Rolling Jazz Thread 2019

so happy to see jamie saft getting love here he's been a favorite for years and years now ever since breadcrumb sins (2002!)

digging this SEED Ensemble album which is a few months old but i didn't see it mentioned here - from the "London scene"

wow, Bob James in the early 60's was quite different from the stuff I know him from

Yeah just ‘Blue Dream’ by Jamie Saft quartet...sounds great...will definitely check the new one...also the new Douglas/Caine/Cyrille is on my list

they are both A+ imo.

Francis of Anthony off the new Dave Douglas one is so moving and I can't get the melody out of my head.

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.

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boy, you weren't kidding about the vocals on this thing. Ruins the entire comp for me, sadly

does anybody own (or has anybody ever had a look at) the 92-page book that comes with this ESP anthology ?

https://img.discogs.com/Lpl9mZeaJDwESlenVIJdzUX6tKo=/fit-in/442x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4432875-1365695849-4227.jpeg.jpg

who is wu ming 1 ? i wouldn't be ordering this for the CD, so i'm just curious if there is good / exclusive info in that book

Daniel_Rf at 4:25 3 Jul 19

wow, Bob James in the early 60's was quite different from the stuff I know him from

haha I love this phenomenon, I have some John Klemmer stuff that's kinda free-ish...the jazz equivalent of how every new wave UK haircut band member used to be in some low level punk band

The liner notes to that box are on Wu Ming's website.

Wu Ming 1's real name is Roberto Bui; he's part of the Wu Ming Foundation, an artistic collective.

thanks !

This is good, Chicago violin/bass/drums trio (Brock/Ulery/Dietmyer) -
https://mattulerywoolgathering.bandcamp.com/album/wonderment

ezra collective tour announced!

Went to the Dave Douglas ‘Engage’ gig at the Jazz Cafe tonight...really nice...interesting line-up...reminded me at times of Henry Cow...love his playing...

Just listened to Rhonda Hamilton's farewell party on WBGO and feeling a little stirred up. Stumbled upon Cat Russell performing live on the Dizzy's feed which is taking the edge off.

Her band is up to the task.

Guitar player is great for this stuff, Matt Munisteri. Hope they stream the next set.

https://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/releases

missed that there was a new james brandon lewis record earlier this year

Just learned about Danish guitarist Henrik Andersen recently. His new Soundcloud release WTF Variations consists of pretty interesting and intricate knotty solo acoustic guitar jams. 12 tracks here, not organized into a playlist: https://soundcloud.com/henrik-andersen-612974251

http://henrikandersenmusic.com/____impro/1/onewebmedia/Solo%20Cowboy.jpg?etag=%2221d4ab-54830a4e%22&sourceContentType=image%2Fjpeg&ignoreAspectRatio&resize=266%2B365&extract=3%2B0%2B262%2B365&quality=85

he's a really fine player, but what on earth is that thing!

Ten more strings but one less neck than Metheny's Pikasso (by the same luthier I believe): http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/pikasso1.jpg

Turns out the new album is completely notated, which makes sense.

Tbh, I wasn't sure if it belonged more here or in the acoustic fingerpicking thread but dude seems to mostly be considered a jazz player.

NPR filmed Sons of Kemet's performance at this year's Big Ears festival:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a4fgVKpMiw

I'm kind of amazed to be saying this, but the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is putting out some really good records lately. Swing Symphony, which came out a month ago or so, and Jazz and Art, which came out today, are both really interesting and worth hearing.

loving this new Nérija album

I interviewed guitarist Shirley Tetteh, who's in Nérija, Maisha, and the SEED Ensemble, for Bandcamp.

for those that don't know nubya garcia is also in nerija

unperson have u heard this yet? https://thevinylfactory.com/product/untitled/ looks good - i wanted to see if nubya + shabaka had collaborated on anything and this came up but i don't think they actually play together on the album. have they actually played together on anything that u know of?

Yeah, I reviewed that for The Wire an issue or two back.

Garcia guests on one track on the last Sons of Kemet album; I forget which one. And they played together on the Maisha track that opens the We Out Here compilation - Hutchings is on bass clarinet.

sons of kemet live are a trip

best show i've seen this year was comet is coming

i love the theon cross too - nubya garcia is on the opener of that ("activate" w/ moses boyd too)

Likewise xp

These guys really need to tour my hemisphere. Australia would be good but i’d Gladly sell a limb to get to japan if they got there.

from Omnivore (who should have also mentioned that he's playing with Hank Jones, Billy Higgins, Charlie Haden, Al Foster, and George Cables on these albums):

Art Pepper
Promise Kept: The Complete Artists House Recordings

Release date: September 13, 2019

Pre-Order 5-CD Boxed Set $55.98

Digital Available Sept. 13
Description
The Complete Art Pepper Artists House Sessions.

“Art Pepper had had a brilliant career as a jazz soloist and band leader until the mid-1950s when he started using heroin. After that, incarcerations and treatments in prisons and hospitals, kept him off the stages and out of the studios. He was only able to record sporadically until he got (relatively) sober in Synanon in 1972, and married Laurie—me. Then, in the last ten years of his life, he composed, recorded, and toured more ambitiously than ever before, focused on securing his place among the true jazz greats—where he knew he belonged.”

—from the liner notes by Laurie Pepper

Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided he would record the gigs, quashing any notion Snyder had of doing the same. However, Art promised Snyder that he’d record an album for Snyder’s label, Artists House, at some point down the road. Together they wound up making four.

Here for the first time are the complete Artists House sessions including 21 previously unissued takes. The original albums drawn from these sessions, So In Love, Artworks, New York Album, and Stardust, have been remastered and expanded with additional takes, some having appeared previously on releases such as The Complete Galaxy Recordings and Artists House—Complete (download only), while some appear here for the first time.

Laurie Pepper has provided liner notes and photographs she took at the sessions. Altogether, this is the most comprehensive window into the Artists House sessions ever likely to be.

“John and Art both kept their promises. John brought Art into the wider world; he put him on the road. Just as he said he would, he brought him to New York and to the Village Vanguard, got his picture in the papers, got him on the radio. From Art, John got his dearest wish. He made these 32 recordings.”

—from the liner notes by Laurie Pepper

5-CD / Digital Track List:

Disc 1 – So In Love:

Straight No Chaser (Take 3)
Blues For Blanche
So In Love
Diane
Stardust

Bonus Tracks:

Yesterdays (Take 2)
Landscape
Straight No Chaser (Take 4)*

Disc 2 – Artworks:

Body And Soul
Anthropology (Take 2)
Desafinado (Take 2)
Donna Lee
You Go To My Head
Blues For Blanche (Alternate A)

Bonus Tracks:

Desafinado (Take 1)*
Anthropology (Take 1)*
Donna Lee (Alternate A)
Blues For Blanche (Alternate B)
You Go To My Head (Alternate A)

Disc 3 – New York Album:

A Night In Tunisia (Take 2)
Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
Straight, No Chaser (Take 2)
Duo Blues
My Friend John

Bonus Tracks:

Johnny’s Blues
A Night In Tunisia (Take 1)*
Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) (Clarinet)
Straight, No Chaser (Take 1)*
My Friend John (Alternate B)

Disc 4 – Stardust:

My Friend John (Alternate A)
Tin Tin Deo
Stardust (Alternate A)
In A Mellow Tone (Take 2)

Bonus Tracks:

Art’s Sweet Blues
But Beautiful (Take 1)
You Go To My Head (Alternate B)*
Yesterdays (Take 3)*
Stardust (Alternate B)*
In A Mellow Tone (Take 1)*

Disc 5 – Sessions:

Blues For Blanche (Alternate C)*
Yesterdays (Take 1)
My Friend John (Take 1 – Long False Start)*
My Friend John (Take 2 – False Start)*
Blues For Blanche (Alternate D)*
Stardust (Long False Start)*
Donna Lee (Alternate B)
But Beautiful (Take 2)
A Night In Tunisia (Take 3)
Blues For Blanche (Alternate E)
Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) (Alternate Sax Take)*

* Previously unissued.

Cool. Learned in recent years that Laurie Pepper played a major part in the writing of Straight Life, which is a big part of why it is so good.

Art Pepper is one of those dudes I wish I liked better than I do.

I just interviewed George Cables for an upcoming podcast. We talked about Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, and Dexter Gordon...but not Art Pepper.

(can't resist posting this, sorry) Cables played with him quite a bit, always well, far as I've ever heard. Here there are with one of my faves from the forthcoming, a remarkably justified 11'40" of "So In Love":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_4jLzxD_Xw

(Haden and Higgins are on there too.)

Yeah, the Nérija album is great, as was their EP from a few years ago. I love Shirley Tetteh's guitar playing. There's something about them that remonds me of bands like Rip Rig & Panic - I can imagine a young Neneh Cherry bouncing around with them at a GLC festival in the early 80s.

Going to the Jazz Gallery tonight to see Taylor Ho Bynum's 9-Tette:

Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, compositions
Jim Hobbs - alto saxophone
Ingrid Laubrock - tenor & soprano saxophones
Bill Lowe – bass trombone, tuba
Mary Halvorson - electric guitar
Tomeka Reid - cello
Ken Filiano - acoustic bass
Stomu Takeishi - electric bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums

They've got an album coming out next month that's really good, so I'm looking forward to hearing the music live.

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A shame, as vol. 6 is pretty damn good.

I might have talked about them in last year's thread - I've been a fan for a while. I wrote about them here. They've got a new one coming pretty soon.

Good stuff, thanks.

Bits of vol. 6 reminded me of Jan Garbarek's halcyon days ca. Afric Pepperbird. I'm a sucker for that sound.

Encouraging take on Coltrane's soundtrack of re-recordings,Blue World out Sept. 27:
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/16/751516859/a-lost-album-from-john-coltrane-is-found-with-thanks-to-a-french-canadian-direct

Also encouraging: most of the excerpts from Abdullah Ibrahim's The Balance, out now--stream /read about it here:
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/06/748739170/the-balance-abdullah-ibrahim-is-deeply-rooted-yet-sounds-like-no-one-else

I thought about going to see Ibrahim at the Jazz Standard. The album's good, if a little low-key.

I'm no Lettuce fan but this Adam Deitch record is really enjoyable, in a classic soul jazz vein. It sounds amazing too.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4zIoDg3T014z7nstlEliQ8?si=kIn9FI9lRDGIOj14rOa8VQ

A lot of nice stuff on the new Kevin Hays/Lionel Loueke album Hope: https://kevinhays-lionelloueke.bandcamp.com/album/hope . A good mix of uptempo material that might suggest West African rhythmic influences (?) like "Violeta" and "Aziza"; slower, delicate instrumental material; and vocal songs.

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A shame, as vol. 6 is pretty damn good.

― pomenitul, maandag 19 augustus 2019 16:22 (two weeks ago)