What live music are you going to see tonight?

[jlhoots]

Concha Buika

[Steve Reynolds]

Tomorrow night @ Rubin Museum of Art in NYC @ 7:00

Ches Smith Trio with Craig Taborn & Mat Maneri

 

[Steve Reynolds]

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[Chuck Nessa]

42 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

 

 

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must have been great.

 

[Steve Reynolds]

27 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

must have been great.

 

Trying to post a couple of pictures?

And yes it was awesome. As good as music gets for me. Craig Taborn is a marvel, Ches Smith is masterful and the *great* Mat Maneri makes the whole thing gel. Standing ovation which is not an every day thing around these parts. Big crowd - full room. Intense 75 minute set. Front row center. Lady next to me almost fainted a few times when the sound was more than a bit elevated. 

[Steve Reynolds]

[jlhoots]

Chris Lightcap's BigMouth (Malaby, Cheek, Taborn, Cleaver)

[Leeway]

Saw Content Provider at Atlas Theatre, DC, on Sunday, March 27th. Andrew Drury's group with Ingrid Laubrock and Briggan Krauss on tenor and alto saxes, respectively, and Brandon Seabrook on electric guitar, and Drury on drums, percussion. The brass section definitely packed a punch. Sea brook supplied an adequate amount of skronk.  Drury's compositions were good, leaving a lot of flexibility for the band. 

[Steve Reynolds]

10 hours ago, jlhoots said:

Chris Lightcap's BigMouth (Malaby, Cheek, Taborn, Cleaver)

Say hi to Tony from Steve Reynolds from Wayne, NJ if you can?

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Say hi to Tony from Steve Reynolds from Wayne, NJ if you can?

I will.

[jlhoots]

13 hours ago, jlhoots said:

I will.

I did. Fine show BTW.

[sidewinder]

Tomorrow night - Mike Westbrook Big Band 'A Bigger Show'.

[relyles]

The treat for tonight was the Bobby Bradford - Hafez Modirzadeh Quartet with Ken Filiano and Royal Hartigan in Amherst, MA. 

[BillF]

13 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Tomorrow night - Mike Westbrook Big Band 'A Bigger Show'.

That sounds promising! At what venue?

[kh1958]

Tutu Jones at the Goat. Fabulous Texas blues.

[king ubu]

caught Oum last night - wonderful concert, a continuous set of almost two hours

[kh1958]

Today was a rare (in Dallas) double concert day for me. Even better, both were terrific.

First, to the Allen Library for an afternoon sarod recital, with Abhisek Lahiri on sarod and Subrata Bhattacharya on tabla. That was a truly wonderful concert.

Next, from  Allen to Richardson, the campus of the University of Texas at Dallas, for the Joey DeFrancesco Trio. This proved to be far and away the best experience I've had with Joey D. First, the instrument he played, as he commented, was a 1959 Hammond B3 in amazing condition. The sound of this organ was incredible. And a further pleasant surprise was the sound of the band, which sounded like a real working band, with Jason Brown on drums and Dan Wilson on guitar. The band was really on for this concert. It far exceeded expectations.  

 

[sidewinder]

On 1 April 2016 at 8:19 AM, BillF said:

That sounds promising! At what venue?

Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton ! Bastion of the arts in the epicentre of cider-swigging yokels..

 

Edited April 3, 2016 by sidewinder

[BillF]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton ! Bastion of the arts in the epicentre of cider-swigging yokels..

 

Well, you have a little coterie of South West-resident jazz musicians, if I'm not mistaken. Don't both Westbrook and John Surman live down that way?

[A Lark Ascending]

I think Surman lives in Norway though he came from Devon...you can still hear the wonderful burr when he talks. 

Kings of the South Seas with Tim Eriksen - Chasing the Whale (Ropery Hall, Barton Upon Humber in North Lincolnshire)

Ben Nichols – vocals, double bass, concertina (The Full English, Seth Lakeman Band, Fay Hield Band); Richard Warren – guitar, vocals (Spiritualized, Soulsavers feat Mark Lanegan); Evan Jenkins - drums, vocals (Neil Cowley Trio, Eric Clapton, Bert Jansch); Tim Eriksen - guitar, vocals (Cordelia's Dad, wonderful solo performer in his own right)

Excellent set of traditional songs and arrangements associated with the whaling industry. The core trio played the songs straight but with rock-like rhythms and spacey electric guitar providing colour as well as scrunchy foundation. Mostly songs were connected with the British South Sea trade; Eriksen brought in some from the New England tradition. Really enjoyable - foot-stomping, good join in choruses (you don't get that at an Evan Parker (or a Mahler) concert!). Small venue but a near capacity crowd loved it. We didn't get Philip Hoare doing readings who is on the programme in some events. 

Part of a tour of venues associated with the whaling trade. The previous night the concert had been on the Cutty Sark in Greenwich! Not sure what Basingstoke had to do with the whaling trade though!

Interesting venue. Ropery Hall sits right next to the Humber Bridge on the Lincolnshire side of the river, opposite Hull. A really long building that originally, as the name suggests, made ropes for ships. They've taken a segment at the northern end and turned it into an arts centre.   

[BillF]

Leap in your car and you'll just be in time for this! I can vouch for Mullen, Crosland and the venue.

http://www.sevenleeds.co.uk/event/sunday-jazz-jim-mullen-ben-crosland-trio/

[A Lark Ascending]

35 minutes ago, BillF said:

Leap in your car and you'll just be in time for this! I can vouch for Mullen, Crosland and the venue.

http://www.sevenleeds.co.uk/event/sunday-jazz-jim-mullen-ben-crosland-trio/

Think I need a rest - a couple more longhairs coming up in the week ahead. 

I like Mullen - saw a great gig by him with Dave O'Higgins about 20 years back. I can still picture their wonderful take on Ornette's 'Ramblin''. Crosland I only know from record.

I remember seeing Morrissey-Mullen around '74/'75 in Aberystwyth whilst visiting a mate. Students union - only place in the area you could get a drink on a Sunday. Packed! He also played in a short-lived rock-soul band called Kokomo in the mid-70s who I remember seeing at one of those free Hyde Park afternoon concerts - didn;t know who he was then so can't be sure he was there.  

[Utevsky]

Last night, the multi-faceted production of "Now I'm Fine" by comedian/trumpeter/composer Ahamefele J. Oluo,  It is an autobiographical suite, alternating Oluo's darkly humorous monologues with musical selections performed by a 16-piece orchestra, a string quartet, and the vocalist SoulChilde.  Oluo, who plays with the garage-jazz group Industrial Revelation, is a powerful player and writer who likes to push musical boundaries.  (I only wish there was more of his trumpet playing in this show.)

[relyles]

My eagerly anticipated outing for Thursday:

Fromm Players at Harvard

Creative Music Convergences
Thursday, April 7 and Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m.
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
FREE and OPEN TO ALL! No tickets required. First come, first seated.

CONCERT I, April 7

7:30 p.m.
Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith
Nicole Mitchell | Tomeka Reid | Mike Reed

9:00 p.m.
Okkyung Lee
Steve Lehman Octet

I am not going to make it for the second day, but here is Friday's lineup:

CONCERT II, April 8

7:30 p.m.
Craig Taborn
Wadada Leo Smith + Ikue Mori

9:00 p.m.
Courtney Bryan
Tyshawn Sorey Double Trio

 

[mikeweil]

Last night we went to the local town theater to see Jan Garbarek. With him were Rainer Brüninghaus, Yuri Daniel and Trilok Gurtu. My wife wanted to see him once in her lifetime, Since Gurtu was one of my first teachers forty years ago it was easy to make me buy some tickets.

It was good, excellently rehearsed and played, but not very jazzy. Sometimes it reminded me of early Weather Report (as did Oregon, to my disappointement, when I saw them ten years ago). It didn't really touch or convince me, Gurtu was the only one who took some chances and try to interact spontaneously. It was best when he and Garbarek duetted, which ranged from free style à la Coltrane/Ali to Indian world music; the many unacompanied solo features were technically more than musically styled. Brüninghaus seems to be the un-funkiest pianist on the planet, he plays those fusion type patterns but does not really groove, nor does he swing. I had the thought of locking him in for a week with half a dozen Jimmy Rowles albums, who uses a tenth of the notes Brüninghaus plays, but swings twenty times as much ... It was all correct, but didn't really groove, only in a European, intellectual sense. The compositions were all structured like collages - are these guys all listening to film music? They knew where they wanted to go, but all the different elements of the music didn't really feel connected to me. Screaming saxophone passages, without preparing the emotions belonging to them, just technically styled. It was almost like they avoided to swing.

I wonder who will take Gurtu's torch when the time comes - the only Indian drummer to really fuse in funky off beats into Indian rhythm. I don't know of anyone else doing it this way. He encouraged me to trust my own ideas, whatever I heard in my head, I will always be grateful for that. Maybe that's where I got the idea of fusing whatever rhythmical inspiration I hear, no matter where it comes from, just like he does.