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  2. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

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    Doreen's Jazz New Orleans - Vol.V, Mama Don't Want

    I have no idea if this is a good example of NO jazz but I'm enjoying it especially the clarinet and tuba. Seems to have a number of the "hits" on it which makes me wonder what audience it's aimed at

    my wild guess (based on reading her name here and there) would be that this program is what they play at a street corner just like the one on the cover, hoping for tourists to give them some cash, maybe even in exchange for the CD... 

  3. Japanese Jazz

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    38 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

    This is referenced way up thread

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Nippon-Authenticating-Jazz-Japan-ebook/dp/B00EDIWUF8

    Looks interesting 

    Edit to add: "usually despatched within 6 to 7 months" 😁

    It's a fine book but the focus is more the societal background - as a guide to the most essential albums its not terribly helpful... there was more discussion of this book in another thread

  7. John Zorn's TZADIK Label

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    10 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    If attitude is everything then music is nothing. 

    Attempts at professionalization in those old professions usually go together with a downgrading of the importance of attitude... of course, attitude is not everything, music is not nothing... but once you forget about attitude, you've most likely lost the essence

  8. John Zorn's TZADIK Label

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    Trying to take all those different references across albums together, my hunch is that Zorn's chosen role is that of the wizard/illusionist, a profession that has spent centuries improvising ad hoc over wisdoms that look ancient to the untrained eye...  personally, I am fairly relaxed and say: great, now let's hear the music... maybe it helps that I am not particularly close to any of the traditions that are being exploited here (except for those weird moments a few times every year when I morph back into a practising mathematician... but those moments feel 200% unrelated to anything JZ might possibly do, except for the attitude, maybe... and maybe attitude is everything)

  10. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    Book of Angels: Andras

    one of the classical Blue Note lineups, vib/p/b/dr (with John Medeski doubling on organ and electric piano), and the group's first album called Nova Express was really a bit in that spirit... this one here is more ambient/static but not quite as ambient as the same group's At the Gates of Paradise... just noticed that Trevor Dunn has written a few words on most of the 40 albums he was on until 2021... but even he runs out of ideas with so many albums and all these mystical concepts he doesn't seem to relate to: "Here we have the Nova Quartet, augmented with Cyro, playing songs from Masada Book II, aka The Book of Angels. Each song is named after a different angel and I think there are over 300 of them. It’s a veritable collection of angelology. This version of Nova also shares qualities with The Dreamers." 

    his description of Buer from the same series sounds interesting: "Brian [Marsella] is a sik pup. Another book of Zorn’s Masada book II songs, each one with a slightly different nod to the history of jazz piano i.e. Tristano, Art, Bud, McCoy. A lot of these are first takes. Perhaps we were driven by the fallen angel Buer who is a president in Hell where he teaches moral and natural philosophy, the logical arts, and the virtues of all herbs and plants. You can take classes in Hell??"

  11. John Zorn's TZADIK Label

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    The Book of Angels albums I used to play a lot are Ipos, Stolas, Caym and Lucifer, the latter unfortunately not up on Spotify it seems... all from the earlier days of the series... I also played Paimon this morning, a Mary Halvorson quartet with a two guitar frontline, and thought it was pretty good... Andras with the Nova Express Quartet is another on my list because I like that band a lot

  12. John Zorn's TZADIK Label

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    some random stuff seems to be missing, like Book of Angels Vol 10 Lucifer, which was up on Spotify in the old days of Tzadik on Spotify... most of the other Book of Angels or Bar Kokhba Sextet albums are online...   and, indeed, artist names seem to be a bit random and not well-curated (Beyond Quantum is another example, it's credited to a single artist "Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves & William Parker" instead of to all three, making it pretty hard to find)

  16. John Zorn's TZADIK Label

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    Mount Analogue is my go-to Zorn album... there are other albums w a similar lineup from that time which are great... Great Jewish Music Bacharach was the first thing I played today... tomorrow I'll be revisiting the Book of angels series

    and Nova Express is great, classical Jazz in the vib/p/b/dr lineup

  17. Different Piano Comping Styles for Different Instrument Configurations

    in Musician's Forum

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    4 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    Oh, not at all typical, but definitive, as I posted above: 

    Two of the most significant strains of 20th century artistic expression were modernism and primitivism.  The vibes convey both.  They are a percussive mallet instrument, but also electric and made of metal.  They conveyed primitivism in exotica settings, and they conveyed futurism when used by Herrmann, Stallings, or Esquivel.  No other instrument comes close to what the vibes communicated in the 20th century.  

    I'd say the electric guitar does come close

  19. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

    in New Releases

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    8 hours ago, unitstructures said:

    Tzadik has just put a large amount of their catalog on streaming services.

    Thanks for pointing this out! I remember visiting the UK in 2007 or so, one of the first things I did was install spotify and listen to all those Tzadik releases that were available then... (Other stuff, too, but Tzadik was really a priority)... I was a bit sad to see them give up on streaming and also followed there releases much less since they're so plenty and quite expensive over here...

  20. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    4 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    John Zorn – New Traditions In East Asian Bar BandsR-602836-1397250133-9461.jpg.293ec50c267772aa65c78709ea3a8160.jpg

    This was my favourite Zorn record as a younger man. Not sure whether that is still the case, but nice to revisit it now that the Tzadik catalogue is streamable.

    thanks for pointing this out! In the early days of spotify, Tzadik was already streamable for quite a while... until it wasn't

  21. Noel Gallagher Wants 'Jazz Funeral' Despite Dismissing The Genre As 'F**king Nonsense'

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    It's only loosely related but it's what's on my mind right now... I learned earlier today that one my closest friends (and one of Noel Gallagher's biggest fans) will have no grave, no funeral, nothing, just a quiet disposal of the remains, the family thinks everything else is too much of a hassle... I would have thought I don't care, it's all earthly anyway... but I do.

  23. Miles Davis - Paris 1957 (ORT)

    in New Releases

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    3 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said:

    Miles played with Urtreger’s quartet a handful of times, mostly in France, but at least once in the Netherlands too. These are just the dates for which recorded excerpts exist (perhaps there were one or two other appearances? — couldn't be many, given the short window of possible dates).

    November 30, 1957 Olympia Theatre - Paris, France René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
    December 1957 Unknown venue - Unknown city, France René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
    December 4-5, 1957 Le Poste Parisien Studio - Paris, France René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
    December 7, 1957 Buttes Chaumont Studio - Paris, France René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
    December 8, 1957 Concertgebouw - Amsterdam, The Netherlands René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis
    December 18, 1957 Beethovensaal - Stuttgart, Germany Erwin Lehn Orchestra 


    Then less than two weeks later, he also appeared in Stuttgart with the Erwin Lehn Orchestra (big band) — and that’s included that in my cut-n-past above.

    This is all from Peter Losin’s wonderful site (select the 1950’s from the drop-down list at the link below to see the entire decade, with links to each session/live-entry).

    http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Sessions.aspx

    NOTE: The blue color of the links didn’t come over, but that grid right above does have clickable URL’s for each live date — the underlined locations in the second column.

    Just had a look at the Dutch newspapers from back then... no further concerts in the Netherlands at that time it seems

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