Alexander Hawkins Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 (edited) Wow - had no idea the ICP was around...any idea of any other tour dates in the UK? edit: oops, apparently not, to answer my own question! Edited May 5, 2009 by Alexander Hawkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 ...Tony Monaco this weekend in Indy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 last night an unexpected and poorly advertised treat. I saw the ICP orchestra in all its glory, at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall, apparent anarchy and immense beauty in the same bar, Tristan Honsinger was stunning as he veered from total freedom to the purest classical sound and back - , Han Bennink wild as ever, Mary Oliver- not a name I knew was highly expressive on violin/viola, amazing group interplay, highly enjoyable. Ain't they great!? Honsinger was terrific when I saw them (must have been around 2002/2003)! I also found Michael Moore to be outstanding (both on alto and clarinet), and Delius was behaving like some kind of weird/nerd/madman, but playing great, too! As for Mary Oliver, she's been with the ICP gang for a while... when I heard them, she, Honsinger and Glerum did a lengthy string trio improv that was among the highlights! And I'm a sucker for ICP's Ellingtonia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 BRÖTZMANN / WAITS DUO Peter Brötzmann, reeds Nasheet Waits, drums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Hadley Caliman, Julian Priester, Larry Vuckovich, John Heard, Eddie Marshall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 I went to see the CSO last night. If I had known how it would turn out, I would have been better off staying at home. I've known for a long time that the seats get more uncomfortable the higher you go, but now the ones in the upper balcony are sheer agony for me to sit in (something about a slightly unusual angle and being a bit too low to the ground and being too narrow). So I will definitely keep this in mind before buying tickets in the future. If I recall, there are several levels above this (the super gallery?), and those are even more narrow and the stairs have a terrible pitch, but the seats might be higher off the ground. The conductor was Bernard Haitink. He is looking frail now. He was walking with a cane and sat in a chair to conduct (he did not do this last year, so if you are hoping to hear him conduct you might want to move that up on the agenda). The first piece was a short piece by Purcell, which was ok. The next was Britten's Illuminations sung by Ian Bostrich. I'm not a huge fan of this piece. I generally dislike classical song cycles or lieder or opera (or most jazz vocals for that matter). I suppose it comes down to disliking pieces where meaning is impinged upon by treating the voice as an instrument. Anyway, the problem this time was really with Ian Bostrich. He's got quite a career going on across the Atlantic. He certainly has the look of the Romantic poet, but then he spent half his time singing down at his feet (I guess because he looked cooler that way)! Sorry, we can barely hear you in the cheap seats. I was thoroughly disenchanted. Anyway, I had primarily gone for Shostakovich's Symphony 15. I was hoping that this would save the night. I've really enjoyed hearing some of his symphonies, but this wasn't one of them. Haitink took the middle movements at a truly glacial pace, and the symphony didn't benefit from it. It just seems too slight when really stretched out and you have to pay such close attention to each element. I was exhausted and basically bored when it finally ended. So it was kind of a bust all the way around, sorry to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 Mike Watt & the Missingmen. Opening band was Lite. They're an instrumental outfit from Japan heavily influenced by Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, etc... Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) Heard Ed Diehl play some masterful guitar last night. Imo, he's probably the greatest living jazz guitarist. Edited May 11, 2009 by paul secor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolyStitt Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Just back from a Casino show up North with Crystal Gayle, Roy Clark, and Ray Price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolyStitt Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Going to see Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band tonight in St. Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Barton Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Tonight it's Thomas Marriott at The Triple Door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolyStitt Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Just back from Centro-Matic at the 400 Bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturalSoul Posted May 15, 2009 Report Share Posted May 15, 2009 Last night we had a house show at my house, brook pridemore and isaac gillespie. i opened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted May 15, 2009 Report Share Posted May 15, 2009 Fareed Haque's Flat Earth Ensemble @ the Jazz Kitchen tomorrow night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 Fareed Haque's Flat Earth Ensemble @ the Jazz Kitchen tomorrow night. We'll see you there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 Yesterday: Circulasione Totale: Frode Gjerstad, saxophones/clarinet; Sabir Mateen, saxophones/clarinet; Bobby Bradford, cornet; Børre Mølstad, tuba; Kevin Norton, vibraphone; Anders Hana, guitar; Lasse Marhaug, elctronics; Morten J. Olsen, percussion/electronics; Nick Stephens, bass; Per Zanussi, electric bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Louis Moholo, drums Quite intense, and with many good moments! Bradford has a beautiful and strong sound on trumpet! And the three drummers were quite something... also Lasse Marhaug did some great stuff and it really made sense having him in this band! Kevin Norton was terrific as well! Just noticed this. Bobby sent a cd by this band called Open Port and it is fine. Check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Barton Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Tonight it's Deep Listening Band at the Chapel Performance Space after a day at Folklife... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted May 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 (edited) My wife and I are going to hear Wallace Roney's Quintet on Tuesday night! Edited May 23, 2009 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Went to go see Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus "Zing Zang Zoom" today with my wife & son. Tonight I'm going to see Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra in honor of Marshall's 85th Birthday and Ra's 95th arrival on the planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 Two really different shows on Thurs and then Sat. Thurs was Chicago Symphony - two pieces that mixed jazz and classical. Mercer Ellington finished his father's Three Black Kings suite (recorded a handful of times most recently by the American Composers Orchestra on Nimbus). Saxophonist Donald Harrison took chief solo duties. The middle section was played at a very fast clip. I still don't think orchestras can swing -- it just isn't what they are trained to do -- but the CSO was pretty game. The last section, dedicated to Rev. King, was really soulful. The second half was Mark-Anthony Turnage's Scorched, which is his reorchestration of John Scofield pieces. The piece has traditionally been played by Scofield himself, bassist John Patitucci, drummer Peter Erskine, and orchestra. I do wonder if it is one of those pieces that just couldn't be played by some other guitarist. Anyway, it is far more involved that one of those typical jazz with strings in the background. The orchestra cuts across the trio's playing. Sometimes only the guitar and orchestra play. Sometimes it is just the orchestra alone (usually then the trio plays the same tune -- considerably better). I probably would have enjoyed the trio just played their music more than Scorched but it was an interesting experiment. As it happened I had second row seats, so I could actually see the jazz trio close up, and could even watch them reading the music, again something that they wouldn't normally need to do. Still I had a good time, and it was so much better than my last trip to CSO! Sat. I was visiting my dad, and he thought we should go see a bluegrass music show. I wasn't real big on this, but agreed to go. Well, we went to this small concert venue in a former strip mall church in Thomasville, NC and saw the opening act, which was fairly entertaining, esp. the rapport between the fiddler and the guitarist which was very much in the Sonny and Cher mode. Then the main act was Scott Fore and the Hillbilly Hot Club. The lead guitarist comes from the flat picking guitar tradition, but recently has gotten really, really interested in the music of Django Reinhardt. So these guys play gypsy jazz, with just a slight bluegrass inflection on the guitars and the bass is moved up in the mix. It was really great, much more interesting than a was expecting. I told the rhythm guitarist that I hoped they would record soon. They don't have a CD out yet, but they do have a myspace page with some songs. Hillbilly Hotclub I would encourage people to go see them, though they don't seem to be touring much outside of North Carolina and Virginia so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldB3 Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 This last Tuesday I saw Enrico Rava in Foligno Italy. Great show, he played songs off his last three records in Easy Living, Words and the Days and New York Days in a auditorium built in the 14 hundreds, I will never forget it. At the beginning of my trip I met Stefano Bolani at the Florence airport and got to talk to him for a half hour, he gave me his new cd which was very nice of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 The Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Big Band at Birdland, 5/31/09 The Mingus Big Band at Jazz Standard, 6/1/09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fkimbrough Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Abdullah Ibrahim solo at Jazz Standard - a lovely, subtle, 90 minute set with no breaks between tunes - one piece just melted into the next. He didn't see the person giving him the "10 minute warning" after 50 minutes, so he just kept going! Sublime........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 Abdullah Ibrahim solo at Jazz Standard - a lovely, subtle, 90 minute set with no breaks between tunes - one piece just melted into the next. He didn't see the person giving him the "10 minute warning" after 50 minutes, so he just kept going! Sublime........... That's sounds awesome. Lucky you. Today at Noon a free concert by the Meat Puppets. Later tonight - Sunny Murray and Odean Pope duo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Tonight I'm going to see some organ trio. I think they're from Michigan. Can't remember their name. Supposed to be pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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