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

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

ugh x2

Just seeing this about Osby now. Ughhhh.

ECM has caved on streaming. This is not a drill. Many, many ECM titles are now on Spotify, with the whole catalog - including stuff that's out of print on LP or CD, I think - to be available by the end of the month.

AW YEAH

Wow

Whoa.

Just posted this on the ECM thread. Amazing news.

It's the soothing Eurojazz balm we need.

I'm looking forward to some vibe-y new discoveries, but most of what I already like on ECM I don't consider very "ECM-y", like Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette.

Amen!

Conference of the Birds was the first thing I put on.

I always thought Mal Waldron & Gary Peacock's First Encounter album (which I only possess a scratchy vinyl rip of) was ECM, but it appears not. Still, I probably need to get into this streaming malarkey.

Wow streaming is serious fun, apart from the fookin adz!

Sorry if I sound like a jibbering eejit, but I only just found out you can type Jack DeJohnette and almost everything he has done is right there in front of you. It's like magic!

I see that the ECM stuff is also on apple music as well.

Seeing John McLaughlin tonight in Newark. More women and nonwhite people than the King Crimson show I saw this summer.

Ha, I saw KC on Monday in Boston. They were great. I bought tickets for that before I knew that McLaughlin was playing a day or two later but based on recent clips, I'm comfortable with my choice. Idk what to say about the demographics, though.

This is supposdly McLaughlin’s final US tour AND he’s doing a whole Mahavishnu set (with his current band, not a reunion), so I’m pretty excited. The opener, Jimmy Herring, was just OK; most of the music was kinda Allmans-gone-fusion, except for one semi-“heavy” tune that sounded like recent Opeth.

AND he’s doing a whole Mahavishnu set

This part I did not know about.

Tbh, McLaughlin tix were already sold out by the time I found out about the event.

Here's a photo from last night. The first 45 minutes was by Jimmy Herring, who I'd never heard before; like I said above, his band sounded like the Allman Brothers gone jazz fusion, except for that one Opeth-y song. Then McLaughlin came out and played 45 minutes of new material, including a lengthy two-kit drum solo which featured one drummer scatting-chanting along with the rhythm. Then Herring's band came back onstage and all nine musicians played Mahavishnu Orchestra material for 45 minutes. The big band reminded me more of the King Crimson show from this summer than I was expecting it to. Herring's solo material didn't do much for me, but overall, it was a really good show, and I'm glad I went.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOUyDgdUQAAfXeP.jpg

getting strong Sonny Rollins vibes from Tim Armacost's Time Being album earlier, It's very good imo.

That is a good record.

this ecm streaming thing is huge news!

Interviewed Roswell Rudd for the next Burning Ambulance podcast. He sounded very low energy (he's undergoing radiation treatment for prostate cancer that's metastasized into, I think, his liver) but told some interesting stories. I posted the most recent episode on Friday; it's with Myra Melford:

http://burningambulance.blubrry.net/2017/11/10/episode-3-myra-melford/

Still listening to lots of Waldron - particularly a live version of The Call off Black Glory. It's got these clusters of bass piano notes which make it sound like Dawn of Midi or something. Immense.

Jason Moran has just released a new album on Bandcamp:

https://jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/mass-howl-eon

Backstory: Painter Julie Mehretu created two site specific paintings for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in a de-commissioned church in Harlem. Moran composed the work while Mehretu painted.

Jason Moran - piano, Fender Rhodes, percussion; Graham Haynes - cornet and electronics; Jamire Williams - drums

Art21 did a video about the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcM3lF4Es_s

That's really nice, love the Rhodes. I just wish he didn't price his records so high, even if it's out of some sort of principled, corrective stance.

ha! I hung those paintings

You can buy those new Moran tracks individually to save a few $, at $2 ea. x 7 tracks; I wish all these tracks at least had streaming previews available, though--have taken a chance on the two 10-min tracks at MASS' halfway mark and am enjoying those so far.

(Since there are no previews for those: "Invocation" is a slow tempo/semi-free track where Moran switches from Rhodes to piano halfway through and opens up in its last two minutes with delay on Haynes' cornet in a manner not unlike some of the FX that were prominent on BANGS, while "Offertory" starts off w/ solo breakbeat drumming and heats up by the four-minute mark, reaching a fairly Miles In The Sky-ish steez in its second half)

Full disclosure: I eventually bought all of BANGS piecemeal b/c these JM DLs are so damn expensive, but eventually came to really enjoy that one to such an extent that it's now one of my 3 fave jazz albums of 2017 (not quite sure how I'll rank them yet) along with Miles Okazaki's Trickster and Chris Speed's Platinum On Tap...

Also, thank you grawlix for your writeup of Tom Rainey's new standards album on Intakt in your October Stereogum column--have only bought "Beatrice" so far, but will prob end up buying the whole thing since flipping through it has really impressed me; a killer tasteful band that makes me want to spend more time w/ Ralph Alessi-led sessions.

Thanks for reading! And for reminding me that BANGS came out this year; I have two lists to put together, and that's definitely in the running.

New Makaya McCraven:
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/highly-rare

I love how he cuts up his live shows into something more concise, structured and interesting.

Just Saw this on twitter:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DO9RhNJWAAEnnAV.jpg:large jazz books recently purchased, incl. Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, Cecil Taylor, Byard Lancaster, and Kenneth Terroade:On Disc and Tape, by Mike Hames---never heard of KT, here in august company; so far I've found this succinct, vivid dispatch from a close listening session:http://absintheforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/05/bygactuel-series-part-three-kenneth.html

George Avakian has died at 98. A genuinely legendary producer.