Yeah, that's a good one.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 10 November 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
giving lao dan a listen now; like him so far!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 November 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
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).
― dow, Monday, 11 November 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
most (not very) *recent* album as a leader, I meant to say.
― dow, Monday, 11 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 11 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Miles Okazaki's new album after doing entire Monk songbook sounds brilliant after 1st listen
― calzino, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
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...
― fetter, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
highly recommend the LP "euganea" by upperground orchestra, released earlier this month. opening track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pko-IfO6MQ
― budo jeru, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
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.
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 17 November 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
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
― dow, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
Wow, thanks for the Max Andrzejewski recommendation; amazing stuff. An Ivor Cutler song in there too.
― fetter, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 09:29 (four years ago) link
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 affectinghttps://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
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
Nice ulysses, I have the Coltrane quartet one on dvd somewhere.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
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
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
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"
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
Will check that, but before I forget: speaking of Coltrane, what does anybody here think of Blue World?
― dow, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
Ahh I have the other 5CD box 3 Nights In Oslo
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
^great Waits story, ty
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
yeah, what a champ !
― budo jeru, Friday, 22 November 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
Nice writing on Gerry Teekens, Phil. I read an interview with him today online, from a couple of years back. He was reluctant in accepting that interview and didn't want to be interviewed at home (actually I never read an interview with him before).
― EvR, Friday, 22 November 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
y'know, i haven't even TRIED blue world yet, which is ridiculous. Going in.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Psyched to have ordered the new Muriel Grossmann. I’ve been blown away by everything I’ve heard so far from her.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
yikes who wrote this copy tho https://murielgrossmann.bandcamp.com/album/reverence
― j., Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, November 21, 2019 3:32 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
Not to get all Steve Hoffman here, but how would you describe the sq on the est Live in Gothenburg release?
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
It's on a par with their other releases. Certainly not a bootleg or anything. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been recorded with an eye toward release at the time.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
Excellent. Thanks! Will order it tonight. I loved Live in Hamburg and don't recall the sound quality on that one bugging me too much, so if it's on par with that, I'm sure it'll be fine.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
The 10 best jazz albums of 2019, according to me (via Stereogum):
https://www.stereogum.com/2067204/best-jazz-albums-2019/franchises/2019-in-review/
10. Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Glitter Wolf9. Branford Marsalis Quartet, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul8. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis7. SEED Ensemble, Driftglass6. Victor Gould, Thoughts Become Things5. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Ancestral Recall4. Theon Cross, Fyah3. Jeremy Pelt, Jeremy Pelt the Artist2. Yazz Ahmed, Polyhymnia1. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 9 December 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
First listen to the Jaimie Branch and holy shit at Prayer for Amerikkka.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Monday, 9 December 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the list, unperson. I've only heard the Matana Roberts (my first encounter with her music; by no means the last).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
Nice. The real winners for me this year were Tomeka Reid and the Comet Is Coming releases.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
No idea which thread to mention it on, but the Sarathy Korwar album is super interesting
― rob, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
anyone like Marilyn Mazur's Shamania? I love it!
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
Glitter Wolf and Fly Or Die II made my uproxx list, Coin Coin Dance Chapter Four: Memphis will be on the Nashville Scene ballot, at least in my hacked-in category of Related. The uprxx was mostly jazz, mostly thanx to this thread, may post later.
― dow, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
Oops still need to listen to this:
The musicians featured are Marc Edwards, Warren Smith, Michael TA Thompson, Mara Rosenbloom, Stephen Gauci, Eriq Robinson, Theodore Woodward, Faye Kilburn and William Hooker.
Symphonie Of Flowers is available on 2LP, CD and digital and shows how William Hooker has been recognized as one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of his generation, leading a variety of ensembles within the worlds of free jazz, experimental, and new music. Hooker's prior collaborators range from avant-garde jazz musicians to indie rock legends like Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. On his latest work, “Symphonie of Flowers”, Hooker weaves three sections into a whole, or a “symphonie” of sorts. As he says, “the piece begins and ends with the drum…my instrument. Its rhythm and variations of timbre are the stabilizing element.”
Read more about the album and order your copy here.https://orgmusic.com/william-hooker-symphonie-of-flowers/
― dow, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/junius-paul-ism-interview
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/ism
― j., Wednesday, 25 December 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
New album by the trio Birth, first in 15 years:https://open.spotify.com/album/6Z7TQTuAiH5myCaHokhl4i?si=P6vTX7dLQtOE8tZQ-KAg4w
Features drummer extraordinaire Joe Tomino from Dub Trio. They absolutely blew minds when I saw them in '00 and they were doing sort of live jungle that would dissolve into free jazz. Happy Apple energy.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 27 December 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
This album rules.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 27 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
― calzino, Wednesday, December 11, 2019 7:44 AM bookmarkflaglink
Tuomas has nominated it on the ILM poll.... "Force of nature" is right!
- https://marilynmazur.bandcamp.com/album/shamania
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2819965007_7.jpg
I'm afraid the only band member I knew much about was the pianist Makiko Hirabayashi, who's been part of the Danish jazz scene for many years.
Marilyn Mazur has hardly done any interviews recently. There's one in Die Tageszeitung – she talks about her early experimental group the Primi Band, and working in the U.S. in the late '80s:
It all happened very quickly. I played with the Gil Evans Orchestra, including Wayne Shorter, and I was on tour for three years without a break. Then Miles asked if I wanted to tour with him again. But I couldn't anymore, I just wanted to go home and do my own thing and cancelled.How did he react?He wasn't used to people turning him down, and he was upset. As much as I loved playing with him, Miles' music had become so strange to me. Back then he was very popular, his sound was also macho. I've never used the term to refer to Miles, but it's true. The atmosphere on stage was not very communicative, everyone had their role.– (taz.de)
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 28 December 2019 06:50 (four years ago) link
haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so posting here as it may be of interest: earlier this year austrian label black-monk reissued franz koglmann's "flaps" and "opium for franz" on both vinyl and CD.
i've found it incredibly difficult to track down even an mp3 rip of "opium for franz" (to say nothing to say of an original LP), so this is most welcome !
looks like some of the european distributors still have copies, but americans might have better luck sending an email directly to the label.
http://www.blackmonk.at/blog
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Opium/For Franz was reissued on CD in ‘99 or 2000, but it was a needledrop. Curious if this new reissue (the vinyl, particularly) is mastered from a different source.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
This is great New Year's Day morning music.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
Time for new thread?
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
Indeed.
Rolling Jazz Thread 2020
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
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
I was going to say that I've been checking this out yesterday and today and loving it, then saw that I apparently actually posted that I liked it literally a year ago.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
I like Jon Batiste a lot more than I used to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyds04mi_Z0
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 May 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link