What live music are you going to see tonight?

[kh1958]

Saturday night, Lucky Peterson at Red Hot and Blue, about a mile or so from my home. An outdoor venue on an unseasonably cold night, but a real B3 is present so after too long of a wait there is lots of tasty organ playing, as well as some rather fine guitar.  

[bertrand]

I will be in Allentown as well!

[mr jazz]

Eliane Elias at Rose Hall-Lincoln Center this Friday-1st half tribute to Bill Evans with Johnson and La Barbera.  Maybe Fred Hersch over the weekend. 

[kh1958]

At the Allen Public Library Auditorium: Sandip Chatterjee   Santoor
Subhajyoti Guha   Tabla

A very beautiful concert.
  

[optatio]

Tonight I have been in our medieval town hall from 1270 and have listened to Gunter Hampel's Music + Dance Improvisation Company in honor of Gunter´s 80th birthday in August this year and as part of the 40th Göttinger Jazzfestival.

Personnel: Gunter Hampel (vib, bcl, fl, perc), daughter Cavana Lee Hampel (voc), Johannes Schleiermacher (ts), Bernd Oezsevim (dr) and the dancers Danilo Cardoso, Chin Mei, Magdalena Dzeco and son Ruomi Lee Hampel.

Edited November 6, 2017 by optatio

[mjazzg]

10 hours ago, optatio said:

Tonight I have been in our medieval town hall from 1270 and have listened to Gunter Hampel's Music + Dance Improvisation Company in honor of Gunter´s 80th birthday in August this year and as part of the 40th Göttinger Jazzfestival.

Personnel: Gunter Hampel (vib, bcl, fl, perc), daughter Cavana Lee Hampel (voc), Johannes Schleiermacher (ts), Bernd Oezsevim (dr) and the dancers Danilo Cardoso, Chin Mei, Magdalena Dzeco and son Ruomi Lee Hampel.

Happy birthday Gunter! To the best of my knowledge he's not played in the UK for a very long time. One of the true originals who I'd love to see live. Maybe I need to travel to see him now

[jlhoots]

The Bad Plus

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Tomorrow night in Boston - Benny Golson at the Scullers Jazz Club.

It should be a good one. I do wish that they'd list the rest of the band.

[Dmitry]

2 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Tomorrow night in Boston - Benny Golson at the Scullers Jazz Club.

It should be a good one. I do wish that they'd list the rest of the band.

Sharp Radway - piano
Corcoran Holt - bass
John Lamkin - drums

Can't say I recognize any of these names. Enjoy the show, let us know what your impressions were.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, Dmitry said:

Sharp Radway - piano
Corcoran Holt - bass
John Lamkin - drums

Can't say I recognize any of these names. Enjoy the show, let us know what your impressions were.

John Lamkin used to be the house drummer at Wally's Jazz Cafe a long time ago. Dating myself here...

[mjazzg]

Keith Tippett. In duet with Matthew Bourne and with his Octet

[Steve Reynolds]

King Crimson in Allentown, PA

 

[optatio]

Tonight I will see Rolf Kühn (88!) with his Unit in our German Theater as part of our 40^th Jazzfestival. Line Up: Rolf Kühn (cl), Philipp Gropper (sax) Ronny Graupe (g), Johannes Fink (b), Christian Lillinger (dr).

Rolf Kühn is a contemporary witness of the Reichskristallnacht (Crystal Night) November 9, 1938. He was 9 years old when he viseted the shop of his mother, born Moses, in Leipzig the day after and saw the wrecked furnishing by the Nazis with bike chains.

[BillF]

Greg Abate and David Newton with local bass and drums at Malcolm Frazer's house tonight.

[sidewinder]

Pat Metheny

 

 

2 hours ago, optatio said:

Tonight I will see Rolf Kühn (88!) with his Unit in our German Theater as part of our 40^th Jazzfestival. Line Up: Rolf Kühn (cl), Philipp Gropper (sax) Ronny Graupe (g), Johannes Fink (b), Christian Lillinger (dr).

Rolf Kühn is a contemporary witness of the Reichskristallnacht (Crystal Night) November 9, 1938. He was 9 years old when he viseted the shop of his mother, born Moses, in Leipzig the day after and saw the wrecked furnishing by the Nazis with bike chains.

Great that he’s still actively playing !

Edited November 11, 2017 by sidewinder

[optatio]

On 11.11.2017 at 3:43 PM, sidewinder said:

Great that he’s still actively playing !

Indeed - see photo of yesterday!

                                                                                                                                                                                                        © Christoph Mischke 

40th Göttinger Jazzfestival: Gunter Hampel (80), Rolf Kühn (88) and at last Marshall Allen (93) with the Sun Ra Arkestra. I saw him with the late Sun Ra many years ago. Now 93 and so active – unbelievable!                                                                                                                                                                                                  

[Niko]

still playing, and: still playing with the very best younger musicians at 88 ... (at least, that's what I extrapolate from reading the name Lillinger in the line-up)

[optatio]

2 hours ago, Niko said:

still playing, and: still playing with the very best younger musicians at 88 ... (at least, that's what I extrapolate from reading the name Lillinger in the line-up)

Here they are: Johannes Fink (53), Joachim Kühn (88), Christian Lillinger (33), Ronny Graupe (38) - Philipp Gropper (39) came later on stage:

© Christoph Mischke

 

Edited November 12, 2017 by optatio

[OliverM]

Tonight: DKV & Joe McPhee at Instants Chavirés

[Steve Reynolds]

12 hours ago, OliverM said:

Tonight: DKV & Joe McPhee at Instants Chavirés

Enjoy - dream band with the *great* Joe McPhee joining the long standing awe-inspiring trio...

[OliverM]

Thanks! It was really as you said. Very strong music that stays with you. Total engagement.

A friend showed me Ken Vandermark's comments on Instagram which are great to see what is perceived from the musician's point of view:

"There are highlights on a tour, and there are highlights. On a cold Monday in November, DKV played their third quartet gig with Joe McPhee, at Les Instants Chavirés in Paris. During soundcheck Joe started running, "Knox," which I recognized from his solo album "Tenor," one of my favorite albums of all time and the LP that transformed my life and led me to the music that I'm playing today. I suggested that we perform this incredible piece of blues during the concert and Joe merely said, "If it comes up." To say that I hoped it would was an understatement. What happened was even better than that- not only did we explore "Knox" on the bandstand with Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake, Joe introduced his classic composition, "Nation Time," in the first set. With it, the four of us set fire to the room. The third concert by this set of musicians brought things to ensemble territory- this was no longer Joe McPhee joining an established band as a guest, this was now a real band finding their way each night and introducing new materials to each other every set. I can't put into words the intensity I felt playing Joe's pieces with him onstage, music that I studied while in college during the mid 1980s, and that I arranged for him and eight other Chicagoans on one of my last albums for Okka Disk, "Impressions of Po Music." November 13, 2017 goes down in the books for me. Tonight DKV/McPhee performs at the Blue Tomato in Vienna, one of our favorite clubs in the world and already sold out- it will be a celebration with friends in spite of the strange and difficult times surrounding us. As Joe said in 1970, and which has more meaning now than ever before, "What Time Is It?!"

 

Edited November 14, 2017 by OliverM

[MacCruiskeen]

Herbie Hancock London Jazz festival. Less than sum of the parts I'm afraid.

[mjazzg]

Paolo Conte - London Jazz Festival. Very much more than the sum of its parts I'm pleased to report. Absolutely masterful performance by the maestro and his superlative band

Shame about Herbie

[sidewinder]

21 hours ago, MacCruiskeen said:

Herbie Hancock London Jazz festival. Less than sum of the parts I'm afraid.

How was the sound balance? There were some negative reports for the Pat Metheny but personally I thought the sound was pretty good (and the 2 hours 40 minutes of music were spectacular).

[JohnS]

Last night, Christian Scott at Turner Sims.  I didn't really know what to expect but his playing was quite astonishing.  Terrific technique and sound.  Some effective use of electronics.  Pretty much a full house with an appreciative audience, good mix of ages too.