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On 4/17/2024 at 11:08 PM, Rabshakeh said:
I agree. Too much jumping from wandering around straight into climax.
I can’t listen to him. So derivative.
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On 4/15/2024 at 1:54 PM, mjazzg said:
I bought the 5CD box set of [ahmed], two discs in and it's a blast. They're certainly developing a signature sound, possibly not for everyone, that's taking the acoustic quartet to places it rarely visits.
https://ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-beauty
Ordered
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Recently over the past week or so:
Mat Maneri Ash quartet with Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez & Randy Peterson. Saw them twice over a 10 day span and now 6 times over the last 9-10 months. Best jazz group live I know of. Mat taking it to places unvisited by mere mortals.
also a nice quartet with a local great young pedal steel guitarist which included Lopez & the fine young drummer Joey Sullivan at the same gig as the Maneri group
Tony Malaby quartet with Angelica Sanchez, Mark Helias & Tom Rainey
Michael Attias’ Renku with John Hebert & Satoshi Takeshi
Ingrid Laubrock, Brandon Lopez & Tom Rainey
tonight:
Patricia Brennan, Noel Brennan with Ingrid Laubrock & Keisuke Matsuno
All 3 of these saxophonists playing at a very high level but Ingrid on soprano especially on Sunday night took it to another level. That trio is incredible with the *great* Brandon Lopez as the linchpin. Rainey is, of course, one of the greatest drummers on the planet. Seeing him very often doesn’t dull his brilliance in any way. Almost new and fresh. Plus seeing him back to back nights from 5-8 feet always doesn’t hurt:)
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Yeah Baby!! I’ll take the ride!!
Amazing trio! I’ve seen them a couple of times last year. I saw Tom Rainey in two other trios this past weekend in Brooklyn.
Berne is playing at a very high level.
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On 4/10/2024 at 7:16 PM, Chuck Nessa said:
Stephen Haynes is in town visiting family so I am taking him to see ARCHER.
Saw Archer in Philly. Strong set save for the less than inspiring drumming. Little power or dynamics. Rempis magnificent as per usual.
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I will be there
Michael Foster is an incredible saxophonist
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1 hour ago, T.D. said:
It was a really nice event, both musically and tribute-wise. I got there just in time to catch the rehearsal as well.
Wish I took the drive!
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7 hours ago, BFrank said:
I saw Mok with that group about a year and a half ago, and she didn't stand out. Last weekend was very different.
It’s great when we can watch young musicians transform. I’m looking forward to seeing her play again. Surely in the next few months.
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15 minutes ago, BFrank said:
I definitely have to pay more attention to him. I've seen him since the early days of Jason Moran's Bandwagon.
Other outstanding drumming I witnessed at Big Ears this year came from: Eric Harland (w/Charles Lloyd), Leslie Mok (w/Myra Melford), Ches Smith (with a few groups), Pheeroan AkLaff (w/Air), and Dafnis Prieto (who I don't think I've seen before - off the CHARTS! w/Threadgill and Vijay Iyer)
My favorite by far of those drummers is Ches Smith. AkLaff is still very good. I saw him with Marty Ehrlich last year. I thought Lesley Mok was OK on the 2 occasions I’ve seen her (once with the same Myra Melford group that you saw). Prieto is great as well.
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On 3/28/2024 at 12:28 PM, T.D. said:
Yeah.
No details at the events page https://creativemusic.org/events/,
but I clicked through to the Eventsbrite (purchase tickets) page and got the following. Pleased to see Charlie Burnham, gabby fluke-mogul and Kirk Knuffke, among others.
In Celebration of Karl Berger's Birthday
A Tribute to Karl Berger, acclaimed Musician/Composer & Co-Founder of the Creative Music Studio, on the First Anniversary of his PassingCREATIVE IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA March 31st - Celebrating Karl Berger's Birthday
Peter Apfelbaum - conductor, tenor sax, piano Billy Martin - conductor, percussion Ingrid Sertso - voice and poetry Chuck Ver Straeten - voice and poetry Charlie Burnham - violin gabby fluke-mogul - violin Kirk Knuffke - cornet Chris Pasin - trumpet Bob Selcoe - trumpet Bill Horberg - flutes Elsa Nillson - flutes Steve Gorn - bansuri flute, clarinet Sylvain Leroux, Fula flute, flute, qromatica Ilene Marder - flutes Donnie Davis - alto sax Jessica Jones - tenor sax Tony Jones - tenor sax Bill Ylitalo - baritone sax Brittany Anjou - vibraphone, piano Stuart Leigh - guitar Mike Gassmann - guitar Michael Bisio - bass Ken Filiano - bass Tani Tabbal - drums Joakim Lartey - percussion Hollis Headrick - percussion Savia Berger - danceIn honor of Karl Berger, Peter Apfelbaum leads the Creative Music Studio Improvisers Orchestra featuring vocalist Ingrid Sertso. Audience is invited to the open rehearsal from 3-4pm, performance to follow from 4-5pm.
Thanks. Maybe I will take a drive up tomorrow:)
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9 hours ago, BFrank said:
I've seen Nasheet before too, but don't remember him like this!
Tonight - Ravi Coltrane: Pharoah Sanders Tribute at SFJAZZ w/Tomoki Sanders (Pharoah’s son), Joe Lovano, David Virelles, Dezron Douglas, Johnathan Blake
Ravi put a great program together. Tomoki sounds eerily like his father.
I’ve seen a few Tamarindo sets with Malaby & Formanek where Nasheet was beyond belief. Back in 2017-18 I think at Cornelia Street Cafe. The most sustained powerhouse jazz drumming I’ve witnessed along with Gerry Hemingway when he torques it up. Randy Peterson & Tom Rainey have a different kind of power. Randy is the best of all of them, IMO. The level he is at over the last 9 months when he seen him maybe 6-7 times is just amazing.
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Mat Maneri’s Quartet was off the chain last night. 2 full sets. Stunning.
playing on 4/7 in Philly
23 minutes ago, kh1958 said:When someone agrees with me, I start to think I'm not insane.
Nasheet Waits is insanely great especially when he elevates to an intensity one didn’t know existed. This happened earlier this year in a group with Darius Jones. Recently also saw him with Peter Evans & Brian Marsella. That night he played a sequence on brushes that was sublime and stunning.
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10 hours ago, T.D. said:
No upcoming weather excuses in the forecast (I missed a similar event in February), so...
THE CREATIVE MUSIC STUDIO IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION & TRIBUTE TO KARL BERGER,
Acclaimed Musician, Composer & CMS Co-Founder
On the First Anniversary of his Passing
Easter Sunday, March 31, 3-5pm,
The Handbell Studio, at The Shirt Factory, Kingston NY
March 24, 2024, Woodstock, NY: A special edition of the Creative Music Studio’s popular Creative Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum and featuring award-winning vocalist/poet Ingrid Sertso Berger, will honor and celebrate its acclaimed co-founder Karl Berger this Easter Sunday, March 31st at the Handbell Studio, Unit #118, at the Shirt Factory, 77 Cornell St., Kingston NY. The Tribute marks the first anniversary of Berger’s passing on Easter Sunday 2023, and falls one day after his Birthday. The audience is invited and encouraged to attend the Open Rehearsal from 3-4pm, with Performance from 4-5pm. Admission is by Donation, and includes refreshments.
Any idea who the musicians are in the orchestra?
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Lots of great shows recently including Chris Cochrane’s dual ensembles, Ches Smith’s Laugh Ash
tonight Mat Maneri’s Ash Quartet with Brandon Lopez, Lucian Ban & the *great* Randy Peterson
tomorrow night Tim Berne’s Paraphrase with Drew Gress & the *great* Tom Rainey
Friday a multiple ensemble gig including Lao Dan in duo with the *great* Chris Corsano
to hear these 3 incredible drummers 3 nights in a row from within 10 feet is a dream turned into reality
then it’s my wonderful life in retirement blessed to live where I live
still,,,,,
Coming Down the Mountain
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9 hours ago, BFrank said:
Tuesday night at Bird & Beckett Books with the Tim Berne Trio. Gregg Belisle-Chi was amazing. Never seen him before.
Yes / Gregg is very very good by now. He was good early last year. Now he’s getting to a new level. Plus Tim & Tom are grand masters.
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6 hours ago, Guy Berger said:
They were indeed great.
They played a Hemphill tune and Berne told a funny story - he’d seen Hemphill playing this tune with Lester Bowie and Don Moye in a venue with 3 people in the audience - Berne, Marty Ehrlich and one other person. This was the first time Berne and Ehrlich met.
That Hemphill suite (if it’s the one I’ve heard them play twice) is very challenging but it sure paid off in the end. Glad you got to see the trio. I’m spoiled as they play most Thursdays in Brooklyn in various configurations. I’m especially grateful to be able to see the *great* Tom Rainey live so often with Berne and in many other groups.
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2 hours ago, Guy Berger said:
Tim Berne, Greg Belisle-Chi, and Tom Rainey trio
Enjoy. I’ve seen the trio often plus with guests. I think they are incredible.
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16 minutes ago, mjazzg said:
Looking forward to seeing both Ari Brown and Edward Wilkerson for the first time on Thursday. Playing together with an unknown to me UK band at a venue that doesn't usually programme Jazz. All a bit unusual but two masters in London is not to be missed
Wilkerson especially as he rarely leaves Chicago
fwiw Michael Foster with strings this past Sunday was transformative
including Webb Crawford, Deyung Kim, Nava Dunkelman & Anna Abondolo
included Ellington, Strayhorn & Fred Anderson compositions to create a 30 minute suite that organically mixes radical freely improvised music with the compositions.
brilliant to the nth degree
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Last night at The Stone
Brian Marsella, Peter Evans & Nasheet Waits
Tonight at The Stone:
Marsella, Billy Martin, John Medeski & Cyro Baptista
the amount of keyboard gear is awesome for this 75 person theatre! Big Leslie amp 10-12 feet from me. Medeski will be 7-8 feet from me and I’m in the second row.
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12 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:
I realized I never posted this one. Blue Note's go to rhythm section for grittier hard bop records.
These are great. Along with Drake / Parker, who you mention up-thread, these cover half my record collection.
Did Holland / Altschul play with others other than Braxton?
Sam Rivers most famously
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Brandon Lopez/Gerald Cleaver
Mark Dresser/Gerry Hemingway
Barry Guy/Paul Lytton
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4 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:
Missed Berne last night as I was a bit tired with an achy back but I’m at The Stone tonight
Simon Hanes, gabby fluke-mogul, Anthony Coleman & Billy Martin
Let’s GO!!
Late change gabby couldn’t make it due to a travel issue and was replaced by Mat Maneri who took a cab from the airport after just flying in from New Orleans. Mind blowing incendiary set from the quartet with the great man playing as great or even better than ever. Impossible to convey the depth and gravity of the collectively improvised music I heard tonight.
Lordy Lordy
Get Ready to Receive Yourself
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Missed Berne last night as I was a bit tired with an achy back but I’m at The Stone tonight
Simon Hanes, gabby fluke-mogul, Anthony Coleman & Billy Martin
Let’s GO!!
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Last night
Simon Hanes, Anna Abondolo, Jon Starks & Ches Smith at The Stone at New School
Simon & Anna on electric basses. Dual drummers. Alternated first half of the set with one of them sometimes using an octave pedal. 45 minute set of 5 improvisations. Brilliant unique blistering music.
nobody better than Ches Smith in this context. Force of Nature.
Simon is great and Anna is a young genius. I’d seen her twice on double bass but last night a whole other thing. Astounding young musician. She’s probably 24-25.
will be back Friday and/or Saturday night
tonight Tim Berne with Gregg Belisle-Chi and Tom Rainey
Michael Cuscuna has died at 75
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RIP Sir
discovered jazz via the classics at 31 years old or so in 1991 or so
discovered freer end of jazz in the mid to late 90’s
discovering newer forms in greater levels of intensity via recordings and especially through live concerts on a very regular basis since 2009 or so. The pandemic was rough but this past 18 months I’ve been attending well over 10 shows a month and my mind continues to be affected like a young person’s mind. Open ears.
I’m very uninterested in most of what I listened to in my younger years except for my rediscovery of The Grateful Dead circa 1967-78. Only Crimson, Can and some post punk stuff of my early years has any traction any longer for me.
much more excited to listen to Michael Foster, Chuck Roth, Sandy Ewen, Brandon Lopez, Mat Maneri, Tim Berne, Gerald Cleaver, Nate Wooley, Dave Rempis, Webb Crawford and a multitude of others creating music in the moment. Thoroughly exciting and when I’m good mentally and spiritually as deep as when I first heard Starless or Suppers Ready.
fwiw my discovery of classic jazz especially miles monk trane and the blue notes etc was also very exciting at the time. Thank Michael for that for sure.
Seeing Evan Parker circa 1998 at the knitting factory & Joe Maneri with his quartet at around the same time was even more revelatory for me. I knew there was something happening at that moment that didn’t exist previously. Same stuff still appearing. Different new music connected however obliquely to miles monk trane et al