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

And with some of the same vibe, though maybe funkier in a tensile way, Our Point Of View's 2015 show on Jazz Night In America, now in progress once more: Together, Robert Glasper, Ambrose Akinmusire, Marcus Strickland, Lionel Loueke, Derrick Hodge and Kendrick Scott are known as Our Point of View. WBGO and Jazz Night In America presented the only East Coast appearance of the band in late 2014, at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City

Oh, one person in Griffith Park I do usually like is Freddie Hubbard---even his version of "Birdland", for chrissake.

Forgot the main point of my xpost, which was the Our Point link, sorry!
http://www.npr.org/event/music/382286193/our-point-of-view-a-blue-note-supergroup

(That more recent supergroup also incl. some I don't usually go for, namely Glasper and Loueke.)

Our Point of View is now called the Blue Note All-Stars (taking over the name from a mid 90s group that had Tim Hagans, Greg Osby, Javon Jackson, Kevin Hays, Essiet Essiet and Bill Stewart). They just put out their album; it's pretty decent.

love loueke and glasper, was unfamiliar with that band tho!

In case people haven't seen it, Herbie Hancock sitting in with Chris Dave/Glasper/Kamasi/etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AQOnYrjIYM

on first listen, new Kamasi very nice: an EP to follow The Epic is confident contrast, kind of evening breezy but no slacking, and a touch of the epic on extended finale-- and once again, the set is more about overall effect than providing backdrops for heroic solos.

Though the solos are not shy.

Got Ivo Perelman's six new albums in today's mail. Some of them seem interesting on the surface: there's a trio with Matt Shipp and Nate Wooley, a quartet with Shipp, William Parker and Bobby Kapp; and a double disc of duos with Shipp.

But all weekend, you got the sense that the good stuff was happening onstage — not much of the music’s live-wire energy was penetrating the audience or getting passed around. In a way, this festival was running in a different, almost opposing, direction from its inspiration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/arts/music/october-revolution-jazz-contemporary-music.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic&action=click&contentCollection=music®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPla
Hope some copious recordings show up.

Calling this "The October Revolution" (the name of the 1964 event came from the co-producer Peter Sabino, not from Bill Dixon) seems more about branding than anything else, particularly (as the review points out) given the fact that this festival did not seem to be about building any sort of community, nor exposing little-known (relatively speaking) artists.

I read that article twice and still don't understand what the criticism was. it sounds like it was a great festival with amazing performers that I would (and have already) pay dearly to see.

I think the criticism centers around using the name of a festival (1964) whose aim (among others) was to begin to organize musicians to fight for better working conditions, and a situation that would benefit them all, for a festival (2017) that threw some prominent, long-established names on a bill and charged $95 admission.

I have no doubt that some of the performances were wonderful, and a different name/association might have been appropriate. This gives the appearance of piggybacking off a previous festival's influence and notoriety while ignoring what made that festival influential.

makes sense put that way. I can't imagine that pulling a festival off successfully is easy in any way. Maybe there will be something to build off of for the future.

eastern influenced fusion

On this tip, you might like this. My second cousin is the bandleader but I think I would consider it very good regardless. The guitarist, Occhipinti, really rips.

Because I would rather edit an audio file than transcribe an interview, I have launched a Burning Ambulance podcast. The first episode (runs ~45 minutes) features an interview with Roscoe Mitchell. The next one will feature Matthew Shipp, and will be up in two weeks.

Great! I've been looking for more good musician interview podcasts.

I stumbled across a few from this clarinet player who put out a few Tzadik records back in the day, looks like he talks to lots of younger (in jazz years) musicians like Tyshawn, Tyondai Braxton, Greg Fox, etc: http://www.5049records.com/podcast/

Yeah, I mentioned him in the intro to my last Stereogum column; the Tyshawn and Iverson interviews he did were really good.

Oh yeah, that's probably how I found it. :)

Now available on iTunes, too.

New Ricardo Gallo solo piano album from last year, sounding good so far. (2016, but since I'm the only one who ever mentions him. . .)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si6bq083Kjg

been enjoying the guitar work of matthew stevens lately, both on his own preverbal and on chet doxas's rich in symbols. oh, and he played on the last esperanza spalding album? and in the NEXT collective? well, i'll be.

He was also on every Christian Scott album through Stretch Music.

http://www.boweryboogie.com/2017/10/councilman-introduces-bill-rename-williamsburg-bridge-sonny-rollins/

I never found a jazz outlet that suited me, so my contemporary jazz listening is quite random. Anyhow, here are some 2017 albums I like:

Enji - Mongolian Song
https://open.spotify.com/album/30DpqD3Rk0hNwt6uxL5FKV
Apparently she's a Mongolian singer who can do throat singing. I couldn't find any reviews when I stumbled upon it, but I like the sound of her voice, which has a hint of amateurishness to my ears and keeps this from being a nostalgic exercise in vocal jazz. Billy Hart plays the drums, that's how I found it.

Julian Erdem - Little Flower
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Txu2HWIOEND2h4pS6YTdi
This is my kind of jazz, pensive and understated for the most part. I don't know who Erdem is, but Thomas Morgan plays the bass and I like his style.

Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse
https://open.spotify.com/album/0JdGIi4Bds7fIM8ROdnjS2
Was this mentioned upthread? Sounds pretty much like what you'd imagine from the title, so it's kind of orientalist jazz - but very well played and with a great live feeling. Again I've no idea what it is, but it sounds like a bunch of Americans playing Ethiopian music to me. I might be completely off the mark, but I enjoy the songs.

Fabiano do Nascimento - Tempo Dos Mestes
https://open.spotify.com/album/1CyZGaZV6S6dp2dKRUPdqi
Not-real-jazz-alert. This was mentioned on a brazilian music thread, it's guitar based but not as traditional as I initially thought it would be. For me, it goes to some psychedelic and emotional places. I like it a lot.

loved Nascimento's 2015 album Dança do Tempo, will be checking that out for sure.

Vijay now the director of Ojai Festival, commentary and links to performances here http://wbgo.org/post/jazz-night-america-ojai-music-festival-vijay-iyer-showcases-improvisation#stream/0
For instance, His festival program felt righteous, boundless, often supercharged. Repertoire by Bach and Stravinsky shared airspace with new chamber works by flutist Nicole Mitchell. Iyer performed a riveting duo set with one of his mentors, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The trio, comprising three additional mentors — pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and trombonist/electronic artist George Lewis, all elder statesmen in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians — performed an hourlong concert free of any premeditated impulse, let alone a written score. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9MoWVWkjo&list=PLLfIG4c7wGmh6St3W4_h_NeP5aSM2eMPl

Anyway, you'll that concert link in the commentary.

And Sorey shows up a couple times too.

Three times, incl. the cool finale.

In 1999, Bill Laswell decided to re-imagine this seminal jazz fusion album. However, Verve Records refused to release the album once it was completed, claiming it would never sell. However, it was released on CD-R directly to a small music shop in New York City frequented by Bill Laswell himself, the Downtown Music Gallery.

A rare, unreleased version of The Tony Williams Lifetime album, Turn It Over. Expanded, remixed, and remastered by Bill Laswell from the original Polydor master tapes. This unabridged version of the complete album includes four unreleased cuts, and five longer unedited versions from album sessions - which was intended as a double LP but only released as an editied single LP. Cover art by Russell Mills, liner notes by John Szwed. Thanks to Bill Laswell for rescuing, and finally giving a proper mastering to match William’s original intentions, to this most seminal, groundbreaking recording, mixing jazz, rock, prog and metal years ahead of virtually everyone else! Tracks download individually, but quickly for me, directly from this always-reliable-so-far site, no zippyetc.-type shell games. (Liner notes are on there too, pix of them anyway.)
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1650

Ha, I really like Szwed's liners! (Not the ones for orig. LP.) Wish he'd write a book about this slippery era. http://www.bigozine2.com/MP3AA/MP313/TWBLover/TWBLover2.jpg

Er well he prob did cover said era some more in a couple of these, the Miles bio at least (only knew anout his highly regarded Sun Ra study) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Szwed

oh yeah, can also stream each track here before or instead of downloading.

The second Burning Ambulance podcast is live; this one features an interview with Matthew Shipp.

http://burningambulance.blubrry.net/2017/10/27/episode-2-matthew-shipp/

It's also on iTunes and Stitcher.

The samples from the new Tom Guarna are sounding pretty nice, with Brian Blade, Jon Cowherd, and John Patitucci. Nothing super 'out' but enjoyable, energetic melodic and harmonic playing with a really pleasant tone: https://neuguitars.com/2017/10/16/review-of-the-wishing-stones-by-tom-guarna-destiny-records-2017-on-neuguitars-blog/

Cool. How did you come across that? Really liked his last album. He is a great player and a super nice guy. Come to think of if it, think I saw him play at Club Bonafide on a Samuel Torres gig around the time he was preparing to record that and him saying he had to go right home to write up some charts instead of going down to Mezzrow where something else was going on, oh yeah, benefit for another guitar player who had brain cancer.

I follow FB groups where Aguzzi links everything he uploads to Neuguitars. Almost always some good avant-guitar stuff. This is actually pretty 'inside' for him but it's nice.

('Inside' for something that Aguzzi/Neuguitars would cover, probably not for Guarna.)

Advance tracks and other good links re Sonny Clark Trio : The 1960 Time Sessions(TSQ 5449)
(Tompkins Square)*
http://wbgo.org/post/sonny-clark-steps-out-shadows-revelatory-new-reissue-1960
*TS:"The Time sessions were produced by the late Bob Shad, owner of Time and Mainstream Records**. The reissue includes the original Time album re-mastered from the original tapes by Dave Donnelly, plus an extra disc of alternate takes previously unavailable on vinyl. Nat Hentoff wrote the original liner notes, included in the reissue package, and former New York Times critic Ben Ratliff contributes a new 3500-word essay. The set was produced for reissue by Mia Apatow (Time Records) and Josh Rosenthal (Tompkins Square)."

**"More about Mainstream and Bob Shad via Variety".http://variety.com/2017/music/news/judd-apatow-mainstream-records-1202573597/("Judd Apatow Ushers Grandfather Bob Shad's Jazz Label Into The Streaming Age"--wonder if they'll incl. the Big Brother and the Holding Company demo session Mainsstream put out on LP after BB took off)(cover of Moondog's "All Is Lonlieness" etc, overall uneven but worth it if you like her/them)

Word is spreading that Muhal Richard Abrams has passed...

:(

Really? That's horrible. Hearinga Suite is classic.

Nate Smith Tiny Desk Concert is cool, and apparently I missed that that group put out a record in Feb?

https://natesmithmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kinfolk-postcards-from-everywhere

This is made of excerpts from conversations with Muhal Richard Abrams and his music:
http://wbgo.org/post/muhal-richard-abrams-artist-always-looking-forward-leaves-us-behind

FB group with 695 members devoted entirely to shitposting memes about Ben Monder: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1909942779288257/

Very much enjoying Anouar Brahem's Blue Maqams. I'm not wholly won over by Django Bates, but overall the album strikes me as more successful than the overly ambitious Souvenance. Still, I was hoping for more oud-double bass interplay, like on Thimar – Dave Holland is perhaps a little too self-effacing here.

I was blown away by Persepolis's Mirage off that Blue Maqams album, one day recently.

Also been liking Borderlands Trio's Asteroidea (Stephan Crump, Kris Davis, Eric McPherson).

Ugh, this story about sexual harassment/abuse at Berklee. It's all bad, but the worst part has to be Greg Osby (who I gotta say has always come off like kind of a prick) offering a defense, on the record to the paper, that amounts to, "Dude, no way! Have you seen my girlfriend? WAY hotter than that chick!" Runner-up, of course, is Aruan Ortiz claiming his attempts to kiss and lick a student were "just part of his culture." Fucking hell.

Ugh