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  3. What live music are you going to see tonight?

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    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:)

     

  9. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    15 minutes ago, BFrank said:

    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)

    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. 

  10. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    On 3/28/2024 at 12:28 PM, T.D. said:

    Yeah.

    No details at the events page https://creativemusic.org/events/,

    but I clicked through to the Eventsbrite (purchase tickets) page and got the following. Pleased to see Charlie Burnham, gabby fluke-mogul and Kirk Knuffke, among others.

    In Celebration of Karl Berger's Birthday
    A Tribute to Karl Berger, acclaimed Musician/Composer & Co-Founder of the Creative Music Studio, on the First Anniversary of his Passing

    CREATIVE IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA March 31st - Celebrating Karl Berger's Birthday
    Peter Apfelbaum - conductor, tenor sax, piano Billy Martin - conductor, percussion Ingrid Sertso - voice and poetry Chuck Ver Straeten - voice and poetry Charlie Burnham - violin gabby fluke-mogul - violin Kirk Knuffke - cornet Chris Pasin - trumpet Bob Selcoe - trumpet Bill Horberg - flutes Elsa Nillson - flutes Steve Gorn - bansuri flute, clarinet Sylvain Leroux, Fula flute, flute, qromatica Ilene Marder - flutes Donnie Davis - alto sax Jessica Jones - tenor sax Tony Jones - tenor sax Bill Ylitalo - baritone sax Brittany Anjou - vibraphone, piano Stuart Leigh - guitar Mike Gassmann - guitar Michael Bisio - bass Ken Filiano - bass Tani Tabbal - drums Joakim Lartey - percussion Hollis Headrick - percussion Savia Berger - dance

    In honor of Karl Berger, Peter Apfelbaum leads the Creative Music Studio Improvisers Orchestra featuring vocalist Ingrid Sertso. Audience is invited to the open rehearsal from 3-4pm, performance to follow from 4-5pm.

    Thanks. Maybe I will take a drive up tomorrow:)

  11. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    9 hours ago, BFrank said:

    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. 

    ravi2.jpg

    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. 

  12. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    Mat Maneri’s Quartet was off the chain last night. 2 full sets. Stunning. 
     

    playing on 4/7 in Philly 

    23 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

    When someone agrees with me, I start to think I'm not insane.

    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. 

  13. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    10 hours ago, T.D. said:

    No upcoming weather excuses in the forecast (I missed a similar event in February), so...

    THE CREATIVE MUSIC STUDIO IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA PRESENTS 

    A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION & TRIBUTE TO KARL BERGER,

    Acclaimed Musician, Composer & CMS Co-Founder  

    On the First Anniversary of his Passing

    Easter Sunday, March 31, 3-5pm, 

    The Handbell Studio, at The Shirt Factory, Kingston NY

     

    March 24, 2024, Woodstock, NY: A special edition of the Creative Music Studio’s popular Creative Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum and featuring award-winning vocalist/poet Ingrid Sertso Berger, will honor and celebrate its acclaimed co-founder Karl Berger this Easter Sunday, March 31st at the Handbell Studio, Unit #118, at the Shirt Factory, 77 Cornell St., Kingston NY. The Tribute marks the first anniversary of Berger’s passing on Easter Sunday 2023, and falls one day after his Birthday. The audience is invited and encouraged to attend the Open Rehearsal from 3-4pm, with Performance from 4-5pm. Admission is by Donation, and includes refreshments.

    Any idea who the musicians are in the orchestra?

  14. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    Lots of great shows recently including Chris Cochrane’s dual ensembles, Ches Smith’s Laugh Ash

    tonight Mat Maneri’s Ash Quartet with Brandon Lopez, Lucian Ban & the *great* Randy Peterson

    tomorrow night Tim Berne’s Paraphrase with Drew Gress & the *great* Tom Rainey

    Friday a multiple ensemble gig including Lao Dan in duo with the *great* Chris Corsano

    to hear these 3 incredible drummers 3 nights in a row from within 10 feet is a dream turned into reality

    then it’s my wonderful life in retirement blessed to live where I live 

     

     

     

     

     

     

    still,,,,,

     

    Coming Down the Mountain

     

  16. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    6 hours ago, Guy Berger said:

    They were indeed great.

    They played a Hemphill tune and Berne told a funny story - he’d seen Hemphill playing this tune with Lester Bowie and Don Moye in a venue with 3 people in the audience - Berne, Marty Ehrlich and one other person.  This was the first time Berne and Ehrlich met.

    That Hemphill suite (if it’s the one I’ve heard them play twice) is very challenging but it sure paid off in the end. Glad you got to see the trio. I’m spoiled as they play most Thursdays in Brooklyn in various configurations. I’m especially grateful to be able to see the *great* Tom Rainey live so often with Berne and in many other groups. 

  18. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    16 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

    Looking forward to seeing both Ari Brown and Edward Wilkerson for the first time on Thursday. Playing together with an unknown to me UK band at a venue that doesn't usually programme Jazz. All a bit unusual but two masters in London is not to be missed 

    Wilkerson especially as he rarely leaves Chicago

    fwiw Michael Foster with strings this past Sunday was transformative

    including Webb Crawford, Deyung Kim, Nava Dunkelman & Anna Abondolo

    included Ellington, Strayhorn & Fred Anderson compositions to create a 30 minute suite that organically mixes radical freely improvised music with the compositions.

    brilliant to the nth degree

  20. Rhythm sections with a life of their own

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

    I realized I never posted this one. Blue Note's go to rhythm section for grittier hard bop records.

    These are great. Along with Drake / Parker, who you mention up-thread, these cover half my record collection. 

    Did Holland / Altschul play with others other than Braxton?

    Sam Rivers most famously 

  22. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    4 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:

    Missed Berne last night as I was a bit tired with an achy back but I’m at The Stone tonight

    Simon Hanes, gabby fluke-mogul, Anthony Coleman & Billy Martin 

    Let’s GO!!

    Late change gabby couldn’t make it due to a travel issue and was replaced by Mat Maneri who took a cab from the airport after just flying in from New Orleans. Mind blowing incendiary set from the quartet with the great man playing as great or even better than ever. Impossible to convey the depth and gravity of the collectively improvised music I heard tonight. 
     

    Lordy Lordy

     

     

     

    Get Ready to Receive Yourself 

  24. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    Last night

    Simon Hanes, Anna Abondolo, Jon Starks & Ches Smith at The Stone at New School

    Simon & Anna on electric basses. Dual drummers. Alternated first half of the set with one of them sometimes using an octave pedal. 45 minute set of 5 improvisations. Brilliant unique blistering music. 
     

    nobody better than Ches Smith in this context. Force of Nature.

    Simon is great and Anna is a young genius. I’d seen her twice on double bass but last night a whole other thing. Astounding young musician. She’s probably 24-25.  
     

    will be back Friday and/or Saturday night

     

    tonight Tim Berne with Gregg Belisle-Chi and Tom Rainey 

     

  25. What live music are you going to see tonight?

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    Lots of shows the past 2 weeks! Highlights Tony Malaby 2 great sets on 2 different Saturday nights at Barbes 

    Tim Berne with his trio with Rainey augmented by the *great* Oscar Noriega on b-flat clarinet 

    Rubin Kodheli on cello with Mary, Trevor Dunn & Brian Chase

    Matt Nelson solo soprano saxophone, Michael Foster duo with Webb Crawford & a great trio with James Paul Nadian and two young musicians on altered electric guitar & electric bass

    tonight at Jazz Gallery 

    7 Poets Trio with Tomas Fujiwara, Tomeka Reid & Patricia Brennan double bill with Tomeka’s quartet with Mary, Jason & Tomas

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