Rolling Jazz Thread 2021

Totally fun 2021 reissue from Downtown NYC '96,keeping me on my toes

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Working with Spanish Fly was an extraordinary experience for me as I most often work with classical music in my choreography. Their music, however, has the perfect pulse for a ballet. It's charged with an "in
Your face" attitude mixed with a sense of yearning. I began to see Images of characters right away. “Night Creatures” we called them.
Young people sliding up Avenue A, full of quirks and obsessions.We gave them names: the Snake Lady. the Sisters, the Lovers. These Characters became our guides. They lead us to Our themes and choices of style.
Lighting designer Mark Stanley created a set of massive Venetian Blinds which opened to reveal the dancers. This gave the work a
sense of spying, of voyeurism.
credits
released April 1, 2021

Steven Bernstein . trumpet, slide trumpet, cornet, crooning
Marcus Rojas : tuba, tubapercussion, tubasinging
Tronzo : slide guitar, cup guitar, prepared guitar
with Ben Perowsky : drums, percussion

FLY BY NIGHT" COMMISSIONED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION.
CHOREOGRAPHED BY CHRISTOPHER D'AMBOISE.

PREMIERED FEBRUARY 28,1996 AT CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT YERBA BUENA GARDENS.
BACKGROUND VOCALS ON TONGUE SANDWICH:
SPANISH FLY, HAL WILLNER, VICKI STANBURRY, LAURIE GALLUCCIO, AMANDA REISMAN
https://stevenbernstein.bandcamp.com/album/fly-by-night

Well, the dance was in Yerba Buena, yeah, but you know where the music is coming from---now I'm craving some Lounge Lizards, Jazz Passengers reissues---also something new from John Lurie World Orchestra.

Listening to two albums from 2000 and 2001, Boom Bop and Trance Atlantic (Boom Bop II) by guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly, whose work I have never previously connected with — he's a sort of psychedelic blues guitarist who floated between jazz world and the Black Rock Coalition in the '90s, never fully putting one foot firmly in either camp. These two discs are sort of acid blues mixed with North African music, but Archie Shepp and Henry Threadgill are there, too, and Reggie Washington is on bass. Really good stuff, kind of Laswell-ish without Laswell. Both available on Bandcamp: http://bourelly.bandcamp.com

Boom Bop was wonderful. Thanks for the tip!

I can't say it better than this guy does on Bandcamp:
Philip Graham---Oh how I do love this stately, swinging tumble of harmony and melody. The album seems like a slowed down, trippy echo of Duke Ellington’s “The Second Line” from New Orleans Suite.It's not really all that slow: every track has satisfying internal dynamics, which go with the mixing of emotions, rhythms, incidents, shades of this and that--yeah, Ellingtonia and NOLA and Downtown hipsters have come this far:
'Tinctures in Time' is the first original music Steven Bernstein has ever written for the Millennial Territory Orchestra, which prior to this recording had exclusively been a vehicle for his arrangements of other people's songs, from Count Basie to Prince. Most of the album was composed in 2019, a tough period for Bernstein: Henry Butler had recently passed, and there was a series of serious injuries and death in his immediate family. Like a lot of people do, Bernstein got through it by working. "I was spending a lot of time on planes, going to visit people in hospitals," he says. "So what else am I going to do with my time? I ended up with all this music."

"The tincture of time" is a phrase Bernstein's father, a doctor, uses for when there's nothing to be done but wait for something to heal; the relevance of time as healer for Bernstein himself is clear. He altered the phrase so it makes a little reference to a favorite Sly Stone tune. And "tinctures," Bernstein says, also refers to "things that people take to give feelings of euphoria." It's why he also calls this collection of compositions "cannabis music." But it's not some foggy notional bank of sands through the hourglass: everybody's very responsive, just never hyper (a tad outcat at times).Enough funk in there, also a soul anthem, not oversold, and sometimes I think Ben P. is playing a tabla?
Steven Bernstein - Trumpet, Slide Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Curtis Fowlkes - Trombone
Charlie Burnham - Violin
Doug Wieselman - Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone
Peter Apfelbaum - Tenor Saxophone
Erik Lawrence - Baritone Saxophone
Matt Munisteri - Guitar, Banjo
Ben Allison - Bass
Ben Perowsky - Drums
https://stevenbernstein.bandcamp.com/album/tinctures-in-time-community-music-vol-1

https://artsfuse.org/244710/the-2021-jazz-critics-poll-only-the-best/

James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (Tao Forms) 388.5 points (53 ballots)
Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM) 225 (34)
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop) 195 (28)
Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note) 182.5 (25)
Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies TUM 169 (24)
Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi) 164 (32)
Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic) 143 (23)
Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There’s This (Astral Spirits) 132 (24)
Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!) 123 (21)
William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity) 117.5 (23)
Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue) 116 (19)
Anna Webber Idiom (Pi) 113 (17)
Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem) 98 (17)
Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note) 91.5 (17)
Various Kimbrough (Newvelle) 89 (12)
Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote) 83 (12)
Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball) 76 (12)
Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note) 76 (11)
William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity) 76 (9)
Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM) 74 (10)
Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12) 72 (9)
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic) 71.5 (18)
Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note) 70 (16)
David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music) 70 (9)
Adam O’Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia) 69 (14)
Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note) 69 (13)
Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be (BAG Productions) 68 (13)
Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM) 67 (13)
Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern) 66 (10)
Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music) 63.5 (12)
Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi) 63.5 (10)
Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi) 60 (10)
Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition) 59 (12)
Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM) 58.5 (12)
Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes) 58 (10)
Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music) 57 (10)
East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk) 56.5 (11)
Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!) 54.5 (12)
Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search) 52.5 (11)
Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble, Now (International Anthem) 50.5 (8)
Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note) 50 (8)
Chick Corea Akoustic Band, Live! (Concord Jazz) 50 (6)
The Cookers, Look Out! (Gearbox) 49 (7)
Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite) 49 (6)
Nicholas Payton, Smoke Sessions (Smoke Sessions) 47 (6)
(tie). Tim Berne-Chris Speed-Reid Anderson-Dave King, Broken Shadows (Intakt) 44 (7)
(tie). Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside) 44 (7)
Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (Tao Forms) 43 (7)
Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound) 42 (9)
Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy) 41 (7)
Rara Avis (Reissues/Archival)

John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!) 184 points (on 77 ballots)
Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note) 74 (39)
Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World) 74 (31)
Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance) 64 (34)
Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore) 61 (27)
Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real) 55 (30)
(tie) Louis Armstrong, The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic) 28 (11)
(tie) Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic) 28 (11)
Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri) 27 (15)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note) 27 (14)
Vocals

Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue) 17
(tie) Gretchen Parlato Flor (Edition) 9
(tie) Sara Serpa, Intimate Strangers (Biophilia) 9
(tie) Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Pi) 9
(tie) Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force Dear Love (Empress Legacy) 7
(tie) Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord) 7
(tie). Mary LaRose, Out Here (Little (i) Music
(tie) Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble, What to Wear in the Dark (Resilience) 6
(tie) Theo Bleckmann and the Westerlies, This Land (Westerlies Music) 4 (tie) Samara Joy, Samara Joy (Whirlwind) (tie) Roseanna Vitro Sing a Song of Bird (Skyline) 4
Debuts

1) Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search) 21
2) Samara Joy, Samara Joy (Whirlwind) 11
3) Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic) 9
4) Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O, Umdali (Mushroom Hour Half Hour) 4

Latin

1) Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music) 23
2) Arturo O’Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note) 21
3) Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid) 8
4) (tie) Carlos Henriquez, The South Bronx Story (Tiger Turn) 7
4) (tie) Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic) 7
6) (tie) Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, Salswing! (Rubén Blades Productions) 4
6) (tie) Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Virtual Birdland (Zoho) 4

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BY: FRANCIS DAVIS

oops, sorry about Jazz Critics poll layout. That's top new albums, followed by other categories- reissues/archival; vocals; debuts; Latin jazz

Shall I start a new thread?

Yes, please!

There already is one.

Rolling Jazz Thread 2022