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 March 26 by Steve Reynolds

[colinmce]

It was a great performance. 

[jlhoots]

Brandee Younger Trio - Sunday night

[T.D.]

Very local (piano) concert series at a small public library (Marilyn Crispell will be the May feature):

Daria Podorozhnova & Terri Ji with Inesa Sinkevych

E. Fabregas "Lament" from suite Portraits I (2000)

J. Brahms Sonata No.2 in F sharp minor, Op.2 25 min

Intermission 

Sonata in B Minor, S. 178 by Franz Liszt

Debussy Ondine from Preludes, Book II

Frederic Chopin Two Mazurkas, Op. 50

I. Vivace

II Allegretto

[Steve Reynolds]

Last night at Solar Myth

Thurston Moore, Tom Surgal & the *great* William Winant

40 minute piece followed by a 5-6 minute soft coda

immense, terrifying brilliant & mind altering majesty of sound 

standing 3-4 feet from Thurston

 

Lordy Lordy

 

 

Edited March 30 by Steve Reynolds

[jlhoots]

Bill Frisell Trio (Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston) - Monday night.

[T.D.]

Tonight, Indian music.

Sahana Banerjee (sitar) / Aditya Phatak (tabla)

[Steve Reynolds]

Last Thursday night

Ballister which is: Dave Rempis on baritone, tenor, alto & soprano saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello/electronics & Paal Nilsson-Love on drums

30 minute opening set was great

Luke Stewart augmented the band on double bass for the second 40 minute set which was an incredible , massive, extraordinary mind fuck. Fred is better than ever & I’ve never heard PNL play this great. Rempis best I’ve ever seen him.
 

last night John Zorn’s Cobra including among others, Simon Levine, Trevor Dunn, Simon Hanes, Matt Hollenberg, Ikue Mori, etc. 

with the incredible William Winant, the great Ches Smith and the super cool groovemeister, Mr. Billy Martin

43 minutes of priceless invention in a pretty small room. Free for those lucky enough to hear about it a couple months ago. 

Zorn 6-8 feet from me conducting the madness. What a vibe of joy. And when the 3 drummers went off, holy shit. 
 

all praise William Winant:)

no one remotely like him. Blessed to see this genius twice the last week. Was able to sit in front of his brilliant student Nava Dunkelman who I’ll see perform on my 65th birthday on the 25th of this month:)

 

tonight 7:30 & 9:00 sets from Tamarindo

Tony Malaby, Brandon Lopez & Nasheet Waits

after next Thursday when I see Gerry Hemingway, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard & Kyle Motl, I’ll have seen the most extraordinary number of world class drummers all from with 10–15 over the last 5-6 weeks.

Tyshawn Sorey, Nasheet Waits, Tom Rainey, Brian Chase, Randy Peterson, Ryan Sawyer, Ches Smith, William Winant, Billy Martin, Paal Nilsson-Love & Gerry Hemingway. 
 

life is good 

 

Edited yesterday at 12:41 PM by Steve Reynolds

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I'm heading into Portsmouth tonight to see the Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at the tiny Press Room. I assume there'll be a bunch of people there who wouldn't normally go to a Jazz show, but that's what happens when the guitarist from Wilco shows up in town.

[Steve Reynolds]

3 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I'm heading into Portsmouth tonight to see the Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at the tiny Press Room. I assume there'll be a bunch of people there who wouldn't normally go to a Jazz show, but that's what happens when the guitarist from Wilco shows up in town.

I’m seeing them on 4/12 in Philly. You will like Tom Rainey.