Rolling Jazz Thread 2019

yeah, what a champ !

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).

y'know, i haven't even TRIED blue world yet, which is ridiculous. Going in.

Psyched to have ordered the new Muriel Grossmann. I’ve been blown away by everything I’ve heard so far from her.

yikes who wrote this copy tho https://murielgrossmann.bandcamp.com/album/reverence

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, 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?

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.

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.

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 Wolf
9. Branford Marsalis Quartet, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul
8. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
7. SEED Ensemble, Driftglass
6. Victor Gould, Thoughts Become Things
5. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Ancestral Recall
4. Theon Cross, Fyah
3. Jeremy Pelt, Jeremy Pelt the Artist
2. Yazz Ahmed, Polyhymnia
1. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise

First listen to the Jaimie Branch and holy shit at Prayer for Amerikkka.

Thanks for the list, unperson. I've only heard the Matana Roberts (my first encounter with her music; by no means the last).

Nice. The real winners for me this year were Tomeka Reid and the Comet Is Coming releases.

No idea which thread to mention it on, but the Sarathy Korwar album is super interesting

anyone like Marilyn Mazur's Shamania? I love it!

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.

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/

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/junius-paul-ism-interview

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/ism

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.

This album rules.

anyone like Marilyn Mazur's Shamania? I love it!

― 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)

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

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.

anyone like Marilyn Mazur's Shamania? I love it!

This is great New Year's Day morning music.

Time for new thread?

Indeed.

Rolling Jazz Thread 2020

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.

I like Jon Batiste a lot more than I used to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyds04mi_Z0

He put out a couple of short live albums recently that I liked, one more than the other.

he's always a good time live.