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

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by mjazzg

    27 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    I really came away thinking that she had about five tricks and not much more. Amadou made it good by tying it together and keeping it punky, which meant that I was less concerned by Amba's repeating herself.

    Yep, the interest for me was largely from Amadou and Corsano. I wanted more variation from Amba definitely, I thought the piano interlude worked to do that.

    And, Oto need to do something about their front row photographers, I'm finding them increasingly intrusive but that might be because I'm getting increasingly grumpy.

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

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    No flute. Very similar to the first set, really.

    Do you know Amadou in any other setting? I don't think I have ever heard of her.

    She plays flute to good effect on an album I enjoy.  I think the sameness is one of my Amba doubts.

    I came across Amadou at the Brötzmann memorial concert, she was impressive then too.  I need to look up her recordings

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

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    6 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Saw Zoh Amba at Cafe OTO, with Farida Amadou on bass and Chris Corsano on drums. 

    It was a good gig. I am half and half on Amba and a bit sceptical on Corsano, but I really enjoyed it. Amadou, who I didn't know at all, played 80s harmolodic influenced electric bass, which gave the whole performance a gritty punk free jazz edge. 

    I went with two civilians, who both really enjoyed it.

    I was there for the first set only.

    I agree that Amadou was the standout, I liked Corsano a lot and left with some nagging doubts about Amba. Friend I went with identified harmoldics in Amadou too.

    Did Amba play flute at all in the second set?

     

  5. Sonny Rollins - Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings

    in New Releases

    Posted · Edited by mjazzg

    https://www.discogs.com/release/512838-David-Murray-Power-Quartet-Like-A-Kiss-That-Never-Ends-Como-Un-Beso-Que-Nunca-Se-Acaba

    Sort of like this one perhaps. 

    The only time I know of 'Power' being used in a Jazz context.  Definitely agree that 'Power Trio' is a Rock descriptor. Maybe some Jazz trios, Brötzmann et al, could realistically be described like that but Sonny? Hardly

  7. matana-roberts-at-the-roundhouse

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    25 minutes ago, rostasi said:

    I enjoy her work and a spoken word performance is just that.
    Lonnie Holley too! I remember one of his performances where
    we'd all walk thru the streets of Knoxville collecting scraps of
    found objects to play on the way.

    That sounds great and makes perfect sense. A retrospective is opening here in the summer, I'll keep an eye on the streets nearby...

  9. matana-roberts-at-the-roundhouse

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    I was there. It was a heartwarming and involving performance, about an hour of them (I believe that's Matana's preferred pronoun) riffing on heritage, history, politics and their new pet dog.  They played some very nice soprano interludes although it was all pretty seamless and of a piece. I've seen them play enough times to not be bothered by this chat based performance. I do wonder whether mention of a head cold may have influenced what was performed.

    They opened for Lonnie Holly whose set was absolutely mind-blowing, my first experience of his music live (I enjoy his visual art a lot). There's a very deep well being visited to great effect there.

  17. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by mjazzg

    34 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    I agree.

    "Church influence" is funny in this case, since presumably it comes from records. I'm not sure of how substantial the pentecostal saxophone scene was in East Sussex in the mid- to late-1960s, but I'd guess that the answer is 'not very'. Where did he first come across this stuff, and what other records are there that influenced him? Vernard Johnson is not exactly a house name of here. One thing that I don't hear much with Butcher is an Ayler influence, which is where you would have assumed he would have started from.

    It's a good record by the way. Very enjoyable as breakfast music, even if my wife is a bit less tolerant of outwardly churchy music.

    Yes, sounds like he skipped Ayler and went to the source. I do remember reading about a small, very local pentecostalism that developed from some of the post Civil Wars sects and had survived in the Downs certainly into the 50s, documentation suggests. I wonder if a young Butcher came across them whilst seeking out local cisterns in which to practice.

    Also, just remembered Prevost's mention of the Diggers and Muggletonians and their influence on the early structural identities of improvisation in East Anglia. Possible cross-pollination?

    Have to say, I agree with your wife

  18. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    46 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Vernard Johnson - I'm a Witness Too

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    I forget who on this board recommended this gospel saxophonist. Apparently a big influence on John Butcher.

    $2 purchase from Zia Thunderbird from a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona.

    I find Butcher's church influence increasingly apparent in his solo work. Funny how that can happen with age.

  22. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    45 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

    Yeah, it's nice - and very varied stylistically too, something for everyone for the audience who were there. Originally wasn't going to get this one on LP but succumbed. Sonically it isn't audiophile but is very acceptable. I'm not a fan overall of the Yusef Atlantics and this one is very much in his acoustic/non-fusion bag. Lots of solo space for Kenny Barron, not surprisingly.

    Thanks

  25. Best Live Boxed Set?

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Pim said:

    Coltrane's Village Vanguard Box set is my favorite probably. There's not a single bad note at that set. It's one of the few sets where I really don't mind the fact that there are four takes of the same track on it.

    That's a good call 

    I'd also add a vote for Peter Brötzmann's two sets '3 Nights In Oslo' and 'Long Story Short'

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