The dog trots freely thru the Rolling Jazz Canto Thread 2016

Ring-a-ding-ding!

First 2016 album I've heard and really liked: trumpet player Freddie Hendrix's Jersey Cat, out in Feb on Sunnyside.

Some inspirational words and music to help you cut thru the drag of New Year's Day, courtesy of Dr. Chris Washburne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlyYD6ttHzk

I'll be doing this MUCH differently this year, but if you want to listen along:
ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016

B-b-ut what, doesn't the Original Post suggest a song or two for your playlist?

lol, be patient with me padwan. i am attempting a new fighting style.

Would it be fair to call your new style "fighting without fighting"?

new Fire! album She Sleeps, She Sleeps coming up next month

http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/fire_/rcd2178-fire-she-sleeps-she-sleeps-cd-lp/
https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/fire-she-owned-his-voice

cool! will the "Ritual" song be on?

RIP Paul Bley.

I can't find any tracklist anywhere

(xp obv)

"das rein instrumentale Album" http://www.ragazzi-music.de/fire16.html
guess no Ritual - hasn't been released yet though? saw them play it live and rly want to hear again

First jazz purchases of 2016 - three CDs by Gary Bartz:

Libra/Another Earth (2 albums on 1 CD)
Harlem Bush Music: Uhuru and Harlem Bush Music: Taifa (2 albums on 1 CD)
I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies

stumbled into some Christian Scott live videos that i'm enjoying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03Q_TYs7KM

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

Was just looking up NYC jazz club seating capacities, 'cause Kamasi Washington is coming back in February (a re-scheduled show; he was supposed to be here for Winter Jazzfest but he broke his ankle) and he's playing the main room at Webster Hall, which holds 1500 people. That's more than Birdland, the Blue Note (where I saw him last year), Iridium, the Jazz Standard, Smalls, Smoke, and the Village Vanguard combined.

well it just moved, right? i think they announced that today.

Well-chosen excerpts!
http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2016/01/05/462061538/paul-bley-influential-jazz-pianist-has-died

well it just moved, right? i think they announced that today.

No, I think it was gonna be there all along; it was a special WJF-affiliated show, rather than just a set wedged in with all the others.

Christian Scott, being from New Orleans, has a tad of that city's street funkiness in his sound

This box looks amazing; I would love to hear that Art Ensemble of Chicago + Free Jazz Orchestra piece. But $125 (before shipping) is out of my price range.

wow, just music & limbus 4 on there too! didn't know the art ensemble were back in germany in '70... the lester bowie composed piece they recorded as part of the baden-baden free jazz orchestra from the previous year is epic

Some cool tribute-oriented stuff at Club Bonafide now through the weekend and at the Jazz Standard next week

bumped into this after i cycled through the new matmos on soundcloud (which is also great!)
https://soundcloud.com/hausu-mountain/andrew-bernstein-thought-forms-iii

also, i'm late to the party but this aaron diehl album is lovely.
whole thing is great but this is the standout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdxyvjdMSew

Christian Scott, being from New Orleans, has a tad of that city's street funkiness in his sound

i couldn't get with him for a long time because it sounded like he was specifically trying to distance himself from that sound. but his current band is really great, his playing seems more dynamic (i.e. he'll go high & loud sometimes), and yeah that first song on the Tiny Desk performance has a Mardi Gras Indians vibe (the live version more than the record).

xp
I am also late on that Diehl album, some beautiful compositions/playing on there and it really does soar into space in places.

x-post--Scott has his drummer adding both drum & bass midi sounds and djembe ones, and a guitarist adding fusion n rock licks, but I like him best when he's drawing from that Mardi Gras Indian feel and or he's drawing from old-school era Miles Davis

Kamasi Washington lands at #8 on the Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll. Highest position for a jazz album in that poll's history?

Probably. But the album got dissed a bit in the Christgau, Ann Powers, Joe Levy, Greg Tate discussion

Mostly by Christgau, who came off like an out-of-touch old fuck (which he is, so that's not exactly a surprise). I mean, here's the full discussion for those who don't want to search it out on the Voice site:

Ann Powers: Nothing on this list shocks me. How 'bout you guys?

Robert Christgau: I would say the Washington was a sleeper, but it doesn't shock me at all.

Greg Tate: I saw more people under thirty at his Blue Note shows than I've seen at any Blue Note show in the last twenty years. [Note: I was there too and can verify this.]

AP: That definitely was a huge NPR Music favorite. Every kind of music person at NPR is into Kamasi Washington.

GT: Another great Compton story.

RC: So Greg — as opposed to its positive cultural ramifications, you actually listened to the Kamasi Washington three-CD set?

GT: I did.

RC: Well, I listened to it once, I don't mean that. But do you listen to it because you think it's really good jazz?

GT: I listened to it, and I watched him play it in concert and on various YouTube videos, certain tunes.

AP: I listened to it not a lot — a few times, because it's super long and there's a lot to listen to — and it certainly resonated with me, but I haven't had the chance to see him live. It's all about live, right?

GT: I think the album definitely holds people. I step outside of myself enough to weigh its impact on people younger than me who didn't hear all the music that it derives from — the early-Seventies freedom swing, Charles Tolliver, McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan, the Black Jazz label from Oakland. All that stuff is in there. For me, it's interesting hearing some cats that are young reclaiming that as their jazz tradition. That's where I came in. The jazz was actually speaking to me in my nascent moment, sixteen, seventeen, in Washington [D.C.]. And for it to have all the political intentions of that music, too, the Afro-collective community intentions.

RC: Afro-collective community I'm all for. That music? Not interesting. I think it's the Afro-collective community part that got it into the Top 10.

GT: It's also the Thundercat and Kendrick Lamar connections. You couldn't have asked for a better trifecta of hype that descended on them at the right time. Seeing them live, they totally live up to it, especially with Thundercat and his brother in the band.

RC: I had a student file her final paper on Kamasi Washington, and she actually consulted with Greg, and to my great surprise, she concluded at the end...that it wasn't such a good record. What was great about it was the live show and the spectacle of it...she appreciated it in the end more as a spectacle than as jazz. That I'll buy. I wasn't there and I suspect I would've been moved by that situation, too.

GT: It wasn't just spectacle — it was definitely hardcore, funky blues riffing, which you haven't heard in New York. New York jazz has gotten very chamber-ish. I don't even mean the Jazz at Lincoln Center side of it.... Everyone's getting real contemplative. This is some fire music with some funk up under it. It's just a roaring sound out of six or seven cats, which I love. There's just a looseness and a freedom to it that I haven't heard in a long time, especially in a New York club.

But, you know, if you're looking to Robert Christgau for thoughts on jazz, you're an idiot anyway. It's never been a genre he's had time for in any serious way.

i never ever understand critics who levy the "too long" argument.

I love that Christian Scott album now, for some cloth eared reason I didn't like it on my first listen.

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/01/14/arts/14ROVA/14ROVA-superJumbo.jpg

NYT review

I had "The Celestial Septet" with Cline and Rova on cd, but didn´t like it too much. This sounds interesting though.

This new-ish Esperanza Spalding song is pretty cool imo. I'm not sure that it fits in this thread, exactly, but I don't think there's a rolling psych-funk thread. I think Matt Stevens is on guitar. Also classic for the Youtube comment "...this kind of variety gives bands like Ulver a run for their money".

The new Sonny Rollins album - the fourth in his Road Shows series of live collections - comes out in April. Most of the material is from 2001 and later, but there's one surprise: a version of "Disco Monk," from his Don't Ask album, from 1979. He hasn't played that song since that tour, so it's kind of interesting to hear it preserved here.

This is fun:
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463589100/comedian-jon-benjamins-jazz-album-is-full-of-real-untapped-un-talent

interesting to read greg tate's thoughts on kamasi, was just listening to burnt sugar last night and thinking how much better than kamasi it sounded

Really interesting interview with Stanley Jordan (who I admit I've never listened to).

omg this Jon Benjamin thing

NPR: Yeah! He knows what he's doing.

JB: He really does. But that's just not as interesting.

NPR: Do you think it lacks the complete sense of free-form surprise that you're after?

JB: He's not taking any risks. He just knows how to do it.

NPR: How safe, to actually—

JB: [Laughs.] I feel bad for people like that.

Benjamin is so much more right than he knows.

This Kamasi Washington story from the New York Times Magazine is fantastic - really in-depth and provides a massive amount of context and history of L.A. jazz and '70s spiritual jazz. Really a great piece, well worth reading.

oh rad, that's adam schatz! Great guy!

I want to put together a mixtape of the kind of newish kind of jazz (is it jazz? or jazz-influenced stuff) spanning Sons of Kemet to Bohren and Der Club of Gore, Girls In Airports and Go Go Penguin. Might put some earlier stuff like Pat Metheny Group's 'Offramp' on there. So nothing really 'free' or too abstruse but still kind of skewed, minimalish, atmospheric. Is there much else I should include?

Dawn of Midi.

Melt Yourself Down, Fire! Orchestra, Supersilent kinda thing?

Vijay Iyer, whose music I don't like as much as a lot of other jazz critics do, gets profiled in this week's New Yorker, because if the New Yorker is going to profile a jazz pianist, it's either going to be Vijay Iyer, Brad Mehldau, or Ethan Iverson. (Note: This comment is about marketing and image-making, not about race. And Iyer is keenly aware of how he's perceived and how he's promoted; he even mentions it in the article. But he doesn't seek to change it, because that's how you get your grant money to dry up and blow away.)

Phil,
It's up to you to spread the word about Benito Gonzalez.

My first thought when I read your otherwise apt comment was "what about Jason Moran"? Sure enough: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/jazz-hands

I actually wouldn't be surprised to see something on Cecil Taylor, to coincide with his appearances at the Whitney Museum in April. But if they do run something, it won't be as in-depth as this story on Professor Iyer, I'll guarantee you that.

I have it on good authority that a certain musical funny man, member of a famed jazz family, likes to tease his friend Ethan Iverson by calling his band "The Bad Pus."

Huh, didn't know Iyer was teaching at Harvard these days.

Yeah, somebody I know was up there for a little bit for another reason, teaching in a clinic, I think, and mentioned it to me.

Just got an album featuring alto saxophonist Ricardo Tejero, tenor and baritone saxophonist Colin Webster, and Marco Serrato and Borja Díaz (aka Spanish avant-doom band Orthodox) on bass and drums. It's called Spain Is The Place, and it's coming out next month on Raw Tonk. Skronk doom, basically. I'm into it.

That sounds goooood

http://www.benitogonzalez.com/itinerary.php

Pianist has a couple of Baltimore dates among the NY and Senegal ones...

Thanks for the tip about him James Redd

https://soundcloud.com/astral-spirits-records/rosso-corsa-excerpt-from-amaranth-by-icepick-as018

An excerpt from the track "Rosso Corsa" off the upcoming Amaranth LP by Icepick. Amaranth features the first studio recordings from Icepick (Nate Wooley, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten & Chris Corsano) and builds upon their debut cassette "Hexane" on Astral Spirits in 2014.

"Amaranth" is also one of the first vinyl LP releases on Astral Spirits. Out January 22, 2016 in an edition of 300 LP's.

just picked up the Roland Kirk "volunteered slavery" reissue ... SO DOPE

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/magazine/a-playlist-fit-for-a-harlem-renaissance-painter.html?ref=arts

The Schaap cousins on artist Archibald Motley, music and drinking---Keppard, Beiderbecke, Jaxon, C. Hawkins, Basie, Armstrong

I told Phil that Motley was born in New Orleans, raised in Chicago and lived briefly in Paris. I said that the paintings that interested me most were from the years 1926 to 1945. And I couldn’t help mentioning that, yes, there’s a lot of drinking going on. With only these pieces of information, Phil devised this six-song playlist

Saw the Motley show at the Whitney Museum last month. I like his stuff.

Remember Freddie Hendrix, the trumpeter I mentioned at the beginning of this thread? I interviewed him for Burning Ambulance; you can stream three tracks at the link, too.

playlist is up to date

ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

BEST picture of my dad as a teenager hanging with stan kenton at Birdland. dad's on the left. sitting next to chico hamilton, i think. looks like chico.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12669440_10156523808750298_4211091960178335000_n.jpg?oh=5d80d02db335cf6d731a661f9b22e6d1&oe=576BB8E7

Wow, that is so cool!

the double life of a new jersey prep school boy.

too cool!

I had the pleasure of seeing Jakob Bro perform with Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron this Monday - great show. Apparently they're releasing a record later this year, looking forward to it.

great photo, look at all those hipsters

RESONANCE RECORDS PRESENT
TWO NEVER BEFORE RELEASED INSTANT CLASSICS:
JOÃO GILBERTO & STAN GETZ — GETZ/GILBERTO ‘76
STAN GETZ QUARTET — MOMENTS IN TIME
Recorded at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner May 11-16, 1976
Getz/Gilberto’76 is a rare follow-up to two of the best-selling bossa nova record
of all time, 1964’s Grammy-award-winning Getz/Gilberto, which sold more than
one million copies, and 1966’s Getz/Gilberto #2
Moments in Time is the deluxe CD companion to Getz/Gilberto ’76, capturing Stan Getz’s most adventurous quartet with Joanne Brackeen, Clint Houston and Billy Hart
Both albums, out Feb. 19, include extensive 28- and 32-page liner notes containing newly commissioned essays, interviews and previously unpublished photos from acclaimed music photographer Tom Copi
---yadda yadda, the main interest to me is the quartet:

...Moments in Time was also recorded at the Keystone Korner, the same week as Getz/Gilberto ’76 and features Stan Getz’s same adventurous rhythm section. Moments in Time and Getz/Gilberto '76 document the only time this dynamic quartet recorded together.
The accompanying 28-page book includes essays by producers Feldman and Barkan, journalist Ted Panken, a tribute by Steve Getz, interviews with Brackeen and Hart and statements from saxophonists Branford Marsalis and Joshua Redman. The album cover is beautifully designed by the acclaimed Japanese artist Takao Fujioka.
Ted Panken describes Moments in Time as capturing the artists on this recording as a “unit of thirty-something masters-in-the-making.” Keystone’s Barkan recalls: “Stan explained to me quite a few times backstage at Keystone Korner that ‘I have never felt as free and as totally supported as I do with this band with Joanne Brackeen, Clint Houston, and Billy Hart. They are happy and free to go with me wherever I go . . .’” Barkan relates that Getz frequently told him that he felt the most comfortable at the famed San Francisco club, more than he did at any other club.
Brackeen talks about playing with Getz in her interview with Feldman: “I think that it kind of really also displays the quartet at its best, which we rapidly became and stayed. And he had to be really daring to hire us. He already had his thing. He was already famous. He didn’t have to have this band. And this band was crazy! I mean, we would do anything and everything we possibly could. We weren’t just there as accompaniments . . . And then you hear how he played on it, it’s so lyrical. He doesn’t play one note that he doesn’t mean. At any time. That’s the one thing I guess that I would say about him that was so unique to me. And he also talked that way, when he was speaking.”
The release features eight tracks, including Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “O Grande Amor,” Wayne Shorter’s “Infant Eyes,” Horace Silver’s “Peace,” Dizzy Gillespie’s “Con Alma,” Jimmy Rowles’s “Morning Star” and others. These tunes were staples of Getz’s repertoire and remained so for many years. Pre-order digitally via iTunes and receive three tracks instantly: “Summer Night,” “The Cry of the Wild Goose” and “Peace.”
In his contribution to the album package for Moments in Time, saxophonist Joshua Redman pays homage to Getz: “His virtuosity — he could play any tune in any key at any tempo, with command and control and a sense of relaxation.” And he further celebrates Getz’s “. . . incredible storytelling ability — the natural, organic logic in the flow of his phrases and ideas.” Resonance Records is pleased to unearth these notable historic recordings of Stan Getz/João Gilberto and the Stan Getz Quartet and to share them now with the public.
For more information, check www.ResonanceRecords.org

Resonance is turning into a hell of a label. I don't care about that Gilberto/Getz thing (hate bossa nova), but the other one looks good.

Basically Getz with Brackeen's trio, definitely something I want to hear.

Brackeen is super underrated imo. Wish her records had had better producers/engineers, not crazy about the sound of them but love the music.

Saw Mary Halvorson last night, it was excellent

And I can't wait to get this

http://eremite.com/album/mte-59-60

Yeah, I want one of those for sure. I loved TEST back then. Saw them perform at Kim's on St. Mark's, and interviewed them for Alternative Press of all places.

Saw Mary Halvorson last night

I mean I got the impression that they more or less show up for a first lesson and say "make me sound like Mary Halvorson."

that's awesome

wow, that's great. my guitar teacher would have made a face and moved onto the next track from Surfing with the Alien.

There were plenty of younger folks at the show, which possibly could be cuz it was a free concert at an art museum, but there were at least as many youths as there were old heads (like me).

Watching this Eric Lewis thing now, he's an interesting figure (and I've been checking for him ever since seeing him with Elvin Jones in the early '00s, he was the most thunderous pianist I've ever seen live):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLfq17MLPwc

Enjoying listening to Sheila Jordan on WBGO with Michael Bourne on Singers Unlimited. I always regret when I miss this show. She is telling great stories, about the late Mark Murphy, about how she came to record "You Are My Sunshine" with George Russell. Playing tonight at Cornelia Street with excellent piano and bass accompaniment.

I'm just getting into pianist Lisa Hilton, whose album covers make her seem like a smoothie who sings. Turns out she's decidedly not that—she's a swinging hard bop player, and her sidemen are killer: Jeremy Pelt, JD Allen, Terell Stafford, Larry Grenadier, Gregg August, Antonio Sanchez, Rudy Royston...these are all dudes whose work I love. She's put out 18 albums, but I think the last half dozen are the ones I need to dig into. Here's a video for the title track of her new one, Nocturnal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4W8lgbcVUQ

Cecil Taylor was in court over the $500,000 Kyoto Prize money he was swindled out of by a contractor "friend"; the guy fired his lawyer in court, apparently, so his sentencing was pushed back to March 4. Cecil's already gotten over $200,000 back, and will get the rest back when the guy's sentenced, apparently.

Very glad to see that he at least got some of the money back.

Next week's Kamasi Washington show at Webster Hall is sold out. As I've mentioned before, the room he's playing - the Grand Ballroom - holds 1500 people, which is more than every major/legendary NYC jazz club (Vanguard, Blue Note, Birdland, Iridium, the Stone, Minton's, Jazz Standard) put together. Crazy. I might try to get on the guest list, just to see what it's like to experience jazz in a crowd that size. (I don't do festivals.)

i was gonna say

Got a promo of The Comet Is Coming the other day - Shabaka Hutchings' (Sons of Kemet, Melt Yourself Down) new project. Saw, synths, and drums, playing osmische jazz. Very nice

kosmische

that sounds gooood

xp to ambulance:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/kamasi-washington-jazz-summerstage/

swangin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUzBfmLq9M

The new album by alto saxophonist Logan Richardson, Shift, comes out next week on Blue Note. It's his debut for the label, and the band is great: Pat Metheny on guitar, Jason Moran on piano, Harish Raghavan on bass, Nasheet Waits on drums. I didn't like his first two albums at all - way too intellectual and tricksy - but this one's really good. Recommended. Here's a really cool video for the track "Slow":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gftN8IQpp0k

xxxxxpost, sure wish I hadn't missed Sheila Jordan holding forth on WBGO. Here's a video of her on stage a few years ago, posted to promote a forthcoming show, which will promote a new CD of a 1991 show. She's swinging the early years of her saga, from sharing a birthday with Mickey Mouse, to getting vamped up at 14, the better to fake her way past the age limit at a Deetroit club, while chasin' the Bird. Her voice doesn't seem to have aged at all. She doesn't really need a band---does fine with just a bass, in several other shows I've heard, and on studio albums---but she's got a reet li'l combo here (also check the band she co-led with Steve Kuhn, made a couple of albums, at least)
http://nationalsawdust.org/event/theo-bleckmann-presents-sheila-jordan/

playlist is updated.

ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Rough Guide To South African Jazz

Out March 25

Encompassing the marabi, kwela and jive styles of mid-twentieth century urban South African music, this compilation covers the sounds, styles, assemblages and musicians that reside under the umbrella of South African jazz – from the golden age of 1960s and 1970s to the new wave of musicians in the twenty years of post-apartheid democracy.

Recently re-issued releases from musician-in-exile Ndikho Xaba demonstrate the strong transatlantic dialogue between the civil rights movements in the USA and the anti-apartheid struggle through the language of jazz, with the rare single ‘KwaBulawayo’ as performed by his group The African Echoes. The Sowetan spiritual Afro-jazz of Batsumi on the track ‘Emampndweni’ contributes to the narrative of music at home during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and similarly slots into the category of undeservedly lesser-known artistry. From a period considered by some as the golden era of South African Jazz, these artists and their compositions are pertinent and vital reminders of the intrinsic link between this music and the dismantling of oppression.

One of the most prominent figures of the South African jazz movement is the composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, whose career spans over 50 years, including a performance at Nelson Mandela’s 1994 Presidential inauguration. Having played alongside Abdullah Ibrahim, the late Zim Ngqawana was a leading proponent of the exploration of free improvisation.

Gospel, hip-hop and electronic music now dominate mainstream music in South Africa. But against this backdrop, the new school of South African jazzers have embraced the diversity of musical output, with many making the crossover themselves. Bokani Dyer regularly performs with fellow band member and bassist Shane Cooper, in his electronic music alias Card On Spokes. Furthermore, it could be argued the trajectory of popular music in South Africa over the last twenty years is personified by Thandiswa Mazwai, who rose to prominence through her work with kwaito group Bongo Maffin in the mid-1990s, before going on to encompass gospel and delve into maskanda and electronic music in her solo career.

You only have to look at the success of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, Joy Of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg and the National Youth Jazz Festival to recognise the legacy of the pioneering musicians and the continuation of their collaborative spirit in the wealth of burgeoning jazz talent in South Africa.

Track List
01 African Jazz Pioneers: Yeka Yeka
02 Bokani Dyer: Vuvuzela
03 Allen Kwela: Seven Days Ago
04 Errol Dyers: Dindela
05 The African Echoes: KwaBulawayo
06 Kippie Moeketsi: Clarinet Kwela
07 McCoy Mrubata & Wessel Van Rensburg: Jikela Emaweni
08 Dolly Rathebe: Tlhapi Ke Noga
09 Thandiswa: Ntyilo Ntyilo
10 Zim Ngqawana: Ebhofolo (This Madness)
11 Batsumi: Emampondweni
12 Abdullah Ibrahim: Soweto
13 Brian Thusi: Dembese

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSqGkVlb9BI

I interviewed pianist Lisa Hilton, who's not on jazz critics' radar at all as far as I can tell, but she makes an album a year with some really impressive sidemen.

Think I've heard of her, maybe she was quoted in a story about somebody else---? Will check her music.
Before I forget, I heard Snarky Puppy on Jazz Night In America, while doing several other things, but they grabbed some of my attention on the fly, with goofy, sometimes dorky exuberance, reminding me of recent discussions on What Are You Listening To In 2016? of Larry Coryell's early excursions---haven't had time yet to revisit, but here's the set, on same page w recent xpost Eric Lewis etc.
http://www.npr.org/series/347174538/jazz-night-radio

Really good article comparing Snarky Puppy to Weather Report, Return to Forever, and the early '70s Maynard Ferguson band (who I've never heard).

those are good comparisons as far as "because we can" as a reason for existence.

(i'm reaaally not a fan, but it's true that high school musicians love them, and i probably would have loved them in high school)

I'm not a fan, either. I found their music pleasant enough while researching an article on them, but immediately deleted it all from my iPod once I turned in the piece. They're like Dream Theater to me: talented as hell, super nice guys, zero interest in ever listening to them.

I have avoided so far because I figured it was something like that.

totally. and i listened to Dream Theater in high school, because i was very concerned about being able to play well (and have been moving farther and farther away from that ever since).

cross-posted this to the rap thread but Corey Fonville is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm38BpDahNs

Got this CTI Records 40th anniversary box set on eBay for $19 and free shipping:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FhtXiVuVL.jpg

Just got the Herbie Mann 2CD Live at the Whisky 1969: The Unreleased Masters in today's mail. Over two hours of brand-new music by the Sonny Sharrock/Roy Ayers/Steve Marcus/Miroslav Vitous/Bruno Carr band, plus Linda Sharrock, and they do versions of "Black Woman" and "Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black." Can't wait to check it out tomorrow.

I set up a conversation between saxophonist Melissa Aldana (whose new album Back Home is really good, and comes out today) and one of her biggest influences, Sonny Rollins. Here's the link.

curious to hear what the 2cd is like, sounds like a great band

That Aldana/Rollins conversation is great!

thought i'd post this one from a now-old Herlin Riley record that i go back to all the time. the thing that Wynton does at 1:34 is so sick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ8WvqIyhlA

I have his newest album in my iPod but haven't listened to it yet.

ooooh i didn't know he had a new one. what's the deal, is it on Criss Cross again?

It's called New Direction; it's on Mack Avenue.

thanks. don't know many of those guys (looks like at least some are Lincoln Center?) but will definitely check it out.

i'm always waiting for that last track on Herlin albums where he goes full New Orleans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy3-A5lKtF4

This interview with tuba player/baritone saxophonist Howard Johnson, who played with Charles Mingus, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and tons of other people, is really worthwhile.

A new interview? Cool! Everything I've read before with him has been great.

great interview, ty

Feel like I read most or all of that before, despite the recent date. Still a great interview in any case, and did not know or had not registered the part about Walter Sear before.

Believe that interview is 3 years old. Still well worth reading though.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cdl-aYnW8AAVvQ8.jpg

I interviewed Cecil Taylor for the new issue of The Wire. Digital edition will be out later today, physical version in a couple of weeks. He was...something.

great photo!

he's 87, huh. Richard Davis is 86. can you believe Roy Haynes is 91? is he the last drummer of his generation still around?

can you believe Roy Haynes is 91? is he the last drummer of his generation still around?

Tootie Heath is still playing.

Have you interviewed him, Phil?

Heath? No, but I did review his most recent album (with Ethan Iverson). It was okay.

Will have to read that Cecil interview! From Scott McDowell's weekly e-newsletter, here's Thurston Moore's Underground Jazz Top Ten, originally published in Grand Royal, reposted here in '08, maybe, and the downloads I tried didn't work, but certainly heartfelt descriptions and detailed notes: http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=1801
The only one I hadn't heard of was Ric Colbert; McDowell adds:

It's full of impassioned playing, the band interconnected and very free, yet rooted in sturdy post-bop, punctuated by Colbeck's counterintuitive logic and note-hopping runs. Dyani's bass solo opening of the title track followed by the brassy fanfare of Ric's opening statement is chills-inducing, an intensely vulnerable passage of music, like there's something serious at stake. It's a beaut.

Ric Colbeck played on two Noah Howard records in the late '60s as well as Dave Burrell's La Vie de Boheme, all three beautiful gems in their own right. There's also an unreleased record under Ric Colbeck's own name that was scheduled for the Pixie label with the all-pro dream team of Sunny Murray, Sonny Sharrock, Byard Lancaster, Joel Freedman, Bennie Maupin and Sirone. It's criminal.

Rewind several years to 1963. after kicking around London playing traditional jazz, Ric sailed a small vessel with five friends from France to Miami. In a January 17th, 1970 interview with Melody Maker (posted on Richard Morton Jack's blog Galactic Ramble along with a bunch of other information on Colbeck), perhaps the only interview he ever gave, Ric tells the story:http://galacticramble.blogspot.com/2011/10/ric-colbeck-player-of-exceptional-power.html

"We landed there in September '63 on the day of the March on Washington. I went to Canada and hitch from Vancouver to Toronto, where I played with some local bands. There wasn't much happening, so I went to New York in 1964.

I had to have a job because of the work permit situation so I worked in a hip record store in the village and started to meet some interesting people.

Noah (Howard) and I started playing together, and I was living in Brooklyn with Rashied Ali on the next floor. It was all starting to happen, with a lot of people like Byard Lancaster, Dave Burrell, Sonny Sharrock and Norris Jones coming into town.

We played in a lot of lofts and at Slug's -- that was the main centre of activity. There was a lot of playing going on in cats' pads on the Lower East Side, with Trane and Pharaoh and Dewey Johnson [I imagine this is actually Dewey Redman -- .ed] all rehearsing there.

I think that the greatest single experience was to be able to hear Trane with three or four different bands at different stages of development. He was a very spiritual musician, who inspired a whole generation of players.

The experience of playing in New York is invaluable. Every musician should go there because that's where the music comes from, and there's something there that makes you play. You can't shuck--you must keep on going.

After one week in New York your playing changes. It's a very vibrant city when compared to London, where everything closes down early. If a musician is really serious he has to go and check out America. It's the genesis of what's happening.

It seems that you have to pay your dues in the States and then work in Europe. There's not much work in New York -- a lot of people won't come to hear the music because it reflects the state of the country and they don't want to be confronted by it. The music isn't deliberately programmatic--its' just the way we play, with that intensity."

Not much is known of Ric Colbeck's career after the early '70s, at least that I'm aware of. By all accounts he suffered from alcoholism, and that's what did him in finally, in 1981.

http://gallery.tinyletterapp.com/895a071ca3ab7365d5812792255f29a4cfaf5ed3/images/9029b574-bded-4b0e-8c28-b8e3d1de414c.jpg

can you believe Roy Haynes is 91? is he the last drummer of his generation still around?

Tootie Heath is still playing.

Jimmy Cobb too, 87 years old and still touring.

Is Haynes the last living person to have played with Charlie Parker?

No; Sonny Rollins played with Parker on Miles Davis's Collectors' Items album.

just a couple of months ago i could have said paul bley too. :(

slowly working my way through this long 1968 interview with Elvin Jones:
http://www.bangthedrumschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ElvinJones.WalkToParl.1968.pdf

By all accounts he suffered from alcoholism, and that's what did him in finally, in 1981.

A contemporary of Colbeck's told me he had committed suicide. Very sad. I always loved his playing on those Noah Howard records. Never was able to find a copy of his record as a leader (and the lineup on that unreleased date looks unbelievable).

[I imagine this is actually Dewey Redman -- .ed]

I don't understand the presumption here -- is there documentation that Redman was actually there, or is the editor not familiar with Dewey Johnson? Johnson's another criminally underrated trumpeter. Amazingly enough, there's some footage of him on a Jimmy Lyons date:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpPraEdnKjY

Colbeck's playing on those two Noah Howard albums - Noah Howard Quartet and At Judson Hall, both on ESP-Disk - is great. He should have been better known, for sure.

i spent two days reading interviews on here. they are old but you get to hear from people you never see interviewed.

http://www.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk/stories?p=23

great time waster. my apologies to the tons of olde tyme british people interviewed who i skipped.

also this one with buddy rich and louie bellson together is a HOOT!

http://www.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk/stories?id=106

Thanks for those! Definitely gonna waste some time there today.

In scrolling through the list of interviews I saw Lou Donaldson. Looked it up and yet, he's still around! 89 years old! He never recorded with Charlie Parker, but I'd be surprised if he didn't play with him informally at some point.

Yeah, he played the Jazz Standard not too long ago. I thought about going.

nice John Bonham diss in that Buddy Rich interview. :)

B.R.: Listen, I had a surprise one time. Kathy, my daughter got me out to see Led Zeppelin, when they played Madison Square Garden. I wasn't too anxious to go, but I went, to please Kathy. We sat fairly much in the front; and for what seemed to be the first year that they were on there, I endured it—not a change of tune; not a change of a melodic line, but the heavy organ, the heavy guitar and the drum. The finale was a drum solo—and he had maybe two million dollars' worth of drums up there; I think Carl Palmer's the only other guy I've ever seen with so many drums. He started playing, and during the course of his solo a cat came out in a loincloth, with a torch; he started dancing, and the drummer was playing the tom–toms, or whatever he was doing. Obviously he had asbestos in position, because this cat set fire around the set of drums. Now, I don't know what that does for a drum solo, but it scared the hell out. of me—I thought the joint was on fire! I'd no idea what was going on. But when you have to sort to that, you're saying in essence to the audience: "I don't really play that well, but look how brave I am."

Could you perhaps call it hot music?

B.R.: Not to me. It was a flaming bore!

Did Zeppelin play live shows with organ?

Oh, looks like they did

it would make the story even better if it was actually Deep Purple or something.

When Buddy Rich opened for the Who, after hearing Moon, Buddy came up to him and said, "People pay you to play like that?!"

Cecil Taylor has some pretty contemptuous things to say about rock drummers in my Wire story.

Ha! Seriously can't wait to read that. Will there be audio on the site (like with the Bill Dixon interview)?

Okay, now I am intrigued.

Lol at Buddy Rich's sideswipe at Carl Palmer too.

Will there be audio on the site (like with the Bill Dixon interview)?

No, because I recorded four hours of interviews for the piece and a lot of it is him telling rambling stories about other musicians, and about his family, and a lot of the latter was way too personal to include in the piece, so I definitely wouldn't want to just toss it out there without any kind of context. Also, he was drinking during our meetings, and got tired as things went on, which meant he repeated the same stories a few times, etc., etc., just like if you were talking to your old Uncle Cecil after Thanksgiving dinner.

As fun and interesting as that would be to hear, yeah, I can see why it probably wouldn't be a good idea to post.

Thanks for those! Definitely gonna waste some time there today.

In scrolling through the list of interviews I saw Lou Donaldson. Looked it up and yet, he's still around! 89 years old! He never recorded with Charlie Parker, but I'd be surprised if he didn't play with him informally at some point.

http://www.jazzwax.com/2012/01/interview-sheila-jordan-part-1.html

https://tedpanken.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/its-barry-harris-84th-birthday-a-link-to-a-2011-post-of-a-downbeat-article-and-several-verbatim-interviews-conducted-for-the-piece/

https://www.arts.gov/audio/lou-donaldson-playing-charlie-parker

Ha, that's great.

I suspect it's difficult tracking down "the last living person to play with Parker," since so many musicians sat in with him without having been a member of his group or recording with him.

must be some big band people left who played with him.

I have been digging some Scandinavian jazz tonight. The Anna Högberg Attack one and the new Fire! one, on which I think they sound better without the orchestra.

I haven't heard much of Ginger Baker since Cream, but did love No Material, with Sharrock, Skopelitis, Brotzmann, and uh the bass player from Das Pferd---Laswell didn't show, which is another reason for the title. It's a one-off live in Munich, and my notebook scribble was something like "ergot-encrusted Easter Island heads, hoppin' down the bunny trail"-sorry, it was the 80s. But that's still what it sounds like to me. Also, on headphones, I always get into how Sharrock relates to Skopelitis, then Brotzman, back and forth (Brotz always rips Skop to shreds, but they grow back together). Baker sounds great here, but I'm not sorry he didn't replace Ronald Shannon Jackson when Last Exit re-converged. How are Horse and Trees, Ginger Baker's Air Force, others?
Also, always wondered about that big band album Charlie Watts made with some Evan Parker etc.

Jan Kazda is the bass player (unflappable)

made with *Evan Parker*, not some Evan Parker!

Do you mean Live at Fulham Town Hall? I haven't listened to it in years, but it's fine. Not particularly interesting, but not a completely negative experience. I read an interview with Parker who said that Watts kept trying to get him to play more "out," but Parker declined, largely because it wouldn't have worked in that context.

Parker's presence on it, however, is supposedly what led to his falling out with Derek Bailey. Bailey thought Parker taking on a gig with Watts was tantamount to selling out, and never spoke to him again.

There's a second recorded gig by that No Material band - you can get both on this 2CD version from 2013.

Baker's recent album Why? is pretty good, too.

I'm not too keen on Buddy Rich's sour grapes, being all "it's about the music maaaan" when your primary draw is being a chops wonder is bullshit. There are different kind of drumming and different kinds of entertainment in the world.

xpost Thanks for the Ginger tips! Tarfumes' mention of Bailey got me to check Improvised Music 1981, which also incl. Sharrock, Laswell, Frith, Zorn and Noyes. On first listening, I most like the 5th, 6th and 7th improvs, the way the spaces between simultaneous and rapid-response sounds are pulled into the staggered momentum---also (along with impressions of pigeons fluttering around the inside of the skylight, ganglia stretched this way and that, staccato car and house keys, blurts/comments of radio and/or tapes, or maybe just those tiny 1981 samples, tiny reeds, Zorn's squelched duck calls, also basic textures, room effects), we also get sounds that stand on their own, with no particular source suggested, no mental clutter of picturing a guy with an instrument/object. Still, I do like that 7 starts with an actual drum kit, for instance.

Listening to Ellington's Masterpieces By Ellington for the first time tonight. A 1951 recording on Columbia - four long (8-15 minutes) tracks and three short ones (2-3 minutes). Pretty great, and excellent writing music.

In searching for more info on Ric Colbeck, I found the following comment posted by Bill Dixon on the Destination Out blog:
http://destination-out.com/?p=63

March 25, 2007
at 3:37 pm

When I was in NY in the sixties I knew Ric Colbeck quite well; he took a few studies with me on the instrument. I originally met him when he was working at the Record Center, owned by Bob Staub on 8th street in the Village. At one point such people as Bob Levin; Cecil Taylor; Ira Gittler, all worked at the Record Center. It was sort of a center of musical activity; musicians could come in, take a few recordings, and play them. This, of course, is before recordings began to be ‘bound up’. But that’s another story. Colbec, as a trumpet player, did a lot of very interesting work with Noah Howard. He also did a considerable amount of work with me in my larger groups. There is one very good piece called Motorcycle, [the title was dancer-choreographer Judith Dunn's], a collaboration that was performed at Judson Church. The instrumentation for that performance included Colbec; Marc Levin;[on trumpets (Colbec played a Conn Constellation cornet, that looked like a trumpet and spoke with the brilliance of a trumpet); Mark Weinstein, trombone and one or two additional trumpet players], all situated on the upper balcony of the church. I played trumpet [and flugelhorn, an english Besson, that was later stolen and never recovered] and the cellist Joel Freedman, then more known for his work with Albert Ayler, who subsequently left music to do films, performed in duet form, while Judith Dunn danced. At a point in the performance the brass instruments proceed to play a row of seventeen notes, with each of them entering in a staggered fashion and echoing ethereally throughout the beautiful contours of the church wall. It was a stunning performance, aurally and visually and Earle Brown the composer, himself a trumpet player, in attendance at the performance, had many nice things to say about the work and how it was performed. Colbec was a very unique player, and a person gifted with a warm personality, a trait that he sought, successfully, in my opinion, to transfer to his work on the instrument. If one really wants to know more about his work, then Noah Howard should be consulted. He might even have tapes of their work together. Motorcycle, the piece that I’ve described above, was recorded and I have it on vinyl. I expect one day, along with some other works out of that period, to transfer it to cd.

BILL DIXON

as well of this photo of Dixon with (l-r) Jacques Coursil (I believe), Judith Dunn, Joel Freedman, and Colbeck.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R0cPWh_NTLs/UZ7krEM2zUI/AAAAAAAAAI0/gq9jgXIgO2k/s1600/photo+by+V+Sladon+1969.jpg

Wow, that photo is fantastic.

Yeah, there's a bunch more Dunn/Dixon photos here:
http://judithdunndancearchive.blogspot.com/

I just caught up the s/t Bathysphere album from last year which I think is quite ace. I don't know anything about them other than pianist Pandelis Karayorgis and reedman Jorrit Dijkstra are label-mates and they mix old + new influences quite nicely.

So Junior Mance is retiring from public performance? Wish I had gone to Cafe Loup recently.

playlist is somewhat updated through March.

ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

looking for an mp3 of Khan Jamal's "Thinking Of You" for a mix I'm making... does anybody have this song or album?

this song here: https://open.spotify.com/track/6d0peOC3sIcTA2rTKz6bCZ

The Rough Guide To South African Jazz starts out on the rougher or earthier side of smooth or reasonably regionally mainstream, at least compared to what I was hoping for, having read the press sheet first (try just to peek, but got pulled into the hype). Still, the music itself doesn't oversell its hospitality, and the whole thing def improved by the second listening, this time on headphones with volume up, catching more percussive subtleties and lots more bass.
Second half's surprises are more varied and gratifying, beginning with McCoy Mrubata & Wessel Van Rensburg's "Jikela Emawen," which I thought at first was Abdullah Ibrahim (later, the actual Ibrahim's "Soweto" starts to remind me of "Hang On Sloopy," although with a muted yet sassy trumpet solo). Zim Ngqawana's "Ebhofolo (This Madness)," billed as the "free" track, sounds more like a novelty to me, but a good'un (I'm inclined to think of Rashaan Roland Kirk the same way, so hey). Also, I finally get to hear a bit more of the African Echoes, and Brian Thusi's "Dembese" is a strong closer.
More info (amidst the hype) and audio samples of all tracks here (though the whole thing may be on spotify by now, come to think of it):
http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1341/

Listening to Ibrahim Maalouf's instrumental tribute to Umm Kulthum: pretty good so far, starting low key but quickly, steadily getting more intense: http://www.npr.org/series/347139849/jazz-night-in-america

Also meaning to hear this tomorrow night:

http://www.npr.org/event/music/467831394/the-2016-nea-jazz-masters-concert

Jazz Night In America
The 2016 NEA Jazz Masters Concert

February 25, 2016 • In a tribute concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the National Endowment for the Arts will recognize its 2016 class of NEA Jazz Masters — the highest honor the U.S. gives to a jazz musician or advocate. The performance will be webcast live on Monday, April 4 at 8 p.m. ET here and via arts.gov, Kennedy-Center.org, and broadcast on Sirius XM radio.

The NEA honors four individuals in 2016: vibraphonist, bandleader and educator Gary Burton; musicians' advocate Wendy Oxenhorn; saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders; and saxophonist, composer and educator Archie Shepp. Each Jazz Master receives a $25,000 grant.

The concert will be hosted by Jason Moran, pianist and Kennedy Center artistic director for Jazz, and include remarks by Jane Chu, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; Deborah F. Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center; as well as the 2016 NEA Jazz Masters. The concert will feature performances by NEA Jazz Masters Chick Corea, Randy Weston, and Jimmy Heath, as well as Ambrose Akinmusire, Lakecia Benjamin, Billy Harper, Stefon Harris, Justin Kauflin, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Pedrito Martinez, Jason Moran, David Murray, Linda Oh, Karriem Riggins, Roswell Rudd, and Catherine Russell.

With this new class, the NEA has honored 140 great figures in jazz.

Pharoah Sanders is at Birdland this coming week. I saw him at Iridium in the early '90s, and I think it's time I went back for more.

Just came into a little bit of money so I ordered two more of those Cam Jazz boxes reissuing old Black Saint and Soul Note albums - one by George Adams (includes Don't Lose Control, Hand To Hand, Gentlemen's Agreement and Live At The Village Vanguard Vols. 1 & 2) and one by Julius Hemphill (includes Raw Materials & Residuals, Flat-Out Jump Suite, Fat Man And The Hard Blues, Five Chord Stud, and Chile New York) - for $52 including shipping.

Wow! Reminds me---great overview and details (by Stuart Nicholson) of the Adams-Pullen Quartet here: http://www.donpullen.de/collect/nichols.htm

Pullen's one I mean to investigate more thoroughly, and soon. Prior to about a week ago, all I knew of his work was his duos with Milford Graves, and I had some vague (and evidently incorrect) sense that those were outliers in his catalog, that he went in a more mainstream direction after that. But Capricorn Rising blew my mind. I'll probably end up getting that Soul Note box.

Wayne Shorter was just awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

going to see pharaoh at the late show tomorrow night, pretty excited

trying to score tickets to cecil taylor/tony oxley for next week but no luck

I tried to get Pharoah tickets but they were already sold out. He's still playing really well; interested to know how the shows have been going.

Saw him there several years ago and it was awe-inspiring.

Ben Ratliff in the NY Times. Not seeing this album on Spotify, it features drummer Chris Dave, that Jordan hipped me too here

Marcus Strickland’s Twi-Life

NIHIL NOVI

Since 2001, the tenor and soprano saxophonist Marcus Strickland has been pursuing parallel interests in jazz as a well-defined, acoustic, instrumental tradition and, with his band Twi-Life, as a jumping-off place for satisfying other urges: R&B, hip-hop, saxophone-choir writing, West African music. “Nihil Novi” (Blue Note), his best work with Twi-Life and his broadest statement yet, feels timely: If you absorbed Kamasi Washington’s expansive 2015 record “The Epic,” with its orchestral spaciness and hard funk, you will have a framework to understand Mr. Strickland’s smaller scale. Produced by Meshell Ndegeocello and dotted with guest appearances from musicians including the singer Jean Baylor, the bassist Pino Palladino and the drummer Chris Dave, it’s a record of serene refusal, floating among traditions rather than settling within one.

I've liked Strickland for a while; I interviewed him back in 2011. He's a twin; his brother, E.J. Strickland, has drummed on a lot of his previous releases.

Yeah, EJ's cool, not so familiar with his brother.

Both brothers can be seen in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTaI7Rj-cJU

nice

Heard a really nice, melodic-but-not-simplistic, atmospheric-but-not-boring album today - I Walk Amongst the Humans, by trumpeter Jon Crowley, with whom I was not previously familar. Kinda reminded me of Taylor Haskins' Fuzzy Logic, which came out in 2014 on Sunnyside.

would be interested to hear what, if anything, the rolling jazz thread thinks of this: http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_sunwatchers_sunwatchers_album_stream

Ape Phases is epic!

My Name Is Albert Ayler: the full-length documentary now streaming, watch it while you can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrmIWO6UFg

If the link doesn't appear, check YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrmIWO6UFg

Didn't make it to Junior Mance's last public performance but I heard it was packed.

http://www.dubera.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-21-at-11.12.28-AM.png
My wife got me tickets for this year's Newport Jazz Festival. They're flex tix and I can pick any day to attend. Which one should I choose?

More Artists To Be Announced, but so far) I'd go Sunday! New Lloyd, Dave Holland & co., Kenny Barron, Kamasi, Anat, Toshiko, just for a start---quite a deep 'n' wide bill.

Ditto Saturday, but all those Sat. solo sets tip the scale toward Sunday for me.

agree with dow... but that's a killer all round lineup!

I'd go Sunday and see Potter/Holland/Loueke/Harland, Christian Scott, Kamasi Washington, and maybe that Gilad Hekselman/Christian Sands/Ben Williams group.

Saw Ben Williams on Saturday at Flushing Town Hall with Helen Sung. Man, that band was good. For some reason I left a little early, should have stayed until the bitter end.

Thanks all! I guess I'll pencil in Sunday then.

Henry Threadgill has won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Music.

I have been listening to the Danny Green Trio's Altered Narratives. It sounded a bit too controlled and tasteful at first but now I am starting to love it, especially some of the string arrangements.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1105-why-pitchfork-made-a-magazine-about-jazz/

A bunch of good jazz shows as part of this year's SummerStage programming. I'm definitely interested in seeing McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter and Roy Haynes in Central Park on June 4, and Kamasi Washington on June 14.

Also, not jazz but fucking awesome: King Sunny Ade and Orlando Julius on a double bill July 3.

Here's the full lineup:

Jazz at SummerStage 2016: Featuring McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes, Kamasi Washington, Jason Lindner, Randy Weston, DeJohnette-Holland-Moran, Butler Bernstein and The Hot 9, The Hot Sardines, Bria Skonberg with Anat Cohen, Vince Giordano and Wycliffe Gordon, Dianne Reeves, Terence Blanchard, Nublu Orchestra, Igmar Thomas and Revive Big Band, Marc Cary, Joseph Webb, Brianna Thomas, Allan Harris, Donnie McCaslin and more

McCoy Tyner Quartet, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes
June 4 – Saturday - 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Kamasi Washington - Pre-Show Panel Discussion
June 18 – Saturday - 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Butler, Bernstein and The Hot 9, The Hot Sardines,
Bria Skonberg and The NY Hot Jazz Festival All-Stars with
Anat Cohen, Vince Giordano, Wycliffe Gordon, Joe Saylor and Dalton Ridenhour
June 25 – Saturday - 2:00pm - Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Lisa Simone – Film Screening: What Happened, Miss Simone?
June 28 – Tuesday - 7:00pm - Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

Soul in the Horn featuring Theo Croker,
Maurice Mobetta Brown, Marcus Machado, Kendra Foster, DJ Natasha Diggs
June 29 – Wednesday - 7:00pm – Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

A Tribute to Acclaimed Latin Jazz Musician Dave Valentin
July 7 – Thursday – 7:00pm – Crotona Park, Bronx – FREE SHOW

Paulo Flores, Herencia de Timbiquí, Monsieur Periné, DJ Greg Caz, DJ Manny
July 17 – Sunday – 2:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Dianne Reeves, DJ Greg Caz
July 27 – Wednesday – 7:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOW

Stefanie Batten Bland with Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Pre-Show Master Class with Karisma Jay
July 30 – Saturday – 7:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOW

Queens Family Jazz Day:
Marc Cary: The Harlem Sessions, Joseph Webb: Dancing Buddhas
WBGO Kids Jazz featuring Brianna Thomas and The Jazz Travelers
July 31 – Sunday – 4:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOW

Terence Blanchard and The E-Collective
August 5 – Friday – 7:00pm – Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island – FREE SHOW

Igmar Thomas and Revive Big Band: A Journey Through The Legacy of Black Culture
August 7 – Sunday – 6:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Nublu Orchestra’s “We Play for You, Butch Morris”
DarkMatterHalo with Wadada Leo Smith
Film Screening: Black February
August 10 – Wednesday – East River Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival:
Jason Lindner: Breeding Ground, DJ Greg Caz
August 26 – Friday – 7:00pm – Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival:
Randy Weston African Rhythms Sextet, Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles
The Artistry of Jazzmeia Horn, Charles Turner III
Pre-Show Master Class with Samuel Coleman
August 27 – Saturday – 7:00pm – Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival:
DeJohnette – Holland – Moran, Allan Harris, Donny McCaslin, Grace Kelly
August 28 – Sunday – 3:00pm – Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Nice profile of Warne Marsh right now on WKCR, which you can listen to if you have an old school radio at hand I guess.

Check out the video of Ben Williams bass rendition of "The Beautiful Ones," which you can see on his FB page.

Playlist is updated through April.

ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

A new Coltrane box, The Atlantic Years in Mono, is coming out June 10 on LP and CD. It includes Giant Steps, Ole Coltrane, Bags & Trane, Coltrane Plays the Blues, The Avant-Garde and the outtakes compilation Coltrane Legacy, but not My Favorite Things, Coltrane Jazz, or Coltrane's Sound, for no reason that I can figure out, since they were also released in mono at the time. (Also, if you buy the vinyl version, apparently it includes the "My Favorite Things" 45, on which the track was split in two, James Brown-style.)

Recently realized that the only one of his Atlantic albums I still haven't heard is Ole Coltrane---descriptions please.

fucking spectacular and one of my favorites. get on it!

you got me listening to it again simply by mentioning it and goddamn does the title track wail. whirlish dervish melody sweeping up mountain roads.

Pianist Cameron Graves, who plays in Kamasi Washington's touring band, is releasing his debut album, Planetary Prince, June 10. The band includes Washington, trombonist Ryan Porter, bassist Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner, and drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., plus trumpeter Philip Dizack and bassist Hadrien Feraud. Apparently, the album contains four long tracks, and a second volume will be out before the end of the year.

The title track of Ole is probably my favourite Coltrane. Music for climbing mountains and bellowing at bears.

I like the Eric Revis Trio, Crowded Solitudes album, it is easily the best Clean Feed release so far this year and features the fabulous Kris Davies.

That's a good trio. I liked their previous album a lot, with Andrew Cyrille on drums instead of Gerald Cleaver. Haven't gotten all the way through the new one yet. Revis is an interesting dude, has a well-established spot in the sort of "modern hard bop" zone, playing in Branford Marsalis's group and with Orrin Evans, yet continually goes off and does weirder stuff like his own trio, or the album he did with Jason Moran and Ken Vandermark, or his work with Peter Brotzmann.

I have only listened once and found it quite remarkable. I only tried it on the strength of the Kris Davies connection but deffo want to hear more now.

The new JD Allen Trio album, Americana - Musings on Jazz and Blues, comes out next Friday, 5/20. I love this group - their music is as deep as that of Coltrane's quartet when they want it to be, but it's also got a romping, joyous energy that his music didn't always allow to permeate the atmosphere of Spiritual Questing. Plus, they keep things tight, at least on their first three or four albums; a lot of the tunes were three minutes and under. This one is still fairly compressed, with nine tracks in 45 minutes, but compare that to Victory!, which had 12 in 36. Anyway, it's a blues album, more or less, and you can hear the title track on Soundcloud.

Just been blasting out the new Jack DeJohnette/Coltrane/Garrison trio album. It's pretty fucking sick!

Another great trio I have been liking at the moment is the Steve Khun/Steve Swallow/Joey Baron album At This Time...

I love DeJohnette's motorik drumming on Two Jimmys. I pretty much slept on his last album, might have to dig it out again.

definitely going to check out that DeJohnette album today

It is all kinds of awesome, I've practically had it on rotation since last night.

i was looking for the new DeJohnette album on Spotify and it didn't come up, but i did come across the Richard Davis album 'Song for Wounded Knee' (w/DeJohnette and Joe Beck), which i somehow hadn't heard before. cool record.

There is something achingly poignant about Ravi's playing on Alabama on the new one. I deffo would welcome any DeJohnette as band leader recommendations.

ECM recently reissued four of his early 80s albums in a box. ECM doesn't stream, though.

I'm not very familiar with DeJohnette's solo albums, but right after I posted that someone asked me for other Richard Davis recommendations (apparently he's finally retiring at 86?), and now I'm listening back through those amazing Booker Ervin 'book' albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDL6xXke-4c

It is hard to remember which of his books I prefer, but from memory Freedom is awesome.

same.

haha, is the last song on the DeJohnette/Garrison/Coltrane album really just called "Soulful Ballad?"

yeah I thought I had accidentally downloaded the b-side to the new Stone Roses single when I saw that!

http://culturecatch.com/music/best-twenty-first-century-jazz

Not a bad list, as those things go. Great to see that Dixon record on it -- that was an overwhelming experience to witness live.

I'm not massively up on Richard Davis' catalogue but I love the Philosophy of the Spiritual album, which must be due a reissue surely?

Going to have an afternoon of Booker Ervine, I think.

I liked DeJohnette's Special Edition quite a bit. Wiki claims it was the first DJ group to get critical acclaim, which seems unlikely on the face of it (despite Abercrombie's snooze imput in some pre-SE combos), but they got this part right: This group also helped the careers of many lesser-known young horn players, as it had a rotating front line that included David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, John Purcell, and Rufus Reid, among many others.
And I gotta check this:
In 1992 he released a major collaborative record, Music for the Fifth World, which was inspired by studies with a Native American elder and brought him together musically with players like Vernon Reid and John Scofield.

Mal Waldron is a good call on that list that Scott posted. He did loads of good work going way back that doesn't get bigged up much. Stuff like The Quest, Where, the After Hours one with Thad Jones/Kenny Burrell, First Encounter w/ Gary Peacock, Free at Last, Impressions, The plays Eric Satie album - all be stellar work imo.

Never came across a Waldron album, but enjoyed compositions that I knew of as his, like Trane's version of "Soul Eyes." Need to check out that original and others on YouTube.

Listening to a rerun of this on local station---starts pretty good and gets better; not great, but they think fast, testing and passing (at diff angles), w confidence and wit---archived here
http://www.npr.org/event/music/456415165/michael-mwenso-and-the-late-night-all-stars

still building!

the new Brad Mehlsdau Trio album is sounding good tonight. I am slightly enhanced, but is does sound good. Fuck me, even when he covers Lennon/McCartney i don't even grimace.

oh didn't realize there was a new one, will probably check it out although I felt like he was coasting a little on recent stuff.

he probably is here, but I still like it.

Playlist updated to now.

ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Went out and saw a one-off band of Houston Person on tenor sax, Ethan Iverson on piano, Ben Street on bass, and Billy Hart on drums. The latter three are usually part of Billy Hart's quartet (with Mark Turner on sax, I think), and Iverson and Street also play with Tootie Heath sometimes, but Person was a new addition. They were at the Village Vanguard from Tuesday through tonight; I saw the first set on Friday. It was a real old-school jazz show - Person has about 75 albums, all collections of standards, ballads and blues, and he played with a bunch of different organists back in the '60s. So there was no avant-gardism going on here at all; the farthest out they got was playing a very Thelonious Monk-ish version of "Just You, Just Me." But they also did a version of the song "Sunny" that sounded like they should have all been wearing ruffled tuxes. It was a lot of fun; I'm glad I went.

More re Person: He's been recording for HighNote for about 25 years or so, and in 2008 they put together a 3CD compilation, Art and Soul, that gathers tracks from 10 of his albums recorded between 1996 and 2006, and four new tracks; I ordered it from Amazon, and have been checking out the free MP3 version in the meantime. It's good stuff in an old-school big-horn standards, ballads and blues way. If you're interested in checking his stuff out, you could do worse as a starting point.

Only saw him once, with that late Ernestine Anderson at the Jazz Standard a few years back.

Last night, passing out, was rescued by the radio: an excursion, equally calm and exuberant, but not blissed-out---keeping an eye on the audience and the door---through something that seemed almost familiar, basic riff-wise, on the choruses---turned out to be "Tomorrow," from Annie! Almost completely transformed by leader Clifton Anderson's trombone, and the rolling crew follows suit---DJ mentioned that he cut his teeth in his uncle Sonny Rollins' band, and indeed seemed like a leftfield Sonnyesque idea---had totally forgotten about this guy! Band incl. Steve Jordan, Jeff Tain Watts, think Kenny Garrett was also mentioned; I didn't catch the pianist's name---on And So We Carry On---is it good??

Lotta good players on that album.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81wROgijQvL._SL1272_.jpg

Looks promising, thanks. What do you think of it?

Never heard it; I pulled the graphic from Amazon. I have heard another one of Anderson's albums. It was fine. Straight-ahead hard bop. This one looks like it might take some side trips into reggae (note the presence of Monty Alexander on piano), which could be interesting.

http://www.gondwanarecords.com/1806-2

Matthew Halsall's brilliant On The Go album has been remastered for an extended vinyl release, with 3 bonus tracks inspired by the Miles' Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud soundtrack. It's probably debatable whether the new mix improves on the original, it doesn't really matter to me - it all sounds good.

Jazz & related releases coming up:

July 8:
Brotzmann/Parker/Drake: Song Sentimentale (Otoroku]

July 22:
Ornette Coleman Quartet: Tribes of New York (Jeanne Dielman)
Sun Ra: Blue York (Jeanne Dielman)

August 8:
Nels Cline: Lovers (Blue Note) (jazz-related? Should be worth checking, anyway)

No idea about some others with impressive names/titles:
http://pitchfork.com/news/66469-the-pitchfork-guide-to-upcoming-releases-summer-2016/

That Ornette album is just all the previously unreleased tracks from the Beauty Is A Rare Thing box, pressed onto an LP.

RIP Don Friedman.

Loved his playing. He's not super well-known. Yet another case of so many cats, so little ink and limelight.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nc3ogue8c

Forgot to do the mobile tweaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nc3ogue8c

Nice interview with him. Lots of good stuff about Scott LaFaro. http://www.jazzwax.com/2009/09/interview-don-friedman-part-1.html

Reminds me, this book is very nice
http://nutriot.com/files/2008/11/jazz_covers.jpg

I was looking at a paperback version of that (with a different cover) at Kinokuniya yesterday. Didn't get it.

Live video of Dead Neanderthals (sax-drums duo; one of my favorite groups the last couple of years; I wrote liner notes to one of their albums) last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_LO2WBpaY

Yeah, there is a different cover

I've heard a few tracks from the original----think this might be worth checking out? Stream is posted on the label site, so seems kosher to paste it here (also on spotify and others):

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81QWGhmjGzL._SL1200_.jpg

Jane Bunnett Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of her Groundbreaking Album 'Spirits Of Havana'
POSTED: 8 JULY, 2016
STREAM THE FULL ALBUM FREE HERE
http://truenorthrecords.com/album/900

June marked the 25th Anniversary of Spirits of Havana, Jane Bennett’s landmark 1993 album. It was the first major collaboration of North American and Cuban musicians, preceding Buena Vista Social Club by three years.

Jane Bunnett is known for her creative integrity, improvisational daring and courageous artistry. Her exploration of Afro-Cuban melodies expresses the universality of music and her ability to embrace and showcase the rhythms and culture of Cuba has been groundbreaking.

Jane Bunnett’s accolades are numerous, including: multiple Juno Awards, Order of Canada, The Queens Diamond Jubilee medal, Ontario’s Premiers Award of Excellence as well as being nominated for a Grammy Award.

The 25th Anniversary Deluxe re-issue of her seminal album SPIRITS OF HAVANA includes:
- 3 unreleased tracks
- 2 CD package
- 36 page book that includes historical photos
- Extensive notes by the late Robert Palmer and writer Ned Sublette
http://truenorthrecords.com/system/blog_posts/images/000/000/412/large/eblast_janebunnett_header1.jpg?1468001828

re personnel, Discogs also lists:
Timbales – Guillermo Barreto
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Larry Cramer

Guillermo Barreto is great. He is on this, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Jam_Sessions_in_Miniature

I haven't listened to Frank Emilio much, although I have some friends in the neighborhood who are big fans.

Listening now, may not have time for alll these tracks this morning, but we'll see. Opener:everybody seems to be playing her and his counterpoints to an unheard meta-melody, but no prob: very tranquil convergence, taking the scenic route. Track 2: pretty much an open space for Bunnett's flute and Rubalcaba's 88s to do some cropcirling, Track 3: she switiches to mellow sax, then zooms away, GR's keys, but other soloists enter, yadda-yadda, Track 5's got everybody going again, to more of a piano x timbales rippling groove-surge than before.

crop-circling, that is.

JB's got her own post-Trane, post-Pepper (post-Getz?) thing down, but if you don't like soprano sax (alt w flute), you're out of luck, so far. Fine with me.

More flute than sax though (again, so far)(track 7: "G.M.S. (Gandinga, Mondongo, Sandunga)")

matt shipp residency at the stone next week, some good stuff. w parker and d carter on weds

Oh yeah that reminds me that somebody reminded me on Thursday that Sofia Rei has a residency at the Stone the week after next.

Playlist somewhat updated.

My friend, who used to Matthew Shipp's roommate, is going to the gig tonight, since I reminded him about it yesterday thanks to this thread.

Me, I am Kitano to see some Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael Great American Songbook stuff by a rising young singing star.

Interesting things that have landed in my mailbox in the last week or so:

- the self-titled debut from Lean, a trio of saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh, electric bassist Simon Jermyn, and drummer Allison Miller, all of whom I like
- Cinema Spiral, the second album from bassist Jason Roebke's Octet, a Chicago-based all-star unit that includes Greg Ward and Keefe Jackson on saxophones, Jason Stein on bass clarinet, Josh Berman on trumpet, Jeb Bishop on trombone, Jason Adasiewicz on vibes, Roebke on bass and Mike Reed on drums (debut was on Delmark, this one is on NoBusiness)
- Avid Admirer by trombonist Reggie Watkins; it's a tribute to Jimmy Knepper recorded using one of Knepper's own horns and features Matt Parker on saxophones, Orrin Evans on piano on six tracks, Tuomo Uusitalo on piano on three more tracks, Steve Whipple on bass, and Reggie Quinerly on drums
- violinist Scott Tixier's Cosmic Adventure, with Yvonnick Prene on harmonica, Glenn Zaleski on piano, Luques Curtis on bass, and Justin Brown on drums, with saxophonist Chris Potter guesting on one track
- a 2CD reissue on the Beat Goes On label of Arthur Blythe's first four Columbia albums, Lenox Avenue Breakdown, In the Tradition, Illusions and Blythe Spirit

i have been listening to Sri Hanuraga's To The Universe album. He is an Indonesian pianist + it is his debut as a bandleader. he sort of reminds of Hiromi Uehara, in that he brings in a lot of classical/fusion/proggy/eastern influences into the mix and is a very melodic player.

Chicago drummer & friend of a friend just released this, it's an interesting blend of songwriting + modern jazz (Brian Blade-ish at times) with lots of drum solos over vamps: https://jondeitemyer.bandcamp.com/album/tall-tales

(w/Matt Ulery, Justin Thomas, et al)

I have been listening to some Gene Ammons for the first time today, awesome tenor and similar to Ben Webster in that he sounds steeped in blues and emerged in the post-war era. I can't believe it has taken me so long to discover him.

He's a guy I've been meaning to listen to for a long time but have never gotten around to; thinking this set might be a good starting point.

I have been listening to Bad Bossa Nova and Boss Tenor today. It sounds like he had a very shitty life - two prison terms for drugs offences and cancer taking him relatively young.

I guess I need to stop hating Badbadnotgood, they've finally learned restraint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfRxeD34unQ

(that's mostly Colin Stetson killing it but still)

"Inspired by Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady album, Greg collaborated with choreographer Onye Ozuzu to create a new work for a 10-piece jazz ensemble and dancers.."

The Greg Ward & 10 Tongues live album recording of this is great, it could just as easily be a tribute to Ellington.

Got the new Joey Alexander album in today's mail. You know, if a dog learned to play piano, bassists and drummers would be lining up to collect that sideman check.

steering well clear of that one

possibly not entirely coincidentally he does look a bit like the Viz cartoon character Spoilt Bastard

saw the jazz harpist Brandee Younger at Celebrate just recently with an excellent bassist whose name i didn't catch
while the open air recital did her no favors, she's a treat under any circumstances and worth attending anytime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wFAkTHtTKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT0l6HJ13ig

Unexpected diversion: multi-pointed, somewhat ninja star contentions re Kind of Blue, in midst of many comments on Mark Sinker's recorded panels re UK 60s-80s music writing (precursor of his current kickstarter-projected anthology of essays etc):
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2015/05/a-great-big-clipper-ship/

50 years ago, filmmaker William Greaves took US government money to make a movie about freedom of speech and expression, which was shipped out to US embassies across the globe but not seen here at home, because the State Department literally defined it as propaganda. (If you've never read Frances Stonor Saunders' The Cultural Cold War, about how the CIA sponsored all kinds of art and culture in order to subvert the Soviets, do so. It's awesome.)

Anyway, the film is scored by Bill Dixon, and includes footage of him performing with a small group. Funny to see that even 50 years ago, free jazz players were performing to audiences consisting of a dozen white people making very serious faces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvPJTC0ND_A

http://jazzandblues.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/bobby-avey-inhuman-wilderness-inner.html

Good review here of the latest Bobby Avey album which I had on constant rotation today.

Got in on the rail to see Tootie Heath at Smalls. Let's see how it goes.

Anyone who liked that Makaya McCraven album from last year will probably like the new Jeff Parker album, nice, breezy organic beats type stuff.

Got in on the rail to see Tootie Heath at Smalls. Let's see how it goes.

I wrote about alto saxophonist Charles McPherson for Burning Ambulance today. Two of his mid-'70s Xanadu albums have been reissued.

I have been blasting out Arthur Blythe's Illusions + Lenox Avenue Breakdown albums today, definitely need to hear more of this dude.

Blood Ulmer as sideman! Works on Illusions, the only Blythe I have.

That explains how ridiculously funky it is.

Got CD reissues of some mid '70s Afro-spiritual out-jazz albums in the mail: Milton Marsh's Monism and three by Brother Ah - Sound Awareness, Move Ever Onward and Key to Nowhere.

Want to hear those, and this

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71FrhB2X0FL._SL1500_.jpg

The best thing I've heard Cyrille do in a while was the album he did with Bill McHenry on sax, Orrin Evans on piano and Eric Revis on bass, La Peur du Vide (it was McHenry's album). Saw that band at the Vanguard, too - they were fantastic. Met everyone but McHenry after the set.

i saw this Kenny Garrett band back around '99 and have been checking for Chris Dave ever since. 'two down, one across' sounds just as insane now as i remember it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNcyJVwRz0s

I love the latest Matt Wilson album, The Beginning Of a Memory. It has got an appropriately sad and joyous wake vibe to it. It is a tribute to and contains some of the fave compositions of his late wife, who recently passed from leukemia.

The drummer? Haven't heard that one. Sounds intriguing.

It's really good; I reviewed it for the New York City Jazz Record. It's raucous at times, quite mournful and emotionally powerful other times. Warning: There's a solo bass version of "Endless Love" on it. But it's not at all cheesy.

damn. i like Matt Wilson a lot, will try and check that out.

i remember seeing him once where he turned his snare upside down and did dj scratching effects using the snare wires, pretty clever.

There's another Andrew Cyrille album coming out in September - a duo disc with Bill McHenry, on Sunnyside. Just got it in today's mail.

xxps to James Redd

Personnel: Terell Stafford: trumpet; Kirk Knuffke: cornet; Jeff Lederer: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet; Joel Frahm: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone; Andrew D’Angelo: alto saxophone, bass clarinet; Gary Versace: piano, organ, accordion; Larry Goldings; piano; Martin Wind: acoustic bass; Paul Sikivie: acoustic bass; Yosuke Inoue: acoustic bass; Chris Lightcap: acoustic bass, electric bass; Matt Balitsaris: acoustic guitar, dobro; Matt Wilson: drums.

xabregas 10 by lume needs some more hype. really great out big band jazz from i think portugal.

anybody else doing glasper/hancock in BK tonight?

keep seeing the ads for it but no

So last night, Indiana Public Media's radio show "Night Lights Classic Jazz" delved into the somewhat serpentine career of Mal Waldron---show isn't posted yet, but here's some of this;
Opening track from
Waldron's "The Quest" album. Recorded at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, on June 27, 1961. Mal Waldron (piano); Eric Dolphy (alto sax, clarinet); Booker Ervin (tenor sax); Ron Carter (cello); Joe Benjamin (bass); Charles Persip (drums). More variety of mood etc. than one track can suggest, but the whole thing's on the 'Tube, as well it might be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjPTG3tykpA&list=PL4C42C7CB1DCCBEF0

And I didn't know, 'til I heard this episode of "NIght Lights", that Shirley Clarke had filmed The Cool World (novel by Warren Miller, who also wrote The Siege of Harlem...)Omg gotta see that--- Here's the theme from Waldron, written by Waldron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVgUeJBEu5w

Here's the theme from Waldron, written by Waldron duh sorry

Do us a solid and post a clickable link, I've got chrome issues.

Sorry, I can't get Chrome to show it either, had to get the latest Firefox with its YouTube High Definition add-on (see comments on Video problems?(also James Redd said he could see vid links on his phone, though not elsewhere)

he couldn't see ilx video links on other devices, that is (I'm not having problems with video links on other sites, even using Chrome, even on my one device).

I'm just been lazy, I have firefox as well.

Question for the group: I'm pretty convinced that I don't need a 7CD Mosaic box by the Modern Jazz Quartet. (They made something like 20 albums for Atlantic between 1956 and 1964, and 14 of them are included.) But I do want some of their stuff from that era. So which ones do I need? I'm currently listening to Live at Music Inn with Sonny Rollins on Spotify and it's pretty good.

MJQ the v definition of consistency (or formulaic, according to taste) - ie if you like one of their Atlantic albs you'll p much like them all. Wld prob recommend the Lonely Woman alb just because the title track is a relatively early Ornette cover (John Lewis being one of Coleman's first defenders/boosters of course) and the sleeve photo is lushly romantic.

RIP Bobby Hutcherson, dead of emphysema at 75.

The Black Art Jazz Collective (Jeremy Pelt on trumpet, Wayne Escoffery on tenor sax, James Burton on trombone, Xavier Davis on piano, Vicente Archer on bass, Johnathan Blake on drums) put out their debut album last month on Sunnyside, and they're doing a record release show at the Jazz Standard tonight.

That xpost Mal Waldron episode of the Public Radio show Night Lights is posted now, along with a substantial text commentary (x YouTube highlights):http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/soul-eyes-early-mal-waldron-songbook/

I was listening to his twin piano + sax trio with Tchangodei/Shepp (Free For Freedom) yesterday, it is really beautiful. Will be checking out links later, thanks.

Toots Thielemans, RIP
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/arts/music/toots-thielemans-jazz-harmonica-player-is-dead.html

Really need to go back and listen to some Bobby Hutcherson. I've only really heard the first couple Blue Note records, any other favorites?

That xpost Mal Waldron episode of the Public Radio show Night Lights is posted now, along with a substantial text commentary (x YouTube highlights):http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/soul-eyes-early-mal-waldron-songbook/

This was cool. Somehow I always thought of "Fire Waltz" as an Eric Dolphy tune!

Yeah that was excellent. It was The Quest and the After Hours album with Kenny Burrell that got me into Waldron, but when you start digging deeper you start to realise he was an extraordinary talent, right to the end of his career.

One thing I love about his piano style is the gospel influence, that even comes through during his most angular hard bop type material.

Really digging this act streaming from Smalls right now which is about to end a few minutes. Young Polish jazz guitarist named Rafal Sarnecki leading a sextet. Only player I was familiar with before this stream was the drummer, Colin Stranahan.

Just seeing word that Rudy Van Gelder has died. Two of the most important ears in jazz history. RIP.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/blog_files/a/6a00e553a80e108834015391917f99970b-800wi.jpg

Playlist is updated.

Great new video by trumpeter David Weiss's band Point of Departure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjd_DcZot6E

This is a really cool band that focuses on re-interpreting "inside-outside" tunes from the late '60s - they've done versions of tracks from Miles in the Sky, as well as Herbie Hancock, Andrew Hill and Jackie McLean albums, and several tunes by Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet.

Art Pepper-Warne Marsh 3-CD 11/11, bit of "Good Bait" + more here:
https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/2-minute-tickle-good-bait

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0202784008_16.jpg

poster from from Art's bandcamp

On the radio last hour, heard Art (w McBee, Cowell) romping through "There Will Never Be Another You", from One September Afternoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLpo0lYX0ns

Another "There Will Never Be Another You", expansive and killer, title track of Sonny Rollins' 70s LP, recorded at MOMA, '65 (think he had this recalled soon after initial release? But discogs indicates it was reissued this century in Japan, and maybe elsewhere---anyway, quite good, as I recall, also esp. "To A Wild Rose")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1zGfiTDal8

As the art on that YouTube clip indicates, it was reissued in 2011 as part of a 2-for-1 with On Impulse!. I reviewed it for Burning Ambulance. He's got two drummers in the band - Billy Higgins and Mickey Roker - which livens things up somewhat, but the recording quality isn't great.

Oh yeah---Mr. Ambulance says: It almost sounds like a bootleg, and it’s not surprising that a) it wasn’t originally released on LP until the mid ’70s and b) it hasn’t been in print on CD in the US for quite a while. But it’s got a lot of energy (in the “energy music” sense of that word), much more than On Impulse!, and it’s maybe the main reason to buy this twofer.
Haven't heard On Impulse! in quite a while, but suspect this is true, and sound quality is maybe why he didn't want 'em to put the MOMA show on LP, but it works, in a spacey, you-are-here-there-and-everywhere way (like some other Sonny shows)

My favorite of his Impulse albums is East Broadway Run Down. (Also David S. Ware's favorite; he recorded a version of the title track on Third Ear Recitation.)

I know that title track from Energy Essentials, a three-LP Impulse! comp, prob the first jazz album I bought (I know it was 99 cents), and the ideal gateway: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Impulse-Energy-Essentials-A-Developmental-And-Historical-Introduction-To-The-New-Music/release/1738212

Wow, that's quite a compilation!

New Bobby Kapp/Matthew Shipp has some nice stretches on it (though sometimes I feel like Shipp is coasting). "The 3rd Sound" is a particularly positive standout, for me.

The latest Jane Ira Bloom album Early Americans is rather lovely, I probably need to check Sixteen Sunsets as well.

Didn't think I was going to listen to the new Miles Davis Bootleg Series set (raw session tapes from the 1965-68 quintet, paired with the finished tracks), but someone's paying me to, and...it's kind of interesting to hear the band spend 25 minutes figuring out what they're going to do with "Freedom Jazz Dance," for example, but this is probably the set least aimed at the casual fan. The previous four, you could see someone picking up cold and being into. This one is strictly for nerds.

i saw shipp and kapp play (in a backyard!) last weekend and it was excellent. live at least kapp is a pretty assertive drummer and would push shipp out of the kind of moseys he gets into sometimes--but left room for a little moseying. probably the best non-bisio set i've seen shipp play.

In October, a David S. Ware/Matthew Shipp duo, recorded live in 2004, is coming out on AUM Fidelity. It's really good. Ware is blowing so hard the microphone distorts at several points.

Heard through the grapevine that NPR Music is restructuring their online offerings and dropping "A Blog Supreme," their jazz page (edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon) (but they're looking to hire another person to write about hiphop)

http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/

argh, that sucks.

Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis is putting out his fourth album, No Filter, next month; it's his first with his working trio (bassist Luke Stewart and drummer Warren G. Crudup III), after albums featuring, respectively, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver, and Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Rudy Royston. I think it's a digital-only release, and it's on BNS Sessions, not OKeh/Sony like his last two.

now on the radio: "John Coltrane", from Billy Higgins' Mr. Billy Higgins (Riza, '64): 12' 45, but somehow concise, crisp (committed but not overwrought) excursion on the version and distillation of that JC Quartet vibe, with no imitations. Performers, aside from the leader, mostly unfamiliar to me Gary Bias on sax William Henderson at the piano, bassist Tony Dumas. Composed by Bill Lee (Spike Lee's father, I think). Some goosebumps at the moment.
(more of this LP is on the 'tube, will have to check)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL4X3XXze9A

Up next on the radio: Jazz Night In America rerun of that time Jason Moran and The (eight-piece) Big Bandwagon played their take on Thelonious Monk's Town Hall big band concert, w some multimedia, incl. samples of Monk's comments---still posted too, where you can watch, listen, download:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/446866440/jason-moran-plays-thelonious-monks-town-hall-concert

And the Monk talk is from his own tapes. He recorded all sorts of stuff, incl. teaching his songs, "one chord by one chord" (with listeners' insights much later, when tapes were finally retrieved), also ambient sound of the stairwell etc.

Listening to the new Cookers album, The Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart. Came out last week, I think, on Smoke Sessions. These guys aren't doing anything new at all - they play acoustic post-hard-bop in a very 1970s mode, but if you love, say, Woody Shaw's Muse and Columbia albums as much as I do, you should absolutely be listening to these guys. What I really need to do is start digging up the albums the members of the group (Donald Harrison, Billy Harper, and George Cables in particular) made back then.

Dig the way they do that kind of stuff. Need to listen to the new one.

So this new collection of unreleased later Erroll Garner material, Ready Take One -- just do yourself a favor and listen to Caravan, holy shit

Thanks. Wonder if that will show up in my Release Radar?

yeah that's where I found it actually

his dazzling virtuoso style reminds me of Phineas Newborn a bit, very very nice. I'm guessing he might have had a much higher profile if he had lived a couple more decades. Wiki says his Misty was the one dj Clint Eastwood played in the movie.

Wasn't Concert By The Sea one of the perennial big selling jazz albums at one point?

Yeah, and it got a deluxe reissue earlier this year, right? (I've never heard it, or any Garner for that matter. Probably a big oversight on my part, but I always tend to give horn players more of my attention than piano players not named Shipp, Taylor, or Jamal.)

Love the original cover of Concert By The Sea, which they fucked around with on later issues:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/ConcertByTheSea-ErrolGarner-Cover.jpg

I'm sure in the UK at least all of Garner's best work is out of copyright

A Blog Supreme was a jazz thing published by NPR Music from May 2009 through September 2016. It presented news, features, aggregated content, historical primers, opinion and analysis, recommendations and other types of music journalism. It was twice named the Jazz Journalists Association Blog of the Year.

It was founded and edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon, who was also its chief writer and a producer for NPR Music's Jazz Night In America.

...A Blog Supreme ceased publication when the position of jazz producer at NPR Music was eliminated. Friday was his last day.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2016/10/01/496016442/what-was-a-blog-supreme

that's a real loss imo

for a mainstream jass album this year I really like Josh Redman & Brad Mehdlau - Nearness, this is a nice version of "Ornithology" (good track but not necessarily one of my favorites)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Kl2nBNV0A

Revisiting Wynton Marsalis's Hot House Flowers today. It's interesting to hear the fairly powerhouse production job the band got (Jeff "Tain" Watts sounds like a metal drummer at times) paired with the Hollywood-movie-soundtrack strings.

Seem to remember discussing the production of jazz recordings with somebody I know and him telling me he gave that CD to his producer/engineer/mixer and said "make the drums on my record sound like that!"

Also, think Tain is playing with Pharoah Sanders tonight and tomorrow at Birdland.

When that album first came out, Carla Bley told interviewer Ben Sidran that she got it and went, "eeeuuuw", gave it to a friend:"Ohhh, thank you Carla!"--but then the friend listened to it and was like "Ha ugh bitch whatcha dumpin that on me for."

Might have just been snarking the big label dude but anyway I didn't check that one out. Started liking him more when he became more of an artful entertainer, like with the surreal horn charts for the live Ray Charles tribs w Willie Nelson (and Norah Jones with the occasional blue oasis interludes, rather than full-on Snorah)

Listening to Clifford Jordan's Firm Roots on Spotify. He made about five albums with the same band heard here: Cedar Walton on piano, Sam Jones on bass, Billy Higgins on drums. Three of them were recorded at a single concert—On Stage Vols. 1-3—and then there's this disc and The Highest Mountain. I can definitely see listening to all five; this is a great band, and Jordan's tone is fantastic.

Went at last minute and Friday to see Pharoah Sanders and gotta say this time he was a little too on the mellow side for me. Sounded fine playing the melodies on the heads but played abbreviated solos that didn't go anywhere deep on every tune. Tain was killing it throughout though.

Yeah, that's why I'd really only want to see him in a context that guaranteed weirdness, like that Pharoah & the Underground thing he did with Rob Mazurek in Portugal a few years ago - him, Mazurek, and members of the Chicago and São Paulo Underground(s). There's an album and a CD, both on Clean Feed, with completely different music on each. I've never been able to find a DL link for the LP.

I saw him a few years back at the exact same venue and he was grebt. There was a palpable moment in every tune were he went from the pretty, inside playing to the overblown, outside playing. You could hear the saxophone sound slowly breaking up, you could imagine the white wisps of his beard to be smoke coming out of the bottom of a giant Saturn rocket upon liftoff, you could feel the earth tremble. Maybe this time he was a little tired or ill, or saving his energy for the second set, or some combination thereof.

Slightly regretting not implementing my alternate plan, going to see Scott Robinson at Kitano.

Throughly enjoying Monk Birthday Broadcast on WKCR.

About to check out some early Ahmad Jamal stuff I've never heard (his drumless trio recordings with guitarist Ray Crawford, and some later quintet stuff the two did together).

Chamber Music of the New Jazz is the one I often go to from Ahmad's early stuff, it's delightful.

Speaking of xpost Erroll Garner, heard his "Fandango" on the radio last night, got pulled into it pretty quickly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEj6UdQsKao

M-W online entry for "fandango":
1: a lively Spanish or Spanish-American dance in triple time that is usually performed by a man and a woman to the accompaniment of guitar and castanets; also : music for this dance
2: tomfoolery

Maybe also with Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Scott Joplin somewhere in the family tree.

(And Monk?)

New Yorkers might want to check out this Fri. October 28th event at Symphony Space

“The American Slave Coast: Live” is a spoken word-and-music performance piece drawn from the pages of the book. Alto saxophonist and composer Donald Harrison will lead the band. Speakers will include Jonathan Demme, Nona Hendryx and Carl Hancock Rux, plus the authors Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette.

This dude is obviously insanely talented, although it sorta ends up sounding like Squarepusher with worse sound design in the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saX2-OHr__M
https://kimcass.bandcamp.com/album/kim-cass

I had assumed I'd heard Brilliant Corners already for some reason. I hadn't. I know it's canon and everything, but my god.

In other Monk news, apparently on this day in 1947 he first recorded "Well, You Needn't." Think I just might have to order that Monk fake book I have been eyeing after all.

my Monk listening of recent times is the '61 album with Coltrane or the Trio album with Roach and Blakey playing half each.

Listening to a new BGO (Beat Goes On) reissue of 3 early 80s albums by fusion guitarist Steve Khan on 2 CDs: 1981's Eyewitness, 1982's live Modern Times, and 1983's Casa Loco. It's smooth in a yacht-rock sort of way, without being so greasy it feels like it's dribbling out of your headphones. Some occasionaly dubby echoes around the margins. Not something I'd have been happy about paying for, but mildly diverting.

BGO is the same label that reissued Arthur Blythe's first four Columbia albums as a 2CD set earlier this year. I also have a disc from them that combines Muddy Waters' Electric Mud and After The Rain, so they're OK by me.

Playlist is updated through October; we're at over a hundred songs and 13+ hours. You could do worse if you want something to walk around to.

ILM's Rolling Jazz Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Trumpeter Terell Stafford has a new album out, Forgive and Forget, on a tiny label run by saxophonist Herb Harris (he was one of the Tough Young Tenors back at the dawn of the '90s, but dropped out of the scene). All the compositions are Harris's; the band is Stafford, Tim Warfield (another ex-Tough Young Tenor) on sax, Kevin Hays on piano, Greg Williams on bass, and Rodney Green on drums.

I liked his Brotherlee Love album last year.

Yeah, me too. And I've liked his playing on a bunch of Warfield's albums on Criss Cross.

"Streams" is a beautiful album on ECM by Jakob Bro with Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron, you can hear some of it on http://player.ecmrecords.com/bro-2499

I listened to the Fred Frith/Darren Johnston a couple of days ago. I really liked it. Sounded like Frith was either using direct guitar or very clean amplification and very good recording. Pretty good review here

The Jakob Bro track on the ECM site is a stunner, you're right, niels. Right up my alley. I'm looking further.

Huh, he plays a Telecaster. Not what I would have guessed.

Glad to hear you like it!

This clip gives you an idea of what you'll get if you catch a show with them - I really love Baron's expression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6baRyUDu4

The song they're playing is from the great record Balladeering wich features Lee Konitz on sax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6IgSEUotiM

any buzz whatsoever on some of the savory collection stuff coming out commercially? i'm kind of interested in that coleman hawkins set, though the whole "apple exclusive" thing is pretty obnoxious

http://www.stereogum.com/1914711/the-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2016/franchises/2016-in-review/

I'm hoping Stereogum will be open to more jazz coverage in 2017.

Some ace albums on there, and am even tempted to try the one with the awful hash tag title if Ron Carter is on board :p

I thought of Battle Trance as contemporary 'classical'/compositional music but it's really really great.

(Obv the greatness matters more than the classification + there are obv jazz influences so)

I wasn't sure either, but I initially reviewed it for the New York City Jazz Record so I figured it counts. (Its genre fluidity is why I paired it with the Borbetomagus album, obviously.)

Oh ha, I didn't notice that you were the author. Good stuff!

that JD Allen Americana album is growing on me and it segues nicely into older jazz blues type albums I have been listening to earlier today by Archie Shepp and Ben Webster.

can't remember if this was posted but it is excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-w9kPIhg8

there has been loads of top class stuff on ECM this year, especially the Wadada Leo Smith/Vijay Iyer and Jack DeJohnette releases. But another that has sneaked up on me recently is the Wolfgang Muthspiel - appropriately titled - Rising Grace one, it is a real slow burning piece of beauty.

it has Brad Mehldau on board and in top form which probably helps

Jazz thread, please tell me: Do I want/need to go see The Bad Plus live early next year in a room that holds ~100?

You might, rabbit, you might.

I saw them in 09 (?) at Wayne State and thought they were great so I think that's a yes? I haven't kept up with most of their albums since then, though, although the one with Joshua Redman sounded good. xp

Saw The Bad Plus once in City Hall Park across the street from J&R Music World about a decade ago, but at the time I wasn't really into what theiy were doing. But I have seen Ethan a couple of times doing some excellent playing with his friend Tootie Heath (who apparently refers to this band as "The Bad Pus" ) so I say go.

I've seen them about a dozen times and they've ranged from good to spectacular; generally better in small rooms imo

same, otm. although maybe the best i've ever seen them was in a theater on the tour with Wendy Lewis on vocals.

why would you not go, is it hella expensive?

$50+ tix (times two if I make it a date night)
2 small kids = baby$itter
general laziness / it's easier to stay home and half-watch Flip Or Flop while refreshing twitter

currently leaning toward going, tho

aight makes sense

I'd definitely go though, always good to get out and hear live music

if you've never seen them before, i would say definitely but a $150 to $200 night out is tough no matter how you slice it

yeah, i would definitely like to go. i saw Jeremy Pelt in this venue a few years ago and it was pretty darn intimate/amazing. it's like watching a concert in your living room, kinda.

pitched a story on 'em in another town in hopes of parlaying that into a list spot here. we'll see...

ilxor andy k turned me on to this

really fantastic

https://yussefkamaal.bandcamp.com

love that record--"lowrider" is a mega jam imo

The new Forebrace album Steeped, like their last one shows a lot of Last Exit influence and their more hard edged stuff is excellent. Probably not a great album but definitely a work in progress.

I interviewed Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado for Bandcamp.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2016/12/la_la_land_s_clich_d_confused_depiction_of_jazz.html

Not surprising I guess

I interviewed Kamasi Washington's bassist, Miles Mosley, for Bandcamp. His album Uprising comes out 1/27; it's not a jazz disc, more of a '70s funk/R&B album, but with massive, fuzzed-out, almost Hendrixian bass solos on pretty much every track. It's really good.

speaking of The Bad Plus, pretty enjoyable set w Frisell at Newport, still here (get it while you can, never know about npr jazz staying up)
http://www.npr.org/event/music/158004697/the-bad-plus-with-bill-frisell-live-in-concert-newport-jazz-2012

There is a great bit of audience interaction on Joe McPhee's Flowers live album where he explains that when he was in the army he couldn't quite explain to his fellow soldiers why he had a watercolour tribute to Ornette Coleman in his locker door rather than the standard girlie pics.

ha

I played drums on a little New Orleans jazz album earlier this year: https://darrensterud.bandcamp.com/releases

Somehow I missed that the Bad Plus even released an album this year, much less Bad Plus-ed Prince:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjtvIi_T0lY

(or more likely i knew and forgot)

Oh damn, Alphonse Mouzon passed away.

https://youtu.be/psfHjIVd8VI?list=PLHlcpNxyojhFStR2pUzMsxZmcYE_OTu2r

How'd you miss that?

Stuck in electronic music land I guess

Ha, I missed it too. The NPR clip with Frisell is good btw!

Flag posting both of you for that

Da Capo al Fine

(Aka new thread for new year)

My fav bass player at the moment is the young German livewire dude by the name of Noah Punkt, his work with Protean Reality and his Ordnung Herrscht album are both quality imo. I'm not usually too bothered about no-wavey influenced stuff but there is something about his style I love.