Allan Songer Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Curtis Fuller Quintet at the Dakota tonight. It's weird that in this town this is billed as the Curtis Fuller Quintet, but in others it was billed as Louis Hayes Quintet. Taking turns!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 No "live" music tonight. Just a shitload of (ex)Fantasy goods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Curtis Fuller Quintet at the Dakota tonight. It's weird that in this town this is billed as the Curtis Fuller Quintet, but in others it was billed as Louis Hayes Quintet. Louis was a no show at the gig I saw. He cut out to play with the Legacy band. He was replaced with Kobe Watkins who filled in fantasticly (is that a word)....! Here are a few images from the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 ...and trumpeter Maurice Brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 ...and a nicer one of Curtis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolyStitt Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Curtis Fuller Quintet at the Dakota tonight. It's weird that in this town this is billed as the Curtis Fuller Quintet, but in others it was billed as Louis Hayes Quintet. Taking turns!!! That was kind of my take, but I thought it should be billed as the Curtis Fuller-Louis Hayes Quintet. I had a real blast at the show. C.F. was off the stage for 2 or 3 numbers, but it was still a great time. They opened the 2nd set with Arabia. Through out the show Fuller was very talkative, sharing stories about many of the greats he played with. What was everyone's take on Maurice Brown? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Nice pics, Mark! I was at the show, and I thought it killed! Maurice Brown was excellent, as was the young pianist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Nice pics, Mark! I was at the show, and I thought it killed! Maurice Brown was excellent, as was the young pianist. I'm in agreement with Sal, Maurice Brown was very good! The piano player was 19 year old Jonathan Batise, part of the musical Batise family.....that kid's hands were huge! m~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolyStitt Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Mark, you are spoiling me with this photographs of people I have just seen or I am about to see! I really liked Maurice Brown. When they started Arabia, I was a little nervous for him because of the history of Hubbard playing on the song, but he really shined. I though Jonathan Batise was young, but didn't realize how young. He was a very nice piece to the group. Last night he had a feature with the trio playing "On Green Dolphin Street." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Mark, you are spoiling me with this photographs of people I have just seen or I am about to see! I really liked Maurice Brown. When they started Arabia, I was a little nervous for him because of the history of Hubbard playing on the song, but he really shined. I though Jonathan Batise was young, but didn't realize how young. He was a very nice piece to the group. Last night he had a feature with the trio playing "On Green Dolphin Street." Yeah, I thought I would be really bummed out without Louis there but once they got going, it didn't really bother me. Very good band! m~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Mark, you are spoiling me with this photographs of people I have just seen or I am about to see! I really liked Maurice Brown. When they started Arabia, I was a little nervous for him because of the history of Hubbard playing on the song, but he really shined. I though Jonathan Batise was young, but didn't realize how young. He was a very nice piece to the group. Last night he had a feature with the trio playing "On Green Dolphin Street." We got to see Batise play "Evidence" with the trio. It was really something. Curtis Fuller mentioned how not many young cats are showing much influence from Monk in their playing. But Batise shows alot of promise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolyStitt Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Curtis Fuller mentioned how not many young cats are showing much influence from Monk in their playing. So he was as talkative during your show? He talked about all sorts of stuff at the show last night: Coltrane, Benny Golson, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, and shyness, to just name a few of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I plan on seeing Greg Osby this Wednesday at the Village Vanguard. I might even go again on Friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Drummer Mike Clark....guess his claim to fame is his playing with the Headhunters.....also played with Woody Shaw and Chet Baker. m~ Tony Monoco tomorrow night, Brian Auger Saturday night and Fathead Newman Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Pretty incredible circumstances tonight... At 5PM, I have another composition session with Karlheinz Stockhausen which will be followed by going to a concert in a Köln church with two of his daughters to see their brother, trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, play. If someone had told me 10 years ago that I'd be doing this, I wouldn't have believed them! Outstanding Rod! Please report about all the above. I can't believe there were no responses to your posting.Hey Chuck (and others), Really great to get a chance to be there for this. The church was gorgeous and Markus used a guy who does these very slowly evolving light shows to provide extra atmosphere. At times, I thought that I was at the LaMonte Young Dream House with the occasional use of magenta lights. Markus sometimes does duets with other musicians (recent ones have been with Hariprasad Chaurasia, Stefano Scodanibbio, Arild Andersen, et al.), but this time it was just solo. He began on stage but for other pieces he performed in the middle of the church and eventually moved to the back of the stage and worked forward again. The pix will show you that he was doing multitrack horn playing thru a multispeaker surround setup. About 90 minutes and then an intermission to tell some loud children outside to pipe down and returning for another 30 minutes. All in all, a very wonderful, relaxing (without being new-agey) ECMish kind of sound that was a good winddown to a hectic couple of weeks. Sorry that the pix are so noisy. I'm still looking for that ideal camera for darkened spaces. Markus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Tonight Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra Tomorrow night McCoy Tyner Septet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ep1str0phy Posted July 29, 2006 Report Share Posted July 29, 2006 Sonny Fortune and Rashied Ali are playing the Jazz Bakery (LA) next week--four day stand, and I'm there. This weekend is the Central Avenue Jazz Festival (in South Central)--a community-based, tented, open-air sort of affair; there's a good lineup--bright moments to be had. Maybe I'll drop in Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Last night at the Edinburgh Jazz festival Giovanni Falzone- talented Sicilian trumpet player- Sicilain folk tunes and originals played by a quartet of trumpet,vibes, bass, drums. Lovely typical Italian jazz. Swung like hell, great melodies , lots of humour. Well worth your while Hormigas- Spanish for Ants ( I was told), world class trio of Bill McHenry, Reid Anderson, Jorge Rossy. Wonderful free rolling trio. The standard of writing and playing beggared belief. One of the finest concerts I've evr attended. Hope these guys record. They're all high personable and the atmosphere in the jam packed venue (The Lot, Edinburgh) was electric if a little sweaty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Jason Curry quartet with Ameen Saleem on bass, Quincy Davis on drums and Miki Hayama on piano....Jazz Kitchen/Indy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinger Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Attended the local jazz festival once again and listened to the following bands: Atomic Frank Gratkowski Quartet Max Nagl Big Four This was the the first time when I heard Atomic live and it was a mighty fine concert.Didn't care much about Gratkowski's gig,perhaps it was a little bit too "academic" to my taste. Max Nagl was great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 During my vacations, I saw Atomic in the BahÃa Jazz Festival at El Puerto de Santa MarÃa (Cádiz). Surprisingly interesting concert. I really enjoyed it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 Attended the local jazz festival once again and listened to the following bands: Atomic ... This was the the first time when I heard Atomic live and it was a mighty fine concert.... During my vacations, I saw Atomic in the BahÃa Jazz Festival at El Puerto de Santa MarÃa (Cádiz). Surprisingly interesting concert. I really enjoyed it! Funny that I hadn´t seen your previous post, Swinger. I really liked how they gave a new "sound" to what was "pure 60s free jazz" to my ears (at least on some songs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 Probably (in Chicago): Sunday, 6 August 2006 The Hungry Brain 10:00 PM | Matt Schneider's Straight Six Matt Schneider - guitar Tomeka Reed - cello Jason Adasiewicz - vibes Anton Hatwich - bass Nori Tanaka - drums 11:00 PM | Herculaneum Dave McDonnell - saxophone Patrick Newbery - trumpet Nick Broste - trombone Greg Danek - bass Dylan Ryan - drums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Report from last night: As the instrumention suggests, the basic reference point for Matt Schneider's group is a kind of '50s thing -- Chico Hamilton crossed with Shearing, perhaps -- but the material (all Schneider originals) was quite active and tough harmonically and structurally varied too, thus something that the models I've mentioned (if they are in fact models for this music) usually did not possess. There was room for improvisation but the nature of the pieces themselves was always there. Adasiewicz played with much elan (he hears changes like crazy---the more forbidding the better), and Schneider himself sounds like an unlikely cross between Raney and Howard Roberts. Cellist Tameka Reed was an asset; in fact, this was a genuine, happy to playing this music band. As for Herculaneum, I'm not a fan of one of the horn soloists, Dave McDonnell (whose one of those "How hot can I get how quickly" altoists, though he was a bit less that way than last time), but I do like Broste and what little I've heard of Newbery, who combines a formidable technique wwith what seems to me to be a thoughftul, relaxed, unflashy temperament. I need to hear more to be sure, but he may be special. The main interest, though, is Dylan Ryan, in his mid 20s I'd say, who is a fair bit different than any other drummer I know, with the possible exception of New York-based Dan Weiss. Ryan has two tom-toms, one of them rather small and high-pitched, and typically he spends a lot of time on it, on its rim (especially), and on cymbal crowns, creating a continuous, multi-pitched, timbale-like chatter. This sounds like it might be annoying and intrusive, but in fact Ryan is very much a listener and/or, in this more or less comping role, the virtual leader of the band -- a la Horace Silver from the keyboard. My only doubt -- and this may be lack of understanding of what he's up to, having only heard him twice -- is that Ryan can seem a bit sloppy, not in terms of time but of cleanness/crsipness of stroke (though in his style, how much cleanness/crispness would be right?) I see from the group's new CD "Orange Blossom" (482 Music), which I bought last night but haven't listened to yet, that all the band's pieces are by Ryan, so I guess he is the leader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Ptah Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Winard Harper Sextet with Bobby Watson joining them for the second set, on Saturday night at the Blue Room in Kansas City--it was one of the most exciting performances I have witnessed in some time. The first set, without Watson, was fine. The second set, with Watson, was inspired. (I have seen Watson do that to Wynton Marsalis' working combo too, about two years ago). Winard has some promising younger soloists with him--trumpeter Josh Evans, pianist Sean Higgins, tenor saxophonist Lawrence Clark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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