Steve Reynolds

Alls I can say is that Mal is one of the most singular and greatest jazz pianists there ever was or will be. The best of his later music is as special as anything recorded by any jazz pianist ever. The influence that he had on my future listening when I first started listening to jazz 30 years ago is impossible to over estimate. He opened my ears up to a different sort of jazz piano. Not about all the notes all the time. Transylvanian Dance, baby

Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music simply incredible / just academic enough but very beautiful as well. 8 pieces that have some sort of compositional strategy but to my ears it all sounds improvised with some oblique guideposts. highlights are the cello of Mariel Roberts, the violin of Joshua Modney & 2 the pianos of Sylvie Courvoisier & Cory Smythe. And as always Wooley never overdoes his hand with his own playing. 2 CD set.

You probably need to see him live with Malaby. Pretty incredible in my experience. Have not heard the Rogue Art release What I really need is a live show. NYC free/avant scene not opening up like it should, IMO

Tony Malaby’s Sabino: The Cave of Winds with Ben Monder, Michael Formanek & Tom Rainey to my ears maybe the best Malaby album in forever / simply magisterial from multiple viewpoints.

Where was the show?

Sadder than one can imagine / so sad I missed meeting him his silkheart recordings as a whole remain a huge historical statement

No chance you’ve ever heard the Dark Stars from the Europe 72 tour

I’ll be there for that trio, no doubt

Thanks

Have not heard of this one / info?

I might be able to make it. I will be at Tubby’s (never been before) on Wednesday 4/13 for Ballister (Dave Rempis, Fred Lonberg-Holm & Paal Nilsson-Love) plus special guest Joe McPhee Clifford / are you scheduling more shows every Sunday or on occasional Sundays?

Full house / let’s go!!!

I’ve seen all 3 of them often and once or twice as this trio. They are awesome, IMO yes Tom Rainey is one of the greatest drummers on the planet. Such a unique approach.

I’ll be at the Jazz Gallery on Saturday full capacity.

2 sets each night / very surprised and excited to see that Greg Osby is playing/augmenting the piano/drum duo. No idea if it’s going to be composed or freely improvised. I’m totally unfamiliar with the pianist. Booked front row table for 3/5 @ 7:30. Expecting to stay for both sets. First jazz show in NYC for me since last June. Previous one was also Tyshawn right before lockdown on 3/2/2020 with his sextet also at Jazz Gallery. fwiw great room and a wonderful grand piano

Spaulding is scorching hot on a guest appearance augmenting William Parker’s quartet from 2009 Vision Fest. Also added to the quartet are Billy Bang & Bobby Bradford. It’s on Wood Flute Songs. One of the best sets of recorded live jazz or that time-frame. Parker’s classic group with Lewis Barnes, Rob Brown & Hamid Drake. fwiw the 4 discs with just the core quartet with full shows from 2006 & 2007 included in the 8 CD box set are also spectacular and recorded in excellent multi-track quality. The first one from Yoshi’s is especially stunning.

Thanks / not sure how I missed this so far the highlight is seeing Denis Charles play!!! at the old Knitting Factory with Wilbur Morris & Thomas Borgmann (a very favorite trio of mine) with Peter Brotzmann sitting in. Wow. Must be mid-90’s - can’t be too long before Charles passed away.

Even greater than the trio performance. Han Bennink is the greatest anything ever.

This one is stunning. I’ve seen it before but wowza

2 incomplete passes then the pick on the OT drive no yardage in OT. Only decent drive of the second half was the last drive that led to the FG - and at the end of that drive Mahomes imploded yes we question stuff even if it succeeds

Disagree. Mahomes was awful the whole second half. Under a hundred yards of offense. No reason to believe he drives the field in OT. No coach would play for the tie in regulation. plus as Larry mentioned, who knew they would win the coin toss?

They were trying to score the TD but not leave time on the clock. Too fancy. Maybe the run on first down was ok to get Cincy to take their last timeout. Then Mahomes continued to spit the bit. Score when you can and play defense. It’s what Bill would have done. Andy Reid has a very poor track record on these games and situations just as he & Mahomes messed up at the end of the first half. Bigger issue is after gaining over 300 yards in the first half, they never adjusted to the 8 man coverage the Bengals went to in the second half.

Andrew Cyrille Michael Zerang Tom Rainey Gerald Cleaver

Yes it is I believe - I think he passed away shortly before this was recorded - the track is very mournful in nature yet also triumphant. One of the greatest pieces of music that I know of.

No prime example is the Grateful Dead listening to the 12/6/73 43 minute Dark Star which is almost completely improvised