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

Sonny Rollins‏ @sonnyrollins 22h22 hours ago

On February 16, Craft Recordings will release a deluxe edition of Way Out West, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the recording session.

I also notice there is a campaign to name a bridge after him. I really love Way Out West, it's just perfect.

Wasn't there already a deluxe edition of Way Out West with a whole bunch of bonus tracks? How much more could there be?

quite correct really!

I really dig that Zara McFarlane album you put on your list unperson, reminds me of a more jazz, less reggae and more adventurous Hollie Cook

The track 'Crooked Teeth' on the Chris Speed record is a good example of their free interplay. I probably wouldn't like it as much if I hadn't caught a set. Everything else on the record is pulse-based for the most part.

CS has a really beautiful sound btw.

Everything else on the record is pulse-based for the most part.

Actually that's not true, Spotify was just playing tracks in an unexpected order, lol.

more jazz, less reggae and more adventurous Hollie Cook

Also for those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Jazz Thread Spotify Playlist

ulysses if you don't like it then i'd be shocked

it's good!

Thanks for the playlist, ulysses.

Salute!

I like the Zara McFarlane one too, ty

I normally hate jazz vocals, but two vocal records really clicked with me this year - the McFarlane and the new Cecile McLorin Salvant. And Alicia Hall Moran (Jason Moran's wife) just threw an album up on Bandcamp tonight - Harriet Tubman is her backing band on at least 3 tracks. It's $20, like her husband's work, but I think I'm gonna spring for it just so I can write about it in January's Stereogum column.

Would FP you for disliking Jazz Vocals but I guess you’re not the only one.

Which reminds me, RIP Kevin Mahogany

wait, what?

oh man, i missed that. i really don't know anything about the guy, but i used to listen to a jazz radio station like 20 years ago that played mahogany's "oh! gee!" a lot, and i have a lot of residual fondness for him because of it.

My podcast interview with Stanley Cowell is live now.

two vocal records really clicked with me this year

ONE OF US, ONE OF US

Hilary Gardner & Ehud Asherie's The Late Set might be a bit too much of a mannered + polite Jazz Vocal album for some folk, but I find it quite elegant and lovely.

_two vocal records really clicked with me this year_


ONE OF US, ONE OF US

(whispers into the wind)
(I don't like most jazz vocals either...........)

A friend on FB has just posted "RIP Roswell Rudd" but without a confirming link at the moment.

Aw, fuck, I hope not but I wouldn't be surprised. When I was interviewing him last month it was like a whisper from the grave.

would like to see that cecile mclorin salvant on more people's best of lists.

Just heard a track from this on NTS (Beatrice Dillon) and now I need to track it down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharoah_Sanders_Live...

Doesn't look like it's easily available digitally unfortunately.

Richard Williams
‏ @rwilliams1947
8h8 hours ago

RIP great trombonist Roswell Rudd, 82. Going to remember him by listening to School Days, Four for Trane, New York Art Quartet, New York Eye & Ear Control, Liberation Music Orchestra (“We Shall Overcome”!), JCOA, etc. A vital figure in the ‘60s new jazz. Even if reports of his death are wrong, this seems like a good list for the weekend.

Oh and just heard this, mostly re RR's 2016 album work:
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/572609610/trombonist-roswell-rudd-packs-a-lot-of-wisdom-into-every-note-of-embrace

this should be right up any spiritual hat head's alley:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7CRS4CTIm4E5uUcwSoQ2pL
^^Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam

This could be called chamber jazz, but these excerpts set off little lights in my morning fog, hocketing and all (beats the Radiohead I've heard, anyway): https://www.npr.org/2017/12/28/574044466/marta-s-nchez-creates-a-truly-international-sound-with-danza-imposible

Definitely; this is what I said about it for Stereogum:

Marta Sanchez, a pianist from Spain who’s lived in New York since 2011, recorded her third album with a great band: saxophonists Roman Filiu and Jerome Sabbagh, bassist Rick Rosato, and drummer Daniel Dor. Despite being written for a traditional jazz quintet, the compositions have a weird energy that reminds me of modern classical and/or abstract electronic music. The title track, “Danza Imposible,” begins with a just slightly off horn figure over a hypnotic piano melody. When the two saxophones begin to go their separate ways, coexisting without exactly harmonizing, Sanchez, Rosato and Dor create a lurching, fractured rhythmic bed for them. Her piano style is extremely delicate, but focused at the same time; she’s got a lot of power that she holds in reserve for just the right moment.

I see it has already been noted itt that ECM is streaming - it's fantastic!!

first albums I saved were Streams by Jakob Bro (with Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron), Swept Away by Marc Johnson and Eliane Elias (with Joey Baron and Joe Lovano) and One is the Other by Billy Hart Quartet (BH, Ethan Iverson, Ben Street and Mark Turner)

Crazy story about busted water pipe at Mezzrow.