Missed that one, thanks for the heads up!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:48 (five months ago) link
heard this Gregory Tardy track (from 2020) on the radio and am now excited to check out more. this tune rules!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gD_JrZr9uI
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 November 2023 20:38 (five months ago) link
the Rob Frye stuff on AS is really ace, i honestly just subscribe to their digital albums and it is absolutely worth the $15/month
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 10 November 2023 01:33 (five months ago) link
Angelica Sanchez Nonet - Nighttime Creatures
^^
this is lovely
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 09:38 (five months ago) link
I can't go (covid) but Ben Lamar Gay is playing down the block with a Norwegian rhythm section (and another Chicago sax player).
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:47 (five months ago) link
The Dave Easley record mentioned above has definitely made my end of year list over the past week— hard to listen to almost anything else.
Another pedal steel record of recent that has been great is the Jordan Martins record on Astral Spirits, 'Fogery Nagles.' https://fogerynagles.bandcamp.com/album/fogery-nagles
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 10 November 2023 20:22 (five months ago) link
(wouldn't really call the latter "jazz," but yknow)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 10 November 2023 20:23 (five months ago) link
hope they call the follow-up record Fogerty Choogles
― budo jeru, Saturday, 11 November 2023 01:16 (five months ago) link
lol. it’s worth a listen! but could have easily been on their more “ambient-far out jazz” sub-label
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 11 November 2023 14:00 (five months ago) link
checking it out now
― budo jeru, Saturday, 11 November 2023 20:45 (five months ago) link
my favorite record on AS remains quin kirchner's "the shadows and the light." i was thinking of QK the other day because a friend was showing me a very kraut-y record from the early 2010s that featured him and also hamid drake. can't for the life of me remember what it was, though
― budo jeru, Saturday, 11 November 2023 20:48 (five months ago) link
hard to pick my fave AS record, tho i often think of this one, which is a fucking scorcher https://astralahmed.bandcamp.com/album/nights-on-saturn-communication
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 November 2023 12:13 (five months ago) link
oh yeah. i forgot that one is on AS. pat thomas >
― budo jeru, Sunday, 12 November 2023 15:37 (five months ago) link
Grammys nominees for Feb 2024
31. Best Jazz Instrumental Album
For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new instrumental jazz recordings.
The SourceKenny Barron
PhoenixLakecia Benjamin
Legacy: The Instrumental JawnAdam Blackstone
The Winds Of ChangeBilly Childs
Dream BoxPat Metheny
32. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new ensemble jazz recordings.
The Chick Corea Symphony Tribute - RitmoADDA Simfònica, Josep Vicent, Emilio Solla
Dynamic Maximum TensionDarcy James Argue's Secret Society
Basie Swings The BluesThe Count Basie Orchestra Directed By Scotty Barnhart
OlympiansVince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest
The Charles Mingus Centennial SessionsMingus Big Band
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 November 2023 03:06 (five months ago) link
Of those, I've only heard Lakecia Benjamin (pretty good), Billy Childs (decent but breaking absolutely no new ground), and Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (fantastic).
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 13 November 2023 03:58 (five months ago) link
The Pat Metheny solo record is really nice
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:04 (five months ago) link
The new Matana Roberts is incredibly moving, album of the year.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 November 2023 19:16 (five months ago) link
Xp Quinn Kirchner. I saw him play drums with the comedian John Mulaney once. Just played drums while jokes were told at very large venue. One of the more interesting pairings.
― bbq, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 21:22 (five months ago) link
Also, Budo Jeru, Quinn Kirchner plays on the Rob Frye record mentioned up thread
― bbq, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 21:35 (five months ago) link
love the Kirchner record that begins with this excellent version of “Flowers for Albert,” also on Astral Spirits https://quinkirchner.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-pro-musica
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 00:09 (five months ago) link
will check out both records, thanks
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 00:17 (five months ago) link
my favorite record on AS remains quin kirchner's "the shadows and the light."
Thanks for the tip on this, I sampled it last night and immediately placed an order.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 14:25 (five months ago) link
I like the kirchner album I heard a lot then I saw him live and was like whoa ... this is AMAZING ... not sure why the album didnt sound more like this..
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:41 (five months ago) link
I love watching John Hollenbeck (looked this up after listening to their new studio album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvyGCgHZPyA
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2023 22:03 (five months ago) link
Higher quality video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_7JUrtTQaA
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2023 22:06 (five months ago) link
Although he has much less of a clockwork muppet vibe in that one
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2023 22:07 (five months ago) link
My latest Stereogum jazz column is up; I used the André 3000 album as a springboard to talk about Yusef Lateef, Bobbi Humphrey, Hubert Laws, and Nicole Mitchell, and reviewed new albums by Ambrose Akinmusire, JD Allen, Thandi Ntuli (with Carlos Niño), Lafayette Gilchrist, Myra Melford and others.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:36 (five months ago) link
I either missed or forgot about Chris Potter's Live at the Village Vanguard album from this year (Taborn/Colley/Gilmore), it's fucking sick.
https://chrispotterjazz.bandcamp.com/album/got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-live-at-the-village-vanguard
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:03 (five months ago) link
Yeah, that's a good one — his third live-at-the-Vanguard disc, and they're all worth hearing.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:27 (five months ago) link
I got super-confused the other day because there is a music student studying guitar with Pasquale Grasso whose name is also Chris Potter.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 November 2023 00:58 (five months ago) link
Great column unperson, thanks.
(That said, whew the plethora of ads on Stereogum gives my browser a workout)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 27 November 2023 22:24 (five months ago) link
Yeah, meant to mention that I liked your column as well unperson. Although I guess I missed that Shabaka Hutchings was completely ditching all his other bands for the flute, I guess I thought that was just another additional stream for him, bummer that he'd abandon all of those.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 November 2023 23:20 (five months ago) link
yeah that's kind of a shocker. I like to chill out as much as anyone the rehabilitation of New Age music has IMHO led to more bad than good.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 01:00 (five months ago) link
but the rehabilitation
I saw Hitchings just past May subbing on sax for an indisposed Roscoe Mitchell in the Art Ensemble Of Chicago, maybe his last hurrah on sax?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 01:01 (five months ago) link
Hutchings.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 01:02 (five months ago) link
The Marxist scholar and cultural critic Robin D.G. Kelley wrote a biography of Monk that looks pretty interesting, and the first part of this interview focuses on the bio and the socius that surrounded Monk. Pretty interesting. https://black-ink.info/2020/01/16/solidarity-is-not-a-market-exchange-an-interview-with-robin-d-g-kelley/
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 13:36 (five months ago) link
Kelly's Monk bio is indeed amazing and compulsively readable, an absolute must-read
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 14:44 (five months ago) link
I'm sold, just purchased the e-book.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 14:49 (five months ago) link
I need to read that Kelley Monk bio. I recently read Laurent de Wilde's book when I found it in a local used shop, but it was pretty meh.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 14:55 (five months ago) link
By comparison, I'm finding Aidan Levy's Sonny Rollins bio a little slow going (got it last Christmas, only getting to it now, lol).
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
Haha yeah, I've had that on my shelf for a few months now but keep choosing something else, it always seems daunting lol.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:08 (five months ago) link
I read the Monk bio, it's excellent. It really covers every documented gig he ever played and every record, and it was really a pleasure listening through along with it.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:21 (five months ago) link
I seem to remember something about that book bugging me but maybe I should just try again.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:59 (five months ago) link
Definitely took it in chunks with a long break in the middle, every now and then it felt relentless but found it largely compelling.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:15 (five months ago) link
I started the Monk bio many years ago, put it aside, then picked it up a year or two ago and absolutely blasted through it.
The Rollins bio is indeed exhaustive. My own upcoming book on Cecil Taylor is nowhere near that granular. It covers pretty much every album, but I didn't feel the need to describe every gig, and I didn't do a whole lot of detective work in terms of tracking down former boyfriends and stuff like that.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:47 (five months ago) link
thread favorite Dave Easley plays on Alex Sadnik's Charlie Parker album Flight and it's a joy, "Bird of Paradise" is a favoritehttps://alexsadnik.bandcamp.com/album/flight
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 08:16 (five months ago) link
^ this is some cool shit although it does make me feel like i'm not quite smart enough to understand what they're doing
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:39 (five months ago) link
ok some of it is actually pretty straight ahead
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:43 (five months ago) link
Always a joy to watch Herlin Riley (only now connecting that Emmet Cohen is the piano in his regular NYC group for awhile now)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZK2blf-wvI
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:51 (five months ago) link