Rolling Jazz Thread 2019

new brandee younger album is predictably great

https://www.facebook.com/nightmemer/photos/a.438988833149338/834871306894420/?type=3&theater

Lol

"Would also recommend 'Sonny's Dream' by Sonny Criss, where Tapscott did all the writing and arranging."

finally got round to this one today and it is so fucking good.

going to see The Comet is Coming tonight, very excited,

listening to + digging Getz at the Gate

The Comet is Coming was SO MUCH FUN
packed club, party vibe, people dancing...band seemed really happy and into it...Hutchings is great so is Analog Dave or whatever the synth dude's name is, drummer great as well
so glad I went, glad it was packed so maybe Sons of Kemet comes

Glad you were into it. They really were a blast in NYC, and I'm glad to hear they were able to draw a good crowd. I wonder if they're the kind of act that can bridge the gap between the jazz world and the jam-band world.

Shabaka is out of this world good - feel so lucky I got to see him. Weirdly their Philly show was v poorly attended but there were people there who had just seen him the night before in NY and loved it so much they travelled down to see him again.

the crowd was definitely not the typical mpls jazz crowd, it's not a great city for jazz really but def a lot of rock, hipsterish types mixed with jazz people

i think it's partially the kamasi washington effect, he's had a couple of really well received club shows here and gets a bit of token play on the local mpr indie rock station the current...so maybe some new people are getting attracted to some of this newer jazz that way, kamasi went from when i saw him at a small club to headlining and i believe selling out the first avenue mainroom which is about 1300 or more

This year's festival isn't exciting me as much as last year's (and I also probably have less money) but I am hoping to see both Jakob Bro and a Joelle Leandre/Lori Freedman duet next Tuesday.

Very much enjoying Mobilisation Generale, a compilation of 70's spiritual and free jazz from France, mostly played by members of communes, anarchist collectives, etc. Almost every track features some spoken word declamation on top of it and I'm sure many of them must be super cringey but while I speak ok French I can easily tune them out.

the Fabian Almazan Trio album is quite a standout Cuban influenced piano trio album, some really powerful music on there and not your average trio at all.

Listening to Rajna Swaminathans album 'Of Agency and Abstraction' and I like it a lot. Chamber-jazz/Indian carnatic music hybrid, very beautiful.

Oh, thanks. That's right up my alley and it's sounding pretty good so far.

yeah .. same.

Ah, wow, a female mrdangam player - that's uncommon.

Chamber-jazz/Indian carnatic music hybrid

Sold.

Rez Abbasi's Unfiltered Universe and Avataar's Petal are also recommended if you're looking for Indo-jazz hybrids from the last few years and don't know them.

I most definitely am. Thanks!

Dennis Gonzalez's Ataraxia - Ts'iibil Chaaltun is another good 'un.

forgot to mention Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition as well!

one of my alltime fave older ones is the marvelous joe harriott indo jazz suite, tho. fucking love that one.

I had bought a decent old copy of Oscar Peterson Trio's Affinity from a friends record sale a while back....I don't know if it's a particularly significant record and don't really know much about OP but I can listen to this over and over and over again and never get sick of it

that means it is significant then :) some of my fave OP is his album with the legendary Ben Webster.

it just kind of takes me to that place when you first start listening to jazz and you almost imagine you are a different, more sophisticated person that lives in new york and sips coffee and reads the times then goes for a walk in central park

the band on this is Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen

ray brown is so classic!

just one of the most swingingest of bass players ever to breath oxygen!

Love that Joe Harriott album. The album he did with Amancio D'Silva, Hum Dono, is magnificent, as is D'Silva's solo album Integration.

Earth, Wind & Fire vocalist Philip Bailey has a new album, Love Will Find a Way, out today on Verve. Kamasi Washington's on it, along with Robert Glasper, Christian McBride, Chick Corea, and Steve Gadd, and he does a couple of Curtis Mayfield songs. I'm listening to it now and so far it's really good.

Tbh you should try sipping your coffee Matt, it's a good way to drink coffee

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/five-times-surprise

good is this.

Jakob Bro/Thomas Morgan/Joey Baron were magical last night! Sounded beautiful. Joelle Léandre/Lori Freedman were v cool too, if that counts as jazz. Really strong sense of dialogue and humour.

I had bought a decent old copy of Oscar Peterson Trio's Affinity from a friends record sale a while back....I don't know if it's a particularly significant record and don't really know much about OP but I can listen to this over and over and over again and never get sick of it.

Ha, I just got a nice copy of Night Train for cheap this weekend. I had it on CD but hadn’t listened to it in years. It sucked me in when I put it on last night.

title track is classic!

Journeying out to Brooklyn tonight to see JD Allen's new trio at some bar. His new album Barracoon is typically excellent, but twitchier/jumpier than his stuff with his previous rhythm section - the two new guys are roughly half his age, and you can hear it in the music.

he'll do well to replace Liberty Ellman with someone as good, he's so versatile and talented.

Would've loved to be at that concert, Sund4r. All involved are amazing.

Earth, Wind & Fire vocalist Philip Bailey has a new album, Love Will Find a Way, out today on Verve. Kamasi Washington's on it, along with Robert Glasper, Christian McBride, Chick Corea, and Steve Gadd, and he does a couple of Curtis Mayfield songs. I'm listening to it now and so far it's really good.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, June 21, 2019 2:52 PM

JD Allen just got a nice piece in the NYT from Gio Russonello: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/arts/music/j-d-allen-barracoon.html

Interesting lineup for Roulette's "end of year" back to back shows in NYC: https://roulette.org/event/roulettes-40th-season-closing-party-1/

Saturday, July 20
Ikue Mori and Craig Taborn
Matana Roberts
Nels Cline with Zeena Parkins
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio (with Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen)

Sunday, July 21
John Zorn’s Simulacrum (John Medeski, Matt Hollenberg and Kenny Grohowski)
JG Thirlwell
John Medeski
Val Jeanty and Fay Victor

https://soundcloud.com/musicismysanctuary/exclusive-premiere-ethinic-heritage-ensemble-pharoah

just been blasting out latest Ethnic Heritage Ensemble album - it's good afro-jazz stuff.

bluesy afro-jazz i should said.

The JD Allen Trio show at Bar Bayeux (where fellow saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh is putting on shows in August, September, and October; someone else is booking July) was really good. His new drummer, Nic Cacioppo, is much more aggressive than Rudy Royston; he took a solo that was somewhere between Buddy Rich and Billy Cobham, while dressed like a member of the Fania All-Stars.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-CJpOOXkAA1dmw.jpg

Apparently, Nubya Garcia was in town last night, too, at Nublu - I'm sorry I missed that show.

News for anyone who's got a spare hundred bucks lying around - Triple Point Records has just released Duets 1992, a 2LP of previously unreleased studio material by Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, recorded in Italy. $94 plus shipping. The music's incredible, of course, I just wish it was within a normal person's price range.

bluesy afro-jazz i should said.

heh!

Would've loved to be at that concert, Sund4r. All involved are amazing.

So lovely! I had to miss Brad Mehldau and Mary Halvorson (in Illegal Crowns) last night.:(

Dizzy Gillespie playing tennis in his pants while smoking a cigar. This level of not giving a shit is definitely something to aspire to. pic.twitter.com/AYjcs1SQSw

— Andymack (@Andymack) June 29, 2019

um he appears to NOT be wearing pants there...

those are pants if you're in the UK

I saw Makaya McCraven last night at the Montreal Jazz Festival. He was amazing--probably a banal thing to say, but he is an astonishingly good drummer. The whole band was great, not that I caught their names (all Chicago locals, no ringers; I couldn't catch Nubya Garcia earlier in the day and I'm missing Theon Cross tonight, so I was a little bummed he mentioned both of them), and the pianist was especially good. When it ended, I was disappointed it was only like 45 minutes...turns out it was 90.

i'm double booked for his brooklyn show and sweating it

I feel like I already posted this here, but I was peeved the festival managed to book Garcia, McCraven, Christian Scott, and Theon Cross in four shows on two nights of a 10-day festival. Seeing Scott tonight though