cannonball-addict

Good article.

Please send me a download. I wanted the one on the right.

He's a lot better than he was I've heard from musicians close to him. I've even seen him out at a few concerts but I think his cancer is in remission. It could come back any day...

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Really been digging these lately: Jeremy Udden's Plainville - If The Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside) - it's the followup to his first one on Fresh Sound. Really unique sound sort of coming out of Frisell mixed with Lee Konitz but not swinging in the Tristano school at all. With Pete Rende on keyboards, Brandon Seabrook on tenor banjo and guitar, Eivind Opsvik on bass and RJ Miller on drums. Watch out for any records Pete Rende is involved with. He is a great mixing and mastering engineer in addition to being a great pianist. Buy: http://www.amazon.com/If-Past-Seems-So-Bright/dp/B004UHF6B2 Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (ECM) - Craig's first solo piano record is dazzlingly beautiful, in a very original & abstract way. Closest antecedent for me would be Cecil Taylor but completely his own style. You would never know he is a regular with Tim Berne and Chris Potter from this. Buy: http://www.amazon.com/Avenging-Angel-Craig-Taborn/dp/B004SQAF70/ Aaron Goldberg & Guillermo Klein - Bienestan (Sunnyside) - some of the best writing of the year in my opinion. But also some unnecessary Charlie Parker covers. I don't understand at all why they're on this record. Chris Cheek and Miguel Zenon really blow well on this too. And Eric Harland is a rhythmic freak. Buy: http://www.amazon.com/Bienestan-Aaron-Goldberg-Guillermo-Klein/dp/B004XIQJ5A/ And finally this record by the Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman - Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde). It is beautiful. Great compositions. Some a little long. But with Mark Turner, Joe Martin and Marcus Gilmore you can't go wrong. Buy: http://www.amazon.com/Hearts-Wide-Gilad-Hekselman-guitar/dp/B0052FG8S6/ Two Thumbs Up for this one too...See what Tyshawn Sorey says about this record and about Gerald's playing in the forthcoming November drums issue of JazzTimes. There's a fascinating Before & After (JazzTimes' version of the Blindfold Test) with Sorey and the interviewer plays him almost all music he immediately gets. Really interesting to hear him talk about drummer-composers.

This record is a motherfucker. Buy it. You will not be disappointed. Gary Smulyan, Ronnie Cuber & Nick Brignola. Smokin. Especially "Line for Lyons" and "Walkin' Shoes." I think it was on Dreyfus Records. http://www.amazon.com/Plays-Mulligan-Three-Baritone-Saxophone/dp/B000001ZTK/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_1

This was an enjoyable BFT even if I guessed none of the cuts correctly. I have a new shopping list to add to the old shopping list.

#1 At first I thought Dave Douglas but he doesn't have that facility on the horn. Sounds like new Dutch swing. Like maybe Thomas Heberrer with Misha Mengelberg? I think they are definitely European. #2 I feel like this sounds like Bunky Green but is way too manic and free to be him. Not Dolphy either AFAICT. I like the manic drumming. Sounds like Dannie Richmond. I guess this could be John Handy with Mingus and Dannie and Jack Walrath... #3 No clue but I love it. #9 This is beautiful. I would love to have seen this live. It reminds me of David S. Ware. I saw Ware solo this past winter in a private house concert and it could be him. This could be from that "Saturnian" solo sax LP on AUM Fidelity. There's so much language in what he's playing. Note the bebop grounding at 2:30-2:35. Heavy. Love it. #10 This guy can play the fucking trumpet. At 1:25 it gets really interesting. This could be Bill Dixon actually, though it's not quite avant enough to be him. Or so one would think. I can't think of many guys who have this kind of CRAZY facility on the trumpet or cornet. #11 This is "Mr. Syms" from "Coltrane Plays The Blues" (one of my favorite Coltrane tunes from the Atlantic period). I was thinking it could be Ben Goldberg or Doug Wieselman and it was driving me crazy so I looked at tune lengths on the internets (there are not that many covers of "Mr Syms"). But I'll let you all guess forever. You'll never guess. You're a sneaky man, Clifford. But now I'm going to buy this track on iTunes. And maybe the album if you think it's all around a great album. Certainly a unique instrumentation. #12 This sounds like someone very modern. Definitely post-Sonny and also post-Brecker. But I have the feeling this is some European or South African guy we've never heard of. Great sax solo and great bass solo. more soon

Can you send me the files? I'm excited to get back into this. It's been way too long. I've forgotten the fun in jazz, to an extent.

Alice Coltrane Lotte Anker (dig her trio CDs with Craig Taborn & Gerald Cleaver) Kris Davis (do not sleep on her, no pun intended) Allison Miller (check out Miller's recording with Melford & Scheinman) Jenny Scheinman Myra Melford Sylvie Courvoisier Abbey Lincoln Melba Liston Okkyung Lee (cello) Mary Halvorson Jessica Pavone (viola) Sara Schoenbeck (bassoonist with Adam Rudolph's GO: Organic Orchestra, Wayne Horvitz's Gravitas Quartet)

what a weird venue for him to play...

Are they still releasing these or was it that one run of stuff in 2005 or 2006?

That's exciting that Organissimo is coming to town. I had no idea. Glad I checked this thread.

Jay Collins has an amazing feature on the latest big band CD by the pianist Jason Lindner, "Live at the Jazz Gallery" on the tune "Poem for You Today." He sings and takes a burly, muscular tenor solo. I highly recommend this album. It was one of my favorites of 2007. Also has Miguel Zenon, Anat Cohen, Omer Avital, others. I also like his playing with Levon Helm. You can see him live if you go see Levon up at his Midnight Rambles up near Woodstock, NY.

Wow. This is a great loss. When you make the front page of Yahoo and Google news, you know you've had an impact on society. And when legions of young players follow in your footsteps, or more appropriated "fingersteps". Eldar, natch. RIP OP.

recently I've seen this phenomenon occuring in several places. I saw Ornette play the Bach Cello Suite #1 with his three bass band + Denardo. Tony Falanga plays the famous arco part on bass. This was particularly riveting as I saw Ornette do it once before in another concert on the East Coast. If anyone has a recent live bootleg of an Ornette show with this band, please send me a PM. Also, the pianist Helen Sung (who happens to be the 2007 Winner of the Mary Lou Williams Piano Competition, an inaugural student in the Monk Institute's Jazz Perfomance program when it was at NEC and a former very serious classical pianist) just made a beautiful record on Sunnyside on which she covers/plays variations on the music of the lesser known 19th century Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz. This CD is not something I'm working in my role as a publicist - I was just so blown away by the CD and then again seeing her live in DC at Blues Alley - I felt I should make mention of her.

People still buy CD-ROMs?

Who wrote this article? Gene Santoro or Brian Morton perhaps?

I'm sitting here at the office unable to get the Coltrane version of "What's New?" (The Gentle Side of John Coltrane) out of my head. Can anyone recommend some good versions - preferrably from vinyl since I'm sitting right next to an amazing vinyl collection. I should be asking this everyday about a new song but I didn't think of it til now. Peace, Matt

I went to this show last night at Philadelphia Clef Club. Everyone in the band rocked except Torn. He was just playing with his fucking sampler the whole time and occasionally playing a semi-inspired riff. The highlights were Michael Formanek & Tim Berne (on baritone sax) performing their world premiere of "The Offbeat Manifesto," and Taborn playing with all his "toys." Torn benefits from a lot of hype as a producer. As a musician, there's just not much there (that I hear).

from the Blue Note news site (full disclosure: I am working this set to bloggers and podcasters) CHARLES MINGUS SEXTET WITH ERIC DOLPHY CORNELL 1964 - AVAILABLE JULY 17 BLUE NOTE RECORDS PROUDLY ANNOUNCES CHARLES MINGUS SEXTET WITH ERIC DOLPHY - CORNELL 1964 A remarkable never-before released concert from Cornell University in 1964 that captures the bass master at a creative peak with one of the finest ensembles of his career. The 2-disc set features inspired performances of Mingus classics such as "Fables of Faubus," "Meditations," and "So Long Eric" when the piece was still a living celebration of Dolphy, just 3 months before the iconoclastic reedsman was to pass away at age 36. CHARLES MINGUS - bass ERIC DOLPHY - alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet CLIFFORD JORDAN - tenor saxophone JOHNNY COLES - trumpet JAKI BYARD - piano DANNIE RICHMOND - drums Release date: July 17, 2007 IT'S TRULY UNBELIEVEABLE THIS HAS NEVER BEEN OUT BEFORE. matt

I used to be cannonball-addict.

Was the drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee or Tyshawn Sorey? Both are fucking killer but different gigs, Threadgill uses different guys. I saw this band in Philly last March and it was a truly transformative expierience. They had a lot of room to spread out in their semi circle with Threadgill at the conductor's podium sometimes conducting but mostly playing sax and flute facing the audience. I can imagine this was somewhat cramped at the Jazz Gallery but it would be interesting to see that band really up close.

I would call it a "new music" forum but my vote is YES.