So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Referentzhunter]

3 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

A beautiful record. 

👍, ... 'I Still Haven't Found What I am Looking For' is my favorite track.

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Superb.

 

[Referentzhunter]

[rostasi]

So, there's "math rock."
Is there such a thing as "math jazz?"

 

 

[Rabshakeh]

Gabriele Mitelli, John Edwards and Mark Sanders – Three Tsuru Origami

 

[T.D.]

26 minutes ago, rostasi said:

So, there's "math rock."
Is there such a thing as "math jazz?"

 

 

I'm a nerd and former math major. If there's "math jazz" I'd like to hear some.

Although I don't love a lot of the music classified as "math rock".

I'm not sure what "math classical" would consist of. Some candidates (microtonalists, Nancarrow) I like, some ("New Complexity") I don't. Would Feldman qualify based on weird time signatures?

[JSngry]

Steve Coleman is pretty mathy 

[Peter Friedman]

[jlhoots]

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Steve Coleman is pretty mathy 

I guess Anthony Braxton is too.

[JSngry]

38 minutes ago, rostasi said:

So, there's "math rock."
Is there such a thing as "math jazz?"

 

 

Mathy by necessity!

https://youtu.be/bS3Nfw9IYMM?si=6i-5pPxWV8KEoaI_

[Rabshakeh]

Sue Lynch and Regan Bowering ‎– Sax and Drums

16 minutes ago, T.D. said:

I'm a nerd and former math major. If there's "math jazz" I'd like to hear some.

Although I don't love a lot of the music classified as "math rock".

I'm not sure what "math classical" would consist of. Some candidates (microtonalists, Nancarrow) I like, some ("New Complexity") I don't. Would Feldman qualify based on weird time signatures?

I always understand "maths" in musical prefix terms to just mean "has jarring changes in time signatures". A way of saying "proggy" without also suggesting that the music might be lame. 

Edited June 2, 2025 by Rabshakeh

[Balladeer]

Chris Cheek - Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)

[Rabshakeh]

Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet - Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet

 

[Referentzhunter]

[T.D.]

45 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Sue Lynch and Regan Bowering ‎– Sax and Drums

 

I always understand "maths" in musical prefix terms to just mean "has jarring changes in time signatures". A way of saying "proggy" without also suggesting that the music might be lame. 

Thanks. Not being familiar with the usage, I thought things like counterpoint, retrograde, and even serialism might qualify. If we extend "maths" to "probability", even some of Xenakis's stochastic music (which I think is mathematically -at least- lame, having seen some simplistic underlying FORTRAN code).

[Rabshakeh]

23 minutes ago, T.D. said:

Thanks. Not being familiar with the usage, I thought things like counterpoint, retrograde, and even serialism might qualify. If we extend "maths" to "probability", even some of Xenakis's stochastic music (which I think is mathematically -at least- lame, having seen some simplistic underlying FORTRAN code).

Any music with rhythm is maths jazz  (counting). The only non-maths jazz form of music so far discovered is unaccompanied Tuvan Throat Singing. 

[rostasi]

2 hours ago, T.D. said:

If there's "math jazz" I'd like to hear some.

My point was that you just did.

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington “1941” Smithsonian Collection LP 1

Re-listening to LP 1 of this excellent 2 LP set. These Smithsonian Collection Ellington sets always have sounded so good and transported me into a great listening world.

 

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[jazzbo]

Dusko Goykovich “Swinging Macedonia” Philips/Enja Japan cd

Alto Saxophone – Eddie Busnello
Bass – Peter Trunk
Drums – Cees See
Flute, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Nathan Davis
Piano – Mal Waldron
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Dusko Goykovich

Recorded August 30 & 31, 1966 at Philips Studio, Cologne.

[optatio]

3 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Dusko Goykovich “Swinging Macedonia” Philips/Enja Japan cd

Alto Saxophone – Eddie Busnello
Bass – Peter Trunk
Drums – Cees See
Flute, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Nathan Davis
Piano – Mal Waldron
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Dusko Goykovich

Recorded August 30 & 31, 1966 at Philips Studio, Cologne.

👍

[T.D.]

1 hour ago, rostasi said:

My point was that you just did.

Sorry. Didn't know the terminology. Thought it'd be weirder.

[Chuck Nessa]

[HutchFan]

NP:

O Universo Musical de Baden Powell (Universal/Sunnyside, rel. 2002)
Disc 1 - A Selection From The Barclay Years, 1964-1972