Rolling Jazz Thread 2019

oh I know that one, thought he'd released another!

Late to the party but Anna Webber's Clockwise is indeed superb.

yep!

aoty!

I should probably go see the Tomeka Reid Quartet w/Mary Halvorson, huh

(I mean I probably won't because I'm busy and bad at going to things, but I should)

Listening to the album now and it's sick
(https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/old-new)

Damn I might have to actually go

going to this tonight if anyone wants to say hi
https://roulette.org/event/mary-halvorson-john-dieterich-a-tangle-of-stars/

yeah that new Tomeka Reid/Mary Halv album is ace

Oh hey, new Bad Plus album! Sounds very Bad Plus-y so far, which is cool. More Bad Plus-y than the last one.

that about covers it, yes! and in a good way.

I love the matana roberts album

The live in the studio band version of this new Bria Skonberg album coming out tomorrow sounds great. Featuring the “protean” Doug Wamble on guitar, whose playing I have enjoyed but who seems to have never been mentioned here.

I tried that Skonberg album but couldn't get past the vocals. You've got a trumpet right there - shut up and blow.

Went to the ECM 50th anniversary concert tonight. Got to see Wadada Leo Smith in duo with Vijay Iyer, then in trio with Bill Frisell and Andrew Cyrille. It ruled.

whaddaya know, bria skonberg looks EXACTLY like you'd think a bria skonberg looks

Bria is one of the nicest and hard working people I know. what she looks like is not what "a" bria skonberg looks like, but what bria skonberg looks like.

really digging this album by Steph Richards, NYC avant-garde/experimental trumpet player.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1716966144_16.jpg

https://stephrichards.bandcamp.com/album/take-the-neon-lights

https://sunnysidezone.com/album/utica-box

cool dan weiss album here, not the brilliant quintet featured on Starebaby but still excellent. I think there is another with mitchell/taborn coming early next year.

bremer/mccoy is a Danish duo (keys/tape loops and bass) apparently distributed on Luaka Bop in the states - all their stuff is good, new album is great, here's a single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJxZ8fefX5k

Listening to the record now and I don't know that it has much to do with jazz beyond instrumentation, but it's quite lovely (especially the Rhodes). It's just this side of the piano music that you would hear someone playing in a hospital or the better airports, but that's somehow not a bad thing.

Just got to a bass solo though, jazz/10

"jazz på svenka" vibes

definitely

freaking out all alone in my bedroom

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2307103682_16.jpg

https://familyvineyard.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-willimantic-records

it's pretty good !

recorded in 2018. i hadn't heard of lao dan:

This is the American debut release from Lao Dan, China’s emerging free player on bamboo flute, suona and alto saxophone. Dan’s voice is starkly unique, even among the blurred lines of international Improv/Jazz. He’s steeped in native traditions yet eagerly obliterates those boundaries with ecstatic intensity and haunting melodies. His dense reedy, drones and jagged melodic shrieks are described as a “Whitmanian yawp,” by Marc Medwin in the liner notes.

having a nice late morning sunday session with this groovy dark stretched-out drone stuff, RIYL "he loved him madly"

loren connors & daniel carter "the departing of a dream, vol. vii"

https://familyvineyard.bandcamp.com/album/the-departing-of-a-dream-vol-vii

Yeah, that's a good one.

giving lao dan a listen now; like him so far!

So the local station carries the public radio-distributed Jazz For The New Millenium, run by the author of the same-title book. All time fave ep likely to remain the first heard, feat. Stevie Wonder's frequently headspinning guest shots on jazz albums: no idea he did so many, or any.
This may be a unique tack, because all the others I've heard are adventures of a sideman-and-occasional leader (well, except Dave Holland, but even that incl. a lot of side gigs).
Recent faves incl. Cecil McBee: earliest sides played, from the early 60s, I think (the host tends to murmur), present him as arriving fully formed, though the most exciting cuts were with the Leaders, one from his most (not very) album as a leader, and omg w the Cookers, from their 2012 release, covering Jazz Messengers-era Shorter. Nothing retro about that track.
Speaking of which, last night Wycliffe Gordon demonstrated diff ways to adjust and reinforce vintage and vintage-y frameworks via application of heat, at various degrees and angles. I usually don't care about trombones, but damn (ace choice of and by clarinet players too).

most (not very) *recent* album as a leader, I meant to say.

I interviewed McBee a few years ago for The Wire. He's amazing, and the Cookers are as anti-nostalgic as you can get. I got to see them live once; they were killer.

Miles Okazaki's new album after doing entire Monk songbook sounds brilliant after 1st listen

I had a McBee album from the 70s (can't remember the name) where on one track he was upposedly playing two basses at once. Never could work it out...

highly recommend the LP "euganea" by upperground orchestra, released earlier this month. opening track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pko-IfO6MQ

for lovers of the electro-free, definitely hyper-frenetic at times, but enough focus and precision and (above all) ecstatic epiphanies so as to keep me zoned in

take the journey

an hour of cecil mcbee? sounds cool, just got into him fairly recently (more recently than the japanese clothing label named after him, put it that way) - actually looking at my timestamps just about a year ago? i have been listening to a _lot_ of jazz in the past year - latest listens are max andrzejewski (thanks bandcamp) playing the music of robert wyatt and "sahib's jazz party" by sahib shihab.

https://milesokazaki.bandcamp.com/album/the-sky-below

this new Miles Okazaki lp is my absolute fave at the moment, feel like i need to listen to all his previous lps although I'm familiar with The Trickster and the huuuge Monk one.

xpost Matana Robert's bandcamp page for Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis provides an overview within the overview of her series design, which does seem grand, but right off I'm digging the prismatic inside voices of all players,singers, and Roberts' own vividly succinct talker, walker, runner, leapfrogger, eyewitness, refugee, sender, occupant, for whom Willie Nelson's "still is still moving to me" also seems to apply. bandcamp mentions "historical" and "diaristic" sources sep, but in effect they merge here (incl. music and other history of the Bluff City and elsewhere, as that Old Man River just goes muddin' along. The album is firmly grounded in layers, currents, even breezes of association----jazz precedents, sonically central, in ways the hip will recognize, also sprout fresh details from moment to moment (a Buddhist sawmill drone might be bow of bass x keys of accordion; no gamelan is listed, so might be bells and ?, theres's also a harmolodic hoedown and sort of washboard fiddle and oh yeah that must be sax x clarinet)(also 'ppreciate how the drummer shifts terrain when nec.) Funny secular ending, no slacking,
https://matana-roberts.bandcamp.com/album/coin-coin-chapter-four-memphis

Her label Constellation has a really good deal going right now - you can get the first three Coin Coin albums 3-for-2 (so $24 CAD for the bundle) plus another $12 for the new one, and then they're giving people 15% off all orders through November 30. Including shipping to the US, you can get all four CDs for well under $40 US.

Wow, thanks for the Max Andrzejewski recommendation; amazing stuff. An Ivor Cutler song in there too.

travis laplante live two nights ago was one of the better and more intense shows i saw this year; his new one, human, is very much of a piece with his prior work and just as affecting
https://travislaplante.bandcamp.com/

Copped a few "Jazz Casual" episodes to watch, including this killer performance/conversation with Cannonball Adderley, such fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi0OMG4xAko

I interviewed Peter Brötzmann for Bandcamp - he's got a new solo album out that's all versions of jazz standards like "I Surrender, Dear," "Con Alma," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," etc., etc. We talked about his relationship to the jazz tradition and his favorite versions of these old songs.

Nice ulysses, I have the Coltrane quartet one on dvd somewhere.

Xpost, per that Brotz interview, I would love for him to do a set of standards with Waits & Revis backing him up (as much as I love Parker & Drake) cuz that's a trio that has played a bunch but somehow I don't think has ever made a record? Unless I missed it which is certainly possible.

Excited for the new solo lp

Which reminds me I saw Brotz & Waits as duo 15 yrs ago and in the middle of the set Waits stood up and walked out of the room. Brotz kept playing like nothing had happened, in fact it was so smooth it seemed almost planned, like Waits was going to like him have a solo spot and in the meantime dip out for a smoke. 5 or 10 minutes later Waits came back, sit back behind the drums and immediately started playing again.

I had to leave so I never figured out what happened. 10 yrs later I ran into Waits at a bar and I asked him what was up with that and he goes

"Oh I got food poisoning and had to go puke"

No, as far as I know the Brotz/Revis/Waits trio has only ever recorded one track, on the 5CD live box Long Story Short. (Of course, that one track is close to 40 minutes long...

My new Stereogum column just went up; I talk about the ECM 50th anniversary concert, the death of Gerry Teekens, and a bunch of new albums.

Will check that, but before I forget: speaking of Coltrane, what does anybody here think of Blue World?

No, as far as I know the Brotz/Revis/Waits trio has only ever recorded one track, on the 5CD live box Long Story Short. (Of course, that one track is close to 40 minutes long...

Ahh I have the other 5CD box 3 Nights In Oslo

^great Waits story, ty