What live music are you going to see tonight?

[Michael Weiss]

Barry Harris Trio @Village Vanguard, operating at a VERY high level of artistry, at any tempo, at 83. A real treasure and inspiration.

[six string]

Tomorrow night (Friday) I'm going to see the traveling Monterey Jazz band which is Benny Green, Ambrose Akinmusire, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash and Chris Potter and a bonus of Dee Dee Bridgewater. Pretty great lineup if you ask me and I was able to score fourth row, near center seats. Sweet!

[Tom 1960]

Mulgrew Miller Trio with Ivan Taylor on bass and Rodney Green on drums tonight in Windham, New York.

[BillF]

Mulgrew Miller Trio with Ivan Taylor on bass and Rodney Green on drums tonight in Windham, New York.

[BFrank]

Member's preview of new SFJazz Center this afternoon.

Paula West will be performing.

Next Sunday (last of the opening week shows) I'll be at Bobby Hutcherson's birthday celebration.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Next Thursday night (1/24) Scullers in Boston has a band in house that they've billed as "Baritone Madness". 3 bari players on the front line. Sounds like a great night. I wonder if they're going to play the Bee Hive album in it's entirety? It'll be hard to top the pace of "Donna Lee".

[BFrank]

Great space! Nice afternoon with wine and snacks from Charles Phan's new in-house cafe, "South" (a cajun-themed cafe).

This was the SFJazz High School Allstars. Paula West sang a few tunes with them, too.

Edited January 20, 2013 by BFrank

[alankin]

Two nights ago:

Friday, January 18, 2013 - 8:00pm

The Whammies

perform the music of Steve Lacy

Jorrit Dijkstra, saxophone + Lyricon

Nate McBride, bass

Jeb Bishop, trombone

Mary Oliver, violin

Pandelis Karayorgis, piano

Han Bennink, drums

Philadelphia Art Alliance

251 S. 18th Street

Philadelphia, PA

Edited January 20, 2013 by alankin

[jeffcrom]

With some Nessas tonight, heard the Palmetto Bug Stompers at d.b.a. on Frenchman Street in New Orleans. The personnel had turned over almost entirely since the last time I had heard them, 15 months ago. Some of the changes were not for the better, but the always entertaining Washboard Chaz was on board, and tonight I realized just how good a trombonist Charlie Halloran really is - he also plays with the Panorama Jazz Band, and probably a few other bands as well.

[Bright Moments]

Cleveland Orchestra with Joshua Bell!!

[BFrank]

SFJazz Center

Spotlight: Bobby Hutcherson Birthday Celebration

ARTIST PERSONNEL

Bobby Hutcherson

McCoy Tyner

Savion Glover

Joshua Redman

Mary Stallings

Eric Reed

Eric Harland

SFJAZZ Center Resident Artistic Directors:

Jason Moran

John Santos

Miguel Zenón

SFJAZZ Collective:

Miguel Zenón, David Sánchez,

Andre Hayward, Avishai Cohen,

Stefon Harris, Edward Simon,

Matt Penman, Jeff Ballard

[Aggie87]

That's quite a lineup! Let us know how it goes, Buzzzdzzzzizzzzzczzzzzzkzzzzz!

[BFrank]

That's quite a lineup! Let us know how it goes, Buzzzdzzzzizzzzzczzzzzzkzzzzz!

Will do, Agggdgggigggcgggkgggg!

[marcello]

On my way to see Vancouver saxophonist, club owner (The Cellar), and all around one man Jazz movement Cory Weeds, with a quintet that includes trombonist Steve Davis.

[Steve Reynolds]

wishing I could be there for either or both of the following:

Thursday 31 January 2013

Venue

Vortex Jazz Club 11 Gillett Street N16 8JH London, UK Venue info and map

Line-up

• Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
  
• Han Bennink
  
• Pat Thomas
  
• Steve Beresford
  
• John Coxon
  
• John Edwards
  
• Evan Parker
  

or on January 30th:

Line-up

• Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
  
• Michael Moore
  
• Thomas Heberer
  
• Alex McGuire
  
• Ernst Glerum
  
• Mark Sanders
  
• Ab Baars
  
• Phil Minton
  
• Alex Ward
  
• Roger Turner
  
• Wolter Wierbos
  
• John Butcher
  

[BillF]

Jim Rotondi/Eric Alexander organ quartet at Southport last night. Superb! Here's their album, on sale during the tour and on general release in April:

Edited February 4, 2013 by BillF

[Tom 1960]

Jim Rotondi/Eric Alexander organ quartet at Southport last night. Superb! Here's their album, released last month:

Sounds like you had a great time, Bill!

[ejp626]

A few nights ago I saw Vicky Chow (pianist with Bang on a Can) do a solo version of Reich's Piano Counterpoint. It was pretty mesmerizing. She also did a solo piano version of The Rite of Spring (I guess the Push Festival director requested this, but it seemed like a dumb idea to me and wasn't all that successful). There was supposed to be a piece by Andriessen, but this was scrapped for some reason. Piano Counterpoint did make the evening worthwhile.

Then today I saw the Emerson Quartet. Apparently, the cellist is hanging up his spurs after this season (end of May). He's been in the quartet since 1979! His replacement is Paul Watkins, which will hopefully be a good fit. I managed to see this line-up twice, and I will certaily see if I can see them with Watkins at some point down the road. They did Mozart Hoffmeister Quartet (K.499), Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, and Antonin Dvorak, Quartet in D minor, Opus 34. I enjoyed the Mozart and thought the Dvorak was outstanding. The Berg didn't do much for me, though I can tell they played it well. Anyway, a nice diversion from the Superbowl...

[kh1958]

Last night, Buddy Guy with Jonny Lang at Winstar Casino (on the Oklahoma side of the Texas-Oklahoma border). This turned out to be an excellent concert. The venue has surprisingly good sound; very clear and not overloud. Buddy was in fine form, playing a mixture of classic blues songs and compositions from his recent studio albums (I'm 74 Years Young had to be updated to his current age of 76). He played for about 45 minutes before bringing out Jonny Lang, departing from the stage, as Lang took over for two songs. I liked his guitar playing; his singing is about what one would expect. Then Buddy returned, and they played several songs together, with Buddy in the lead. The presence of Lang seemed to keep the program more focused than usual, and there was little of the abrupt song changes that are usual in Buddy Guy concerts. Essentially, it was a varied and dynamic 90 minute concert. Buddy Guy remains a strong and vital performer.

Edited February 9, 2013 by kh1958

[BFrank]

Tomorrow at SFJazz:

Dave Holland Prism

Dave Holland, bass

Craig Taborn, electric & acoustic pianos

Kevin Eubanks, guitar

Eric Harland, drums

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Tonight in Boston: Branford Marsalis - 4 MFs Playing Tunes.

[king ubu]

Curtis Fuller Sextet last night ... a band made up of Americans (Fuller, Josh Bruneau on trumpet and Rob Bargad on piano) and Europeans (Ralph Reichert on tenor, Milan Nikolic on bass and Joris Dudli on drums).

Probably the closest I ever got to witness Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in concert ... mighty fine band playing staples from Fuller's and Blakey's repertoire (Arabia, Up Jumped Spring, Caravan as closer) and other bebop staples such as "Star Eyes". Bruneau and Reichter did a beautiful ballad medley (Blame It on My Youth and It's Easy to Remember), the trio got featured in both sets, first set was, I think, "Everything Happens to Me", then in the second set they did "I'm Old Fashioned" (which, according to Fuller, Coltrane never played again after the famous recording, and hence he wouldn't play on it either) ... Bargad was very good, the rhythm section totally in the pocket, they pulled some Jamal-like tricks (of Crosby/Fournier vintage) and Bargad went into some block chords/locked hands stuff à la Red Garland a few times ... truly fine and honest music played by a powerful band. Fuller himself, well ... he seems to be doing pretty well but he doesn't have that much strength left (no wonder, at that age) and his tone, while still round and beautiful, wasn't projecting too well in the room (he seemed to often play next to rather than into the mic, too), and while soms solos came off pretty well, there were spots where you could kind of hear what he had in mind but it wouldn't come out quite that way ... but it was still great to see him, and the concert as a whole was very good.

[Mike Schwartz]

Saw Dr. John at Yoshi's Oakland last nite....Fat Tuesday

Went with 3 friends and we had so much fun...sat in front right against the stage right in the 'Dr.'s office'

Seen him maybe 4 times over the years; yesterday was by leaps & bounds the best of them all! a GREAT show!!

Fresh arrangements carried the day overall and he's the kind of guy who can change the delivery of a song at will with complete ease.

I always hope he will stretch and play out more on piano, which he did in spots.

Also played an electric keyboard some and strapped on a guitar for a couple of tunes, which I did not know he did and obviously had never seen.

2 sets tonight and 2 more Thursday...highly recommended.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Curtis Fuller Sextet last night ... a band made up of Americans (Fuller, Josh Bruneau on trumpet and Rob Bargad on piano) and Europeans (Ralph Reichert on tenor, Milan Nikolic on bass and Joris Dudli on drums).

Probably the closest I ever got to witness Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in concert ... mighty fine band playing staples from Fuller's and Blakey's repertoire (Arabia, Up Jumped Spring, Caravan as closer) and other bebop staples such as "Star Eyes". Bruneau and Reichter did a beautiful ballad medley (Blame It on My Youth and It's Easy to Remember), the trio got featured in both sets, first set was, I think, "Everything Happens to Me", then in the second set they did "I'm Old Fashioned" (which, according to Fuller, Coltrane never played again after the famous recording, and hence he wouldn't play on it either) ... Bargad was very good, the rhythm section totally in the pocket, they pulled some Jamal-like tricks (of Crosby/Fournier vintage) and Bargad went into some block chords/locked hands stuff à la Red Garland a few times ... truly fine and honest music played by a powerful band. Fuller himself, well ... he seems to be doing pretty well but he doesn't have that much strength left (no wonder, at that age) and his tone, while still round and beautiful, wasn't projecting too well in the room (he seemed to often play next to rather than into the mic, too), and while soms solos came off pretty well, there were spots where you could kind of hear what he had in mind but it wouldn't come out quite that way ... but it was still great to see him, and the concert as a whole was very good.

Curtis hasn't been playing that well for a while. While that's understandable given his age, I also heard that he had part of one lung removed, which would hinder anyone, never mind a trombone player.

The last time I saw him, he used a wireless microphone and it captured his sound much better. Before that, he soloed with a microphone basically stuffed into the bell of his horn. I wonder why he didn't stick with the wireless unit? He has to know if made him sound a lot better.

Like you, I've been glad to see him and I plan to see him again if he makes his way through the Boston area.

Edited February 14, 2013 by Kevin Bresnahan

[king ubu]

Oh, it was a great concert, all in all! But yeah, a wireless mic sounds like a good idea - or they should have adjusted his mic a bit, since he really wasn't that close most of the time. But I was sitting in front row and had most of the sound live, not via PA.

I went to shake hands and say thanks to Mr. Fuller in the break but didn't intrude for long as there were other, much older gents around sharing photos of themselves with Fuller at the Nice Jazz Parade etc. They had a ball ... so, it was really good to see it all (much better, I dare say, than last fall's concerts by Lateef/Shepp and Konitz). And Joris Dudli really is a hell of a drummer, he drove that truck, as Mr. Sangrey would say