Rolling Jazz Thread 2013

Anyone heard the Sons Of Kemet album? Seb Roachford group; two drummers, clarinet, and tuba. The tuba essentially plays acid-house-y bass, like a didgeridoo emulating a 303. Wicked fun. Very danceable.

Yep, I really like it. Always admired Seb Rochford as a drummer, but found his groups a little underwhelming: trained musos trying to do simple rock riffs but not really being dumb or noisy enough. But the double drum action on this is great, plus that fat tuba and Shabaka Hutchings' African-Caribbean melodic sensibility.

ooh that sounds good!!

it is good!! https://soundcloud.com/sons-of-kemet

Yeah, I liked it - a lot of fun.

Yeah, outside Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland his other groups have left me cold; didn't get Fulborn Teversham. But this is great fun, really enjoyable.

This is good!

I've been getting my jazz on properly for the first time in my life. I'm starting to get a bit addicted. As well as obvious stuff like the Shape Of Jazz To Come, A Love Supreme etc, I'm currently digging Abdullah Ibrahim - Water From An Ancient Well which is fairly mellow, but never boring and very beautiful in places)

Macarthur Foundation Genius grant winners announced, including:

Jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer is another recipient working a narrow artistic niche: “The business of making hit records is not the business we’re in,” the 41-year-old New Yorker says. “I don’t even see it as a business.”

It is “something larger,” he says. “In a way it’s not about success.”

Iyer performs regularly, and his work aims to help broaden the cultural conversation. Consider Iyer’s latest recording, “Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dream Project,” which sets harrowing yet poetic recollections of returned warriors against haunting violin and piano scores.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/macarthur-foundation-awards-24-genius-grants/2013/09/24/d16de652-2555-11e3-ad0d-b7c8d2a594b9_story.html?hpid=z4

dog latin, you should check Ibrahim's album Ekaya, the one that got me into his music; it's the also name of his group now (or at least recently). Just got this press release:

SCANDINAVIAN FREE JAZZ, GARAGE TRIO, THE THING, SHARE "INDIA"

NEW ALBUM, BOOT!, OUT NOV. 12 ON THE THING RECORDS

THE THING PLAY THE GUGGENHEIM IN NEW YORK - WED. NOV. 20
Scandinavian free jazz, garage trio, The Thing -- Mats Gustafsson (bass, baritone, tenor and soprano saxophones), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (electric bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) - are releasing BOOT!, their most hard-hitting, open and epic release to date, on November 12th. It follows their collaborative release with Neneh Cherry, 2012's The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound), and is their sixth studio album and the first album on their own label, The Thing Records. With dedicated fans in the rock, noise and jazz communities, BOOT! takes The Thing's music to new, uncompromising levels and continues to solidify The Thing's special and important position in the contemporary independent music world.
Recorded over three intense days, BOOT! breathes life and energy, capturing the deep riffs and distorted activities of the electric bass, the attack of the snare drum, the depth of the bass sax and epic lines of the tenor sax. It marks an important development in the trio's endless search of musical poetic meltdowns. Throughout, they transform their roots, combine their own free jazz and punk aesthetics with elements of Ethiopian music, soul, funk and noise, and re-work album-oriented material by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. Take a listen via "India," premiered yesterday via The FADER.
STREAM/SHARE THE THING'S "INDIA" -

https://soundcloud.com/thingjazz/india
"'India,' their cover of John Coltrane's gorgeous piece from Impressions, swings pretty heavily with some raw sax and some incredibly excitable drums." - The FADER

Formed in 1999 and named after Don Cherry, The Thing are known for playing a variety of compositions, including material by PJ Harvey, The White Stripes, The Stooges, The Sonics, The Cramps, Lightning Bolt, The Ex and many more. They transformed the music of these other artists into a contemporary context, making it their own. As individuals or as a group, they have collaborated with those including, Peter Brötzmann, Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, David Grubbs, Eye, The Ex, Pat Metheny, Arto Lindsay, Steve Reid, Kieran Hebden, Merzbow, Christian Marclay, The Nomads, Guy Picciotto, Neneh Cherry and more.
on Wednesday, November 20th, those in New York can see The Thing live at a special show at the Guggenheim curated by John Corbett and Christopher Wool. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/1bGdV72

this is nice stuff:

http://www.npr.org/event/music/237080011/matt-ulerys-loom-tiny-desk-concert

i know the drummer, he's really great.

really like that Jordan

Will check it out. Speaking of drummers, check this out: hum.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/60th/pdfs/38sorrentino.pdf Look for "Do the drummers in black hoods rumble anything out of their drums?"

Just ordered the Woody Shaw and Dexter Gordon Complete Columbia Albums boxes - 7 CDs for Gordon, 6 for Shaw. I listened to some of each on Spotify before pulling the trigger - seems like pretty great stuff.

Also just shot some video interviews with Matthew Shipp and William Parker tonight in Parker's apartment - I'll have a piece up on Burning Ambulance next week with the two of them talking about David Ware, on Ware's birthday (11/7).

Sad to hear that Frank Wess passed on Wednesday at the age of 91. RIP, Frank. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/10/31/rip-frank-wess-d-c-jazz-flutist-and-tenor-saxophonist/

Memorial on WKCR right now.

Guess it started yesterday and will go on for much of today.

With Joe Cohn on guitar and Jackie Williams on drums right now.

Phil Schaap schooling us now.

Atomic Basie time.

Sorry, that's over now it's Battle Royal.

u guys which of the year's christian mcbride records do u like better

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18706-matana-roberts-coin-coin-chapter-two-mississippi-moonchile/

the next chapter of coin coin is out!!

chapter one was transcendent

Anyone heard Satelliti? Italian electronic / jazz duo - details & music here: http://www.satelliti.org/ and also here: http://satelliti.bandcamp.com/

The album (Transistor) was out last week and is really good; driving, jazzy, 70s fusion stuff with swirling keys and lots of early electronica bubbling underneath. Quite krauty, but definitely feels more jazz than anything else. Meant to be intense live, in a Bitches Brew in a nightclub way.

Matthew Shipp's (solo) Piano Sutras and his collaboration with Guillermo E. Brown, Telephone Popcorn, are both great. I would just post this to a Matthew Shipp thread but there is none and I haven't got enough to say about him to justify starting one.

Piano Sutras feels more expansive than One (but that is to say what exactly, considering how minimalist One was?). I haven't quite got a handle on it, but I love recognizing the moves he makes that are so simple and yet so distinctively his own. I think I'd need some music theory to describe them more concretely than that.

Title track of Telephone Popcorn is hilariously Raesque.

man that wayne shorter album this year. snooze. right? mad respect to the man, tho. he's a living legend.

dow: just saw your recommendation. cheers, i'll check it out.

i knew this guitarist when he lived in town for a minute, his record is pretty fiery: http://lukepolipnick.bandcamp.com/album/luke-polipnick-group-episodes

http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/08/adam-lane-goes-traditional.html

finally got a chance to hear one of these new/old adam lane albums, 'oh freedom', some good loose blowing on it.

The Burning Ambulance 25 Best Jazz Albums of 2013 are rolling out in five parts. Here are #s 25-21.

hmm, that jeremy pelt track is on some erik truffaz vibes. can't decide if i'm into it or not. the drumming is the best part.

i'd love to check out the tim warfield and chris potter records when i get a chance.

I really wish ECM would put their shit on Spotify so I could embed something from the Potter.

I forgot that I have an eMusic subscription, and it just sparked back into life after I suspended it for three months, so I downloaded three Donald Byrd albums: Street Lady, Stepping into Tomorrow and Places and Spaces.

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