sign it's time to ship out, and so they do, finding more excitement, along the way, that is--finale is black helicopter blades too fast and shakey, but still cutting through waves of grooves.
I listened on YouTube Music---Bandcamp may be better for artists, but YTM provides better sound on my old computer, non-audiophile headphones:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5njPSBXk29E&list=RDAMVM5njPSBXk29E

"Melting" the ECM Sound expansions, that is.

I dunno if there might be some predictable bits in there very eventually, for a while--hazards of long live performance--but an edit might kill the sense of pace, of searching in the moment, however in the moment this actually is.

Yeah, nice video.

hmm, nice but I'm a little bit put off by playing Blues Connotation as though it's a straight 12 bar blues.

(xp re Julian Lage, not the ECM thing)

yeah i couldn't hang with that at all

Idk, they keep a 12 bar form but there's a ton of playing over the bar line, and Scott Colley gets into some non-blues zones and comes back to it? That single note guitar thing that happens at 2:20 is dope. And the pulse is just so strong no matter what happens, like that whole section from 6:00 - 6:30. But I can't speak to what's really going on harmonically compared to the Ornette group.

Listening to Jan Garbarek's Afric Pepperbird, with Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen. I got a box set not long ago that had three other albums by these guys, but this one wasn't in it, which is too bad because it rules.

that record and "beast of komodo" in particular get a lot of love on the ECM thread iirc

and for good reason

xp also Dave King not really doing it for me there, but perhaps partly the mic/camera placement making him way too high in the mix. Much prefer Ed Blackwell's approach to playing lots and lots of drums over everything. 1961 version is way more hip and fresh. Some really good moments though.

I wrote about Maria Schneider's new album (which I liked) and the general inaccessibility of her music (which I don't like)...

That's fair, I'm just a big Dave King stan. To me it sounds busy but not in the way, and super musical and communicative. Obviously Ed Blackwell is a master.

xp
I bet she'll be over the moon that people are downloading her latest for nowt on slsk. It's quite an elitist attitude she has, so serves her right tbf!

#BillFrisell is beyond honored to have his version of 'In My Life' being used for tonight's @DemConvention 'In Memoriam' segment.

You can watch the clip below:https://t.co/JpEUwpM3yV

— Bill Frisell (@BillFrisell) August 20, 2020

Wow

Just now exclaimed over Nubya Garcia's brand-new Source over on Moses Boyd thread---wasn't getting first two tracks, but now I am, and rest of it swept me away immediately.

Pigeon Jazz 🎶 pic.twitter.com/YBSIQRCPFX

— Pablo Rochat (@PabloRochat) August 19, 2020