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  1. ORNETTE, LLOYD, MURRAY,MEHLDAU AT MOLDE JAZZ FEST

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by pepe

    Annual since 1962 Molde Jazz Festival on the west coast of Norway (Jul 14-19) has

    Ornette Coleman Quintet,

    Charles Lloyd Quartet w/Jason Moran,

    David Murray Black Saint Quartet,

    Brad Mehldau Trio,

    San Fransisco Jazz Collective (Lovano, Douglas, Zenon etc),

    Karin Krog/Steve Kuhn,

    Marilyn Mazur (Artist in Residence),

    Patti Smith,

    Open Loose,

    Zeena Parkins,

    Arild Andersen/Tommy Smith

    Manu Katche Playground

    Marcin Wasilewski trio

    etc etc, more info at http://www.moldejazz.no

  2. Meet Benny Bailey (DB 2-15-73)

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by pepe

    I saw him a couple of times with the quintet he co-led with Charlie Rouse. John Hicks on piano, I think Clint Houson and Victor Lewis but wouldn't swear by it. They were a mighty band.

    I saw him too, a couple of times, first at Molde International Jazz Festival - Norway - in 1961, where Bailey's precence was the only reason for calling it international - Karin Krog was doing the first part of the concert and was ending her version of Moody's Mood for Love singing "Benny Bailey you can come in now and play", and then he entered from backstage, put the horn to his lips and out came this HUGE and BROAD trumpet sound and fascinating intervallic leaps. Later in the concert he played a great I can't get started that would have Bunny Berigan sit up - a trumpeter friend of mine taped it (from the radio transmission of the concert), and to this day it's one of his desert island picks.

    After the concert he was invited to dinner at the home of another friend of mine, and this friend's mother poured some wine she had made herself from plums. Bailey asked "What's this drink", and she answered "It's something I made myself". Bailey: "Ahh, I see - Hjemmebrent! (Moonshine)".

    Sorry to hear he ended his life apparently a lonesome and forgotten man. I believe he visited Norway a couple of times during the nineties, touring and recording with tenorist/flutist Harald Gundhus' band.

  4. Anyone from Denmark??

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by pepe

    The Danish jazz scene has changed quite a bit during the last 10 years, so I'm not sure Bob Rockwell find it's still provincial.

    You must remember that Denmark is a small country, and even if you add other Scandinavian countries like Norway and Sweden, they're only somewhere around 15 million people.

    But of course, life is slower than on Manhattan, and that's exactly what Dexter Gordon and Ben Webster said was the reason they liked living there. I guess some people might find that kind of living a little provincial - can't always have the best of all worlds.

  9. Dizzy Gillespie Big Band

    in Discography

    Posted · Edited by pepe

    I got the Night in Tunisia last week, and it's great Dizzy. He partly used the big band as a frame for his fantastic soloing, and it's lots of that here - on Dizzy's Blues he goes on for several minutes and generally he takes the major part of the solos - but there are some nice tenor from Golson and Mitchell and some good alto (from Henry, I believe, who sounds more Phil Woods here than I've heard him elsewhere).

    I haven't heard the Chester, but from earlier posts in this thread I guess we can assume the Hindsights are from a different occasion that has'nt been released earlier?

  11. i want my mummy: fighting nostalgia on the new york jazz scene

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted · Edited by pepe

    Bassist Barre Phillips: "If you look at jazz as a tree, the trunk has stopped growing. There's no direct line now, as there was between Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie that was the jazz tradition.

    Now, it's just the branches of the tree that are growing and going off in all different directions."

    Does he have a point?

  13. SHORTER/HOLLAND/ALI/STEELY DAN FOR MOLDE FESTIVAL

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    The small town of Molde (25 000 inh) on Norway's west coast has a jazz festival annually since 1961, and this year's (July 16 - 21) program include

    Wayne Shorter Quartet

    Dave Holland Quintet

    Chick Corea/Gary Burton

    Rashied Ali Quintet

    Steely Dan

    Elvis Costello/Allen Touissant

    Peter Brøtzmann Chicago Tentet

    Nils Petter Molvær/Bill Laswell Band

    Trygve Seim Orchestra

    Solveig Slettahjell

    Alexander von Schlippenbach Monk Casino (playing all Monk's tunes in one day)

    Terje Rypdal's "Bleak House" w/Trondheim Jazz Orch + Palle Mikkelborg, Knut Riisnæs

    Esperanza Spalding trio

    Supersilent/Rypdal

    Silje Nergaard

    and lots of more

    www.moldejazz.no

  14. Harp in Jazz

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by pepe

    Heard them live last summer, and they were more outgoing than I expected from the couple of cuts I'd heard of their recording. Haarla did some wild piano soloes and clusters comping, while her harp was mostly exposed in ensembles and for coloring, but a couple of times she also used it for extended improvisation. Christensen was better than I've heard him in many years, and Seim was in a Garbarek out of Barbieri mood - fatsounding.

  20. Curling, Anyone?

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Even if people from my part of the world are supposed to pick some medals skiing and speed-skating, I

    begin to think curling is the most fascinating sport during the winter games. Some people here call it chess on ice. Don't know about that, though I agree with Jim I'd like to know a little more about strategy and thinking several shots ahead.

  22. Kenny G live in Fresno

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    Hey Johnny E, if you wanted a virtual sex-change, you could've just asked.

    First off, it's transgendered. :angry: We're here, we're queer, get used to it! Got it buster?!? :winky:

    Second, who is this Johnny E character? Certainly you don't mean that handsome drummer from Seattle do you? Don't make me laugh. :lol:

    Enough of these bait and switch tactics. What do you think of Kenny G?

    I don't (think of Kenny G).

  24. Tord Gustavsen Trio: "The Ground"

    in Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by pepe

    The Ground topped the pop charts for one week, with - according to Tord - marketing costs (in Norway) of NOK 700 (USD 100). The reason - at least partly - is that quite a few of the major stores push Gustavsen's new CD - even in my small home town of 25 000 people one guy in our local record store sold 14 copies the first Saturday it was out.

    His first CD sold 40 000 world wide, not bad for an instrumental jazz CD, and now that he's kind of made a name for himself I would'nt be surpsided if this one exceeds that.

    Of course the music is very accessible, and it might - as have been mentioned - have kind of a nordic mood - but the chords and voicings are very blues and gospel influenced.

  25. Mehldau Live in Tokyo

    in New Releases

    Posted

    To me Paranoid Android was the least satisfying track on LiT. I really dig his Monk and the Gershwins, especially How long has this been going on. That might be just me, though - maybe I'm a little old fashioned, and prefer to listen to him elaborating on tunes with harmonic structures that I'm used to and appeal to me.

    (even if he is reharmonizing)

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