Have been aware of Camila for the better part of a decade so don't really think of her as a New Artist.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
Branch is great, Connie Han is OK, and I like Barber and Beck. I don't care about any of the singers, obviously.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
Then perhaps you will ignore me saying I just enjoyed seeing Gabrielle Stravelli perform her new Willie Nelson tribute album at Birdland, where I sat next to fellow Bob Dorough enthusiast Daryl Sherman. Wish I could have stayed for the second set and then gone upstairs to see Kurt Elling, although I did peek through the window of that show for a bit on my way in and out.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, Will Friedwald was apparently there too.
Maybe I should post about on semi-dormant Jazz Vocalist thread or even Rolling Country, but I can't run fast enough to jump on that boxcar.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 January 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
Thanks for the jazz vocalists posts. I am fine with them whichever thread you use.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 January 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link
Thanks. I did a double take for a second, because even though I am completely clear on who you two posters are, your screennames are sufficiently similar that I have to read carefully otherwise I might misattribute.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 January 2019 03:03 (five years ago) link
Anyway, even though I didn’t have to time to go see Kurt Elling other than lingering in the lobby for a second, I will say that I am finally warming up to him after keeping him at a distance for quite a while because his voice sounded too good, too rich. I like the Mark Murphy element of his singing, for one thing.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 January 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
albatre - the fall of the damned
^^^been enjoying this one today. Late '18 release on Clean Feed and it is an earbleeding noise metal trio that you might like if Ground Zero was a thing to you.
― calzino, Monday, 7 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
when I say noise metal I meant an Ornette influenced jazz metal thing!
― calzino, Monday, 7 January 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
Thanx unperson for citing We Out Here on Pazz & Jop thread: bandcamp page proved quite refreshing in itself and as gateway. Speaking of Nubya Garcia, "Source" ended up making my own P&J Singles:https://nubyagarcia.bandcamp.com/track/source And your Sons of Kemet album pick provided another Single, "My Queen is Anna Julia Cooper":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HapYxFBF_Lk
― dow, Monday, 7 January 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
Got around to watching/listening to the LP/DVD combo for this https://hypnoticbrassfilm.com/ - film is a good overview of their background and approach, album is about what you would expect based on the film. It does differ from other releases I've heard of theirs in that there's a fair amount of rapping on it, and it's clear these guys are hip hop generation through and through, in the rhythms and riffs they tend to lean on. Oddly, it seems like there's very little improvisation in their output, no one ever really takes solos nor do they go in for any collective free-blowing, so not sure how jazzy I would say this is really. Maybe that's just a function of being a brass band idk.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
I think it's just a function of Hypnotic. I like them alright if I remember to not think of it in relation to New Orleans brass bands in any way. They're just very specific (highly arranged, not very loud or high energy, etc).
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 7 January 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
def very highly arranged
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 January 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
Are Bill Charlap and Danny Huston the same person?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwVh0HUUwAAGVfE.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwVh0HXUwAAT399.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 7 January 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
That sounds really interesting, calzino. Ground Zero was a thing for me. I'll look for it.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah, thanks for the tip. James B, please feel free to post about the Willie Nelson (or whatever) on RC 2019 (or wherever). Nelson's recent Sinatra trib has jazz-related appeal. Bluesy version of "What Is This Thing Called Love" keeps prowling my head, with Norah Jones slipping along there too. She's proved an effective duet partner-around-the-edges over the years, in the Willie Zone, where she's not Snorah, just cool.
― dow, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
I wanna give some love to the excellent new release by Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas album. Been a regular feature on my commutes this past month - love the textural feel of it, the precise layered groove construction on the tracks around the Jarrett-esque noodles and vamps on the keys. Very fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJvNrjN2d90
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 09:06 (five years ago) link
^^^this was very nice to listen to driving through the desert at night
― gbx, Thursday, 10 January 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
i am digging this guy Kassa Overall's new album, Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz; decent hip hop/jazz fusion, fun and easy to enjoyhttps://www.kassaoverall.comhttps://open.spotify.com/album/6tSHSLgLy19DgFpzKHrrJv?si=lIUlmcSXQKCdlGBAl4XJXQ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
He's doing a show with Jason Moran at the Jazz Gallery next week; I'm planning to go.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
So what about this young French lady who sings “Giant Steps” and “Frevo” who was at Winter Jazzfest, Camille Bertault?
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Recently discovered this:https://img.discogs.com/fTncE1EcrY_WFJxu39TnvPboVY4=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9094566-1486511406-4176.jpeg.jpg
Great relatively unknown singer--sort of a female chet baker with a few Ella-like touches. I skip Body and Soul and Stormy Weather--never want to hear those songs again--but otherwise really nice stuff. Great, great guitar work by Barney Kessel dominating the accompaniment.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 14 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
I finally bought Threadgill's Dirt... and More Dirt (making use of Christmas gift cards) and, four tracks in, it sounds like the noise in my head.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
he's so good :)
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 09:19 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I really liked the whole thing. When it was done, I couldn't believe it had been 40 minutes already.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
his other 2018 release the Double Up Ensemble one is totally ace as well.
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
Spotify recommendations served me up a song by Alison Miller's Boom Tic Boom
I like the song, is she worth checking out?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
Yeah, new album coming out February 1 and it's quite good.
https://allisonmiller.bandcamp.com/album/glitter-wolf
The band is Jenny Scheinman on violin, Kirk Knuffke on cornet, Ben Goldberg on clarinet, Myra Melford on piano, Todd Sickafoose on bass, and Miller on drums.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
david murray & dave burrell, in concert '92
^^^ ^^^this is what I'm loving today, it's a right set.
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, discovered Allison Miller last summer---from RJ 2018:
Last night, dithering around like a dizzy bizzy bee---and Sundays are always kinda weird at best---I found my attention and pleasure principle repeatedly pulled into a performance-and-interview episode of Jazz Night In America:, feat. drummer-composer Allison Miller and her group Boom Tic Boom (think it's usually spelled "Tic" not "Tick," which I dig), incl. " Miller alongside violinist Jenny Scheinman, cornetist Kirk Knuffke, clarinetist Jeff Lederer, pianist Carmen Staaf and bassist Tony Scherr." Jazz, no question, but/and I get how she credits Prince as inspiration (reminding me, though don't think she mentioned it, that P. hired Clare Fischer to arrange and conduct). The "melodic drumming" thing demonstrated here---in a spotlight studio segment, as well as all through the BTB set---she traces to Africa, and shows how she has no prob w melody as written, then responds to vocal interpretation/So here's all that, 56:08's worth, just posted, I think:https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/639233311/more-than-keeping-time-a-melodic-drumming-demo
Also, from a couple of years ago, when her most recent album was released, here she is on WBGO, with Myra Melford and Todd Sickafoose instead of Staaf and Scherr---also got Ben Goldberg on clarinet:http://www.wbgo.org/post/many-dimensions-drummer-composer-and-bandleader-allison-miller-checkout#stream/0
― dow, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
Pre-orders are now open for the next Matthew Shipp Trio album, Signature, out 2/15 on ESP-Disk.
My wife designed the CD package, and painted the painting on the cover:
http://www.espdisk.com/image/cache/catalog/shippsignature_1500x1500-750x750.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
nice. looking forward to seeing Shipp at Roulette later this year.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
Listening to ILX Listen: 2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Monday, January 14, 2019 8:12 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agree! i love this record. does anybody else get mingus vibes or am i delusional / stupid
― budo jeru, Thursday, 17 January 2019 00:12 (five years ago) link
the roiling horn arrangements in particular, the swells, the dissonance, the building tensions around a simple theme that seem to grow and grow
i could only find reference to mingus in a pi recordings press release:
As a composer and improviser, Henry sees artistic process and product as inseparable, the essence of jazz. Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus strove toward the same goal. Rooted in that history, Henry’s solutions have taken radical new tacks.
i feel as though you can hear the influence of both "such sweet thunder" and "black saint" in the "dirt" recording
― budo jeru, Thursday, 17 January 2019 00:20 (five years ago) link
man alive, just came across a really interesting album with Ted in it.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 January 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
A snapshot of jazz 60 years ago, every day.
https://the1959project.com
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 January 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
Huh, Kokoroko's "Abusey Junction" is at almost 20 million views on Youtube. Judging by the comments, it seems like the the algorithm smiled on it.
― jmm, Friday, 18 January 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
I've been wondering about that track. It has 3.9 million Spotify plays, too, which is 10x more than any other track on We Out Here. I assumed it was on Spotify's State of Jazz playlist or something. (I mean, I like it a lot, but still.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 19 January 2019 06:55 (five years ago) link
They've got a four-track EP coming soon that's great. ("Abusey Junction" is on it.)
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:36 (five years ago) link
Went to the Jazz Gallery last night to see Jason Moran and drummer Kassa Overall. It was Overall's show - he's doing a residency at the Gallery where once a month he brings in a different pianist. The next one is with Aaron Parks, on Valentine's Day. Anyway, last night's show turned into a trio set with the addition of Evan Flory-Barnes on bass. A photo:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxPXyYdVYAAEdB8.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 19 January 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
xxp Yeah, I like it a lot too. Just interesting that it quietly racked up so many listens by jazz standards. I can imagine loads of guitarists having it on repeat.
― jmm, Saturday, 19 January 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
Judging by the comments, it seems like the the algorithm smiled on it.
― jmm, Friday, January 18, 2019 5:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yep, AJ shows up in my youtube sidebar recs constantly.
― rob, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
thinking about hitting one of those kassa shows; you recommend it unperson?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
Definitely. The upcoming pianists are Aaron Parks (February); Sullivan Fortner (March); Kris Davis (April); Craig Taborn (May); and some kind of finale event over two nights in June.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
So---just heard a rerun of last spring's Jazz Night In America session w Jazzmeia Horn---thought she might turn out a bit contrived, but no, or not in a bad way, just over under sideways down around and yet straight ahead at all times, assimilating Cassandra Wilson's strategies, maybe---also Betty Carter's, like the way all three interact with their small groups, in Horn's case here, sometimes glancing off the musus, sometimes seeing and raising, sometimes shutting up for a while. "People Make The World Go Around" was true enough to the original, bittersweet lyrics, but also she went allll around the park, without getting lost Robust, agile, not too long-winded. How's the album?
― dow, Monday, 21 January 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
Also, speaking of last spring, did I mention this? Awesome, and unlike the Horn set, whole thing's posted:https://www.npr.org/2018/03/23/596004201/jane-bunnett-and-maqueque-the-new-queens-of-afro-cuban-jazz
― dow, Monday, 21 January 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
"musos," not "musus,", sorry player guys
― dow, Monday, 21 January 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
Greg Ward's Rogue Parade band Stomping Off from Greenwood album is quite ace. I remember liking a Mingus tribute alb he did a couple years back as well.
― calzino, Monday, 21 January 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
It's on a par with their other releases. Certainly not a bootleg or anything. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been recorded with an eye toward release at the time.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
Excellent. Thanks! Will order it tonight. I loved Live in Hamburg and don't recall the sound quality on that one bugging me too much, so if it's on par with that, I'm sure it'll be fine.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
The 10 best jazz albums of 2019, according to me (via Stereogum):
https://www.stereogum.com/2067204/best-jazz-albums-2019/franchises/2019-in-review/
10. Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Glitter Wolf9. Branford Marsalis Quartet, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul8. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis7. SEED Ensemble, Driftglass6. Victor Gould, Thoughts Become Things5. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Ancestral Recall4. Theon Cross, Fyah3. Jeremy Pelt, Jeremy Pelt the Artist2. Yazz Ahmed, Polyhymnia1. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 9 December 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
First listen to the Jaimie Branch and holy shit at Prayer for Amerikkka.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Monday, 9 December 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the list, unperson. I've only heard the Matana Roberts (my first encounter with her music; by no means the last).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
Nice. The real winners for me this year were Tomeka Reid and the Comet Is Coming releases.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
No idea which thread to mention it on, but the Sarathy Korwar album is super interesting
― rob, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
anyone like Marilyn Mazur's Shamania? I love it!
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
Glitter Wolf and Fly Or Die II made my uproxx list, Coin Coin Dance Chapter Four: Memphis will be on the Nashville Scene ballot, at least in my hacked-in category of Related. The uprxx was mostly jazz, mostly thanx to this thread, may post later.
― dow, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
Oops still need to listen to this:
The musicians featured are Marc Edwards, Warren Smith, Michael TA Thompson, Mara Rosenbloom, Stephen Gauci, Eriq Robinson, Theodore Woodward, Faye Kilburn and William Hooker.
Symphonie Of Flowers is available on 2LP, CD and digital and shows how William Hooker has been recognized as one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of his generation, leading a variety of ensembles within the worlds of free jazz, experimental, and new music. Hooker's prior collaborators range from avant-garde jazz musicians to indie rock legends like Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. On his latest work, “Symphonie of Flowers”, Hooker weaves three sections into a whole, or a “symphonie” of sorts. As he says, “the piece begins and ends with the drum…my instrument. Its rhythm and variations of timbre are the stabilizing element.”
Read more about the album and order your copy here.https://orgmusic.com/william-hooker-symphonie-of-flowers/
― dow, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/junius-paul-ism-interview
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/ism
― j., Wednesday, 25 December 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
New album by the trio Birth, first in 15 years:https://open.spotify.com/album/6Z7TQTuAiH5myCaHokhl4i?si=P6vTX7dLQtOE8tZQ-KAg4w
Features drummer extraordinaire Joe Tomino from Dub Trio. They absolutely blew minds when I saw them in '00 and they were doing sort of live jungle that would dissolve into free jazz. Happy Apple energy.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 27 December 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
This album rules.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 27 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
― calzino, Wednesday, December 11, 2019 7:44 AM bookmarkflaglink
Tuomas has nominated it on the ILM poll.... "Force of nature" is right!
- https://marilynmazur.bandcamp.com/album/shamania
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2819965007_7.jpg
I'm afraid the only band member I knew much about was the pianist Makiko Hirabayashi, who's been part of the Danish jazz scene for many years.
Marilyn Mazur has hardly done any interviews recently. There's one in Die Tageszeitung – she talks about her early experimental group the Primi Band, and working in the U.S. in the late '80s:
It all happened very quickly. I played with the Gil Evans Orchestra, including Wayne Shorter, and I was on tour for three years without a break. Then Miles asked if I wanted to tour with him again. But I couldn't anymore, I just wanted to go home and do my own thing and cancelled.How did he react?He wasn't used to people turning him down, and he was upset. As much as I loved playing with him, Miles' music had become so strange to me. Back then he was very popular, his sound was also macho. I've never used the term to refer to Miles, but it's true. The atmosphere on stage was not very communicative, everyone had their role.– (taz.de)
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 28 December 2019 06:50 (four years ago) link
haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so posting here as it may be of interest: earlier this year austrian label black-monk reissued franz koglmann's "flaps" and "opium for franz" on both vinyl and CD.
i've found it incredibly difficult to track down even an mp3 rip of "opium for franz" (to say nothing to say of an original LP), so this is most welcome !
looks like some of the european distributors still have copies, but americans might have better luck sending an email directly to the label.
http://www.blackmonk.at/blog
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Opium/For Franz was reissued on CD in ‘99 or 2000, but it was a needledrop. Curious if this new reissue (the vinyl, particularly) is mastered from a different source.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
This is great New Year's Day morning music.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
Time for new thread?
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
Indeed.
Rolling Jazz Thread 2020
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel is really hitting me, kind of adventurous in a low key MOR way, a lot of electronics and synth textures, jazz-meets-Brian-Wilson vocal arrangements
I was going to say that I've been checking this out yesterday and today and loving it, then saw that I apparently actually posted that I liked it literally a year ago.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
I like Jon Batiste a lot more than I used to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyds04mi_Z0
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 May 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
He put out a couple of short live albums recently that I liked, one more than the other.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 29 May 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
he's always a good time live.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 29 May 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link