Rolling Jazz Thread 2019

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.

Apparently John Zorn's Tzadik label got fucked really hard by the PledgeMusic implosion - they used the site to fund a giant deluxe box set, but they're not getting the pledge money. So they're launching a limited edition series of LPs to cover their losses:

https://tzadik.limitedrun.com/

Allison Miller is playing here with violinist Jenny Scheinman, I should probably go? But it's on a weeknight and I probably won't, unfortunately.

Jenny Scheinman is worth seeing so yeah, go

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.

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this is good news

I'm having deja vu about posting this, but I'm listening to the new Lage Lund record and it's pretty cool, it's nice to hear Tyshawn Sorey in a fully rhythmic and idiomatic context (w/Larry Grenadier on bass).

Also enjoying looking up old Bad Plus videos from when Reid Anderson looked like a grunge dude (lots of flip flops and unbuttoned shirt cuffs), and Dave King hadn't gotten all fit and stylish yet.

Anderson was swinging on the flippity-flop.

wait dave king is fit and stylish now?

fit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3isNd6UGaDQ

And the last couple times I saw him, my gf remarked on the quality of his shoes (no socks), he was fully cuffed and had the top button happening, looking good imo.

Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel is really hitting me, kind of adventurous in a low key MOR way, a lot of electronics and synth textures, jazz-meets-Brian-Wilson vocal arrangements

ooh good I'm always happy to check out some new Mehldau.

That description literally makes me shudder, but I'm glad you're into it.

An album that surprised me this week is pianist Greg Foat's The Mage, which features Malcolm Catto (of the Heliocentrics), Clark Tracey, and Moses Boyd on drums on various tracks; saxophonists Duncan Lamont and Art Themen; and guitarist Ray Russell. (Those dudes are all British jazz vets who've also recorded tons of library music and whatnot.) The first track is a kind of Pentangle-meets-Wicker Man version of the hymn “Of My Hands” with a female singer (Kathleen Garcia), but there's some other stuff later on that sounds like if Stanley Turrentine had made a whole album of Pink Floyd (circa Meddle/Dark Side) covers for CTI.

https://aotns.bandcamp.com/album/the-mage

Do you like him in general (Brad M)?

well I like a lot of 3 sounds/Turrentine/Pentangle so that sounds fucking good as well!

his last alb Seymour Reads the Constitution was brilliant.

Do you like him in general (Brad M)?

I like the Art of the Trio records, but I don't listen to them often. It was mostly the "jazz-meets-Brian Wilson vocal arrangements" that hurt.

Lol Wilson can be a loaded term, I could have referenced Kamasi or Axelrod I guess

Cheers for the Foat recommendation. I liked the Hampshire Foat stuff without ever being bowled over by it. This is making me think of Ian Carr's Belladonna in places.

At 37 minutes, the Foat record does feel a little like cuttings. By which I mean if there's more lying about, I'd gladly hear it.

Ahmad Jamal’s quartet was INCREDIBLE tonight. Full review on Stereogum on Friday.

really enjoying the Greg Foat

Tried putting on the Mehldau at home and the first track got an instant veto from the other human present

Listening now though and the other tracks are much less obnoxious, although odd-time trap beats aren't particularly cute (but stock drum machine samples + amazing string section on track 5 kinda brings to mind the last Radiohead album, which makes sense with Mehldau).

Funny that the worst tracks on this are the ones with Mark Guiliana ripping (I guess because he was brought in to sell the most overblown/melodramatic moments). I like Mehldau in chill beatmaker mode though!

he's fundamentally uncool but I like em

also this Greg Foat is extremely my jam

Hadn't heard of Greg Foat until now but this does a great job at seemingly like a lost '70s mystic jazz-folk curio