Steve Reynolds

First in line!! 15 degrees!! Hope the 2 hour trek was worth it!!!

Seriously for those non NYC area people who don't get a chance to see these two live very often, enjoy the opportunity. Rainey on a good night will bend your brain

Decision made!! Tomorrow night I be going to see the Nasheet Waits band @ Cornelia Street Cafe. Deciding factor is it's been too long since I've seen Darius Jones live and he is capable of amazing me. And Mark Helias is one of the best and most versatile bassists. Looking forward to surviving the crazy last day of the month at the job and then the insane ride to NYC for the two sets

Waits is at Cornelia Street Cafe

Do I go see Nasheet Waits with Darius Jones, David Virelles and Mark Helias this Friday? Or Ben Goldberg with Craig Taborn and Ches Smith for the first set on Saturday night with the second set adding Ellery Eskelin and another tenor man? Plus Taborn is playing Wurlitzer for the second set. I'm torn

Three MUST gets

I saw a band with Sacks and Weiss over a year ago. Sacks is an interesting pianist but Weiss added little with a very predictable rote approach to the kit. Even my wife thought he was stale and she loves most drummers as much as I do. Yes Ellery has a great tone but I've not heard the fire from him over the past few years that used to his normal level.

Of course the rhythm sections I want to hear live more than any others Of course we are not lacking great drummers in NYC

Mat Maneri 4 times with his dad Joe Probably about 10-12 times the last 3-4 years Tony Malaby probably 12-15 times the last 4 years Peter Brotzmann probably 8-10 times the last 15 years Han Bennink 6-8 times the last 15 years Andrew Cyrille 10-12 times those last 15 years Hamid Drake 12-15 times those last 15 years Gerry Hemingway 8-10 times the last 15 years Least for those I love: Barry Guy - once Mark Sanders - once Alexander Von Schlippenbach - once Paul Lovens - once Never have I seen: Louis Moholo-Moholo John Edwards

I can believe that Steve. I saw that he played duo with John Butcher, which tells me he can do much greater things than he does here, where he is somewhat overcast. I suspect as this group plays together more, the balance will come right. The recording to get is called Schnee

Sounds like it should be great

Fwiw, Kurzmann is brilliant in some other small improv contexts.

Xybert: My first recommendation for you is DKV Trio Live in Wels and Chicago 2 CD set on okkadisk recorded in 1998. To this day the Chicago performances on disc 2 and specifically the last 2 longish tracks titled "Burning Sky" and "Blues for Tomorrow" stand out as highlights for KV's groove based playing and also feature Hamid Drake at his most convincing. This recording demands to be heard Plus the first disc is primarily a reading of Don Cherry's Complete Communion suite so this set is all around wonderous

Sounds like an awesome band.

Saw the duo live with Evan Parker I like the duo CD but it is far from preferred way to hear Mat Maneri I much prefer when he is plugged in and the band that he plays with is capable of exploding or imploding which this configuration certainly should be a prime example.

Mat Maneri/Lucian Ban Quintet with Tony Malaby on tenor sax, Bob Stewart on tuba and Nasheet Waits on drums Two sets and I be first in line Yeah Baby!!!!!!

I think Evans is great with Parker-Guy-Lytton on the live clean feed date

I'm trying to go see MOPDTK on March 16th Never listened to them and I want my first experience to be live from ten feet away

Worst CD I've bought in ten years

Kresten Osgood is a drummer that I looked up on you tube and he looks like he is really something Looked him up as he is booked as a leader with the following musicians in the quintet: Herb Robertson - trumpet Mat Maneri - viola Ed Schuller - bass Randy Peterson - drums Lordy Lordy Then a quartet with Michael Blake on tenor, Charles Burnham on violin, Alex Blake on bass and Osgood on drums One of the first cannot miss shows for me for the year. That drummer I saw on video WITH Randy Peterson?!?!? With Herb Robertson? Plus that quartet sounds like a burning monster unit Fwiw also some wonderful shows coming up at the club including 2/28 Nasheet Waits with Darius Jones, David Virelles and Mark Helias

first review I've seen here http://www.londonjazznews.com/2014/02/cd-review-jon-irabagon-trio-it-takes.html That sort of review - by shallow stylistic comparison - kills things for me. Makes me disbelieve the whole sector. He did drop about 25 names In any event, I liked the first trio disc with Fonda in place of Helias and they were very good live. The trio with Fonda is playing next week in NYC and I soul like to see them but it looks like its a no go.....

Hemingway's Toombow is on a par with anything But again as a drummer he is nothing special Well unless you've actually seen or heard him!! or maybe Hemingway is just another run of the mill drummer and composer on the level of maybe Charli Persip or someone like that...... standing on a whale fishing for minnows......

Please note that Paul Dunmall with a sextet is playing on May 3rd

Back in the day I lived to derail threads...... IMO this turned into a viable discussion - sorry if interfered with the Mikes thread. Sometimes posts just happen for me and I don't think to post them closer to where they belong. Peace and Blessings

Plus if one wonders why I mention Drake and Bennink, it's simply because of all the drummers that I think of as the great modern drummers that veer towards the outside or avant directions of the music, those two are probably the most connected to the swing and groove element of any of the others. Hard to think of any drummers of any era that personify those qualities more than Drake and Bennink As Han said during his 70th birthday celebration at Columbia University a couple of years ago: "drums are made for swinging" Qow, Baby