Also, speaking of last spring, did I mention this? Awesome, and unlike the Horn set, whole thing's posted:https://www.npr.org/2018/03/23/596004201/jane-bunnett-and-maqueque-the-new-queens-of-afro-cuban-jazz
― dow, Monday, 21 January 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
"musos," not "musus,", sorry player guys
― dow, Monday, 21 January 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
Greg Ward's Rogue Parade band Stomping Off from Greenwood album is quite ace. I remember liking a Mingus tribute alb he did a couple years back as well.
― calzino, Monday, 21 January 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I've been following Ward's career for almost a decade now and the new album is really good. I wrote about it here.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 21 January 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
I put together a Spotify playlist of all five albums by the Norwegian jazz quartet Cortex (Thomas Johansson on trumpet, Kristoffer Berre Alberts on saxophones, Ola Høyer on bass, Gard Nilssen on drums). Here's a link.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 21 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Wayne Shorter's Emanon is now streaming on Spotify (and presumably other services as well).
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 25 January 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Just heard Kevin Whitehead's Fresh Air take on the new Eric Dolphy collection, Musical Prophet, mentioned upthread by unperson. It gathers prev. released from a couple of albums with outtakes etc, and KW says some of the best versions made the original cut, but great sound, as unperson says, and cool to have them all together, esp. duets w bassist Richard Davis, also sessions w Woody Shaw and Bobby Hutcherson and larger groups. More info here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/eric-dolphy-musical-prophet-resonance-review-784055/
― dow, Friday, 25 January 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
If you want to hear Branford Marsalis talk about why Kamasi Washington and Christian Scott aren't jazz, check out my latest podcast:
https://simplecast.com/s/784800dd
He also talks about his time with Sting, playing with the Grateful Dead, and how it took him seven years to get good at playing classical music.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 25 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
The lineup for Gilles Peterson's We Out Here festival (August 15-18) looks amazing:
https://www.weoutherefestival.com/lineup
Gary Bartz Matthew Herbert TirzahIdris Ackamoor & The PyramidsThe Comet Is ComingSons of Kemet Lee Fields & The Expressions Nubya GarciaKojey Radical Hailu Mergia A Certain RatioMXMJoYMoses Boyd Exodus Steam Down Orchestra KokorokoChildren of Zeus Yazmin Lacey Kaidi Tatham Theon Cross FyahJoe Armon-Jones Maisha Auntie Flo Skinny PelembeTawiah Alabaster dePlume
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
yeah, that looks dope as fuck
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
Christ. And in August so can actually go.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
Listening to the new Christian Scott album Ancestral Recall - it's great, of course. A single disc, and more organic/less trap than the trilogy, but still definitely him. Out in late March.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 February 2019 00:12 (five years ago) link
Did this on Nashville saxophonist-producer JayVe Montgomery and his current project, Abstract Black
― eddhurt, Saturday, 9 February 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
man alive, have you heard Hamiet Bluiett live album with Ted on it? It’s great.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
I had a very jazzy weekend. Played two nights at the Green Mill, but on Saturday there was some excitement after the show because Anderson Paak was playing across the street. While the next band was setting up I got to meet Makaya McCraven, who was super chill. Then we had to give up one of our band booths to make some room for Kamasi Washington, Maurice Brown and crew. AP came by for a little bit too, but I didn't notice him sitting behind me.
I stayed for the first set (1 - 2 am) and Kamasi didn't sit in, but Maurice B and he killed it. Btw the late night band was the successor to Sabertooth, Pat Mallinger's band with Pete Benson on organ (who is absolutely insane) and a great drummer I hadn't heard before, Samuel Jewell.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 February 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
dang
― gbx, Monday, 18 February 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Sounds awesome, v envious.Heard a very nice "Nardis" last night on radio: Cannonball A feat. Blue Mitchell, who especially impressed with shadings into the endpoint, without ever imitating Miles. What other Blue Mitchell (his albums or on someone else's) should I check?
― dow, Monday, 18 February 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
I mostly know him from those great early Horace Silver records
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 February 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
His Riverside albums from 1959-60 are really good, especially Big Six, Out of the Blue, Blue Soul and Blue's Moods. Killer bands on all of those.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 18 February 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
Kamasi Washington, Maurice Brown and crew. AP came by for a little bit too, but I didn't notice him sitting behind me.
lol i was skimming and misread this as Kamasi Washington was sitting behind you and I was like goddamn how do you not notice Kamasi Washington?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
It's true, he is hard to miss
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 February 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
Saxophonist/flutist Anna Webber's 'Clockwise', is an homage to some of her favourite 20th Century composers as seen through the lens of their works for percussion.For the project, Webber researched and analyzed various percussion compositions by Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, Edgard Varése, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Milton Babbitt, and John Cage, isolating particular moments that could be extracted and developed into new works.
love this so far, and would listen to any band with Tordini, M Mitchell , Ches Smith anyway, but this is really good.
― calzino, Friday, 22 February 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it's an interesting record - I wrote about it for my Stereogum column, which will be running later today I think.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 22 February 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
Looking for Charles Lloyd on Bandcamp, found Manhattan Stories (2014), comprised ofTwo 1965 New York Concerts, Disc 1 recorded at Judson Hall & Disc 2 recorded at Slugs' Saloon.
A remarkable and previously unrecorded quartet featuring three jazz giants: guitarist Gábor Szabó, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Pete La Roca.
'It was a specific time and place'; Lloyd told Manhattan Stories annotator Don Heckman. 'We all felt like the boundaries were being dissolved and we could do or try anything. This is a music of freedom and wonder -- we were young and on the move.' Which is just what the sample track, "Sweet Georgia Brown," sounds like (17' 49", but quite spritely). Especially digging the interplay of guitar and sax, bass and cymbals, also succinct solos, esp. PLR's and Szabo's---the latter bright and brittle, autumn leaves, but def not drifting. What other Szabo should I check? Used to see his LPs...https://charleslloyd.bandcamp.com/
― dow, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
Here's my Stereogum column. I talk about Theon Cross, James Brandon Lewis, Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Lioness, Jeremy Pelt, Chris Potter, Anna Webber, Joe Fiedler, Maurice Louca, Itamar Borochov, Brent Birckhead, Miho Hazama, OK:KO, Matt Brewer, and Tom Rainey.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 22 February 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
Thanks, Phil. Don (do you guys have a father named Ike?), see this thread: Gabor Szabo: Who Cares About His MIddle Eastern Modalities Aside From Me And Hurting?
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 February 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
Interesting that Maurice Louca has gone jazz. His last was egyptian dance music, great album. Looking forward to hearing it.
― Frederik B, Friday, 22 February 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
Something Ethan Iverson said on Twitter got me to check out the Brecker Brothers' Heavy Metal Be-Bop (an album I'd never heard before). I like a lot of 70s fusion - I have albums by Billy Cobham, Jean-Luc Ponty, Al DiMeola, Return to Forever, Weather Report and probably some others in my (digital) Walkman - but this shit is a step too far. This shit is gross.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 22 February 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
the Maurice Louca album is very pretty and the vocal track is nice, it is quite a short and slight album - but definitely worth a listen I think.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 February 2019 09:01 (five years ago) link
xxp
you should check out the Anna Weber alb fred, the king of denmark part of the suite is probably the best new music I've heard this year!
― calzino, Saturday, 23 February 2019 09:22 (five years ago) link
Anna Webber
Yeah, thanks for the rec, I really like this.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 23 February 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
glad you like it. For me I don't there is much on Pi Recordings that hasn't been A to A+ in recent years.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 February 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
I listened to Heavy Metal Bebop in high school because of the title (and because we played Some Skunk Funk), but it's my ground zero for why effects on horns are almost always bad.
Also a rare Terry Bozzio appearance before he became a professional drum soloist (I never really got into Zappa).
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 23 February 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Jim Black is doing a week at The Stone starting tonight; well worth the Jackson imo!http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
Sigh, changing from Apple Music to Spotify means I lose access to the Pi Recordings catalogue :(
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
Is there something I should especially focus on in the next ten days?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Tyshawn Sorey, Miles Okazaki, Dan Weiss imo.
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
You might check the new Allison Miller & Boom Tic Boom, which unperson linked above---very appealing review by Kevin Whitehead on this morning's Fresh Air, with excerpts well-chosen to match his comments:https://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/698903730/all-the-parts-fit-together-like-clockwork-on-allison-millers-glitter-wolf?ft=nprml&f=
― dow, Thursday, 28 February 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
Just found out that Ed Bickert passed on Thursday. I listened to him a lot in Grade 10. RIP:( https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/jazzblog/rip-ed-bickert
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
Listening to him this weekend for the first time. Great stuff. Doesn’t hurt that he plays with an excellent bass player, Don Thompson. Apologies for thinking that there was only room for one good Canadian jazz guitarist and that guitarist was Lenny Breau.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 March 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
Also---Sonny Greenwich? Heard him only a little bit, long ago, but seemed good, kinda out there.
― dow, Monday, 4 March 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
Thanks Youtube for recommending this banger of a clip with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Mingus, Roy Haynes, and Archie Shepp (etc) on Ed Sullivan, it was new to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGj_-5FGT8
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
about as cool as it gets.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Buried in the announcement of a pair of April gigs at the Jazz Standard was the announcement that JD Allen's next album will be called Barracoon and be released in June; it features a new trio (Ian Kenselaar on bass, Nic Cacioppo on drums). He'll be playing at the Standard with them, plus Liberty Ellman on guitar.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
Got a promo of the upcoming Art Ensemble of Chicago album, We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration, today. It's a 2CD set (1 studio, 1 live, 70 minutes each) out in late April on Pi Recordings and features a ton of guests:
Roscoe Mitchell – sopranino, soprano and alto saxophonesFamoudou Don Moye – drums, congas, djembe, dundun, gongs, Congo bells, bendir, triangles, Thai bells, shakersMoor Mother (Camae Ayewa) – voice, poetry (Disc One #3, 4, 10)Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron – voice (Disc One #1, 6, 9)Hugh Ragin – trumpets, flugelhorn, Thai bellsFred Berry – trumpet, flugelhornNicole Mitchell – piccolo, flute, bass fluteChristina Wheeler – voice, Array mbira, autoharp, Q-Chord, Moog Theremini, sampler, electronicsJean Cook – violinEdward Yoon Kwon – violaTomeka Reid – celloSilvia Bolognesi – bassJaribu Shahid – bass, tuned brass bowlsJunius Paul – bassDudù Kouaté – djembe, tama/talking drum, calabashes, kanjira, whistles, chimes, bells and small percussions (Disc One only)Enoch Williamson – bongos, congas, djembe, kenkeni, okonkolo, Congo bells, chekeré, shakers, tama/talking drumTitos Sompa – vocals, congas, mbira, Congo bells, cuica, shakersStephen Rush – conductor
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 7 March 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
Just heard this great version of “Stella By Starlight” on WKCR with the melody played on a bass but I can’t figure out who was the leader, because the jock didn’t say and they didn’t update the playlist. Damn you, Pledge Week!
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:10 (five years ago) link
Maybe it was Paul Chambers but can’t seem to locate such a recording, especially since it is overshadowed by his playing it with Miles.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
It wasn't this, was it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xCwCjYQwJ4
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
Not 100% sure, but it’s certainly close enough, thanks!
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link