ha "actual production" is probably all I needed
― rob, Monday, 28 June 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
Oh man, I absolutely loved that duo record with Dezron Douglas. I think the key was approaching it less as an "album" and more as a focused compilation pulled from their really charming streaming sets. I though the fondness for each other and the music really shone through on that one. Really excited for that Impulse! debut though, that's a great lineup.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 June 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
I really did want to like it more than I did, maybe it was a little *too* cozy for me? anyway, I'm excited to hear what she does with a full palette
― rob, Monday, 28 June 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
Her 2019 album (recorded in 2013 and shelved) is really good, too.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 June 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I had no idea that existed, thanks!
― rob, Monday, 28 June 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
Tarriona "Tank" Ball from Tank and the Bangas (a UK group I've never listened to)
They're a New Orleans band
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 28 June 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
https://lionmilk.bandcamp.com/album/o-t-s
new live jazz thing from a younger LA crew
― Bongo Jongus, Monday, 28 June 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
I liked his quarantine solo Rhodes album, will check that out, thanks
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 28 June 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
Still need to check those Brandee albs on bandcamp, thanx for reminders. Following up on their well-received 2017 ESP-Disk’ album backing poet Amina Baraka, The Red Microphone added guitarist Dave Ross to its roster and went into the studio with Ivan Julian (guitarist of punk icons Richard Hell & the Voidoids). A few other veterans of the downtown NYC jazz scene joined in to help accompany the provocative, political poetry of John Pietaro, who doubles on voice and drums.creditsreleased April 23, 2021 And I Became Of The Dark is so much thee 2020a incarnation of a certain kind of 1960s ESP-DISK, a funky, stimulating harvest of beatnik wordage, hipster humor and jazz resources, maybe with some busking experience to keep it engaging and freewheeling. The combo, incl. several multi-instrumentalists and a couple of guests, who don't overstay their welcome, on viola and bari, is always tight and exuberant; don't know how much of the de facto arrangements come from good drummer Pietaro, who is also listed as musical director, but they are usually worth listening around his voice when need be. He's better the closer he gets to actual singing and emphatic chanting, but even when he's just intoning, he never gets in the way that much. "Revenge of the Atom Spies" is perfect opener, should be the single. Gotta check their album with Baraka, which I think is on the ESP-DISK bandcamp. Nu Cantu En Esperanto!https://theredmicrophone.bandcamp.com/
― dow, Monday, 28 June 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
My wife designed the CD for the Baraka album. It's a good one.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 June 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
omg edicated to Saint Escrava Anastacia.creditsreleased June 19, 2021
All instruments, vocalz, and synths performed, produced, recorded, arranged & mixed By Angel Bat Dawid.https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/hush-harbor-mixtape-vol-1-doxologyFirst encounter w this, and don't know of course if it will seem as amazing now that I know what to expect (nothing like what I did expect from several titles, which is prob the point), but so far it's immediately compelling, often beguiling, with an eerie, tranquil intensity, and some shifting surfaces and perimeters (for inst, what's happening to the vocals going around the room---"I know I should be grateful"---in " 'Goree,' or Slave - Stick"---we also get the improbably redemption of overt Auto Tune sometimes, or maybe keys, emphasizing the inflection (of male group vocals? Or herself treated?) that suggests a African-Hebraic-Isalmic chain, rattling a little (the clarinet encourages this). One of the most affecting tracks is her untreated, a capella , "Bet"--followed, in a plausible way, by a calmly killer finale trilogy. None of this is an onslaught of sounds though; each room is only as full as need be. Seems like a rec to fans of adventurously historical clarinetists John Carter and Matana Roberts (her Coin Coin series, and maybe all of his Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music, although the album from that I'm thinking of, and most familiar with, is Fields).
― dow, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
I haven't pulled the trigger on that one yet. I am slowly coming around to the idea that I like the idea of Dawid a lot more than I like listening to her actual records.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:00 (three years ago) link
I feel that way about the International Anthem roster (except Irreversible Entanglements).
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
The Heat Warps, the site that's posting every available bootleg of electric Miles, has a great interview with Lonnie Liston Smith.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that 2019 Brandee Younger album on bandcamp is really satisfying; thanks for the link. Looking fwd to the August release. Speaking of jazz harp, several of Dorothy Ashby's albums have been reissued fairly recently, and here's a good 58 minute survey of her career, ranging from late 1950s bop/modal contexts to late 1960s outings influenced by mysticism and soul. Stream, also download, with Chrome's Sound Pirate, for inst:https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/fantastic-jazz-harp-dorothy-ashby.php
― dow, Thursday, 1 July 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
So, over on A catch-all thread for the current jazz scene in London, including Shabaka Hutchings, Yazz Ahmed, Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Camilla George, Theon Cross, Zara McFarlane, Daniel Casimir, SEED Ensemble, , I was carrying about Nérija trombonist(-composer-arranger) Rosie Turton's own recent refreshingly airy, fluid, robust, succinct (even w remixes) EP, Expansions and Transformations, Part I & II: https://rosieturton.bandcamp.com/---which led me to Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm, which is four trombomnes, piano/Fender Rhodes, bass, and drums: promising, but so far seeming overloaded sometimes, on {defensively titled?) Not A Novelty, their second album, so they've had a while to get it together, although maybe it's Second Album Slump; I haven't tried the debut yet. Or maybe it's just me, esp. re the leader's bass trombone, which is very much with us--I had a similar problem with the tuba on some of Your Queen Is A Reptile, but loved Black To The Future right off.Still, I'm already struck by this Bonegasm ballad all the way through:https://jenniferwharton.bandcamp.com/track/twinkleAnd the finale, with Kurt Elling! They should do much more with him, whom I've never heard like this:https://jenniferwharton.bandcamp.com/track/the-day-i-tried-to-live Especially like it when he "blah-blah-blaah" 's the trombones dogging his depressed heels.
― dow, Friday, 2 July 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
That's fun I guess, but don't come at me with four trombones unless you're a trombone shout choir (also ugh, that name):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1QnzTnhcw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UglqiHXcTHc
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 July 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that's better!
― dow, Friday, 2 July 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
My favorite jazz releases of the first half of 2021:
Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die LiveAnthony Braxton, Quartet (Standards) 2020Broken Shadows, s/t (reissue)Fire!, DefeatFloating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra, PromisesAmaro Freitas, SankofaCameron Graves, SevenHearth, MeltJulius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for HarmonyVijay Iyer/Linda May Han Oh/Tyshawn Sorey, UneasyJames Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup WagonDamon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, NowCharles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall (reissue)Hafez Modirzadeh, FacetsHedvig Mollestad Trio, Ding Dong. You’re Dead.Monder/Malaby/Rainey, Live at the 55 BarJason Moran/Milford Graves, Moran/Graves LiveBheki Mseleku, Beyond the StarsIvo Perelman Trio, Garden of JewelsWadada Leo Smith/Douglas R. Ewart/Mike Reed, Sun Beans of Shimmering LightSons of Kemet, Black to the FutureCecil Taylor Ensemble, GöttingenVarious Artists, Indaba IsVarious Artists, J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan Volume 3Various Artists, Spiritual Jazz 13: Now
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
Liking the Julian Lage album
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 4 July 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link
Oh he’s got a new one? Hadn’t noticed. He is great. Like that he made good on his prodigy origins.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 July 2021 12:18 (three years ago) link
Big ears and not just fast fingers.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 July 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
Wonder who else is playing in it, maybe usual suspects
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 July 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
yeah Lage album is more than decent decent, can hear echoes of Johnny Smith in his playing style.
Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets
^^^
this is the one is my personal fave of the year.
― MoMsnet (calzino), Sunday, 4 July 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
only meant one decent!
― MoMsnet (calzino), Sunday, 4 July 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
Another call for Facets - absolutely stunning album, formally innovative but beautiful with it.
The Ahmed album needs more love. Pat Thomas can do no wrong.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
And while we're talking Ahmed, that group's saxophonist, Seymour Wright, has just dropped a wild new footwork-inspired album with Paul Abbot. A glorious antidote to polite and tasteful jazz/improv approaches to electronic music.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/xt-deorlaf-x/
― Composition 40b (Stew), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link
So as seen in this video, Justin Brown, best known to me as a member of Ambrose Akinmusire's long-running quartet, is now a member of ex-Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris's throwback hardcore band OFF!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI5t6wxUhN4
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
Haha that rules, love an overqualified punk drummer.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
WT…?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
Is that Angelo Moore as their manager, too?
― burnt hombre (stevie), Thursday, 8 July 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
And David Yow of Jesus Lizard as the priest.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 8 July 2021 12:29 (three years ago) link
Fantastic. Great cover of a pretty ropey Metallica song, imo. I love Off!
― burnt hombre (stevie), Thursday, 8 July 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
was lucky enough to see a free outdoor concert by Jaimie Branch's Fly or Die at the Walker Art Center this last Friday
what a band! the drummer Chad Taylor is a monster. She has such a great/weirdo stage presence
highly recommended if you get the chance
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
On July 9, 1971 at 7:30 p.m., CBS aired a one-hour special, "Louis Armstrong 1900-1971," hosted by Walter Cronkite. It only aired once and has never appeared online--until now! Here is Lucille Armstrong’s copy, digitized for all to enjoy 50 years later.https://t.co/7SGCZCuiik— Louis Armstrong (@ArmstrongHouse) July 9, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 10 July 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
Wow
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 July 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
that is amazing
― Brad C., Saturday, 10 July 2021 01:17 (three years ago) link
Okay, Dezron Douglas joining Trey Anastasio's solo, non-Phish band is not something I would have predicted.
https://trey.com/welcome-dezron/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 18:32 (three years ago) link
Get that money!
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah, good for him!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
New podcast coming on Friday — I talked to clarinetist Don Byron, who had a whole lot of shit to say about what is and is not "real" jazz, why his instrument is not seen as an "authentically" black instrument, etc., etc. It's a really interesting conversation I think people are gonna like, but I had to throw a content warning into my introduction because about halfway through it Byron drops an N-bomb with a hard R, and I wanted to make sure people were ready for that shit.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 23:00 (three years ago) link
Speaking of clarinet, seems like there are still seats for Ken Peplowski at Birdland tonight so I may head over in a bit.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 July 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
This is great!
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 July 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
Also somebody prove to me that the cover of Don Friedman’s Circle Waltz is not a Picasso-esque centerfold.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 July 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
This guy has great comedy chops too!
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 July 2021 23:29 (three years ago) link
https://williamparker.bandcamp.com/album/mayan-space-station
William Parker: bass, compositionsAva Mendoza: electric guitarGerald Cleaver: drums
very cool band is this and on first listen I'm very much enjoying it.
― MoMsnet (calzino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
The sample track is very cool, like Parker doing noisy psych-rock.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
Digging that, thanks for the tip.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it's a good one. Mendoza's great; she did an album with Damon Smith on bass and William Hooker on drums in 2018 that I liked a lot.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
Lol nice to see that Gerald Cleaver bought that album on Bandcamp.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link