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Melissa Aldana, Back Home (Wommusic) Ben Allison, Quiet Revolution (Newvelle)) Dejohnette Coltrane Garrison, In Movement (ECM) Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (High Note) Ari Hoenig, The Pauper and the Magician Manu Katche, Unstatic (Anteprime) Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note) David Murray, Geri Allen, Terri Lynn Carrington, Perfection (Motema) Herlin Riley, New Direction (Mack Avenue) Christian Scott, Live at the 2016 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Munck) Lonnie Smith, Evolution (Blue Note)

On second listen, I liked the first side just as much. The second side a bit less but still good. Joe Beck on guitar sounds perfectly fine to my ears. Next, Lee Konitz, Motion (Verve), and Jelly Roll Morton, Mr. Jelly Lord, Library of Congress Piano Solos (Riverside).

Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Pacific Jazz ten inch), and Marvin Stamm/Johnny Carisi, Machinations (Verve). The latter LP I had never heard before and listened to the first side expecting some sort of dated period piece--the liner notes after describing the songs say, Do you want to turn it over or listen to that first side again? On first listen, hell yes I want to hear that side again, it was unexpectedly great.

https://www.gofundme.com/hamiet-bluietts-recovery Hamiet Bluiett has had some severe health problems and it sounds like he will not play again. His granddaughter is trying to raise money to help him with his medical bills. "My name is Anaya Bluiett and I am the grand daughter of Hamiet Bluiett, world known Baritone saxophonist. Recently, he's been hospitalized for several months because he has had numerous strokes and seizures. He was in the critical intensive care unit, then the hospital and two rehabs to help him get back to himself but it's still going to take some time. I am trying to raise money for him for his bills and traveling expenses, since he no longer will be able to work. I'm working on moving him back to Saint Louis from New York, where he is currently living. I've been traveling back and forth to take care of him. He doesn't like asking people for help, but sometimes that's what you have to do, to be able to help yourself. He's been playing the baritone saxophone for decades and music is what he loves more than anything. For him to have to retire is going to be the most difficult part to deal with for him. If there's anything you'll can do to help, it would be greatly appreciated. You can look him up on google to find out any more information about him that you would like to know. Thank you."

Stan Getz, Interpretations (Norgran), and Dizzy Gilliespie/Django Reinhardt, Jazz From Paris (Verve). The second side of the latter, featuring what are said to be Django's final final recordings, has the most vivid and alive sound I've ever heard on a Django Reinhardt recording. On electric guitar, it sounds like he is in the room.

Quick Links Website Our Mission Contact Us Become a Member Support Workshops Youth Ensemble Past Events Links Stay Connected Join the Mailing List Forward to a Friend NAMELESS SOUND PRESENTS RAN BLAKE "Blake has a singular ability to make a single note speak volumes about the human condition, and to turn silence into a withering cry." - Bill Shoemaker, Jazz Times Ran Blake under James Turrell's Skyspace at the Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 West 26th St, HOUSTON, TX 77008 Saturday, January 7, 2017 SUNSET CONCERT Doors open at 4:30pm. Concert begins at 5pm (on time) in order to coincide with the sunset and James Turrell's Skyspace. The second set will be performed with Turrell's Night Piece. FREE Admission Ran Blake (Boston, MA) - piano Deeply introspective, often starkly expressed and sometimes beautifully austere, Ran Blake possesses one of the truly personal stylistic voices of modern jazz. It's is a piano music that is unquestionably of the idiom. Yet it defies the easy linear histories that simplify jazz as a succession of heroic musical innovations, and that position artists on a chronology of what is supposedly avant-garde. Much of Ran Blake's unique musical world is constructed from a combination of clear yet seamless inspirations. His deft ear and adroit touch that dovetail blues tonalities and atonalism are likely born from the marriage of early influences such as Bartok, Debussy, Stravinsky, Monk and Ellington. But other influences may be more surprising. Important to Blake is his love of singers like Mahalia Jackson, Al Green and Ray Charles. Far from mere stylistic influences, they are inspirations in the deepest sense, and subjects of study. One of Blake's most important influences is not directly musical. He apparently had a life epiphany at the age of 12, when he saw the film Spiral Staircase. And he watched the thriller 20 times in a three-week period. Of this period, Blake said: "Plots, scenes, and melodic and harmonic surfaces intermingled, obtruding into my day life as well as my dreams." He began mentally placing himself inside noir films. This, as well as real life scenarios, inspired his first original compositions. The influence of the Pentecostal church music he heard growing up in Suffield, Connecticut, combined with his musical immersion in what he terms "a film noir world" and laid the groundwork for his earliest musical style. He was formally and informally a student of some of the most impressive names in modern jazz, including Mary Lou Williams, Oscar Peterson, Mal Waldron, Bill Russo and Gunther Schuller. It was Schuller, who brought him on to the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, the first American conservatory to offer a degree in jazz. There, the future MacArthur "Genus" founded the Contemporary Improvisation Department and developed his pedagogical approach, called "The Primacy of the Ear". At New England Conservatory he became highly influential himself, mentoring generations of musicians including Matthew Shipp, Don Byron and John Medeski. "Here there is jazz per se, and there is music that sounds like Debussy improvising alone at night in a big room, trying to scare himself." - Ben Ratliff, New York Times About Ran Blake: https://ranblake.com/ About Live Oak Friends Meeting House: http://www.friendshouston.org/skyspace/about

Happy Birthday in the Land of Plano!

The fabulous rhythm section (Hampton Hawes, Charlie Haden, Shelley Manne) does meet expectations.

Art Pepper, Living Legend (Contemporary). Appears to be autographed by Art Pepper, "To Ken," which is me. Thanks to whoever got this record signed for me many years ago, or a cruel joke if fake. Dizzy Gillespie/J.J. Johnson, Perceptions (Verve).

The Immortal Charlie Parker, volume 4 (London/Savoy), Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, Battle of the Saxes (Prestige ten inch), and Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Dizzy in Greece (Verve).

It was a rather good year for live jazz for me, mostly heard through travel. I picked the 20+ favorite jazz concerts I saw. Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock--April 24, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival James Blood Ulmer (solo)--January 15, Winter Jazzfest Heads of State (Gary Bartz, Larry Willis, David Williams, Al Foster)--May 1, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Mike Stern Quartet--October 17, 55 Bar, NYC David Virelles Mboko--January 15, Winter Jazzfest Don Byron Quartet, January 16, Winter Jazzfest Lonnie Smith Evolution, July 30, Lensic, Santa Fe Terence Blanchard E Collective, April 24, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival The Mashup (Grant Green, Jr., Ike Stubblefield, Terrence Higgins), May 1, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Christian Scott, April 22, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Elio Villafranca with Billy Harper and David Murray, October 15, Appel Room, NYC Ibrahim Maalouf, January 16, Winter Jazzfest Charles Lloyd New Quartet, July 29, Lensic, Santa Fe Dave Burrell and Andrew Cyrille, May 7, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston Joey DeFrancesco Trio, April 2, University of Texas at Dallas Dejohnette Coltrane Garrison, April 23, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Ben Allison Easy Way Trio, October 19, Smoke Herlin Riley with Godwin Louis and Bruce Harris, April 24, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Louis Ford and His New Orleans Flairs with Jamil Sharif, April 23, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Tom Harrell with Dave Douglas, October 16, Village Vanguard Matana Roberts, January 14, 15, The Stone and Winter Jazzfest Roy Hargrove, January 15, Winter Jazzfest Geri Allen/Christian Sands/Russell Malone, April 22, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Shelley Carrol, April 12, St. Paul Methodist Church, Dallas

It's a great show--but not really a show, at this point a 60 hour epic film (sadly with only 12 or 13 hours remaining to be made).

Interesting, I did not know that sort of thing existed in Dallas.

Okay, I didn't realize recording that recording had been reissued by Bethlehem; I believe it was also reissued by Jazztone.

I wish there were three Mingus recordings on Bethlehem, but aren't there only two--East Coasting and A Modern Jazz Symposium of Poetry and Music. The other 1957 Mingus recordings were on Atlantic, RCA and Jubilee.

The Blues is Mine (Hal Singer, Milt Bucker, Johnny Letman, Tiny Grimes, Wallace Bishop)--from Milt & Hall (Definitive Black and Blue Sessions).

Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Sonny Stitt, For Musicians Only (Verve)

Lester Young and Harry Edison, Prez and Sweets (Norgan), and James Moody (Argo 648).

Dave Brubeck, Time Changes (Columbia), and Paul Horn Quintet, Profile of a Jazz Musician (Columbia)

Another opportunity... Monday Michiru Thursday Dec 8, 2016 Doors: 5:00 PM Show: 6:00 PM $25 Birdland 315 West 44th St New York, NY

I'm hoping to attend but tentatively prefer the lazy man's approach of staying in one place: Friday: New School 12th Street Auditorium 66 West 12th Street NYC6:40pm Amina Claudine Myers solo8:00pm Spanish Harlem Orchestra9:20pm Melissa Aldana10:40pm David Murray & Class Struggle featuring Mingus Murray12:00am William Parker, Cooper Moore, Hamid Drake, Rob Brown Quartet Saturday: New School Tishman Auditorium (ECM stage) 63 Fifth Avenue NYC6:00pm Tomasz Stanko NY Quartet7:20pm Jakob Bro / Thomas Morgan / Joey Baron8:40pm Ravi Coltrane / David Virelles Duo10:00pm Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan Duo11:20pm Nik Bärtsch's Mobile

It's a legitimate label--the one that partners with dustygroove in its jazz reissues. Also, it released the recent Herbie Mann Live at the Whiskey 1969.

Jim Hall and Red Mitchell, Guitar (Artists House), and Paul Desmond (Artists House)

Sten Getz, The Cool Sound (Verve)

The sound is not awful--not great (better for Butterfield than for Bloomfield), but it is acceptable. If you've heard the two studio albums countless times, you have to get it, but I would get it on CD.