What Are You Listening To?

[BeBop]

Highly regarded, but not overrated. Wonderful stuff.

[bluenoter]

[Ron Thorne]

While packing for our trip to see Kai Thorne, our 12-day old grandson, the son of Justin (jtx), our technical expert here ...


Smalls Jazz Club

The Josh Evans Big Band



10:30 PM to 1:00 AM

Josh Evans - Trumpet
Chris Beck - Drums
Max Seigel - Trombone
Vitaly Golovnev - Trumpet
Frank Lacy - Trombone
Yunie Mojica - Alto Sax
Lauren Sevian - Baritone Sax
Stafford Hunter - Trombone
Stacy Dillard - Tenor Sax
Freddie Hendrix - Trumpet
David Gibson - Trombone
Bruce Williams - Alto Sax
Theo Hill - Piano
Ameen Saleem - Bass

[bluenoter]

Re One Great Night (#464):

Holy moly!

Haven't heard this, but the players involved tell me it's incredible.

Ellery, Andrea, and Jim tell you that their album is incredible?

It's an excellent album, recorded in 2007 and released in 2009. I believe it was that trio's most recent (and presumably last) album together. I saw only one show of theirs (IIRC) and wish I'd become aware of them earlier.

[bluenoter]

Yes, that's a great group of musicians. Why is that confusing?

Read it literally! I just got it---you can tell from the players involved that the album is incredible.


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[peterdubya]

Went on a Jarrett jag....

Miles Davis "Cellar Door"
Keith Jarrett "Expectations"
Keith Jarrett "Belonging"

also:

Brad Mehldau "Highway Rider"
Steve Swallow "Out of the Woodwork"

[pig pen]

[Coda]

I love both of these recordings but the Ellis is knocking my socks off good.

[Chazro]

Just picked this up a few days ago and have been really diggin' it!
Henry Butler/Steve Bernstein & the Hot 9 - Viper's Drag!
Butler's a legendary 'Nawlins pianist. Bernstein's resume includes stints with the Sex Mob and the Levon Helms band along with co-producing the soundtrack from Robert Altman's Kansas City (a favorite of mine!)

Gonna give the video thing a shot, hope it works (thx Ron!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxbPKLHl_A0

YES!!

[bluenoter]

. a link to it

[pig pen]

The women of improvised music are producing some outstanding work lately...

[Ron Thorne]

Streaming live from Smalls Jazz Club in NYC ...

Microscopic Septet
CD RELEASE



9:30 PM to 12:00 AM

Phillip Johnston - Soprano Sax
Don Davis - Alto Sax
Mike Hashim - Tenor Sax
Dave Sewelson - Baritone Sax
Joel Forrester - Piano
David Hofstra - Bass
Richard Dworkin - Drums

[Fred K]

The Clifford Brown/Max Roach Emarcy Albums
Paul Chambers - Mosaic Select 5
Joel Harrison 19 - Infinite Possibility
Joel Harrison - Mother Stump
Roland Kirk - The Limelight/Verve Albums
Microscopic Septet - Manhattan Moonrise
Gary Peacock/Marilyn Crispell - Azure
Jimmy Scott - Lost and Found
Jimmy Scott - Falling in Love Is Wonderful
Jimmy Scott - Dream
The Handsome Family - Twilight
The Handsome Family - Singing Bones
Curtis Harding - Soul Power
Joe Henry - Short Man's Room (via Spotify)
Joe Henry - Invisible Hour (via Google Play Music)
Stone Jack Jones - Ancestor
Lambchop - Damaged
Lambchop - Nixon
Haydn - String Quartets, Op. 50 (Tokyo String Quartet)
Bruckner - Symphony 8 (Wand)
Mahler - Symphony 1 (Bernstein)
Handel - Tamerlano (Minasi)(via Spotify)

[Coda]

Angel 9: Injuries
Very enjoyable. Clean Feed Records

[pig pen]

Interestingly enough I think women, in general, are producing some really fine music these days.

Just look at some of the finer offerings in Pop Music this past year. Lorde, Aluna George, The Dum Dum Girls, and Haim all released some really outstanding albums.

The boys have some serious catching up to do!

I'm not too familiar with the happenings in the pop world, but it does seem like there are some real female leaders emerging in the improv area. I don't have first hand experience (obviously) but it seems as though women have had a hard time being taken seriously in jazz and/or improv in the past so it's nice to see some breakthrough in this regard. A long way to go yet, but some progress. It's for this reason that I don't engage in any discussions of appearance where female musicians are concerned. They've had a hard enough time to be taken seriously as artists that I don't want to contribute to anything that might lead to a perception that their appearance has anything to do with their success.

[bluenoter]

Horace Silver memorial broadcast, streaming live on WKCR.org

See #9 in the Jazz News thread "Horace Silver has passed."


R.I.P.

[HenryMc]

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Last Dance
Jack Bruce - Silver Rails
Dave and Phil Alvin - Common Ground

A mixed bag of current releases ...and some one needs to muzzle keith jarrett

[Gentle Giant]

Monk/Trane

[Ron Thorne]

That's a *great* recording, Gentle Giant!
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Tonight, as is often the case, I'm streaming Smalls Jazz Club ...


The David Berkman Quartet



9:30 PM to 12:00 AM

Dayna Stephens - Tenor Sax
David Berkman - Piano
Ugonna Okegwo - Bass
Johnathan Blake - Drums

[Fred K]

Gary Bartz - Red & Orange Poems (via Spotify)
Gary Bartz - Live @ The Jazz Standard, Vol. 1
Gary Bartz - Coltrane Rules: Tao Music Warrior (via Spotify)
Marc Cary - Rhodes Ahead, Vol. 1 (via Spotify)
Marc Cary Trio - Trillium
Marc Cary - For The Love Of Abbey
Marc Cary Focus Trio - Four Directions
Joel Forrester/Philip Johnston - Live At The Hillside Club
Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden - Last Dance
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
Jimmy Scott - But Beautiful
Jimmy Scott - Holding Back The Years
Horace Silver Quintet - The Jody Grind
Horace Silver Quintet - Blowin' The Blues Away
Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father
Dr. John - Plays Mac Rebbenack
Joe Henry - Blood From The Stars
Joe Henry - Reverie
Joe Henry - Invisible Hours
Lambchop - Nixon
Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell - Invariable Heartache
Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Paganini (Kissin) (via Spotify)
Brahms - String Sextets (Nash Ensemble) (via Spotify)
Mendelssohn - String Symphonies (Goodman)(via Spotify)
Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Pons, Di Stefano/Erede)(via Spotify)
Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Sciutti, Panerai/Fasano)(via Spotify)
Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Callas, Gobbi/Galliera)(via Spotify)

[jtx]

Fred, if you had to pick your favorite from among the 3 Joe Henry albums, which would it be?

1. Blood from Stars
2. Reverie
3. Invisible Hour

I haven't heard any of these three yet, but I have several earlier albums.

[rawac]

Developing Good Habits from the Vertigo Trombone Quartet



b-tbn/tba: Jan Schreiner
tbn: Bernhard Bamert
tbn/mdk: Nils Wogram
tbn/rec: Andreas Tschopp

Very recommend

[Ron Thorne]

Smalls Jazz Club

The Alan Palmer Trio



9:30 PM to 12:00 AM

Alan Palmer - Piano
Dezron Douglas - Bass
Joe Palmer - Drums

[David Gitin]

I heard this group play at the 'old' Yoshi's in Berkeley. Amazing!

[jtx]

Jeremy Pelt - November



Jeremy Pelt - Trumpet
J.D. Allen - Tenor Sax
Danny Grissett - Piano
Dwayne Burno - Bass
Gerald Cleaver - Drums