What live music are you going to see tonight?

[jeffcrom]

It's the same for jazz musicians everywhere. Jesper Thilo and his very creative quartet (Olivier Antunes - p, Bo Stief - b, Frands Rifbjerg - d) played their first set at Jazz Paradise for three of us, and played as if their lives depended on it. Thilo's group played straight-ahead bebop, but constantly listened and responded to each other at the highest level. Bo Stief deserves a medal for following Antunes' harmonic deviations at least 90% of the time. Thilo has a rich, beautiful sound - his low C's, B's, and B flats got to me on the ballads every time.

During the second set, the audience swelled to eight!

[NIS]

It's the same for jazz musicians everywhere. Jesper Thilo and his very creative quartet (Olivier Antunes - p, Bo Stief - b, Frands Rifbjerg - d) played their first set at Jazz Paradise for three of us, and played as if their lives depended on it. Thilo's group played straight-ahead bebop, but constantly listened and responded to each other at the highest level. Bo Stief deserves a medal for following Antunes' harmonic deviations at least 90% of the time. Thilo has a rich, beautiful sound - his low C's, B's, and B flats got to me on the ballads every time.

During the second set, the audience swelled to eight!

Right around 30 at the Third Man set I saw. And Miley Cyrus played to 10,000+ pre-teens in my town on a school night. I know nobody said the world was fair but come on. I was hoping the smiley function had one giving the finger.

[WorldB3]

Last night my friend had free tickets to see Omara Portuondo.

She had great energy and her band especially Harold Lopez Nussa on Piano and Felipe Cabrera on Double Bass were incredible.

A nice evening of Cuban Jazz.

Edited October 21, 2009 by WorldB3

[BFrank]

Going to see Steely Dan do "Royal Scam" again on Saturday.

[jlhoots]

Perla Batalla

[Chalupa]

Attending this tomorrow....

Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 3:00pm - 7:00pm

Rashied Ali Tribute

Muhammid Ali, drums

Grant Calvin Weston, drums

Cornell Rochester, drums

Henry Grimes, bass

Jamaaladeen Tacuma, bass

Amin Ali, bass

Ronnie Burrage, drums

James "Blood" Ulmer, el. guitar

Charlie Ellerbee, el. guitar

Juju Jones, drums

Umar Raheem, saxophone

Dave Burrell, piano

Alan Nelson, drums

Lamont "Napalm" Dixon, poetry

Pheralyn Dove, poetry

Stanley Crouch, jazz critic

[paul secor]

Last night my friend had free tickets to see Omara Portuondo.

She had great energy and her band especially Harold Lopez Nussa on Piano and Felipe Cabrera on Double Bass were incredible.

A nice evening of Cuban Jazz.

Would have liked to have caught that one.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Well Bill, what a great line-up of music you have going. Nothing like that out here in the great Midwest.

As far as Bennink goes, he certainly is a great musician, as are the other two guys in my opinion. Michael Moore is a personal favorite for me. I found that I had to focus visually on Moore and Holshouser to really get into the music. My wife (who went to the concert because she loves me, instead of staying in the hotel and watching Grey's Anatomy) thinks that Bennink needs to have his meds adjusted.

They were f$#*ing awesome. Great show. Bennink w/2 sticks, 2 sets of brushes, a snare, and whatever he could find to strike or manipulate. He was sitting on a piano bench and it got the full treatment. Sitting in the front row directly in front of him I began to wonder whether he'd decide to check out the assorted timbres of audience members' heads, but it never happened... Ah, well, maybe next time. Brushes only for me, please, and not metal ones, okay? Personally, I'd say that his medications are JUST RIGHT. First time I'd had a chance to meet and talk with Han, who is about as down-to-earth a guy as you'll ever meet.

The Anne Drummond Quartet at The Triple Door last night (Monday) was superb too. She left Seattle before I moved here and I was totally unfamiliar with her music. Impressive player. Kick-ass band. Saudade. Sorrisos e abraços. Jovino Santos Neto! Compelling young female bassist whose name escaped me but I'll have to research it as she was tha shytt.

Missed the "double duos" show and Hal Galper...

Too much music and too little time (and/or $$$)

Myra Melford Be Bread last Friday was lovely too. Her compositions never fail to reach me.

[NIS]

Well Bill, what a great line-up of music you have going. Nothing like that out here in the great Midwest.

As far as Bennink goes, he certainly is a great musician, as are the other two guys in my opinion. Michael Moore is a personal favorite for me. I found that I had to focus visually on Moore and Holshouser to really get into the music. My wife (who went to the concert because she loves me, instead of staying in the hotel and watching Grey's Anatomy) thinks that Bennink needs to have his meds adjusted.

They were f$#*ing awesome. Great show. Bennink w/2 sticks, 2 sets of brushes, a snare, and whatever he could find to strike or manipulate. He was sitting on a piano bench and it got the full treatment. Sitting in the front row directly in front of him I began to wonder whether he'd decide to check out the assorted timbres of audience members' heads, but it never happened... Ah, well, maybe next time. Brushes only for me, please, and not metal ones, okay? Personally, I'd say that his medications are JUST RIGHT. First time I'd had a chance to meet and talk with Han, who is about as down-to-earth a guy as you'll ever meet.

The Anne Drummond Quartet at The Triple Door last night (Monday) was superb too. She left Seattle before I moved here and I was totally unfamiliar with her music. Impressive player. Kick-ass band. Saudade. Sorrisos e abraços. Jovino Santos Neto! Compelling young female bassist whose name escaped me but I'll have to research it as she was tha shytt.

Missed the "double duos" show and Hal Galper...

Too much music and too little time (and/or $$$)

Myra Melford Be Bread last Friday was lovely too. Her compositions never fail to reach me.

You get to see more things in a week than I do in a year but the Third Man show was seriously one of the best I've ever seen. I hope they record this group.

[fasstrack]

I treated myself to Phil Woods' Quintet Saturday. It was wonderful and uplifting. The old man still sounds great----wisdom and health issues make him pace himself more these days, but it's vintage Phil Woods----with a great band and top-drawer writing and repertoire.

I can afford to go to the priceier joints maybe 2x yearly----and make sure it's something I'll remember. Last one was Benny Golson. Bless both those guys.

Edited October 27, 2009 by fasstrack

[Larry Kart]

Debut tonight at The Empty Bottle of my son's new band, 1894.

[jeffcrom]

Debut tonight at The Empty Bottle of my son's new band, 1894.

Cool! What kind of stuff do they play?

[clifford_thornton]

Saw Harris Eisenstadt's band Canada Day on Saturday (brief stopover in NYC). They were very good.

[jlhoots]

Claudia Acuna

Edited October 29, 2009 by jlhoots

[Larry Kart]

Last night caught the debut of my son Jacob's new band 1894 (no nepotism allowed, so I can't comment) and a guitar power trio -- the guitarist-vocalist's name I've forgotten but will find out, bassist Toby Summerfield, and drummer Frank Rosaly). Frank was fantastic -- incredible power and cohesiveness. I was told that the last time these guys had played these pieces was seven months ago; it sounded at times like Frank was playing from a score, albeit one co-written by Rodan and Godzilla.

[Larry Kart]

Guitarist-vocalist is Nathaniel Braddock:

http://www.myspace.com/nathanielbraddock

A few years ago, he and three other guys performed his four-guitar arrangement of The Rite of Spring.

[Big Al]

Caught the Greg Waits Quartet featuring Jim Sangrey at the Scat Jazz Lounge last night. These guys were all sortsa in the pocket, grooves so thick you could feel your arteries hardening as they played! And dig their new bass player: right ON the beat! Much better than that last guy they had filling in for 'em last month (although, to be fair, I thought he missed the chance to echo Sangrey on the intro to "In a Mellow Tone" like that last guy did. That was really cool. Wonder whatever happened to him? )

Greg, Jim, you guys need to record this stuff. I'd buy it in a second. In fact, if there was some way I could record you guys at your next Sandaga gig, I'd do it.

[paul secor]

Caught the Greg Waits Quartet featuring Jim Sangrey at the Scat Jazz Lounge last night. These guys were all sortsa in the pocket, grooves so thick you could feel your arteries hardening as they played! And dig their new bass player: right ON the beat! Much better than that last guy they had filling in for 'em last month (although, to be fair, I thought he missed the chance to echo Sangrey on the intro to "In a Mellow Tone" like that last guy did. That was really cool. Wonder whatever happened to him? )

Greg, Jim, you guys need to record this stuff. I'd buy it in a second. In fact, if there was some way I could record you guys at your next Sandaga gig, I'd do it.

Hope a recording happens. I'd buy one too.

[BillF]

Went to a performance tonight of eight numbers from the Birth of the Cool album by a student nonet at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Great session! Without amplification in an acoustically perfect studio theatre with audience of about sixty. Very high level of musicianship, scores perfectly executed with brief, competent trumpet, alto and baritone solos; swung throughout. I've been listening to this music on record for fifty years and this is the first time I've heard it performed live. The presence of the tuba was much more noticeable than on record. So nice to see this adopted as part of the formal music education curriculum. I recall that when I first bought the album, the playing of jazz on the premises at that college was punishable by instant expulsion from the course! How far we've come!

Edited October 29, 2009 by BillF

[jeffcrom]

Went to a performance tonight of eight numbers from the Birth of the Cool album by a student nonet at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Great session! Without amplification in an acoustically perfect studio theatre with audience of about sixty. Very high level of musicianship, scores perfectly executed with brief, competent trumpet, alto and baritone solos; swung throughout. I've been listening to this music on record for fifty years and this the first time I've heard it performed live. The presence of the tuba was much more noticeable than on record. So nice to see this adopted as part of the formal music education curriculum. I recall that when I first bought the album, the playing of jazz on the premises at that college was punishable by instant expulsion from the course! How far we've come!

How cool is that! I'd love to hear these charts live. Kudos to these students.

[Chalupa]

Saturday night(Halloween) I'm going to to 2 shows. Early show is the Sun Ra Arkestra and later is the Dead Milkmen.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Last night was:

http://www.earshot.org/Festival/artistinfo...dy_clausen.html

Earshot is on a roll. Another A to A+ concert. Andy Clausen is a name to remember. His laptop and electronic keyboard with trumpet, electric guitar, electric bass and drums painted a landscape in a non-stop set that reminded me of Nils Petter Molvaer, Jon Hassell, and Russell Gunn and Eric Truffaz at their best. He is a talent to WATCH. The preceding players names are provided as reference points only, he has his own take on it all already at an age when I had the attention span of a gnat.

The Tom Varner Tentet has a brand new CD on Omni Tone titled "Heaven and Hell."

http://www.omnitone.com/store/012210.htm

Music from the disc was performed in the second set With a high percentage of Seattle-based players, Varner has recorded perhaps his most adventurous and texturally complex work to date. Music that moans and swings, pulses and meditates, shapeshifts and morphs. There's a deep spirit at work here. This is a very fine CD and the concert was even better. It's really great to have Tom Varner here in Seattle.

[king ubu]

CéU tonight - looking forward a lot, bought her new disc yesterday!

[DukeCity]

Heading out with some buddies to a local casino to hear Tower of Power tonight. They have their original drummer and bass player (Dave Garibaldi and Rocco Prestia) with them these days, so the grooves are extra funky!

[Free For All]

Heading out with some buddies to a local casino to hear Tower of Power tonight. They have their original drummer and bass player (Dave Garibaldi and Rocco Prestia) with them these days, so the grooves are extra funky!

Bump City!