Rolling Jazz Thread 2013

Tom Hull year end list always turns me on to jazz things.
sent away for his #2 (jazz) from last year by The Group (Ahmed Abdullah, Marion Brown, Billy Bang, Sirone, Fred Hopkins, Andrew Cyrille) - Live (1986, NYC)
i like all those guys think this would appeal to Ornette fans. just listening now for the first time and it sounds great

frankie dunlop is prob my favorite non-canonized drummer

The Group album is excellent. All the players are great, but for me, things really take off when Billy Bang solos. Beautiful version of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.

No Business is such a great label - everything they put out is worth hearing. The Liudius Makunius/Barry Guy CD, Lava, is fantastic - hugely inventive and elemental sax and bass duet. There's also a terrific album by Bobby Bradford and a top notch band of Scandinavian free jazzers.

thx for the recs, Stew
i only know Barry Guy from Amalgam's Prayer for Peace but that's enough to make me know i need to hear Lava
and no doubt - Mr. Bang is playing his freaking heart out on this Group show

NoBusiness sends me everything they put out (CDs, and CD-Rs of the vinyl-only stuff). Unfortunately, the package that included that Group CD was completely destroyed by rain - the booklets were all melted onto the CDs. Would have liked to hear it.

Wayne Shorter's new album streaming here, for a little while:
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/27/170099510/first-listen-wayne-shorter-without-a-net?ft=3&f=126134671&sc=nl&cc=jn-20130203
Also, an intriguing interview, with excerpts of this 'n' that--downloadable, even:
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/02/170882668/wayne-shorter-on-jazz-how-do-you-rehearse-the-unknown

Wow, the Shorter is sounding great so far.

Looks like a pretty good band. Will have to check it out.

that's been his working band for a WHILE now. They're sick.

Pretty much the only jazz eminence gris whose new releases I still look forward to

The quartet's been together 12 years now. I interviewed Brian Blade last week - it'll be up on Blue Note's website on Tuesday.

They must be playing in places I can't get into.

I don't think they do many club or theater shows outside NYC - mostly festivals. I saw them in 2011 at Town Hall.

Flushing Town Hall?

No, probably not, because in that case I might have gone.

Anat Cohen on Fresh Air now: started with a slow, sly "La Vie En Rose", based on Louis Armstrong's version, with her clarinet instead of trumpet, keeping the orig duet w trombone (Wycliffe Gordon here), plus a more modern beat, though not too much--instantly killing me. Also demonstrates how she applies a touch of her tenor sax technique to the clarinet's lower register. Plus The Three Cohens Sextet, of course--anyway, here tis (can download it too) http://www.npr.org/2013/02/06/171176294/anat-cohen-bringing-the-clarinet-to-the-world

Also this tonight at 9 p.m. EST
http://www.npr.org/event/music/170717638/chris-potter-quartet-live-at-the-village-vanguard

Speaking of downloads and The Three Cohens, their Newport '12 set is still posted:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/158020922/three-cohens-live-in-concert-newport-jazz-2012

Who are the other two Cohens, her brother and the bass player with the same name as him?

Oh, I didn't know about the one who plays saxophone

kinda cool that john patitucci has gone from being associated with one of the corniest, least-loved eras of jazz ('80s fusion/Elektrik Band/GRP) to being in one of the most respected acoustic quartets out there.

OTM. I've heard good things about when he plays R&B gigs on electric too, although I haven't seen for myself.

I love how you can always really hear the room in VV recordings, and because of all the famous recordings there, you wind up hearing echoes of them in new ones.

really love this record by nathan hanson and brian roessler, discovered via Destination:Out
http://nhbr.bandcamp.com/album/selenographia

digging into the jose james record and i'm really, really feeling it. there's a lot more chris dave than i expected too (it's killing that i don't have track-by-track credits for this record....you'd think blue note of all labels would post them somewhere!).

I've been digging through criss cross stuff on Spotify a lot lately, and I'm kind of surprised by how many one-offs there are by randos featuring sick backing bands who seem to be playing at 80%. It's always like "Introducing Jorm Stiegmuller" feat Brian Blade, Peter Bernstein, Christian McBride and Chris Potter. Tight but forgettable record of standards/bop classics/dated-sounding "modern" originals.

OTOH I have been revisiting Tim Warfield's releases on Criss Cross (got into him briefly after seeing him with Nicholas Payton once), and I really like them -- very straight ahead, but band just has a vibe. Cyrus Chestnut, Clarence Penn, Tarus Mateen, Terrell Stafford on the one I'm listening to right now

lol @ "introducing jorm stiegmuller".

copying my list of criss cross faves from the 2012 thread:

billy drummond, dubai
clarence penn, penn's landing
ralph peterson, the art of war
melvin rhyne, mel's spell
conrad herwig & brian lynch, que viva coltrane
herlin riley, cream of the crescent

btw my favorite tim warfield is on that christian mcbride record, 'a family affair'. have you heard that? the opening track is one of my all-time faves, and it's got some other serious cuts.

Warfield's got a new one out this week with Nicholas Payton (who's become such a loudmouth asshole it actually dissuades me from listening to his playing), Cyrus Chestnut, Rodney Whitaker and Clarence Penn. I'm hoping to give it a listen soon, and might interview Warfield for Burning Ambulance.

So far this year very impressed with new Omar Sosa (homage to Kind of Blue but in afrocuban style), Teri Lyne Carrington (homage to Money Jungle), and Hiromi (2013 on these shores so I'm counting it). Some other stuff too -- that Wayne Shorter sounds all right to me, but Patricia Barber is not something that can be listened to casually so I'm still up in the air about her new one.

Released last year but I'm making my way through Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers now. First disc has string quartet and piano all over it. A few 'free' sections but all is planned, the intense passages you usually get with that kind of music are cut-off, but this is just the kind of mix between classical ensemble and improvisation I'm interested in.

Just starting...choosing this thread as a notepad of lame impressions if I have anymore.

Title almost made me spit my iced tea out:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KO7MgTorL._SY300_.jpg

Listening to it now. It may very well end up working as an introduction to Shipp.

It's a good compilation, but the title (and the art) have to be a deliberate, very dry joke.

I haven't read it yet, but there's a big article on Jason Moran in this week's New Yorker (not available online).

Definitely worth a listen.
http://www.freshselects.net/darryl-reeves-dillaquarium-jazz-covers

Got a new album by tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens in the mail yesterday - well, new as in it's a 2013 release, but it was recorded in 2010. The band is Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, Jaleel Shaw on alto sax, Taylor Eigsti on piano, Joe Sanders on bass, Justin Brown on drums, and Gretchen Parlato sings on two tracks. I liked Stephens' last album, so I'm interested to hear this one. It's called That Nepenthetic Place, and it comes out mid-April.

This is sort of interesting/depressing:
http://robbennion.com/wordpress/how-much-money-do-jazz-musicians-make/

Hurting, that's why you have to start taking guitar lessons again, to do your part. Or come to Terraza 7 every once in a while. Tonight you can see Ari Hoenig- in case you missed him at the Winter Jazzfest mentioned upthread- play a duet with that quietly intense guitar genius from the island of Guadeloupe, Jean-Christophe Maillard. Tomorrow there is a bass player who plays with the guy who is linked in that article, Greg Diamond, who might end up showing up so you can ask him about the pie chart.

Sorry, he didn't play guitar last night but another instrument, some kind of custom-made eight-string bass saz.

IDK, I looked up that guy and he looks a bit too natty dread for my taste. Does his music sound like his hair looks?

Are you sure about that? I couldn't find him on this thread: GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER...

Answer to second question: no.

Almost forgot to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDoAofL_hw

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What day is today?

Jazzday?

(tho never you mind me, i'm still listenin' to synth pop at the mo:)

Bargain Day.

Anyone heard the Dawn of Midi album, Dysnomia? Not sure if it's jazz or postrock or just really, really minimal. 9 songs, 46 minutes, piano, bass, drums, recorded live, feels like one long track. Reminds me of The Necks, Fugazi, VERY minimal techno perhaps. Very metronomic, repetitive, subdued, but absolutely fascinating. Know almost nothing about them.

Yeah, I like it a lot. If you like it, you should check out early albums (the ones not on ECM) by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, who do a similar thing but slightly more organic-sounding, even though they're driven by electric rather than acoustic piano.

I wish I liked Dawn of Midi more than I do.

Currently enjoying Next Collective, Cover Art: songs by D'Angelo, Kanye/Jay-Z, N*E*R*D, Pearl Jam, Stereolab, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bon Iver, Dido, and Little Dragon.

heh, here's another Cover Art that came out this year: http://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/cover-art

Well-said
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/12/the-quietly-revolutionary-guitar-of-jim-hall.html(Forgot Hall was in Jimmy Giuffre 3, who turned out to be quite the forerunners of atmospheric woodsy etc. Here they are, performing "The Train and the River" in Jazz On A Summer's Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLsEH4csQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLsEH4csQ4 So good.

What happened there---sorry, here they are with *Hall*, not Brookmeyer (this is the original recording)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-4ZqhHOFsM

The Burning Ambulance 25 Best Jazz Albums of 2013:

25. Meg Okura and the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, Music of Ryuichi Sakamoto
24. Tim Warfield, Eye of the Beholder
23. Tarbaby, Ballad of Sam Langford
22. Chris Potter, The Sirens
21. Jeremy Pelt, Water and Earth
20. David Ake, Bridges
19. Joel Harrison 19, Infinite Possibility
18. JD Allen, Grace
17. Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2
16. Melodic Art-Tet, Melodic Art-Tet
15. Various Artists, Long Story Short
14. Nicolas Masson/Roberto Pianca/Emanuele Maniscanco, Third Reel
13. Rich Halley 4, Crossing the Passes
12. Little Women, Lung
11. Dead Neanderthals, ...And It Ended Badly
10. William Parker, Wood Flute Songs
9. Dave Douglas Quintet, Time Travel
8. Michael Bates/Samuel Blaser Quintet, One From None
7. Aaron Parks, Arborescence
6. Matthew Shipp, Piano Sutras
5. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
4. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Slippery Rock
3. Ghost Train Orchestra, Book of Rhapsodies
2. Hush Point, Hush Point
1. Nick Hempton, Odd Man Out

nice. i got excited thinking that the aaron parks was a new group record, oh well.

judging from your list i think you would dig this record i posted upthread.

Cool; I like the people in his band. I'll check it out as soon as The Wire tops off my Paypal account.

Francis Davis, with comments on the year in Jazz and overall poll results (agree w his disappointed minority opinion of the latest Shorter), but I prefer reading about his own choices and comments on same (damn, a New York Art Quartet box?!)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013/2013/12/18/252001963/wayne-shorter-and-the-years-other-passing-scenery

I'm on his side w/r/t Shorter too (that album was never even in contention for my ballot).

oh shit there was a new mary halvorson?

There several mary halvorson cd´s this year.
i guess this one was too late for Davis´ list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxBE7SyKzoA
It was reviewed at Stef´s freejazz blog.

There was also a bass/guitar release on Intakt with Halvorson and Stephen Crumb calles ´Super 8´.
A new Meg Okura cd? Nice.

Started new thread, hopefully the title will not confuse you: I don't know what they mean when they say 'swing hard' anyway. Rolling Jazz Dflat 2014 Thread