What live music are you going to see tonight?

[Steve Reynolds]

Anthony Braxton 70th birthday concert at the Bimhuis as part of the Doek festival.

I looked this up and I see that this might be about the most impressive gathering of current improvisors/musicians playing together in one place for one night.

Names that scream out at me:

Michael Moore

Nate Wooley

Mary Halvorsen

Ingrid Laubrock

Wolter Wierbos

Eric Boeren

Tomeka Reid

Michael Vatcher

Brandon Seabrook

Vincent Chancey

Wow

[erwbol]

Anthony Braxton 70th birthday concert at the Bimhuis as part of the Doek festival.

The first set was Falling River Music with about ten musicians on stage. Stunningly beautiful. Absolutely brilliant music. I had a seat on the second row and Braxton stood about 2.5 meters away from me, slightly to the left, so I could hear his contributions with great precision.

Then after a short intermission the full ensemble (about twenty musicians) played another terrific set of Braxton's older sometimes swinging compositions. At several points Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum and James Fei were conducting simultaneously.

A memorable evening of musical genius in a pleasant room. That whole area right from Central Station bordering the IJ waterway is full of modern architecture with lots of space with water in most directions. You can actually find places to sit and relax and enjoy the view there without the fevered activity of Amsterdam's city centre getting to you. That's unique in that city.

[Steve Reynolds]

Very glad you were able to experience the concert, erwbol

Like you, I love to hear and feel my favorite musicians up close. Last time I saw Evan Parker, I could have interfered with his saxophone playing if I chose to!!!

[erwbol]

Thanks, small rooms and modest settings always make it easier to connect with the music for me. I'd also like to see Evan Parker next time he brings his trio over to the Bimhuis.

I did a little searching and came to the conclusion that no CD of Falling River Music for larger nine or ten piece ensemble has been released yet(?). I hope a suitable performance will be released on CD soon.

There is a YouTube video of the FRM nonet from 2014.

[BillF]

This outfit at Band on the Wall this evening.

Fine session. Well integrated group - they should be after five years! - with a brand of showmanship that the large audience loved.

[uli]

Anthony Braxton 70th birthday concert at the Bimhuis as part of the Doek festival.

The first set was Falling River Music with about ten musicians on stage. Stunningly beautiful. Absolutely brilliant music. I had a seat on the second row and Braxton stood about 2.5 meters away from me, slightly to the left, so I could hear his contributions with great precision.

Then after a short intermission the full ensemble (about twenty musicians) played another terrific set of Braxton's older sometimes swinging compositions. At several points Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum and James Fei were conducting simultaneously.

A memorable evening of musical genius in a pleasant room. That whole area right from Central Station bordering the IJ waterway is full of modern architecture with lots of space with water in most directions. You can actually find places to sit and relax and enjoy the view there without the fevered activity of Amsterdam's city centre getting to you. That's unique in that city.

listening to it right now on bimhuis radio. with interestng interviews/comments from band members

http://bimhuis.nl/bimhuisradio

wow, happy b-day mr, braxton!

Edited June 5, 2015 by uli

[erwbol]

Anthony Braxton 70th birthday concert at the Bimhuis as part of the Doek festival.

The first set was Falling River Music with about ten musicians on stage. Stunningly beautiful. Absolutely brilliant music. I had a seat on the second row and Braxton stood about 2.5 meters away from me, slightly to the left, so I could hear his contributions with great precision.

Then after a short intermission the full ensemble (about twenty musicians) played another terrific set of Braxton's older sometimes swinging compositions. At several points Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum and James Fei were conducting simultaneously.

A memorable evening of musical genius in a pleasant room. That whole area right from Central Station bordering the IJ waterway is full of modern architecture with lots of space with water in most directions. You can actually find places to sit and relax and enjoy the view there without the fevered activity of Amsterdam's city centre getting to you. That's unique in that city.

listening to it right now on bimhuis radio. with interestng interviews/comments from band members

http://bimhuis.nl/bimhuisradio

wow, happy b-day mr, braxton!

Hopefully it will be uploaded to Dimeadozen.

[uli]

Anthony Braxton 70th birthday concert at the Bimhuis as part of the Doek festival.

The first set was Falling River Music with about ten musicians on stage. Stunningly beautiful. Absolutely brilliant music. I had a seat on the second row and Braxton stood about 2.5 meters away from me, slightly to the left, so I could hear his contributions with great precision.

Then after a short intermission the full ensemble (about twenty musicians) played another terrific set of Braxton's older sometimes swinging compositions. At several points Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum and James Fei were conducting simultaneously.

A memorable evening of musical genius in a pleasant room. That whole area right from Central Station bordering the IJ waterway is full of modern architecture with lots of space with water in most directions. You can actually find places to sit and relax and enjoy the view there without the fevered activity of Amsterdam's city centre getting to you. That's unique in that city.

listening to it right now on bimhuis radio. with interestng interviews/comments from band members

http://bimhuis.nl/bimhuisradio

wow, happy b-day mr, braxton!

Hopefully it will be uploaded to Dimeadozen.

i think it's planned to be in the podcast archives of bimhuis radio fo a year,

[erwbol]

Anthony Braxton 70th birthday concert at the Bimhuis as part of the Doek festival.

The first set was Falling River Music with about ten musicians on stage. Stunningly beautiful. Absolutely brilliant music. I had a seat on the second row and Braxton stood about 2.5 meters away from me, slightly to the left, so I could hear his contributions with great precision.

Then after a short intermission the full ensemble (about twenty musicians) played another terrific set of Braxton's older sometimes swinging compositions. At several points Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum and James Fei were conducting simultaneously.

A memorable evening of musical genius in a pleasant room. That whole area right from Central Station bordering the IJ waterway is full of modern architecture with lots of space with water in most directions. You can actually find places to sit and relax and enjoy the view there without the fevered activity of Amsterdam's city centre getting to you. That's unique in that city.

listening to it right now on bimhuis radio. with interestng interviews/comments from band members

http://bimhuis.nl/bimhuisradio

wow, happy b-day mr, braxton!

Hopefully it will be uploaded to Dimeadozen.

i think it's planned to be in the podcast archives of bimhuis radio fo a year,

I was able to rip the archived Mixcloud stream to an .mp4 using http://www.download-mixcloud.com/.

[alankin]

Last night.

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet AACM 50th Anniversary Celebration

Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet + flugelhorn

Anthony Davis, piano

John Lindberg, bass

Pheeroan akLaff, drums + percussion

Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz738 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA

[mjazzg]

Last night.

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet AACM 50th Anniversary Celebration

Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet + flugelhorn

Anthony Davis, piano

John Lindberg, bass

Pheeroan akLaff, drums + percussion

Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz738 S. Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA

bet that was special?

[alankin]

Last night.

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet AACM 50th Anniversary Celebration

Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet + flugelhorn

Anthony Davis, piano

John Lindberg, bass

Pheeroan akLaff, drums + percussion

Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz

738 S. Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA

bet that was special?

Good concert. The music was selections from Smith's "Ten Freedom Summers". John Lindberg's playing was fantastic both - he makes difficult playing look easy. I think he's the only one of the quartet I've seen before. Anthony Davis was also great, too bad he hasn't been more active recording. I had hoped for more variety in the trumpet playing - Smith seemed to have more of a contribution from this compositions and direction than his soloing.

My table mates had a discussion about the titles of his pieces, wondering how music that seemed very abstract related to the events -- Emmett Till, Dred Scott, Freedom Summer...

20150605_210431 by Alan

Edited June 6, 2015 by alankin

[A Lark Ascending]

Spent the day at the folk festival in Southwell, 45 minutes away from me in the posh bit of Nottinghamshire. Odd that I travel all over to hear music but have never been to this one on my doorstep before.

Nice, small festival with just three main tents of different sizes. A range of performers from just starting out youngsters through to a specially flown in Majorcan punk-folk band (who were great fun...not music I'd want to hear on the stereo but good in the flesh).

Stars were Martin Simpson/Nancy Kerr/Andy Cutting who are English folk royalty and played a beautiful set from their new album. Also another peerless set from Chris Wood and Andy Cutting - they perform rarely together (I think the last time was when I saw them In Sidmouth last August) but their rapport is extraordinary. English tunes (and the occasional French or French-Canadian) but played in a slow, gently unfolding way that has you in a state of bliss.

The group I was most looking forward to as I'd not yet seen them live were The Rheingans Sisters. I just love it when these utterly unique groups spring up from nowhere. Two sisters playing fiddles (with the occasional bit of banjo). Some English stuff but they both spent some time in northern Sweden so there's that element; and then the younger sister has just finished a degree in south west France learning the traditional music of that region so that goes in the mix. Utterly entrancing - again, like with Wood and Cutting, totally in synch, each one effortlessly taking over the lead lines from the other or gently embellishing the line started by the other.

More confirmation of richness of the musical times we live in. I am never short of surprises.

[Van Basten II]

Jason Sharp solo on baritone sax and Matana Robert doing solo chapter 3 of her Coin coin project, playing loops, doing vocals and alto sax with images screened behind her, not her most convivial project. Overall it was interesting stuff but after a while I was longing for interaction with live people after near two hours of musicians alone on stage .

[ejp626]

Wasn't sure I would make it in, but saw Tafelmusik doing a free show on Friday. Was very entertaining -- and hard to beat free! Highlights were Telemann's Wassermusik Suite and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #3.

[BillF]

Gilad Atzmon at Wilmslow.

It was his birthday and he had hoped to celebrate it at Royal Northern College ....

[erwbol]

Gilad Atzmon at Wilmslow.

It was his birthday and he had hoped to celebrate it at Royal Northern College ....

But the political correctness nazis intervened?

Edited June 10, 2015 by erwbol

[niels]

Well, not tonight but I just bought tickets for the Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet (Jason Jarde, Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards) next week in the Bimhuis which I'm quite exited about.

[erwbol]

Well, not tonight but I just bought tickets for the Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet (Jason Jarde, Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards) next week in the Bimhuis which I'm quite exited about.

Do you go to the Bimhuis often?

[niels]

Well, not tonight but I just bought tickets for the Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet (Jason Jarde, Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards) next week in the Bimhuis which I'm quite exited about.

Do you go to the Bimhuis often?

To be honest, this will be my first time. Till last year I never really went to Jazz concerts as all of my friends are in different "scene's" (mostly house, hip-hop and/or the funk/soul/jazz DJ scene), but this year I decided to just go by myself if a great concert comes up.

[erwbol]

Well, not tonight but I just bought tickets for the Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet (Jason Jarde, Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards) next week in the Bimhuis which I'm quite exited about.

Do you go to the Bimhuis often?

To be honest, this will be my first time. Till last year I never really went to Jazz concerts as all of my friends are in different "scene's" (mostly house, hip-hop and/or the funk/soul/jazz DJ scene), but this year I decided to just go by myself if a great concert comes up.

The Braxton concert was also my first visit. I hadn't been to a (jazz) concert since North Sea Jazz 2004 in the Hague.

It's a great room and the entrance bridge is spectacular unless you're afraid of heights!

[niels]

Yeah, I'm very exited about the venue and I'm luckily not really afraid of heights.

Nowadays I work most of the week in Utrecht near Central Station (100m from the Dom) so that makes a trip to the Bimhuis quite easy. I'm definitely planning on going more often.

[BillF]

Gilad Atzmon at Wilmslow.

It was his birthday and he had hoped to celebrate it at Royal Northern College ....

But the political correctness nazis intervened?

Well, as he said, "Royal Northern College of Music, the place where you're not allowed to play music."

[Steve Reynolds]

Well, not tonight but I just bought tickets for the Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet (Jason Jarde, Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards) next week in the Bimhuis which I'm quite exited about.

I am very happy for you that you will see this quartet live. Besides me being very much interested in seeing Hawkins and Yarde, my dream remains to see Louis Moholo-Moholo live one day. In addition, I am pretty sure that John Edwards is the greatest living bassist I've not seen live.

[A Lark Ascending]

Well, not tonight but I just bought tickets for the Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet (Jason Jarde, Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards) next week in the Bimhuis which I'm quite exited about.

You'll enjoy that. They were tremendous in Sheffield a couple of years back.