What live music are you going to see tonight?

[kh1958]

This Saturday afternoon, at the Gainesville Blues and Tattoos Festival, Bnois King Band. He's a fabulous blues vocalist and his guitar is the opposite of the usual blues/rock guitarist of today. Bnois' guitar playing is elegant, measured, unhurried, rich in sound, yet also very intense, and achieved without a single guitar pedal.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Tonight, Randy Brecker and his wife, Ada Rovati are playing with a local rhythm section at the tiny Press Room club in Portsmouth, NH.

https://www.portsmouthnh.com/event/randy-brecker-and-ada-rovatti-at-the-press-room/

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Brecker & Rovatti put on a good show last night. The local rhythm section, Nick Grondin, guitar; Mark Shilansky, piano; Bronek Suchanek, bass and Austin McMahon, drums. I ended up getting moved around to 3 different tables because of a ticketing snafu but the final seat location, up on the balcony, is one of my preferred spots.

They opened with a tune from Brecker's, "In the Idiom", which I had him sign after the set. He gave some humorous stories before each tune. Nathan Jorgensen, Director of Jazz Studies at UNH, sat in for the last tune and played a fiery solo on his alto that would have made Cannonball proud.

The setlist:

There's A Mingus A Monk Us

Shanghigh

O Corko Mio

The Marble Sea

Over The Rainbow

Dirty Dogs

About the only negative (for me) was that the guitarist used heavy reverb throughout the set. I'm not a fan of that sound though my buddy who went with me (who plays guitar) says that some guitarists use that to sound more bluesy. I don't know if that's true.

[psu_13]

This weekend the Pittsburgh Symphony played the Mahler 2.

I went twice. It was great.

The companion piece, by Boris Pigovat, called Yizkor, was also great both times, and a fitting prelude to the Mahler.

More on that here: https://pigovat.com/wordpress/yizkor/

 

[HutchFan]

11 minutes ago, psu_13 said:

This weekend the Pittsburgh Symphony played the Mahler 2.

I went twice. It was great.

Who was the conductor?  Manfred Honeck?

 

[psu_13]

Yeah it was Honeck.

[Rabshakeh]

Just watched Steve Coleman, with Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet, Rich Brown on electric bass, and Sean Rickman on drums. The gig was at Ronnie Scott's. 

Some very good tunes, which really made me realise how much Coleman in practice owes to his elder namesake Ornette Coleman (even if he himself maybe prefers comparisons to Charlie Parker). But the band lost the audience quite badly in the last quarter of the show with some ill judged audience participation. It was quite a harsh turn. 

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[ejp626]

Saw Coleman with the remains of the Bad Plus a few weeks back, playing Jarrett's music from his American Quartet days.  Overall, an enjoyable concert.  This may be the first time I've seen Coleman live.

I'll be heading over to the Rex to catch Allison Au play on Friday and probably the set afterwards, depending on how tired I am.

The following week it's Kirk MacDonald and Pat LaBarbera doing their annual Coltrane tribute at the Jazz Bistro with Neil Swainson on bass and Terry Clarke on drums.  Terry actually sat in once with Coltrane, though he was hardly a regular...