What live music are you going to see tonight?

[Soulstation1]

Sonny Rollins

how was the rollins' concert?

[king ubu]

Last night the Rabih Abou-Khalil Group:

RAK (oud), Luciano Biondini (acc), Michel Godard (tuba), Gavino Murgia (ss,voice), Jarrod Cagwin (d,perc)

Fantastic performance!

Last Sunday, together with twelve other bold souls...

Steve Swell/Gebhard Ullmann Quartet

w/Hilliard Greene (b), Barry Altschul (d)

short - due to obvious lack of interest - but 75 great minutes of music, very interesting compositions, and all four very skilled musicians.

[HolyStitt]

Sonny Rollins

how was the rollins' concert?

It was great!

This was the third time I have seen him perform. The first time was really good, but the second time was disappointing with a little too much solo space for percusionist Kimati Dinizulu. This time he had the usual group, but with Kobie Watkins on drums and Bobby Broom on guitar, which seemed to add a different kind of spark to Sonny. He only played 90 minutes, but it was a solid 90 minutes. His tune selection leaned pretty heavy towards the new CD Sonny, Please.

[sal]

Sonny Rollins

how was the rollins' concert?

It was great!

This was the third time I have seen him perform. The first time was really good, but the second time was disappointing with a little too much solo space for percusionist Kimati Dinizulu. This time he had the usual group, but with Kobie Watkins on drums and Bobby Broom on guitar, which seemed to add a different kind of spark to Sonny. He only played 90 minutes, but it was a solid 90 minutes. His tune selection leaned pretty heavy towards the new CD Sonny, Please.

Wow....Kobie Watkins on drums! Good for him. He's moving up in the world, and he deserves it.

[sheldonm]

Sonny Rollins

how was the rollins' concert?

It was great!

This was the third time I have seen him perform. The first time was really good, but the second time was disappointing with a little too much solo space for percusionist Kimati Dinizulu. This time he had the usual group, but with Kobie Watkins on drums and Bobby Broom on guitar, which seemed to add a different kind of spark to Sonny. He only played 90 minutes, but it was a solid 90 minutes. His tune selection leaned pretty heavy towards the new CD Sonny, Please.

Wow....Kobie Watkins on drums! Good for him. He's moving up in the world, and he deserves it.

Bobby plays with Sonny frequently and it's great to see Kobe on the scene....very good young drummer! Here's a small image of Kobe playing with Broom at the Jazz Kitchen.

m~

Edited November 3, 2006 by sheldonm

[Peter Johnson]

Tonight, as part of Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival, I'm going to see The Turbanator at 10:00!

Can't wait--love seeing the good doctor live in concert. I'm hoping he'll play a few tracks from his latest--which I'm spinning right now in anticipation!

Full report later...

[HolyStitt]

Bobby plays with Sonny frequently and it's great to see Kobe on the scene....very good young drummer!

m~

I spoke to him after the show and he is a very nice cat.

He seemed to really push Rollins to great places that night.

[jlhoots]

Eric Person Meta - Four

[EKE BBB]

Last Tuesday (XXV Festival de Jazz del San Juan Evangelista):

Dave Douglas Quintet ("Meaning And Mistery" project), with Don MacCaslin (ts), Uri Caine (Fender Rhodes), James Genus (b) and Clarence Penn (d).

[mikeweil]

Didn't expect to get to hear some jazz here in Lindau, after listening to the sound samples I'm seriously considering to go see the Tonc Feinig Trio tonight .....

More info and samples on http://www.tonctone.com/.

p.s. decided against it as my wife and myself were a little tired, and the hotel where the event took place appeared to be quite expensive ...

Edited November 6, 2006 by mikeweil

[Chalupa]

Tonight - Cecil Taylor - Solo!

[Joe G]

Just got back from a great show at the Jazz Kitchen (Indy):

Michael Wolff (p)

Badal Roy (tabla)

Mike Clark (d)

Amit Chatterjee (g)

Lincoln Goines (e.b.)

Nice mix of material and players.

[sheldonm]

....and here are a few images from the show......Good to see you Joe!

m~

[sheldonm]

....Badal Roy.....on the tables !!!

[sheldonm]

...and my good friend Rob Dixon!!!

[Joe G]

Nice! Got a good one of Amit? When he first came out, I thought they brought out the son of Yogananda to play some rippin' electric guitar!

[sheldonm]

Nice! Got a good one of Amit? When he first came out, I thought they brought out the son of Yogananda to play some rippin' electric guitar!

My thoughts too....not what I expected. No real good shots as I had a poor vantage point unless I wanted to sit on someones lap. Here are a couple throw-away images.

m~

[sheldonm]

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[Joe G]

Thanks. BTW, Rob Dixon is one hell of a player! Nice cat, too.

[sheldonm]

Thanks. BTW, Rob Dixon is one hell of a player! Nice cat, too.

Yeah, nice guy....always laid back! I used Rob in the opening spread of a five page article I did for Northwest Airline earlier this year....got a lot of positive feedback for Rob and myself.

I'm also working on a cd shoot with him.....he's recording a new cd....trio with Mel Rhyne.

m~

[mikeweil]

Just got back from a great show at the Jazz Kitchen (Indy):

Michael Wolff (p)

Badal Roy (tabla)

Mike Clark (d)

Amit Chatterjee (g)

Lincoln Goines (e.b.)

Nice mix of material and players.

Is that the Mike Wolff from California who played with Cal Tjader in the early 1970's? How was it?

[Joe G]

http://www.michaelwolff.com/

Yes, it looks like he did play with Cal. Plenty of variety in the moods of the music, and lots of room for everyone to stretch. Michael had the audience (and the band) in stitches with his band introductions. Turns out he did stand-up comedy for 5 years. Rachel and I enjoyed his playing quite a bit. His tunes are nice, most of them fairly simple, although with good harmonic content. Deceptively simple, maybe. Badal Roy was interesting; not so much a Zakir-style virtuoso, but with unique ideas, and what he did worked with the group very well, which is more important than blowing us away with chops. A mostly quiet duet between Roy and Wolff was a highlight of the show.

Actually, I have to confess that I did not recognize any of the band by sight, and had no idea, until they were introduced, that these were all well-known players. Well known to me, at least, with the exception of Amit. I didn't catch those Zawinal albums on which he plays, so this was my introduction. Heard some Scott Henderson type stuff, but he's no knockoff. Guess he plays a mean sitar, too.

We came away with a good feeling.

[king ubu]

Tonight: Trio 3 here in Zurich (Oliver Lake-sax; Reggie Workman-bass; Andrew Cyrille-drums).

Same venue where the Swell/Ullmann Quartet played ten days ago with 13 people in the audience... I certainly hope the names of Lake, Workman and Cyrille will draw some more attention!

[Niko]

Tonight: Trio 3 here in Zurich (Oliver Lake-sax; Reggie Workman-bass; Andrew Cyrille-drums).

Same venue where the Swell/Ullmann Quartet played ten days ago with 13 people in the audience... I certainly hope the names of Lake, Workman and Cyrille will draw some more attention!

one of my first jazz concerts was Dave Douglas when I was about 15... and I had thought he was famous

it was rather 19 than 13 people - still I was quite surprised

[king ubu]

But it is *very* depressing, even more so as the Swell/Ullmann Quartet also features drum great Barry Altschul and their music, while likely not "new" or ground-breaking, is very intelligent and involving... trodding a path between free-ish improvisation and good compositions (by both the leaders, but mostly by Gebhard Ullmann, I think).

Most depressing than is that you could attend *any* mainstream concert, regardless how boring the selection of standards that they'll play, you'd see three or four times as many people there...