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Jazzfest Berlin was great, all in all ... will try and write some here, too, but for those that care and read German:
http://forum.rollingstone.de/foren/topic/2016-jazzgigs-konzerte-festivals/page/9/#post-9997189
In short, a ranking:
old and young masters: Wadada Leo Smith & Alexander Hawkins * * * * *
followed by (Future of Jazz I): DeJohnette/Coltrane/Garrison * * * *1/2
old master can do it twice (he has time and space and noise and silence with him): Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet * * * *1/2
eight young masters at once (Future of Jazz II): Steve Lehman Octet * * * *1/2
noisy old (and young, actually grandfathers, fathers, and sons - with lots of heart and soul) basterds still having it: Globe Unity Orchestra * * * *
biggest surprise (existential stuff indeed - Future of Jazz III): Eve Risser's White Desert Orchestra * * * *1/2
... followed by (Future of Jazz IV): Myra Melford's Snowy Egret * * * *
not jazz, but fit in well (and the concert finally opened up her music for me): Julia Holter & Strings * * *1/2
middle grounds wearing suit (or acting as if): Joshua Redman/Brad Mehldau duo, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin & hr-Bigband, Mette Henriette * * *
somewhat behind (not this future for German jazz, please): Julia Hülsmann Quartet & Anna-Lena Schnabel * *1/2
please never again (the big ego show): Angelika Niescier/Florian Weber Quintet * *
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1 hour ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:
Record companies don't have to DO anything with the indies they buy except product placement to keep exposing their copyrights on TV via adverts and cooking or decorating programmes. I expect Blue Note is still getting paid for use of Lee Morgan's 'Sidewinder' on a UK gardening programme, and the other day, I heard Booker T's 'Green onions' on a cookery programme. Not inappropriate.
Heard any Four Seasons material on TV lately? Or in a film?
MG
Of course, alas that's how it is (jazz is not part of what merikins consider cultural heritage, or only as long as it fits into some pretty narrow concepts) ... but as it is, who cares if Vee Jay belongs to Concord and if or if not Concord buys those masters ... then again, who cares about this post.
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Concord has bought Vee Jay?
And have they done anything about it?Was totally unaware of this.
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sorry to hear that - don't know much but those Capitol jazz sides are terrific!
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I kinda get along with it, but it does suck more and more. However, lately I exclusively search via google and then open a cached version of the site, as no matter if I add an exception to the installed adblocker, it will tell me to get rid of the adblocker again and again (sometimes it works, most of the times not, so I head I just head straight for cached sites). Like that you cannot look up discographies and releases really, but it's good enough to copy a cover url and to read the review if there's one.
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1 hour ago, mikeweil said:
You're going to Berlin?
Yep, first time in my life actually ...
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coming up - Jazzfest Berlin - yowzah!
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne - Do 03.11.2016, 19:00
Julia Hülsmann Quartet & Anna-Lena Schnabel
Mette Henriette
Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet
Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Fr 04.11.2016, 16:00
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne - Fr 04.11.2016, 19:00
Joshua Redman – Brad Mehldau Duo
Globe Unity Orchestra
Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne - Sa 05.11.2016, 19:00
Angelika Niescier – Florian Weber Quintet
Nik Bärtsch – hr-Bigband
DeJohnette – Coltrane – Garrison
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche Berlin - So 06.11.2016, 15:00
Wadada Leo Smith & Alexander Hawkins
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne - So 06.11.2016, 19:00
Julia Holter & Strings
Steve Lehman Octet
Eve Risser’s White Desert Orchestra -
pretty good price (€ 32) on the Staple Singers box here:
https://www.amazon.it/Faith-Grace-Family-Journey-1953-1976/dp/B015FWTAOO/
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Very sad to hear this. Discovered his music a mere few years ago and have been intrigued ever since. A true master.
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That sounds good! Happy Birthday, Guy!
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On 27.10.2016 at 2:23 PM, king ubu said:
calling it quits a bit earlier than usual today ... going to Basel for this - they just took Janusz Stefanski from the line-up listing and announced a change ... so I guess it will be Ntshoko all the way then:
DO 27.10.2016: Jazz gegen Apartheid Frankfurt «Celebrating the music of Johnny Dyani»
Claude Deppa: trumpet
Tobias Delius: tenor sax, clarinet
Daniel Guggenheim: tenor sax, soprano sax
Allen Jacobson: trombone, euphonium
Christopher Dell: vibraphone
John Edwards: bass
Makaya Ntshoko: drumsIt was a blast! Ntshoko seemed a bit insecure for the first one or two tunes (all Dyani-penned btw - think the encore/tag was a BoB thing though). Deppa was lyrical but punchy and witty, doing plenty of hardbop smartass things, Jacobson (hitherto unknown to me, a Canadian) wonderfully melodic and very much of a virtuoso with a great high register on trombone and amazing facility on euphonium, the two sax players were doing great, totally without any competition, just digging into the tunes ... Delius his usual nutty self, honking, screaming, riding little melodic phrases and having a blast all the time, a few times switching to clarinet (blatantly loud, goddammit!), Guggenheim (the other unknown-to-me guy on stage) was more solid on tenor, but very good, too, on soprano as well - he and Deppa had some real chemistry going on, presenting some tunes and strains in unison (trumpet/soprano) ... Dell was amazing, a few of his solos really hard to believe, the four mallets flying. Edwards was the heart and center of the band, very vocal, holding everything together and obviously having a great time. Ntshoko, as I said, seemed to take a moment, but he still has it going, I think. He was rough, short, completely no-nonsense, his hipness being the absence of any kind of hipness (i.e. that hard bop reference I made about Deppa, on drums I'd think of Ben Riley maybe, but the proper reference for Ntshoko would rather be Art Taylor, I think - to the point, sparse yet fast in reaction and able to give directions and push the band).
The main thing though was how great they all were as a band. I had to think of Mingus' work shop (earliest sixties) quite often, Edwards was throbbing and thriving, shouting encouragement again and again, and playing somewhat earthier and meatier than in other settings. It all being a Dyani festival, it was of course wonderful to have such a great musician on bass. What I also like a lot is that at Bird's Eye, most of it is live, no amplification (a pick-up mic on the bass and two mics above the vibes, that was all) - I guess playing like that is not that easy, for guys used to have microphones and monitor speakers and all that - but for this listener, it was all the nicer like that! The voices of the four horns blended together marvelously, they struck the right balance between playing together and slightly apart (that typical ZA thing, not sure I've heard it elsewhere like that, at least not as a constantly used element to create suspense and - some - dissonance and friction.
Forgot to say: of course Irène Schweizer was in the audience, too - love it that she keeps going out and see both her old buddies as well as young talents.
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Got mine at the great shoppe right next to Zurich opera ... alas It's been many years since that shop has disappeared.
Bought a few oop Mosaics there as well, all vinyl. Fond memories!
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calling it quits a bit earlier than usual today ... going to Basel for this - they just took Janusz Stefanski from the line-up listing and announced a change ... so I guess it will be Ntshoko all the way then:
DO 27.10.2016: Jazz gegen Apartheid Frankfurt «Celebrating the music of Johnny Dyani»
Claude Deppa: trumpet
Tobias Delius: tenor sax
Daniel Guggenheim: tenor sax
Allen Jacobson: trombone
Christopher Dell: vibraphone
John Edwards: bass
Makaya Ntshoko: drums -
Yes, he is! But then it's very clear also how collaboratively this band worked, everybody adding his approach and ideas (like that horrible cluckity-cluck-thing Tony does on "Freedom Jazz Dance" for one aborted take). Fascinating indeed! Got almost to the end of disc two yesterday, will pick up from there on the weekend, I hope (live music tonight and tomorrow).
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11 hours ago, brownie said:
I have kept the eight CD Lunceford series from the Masters of Jazz label that went up to the April 19 41 session when the band went back to Decca after the move from Columbia.
Excellent series!
Yup - and you did me a great service there, too!
Added to my collection, the Mosaic in the meantime ... and also went for the Chrono(lo)gical Classics with the later recordings. The LP box that started this discussion was my very first Lunceford acquisition, while I was still in high school ... been in love with the band's sound ever since!
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Just staring to listen myself ... the first 20 something minutes of the band getting "Freedom Jazz Dance" together are priceless already!
Now towards the end of disc one, I'm totally mesmerized ... surely not a set that will get regular spins, but wow!
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hard to pick just five ...
John Coltrane - Crescent
Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
Cannonball Adderley – Somethin‘ Elsemissing Monk and Dolphy, but Miles is in there (though I was debating to include Mobley's "Soul Station" instead of the Adderley) ... but I guess albumwise they're just not quite up there
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Pete La Roca (Sims) - made a return in the 90s with a fine album on Blue Note
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Artie Shaw
Tal Farlow (he did return though)
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On 16.10.2016 at 2:58 PM, David Ayers said:
Ah but will they be the original JRVG remasters or the US RVG re-remasters?
Does it matter when you use them as coasters?
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Ogerman has died in March - seems the rumour was out among friends and musician colleagues, but it only just got public.
http://www.jazzwax.com/2016/10/claus-ogerman.html
I have to confess it took me quite a while to develop an appreciation for his art - when I got into jazz my rigorously opinionated teenage-self would not hold much interest in singers and would snarl at "with strings" albums (Clifford Brown's album was an early exception), when I wanted Wes Montgomery I went for Riverside, not Verve etc. But I did somehow always like Diana Krall. She was there and I knew her when I started getting into jazz, so I kept buying her CDs for a few years - and when she made that diva album with Ogerman arranging, I kinda slowly started figuring out that some of it was pretty good and the arrangements really didn't get in the way ... eventually, Ogerman kept popping up on all kinds of albums I bought, so there's that.
Not love, I guess, at least no all the time, but truckloads of respect.
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Yay! Indeed!
Not sure how much longer Schlippenbach will be around, he seemed rather frail in Warsaw in March, but he is doing his traditional "Winter journey" with the Schlipp 3 again this year (another concert I plan to attend, December 11th in Zurich - Paul Lovens stopped much of his traveling, so Paul Lytton will step in).
in between, there's also this:
unerhört!
what I plan to attend:
Dienstag, 22. November 2016, 18.00 Uhr Nur Abendkasse, geöffnet ab 17.30 Uhr
Kulturhaus Helferei CHF 25.- / 20.-
Colin Vallon TrioMittwoch, 23. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr Keine Reservation möglich
Jazz im Seefeld, GZ Riesbach Mindestkollekte CHF 5.-
Eskelin - Weber - Griener
Hans-Peter Pfammatter & Big Band der Hochschule Luzern - MusikDonnerstag, 24. November 2016, 20.30 Uhr Nur Abendkasse, geöffnet ab 19.00 Uhr
Werkstatt für improvisierte Musik (WIM) CHF 30.- / 20.- / Mitglieder gratis
Peter K Frey
Booklet: Tobias Delius - Joe Williamson - Steve HeatherFreitag, 25. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr
Rote Fabrik, Clubraum CHF 45.- / 37.-
Alex Huber - Lauren Kinsella - Sascha Henkel
Ethan Iverson - Mark Turner
NYC Five: Angelika Niescier - Florian WeberSamstag, 26. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr
Rote Fabrik, Clubraum CHF 45.- / 37.-
Aruán Ortiz Trio
Gabriela Friedli - Claudia Ulla Binder
MATS-UPSonntag, 27. November 2016, 19.00 Uhr
Moods im Schiffbau CHF 40.- / 35.-
Jakob Bro Trio
Jürg Wickihalder BeyondBut with the wealth of concerts, I might skip Colin Vallon (have seen him plenty of times, and I mgiht skip Friday night as well, as I see the Weber-Niescier group in Berlin and am not that enticed by the whole evening, though I'd be interested to hearing Mark Turner in person).
full line-up:
Chick Corea -The Sun / Marion Brown - Temps Fou Cd reissues
in Re-issues
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Anyone familiar with Zenzile feat. Marion Brown? Also listed on hmv.co.jp (2009 release).
There's one rather tasty track on youtube (though not much Brown to be heard):