"Music doesn't go seasonable to me." Rolling Jazz Dm7♭5 Thread 2017

so you like it then!

Hm, that group is playing here Saturday as part of the jazz festival. Maybe I should note that one down.

Ha, well, there are a lot of interesting things happening so I'm trying to pick. After listening, though, this will be a priority. Wow @ Scofield's solos on "Lay Lady Lay". "Song for World Forgiveness" was a highlight for me, too. I'll admit to skipping through the tracks with vocals.

Tremendous profile of Craig Taborn in this week's New York Times Magazine.

This is really nice too, although I'm sure they're going to take down the video and re-upload it so the url doesn't work anymore, because they do that every single time. Brian Blade is always a joy to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9MyPALmYM

(Old and New Dreams tribute w/Joshua Redman, Ron Miles, Scott Colley, and Blade)

pharaoh sanders tonight

New Stereogum column is up. I hope Cooper-Moore doesn't get mad that I called him "somewhere between hillbilly and holy fool"...

That NYT Craig Taborn profile was a really interesting portrait of the artist as a social recluse, without the mythologising b/s that sometimes goes with that type of thing. His Daylight Ghosts + Ljubljana (w/Gustafsson) are both sick albums imo.

just noticed there is another Craig Taborn (w/Ikue Mori recorded live at Village Vanguard '16) album out on Tzadik.

Going to see Ambrose Akinmusire at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Pretty psyched, as his newest live album is really good. Unfortunately, that's about all I can afford among the plethora of good stuff. But I do plan to check out some of the free stuff.

I really think the Hudson show from last night was among the better shows I've ever seen! All four guys were killing it and the sound was great, which is not always the case in that space. They brought their own engineer, which probably helped. I expected great things from Scofield and deJohnette but Medeski blew me away. He had three keyboards: an acoustic piano, an organ (Hammond?), and an electronic keyboard. (The programme said "synth"; might have been a Fender Rhodes with a tonne of pedals?). (I obv can't ID keyboards as well as guitars.) With the latter, he got way noisier than he does on the album. I sometimes felt like I was hearing polytonality during the jams, with Medeski playing in a different key than the other guys? Scofield could get a really piercing, penetrating sound while staying fairly clean and clear. DeJohnette maintained a light touch throughout.

I love DeJohnette, he has got to be one of the greatest living drummers rn

He sounded great, yeah.

Wasn't he on a recent (past few years) tribute to Herbie Hancock at the Kennedy Center?

Him and Vinnie Colaiuta both

Haven't listened to that Hudson album yet, but intrigued by the personnel and what you guys are saying, despite the fact that it has (at least) two Dylan songs and one Band song, which might otherwise put me off in a jazz context.

Listening to that xpost Old And New Dreams trib to a trib on the radio (Jazz Night In America): "It became less of an Ornette cover band and more about their own music", and this gets more involving as it slows down and digs in---more about the present musos' own playing (esp. bass and drums, for me).

Scott Colley's arco bass is damn near bass sax at the moment---backstory here: http://www.npr.org/event/music/533834836/still-dreaming-joshua-redmans-tribute-to-a-tribute

J. Redman's "Blues For Charlie" with Ron Miles' cornet taking a stroll, whole crew sidling up to shifty tempi, kinda Mingus so far, good finale.

"Charlie" as in Haden, not Mingus tho

thanks for another inspiring column, phil - that BJ Jansen album got me back into hard bop!

RIP Geri Allen :(

I need to dig into her catalog; I really only know her from the two albums she did with Ornette Coleman. Right now I'm listening to the 2016 album she did with David Murray and Terri Lynne Carrington (no bassist).

Hm. Guy in my neighborhood plays bass with Teri Lynne Carrington. Now wondering if he played with Geri Allen as well.

Nope

should i go see oliver lake tonight?

Sure.

Lots of nice Geri Allen tributes on Facebook, from the usual suspects and others as well.

Yeah, Lake is good. I saw his steel pan band once, and his new album with a string quartet is really interesting (and enjoyable).

I have been listening to Geri Allen's recording of Mary Lou Williams Zodiac Suite, today. And the In The Year of the Dragon album w/ Haden, Motian. RIP again :(

Yeah those last three are all gone now

I mean that last trio *sigh*

Hey, Kirk Lightsey is at Smalls tonight, which might be a good thing to go see under the circumstances. Actually last time I saw him another great pianist had just passed way, John Hicks, and he invited us all to head over to the memorial with him after the show.

xp That sounds promising. He's playing with Hamid Drake, Josh Abrams, and Ed Wilkerson (who I am not familiar with) which is also promising.

Been having a good festival so far: going to see Bad Plus tonight. Last night, I saw Sonoluminescence Trio (David Mott, Jesse Stewart, William Parker), who were really great, better than the first time I saw them, probably, with a lot of variety and dynamics and even some memorable melodic and rhythmic hooks. Mott integrated his circular breathing and multiphonic techniques into the improv really effectively. Stewart is probably one of my favourite percussionists going right now, on kit as well as waterphone; Parker was obv fantastic, playing a variety of instruments, two of which I couldn't identify, as well as singing on one piece. I picked up their brand-new LP. I can't play the LP until I reunite with my turntable in the fall but the mp3s sound excellent. It's a two-track analogue live (in Ottawa!) recording with a lot of warmth. The day before, I saw the Garry Elliott Quartet play totally straight-ahead stuff, which was really nice for a change.

Let us know how nu-Bad Plus is.

Orrin Evans isn't joining until sometime next year; it's still Iverson at the piano.

Yeah, tbh, I wouldn't have shelled out if Iverson wasn't still with them. As it is, I figure it'll be the last time I see this lineup.

Yeah, tbh, I wouldn't have shelled out if Iverson wasn't still with them.

Really? I'm a much bigger fan of Evans than Iverson; I'll definitely be checking out the revamped lineup.

The guy you need to see before it's too late is Ethan's buddy Tootie Heath

I don't know Evans's work. I'll check out the revamped lineup but I'm paying to see a band that I have loved live and on record; Iverson is a key part of that band.

Seen Evans and his man Donald Edwards, both with the Mingus Band and in other contexts, they have always delivered.

Btw, unperson, other than the Branch, which is top-tier, I liked the Nicole Mitchell from your May column quite a bit. I'll check out the June column soon.

From Evans' own back catalog, I recommend Captain Black Big Band, Freedom, Flip the Script, and Mother's Touch; you should also definitely check out his trio Tarbaby with Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits. The End of Fear and The Ballad of Sam Langford are both great.

And thanks for reading!

He's great as a sideman on some of those Ralph Peterson records. And he has some Criss Cross records with great bands (also w/Peterson). I haven't heard any of the Tarbaby stuff but have been meaning to check it out.

I wonder what TBP would sound like with Eric Lewis on piano...he probably doesn't have the right aesthetic, but his playing is so ridiculous. He's on the Herlin Riley record that I listen to to hype myself up every time I have to play a jazz gig.

"Have to"

Lewis just put out a trio album on Sunnyside last year with Reginald Veal on bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. It's pretty good.

http://sunnysidezone.com/album/and-to-the-republic

Oh it's definitely "have to", I don't seek them out. If someone calls me, that's on them. :)

Had a pretty fun one the other night though.

I can understand

for the record, the Heath Brothers have shows on July 11 to 16 at the Vanguard; worth catching if you haven't yet
https://www.villagevanguard.com/schedule