I interviewed Kamasi Washington for Stereogum. I love the fact that the longest section of this interview is him talking about working with Gerald Wilson.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:52 (four weeks ago) link
Nice.
I don't know if I've ever seen this much effort put into a video by a jazz (adjacent) group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABfAOXrQgQ
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 2 May 2024 19:54 (four weeks ago) link
All my Bandcamp purchases today are old albums from the 80s on Italian jazz labels:
Hamiet Bluiett, ResolutionBaikida Carroll, Shadows And ReflectionsBilly Harper, Black Saint and In EuropeBeaver Harris, Beautiful AfricaThe Leaders, Unforeseen BlessingsKalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Peace And BlessingsDannie Richmond, DionysusWoody Shaw, Time Is Right
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 3 May 2024 17:53 (four weeks ago) link
not from this year but i'm digging pianist Rodney Franklin's album In the Center. i had never heard of him. sounds like he veered pretty quickly to smooth jazz, but this album, his first, is really cool and varied. most of it would fit well with late 70s soul jazz like lonnie liston smith - some disco-funk, one with vocals, a couple spiritual jams. the closer, "life moves on" is a killer
― Heez, Saturday, 4 May 2024 21:05 (four weeks ago) link
Does Tomeka Reid still live in DC? Had no idea she released something on Cuneiform.
― Heez, Saturday, 4 May 2024 21:08 (four weeks ago) link
I saw Reid a couple weeks ago doing a great composed tribute to Duke Ellington at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. Right now I’m in Brooklyn at the Long Play festival and saw a fantastic set by Darius Jones doing his Fluxtet music. He killed it was so great. At the end he did some Pentecostal vocalizations over a string ostinato. Very moving.
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 4 May 2024 21:23 (four weeks ago) link
Having dinner right next to Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:12 (three weeks ago) link
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― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 May 2024 05:04 (three weeks ago) link
Incredible interview with Charles Gayle from a Buffalo, NY newspaper in 1970(!). Reveals more about his early life than I ever knew before. I wonder if the tapes he talks about are still in the ESP archives?
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 16 May 2024 18:52 (two weeks ago) link
RE: Laubrock/Rainey, I was in Brooklyn for Bang On A Can's Long Play Festival, where both were on the bill: Rainey in the DoYeon Kim Quartet and Laubrock had written a string quartet that was premiered there. Great festival, a smaller more manageable Big Ears in a cooler city (Sorry, Knoxville).
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:15 (two weeks ago) link
I kicked off this month's Stereogum column with a deep dive into the history of Last Exit (Bill Laswell's jazz-metal improv band featuring Peter Brötzmann, Sonny Sharrock, and Ronald Shannon Jackson), since their catalog has basically doubled in size in the last couple of years thanks to a half dozen live recordings he's put up on Bandcamp for subscribers. Lots of great albums reviewed, too.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 19:07 (one week ago) link
Reid is Chicago-based but moving around a lot due to visiting professorships and touring. I'd love to hear the Ellington material and also the expanded Stringtet. 3x3 is absolutely superb.
― Composition 40b (Stew), Thursday, 23 May 2024 11:22 (one week ago) link
Finally got to the new Charles Lloyd, wow it's great. Listened to it twice straight through.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:22 (one week ago) link
Some Charles Lloyd videos available here from 1994 at the North Sea Jazz Festival. They seem to be opening up their archive. There's also a great video of Joe Henderson playing "Recorda-me" from the same year, but it's cut off when the bass solo starts. The entire playlist is being updated regularly.
― EvR, Thursday, 23 May 2024 20:25 (one week ago) link
First listen of Ghosted II (Ambarchi / Berthling / Werliin): long and drifting percussive pieces, pleasant reverie, Afro-jazz style bass and fuzzy keyboards, some pulse but could have more, the two pieces after the first are more peaceful and astral, the fourth is some kind of synthesis. Not particularly going anywhere but still good headphone music.
― Nabozo, Monday, 27 May 2024 09:42 (five days ago) link
This new Charles Lloyd is probably my favourite since 'Canto'
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 1 June 2024 22:13 (twenty-four minutes ago) link