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  1. Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    Paul Dunmall

    not a jazz musician but Keith Rowe is a long time visual artist with much of his art on numerous AMM album covers as well as his own releases

    3 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

    Paul Dunmall

    not a jazz musician but Keith Rowe is a long time visual artist with much of his art on numerous AMM album covers as well as his own releases

    I noticed that Clifford had indeed mentioned Keith Rowe

  2. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

    in New Releases

    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    39 minutes ago, colinmce said:

    Great! Always love to hear your thoughts, keep it coming.

    The Lopez Trio is becoming an extremely strong unit, working uniquely at the intersection of texture and sound. I was cool on the first release but as they build this body of work I see the vision more & more. And they have a vision for the music, which is rare enough. Very much looking forward to grabbing Brandon's new solo disc on Tao Forms.

    I liked the gfm/Dunkelman duo OK but really enjoyed the string duo w/ Joanna Mattrey from a few months previous.

    Still haven't spent enough time with the Pride of Lions disc, I will pull it out this week and revisit.

    The Judson Trio 2xCD is a masterpiece, it's been on regular rotation here since it came out. I will be grabbing the new Taborn/Maneri/Leandre trio disc soon. 

     

    Saw Lopez Trio in December 2019 / was in touching distance to any of the three. I’ve seen Brandon live many times and he’s still peaking. Cleaver still peaking through restraint. Still cannot believe I’m seeing the Gerald’s reconstituted awesome Black Host opening night 2 of Vision Fest. Lopez with Dezron Douglas on double bass in place of the great Pascal Niggenkemper. Think about it / Cooper-Moore, Darius Jones & Brandon Seabrook with Cleaver & the 2 bassists. 2010 & 2012 were 2 of the best live shows I’ve seen out of very many.
     

    Seeing Joelle with Maneri & Taborn on 6/13. 

  3. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

    in New Releases

    Posted

    7 hours ago, colinmce said:

    Here are a few from the first few months of the year that I've enjoyed:

    Beeferman/Evans/Foster/Hirsch - GLOW (Tripticks)
    Jaap Blonk/Damon Smith/Ra Kalam Bob Moses - Rune Kitchen (Balance Point Acoustics)
    Santiago Bogacz & Emiliano Aires - Retrato Años Después (Relative Pitch)
    Mário Costa/Cuong Vu/Benoît Delbecq/Bruno Chevillon - Chromosome (cleanfeed)
    Andrew Cyrille - Music Delivery/Percussion (Intakt)
    Frank Denyer - Melodies (Another Timbre)
    Dry Thrust - The Less You Sleep (Trost)
    Seppe Gebruers - Playing With Standards (El Negocito)
    Takumi Ikeda - Improvisations (2022) (Ftarri)
    Joëlle Léandre - Zurich Concert (Intakt)
    Dave Liebman - Live At Small's (Cellar Music)
    Lo Escucho, Lo Pinto (All Night Flight)
    Lopez Trio - Matanzas (Relative Pitch)
    Szilárd Mezei/Zoltán Csányi/Vasco Trilla – Look In To My Eyes, I'm Watching You (Fundacja Słuchaj!)
    Nichunimu - Un Cacho de Metal, Un Resto de Vaiven (577)
    Eva Novoa - Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Vol. 1 (577)
    Tim Perkis & Tom Djill - KINDA (Artifact Recordings)
    Olaf Rupp/Ulrike Brand - Myotis Myotis (Creative Sources)
     
    folks who liked the Knuffke/McPhee disc should be sure to check this out as well, it was released to little fanfare, but it's very strong https://mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com/album/sometimes-the-air-is

    Love LOVE Matanzas / love the metallic rage from Basczkowski 

    like the Eva Novoa trio 

    of course the *great* Gerald Cleaver is the common element 

    Like the Mezei 2 CD set but let’s see after a couple of more spins

    Here are some of what I really like of what’s new to me over the past few months. Some might have been released previously 

    The Glass Triangle with Mette Rasmussen, Zeena Parkins & Ryan Sawyer / the new one Blue and Sun-Lights and the first one on relative pitch

    Nava Dunkelman & gabby fluke-mogul / Likht  - on relative pitch 

    Fata Morgana Ensemble Dedalus & Erik M / wowza also on relative pitch 

    Crying in Space Mette with Flaherty etc also on relative pitch 

    As far as November Albert Cirera, Olie Brice & Nicolas Field - Fundacja SLUCHAJ 

    A Pride of Lions: No Questions No Answers on rogue art. McPhee & Lazro with 2 great bassists & Chad Taylor 

    The Bright Awakening / 2012 show I was at with Paul Dunmall, Matt Shipp, Joe Morris & Cleaver. So incredible. Rogue art

    Judson Trio: Light & Dance Joelle with Mat Maneri & Gerald Cleaver / 2 CD set recorded right before the pandemic in France. Rogue Art

    More later 

  5. Youre most memorable gig/concert?

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    SO many of course but the two Peter Brotzmann Tentet shows at Tonic in 2000 & 2002 still top the list

    early days 1996 or so through 2003 here are a few off the top of my brain:

    DKV Trio 3/27/2001 10:00 set at Tonic 

    Fred Anderson, Edward “Kidd” Jordan, William Parker & Hamid Drake at Vision Fest

    Evan Parker, Mark Dresser & Bobby Previte at Knitting Factory

    Evan Parker, Tim Berne, Drew Gress & Mark Sanders at Knitting Factory

    Tim Berne, Drew Gress & Tom Rainey at Vision Fest

    Joe Lovano with Mark Dresser & Gerry Hemingway at Knitting Factory 

    Mat Maneri, Rob Brown & Hamid Drake at Vision Fest

    Instant Composers Pool at Tonic 

    Frank Gratkowski with Michael Formanek & Gerry Hemingway at Jazz Gallery

    Marilyn Crispell, Barry Guy & Gerry Hemingway at Tonic 

    Gerry Hemingway Quartet with Robin Eubanks (might have been Ray Anderson), Ellery Eskelin  & Mark Dresser at Vision Fest

    Ellery Eskelin Trio with Andrea Parkins & Jim Black / the night at Tonic when they played 2 long sets. 

    Eight Bold Souls at Hot House in Chicago

    Ari Brown @ The Velvet Lounge in Chicago on 1/7/1999 the day Fred Hopkins died

    Die Like a Dog at Tonic 

    Evan Parker with Alexander von Schlippenbach & Paul Lytton at Tonic 

    Andrew Hill Sextet at Knitting Factory

    Dave Holland Quintet at Knitting Factory

    David S Ware Quartet with Susie Ibarra at Vision Fest

    Paul Dunmall with Paul Rogers & Kevin Norton at Knitting Factory

    Cecil Taylor with Tony Oxley at Tonic

    and

    Joe Maneri’s Quartet 3 times with Mat & Randy Peterson. First time with Cecil McBee on bass, second with John Lockwood & the third with William Parker

    THEN the augmented group with Barre Phillips on bass plus Craig Taborn & Roy Campbell. The “Going to Church” mini-tour in 2002 at Tonic. Stunning abstract and overwhelming. Randy Peterson with nuclear bombs!!!

     

    maybe I do a list of the shows from 2008 or so until the present but too many. 9 shows last month alone and 2-3 were all-timers 

     


     

     

     

    still,,,,    
     

     

    Coming Down the Mountain

  6. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

    in New Releases

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Clunky said:

    Next up 

    Knuffke/ McPhee Quartet +1 ——-Keep the dream up——( Fundacja Sluchaj) 

    the two leaders are favourites, so what’s not to potentially like about them playing together. Fabulous, even if this is my first spin of this.

    An amazing recording 

    On 5/3/2023 at 4:24 PM, clifford_thornton said:

    Will definitely check this. Also enjoyed watching some footage on YouTube of Rodrigo Amado's new/ish group with von Schlippenbach, Flaten, Gerry Hemingway.

     

    The Field with Alex joining Rodrigo in a quartet is incredible. On No Business 

  10. Harrison Bankhead - RIP

    in Artists

    Posted

    Oh no

    will never forget seeing Turbine @ Zurcher Gallery circa 2017. 

    Harrison sang “Sweet Low Sweet Chariot” to close the first set.

    I was also blessed to see 8 Bold Souls in maybe 1998 @ Hot House.

    another loss for Ulrich

     

    RIP, sir

  11. RIP Edward "Kidd" Jordan (1935-2023)

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    He was almost 88

    my old friend shrugs just asked did you hear about Kidd?

    Last seen well below his peak but very moving and wondrous as always on 5/23/2018 @ Vision Fest in Brooklyn 

    not sure of the date but jah tells me it was year 2001. not sure of the the actual room but again it was Vision Fest and it was certainly “downtown” 

    they never let these dudes uptown. uptown never deserved the likes of Fred Anderson & Edward “Kidd” Jordan

    But I was there!! Thanks to grace & mercy somehow I witnessed that set. When I heard it was happening I must have been in heaven. I was still new to this new music. Fred Anderson was in the throes of being known & the internet was new an Alive. I had found out about Hamid Drake and of course my friend “Dark Anthony” saw William Parker once on the street with his bass and exclaimed “The King of New York!!!!” 

    so we knew it would be the greatest bass/drums tandem that exists in modern day free jazz with the 2 legendary tenors born in 1929 & 1935. Wowza. Lordy Lordy.

    I know that the seminal legendary and even mystical 2 CD set 2 days in april had been released on eremite documenting the 4/1 & 4/1999 concerts with the same quartet with Fred Anderson, Kidd with William & Hamid on bass & drums. 
     

    So the actual show - the ONLY time I’ve see that very learned and “sophisticated” audience moved to or near hysteria. Literal Dancing in the Aisles. Never heard or experienced a groove so deep / all because of Fred & Kidd. 
     

    Ulrich is weeping today

     

     

    RIP, sir

  14. Peter Brotzmann

    in Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    39 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    correct. Glad I had so many opportunities to see him.

    Same here and many of those shows were among the most memorable of all the live shows I’ve seen over the past decades. For me he is among the 2 or 3 greatest living legends of this music. His music changed my ears. My appreciation of his music has intensified over the years. The most incredible *sound* especially from his tenor.

    “The sound of god” came to me a few years back at Judson Hall when on a few of his unaccompanied crescendos that is what I thought I heard. I will never forget it. 

  16. Newport (RI) Jazz Festival 2023 Lineup Announced

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    42 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:

    yeah, I figured that out and even watched a few minutes. I'll take the original Dead, stoned out of their minds and drinking Owsley's Kool-aid, over these guys any day.

    They are OK. Better 4-5 years ago before their improvisations became rote.

    Phil Lesh’s band this past weekend at Capital Theatre in Port Chester was incredible. I was at 3 of the 4 nights. Pretty great for the 83 year old legend. John Medeski, John Molo, James Casey plus great guitar playing by Grahame Lesh & Rick Mitarotonda. Wonderful violinist in Katie Jacoby and the great vocalist Nicki Bluhm. 

  19. What live music are you going to see tonight?

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    Son of Goldfinger playing again on Tuesday 2/14 with the awesome Devin Hoff added. Same tiny little place. Also on 2/21. I’ll be there this Tuesday at least. Last Thursday set was a 42 minute piece followed by a 32 minute slab of genius. As great a show as I’ve seen recently and I’ve seen a bunch of great sets over the past 4 months. Maybe the 2 William Winant sets the end of last year were comparable. The set with Winant, Ches & Ava Mendoza was astounding. Ches also used his I-phone & lap top electronics that night. He’s a genius with this stuff as well as being the among the 2-3 most powerful & creative drummers on the planet.
     

    On Thursday with Torn & Berne it was complete immersion from 6 feet away. Mind torn up. The intensity & force was Teutonic. Like Can to the 20th power. And the improvised breaks he did with Torn. Supernatural. Improvising genius level stuff. They were laughing after it ended. They know. 

    17 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

    See you there!

    Take it all in, boys. This is life itself. Seeing the great man with THAT quartet. Up close & personal. Seeing the Grandaddy of them all. Herr Brotzmann. This is not to be taken lightly. I treasure the group of live concerts I’ve been blessed to be able see him play. There will never be another like him.

  22. Tyshawn Sorey

    in Artists

    Posted

    5 hours ago, JSngry said:

    This is finally out. Got here late last week, starting to play it today. I like it, like it just fine.

    Saw the group live I think right when they recorded this. I also liked it just fine. 

  23. Tom Verlaine, guitarist and singer of influential rock band Television, dies at 73

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    Posted

    11 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    If recent records are any indication, Allen has been playing just fine. 

     

    My friend saw him last Spring with Ballister in Philadelphia and said he was very good. I saw Ballister with Joe McPhee a few days earlier and McPhee (82 at that time) played like he was 35. 

    Fwiw Ballister is Dave Rempis with the *great* Fred Lonberg-Holm & Paal Nilsson-Love. Pure fire. 

  24. Tom Verlaine, guitarist and singer of influential rock band Television, dies at 73

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    Posted · Edited by Steve Reynolds

    47 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    Such sad news, RIP.

    I never saw Television either, alas.

    Why I’m paying silly $$$ for Wilco on 4/1 for front row loge center @ Capital Theatre. Not that Tweedy is doing poorly or anything. I never saw Sonic Youth either as I simply didn’t go to any rock shows from ~1993 until 2017 when I started seeing Grateful Dead related shows. Seeing Phil Lesh on 3/19 / he’s 83 on 3/15. Gotta live life. Going to Shift on 2/3 to see Marshall Allen NYC all-stars. Not 100% sure if the 98 year old legend is playing but it’s a great line-up.

    Life is for the Living. 
     

     

    Rhyme, baby


     

  25. Tom Verlaine, guitarist and singer of influential rock band Television, dies at 73

    in Artists

    Posted

    RIP sir

    never got to see them live 

    My favorite is the 1991 reunion album which had no impact which was a statement on the “music industry” of then & now

    too young and a shame he apparently never decided to professionally record any of the concerts of the past decades. I never understood his reticence to record more Television material nor any of the reportedly great shows which included lots of improvisation and energy. I’ve heard so often how these shows could be transcendent. 

     

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