What live music are you going to see tonight?

[Steve Reynolds]

About 45 minutes until The Tyshawn Sorey Quaryet

My wife just got a hug from Angelica!!!

[medjuck]

Saw Sheila in Vienna some six or seven years ago and she was magnificient ... doing three sets with the late Fritz Pauer's trio, and at the end, when I went to say thanks and shook hands quickly, she was astonished to hear someone remembered her Blue Note album (one very dear to me). Would love to hear her again!

She made mention of that album during her performance. I talked to her briefly between sets and mentioned that I'd bought it when it was new50 years ago. I'd forgotten that it was her first record. (Though I think she recorded with George Russell before then.)

[Steve Reynolds]

More later within a few days BUT

First set 2 pieces wholly improvised each 30 minutes

Mind blowing

[BFrank]

Not exactly music, but I'm seeing Christopher Guest in a discussion format on Tuesday.

Thursday: SF Jazz Collective

[jlhoots]

Yosvany Terry Quintet

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Tonight at Berklee is "Celebrating Blakey: The Messenger Legacy" with Reggie Workman, Donald Harrison, Brian Lynch, Billy Pierce, Donald Brown, and Ralph Peterson. I suspect that this will be a good one.

[BFrank]

SF Jazz Collective tonight. It's their 10th anniversary, and they're playing selections from their entire repertoire through the weekend.

Current lineup:

Miguel Zenón, alto saxophone

David Sánchez, tenor saxophone

Avishai Cohen, trumpet

Robin Eubanks, trombone

Warren Wolf, vibraphone

Edward Simon, piano

Matt Penman, bass

Obed Calvaire, drums

[Steve Reynolds]

For those who don't know, Hamid Drake is the greatest pure drummer in the world

First set tonight beyond intense and was the heaviest grooviest set of music I might have ever heard

[Steve Reynolds]

Second set even better

Lordy Lordy

[Steve Reynolds]

Parker's melodies are beyond beautiful

[jlhoots]

Parker's melodies are beyond beautiful

I ordered the new 8 CD Parker Aum Fidelity set. Hope it's as good as it should be.

[Steve Reynolds]

Discs 1, 5 and 7 are great. Sound is very good.

Especially impressed by the Sextet with Bradford, Spauding and the great Billy Bang.

Much more to this quartet and variations than might immediately meet the ears.

The last 2 nights are too fresh in my heart to be able to express much more for whatever reason.

Btw William's notes in the booklet are very enlightening and speak very clearly about what this music is about.

Edited October 12, 2013 by Steve Reynolds

[BFrank]

Very affordable, too! 8CDs/$60 (or $80, signed & numbered)

I might have to get that.

[Steve Reynolds]

Biggest gift so far with the set is the 3 guest musicians on the 2009 Vision Fest show. Bang is brilliant, Bradford is in fine form and James Spaulding plays as if possessed.

The gift for those not that familiar with the core quartet could be Rob Brown. Grounded to the groove but goes way out very effectively.

Now listening to incredible violin/drum duet section and it like something I just heard only with the late great violinist.

Drake's grooves and organic playing is really something to savor. I'll treasure the memories of the last 2 nights forever.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

saw pat martino this weekend, fri/sat nites- it was just like being there, in the Philly organ clubs of the 60s. the sax player, james carter, he was playing in that style. something you dont hear from horn players these days, he was in full willis jackson mode, pat was phenomenal, had a great time

[BillF]

saw pat martino this weekend, fri/sat nites- it was just like being there, in the Philly organ clubs of the 60s. the sax player, james carter, he was playing in that style. something you dont hear from horn players these days, he was in full willis jackson mode, pat was phenomenal, had a great time

Saw him in a Manchester club a few months ago in an organ/drums trio. Sat on the front row and it was a great gig.

Edited October 14, 2013 by BillF

[Larry Kart]

So-so "Otello" at Lyric Opera yesterday afternoon. Bland production, conducting, and singing except for the radiant Desdemona, Ana Maria Martinez. OTOH, thanks in large part to her, they pretty much brought home the bacon in Act Four.

Except for the excellent chorus and Martinez, the singers all seemed rather mushy rhythmically, a bit behind the orchestra. But then the conducting seemed rather mushy, too, so....

[JohnS]

Yesterday evening - Art Trip. A tribute to Art Pepper with Alan Barnes. Some very energetic playing by Barnes, in fact the best I've heard him, who seemed to be in his element. All the numbers were associated or composed with Pepper, good to hear some of these rarely played pieces.

[BillF]

Yesterday evening - Art Trip. A tribute to Art Pepper with Alan Barnes. Some very energetic playing by Barnes, in fact the best I've heard him, who seemed to be in his element. All the numbers were associated or composed with Pepper, good to hear some of these rarely played pieces.

Glad it went well, John!

[jlhoots]

Steve Earle

[JohnS]

Last night a terrific gig by the David Murray Infinity Quartet (Rod Williams, Jaribu Shahid and Nasheet Waits).. Highlights were the bass clarinet feature When the Monarchs Come To Town and Solitude, a tenor/bass duet. Waits got some exciting and musical solos.

[Steve Reynolds]

Last night a terrific gig by the David Murray Infinity Quartet (Rod Williams, Jaribu Shahid and Nasheet Waits).. Highlights were the bass clarinet feature When the Monarchs Come To Town and Solitude, a tenor/bass duet. Waits got some exciting and musical solos.

On a good night Nasheet Waits is a very exciting drummer to see and hear live

[Justin V]

Last night, I caught Paul McCandless with some Oberlin students and faculty, with the latter including Jamey Haddad, Jay Ashby and Peter Dominguez. McCandless played soprano, bass clarinet, penny whistle, cor anglais and sopranino, I believe. The various student ensembles included clarinet, flute, harp, violin, cello, guitar, piano, drums and percussion.

It was my first time catching McCandless, and I am not very familiar with his work. I was impressed by his facility and tone on his wide variety of instruments and his writing for the various ensembles, which successfully combined classical students with jazz students. It's pretty cool seeing students play with major artists and finding out who rises to the occasion. One student guitarist, Joshua Rosner, played what was probably the slowest guitar solo I have ever heard; rather than dragging, however, it was oddly riveting. I wish that I would've thought to go up to him afterward and tell him how well he did.

McCandless seemed to genuinely enjoy working with the students, and Jamey Haddad was justifiably pleased by their performance. One of the highlights of the night was a rendition of Jim Pepper's 'Witchi-Tai-To', complete with the chant. It was the last song of the night, capping the portion of the set featuring McCandless with the faculty members (and talented student pianist, Shea Pierre, who studied with Ellis and Jason Marsalis). Although McCandless invited any musician who wanted to join them to come up, only one student, a percussionist, joined them.

Like a previous occasion when I caught Dave Liebman playing with Oberlin students (with Billy Hart lurking in the audience and coming up for a duet!), it was free and entirely worth the fifty-minute drive from Cleveland. It was good to see a nice turnout in the middle of midterms, too.

Edited October 24, 2013 by Justin V

[BillF]

Last night a terrific gig by the David Murray Infinity Quartet (Rod Williams, Jaribu Shahid and Nasheet Waits).. Highlights were the bass clarinet feature When the Monarchs Come To Town and Solitude, a tenor/bass duet. Waits got some exciting and musical solos.

[JohnS]

Last night a terrific gig by the David Murray Infinity Quartet (Rod Williams, Jaribu Shahid and Nasheet Waits).. Highlights were the bass clarinet feature When the Monarchs Come To Town and Solitude, a tenor/bass duet. Waits got some exciting and musical solos.

On a good night Nasheet Waits is a very exciting drummer to see and hear live

Must have been a good night Steve