sidewinder Posted March 16, 2012 Report Posted March 16, 2012 Remind me that when I retire I should haul myself and my un-opened Mosaic boxes up to Manchester.. Quote
BFrank Posted March 19, 2012 Report Posted March 19, 2012 Just back from SXSW in Austin and was VERY fortunate to have been able to see Bruce up close in the 2,700 seat Austin City Limits/Moody Theatre. Once in a lifetime opportunity, for sure. Not to mention cameo appearances by Tom Morello, Jimmy Cliff and Eric Burdon. Quote
Shawn Posted March 19, 2012 Report Posted March 19, 2012 Just back from SXSW in Austin and was VERY fortunate to have been able to see Bruce up close in the 2,700 seat Austin City Limits/Moody Theatre. Once in a lifetime opportunity, for sure. Not to mention cameo appearances by Tom Morello, Jimmy Cliff and Eric Burdon. Cool! Glad you had a good time, it was kind of sad missing SXSW this year. Quote
relyles Posted March 19, 2012 Report Posted March 19, 2012 Saturday night I heard the Matthew Shipp Trio with Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey at Real Art Ways in Hartford. Good performance. Quote
BFrank Posted March 20, 2012 Report Posted March 20, 2012 Bruce: SXSW, Austin City Limits/Moody Theatre, Austin - March 15 Quote
BillF Posted March 22, 2012 Report Posted March 22, 2012 Dave O'Higgins and Eric Alexander with The Kristian Leth Trio at Seven Jazz, Leeds last night. O'Higgins, Alexander (tenors), Andrew McCormack (piano), Arnie Somogyi (bass), Leth (drums) After my disappointment at last week's gig (see #2407), this date set the record straight in no uncertain way. The gig was held in a small theatre with an audience of about 60 and I sat on the front row, more or less in the group and the sound balance was perfect. This group has toured several times in recent years and there's a great rapport and everything functions like a quiet, but efficient machine. The main treat was to hear Alexander live for the first time after hearing so much of him on record and to find that he came completely up to expectations - as I was pleased to tell him! One thing I noticed was the very strong Coltrane influence in his playing, both in his characteristic figures and in his harmonic direction. This may the result of playing with another Trane-oriented tenorman or perhaps his playing is moving in that direction. I'm hearing it now as I play the group's album, The Devil's Interval, which I bought at the gig and had signed by Eric: A couple of clips from this gig have now appeared on YouTube: Quote
king ubu Posted March 22, 2012 Report Posted March 22, 2012 Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland - March 22, 2012 Amazing concert, deep, wonderful, touching... and very intense! Wonderful hooking up with her afterwards, took some photos for the great new, independent German music magazine get happy!? (disclaimer: as all contributors, I didn't earn a cent... and our own brownie allowed use of four wonderful Miles photos he made in 1969!), had my copy of "Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens du Couleur Libres" signed, and just had a great time talking! Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted March 24, 2012 Report Posted March 24, 2012 Open Loose: Helias-Rainey-Malaby well after they finish the second set with something called "Kryptonite" from the new CD, my wife asked me why they are playing in a little place like Cornelia Street? and she doesn't listen to jazz on record - she like American FUCKING Idol God (Jah) knows?!? you got ears, you gotta listen - nobody listenin', baby!!!! all new Helias tunes ranging from a fractured ballad to a improvised/composed 'out' piece that if played at the start of the first set would have cleared out half the room to incendiary burning groove based monster pieces like the closer the band destroyed the fucking universe. not much else to be said except I know Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Paul Dunmall, Ellery Eskelin, Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee and Sonny Rollins all still walk this earth and Tony Malaby *still* may be the *greatest* tenor saxophonist alive. and Rainey played this solo intro with his hands that was beyond and then with that closing groove exploded reality for me from 5 feet away with less than a third of the house full - leave before the second set?!?! - pure idiocy I have heard many many drummers over the years and this performance was simply a mind fuck - the whole night but *that* last driving intensely powerful passage was comparable in total fucking genius to Hamid Drake on March 27th, 1999 at Tonic with Kessler and Vandermark or Gerry Hemingway ~ 12 years ago with Barry Guy and Marilyn Crispell or Randy Peterson recently with Mat Maneri. show of the year - and that includes 2 weeks ago at the Stone looks like April 14th with Angelica Sanchez, Rainey and Malaby is a must see @ The Jazz Gallery where they will be playing the music that was to beplayed at the Vanguard with the late Paul Motian this past January. Thumbs Up and Hands Down, baby Quote
king ubu Posted March 24, 2012 Report Posted March 24, 2012 Will try and catch Malaby live in May! Sounds like I should kill if necessary in order to make it! Quote
jeffcrom Posted March 25, 2012 Report Posted March 25, 2012 Just got back from a little road trip - drove the 100 miles north to Chattanooga to hear Philadelphia free-improv saxophonist Jack Wright with bassist Evan Lipson and Chattanooga's own improv duo The Shaking Ray Levis. Without going into detail, I'll say that I enjoyed the Shaking Rays much more than their guests. Quote
king ubu Posted March 25, 2012 Report Posted March 25, 2012 That's too bad! From what little I've heard, I consider myself a Jack Wright fan! Quote
jeffcrom Posted March 25, 2012 Report Posted March 25, 2012 That's too bad! From what little I've heard, I consider myself a Jack Wright fan! Trying to explain to my wife why I wasn't blown away by Mr. Wright's playing, I said that while I enjoy that kind of sound improvisation, there are people who do it better. After thinking about it some more - Wright is one of those guys who has come up with his own vocabulary on saxophone, like Evan Parker, John Butcher, and Urs Leimgruber. I think what it comes down to is that I just don't particularly like the vocabulary he has come up with. Many of the sounds he produces - well, I don't find them attractive or even interesting. Everything that comes out of Evan Parker's horn amazes me, on the other hand. The Shaking Ray Levis, particularly Dennis Palmer, who plays a Moog synthesizer along with a Rube Goldberg array of effects and electronics, are always interesting and unpredictable. And loud! Quote
king ubu Posted March 25, 2012 Report Posted March 25, 2012 Okay, thanks for the explanation! Don't know the band, obviously... will have to dig up my Wright discs again. Quote
jeffcrom Posted March 25, 2012 Report Posted March 25, 2012 Okay, thanks for the explanation! Don't know the band, obviously... will have to dig up my Wright discs again. Everybody hears things differently - I admire Wright's dedication and focus, even if I don't particularly like his music. Quote
save0904 Posted March 27, 2012 Report Posted March 27, 2012 Craig Taborn Trio at Jazzclub Unterfahr in Munich /w Thomas Morgan and Gerald Cleaver Quote
Head Man Posted March 27, 2012 Report Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) Saw the Marcus Roberts Trio playing at The Sage in Gateshead on Saturday, with Roland Guerin on bass & Jason Marsalis on drums. They started with a selection of Cole Porter numbers and finished with three Coltrane tunes from "Crescent". An excellent concert at a very good venue. Edited March 27, 2012 by Head Man Quote
king ubu Posted March 28, 2012 Report Posted March 28, 2012 Saw Irene Schweizer performing solo last night. Short set (ca. 45 min) as part of the surroundings of an exhibition dedicated to the part of Zurich she chose to live in several decades ago... first time to hear her solo in person (I've heard her in duos with Françoise Kubler and Pierre Favre, as well as accompanying a film in solo, but that's not exactly a solo concert, although it was a great experience, too!). Anyway, it's amazing how broad her range is... there's all in it, all music, virtually. You hear glimpses of Monk, Nichols, Weston, but all turned into her own very much so... she'd use one of Dollar Brand's trademark left-hand-vamps (in five) and add some stuff all her own to it, dropping in and out of the ostinato as she pleased, she'd wail some blues, and do some Monk tunes clearly recognizable yet thoroughly reworked, both harmonically and melodically... very, very good, needless to say! Also picked up her latest release on Intakt, "To Whom It May Concern", the live recording from Zurich's sacred temple of classical music (the Tonhalle), where she played in April 2011 to celebrate her 70th birthday. She's really a treasure of this town, of this country, and - hell! - of mankind! Craig Taborn Trio at Jazzclub Unterfahr in Munich /w Thomas Morgan and Gerald Cleaver Cool! They were *very* good in Cologne in November! Went to shake hands with Taborn afterwards and he nearly wouldn't let me go again... very nice guy off stage, too! Quote
Free For All Posted March 31, 2012 Report Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) I was fortunate to be part of the Savannah Music Festival again this year- the final concert for the "Savannah Swing" portion was tonight and I had the honor of sharing the stage with Marcus Roberts, Aaron Diehl, Bill Peterson, Dave Bales, Dave Stryker, Rodney Whitaker, Jeff Eckels, Rodney Jordan, Terell Stafford, Sean Jones, Jon Faddis, Jim Ketch, Herlin Riley, Jason Marsalis, Leon Anderson, Ron Westray, Wycliffe Gordon, Jack Wilkins and Bill Kennedy. *whew*......there was a lot of music up there tonight- I am indeed a lucky man. Edited March 31, 2012 by Free For All Quote
jeffcrom Posted April 4, 2012 Report Posted April 4, 2012 Wolter Wierbos, playing solo, I presume. On the rare occasion when an internationally-known improviser of this caliber accidentally finds his way to Atlanta, it's apparently supposed to be kept top secret. It was a lot of trouble to find out when and where Mr. Wierbos is playing tonight. One "view map" link led to a location across town from the stated address; I guess they were afraid an audience might show up and ruin the experience. But I persevered, and am 90% certain that if I show up at a certain location at a certain time tonight, I might get to hear Wolter Wierbos. Quote
Larry Kart Posted April 5, 2012 Report Posted April 5, 2012 Mike Reed, Matt Bauder, Jeb Bishop, and Matt Schneider last night at The Hideout. Before, one of the bandmembers told me that they'd been in the studio for three days and still hadn't figured out what they were doing to his satisfaction -- free improv on a dance-tune base, it seemed, with Reed the leader providing sketches of the dance bases. Well, they sure got it together on the stand last night. Very coherent and sometimes explosive, Bauder in great form on tenor and clarinet, careful listening by everyone in what one has come to expect as the Chicago Scene manner. Kudos to all but especially, I would think, to Reed for assembling these four guys, whom I don't recall playing together much it at all before, other than Bishop and Reed. Of course Bauder isn't around to play with these days, unless he's here on a visit. He's always impressed me as a kind of latter-day Shorter -- at times in terms of sound but mostly in terms of spirit, the early Shorter, the Masked Marauder. Quote
save0904 Posted April 7, 2012 Report Posted April 7, 2012 Alan Broadbent Trio @ Jazzclub Birdland Hamburg Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted April 8, 2012 Report Posted April 8, 2012 jeffcrom - did you get to see the *great* trombonist? Quote
PHILLYQ Posted April 8, 2012 Report Posted April 8, 2012 March 30th I caught Falu at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan. Interesting place, a museum devoted to Himalayan art. They had a lounge with drinks and an Indian DJ playing some Bollywood style stuff. Falu is originally from Mumbai, and her music has moved much towards traditional Indian music lately. This concert was part of a series called 'Naked Soul', and there were no amps or mics. The room was heavily paneled and the acoustics seemed great. The band's sound was beautifully balanced as well, and Falu sang wonderfully, with the band moving as one through the various pieces played. She has a bassist, guitar, harmonium, tabla, percussion and violin/guitar. Quote
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