What live music are you going to see tonight?

[Steve Reynolds]

Second set I just got home from among the greatest sets of music I’ve ever seen.

speechless 

[mjazzg]

7 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Second set I just got home from among the greatest sets of music I’ve ever seen.

speechless 

Nice one

Berne used to be a regular visitor to the Vortex and I saw some great shows with various bands.

Doesn't come over here now, like so many others.

[Steve Reynolds]

Tonight Tim with Matt Mitchell (electric keys), Brandon Seabrook & Tim Angelo

second set exploded when bass drum pedal broke. Mat & Randy were going to play a free duo piece / instead as the staff went to get a back up pedal, Mat says “one minute bass solo, Brandon!” Lopez destroyed the world in a minute. Drum/viola followed with the great men reaching levels unknown to this world. Final composed piece surpassed everything with Lucian on another level mixing inside piano & the keyboard unlike anyone I’ve seen. Wowza.

it goes without saying that Randy Peterson is the greatest drummer I know. Can play more with one cymbal than most drummers can play with a whole kit. Stunning every fucking time. No groove like Randy’s. Deepest swing on the planet at tempos often slower than the thickest goo ever produced. Slow, slower and slowest. Adding Brandon Lopez to this trio has manifested in the most unique oblique group I know of. Mat strongest performance I’ve seen from him in a few years and there is no musician I see play live as often as Mat. 

[Steve Reynolds]

Saturday night Fred Frith with Zeena Parkins!

The Stone at The New School 8:30 show

[Alexander Hawkins]

On 10/4/2023 at 3:51 PM, Steve Reynolds said:

Berne plays at Lowlands in Brooklyn most Thursdays. This week with Matt Mitchell, Brandon Seabrook & Tim Angelo. I plan on being there. 3-4 feet away. I’ve seen Tim about 10 times this year at this tiny bar. He walks there from his home. He often brings high profile players like Michael Formanek (last week) and Chris Potter (the week before). Great to hear Potter solely on bass clarinet tearing it up. Oscar Noriega is often with him as well. Amazing clarinet player. I’ve seen David Torn there twice with him as well. Plus Ches Smith who is as incredible as Rainey is in a far different way. 
 

No CD’s yet with Belisle-Chi but there is download with Tim, Gregg & Rainey on Bandcamp with many of the songs they play live. I have not listened. 
 

Wooley’s Columbia Icefield has 2 releases. With Mary Halvorson, Susan Alcorn & Ryan Sawyer. They are both great. Mutual Aid Music 2 releases / single CD and 3 CD box. Very demanding music. 
 

tonight Mat Maneri’s Quartet with Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez and the *great* Randy Peterson for 2 sets at Jazz Gallery in Manhattan. Saturday night Fred Frith with Zeena Parkins. Next Wednesday Fred with Nava Dunkelman and 2 other woman string players I’m unfamiliar with. Golden time for live music in New York. I’ve been going to 10-12 shows a month this past year. Glorious. 

Just a quick one - but there is this one of Tim and Gregg together on Intakt. I also caught them in Germany (in trio with Hank Roberts) sometime last year when we intersected on tour, and it was absolutely stunning.

[Steve Reynolds]

Theresa Wong, Carla Kihlstedt, Nava Dunkelman & Fred Frith

The Stone @ New School 8:30 set

[Steve Reynolds]

12 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Theresa Wong, Carla Kihlstedt, Nava Dunkelman & Fred Frith

The Stone @ New School 8:30 set

Wowza

Lordy Lordy

[jlhoots]

Patty Griffin tomorrow.

[Steve Reynolds]

Mat Maneri Quartet last night in Kingston, NY

maybe better every time

with Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez and the incredible Randy Peterson

[T.D.]

5 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Mat Maneri Quartet last night in Kingston, NY

maybe better every time

with Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez and the incredible Randy Peterson

Damn. I only recently discovered that Arts Society of Kingston has been having concerts, but forgot to bookmark their page. 😢

[cliffpeterson]

Mat Maneri quartet in Kingston-terrific concert.

 

Last night in West Stockbridge, MA-Daniel Carter, Demian Richardson and Ayumi Ishito also great.

[jazztrain]

Went last night to see Charles Lloyd (with Jason Moran, Eric Harland, and Reuben Rogers) in Boston.

 

[mjazzg]

Just now, jazztrain said:

Went last night to see Charles Lloyd (with Jason Moran, Eric Harland, and Reuben Rogers) in Boston.

 

Nice band, how was it? I have tickets for a month's time, he's playing with Marvin Sewell and Gerald Clayton.

Will be my fourth time seeing Lloyd, he's always been good so far

[jazztrain]

Good show.  My first time seeing him live.  Lloyd was very lyrical at times.  My wife loved it as well.  As expected, he played tenor and flute, but he also played a reddish/brownish straight saxophone (a stritch, perhaps?) at the beginning of his first encore.  It looked somewhat like a rosewood clarinet, but it sounded like a saxophone.  

I just looked online.  It was a tárogató.  

[mjazzg]

30 minutes ago, jazztrain said:

Good show.  My first time seeing him live.  Lloyd was very lyrical at times.  My wife loved it as well.  As expected, he played tenor and flute, but he also played a reddish/brownish straight saxophone (a stritch, perhaps?) at the beginning of his first encore.  It looked somewhat like a rosewood clarinet, but it sounded like a saxophone.  

I just looked online.  It was a tárogató.  

Glad you enjoyed it. I do love his lyricism

[mjazzg]

Last night, Balimaya Project at the Barbican

Everything that's good about this city and its younger generation musicians. Superb.

[mjazzg]

Josephine Davies Satori at the Karamel Club

Great to have a Jazz venue 5 minutes from the front door

[Rabshakeh]

8 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Josephine Davies Satori at the Karamel Club

Great to have a Jazz venue 5 minutes from the front door

How is it? I was chatting about it today with friends and none of us knew it.

LJF has some of the more okay events on there this year.

[Steve Reynolds]

Patricia Brennan Trio: The Stone at New School

unfamiliar with the guitarist (Keisuke Matsuno) or drummer (Noel Brennan)

Patricia is a great vibraphonist

fwiw this past Tuesday great sets at Record Shop in Brooklyn / think I commented elsewhere. The little improv scene in Brooklyn is piping hot!!!

 

[mjazzg]

12 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

How is it? I was chatting about it today with friends and none of us knew it.

LJF has some of the more okay events on there this year.

It's a nice space that's struggled to keep going as the local arts scene has been pushed away by developments.Think Vortex but with more pale wood, less industrial. Only have upright piano but Liam Noble and Alcyona Mick both made it sound good when I heard them. Vegetarian thali has a strong reputation but I haven't tried it as eating there seems a bit silly 5 minutes from my kitchen

They have strong links with Tomorrow's Warriors and showcase a lot of their young bands. Also have strong links with the Lowther/Sulzman/Themen generation who all play there fairly regularly.

Last night there were just 12 in the audience and I wonder how sustainable that can be but they announced two of their LJF shows are sold out or near so 

There's what seems likely to be a great show but I'm double booked with Charles Lloyd

https://www.musicglue.com/karamel/events/2023-11-17-unknown-to-known-karamel

I'll likely try the Steve Watts Trio as Iain Ballamy is playing

Easy to get to from Wood Green tube, 10 minute walk and N22 isn't that scary 😮

[Rabshakeh]

6 hours ago, mjazzg said:

It's a nice space that's struggled to keep going as the local arts scene has been pushed away by developments.Think Vortex but with more pale wood, less industrial. Only have upright piano but Liam Noble and Alcyona Mick both made it sound good when I heard them. Vegetarian thali has a strong reputation but I haven't tried it as eating there seems a bit silly 5 minutes from my kitchen

They have strong links with Tomorrow's Warriors and showcase a lot of their young bands. Also have strong links with the Lowther/Sulzman/Themen generation who all play there fairly regularly.

Last night there were just 12 in the audience and I wonder how sustainable that can be but they announced two of their LJF shows are sold out or near so 

There's what seems likely to be a great show but I'm double booked with Charles Lloyd

https://www.musicglue.com/karamel/events/2023-11-17-unknown-to-known-karamel

I'll likely try the Steve Watts Trio as Iain Ballamy is playing

Easy to get to from Wood Green tube, 10 minute walk and N22 isn't that scary 😮

Thanks. Good to know. I'm likely keeping a low profile for the next few months, but I'll keep an eye on it.

[mjazzg]

17 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Thanks. Good to know. I'm likely keeping a low profile for the next few months, but I'll keep an eye on it.

Let me know if you do break cover and fancy a local guide

[kh1958]

Yesterday afternoon at the Allen Public Library Auditorium:

Set 1: Swarnendu Mandal (Sarod) and Gourisankar (tabla).

Set 2: Indrajit Banerjee (Sitar) and Gourisankar (tabla)l

[jlhoots]

Kirk Knuffke Trio - tomorrow

[mjazzg]

32 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Kirk Knuffke Trio - tomorrow

Wish he'd come to London