king ubu Posted May 5, 2008 Report Posted May 5, 2008 cojones? somehow it's a bit sad to see the rat in such inactivity while hardly any new threads about anything beyond modern jazz and mainstream pop up... but then I guess most of the folks interested in such music have left from here by now... (and I've been mainly listening other stuff in recent years) Quote
Nate Dorward Posted May 5, 2008 Report Posted May 5, 2008 Yep, that's the problem...! Lately the purchases here have been a stack of Stanley Turrentine RVGs & the 40th anniversary edition of the Zombies' Odessey & Oracle, for instance... But I'll put in a good word for the recent Keefe Jackson disc Just Like This--great band with most of the up&coming crew from the Chicago scene, plus Jeb Bishop's there too. Quote
Alexander Hawkins Posted May 5, 2008 Report Posted May 5, 2008 Has anyone here checked out Rob Brown's recent one - 'Crown Trunk Root Funk'? First listen this morning, and my impressions are very favourable. I enjoy Brown a lot, and the rhythm section here - Taborn, William Parker, and Gerald Cleaver, is really something. I think Taborn in particular is a VERY special player. Quote
randyhersom Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 Yes, I've enjoyed Crown Trunk Root Funk. Nice variety of compositions. Taborn was the reason I grabbed it off eMusic as soon as I saw it, but I'm an O'Neal's Porch fan too. Quote
Peter Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 Anybody check out Gene Harris's Live in London? He gets pretty abstract on Blues Closer. Quote
7/4 Posted May 19, 2008 Report Posted May 19, 2008 (edited) IHM had a crash and lost their archive of posts for a few weeks until today. They're still getting it together. Interesting place, but I really have to use the search engine to make it that way. :rsmile: Edited May 19, 2008 by 7/4 Quote
king ubu Posted September 11, 2008 Report Posted September 11, 2008 played some oldish rattish stuff a few minutes ago, very nice one: The first album has Roscoe, Dave Burrell, Silva and Cyrille, plus Shepp on one track, the second spotlights Moncur as the lone horn, in front of Beb Guerin and two unknown (to me, that is) musicians, Fernando Martins (p) and Nelson Serra de Castro (d). Both were recorded in fall 1969 in Paris for BYG. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 Ah, nostalgia... Sure hope all these old threads never disappear the way the old BNBB did! Quote
J.A.W. Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 Ah, nostalgia... Sure hope all these old threads never disappear the way the old BNBB did! In this case the only one who's disappeared so far is the thread starter, "Chaney". Quote
Jazzmoose Posted February 19, 2009 Report Posted February 19, 2009 That's a shame in itself; I miss his contributions. Quote
7/4 Posted February 19, 2009 Report Posted February 19, 2009 Hmmm....I could have sworn there was a message here a few minutes ago that said he's still here under another name. Looks like it got deleted. What's up with that? Quote
ep1str0phy Posted February 20, 2009 Report Posted February 20, 2009 Not expecting to jump-start this thread, but I thought someone here might have an opinion/impressions of Michel Doneda. He was over here (SF/Bay Area) last week, playing with some of the local scene people and, most notably, Fred Frith and David Wessel. He has apparently worked with Fred Van Hove, Phil Wachsmann, Max Eastley, John Zorn, Eliott Sharp, Elvin Jones. I saw the Frith set--a little bit of a communication mismatch, although they both played resourcefully (Michel very free jazz in a Braxton sort of vein--extensive mastery of extended techniques, exceptional register control, a penchant for extreme velocity and fits of violence). I also recently tracked down a CD by the Italian collective N.A.D. (Niu Abdominaux Dangereux)--mostly mostly scrabbly material in a no wavey kind of vein--but the guest list is really astonishing: Denardo Coleman, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Christian Marclay, Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp, Riccardo Bianchi, Zamir Ahmad Khan, Sonny Sharrock. Which makes me wonder why Denardo doesn't appear on more sessions that aren't hosted by his father, since his (present) percussion style is idiosyncratic and versatile enough to fit, I think, into a variety of contexts. Quote
king ubu Posted February 20, 2009 Report Posted February 20, 2009 as for Michel Doneda... I haven't been playing that kind of music for a while (a year or even two), but I remember liking this one quite a bit: Michel Doneda, Jack Wright, Tatsuya Nakatani - From Between (SoSEditions) Bagatellen review, One Final Note review, AAJ review I also have "the difference between a fish" by Doneda/Leimgruber/Rowe, but I'd need to give it a spin to say anything about it. Quote
7/4 Posted February 20, 2009 Report Posted February 20, 2009 Which makes me wonder why Denardo doesn't appear on more sessions that aren't hosted by his father, since his (present) percussion style is idiosyncratic and versatile enough to fit, I think, into a variety of contexts. Same here. I'd think everyone would want to play with him too. Quote
randyhersom Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 clifford_thornton's reply to my question on a thread about Guiseppe Logan's return to playing alerted me to Alipio C Neto, Aram Shelton and Matt Bauder and a bit of emusicing later, I have heard all three and been back for seconds on Alipio C Neto. Strong stuff, full of passion but never out of control. I'm also a fan of James Finn's Ginkgo Leaf releases and would like to hear the two early dates of his I haven't heard yet. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted February 26, 2009 Report Posted February 26, 2009 Is Finn on the scene any more? I haven't heard his name in ages. Nate D did a nice interview with him over at Paris Transatlantic. Also listening to a lot of Mary Halvorson these days. I never thought I'd be saying this about a composer of "funny rat" music, but damn! Quote
Nate Dorward Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 (edited) Yeah, no reply to the last two or three emails I sent to James Finn. Very puzzling how the guy was virtually unknown for so many years, then surfaced suddenly, then vanished again. I highly recommend Great Spirit on Not Two if you haven't got it--it's his only release with a piano on it, & it's great. When we last talked he was talking about working with Matt Shipp & Craig Taborn, & about doing an album of jazz standards as a piano duet. Edited February 27, 2009 by Nate Dorward Quote
king ubu Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 There's a story on Andrew Cyrille in the latest Wire - haven't read it yet (it's by that Andy Hamilton I think), but I thought it might interest some of you! Quote
clifford_thornton Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 New Jim McAuley on Drip is SICK... Tks Nate for hipping me to his work! Quote
clifford_thornton Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 A piano-Finn disc in the style of Flanagan/Monterose would be very hip, by the way. Hope he finds his way back to making recordings again. Quote
randyhersom Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 Loving what I've heard so far of The Ultimate Frog. Stylistically, it's closer to Ralph Towner on ECM than Brotzmann on Okka. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 Interesting point tho his use of craggy extended technique puts him into another camp altogether - sort of hybridized Incus and Takoma if you axe me... Quote
Chalupa Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 There's a story on Andrew Cyrille in the latest Wire - haven't read it yet (it's by that Andy Hamilton I think), but I thought it might interest some of you! Oh thanks for the reminder. It has been sitting on my "to read" pile for the past two weeks. Quote
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