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
What about The Comet Is Coming, now streaming on NPR?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
#FirstListen: Stream The Comet is Coming's (@cometcoming) 'Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery' before it comes out March 15. https://t.co/b5qfLSNn84 pic.twitter.com/dTEyL5mfaR— NPR Music (@nprmusic) March 7, 2019
yes!
― calzino, Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
I can't tell whether I am going to go for the gimmick or not.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
The TCIC album is really good. I didn't like their stuff at first but it's grown on me quite a bit. I interviewed all three members for a feature that'll be out next week on Tidal's website.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
listening to both the new vijay iyer/craig taborn + alexander hawkins piano albums today. Love the hawkins one best at the moment.
― calzino, Sunday, 10 March 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Last night on the radio: didn't catch the titles, but first a Hank Mobley septet, incl. the aforementioned Sonny Greenwich, and Lee Morgan, who wrote this theme of some sharp-edged curvature--ace of spades, cut and folded from sheet metal, at least as played---from around the same time as Mobley's employment w Miles, sounds like; maybe this is what got him hired---followed by the steady jolt of a strict funk note--jackhammer meeting great resistance, but persisting---over which layers kept tilting and shifting: this was Bill Warfield and the Hell's Kitchen Orchestra, an octet, so one more than Mobley's group, duh, but more of an expansion and flourish (yet no BS) than Mobley's meld. Only seeing one album by this Warfield crew, Mercy Mercy Mercy---good? Anybody here heard them live?
― dow, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra.
― dow, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
Wow, really into TCIC so far. It soundss fantastic.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah, sounded great on first listen.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 17 March 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link
Here's a link to my TCIC feature.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
unperson, enjoyed your Branford interview. I met him long ago in New Orleans and it's always entertaining to hear him talk shit (actually what most struck me is his lack of snobbery about basically any kind of music).
Also, I only say this with love, but you should really change the name of the podcast to "Yeah, Yeah" ;)
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
Oh, I have definitely had this thought, trust me.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
the new christian scott is so so so so so good https://christianscott.bandcamp.com/album/ancestral-recall
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 March 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
otm
― Frederik B, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
My album of the year so far, probably.
Weirdly, it reminds me (in overall vibe rather than style per se) to Shafiq Husayn's 'Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka' (which resonance led me to learn that there is a new Shafiq album out later this week!).
― Tim F, Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
Anna Webber still my aoty, but Christian Scott is definitely up there
― Frederik B, Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
the Scott album is astonishing
― rob, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
I don't love the sound of processed trumpet, it just never sounds as cool or modern as it wants to, but I do love the percussion on this record.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
Makaya is playing around the corner from me tonight, I should really go, right? I'm gonna go. I'm going.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
Listening to that Christian Scott album a whole bunch. Most of the percussion on this is looped, right? Is that something that’s becoming more common in jazz?
― Heez, Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
There are def loops, the whole thing is very layered and constructed in a non-jazz manner. I guess it depends on what's considered 'jazz', but I think everyone these days is more comfortable with using software and production to various degrees.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
I'm listening to the last Makaya album, which I had not fully dug into before (possibly because it's 90 min!), but it is indeed great.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Very glad I went, MM blew me away even more than I expected. It was his trio with Matt Gold on guitar and Junius Paul on bass (who has an impressive collection of tights).
More solo-based than his records, but no one ever really drops out. Hugely dynamic, everything is beat-based but in a way that avoids feeling idiomatic or cliched at all. He's so amazing at this certain 12/8 flow, where every note of the triplet is voiced...that's usually an Afro-Cuban thing, and it feels like that, but there isn't a specific clave, it's always moving and shifting. Dave King is good at this too (and he's actually playing here tonight in a duo, but I'm not making that).
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Voted in the Down Beat critics' poll this week - well, about half of it, anyway. They've got a million stupid categories, many of which I have no opinion on at all. "Rising Star - Flute"? How the fuck should I know. Oh, well. It's hard for me to believe Anthony Braxton isn't already in the DB Hall of Fame, so I voted for him.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Would love to go to Birdland tonight to see Gabrielle Stravelli and then the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra but don’t think I can make it.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
Two bands I really like - flugelhornist John Raymond's trio Real Feels (with Gilad Hekselman on guitar and Colin Stranahan on drums) and pianist Aaron Parks' Little, Big (with guitarist Greg Tuohey, bassist David Ginyard, and drummer Tommy Crane) are playing a co-headlining show at Rockwood Music Hall on Friday night. Looking forward to that.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.challengerecords.com/products/15517942371680
frisell and morgan, another record from the village vanguard date that produced an earlier record, playing monk and james bond themes
sounds beautiful, the resonance of frisell's chords is amazing
― j., Wednesday, 10 April 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
the strange duality of despising Bond movies with every atom of my body but always being blown away by renditions of You Only Live Twice!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 07:46 (four years ago) link
well John Barry was always the most defensible part of that franchise
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
I always quite have quite a strong emotional response to renditions of JB. There was a Midnight Cowboy break on a techno album from last year that did the same, despite being nothing special tbh!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
I interviewed Dwight Trible for Bandcamp. Lots of people are hearing him on Kamasi Washington's albums, but he's done a lot more than that.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
The new Joshua Abrams is rather lovely. He's playing his guimbri a fair bit and the overall method is one of slow build and gradual spreading tones.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 20 April 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
I went to Jazz Alley in Seattle a couple weekends ago to see the Joey DeFrancesco Trio (Billy Hart and Troy Roberts, amazing) with special guest Pharaoh Sanders, touring their current album In The Key Of The Universe. On arriving we learned that Sanders had fallen at home and broken his hip, such a disappointment, I hadn't seen him perform since the mid-80s. Instead they had flown in Gary Bartz at short notice to sub in, and he was vital, charming and inspired. The album is really fine, especially on the tracks featuring Sanders that are its centrepiece. These include "The Creator Has A Master Plan" in a version I may prefer to the original.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 20 April 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link