Rolling Jazz Thread 2019

well John Barry was always the most defensible part of that franchise

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!

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.

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.

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.

Working on McLaughlin's "Follow Your Heart" with a student today. A really satisfying tune: there's a lot there! Other than the 1970 Joe Farrell Quartet version (which feels definitive to me) and the 1971 version on My Goals Beyond, does anyone have any favourite versions?

*Was working on

Wondering if should go see Larry Goldings at the Jazz Standard

All right I decided

Report back; I reviewed his trio's latest album (favorably) but I'm not sure I need to see that music played live.

Okay will do. Truth be told I just wanted to see something tonight and that was the venue I felt like going to, haven’t been there in a while.

I didn't know he had a new record, but LG is always delightful imo

That was great. Lots of groove, lots of energy, lots of space. They are there for one more night.

Who was the band?

The trio: Goldings, Bernstein, Stewart.

Frisell/Morgan sounds really pleasant on first listen. Really enjoyed the take on "Red River Valley".

Classic!

Is the Scary Pockets collab his most recent record? Cause yeah, I'm not into them, but mostly because I can't get past Pomplamoose/Patreon guy.

Xp

Dunno. Never listened, don’t like the idea of them, but do like that bass player.

Last trio album I see is from about a year ago, Toy Tunes. Assuming that is the one Phil reviewed, unless there was a more recent one. Scary Goldings album came out a few months after that.

https://michaelgregoryjackson.bandcamp.com/album/whenufindituwillknow-michael-gregory-jackson-clarity-quartet-2019

good is this.

Just had my press tickets confirmed to see Ahmad Jamal in Princeton on May 18. He's got James Cammack on bass, Herlin Riley on drums, and Manolo Badrena on percussion, which I believe is the band from his most recent album, Marseille (which rules). So excited about this.

Listened to Toy Tunes and Music from the Front Room today, both delightful.

That should be great, Herlin especially!

Speaking of which, new Herlin record! I jumped straight to the last track, which yep, never fails, is the second line cut: https://open.spotify.com/album/0adoHb4iey3I7lIeRi1cmY?si=WMLqpHsTReyg5UHN6UCjYA

Yeah, that album's really good. I'm thinking about trying to tape a podcast interview with him - between his work with Jamal, his years with Wynton Marsalis (going back to the 80s) and his own albums, there's a lot to discuss.

If you do, I'd love to hear him talk about his relationship with Shannon Powell, and about his thoughts about the current generation of second line drummers and how that style has developed post-Rebirth.

Jamal is, of course, the god; my fave living pianist and one of those people where you watch his hands the whole concert. Wish he'd come back to New York as i want at least one more show.

hello nyc ilm jazzheads,

i'm in nyc april 25 - 30. any shows to look out for ? or venues whose calendars i could browse ? would also be interested in DIY spaces -- all the ones i used to frequent are long gone. but obviously a good show is a good show and if pharoah sanders is playing the village vanguard i'm gonna go, y'know (he's not) ?

ty !

Stefon Harris's Blackout is at the Jazz Standard during that time; Tomeka Reid's quartet will be at the Jazz Gallery (she'll also be doing a duet with Tomas Fujiwara); Tyshawn Sorey's doing a three-hour or so concert at the Jazz Gallery on 4/27; Jim Snidero is at Smalls on 4/25 with a good band; and speaking of the Vanguard, Gerald Clayton has a really good band there this week.

awesome, thanks !

tyshawn for sure, i've really loved his last two releases.

because it's at least partially my job to keep up with this stuff, here's some other possible recommendations/things to be aware of; I will likely be at the Georgian yodeling show.

April 25 – Kassa Overall with Kris Davis at Jazz Gallery
https://www.kassaoverall.com/#time-capsule

April 25 to 27 – Jazz at Lincoln Orchestra with Ken Burns: Country Music
https://www.jazz.org/events/t-7293/Wynton-Marsalis-and-Ken-Burns-Country-Music/

April 25 to 28 – Manhattan Transfer
http://www.bluenotejazz.com/newyork/schedule/index.shtml

April 26 – Omara Portuondo
https://www.sonyhall.com/shows/2019/omara-portuondo

April 26 – Eddie Henderson
https://zincjazz.com/event/trumpet-masters-series-eddie-henderson/

April 26 – Georgian Polyphony and Yodeling
https://www.livesounds.org/events/georgian-vocal-polyphony-and-yodeling

April 26 to 28 – WFMU Record Fair
https://wfmu.org/recordfair/

April 27 – Village Fete After Party with Hailu Mergia
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/village-fete-after-party-hailu-mergia-chances-with-wolves-tickets-58600751425

April 27 – Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion
https://www.njpac.org/events/detail/zakir-hussains-masters-of-percussion

April 27 – Django a GoGo with Stephane Wrembel
http://thetownhall.org/event/django-a-gogo-2019

April 28 – Gotham Jazz Festival
https://www.facebook.com/events/138020197085574/

April 28 – Arroj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shazad Ismaily
https://www.joespub.com/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2019/Arooj-Aftab-Vijay-Iyer--Shazad-Ismaily-Trio/?SiteTheme=JoesPub

April 29 and 30 – Rosalia
https://www1.ticketmaster.com/rosalia/event/0000566FF257986F

April 30 and May 1 – Karriem Riggins
http://www.bluenotejazz.com/newyork/schedule/index.shtml

April 30 – Mountain Goats
https://www.axs.com/events/368480/the-mountain-goats-tickets?skin=brooklynsteel&x=x

Tomeka and Tyshawn are both good bets for my money.

You should also check out The Stone and Roulette.
http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php
https://roulette.org/calendar/

it occurs to me that i should start a "NYC shows" thread on ILM somewhere.

^ would read

also thanks very much !

Same here! Speaking of Tomeka Reid, I recently heard a good song by Hear In Now, her string trio w Mazz Swift and Silvia Bolognesi, on Dee Alexander's oft astute radio show--just now, prompted by TK mention on this thread, I checked for the album, and here it is, with Dee on the title track:
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/not-living-in-fear

RIP Fred Foss, DC- based, NY raised sax player and flutist who played with Lionel Hampton, Hugh Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim, Tito Puente and more. Had an album out as a leader in 95 or 96

My latest Stereogum column just went up. A lot of the albums therein come out today, so there's plenty to listen to if you're not a Taylor Swift or Bruce Springsteen fan.

Lots of interesting stuff there, thx!

Yesterday I listened to a bunch of Keith Jarrett's '70s records that are on Spotify, and I found your liveblog, which was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.

(Fort Yawuh is the one btw, and I can definitely hear how that band was a big influence on the Bad Plus)

been listening to both that new Angelika Niescier trio and the Matt Brewer one today, both v good.

That Niescier is really good. The Cage-inspired compositional strategies produce some fascinatingly odd results, but it never feels dry or overly cerebral. Having Gerald Cleaver on drums helps of course, but credit is due to the whole band for finding that sweet spot between body and head.

Unperson, really enjoyed the Herlin interview. Thanks for asking about Shannon!

Thanks! I really had a good time talking to him - I hoped my request for an explanation of New Orleans vs. New York rhythms wouldn't come off too "Drumming for Dipshits," but his explanation was really interesting to me, anyway.

Yep, that's exactly what I expected him to say, it's very true.

Just for fun, here he is playing my bass drum at a church service in Switzerland 11 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwRC2QoEkyg

So the Lithuanian label NoBusiness and writer Ed Hazell have been working with Sam Rivers' daughter Monique to dig through her dad's archives and put out what's going to be a series of eight releases over the next couple of years. The first one is due out late May/early June - it's a live trio recording with Cecil McBee and Norman Connors, the same band heard on 1973's Streams, but this is from June 1971 and is even more intense. One half-hour track, one 45-minute track, total improv.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6OpjFEXsAAAP5o.jpg

Marshall Allen, Danny Ray Thompson, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balazs Pandi, Roswell Rudd
Ceremonial Healing

^^^

This is a pretty sick album

recorded in '16 and apparently contains the last recorded appearance of Roswell Rudd (rip).

Sounds interesting - I've just reached out to the label's publicist to see if it's going to be released on anything other than vinyl.

as much as I enjoyed blasting this out yesterday. I wouldn't be even slightly interested in paying £30 odd for it on vinyl. I presume they might be delaying the flac/mp3 downloads to maximize the profits from the collector market first, but that just drives ppl like me to slsk.

The MP3s I got from the label were tagged in a way that makes me think there'll be a 2CD version by the end of the year, but they have to allow a certain window to elapse first to keep it legally an RSD exclusive.