What live music are you going to see tonight?

[BFrank]

17 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Geniuses at play / love this trio. Saw them last year or earlier this year. 

saw Tomeka last week with Angelica Neiscler & Savannah Harris. The other 2 were very good but Tomeka was off the chain great. 
 

 

Tomeka is ALWAYS entertaining! She has really re-invented the cello. Been lucky to see her several times.

Pic from last year's Big Ears: Tomeka Reid Quartet w/Jason Roebke (bass), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tomas Fujiwara (drums)

[ejp626]

Back from seeing Gary Smulyan at the Rex with Neil Swainson and Terry Clarke.  Lot of fun and generally high energy, esp. the final song of the last set.  Small chance I would go tomorrow which is the the land night of their mini-residency.

If transit cooperates, I'm a bit more likely to go Sun. evening to see Frank Botos, Kirk McDonald and Lorne Lofsky.

[Steve Reynolds]

Last Thursday 

Mat Maneri, Lucien Ban, John Hebert & Randy Peterson 

two 54-56 minute sets. 7 new pieces (5 from Mat & 2 from Lucien) which are to be recorded to become “Mist”. Mostly very slow & even slower. 

second set especially spectacular with Mat playing at the highest level. The group improvisations within these slow often molasses tempos were tear inducing in an extremely emotional way for me. Randy Peterson rules the universe. Best jazz drummer on the planet. At least in this context.

Swing High, Swing Higher

 

Seeing Ahmed tomorrow night

Tamarindo with Malaby, Brandon Lopez & Nasheet Waits on 4/6. Another kind of greatest jazz drummer in the world

John Zorn’s Cobra on 4/5 /  Ches Smith has something to say about the above as well:)
 

 

[mjazzg]

Enjoy Ahmed 

[Aggie87]

Caught The Bad Plus last night in Phoenix.  It was a fine show, mostly stuff from their most recent album,  Complex Emotions.

I was more familiar with the music from their 3-man lineup with Ethan Iverson, but after he (and later Orrin Evans) left, they added Chris Speed on reeds and Ben Monder on guitar.  I was familiar with Monder's older albums, but was curious to see him in a group like this, and he didn't disappoint.  Speed is a remarkable sax (and clarinet) player.  I'll have to check out further work of his.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Speed goes too far out for my tastes. I haven't caught one of his gigs in a long while because of it.

I was a bit bummed out that Javon Jackson canceled his 3/22 Boston appearance due to lack of ticket sales. I still think part of the reason was that it was advertised as a project with the late Nikki Giovanni, implying that it would be a melding of Jazz and poetry. While I don't have a problem with that, a lot of purists do, so I am not surprised that sales lagged. He should have advertised it as his quartet interpreting her lyrics but he didn't want to do that. Instead, it was canceled.

[Steve Reynolds]

Ahmed was fantastic. Very demanding and stringent. Full house at Roulette. Probably 350-400 in the crowd. So many young people. Lots of the long time community in attendance. Very gratifying. 
 

Standing ovation which is rare.

Edited Wednesday at 12:30 PM by Steve Reynolds

[colinmce]

It was a great performance. 

[jlhoots]

Brandee Younger Trio - Sunday night