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14 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:
Recently over the past week or so:
Mat Maneri Ash quartet with Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez & Randy Peterson. Saw them twice over a 10 day span and now 6 times over the last 9-10 months. Best jazz group live I know of. Mat taking it to places unvisited by mere mortals.
also a nice quartet with a local great young pedal steel guitarist which included Lopez & the fine young drummer Joey Sullivan at the same gig as the Maneri group
Tony Malaby quartet with Angelica Sanchez, Mark Helias & Tom Rainey
Michael Attias’ Renku with John Hebert & Satoshi Takeshi
Ingrid Laubrock, Brandon Lopez & Tom Rainey
tonight:
Patricia Brennan, Noel Brennan with Ingrid Laubrock & Keisuke Matsuno
All 3 of these saxophonists playing at a very high level but Ingrid on soprano especially on Sunday night took it to another level. That trio is incredible with the *great* Brandon Lopez as the linchpin. Rainey is, of course, one of the greatest drummers on the planet. Seeing him very often doesn’t dull his brilliance in any way. Almost new and fresh. Plus seeing him back to back nights from 5-8 feet always doesn’t hurt:)
Saw Laubrock with Myra Melford's Fire and Water super group (also Mary Halvorson, Tomeka Reid and Leslie Mok) at Big Ears. What a great performance!
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24 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:
Saw James Brandon Lewis last night at the Vortex, with his touring Quartet of Aruán Ortiz, Brad Jones and Chad Taylor.
Not a group that I like that much on record but I found them very absorbing live, particularly Jones and Taylor. As is often the case, music that can seem a little wandering on record makes sense when you can see the players in action.
Saw him last month with the Messthetics. A totally different experience.
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Large Irving Penn retrospective at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco.
Excellent show if you happen to be in town
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It's very sad.
He was scheduled to perform on Sunday at a great oceanside venue down the coast (from SF), and I was thinking of going.
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Lunatic Soul "Under The Fragmented Sky"
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I don't often listen to fusion any more but this new album is very good. And the lineup is quality.
G. Calvin Weston - Drums
Vernon Reid - Guitar
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Bass
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15 hours ago, kh1958 said:
That piece was written by Ashely Kahn who participated in some panel discussions and was spotted at a number of shows throughout the weekend.
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15 hours ago, jlhoots said:
No rough edges, but I enjoy the atmosphere. A few more vocals would have been nice.
I also expected a little collaboration with some of his many musician friends (other than his wife). Otherwise, it's pretty much a solo acoustic guitar album.
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12 hours ago, jlhoots said:
John Leventhal: Rumble Strip
I was really looking forward to this, and it's a nice album. But I was expected something a little more adventuresome.
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1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:
I have all the originals, but missed the box. Michael could not help but sent the booklet.
Oh - that's a shame! Too bad he couldn't help you out. Nice to have the book, though.
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Last Sunday: Ethan Iverson Trio w/Reuben Rogers, Gerald Cleaver
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"The Complete Dirty South"
Drive-By Truckers
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On 3/30/2024 at 3:06 PM, Steve Reynolds said:
My favorite by far of those drummers is Ches Smith. AkLaff is still very good. I saw him with Marty Ehrlich last year. I thought Lesley Mok was OK on the 2 occasions I’ve seen her (once with the same Myra Melford group that you saw). Prieto is great as well.
I saw Mok with that group about a year and a half ago, and she didn't stand out. Last weekend was very different.
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6 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:
I’ve seen a few Tamarindo sets with Malaby & Formanek where Nasheet was beyond belief. Back in 2017-18 I think at Cornelia Street Cafe. The most sustained powerhouse jazz drumming I’ve witnessed along with Gerry Hemingway when he torques it up. Randy Peterson & Tom Rainey have a different kind of power. Randy is the best of all of them, IMO. The level he is at over the last 9 months when he seen him maybe 6-7 times is just amazing.
I definitely have to pay more attention to him. I've seen him since the early days of Jason Moran's Bandwagon.
Other outstanding drumming I witnessed at Big Ears this year came from: Eric Harland (w/Charles Lloyd), Leslie Mok (w/Myra Melford), Ches Smith (with a few groups), Pheeroan AkLaff (w/Air), and Dafnis Prieto (who I don't think I've seen before - off the CHARTS! w/Threadgill and Vijay Iyer)
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He provided a lot of info to the liner notes of the recent "Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings" box
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On 3/28/2024 at 6:56 AM, Steve Reynolds said:
Mat Maneri’s Quartet was off the chain last night. 2 full sets. Stunning.
playing on 4/7 in Philly
Nasheet Waits is insanely great especially when he elevates to an intensity one didn’t know existed. This happened earlier this year in a group with Darius Jones. Recently also saw him with Peter Evans & Brian Marsella. That night he played a sequence on brushes that was sublime and stunning.
I've seen Nasheet before too, but don't remember him like this!
Tonight - Ravi Coltrane: Pharoah Sanders Tribute at SFJAZZ w/Tomoki Sanders (Pharoah’s son), Joe Lovano, David Virelles, Dezron Douglas, Johnathan Blake
Ravi put a great program together. Tomoki sounds eerily like his father.
What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.
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