What live music are you going to see tonight?

[Chuck Nessa]

No "live" music tonight. Just a shitload of (ex)Fantasy goods.

[sheldonm]

Curtis Fuller Quintet at the Dakota tonight.

It's weird that in this town this is billed as the Curtis Fuller Quintet, but in others it was billed as Louis Hayes Quintet.

Louis was a no show at the gig I saw. He cut out to play with the Legacy band. He was replaced with Kobe Watkins who filled in fantasticly (is that a word)....!

Here are a few images from the show.

[sheldonm]

...and trumpeter Maurice Brown.

[sheldonm]

...and a nicer one of Curtis.

[HolyStitt]

Curtis Fuller Quintet at the Dakota tonight.

It's weird that in this town this is billed as the Curtis Fuller Quintet, but in others it was billed as Louis Hayes Quintet.

Taking turns!!!

That was kind of my take, but I thought it should be billed as the Curtis Fuller-Louis Hayes Quintet.

I had a real blast at the show. C.F. was off the stage for 2 or 3 numbers, but it was still a great time. They opened the 2nd set with Arabia. Through out the show Fuller was very talkative, sharing stories about many of the greats he played with.

What was everyone's take on Maurice Brown?

[sal]

Nice pics, Mark!

I was at the show, and I thought it killed! Maurice Brown was excellent, as was the young pianist.

[sheldonm]

Nice pics, Mark!

I was at the show, and I thought it killed! Maurice Brown was excellent, as was the young pianist.

I'm in agreement with Sal, Maurice Brown was very good! The piano player was 19 year old Jonathan Batise, part of the musical Batise family.....that kid's hands were huge!

m~

[HolyStitt]

Mark, you are spoiling me with this photographs of people I have just seen or I am about to see!

I really liked Maurice Brown. When they started Arabia, I was a little nervous for him because of the history of Hubbard playing on the song, but he really shined.

I though Jonathan Batise was young, but didn't realize how young. He was a very nice piece to the group. Last night he had a feature with the trio playing "On Green Dolphin Street."

[sheldonm]

Mark, you are spoiling me with this photographs of people I have just seen or I am about to see!

I really liked Maurice Brown. When they started Arabia, I was a little nervous for him because of the history of Hubbard playing on the song, but he really shined.

I though Jonathan Batise was young, but didn't realize how young. He was a very nice piece to the group. Last night he had a feature with the trio playing "On Green Dolphin Street."

Yeah, I thought I would be really bummed out without Louis there but once they got going, it didn't really bother me. Very good band!

m~

[sal]

Mark, you are spoiling me with this photographs of people I have just seen or I am about to see!

I really liked Maurice Brown. When they started Arabia, I was a little nervous for him because of the history of Hubbard playing on the song, but he really shined.

I though Jonathan Batise was young, but didn't realize how young. He was a very nice piece to the group. Last night he had a feature with the trio playing "On Green Dolphin Street."

We got to see Batise play "Evidence" with the trio. It was really something. Curtis Fuller mentioned how not many young cats are showing much influence from Monk in their playing. But Batise shows alot of promise.

[HolyStitt]

Curtis Fuller mentioned how not many young cats are showing much influence from Monk in their playing.

So he was as talkative during your show?

He talked about all sorts of stuff at the show last night: Coltrane, Benny Golson, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, and shyness, to just name a few of them!

[Hardbopjazz]

I plan on seeing Greg Osby this Wednesday at the Village Vanguard. I might even go again on Friday.

[sheldonm]

Drummer Mike Clark....guess his claim to fame is his playing with the Headhunters.....also played with Woody Shaw and Chet Baker.

m~

Tony Monoco tomorrow night, Brian Auger Saturday night and Fathead Newman Sunday.

[jlhoots]

Tonight Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Tomorrow night McCoy Tyner Septet

[ep1str0phy]

Sonny Fortune and Rashied Ali are playing the Jazz Bakery (LA) next week--four day stand, and I'm there.

This weekend is the Central Avenue Jazz Festival (in South Central)--a community-based, tented, open-air sort of affair; there's a good lineup--bright moments to be had. Maybe I'll drop in Sunday.

[Clunky]

Last night at the Edinburgh Jazz festival

Giovanni Falzone- talented Sicilian trumpet player- Sicilain folk tunes and originals played by a quartet of trumpet,vibes, bass, drums. Lovely typical Italian jazz. Swung like hell, great melodies , lots of humour. Well worth your while

Hormigas- Spanish for Ants ( I was told), world class trio of Bill McHenry, Reid Anderson, Jorge Rossy. Wonderful free rolling trio. The standard of writing and playing beggared belief. One of the finest concerts I've evr attended. Hope these guys record. They're all high personable and the atmosphere in the jam packed venue (The Lot, Edinburgh) was electric if a little sweaty.

[sheldonm]

Jason Curry quartet with Ameen Saleem on bass, Quincy Davis on drums and Miki Hayama on piano....Jazz Kitchen/Indy.

[Swinger]

Attended the local jazz festival once again and listened to the following bands:

Atomic

Frank Gratkowski Quartet

Max Nagl Big Four

This was the the first time when I heard Atomic live and it was a mighty fine concert.Didn't care much about Gratkowski's gig,perhaps it was a little bit too "academic" to my taste. Max Nagl was great!

[EKE BBB]

During my vacations, I saw Atomic in the Bahía Jazz Festival at El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz). Surprisingly interesting concert. I really enjoyed it!

[EKE BBB]

Attended the local jazz festival once again and listened to the following bands:

Atomic

...

This was the the first time when I heard Atomic live and it was a mighty fine concert....

During my vacations, I saw Atomic in the Bahía Jazz Festival at El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz). Surprisingly interesting concert. I really enjoyed it!

Funny that I hadn´t seen your previous post, Swinger.

I really liked how they gave a new "sound" to what was "pure 60s free jazz" to my ears (at least on some songs).

[Larry Kart]

Probably (in Chicago):

Sunday, 6 August 2006

The Hungry Brain

10:00 PM | Matt Schneider's Straight Six

Matt Schneider - guitar

Tomeka Reed - cello

Jason Adasiewicz - vibes

Anton Hatwich - bass

Nori Tanaka - drums

11:00 PM | Herculaneum

Dave McDonnell - saxophone

Patrick Newbery - trumpet

Nick Broste - trombone

Greg Danek - bass

Dylan Ryan - drums

[Larry Kart]

Report from last night:

As the instrumention suggests, the basic reference point for Matt Schneider's group is a kind of '50s thing -- Chico Hamilton crossed with Shearing, perhaps -- but the material (all Schneider originals) was quite active and tough harmonically and structurally varied too, thus something that the models I've mentioned (if they are in fact models for this music) usually did not possess. There was room for improvisation but the nature of the pieces themselves was always there. Adasiewicz played with much elan (he hears changes like crazy---the more forbidding the better), and Schneider himself sounds like an unlikely cross between Raney and Howard Roberts. Cellist Tameka Reed was an asset; in fact, this was a genuine, happy to playing this music band.

As for Herculaneum, I'm not a fan of one of the horn soloists, Dave McDonnell (whose one of those "How hot can I get how quickly" altoists, though he was a bit less that way than last time), but I do like Broste and what little I've heard of Newbery, who combines a formidable technique wwith what seems to me to be a thoughftul, relaxed, unflashy temperament. I need to hear more to be sure, but he may be special. The main interest, though, is Dylan Ryan, in his mid 20s I'd say, who is a fair bit different than any other drummer I know, with the possible exception of New York-based Dan Weiss. Ryan has two tom-toms, one of them rather small and high-pitched, and typically he spends a lot of time on it, on its rim (especially), and on cymbal crowns, creating a continuous, multi-pitched, timbale-like chatter. This sounds like it might be annoying and intrusive, but in fact Ryan is very much a listener and/or, in this more or less comping role, the virtual leader of the band -- a la Horace Silver from the keyboard. My only doubt -- and this may be lack of understanding of what he's up to, having only heard him twice -- is that Ryan can seem a bit sloppy, not in terms of time but of cleanness/crsipness of stroke (though in his style, how much cleanness/crispness would be right?) I see from the group's new CD "Orange Blossom" (482 Music), which I bought last night but haven't listened to yet, that all the band's pieces are by Ryan, so I guess he is the leader.

[Hot Ptah]

Winard Harper Sextet with Bobby Watson joining them for the second set, on Saturday night at the Blue Room in Kansas City--it was one of the most exciting performances I have witnessed in some time. The first set, without Watson, was fine. The second set, with Watson, was inspired. (I have seen Watson do that to Wynton Marsalis' working combo too, about two years ago). Winard has some promising younger soloists with him--trumpeter Josh Evans, pianist Sean Higgins, tenor saxophonist Lawrence Clark.

[ep1str0phy]

I saw the last two sets of the Jazz Bakery Sonny Fortune/Rashied Ali duo yesterday... one tune a set (well over an hour); second set was 'Love for Sale,' interestingly enough. I'm far too exhausted to do the full on analysis thing, but it was really, really fun. The two played great--an inside/outside, Coltranish sort of bag (redolent of the Coltrane/Jones duets--more so, strangely, than Interstellar Space), with Rashied at his most masterfully explosive and Sonny as articulate and energetic as I've ever heard him. The crowd was emphatic... and the musicians were very kind/grateful.

Edited August 7, 2006 by ep1str0phy

[ep1str0phy]

Also--saw Bobby Bradford's Mo'tet at LACMA on Friday (three sets--all free). A wonderfully nuanced performance--and for this sort of context, very ballsy (a lot of very free material--and not just in the Ornette vein). It's the Mo'tet of the last few years--Robert Miranda (bass), William Jeffrey (drums), Chuck Manning (sax), Don Preston (piano), Michael Vlatkovich (trombone), and Ken Rosser (guitar)--all the members play in other groups, but there are no wrinkles (i.e.--this is a unity). Extremely enjoyable and nice to see the LA crowd involved in the performance (the southland scene--where it exists--is rather conservative and very limited in scope--and opportunities).