What Are You Listening To?

[Ron Thorne]

Steve, I may have some answers for you. If so, you and others will have a way to identify band members in the future.

Go to: http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/
Then, click on Schedule for a specific month/day

Does the following look familiar?

Saturday afternoon Open Jam Session With :
Jonathan Thomas Trio



4:00 PM to 7:00 PM ($10 cover for non-musicians)

Jonathan Thomas - Piano
Devin Starks - Bass
Owen Erickson - Drums

[steve(thelil)]

Steve, I may have some answers for you. If so, you and others will have a way to identify band members in the future.

Go to: http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/
Then, click on Schedule for a specific month/day

Does the following look familiar?

Saturday afternoon Open Jam Session With :
Jonathan Thomas Trio



4:00 PM to 7:00 PM ($10 cover for non-musicians)

Jonathan Thomas - Piano
Devin Starks - Bass
Owen Erickson - Drums

Yep! That's him! Thanks, Ron.

[rawac]

Some beautiful new releases:



db: Matthias Pichler
dr: Fabian Arends
p: Pablo Held
sax: Jason Seizer




db: Gary Peacock
dr: Joey Baron
p: Marc Copland




eb: Steve Swallow
tbn/p/fl: Christian Muthspiel




db: Linda Oh
dr: Joey Baron
p: Lawrence Fileds
sax: Joe Lovano
tp: Dave Douglas

[Gentle Giant]

Last night, all of:

[Ron Thorne]

Man, those last two posts have a ton of fine listening potential.








Lew Tabackin Trio

10:30 PM to 1:00 AM

Lew Tabackin - Tenor Sax
Boris Kozlov - Bass
Mark Taylor - Drums


Source

[Gentle Giant]

Last night, a beautiful duo album.

[jtx]

Listened all the way through on the new stereo system today:



Sounds better than ever.

[Ron Thorne]

This one from 2001 is a keeper.

[Gentle Giant]

David Torn, Cloud About Mercury
with Mark Isham, Bill Bruford, Tony Levin, 1986

[Ron Thorne]

I'm in a Stanko kind of mood. This 2-CD set is a Father's Day gift from my son, Justin (jtx here), and a welcome one.

[pig pen]

I'm about to attempy something that I haven't done before, that is transcribing a solo from a recording. I am going to attempt to transcribe Frank Foster's solo from Monk's We See on the 1954 album "Monk". So, I am at the point of listening to the tune over and over. I already have the tune well ingrained since I play it pretty regularly and I play the melody from memory with no issues so I thougt it would be a good tune to try this with. Frank's solo isn't going to be the easiest but it seems at least possible for my feeble musical brain.

[bluenoter]

I'm about to attempy something that I haven't done before, that is transcribing a solo from a recording. I am going to attempt to transcribe Frank Foster's solo from Monk's We See on the 1954 album "Monk". . . .

pig pen---

1. Hope that endeavor goes well.

2. You've got mail---a PM that I sent you a while back. FYI, since JT's software upgrade,

At the top right of the home page (Forums / Board Index page), here's the icon for PMs, circled in red. (You may see fewer icons, but you'll see that one.)



And here's the link:

http://jazztalk.net/ucp.php?i=pm&folder=inbox

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[pig pen]

Thanks for the heads up.

As for my transcription project, the beauty of being a hack hobbyist is that nobody has any expectations. I plan to go at this a little at a time and try to enjoy the process. No rush for me.

[bluenoter]

[pig pen]

A few recent additions that I have been enjoying. I think Bird Calls is my favourite release thus far from Rudresh.

[jtx]

»Spotify link for Epicenter
Very interesting album.

[rawac]

Fall has started.

Something European:



db: Robert Landfermann
dr: Jonas Burgwinkel
p: Pablo Held


Something American:



cga: Chembo Corniel
db: Gerald Cannon
dr: Willie Jones III
p: Xavier Davis
sax: Bruce Williams
tbn/shells: Steve Turre


Something European:



p: Iiro Rantala


Something American:



db: Nat Reeves
dr: Joe Farnsworth
p: Harold Mabern
sax: Eric Alexander
tbn: Steve Davis
tp: Eddie Henderson

Well balanced ...

[uli]

[rawac]

Some very nice new arrivals during the last days.


db: Linda Oh
dr: Rudy Royston
p: Matt Mitchell
sax: Jon Irabagon
tp: Dave Douglas

This is a download only release. Nice eMail from Dave:

When I invited Tyler McDiarmid and Geoff Countryman (the same team for all the Live at Jazz Standard projects, starting in 2006!), we said we'd get it out by Tuesday, November 24.

I asked them why we couldn't do it overnight like we did in 2006. They responded by saying, "Because we're not insane any more!"

We are taking a little extra time to make sure the sound is the most excellent representation of the live band.

The download then was ... 8.1GB for the FLAC, 14.2 GB for the WAV

Also included was a CD, the studio version


Musicians same as above



p: Fred Hersch



cl: Annette Maye; Gianluigi Trovesi
db: Janko Hanushevsky
dr: Max Andrzejewski
tp: Udo Moll

Yes, it's really about John Zorn's Masada and yes, its really Gianluigi Trovesi!



acc: Luciano Biondini



db: Ugonna Okegwo
dr: Johnathan Blake
fl: Charles Pillow
gtr: Rale Micic
p: Danny Grissett
sax: Wayne Escoffery
tp/flhn: Tom Harrell
vc: Rubin Kodheli
vn: Meg Okura

I own only 4 CDs of Tom Harrell, this one is outstanding!



db: Renaud Garcia-Fons
p: David Pena Dorantes

The best combination of Flamenco and Jazz i know.

[Ron Thorne]

Wow, what great recordings, Ralf!

NP on my computer:



The Brian Lynch Quartet

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM eastern

Brian Lynch (Trumpet) // Emmet Cohen (Piano) // Luques Curtis (Bass) // Billy Hart (Drums)

Source

[Ron Thorne]

[Ron Thorne]

I just enjoyed their 1st set which was amazing. Allison Miller killed, especially on the set closer.

2nd set begins at 9pm est. Check it out.




The Ben Allison Quartet

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Ben Allison (Bass) // Michael Blake (Tenor Sax) // Steve Cardenas (Guitar) // Allison Miller (Drums)

Live Stream

[Ron Thorne]

Last night, I thoroughly enjoyed a young quintet I had never heard before, the Aaron Seeber Group via Smalls Jazz Club live feed. It's experiences such as this that give me hope and make me smile



Aaron Seeber

[Ron Thorne]

What a wonderful way to wake up in sunny southern California while recuperating. Terrific stuff!

[rawac]

A fine start or 2016. And a lot from ECM.

p: John Taylor
tp/flhn: Kenny Wheeler

I don't understand why they waited for 10 years until they released this record



CD 1

p: Johan Lindvall
sax: Mette Henriette
vc: Katrine Schiott

CD 2

band: Andreas Rokseth
db: Per Zanussi
dr/Saw: Per Oddvar Johansen
p: Johan Lindvall
sax: Mette Henriette
tbn: Henrik Norstebo
tp: Eivind Lonning
va: Bendik Bjornstad Foss
vc: Ingvild Nesdal Sandnes; Katrine Schiott
vn: Odd Hannisdal; Karin Hellquist; Sara Övinge

cond: Mark Helias
corn: Kirk Knuffke
db: Michael Formanek
dr: Tomas Fujiwara
gtr: Mary Halvorson
mar: Patricia Brennan
p: Kris Davos
sax: Tim Berne
sax/cl: Oscar Noriega; Chris Speed
sax/fl: Brian Settles; Loren Stillman
tbn: Alan Ferber; Jacob Garchik; Ben Gerstein; Jeff Nelson
tp: Ralph Alessi; Dave Ballou; Shane Endsley

cl: Gianluigi Trovesi
db: Gary Wang
dr: Roland Schneider
p: Anat Fort

And my personal favourite

acc/band/...: Richard Galliano
p: Jan Lundgren
tp/flhn: Paolo Fresu