chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 i had an extreme authentic zappa experience with 3 nights of ike willis band feat. prarie prince. the voice of zappas muisc, 1978-1993. he sang some classics, like montana & dirty love and some of his famous recordings with frank like outside now and bamboozeled by love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Harry Allen is playing at the Sahara Jazz Club up in Methuen, Mass tonight. Harry always swings his ass off. Should be a good night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted September 14, 2016 Report Share Posted September 14, 2016 Dave O'Higgins with the Andrew Wood Trio (Worksop Library, Nottinghamshire) Jazz in Worksop shock! I've been here 25 years and this is only the second jazz concert I've attended here. There are half a dozen a year run by the same organisation that does the Nottingham gigs but this is the first I've been to (Tuesday night was nigh on impossible in my working days). The library is actually a nice venue - a new, open plan building with the gig off to one side in the cafe area and plenty to read if you get bored. O'Higgins was very complimentary about the acoustic. The trio are a local (to Nottinghamshire) so this was not a working band situation. Standards and a few of O'Higgins' own tunes. Nothing to shake the rafters but a very nice evening of boppish/hard-boppish/mainstream jazz. And I could walk there in 15 minutes. Audience of about 50 which the organiser was very pleased with. Worksop is not exactly a centre of arty-fartyness (market-come-ex-mining town). New word of the night (thank you Mr O'Higgins for the explanation) - never knew that a composition like 'Ornithology' built over the chord structure of a well known tune was called a contrafact. Hearing jazz in a library clearly has an extra layer of education. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted September 14, 2016 Report Share Posted September 14, 2016 On 29.8.2016 at 7:37 AM, king ubu said: impressions on my four days at the wonderful Festival Météo in Mulhouse (in addition, it was a pleasure to meet OliverM and his wife there, would have been great to have more time to talk, of course): ... some bad smartphone pics (and longer German review) up here now: http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/2016/09/meteo-music-festival-mulhouse-august.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted September 14, 2016 Report Share Posted September 14, 2016 (edited) I'm mulling over seeing Billy Hart Quartet (w/Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner & Ben Street) tomorrow night at SFJAZZ. I've seen them before, and while not a big Mark Turner fan, it's still high-level music. Another plus is that they're playing in the VERY intimate Joe Henderson Lab. Edited September 14, 2016 by BFrank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliverM Posted September 14, 2016 Report Share Posted September 14, 2016 10 hours ago, king ubu said: some bad smartphone pics (and longer German review) up here now: http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/2016/09/meteo-music-festival-mulhouse-august.html You captured some good expressions there, I especially like the Roscoe Mitchell/John Edwards and Douglas Ewart pictures. Glad to discover your blog too, it will be a good way for me to try to recover some german. ----- Will try and catch (but starts early) tomorrow: Christian Wolfarth Solo // Christiane Bopp & Jean-Luc Petit Duo at Souffle Continu record shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted September 15, 2016 Report Share Posted September 15, 2016 Corrie Dick's Impossible Things (Lescar Hotel, Sheffield) Felix Higginbottom (percussion), Conor Chaplin (bass), Matt Robinson (piano), Joe Webb (organ), Alice Zawadzki (voice, violin), Joe Wright (saxes), George Crowley (saxes), Laura Jurd (trumpet), Corrie Dick (drums) Excellent young band, mainly in their 20s (at a guess). Song based with carefully constructed arrangements. Rather than the usual jazz thing of skeletal arrangements allowing the soloists to cut free here a lot of care was taken to construct written musical narratives out of which the solos could emerge before dissolving back into whole. Yet avoided that over-precision of a lot of larger group arranged jazz - they know how to make the written themes ragged. Had me thinking at different times Carla Bley/Liberation Music Orchestra, the Ogun bands of the 70s, Loose Tubes, even Robert Wyatt in the unusually structured songs. Laura Jurd is probably the best known name there - very much a rising star with a foot both in the jazz and contemporary classical world. Dick and Chaplin are also in her marvellous Dinosaur band. Venue is Sheffield's other main jazz centre, not as high profile as Sheffield Jazz (and only £8 a ticket). Very impressed - another back room of the pub situation which I prefer to formal concert halls, I will be back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relyles Posted September 15, 2016 Report Share Posted September 15, 2016 Steve Swell Quartet @ Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with Rob Brown, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver. Originally it was scheduled to be his Kende's Dreams band with Connie Crothers, but after her passing it was changed to the quartet when neither of his preferred replacements on piano - Dave Burrell or Craig Taborn - were available for the gig. I will likely catch the same quartet tomorrow night in Hartford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted September 16, 2016 Report Share Posted September 16, 2016 On 9/14/2016 at 10:06 AM, BFrank said: I'm mulling over seeing Billy Hart Quartet (w/Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner & Ben Street) tomorrow night at SFJAZZ. I've seen them before, and while not a big Mark Turner fan, it's still high-level music. Another plus is that they're playing in the VERY intimate Joe Henderson Lab. I went. Great show! This group is always worth seeing. Billy Hart is always worth seeing - a master, for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 The Byrne Brownfield Sextet at Malcolm Frazer's house this afternoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6Haj9gOSA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Saturday night, a pleasant evening in Quakertown Park in Denton for part of the Denton Blues Festival. The first headliner was Toronzo Cannon, bringing his working blues band down from Chicago, who played a fiery set. Next up, Selwyn Birchwood, a guitarist from Florida. A younger musician, his set was not as consistently excellent as Toronzo Cannon's, but it was a fine set, featuring a guitar/baritone saxophone pairing with the rhythm section. The highlight was the final song, when Mr. Birchwood played steel guitar very effectively in the idiom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Leveret (The Greystones, Sheffield) Sam Sweeney (fiddle), Rob Harbron (concertina) and Andy Cutting (melodeon) English folk music's Beaux Arts Trio (though no penguin suits). Dance tunes slowed down a bit, allowed to breath away from the strict tempo requirements of social dance. Simple AABB things in the main but carefully arranged to bring out a range of colours as they cycle through with restrained embellishment. They'd be a shoe in for the soundtrack of the next Hardy TV adaptation or film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffpeterson Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 Last Thursday night, the Swell concert that Relyles wrote about. Saturday night was the Mario Pavone Accordion project at Real Art Ways in Hartford. Sunday afternoon was Trio 3 at the same location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 6 hours ago, cliffpeterson said: Last Thursday night, the Swell concert that Relyles wrote about. Saturday night was the Mario Pavone Accordion project at Real Art Ways in Hartford. Sunday afternoon was Trio 3 at the same location. Sounds like 3 good shows! Any comments on the performances? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relyles Posted September 19, 2016 Report Share Posted September 19, 2016 3 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said: Sounds like 3 good shows! Any comments on the performances? I caught Swell Thursday and Friday night, then Pavone Saturday. Unfortunately I could not make Trio 3. Swell was great! The Friday night show may have been just a little better if for no other reason than they played more music. Thursday they played for less than an hour. Friday they played for about 75 minutes. Both nights, however, were strong. They started with a tribute to Connie Crothers, who was supposed to make the gigs with the group. I have been listening to a lot of Steve Swell recently and he is becoming one of my favorite trombone players. Rob Brown, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver were already favorites. Parker and Cleaver at times seemed to have a connection that rivals Parker's relationship with Hamid Drake. This was really displayed at the Friday show. Good stuff. I may try to catch the group with Dave Burrell on piano in October at Roulette. The Pavone nonet was a bit less intense, but still good. Tony Malaby guested on tenor and soprano. He had a couple of arm flapping solos that were a highlight. this group is built around the compositional focus and the accordion. Not as intense and exhilarating experience for me as Steve Swell, but definitely worth driving fifteen minutes from my house for a free concert featuring top of the line musicians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utevsky Posted September 20, 2016 Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 I'm a few days late with this, but I caught the Stanley Cowell Trio last Thursday in Seattle. Jay Anderson was on bass, Billy Drummond on drums. They were simply fantastic. I'd never had the opportunity to hear Cowell live. Indeed, he mentioned that he hadn't been to Seattle in 37 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted September 20, 2016 Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 16 hours ago, Utevsky said: I'm a few days late with this, but I caught the Stanley Cowell Trio last Thursday in Seattle. Jay Anderson was on bass, Billy Drummond on drums. They were simply fantastic. I'd never had the opportunity to hear Cowell live. Indeed, he mentioned that he hadn't been to Seattle in 37 years. I wonder if he plans on coming down to the Bay Area. I haven't seen anything in the press about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted September 20, 2016 Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 I've never seen Stanley Cowell either and would love to. His tour schedule as posted on facebook was as follows: Here is my upcoming tour schedule! Detroit, MI – Detroit Jazz Festival, Hart Plaza, Sept. 3rd, 5:30 pm Seattle, WA – Town Hall Downstairs, Sept. 15th, 8:00p...m Portland, OR – The Old Church, Sept. 16th, 8:00pm Monterey, CA – Monterey Jazz Festival Coffee House Gallery, Sept. 17th, 7:30pm, 9:00pm & 10:30pm Edmonton, AB, Canada – Yardbird Suite, Sept. 18th, 8:00pm Edmonton – Strathcona High School Workshop, Sept. 19th, 9:30am -11:00am Edmonton – MacEwan University Workshops, Sept. 19th, 12:30pm – 2:00pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Thanks, kh. Looks like his only Calif. appearance is at the Monterey Jazz Fest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 (edited) Gene Bertoncini at Ryan's Daughter. E. 85th, btwn. 1st and 2nd, the Big Mango. Gene being the kind of guy he is (opening up his gig to fellow guitarists to sit in) new friend and arrival from Genoa Alessio Menconi and moi will be going---with guitars---to listen, enjoy and play if asked. If you are in NY please go hear Gene, every Thurs. 8-11:30. He is 100% beauty, musician and man... Edited September 22, 2016 by fasstrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted September 23, 2016 Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 Here's what I wrote on FB about the great night at Ryan'd Daughter tonight: Here's what i wrote on FB about tonight:Just got back from a visit with the Maestro: The one and only Gene Bertoncini. Gene plays weekly at Ryan's Daughter (E. 85th btwn. 1st and 2nd---closer to 1st) with bassist Joshua Marcum. I listened in rapture for the 1st set, not knowing whether to cry or pee on myself---it was that beautiful. Halfway through, a percussionist-singer from Sao Paolo, Valtinho Anastacio, started playing tambourine from a table, and, Gene being Gene, his reaction was to immediately call him up to the stand. They made sublime music. After a break and some more heartachingly beautiful but also joyful playing by Gene and Joshua, it was my turn. You can bet I had a big smile the whole time we played (the Things We Did Last Summer). Then my new friend Alessio Menconi got up and played with Gene, Joshua and Valtinho. They played Wave and a Baden Powell tune---and brought the house down. Not only is Gene a unique and uniquely enchanting guitarist, he is one of the most generous people I have ever been fortunate to know. He goes out of his way to have especially fellow guitarists be part of his thing. Only a person totally grounded in himself would or could do that. I went home singing the songs. Gene, you made me, Alessio, his lady Eleanor and the audience happy people tonight. Gene Bertoncini: I love you, man... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted September 23, 2016 Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 (edited) Tom Hewson Trio (Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottingham Tom Hewson (piano), Calum Gourlay (bass). Tim Giles (drums) Programme built round Herbie Hancock's 'Maiden Voyage' on the grounds that it's 50 years since release. Tunes from the album, some originals derived from those tunes and a few standards - Minority, Four, If I Were a Bell. Skylark. All very well played but I found myself wool gathering after 30 minutes, not something I've experienced since retiring (common when knackered from a working day). I thing we're suffering from a surfeit of Evans/Jarrett/EST-ish piano trios in Europe at present. Edited September 23, 2016 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted September 23, 2016 Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 Saw Ken Vandermark last night in Takoma Park, MD. Solo set by KV, then a set by The Few, a Chicago-based string trio (guitar, bass, violin), then a combined set with KV and The Few. He played clarinet in that last set, and tenor and bari in the first set. Vandermark was hot in the first set, and it was a treat to hear KV "with strings." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 going to Jazzfest Berlin for the first time this year (and first trip to Berlin whatsoever) - the plan (not sure about the artist talk, but the movie I'd love to see): Julia Hülsmann Quartet & Anna-Lena Schnabel / Mette Henriette / Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Do 03.11.2016, 19:00 The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith Film Haus der Berliner Festspiele Fr 04.11.2016, 16:00 Joshua Redman – Brad Mehldau Duo / Globe Unity Orchestra / Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Fr 04.11.2016, 19:00 Angelika Niescier – Florian Weber Quintet / Nik Bärtsch – hr-Bigband / DeJohnette – Coltrane – Garrison Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Sa 05.11.2016, 19:00 Wadada Leo Smith & Alexander Hawkins Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche Berlin So 06.11.2016, 15:00 Artist talk with Steve Lehman, Eve Risser, Wadada Leo Smith Haus der Berliner Festspiele So 06.11.2016, 18:00 Julia Holter & Strings / Steve Lehman Octet / Eve Risser’s White Desert Orchestra Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne So 06.11.2016, 19:00 full schedule here: http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/jazzfest/ueber_festival_jazz/aktuell_jazz/start.php too bad Laubrock is playing at the same time ... but I've heard her a couple of times and in different settings (same goes for Mary Halvorson), while I've never yet seen Wadada, DeJohnette, the Globe Unity, Melford, Lehman and a few others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliverM Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 Just saw the program for this in the latest Wire, another musical holiday for you Flurin and it should be a great one! The Globe Unity Orchestra!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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