What live music are you going to see tonight?

[Justin V]

On Saturday, my wife and I made the drive to Pittsburgh to see Sonny Simmons with the Cosmosamatics. On Sunday, I made a solo drive to Delaware (Ohio, that is) to see the Brotzmann/Adasiewicz duo.

[BFrank]

Just got back from Scofield, Swallow, & Stewart at Yoshi's. Very enjoyable and the band was obviously having a good time. Check 'em out if they come your way.

[kh1958]

Last night, closing night at Tucker's Blues in Deep Ellum, featuring the Lucky Peterson trio and various vocalists, before a packed house.

Too bad, a rare venue in Dallas which had good sound, wasn't overloud, and was all about music comes to an end.

[Aggie87]

Just got back from Scofield, Swallow, & Stewart at Yoshi's. Very enjoyable and the band was obviously having a good time. Check 'em out if they come your way.

Well, they're not coming my way, but you convinced me anyway - I'm gonna check 'em out at the Blue Note in NYC on 6 Oct!

[BillF]

Paul Smith (tenor and arrangements) with the Swingshift Big Band at Southport this afternoon.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Baritone sax alert! Gary Smulyan is coming to Methuen, MA's Sahara Jazz Club. Should be a good time. He's bringing me an advance copy of his newest CD, The Ellington Saxophone Project.

Kevin

[jlhoots]

Wilco (Nels Cline on guitar, of course).

LOUD!!!

Edited September 19, 2012 by jlhoots

[Shawn]

Last night:

Yob in downtown L.A., crushingly heavy experimental doom/drone band from Eugene Oregon. Great show, when i closed my eyes it was like being inside a giant lava lamp.

[CraigP]

Adam Ant!!!

[A Lark Ascending]

Not tonight, but I'm determined to get out to more live music after having heard so much wonderful stuff in the summer:

Next Friday: Mike Walker (guitar) and Iain Dixon (sax) - two tremendous players who are hardly known in the UK let alone in the world jazz scene as they are based in't North. First saw them in the back room of a pub with a mid-sized Mike Gibbs band about 20 years back. Sheffield Jazz gig.

Nov 17th: Egberto Gismonti/John Law Trio at the London Jazz Festival - really looking forward to that one. Haven't been to London for a good 6 or 7 years. Will use it to take in the Greenwich Maritime Museum as well - I'm keen to see the 18th/19thC paintings there.

[CJ Shearn]

Just came back from seeing the Rebirth Brass Band in a club. They had the audience (including me) dancing and screaming.

That made me go put on the "Do Watcha Wanna" album, so funky.

[Steve Reynolds]

Bev - do you know who is in the John Law Trio? I havn't heard his name much over the past many years and he remains one of the my favorite pianists.

[A Lark Ascending]

Bev - do you know who is in the John Law Trio? I havn't heard his name much over the past many years and he remains one of the my favorite pianists.

Says Asaf Sirkis (drums) and Youri Gouloubev (bass). Though I think things switch round.

His recent records are very inside and contemplative. I missed him last year locally but recally a stunning performance in Bath some years back.

Looking forward to hearing him again. He has quite a discography built up, given that he's a virtual unknown even in Britain:

http://www.nday.co.uk/discography.html

[jlhoots]

Bonnie Raitt

Excellent!!

Edited September 28, 2012 by jlhoots

[BFrank]

Just got back from Scofield, Swallow, & Stewart at Yoshi's. Very enjoyable and the band was obviously having a good time. Check 'em out if they come your way.

Well, they're not coming my way, but you convinced me anyway - I'm gonna check 'em out at the Blue Note in NYC on 6 Oct!

It should be fun, Erik!

Tonight, SFJazz:

The Music of Thelonious Monk

Listening Party with Larry Goldings

Tomorrow:

Wilco in Palm Desert

[jlhoots]

Just got back from Scofield, Swallow, & Stewart at Yoshi's. Very enjoyable and the band was obviously having a good time. Check 'em out if they come your way.

Well, they're not coming my way, but you convinced me anyway - I'm gonna check 'em out at the Blue Note in NYC on 6 Oct!

It should be fun, Erik!

Tonight, SFJazz:

The Music of Thelonious Monk

Listening Party with Larry Goldings

Tomorrow:

Wilco in Palm Desert

Bring ear plugs for Wilco - seriously!!

[jazzbo]

WD-41 at Kenny Dorham's Back Yard.

[Hardbopjazz]

I did see the Pharaoh Sanders Quartet last night at Dizzy's. It was a great show. Even got to sit next to Wynton Marsalis who kept murmuring whenever he liked a phrase in one of the musicians' solos.

Edited September 28, 2012 by Hardbopjazz

[aparxa]

Planning to hear Benny Golson with Alain Jean-Marie in a couple of days!

[A Lark Ascending]

Next Friday: Mike Walker (guitar) and Iain Dixon (sax) - two tremendous players who are hardly known in the UK let alone in the world jazz scene as they are based in't North. First saw them in the back room of a pub with a mid-sized Mike Gibbs band about 20 years back. Sheffield Jazz gig.

Great concert - quintet (reeds, guitar, piano, e-bass, drums). A mixture of well written band originals and everything from Steve Swallow tunes to Stomping at the Savoy and In the Bleak Midwinter (which seems to have evolved into a UK jazz standard in recent years).

Mike Walker is undoubtedly one of Britain's best kept secrets - not being based round the London scenes he's even pretty invisible here. Can go from convoluted boppish lines to lovely lyrical solos and then onto funkier stuff (I'll be playing some latter-day Grant Green on the back of this gig).

Edited September 29, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[David]

If anyone has even a passing interest in Pat Metheny, I HIGHLY recommend trying to catch a Unity Band show. I saw them last night in Orange County and they were absolutely burning. They played for almost 2.5 hours, which included four encores. About 95% of the sold out crowd remained after the end of the last encore.

Pat spent most of the night on his hollow-body Gibson electric, jumping to synth for two songs from the new album (Roofdogs and one other), an Orchestrion showcase, and Are You Going with Me (with Potter playing Lyle Mays' parts on the flute!) during the first encore. He began the night on his Pikasso guitar and added his six-string acoustic for part of one song from Unity Band and for an incredible solo acoustic medley (I caught Minuano, Last Train Home, and This Is Not America at least). Except for maybe the first turn on the acoustic, Pat's style was instantly recognizable on all his assortment of guitars.

Chris Potter is a great foil for Pat on the lead, and the second highlight of the night for me was a smokin' Metheny-Potter duo version of Solar, with the song beginning as a round, Potter offset from Metheny by the first eight bars of the tune. Incredible.

The highlight of the night was a lengthy mini-"Orchestrion" tune constructed over a D-C + D pedal point vamp, with three distinct 'sections' of loops recorded by Pat for a stripped-down Orchestrion (finger cymbals, two xylophone, jars, and one set of cymbals/drums, I believe). After Pat built the vamps, the rest of the band joined in, with Pat and Chris Potter often engaging in soloing simultaneously.

The CD doesn't really do justice to seeing this group live. Several songs have an faint-ECM sound on disc, but live, everything was much more "in your face," so to speak. Even their rendition of Two Folk Songs was more immediate than what I remember from 80/81.

The primary reason for this "in your face" immediacy, I think, is Antonio Sanchez, who is a force of nature. I never saw Pat with Roy Haynes, but I'm not sure there is a better drummer for Pat than Antonio Sanchez. Their communication was telepathic and his post-bop/disguised funk style is a perfect match for Pat's writing.

In any case, one of the best shows I have ever attended.

[Tom in RI]

I hardly ever get out so it was a treat to see the great Sonny Fortune in New London, CT last night. He played at a small venue called the Oasis Room located within the Garde Arts Center. Really happy to say the event was well attended. As a bonus, I sat next to and had a chance to talk with Noah Baerman, who I found out is a working jazz pianist. I am looking forward to checking out his stuff. The same place will have Donny McCaslin November 15th, I am pretty sure I will go.

[BillF]

The Brandon Allen Sextet at Wigan Jazz Club this afternoon, with Mark Nightingale, Nigel Hitchcock, Ross Stanley, Sam Burgess and Matt Holm.

Also the Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra.

[BFrank]

Just got back from Scofield, Swallow, & Stewart at Yoshi's. Very enjoyable and the band was obviously having a good time. Check 'em out if they come your way.

Well, they're not coming my way, but you convinced me anyway - I'm gonna check 'em out at the Blue Note in NYC on 6 Oct!

It should be fun, Erik!

Tonight, SFJazz:

The Music of Thelonious Monk

Listening Party with Larry Goldings

Tomorrow:

Wilco in Palm Desert

Bring ear plugs for Wilco - seriously!!

Had the ear plugs but didn't need them. They were loud, but not uncomfortably so. The venue was a very nice smallish theater with excellent sound. Great show and great experience. Very enthusiastic crowd, too.

[BruceH]

Last night I saw Sonny Rollins at Davies Symphony Hall. It was a good set. He looks a lot older than the last time I saw him, not surprisingly; he was hunched over and seemed to have trouble walking. But he can still blow! Not bad for a man of 82. Nice band, too.