I don't know what they mean when they say 'swing hard' anyway. Rolling Jazz Dflat 2014 Thread

Yeah that's about the price I expected. Not in the market to spend that much right now, but maybe eventually.

You should try to go at least once when you are able.

Btw, I saw one of your old guitar teachers a few weeks ago at The Bar Next Door. He had a really good trio.

TD?

or VJ?

The former. Not sure I knew you studied with the latter.

TD was a temp sub while Ted was in and out of the hospital, VJ replaced Ted permanently, and it looks like he's the only remaining member of the jazz faculty from when I was there other than Ralph Bowen, who directs the program. VJ was a really nice dude btw, but I think I was just not in the emotional state to work with a different teacher after Ted passed.

Have you wished Russell a happy birthday yet?

Bottom five (#s 25-21) of the Burning Ambulance Best Jazz of 2014 list.

Burning Ambulance Best Jazz of 2014, Day 2.

thanks, as someone who hasn't been keeping up at all, this is great reading. it makes me happy that Criss Cross is still doing their same old thing.

(also, lol @ the dig on a certain jazz guitarist, i've never heard him play but have backed up his very talented wife on occasion).

backed up his wife you say

ON DRUMS, haha

i'll bet you did

*Ahem* I'll bet you guys would like this guy: http://www.willbernard.com/press/guitarplayer1007.htm

i do. i haven't heard those T.J. Kirk albums in forever but i have fond memories of them.

In other news, I heard a while back that the young jazz guitar phenomenon with the same last name as that guy's first name has pretty serious tendonitis.

But looks like he is out playing so either he has dealt with it or is dealing with it.

i don't know who that is, but that's rough. the best jazz guitarist i know had the same thing happen...he took a year off from playing guitar and started doing yoga and writing songs, now is a singer/songwriter.

still plays jazz, but uses more space, and does it on his high school Ibanez shredder guitar rather than the hollow-body.

fwiw I think I had Medicine Hat on CD. Don't love the guy though tbh, a little too cliche bluesy/funky for me.

The complete Burning Ambulance Best Jazz Albums Of 2014:

25. Vinnie Sperrazza, Apocryphal
24. Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans, The Freedom Principle and Live In Lisbon
23. Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues
22. Eric Revis, In Memory Of Things Yet Seen
21. Matthew Shipp Trio, Root Of Things
20. Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill and The Great Lakes Suites
19. The Cookers, Time And Time Again
18. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom
17. Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin, Nomadic
16. Matt Brewer, Mythology
15. Rudy Royston, 303
14. Eric Hofbauer Quintet, Prehistoric Jazz Vol. 1 & 2
13. Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit, Erta Ale
12. William Hooker & Liudas Mockunas, Live At The Vilnius Jazz Festival
11. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten
10. Donald Edwards, Evolution Of An Influenced Mind
9. Eric Wyatt, Borough Of Kings
8. Tom Tallitsch, Ride
7. Mark Lomax Trio, Isis & Osiris
6. Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature
5. Mike DiRubbo, Threshold
4. Brian Charette, The Question That Drives Us
3. Steve Lehman Octet, Mise en Abîme
2. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn
1. Jemeel Moondoc, The Zookeeper's House

Cool, thx

Yeah, I'm liking the Sperazza a lot so far. Didn't even know about the new Lehman.

Good work with that list. That Jerome Sabbagh album is stunning, need to listen to more of these.

I have now also listened to the no.1 - Jemeel Moondoc album, wow!

http://larryappelbaum.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/2014-favorites/

critic, radio dj, and Library of Congress employee

1. Billy Childs “Map To The Treasure” (Sony)

2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden “Last Dance” (ECM)

3. Otis Brown III “The Thought of You” (Blue Note)

onward to 10 plus some reissues

I'm looking for jazz vocalists faves

curm, this has a jazz vocalists faves section:
Francis Davis presents his round-up of jazz crits. Intrigued by descriptions of ones I've missed, and his comments on others are mostly right-on (incl. his push-back against high ranking of Moran's half-good Waller project). But, despite Davis's opening caveats, Rollins' Road Shows Vol. 3 doesn't seem quite right for Top 10, much less No.4, considering that SR has set the bar very high---and the octogenarian diabetic doesn't spare himself on the longest tracks, or the 8-minute-plus "Solo Sonny"---but sounds like he should, just a bit (another kind of self-discipline). Still, "Patanjali" is so fucking tight, reminds me again that I need to check out yoga, and will make my P&J Singles (the album was on there for a while, and would make a Top 20)(History is a very well-chosen 2014 Rollins anth, on Spotify just below RS V3)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/12/19/371282561/the-2014-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=2045

thanks

Incredible story about the stolen Smalls Buddha.

New Year, New Thread. "Weird Means Something You Never Heard Before": Rolling Jazz D-bag Thread 2015

Your subtitle on the new thread suggests that once can't post there unless they go to Smalls...You New Yorkers

You need to post a photo of the Buddha

Take it to I Must Protest!