jazztrain Posted June 30, 2013 Report Posted June 30, 2013 Richard Thompson. Just back. Great show. Quote
PHILLYQ Posted June 30, 2013 Report Posted June 30, 2013 I went to see Savion Glover this afternoon. I post this in the music section because the musicality of the tappers was just amazing! The show is entitled STEPZ, and it's Glover, another guy and three women all tapping away. They tapped to some Coltrane, Stevie Wonder and a few other things. The program noted that the performance times vary greatly because the show is largely improvised. Glover and the other guy did a bit with the 'Mission Impossible' theme that I would have thought impossible if I didn't see it. An absolutely wonderful afternoon of tap.I went with my wife, her sister, and my sister-in-law's 11 year old daughter, who likes dance. We waited around after the performance and Glover and the other dancers were quite gracious and signed autographs and posed for pictures. The 11 year old was a bit shy, so I grabbed her arm and brought her over to one of the female dancers(Ayodele Casel)and told Ms. Casel that the girl was shy. Ms. Casel gave her a big hug! It made the girl's day and was a wonderful moment. Quote
BFrank Posted June 30, 2013 Report Posted June 30, 2013 Richard Thompson. Just back. Great show. With his trio or solo? Either way, I'm sure he was great. Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted June 30, 2013 Report Posted June 30, 2013 More later but two wonderful very unique sets (Kris is very unusual composer) with fine performances by all and yet all overshadowed but not overwhelmed (thankfully) by what may have been the best I have ever heard from Mat Maneri. Simply beyond what an improviser should be capable of doing. Beyond genius at this point. Astounding. His first solo during the first somewhat straight piece was lilting, gorgeous and simply elevated the rest of the band from there on out. The long oddly structured second composition built to a mammoth long extremely intense and loud plateau where what was going on with Mat and John Hebert is still a mystery. And yet it got better. Mat gets sounds and riffs out of his viola that do not exist beyond him in all of the musical world. My friend Maurice who sees a whole lot of music and has seen Mat many, many times agreed that it might be the best he has ever heard from him. Bruce, of course, just smiles and we just know that a few more oughtta know and really might want to listen. Is it easy listening? No as the second set was a bit slow fur the first 30 minutes which were two 15 minute takes on two very oblique compositions with the second one slower than slow while the first was almost Andrew Hill like with his last bassist and Davis with Rainey opening as a chunky piano trio for about half of the 15 minutes until Ingrid and Mat threatened madness. Last tune had no viola until the last 10 minutes when the whole idea of what is jazz and what grooves and what swings and who is the new Trane all came and went. Of course he is that but he plays the viola, sits on a chair and has no commercial appeal. Like his dad said to me back in the day, "it's gonna be big" speaking of his music, even though he was already 72 and never recorded anything other than totally abstract improvisations, usually with Mat, a bassist, and a drummer that to this day, hardly anyone wants to hire, so really I say it is big, it's huge, and its more than that. Kris Davis' band that played hardly a groove save for a few Rainey hyper kinetic volleys, played in front of a packed room with a nice line down the block. Hope for big ears remain Get Ready to Receive Yourself Quote
jazztrain Posted June 30, 2013 Report Posted June 30, 2013 Solo. Richard Thompson. Just back. Great show. With his trio or solo? Either way, I'm sure he was great. Quote
marcello Posted June 30, 2013 Report Posted June 30, 2013 Last night: Torben Woodruff (w/ Gary Versace, Orlando Fleming and Jon Wikan) Last Wednesday: Aaron Goldberg (w/ Reuben Rogers and Greg Hutchinson) Last Monday: Geoffrey Keezer (solo Piano) Quote
uli Posted July 1, 2013 Report Posted July 1, 2013 (edited) More later but two wonderful very unique sets Get Ready to Receive Yourself don't hold back Reynolds, lets hear it! Edited July 1, 2013 by uli Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted July 1, 2013 Report Posted July 1, 2013 More later but two wonderful very unique sets Get Ready to Receive Yourself don't hold back Reynolds, lets hear it! I'll save more for next week after I see THIS: Sunday, Jul 07 - 8:30PM CHES SMITH TRIODan Weiss, hostChes Smith, drums; Craig Taborn, piano; Mat Maneri, viola Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted July 1, 2013 Report Posted July 1, 2013 Yesterday, Roy Hargrove Quintet at the Vanguard. This coming Wednesday Cyrus Chestnut at the Jazz Standard. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted July 1, 2013 Report Posted July 1, 2013 Last night Ann and I celebrated our union in Pentwater, Michigan listening to Arno Marsh, Randy Marsh, Paul Brewer and company at Gull Landing. Wonderful evening and Arno is playing beyond any expectation - for the first time I detected a "Lockjaw" influence. Thanks guys. Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted July 3, 2013 Report Posted July 3, 2013 Tonight the Cycrus Chestnut Quartet at the Jazz Standard. Quote
medjuck Posted July 3, 2013 Report Posted July 3, 2013 Saw Maria Muldaur at a vineyard on Saturday afternoon. Sponsored by a local blues society and she is indeed a blues singer. Has a new cd out dedicated to Memphis Minnie. Good stuff. Makes me want to liten to the originals. Quote
alankin Posted July 4, 2013 Report Posted July 4, 2013 Elaine Watts and the Summer Sounds Pop Band this morning at the Bala Cywnyd Independence Day Celebration. Quote
relyles Posted July 5, 2013 Report Posted July 5, 2013 (edited) Other than Jimmy Greene, not anything I would usually even consider attending, but I am trying to support the person producing the event. Saturday, July 6, 2013 SummerWind Performing Arts Center - 40 Griffin Road North - Windsor YELLOWJACKETS / JIMMY GREENE / MARION MEADOWS / JACKIE RYAN Edited July 5, 2013 by relyles Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted July 5, 2013 Report Posted July 5, 2013 Relyes - you considering the Sunday night show above? I think it could be great. Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted July 7, 2013 Report Posted July 7, 2013 About an hour until the show. 90 degrees outside and will be cool downstairs. Very pumped for the trio of Che's Smith, Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted July 8, 2013 Report Posted July 8, 2013 5 feet from Mat Place is packed. Ready to go, baby!!!! Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted July 8, 2013 Report Posted July 8, 2013 Getting ready to get some rest as I have work tomorrow but I will say this: My wife says that Craig Taborn must be the best pianist there is. I told her he might be but she hasn't seen Cecil Taylor. Two totally improvised sets of music and as I mentioned above the little place was packed, maybe because of the pianist being in the band. I may try to describe what sort of music this was later if I can get a handle on it but I will say this - the first set was pretty damn great with the last 25 minute piece being from a place I wasn't very familiar with. It ended up being somewhat groove based and consisted of some strong looping repeated figures by Taborn culminating with Maneri playing some bass lines and drones on the lowest register of his viola unlike anything I've ever heard him play. The crowd went a bit nuts, especially for this place which is sometimes a bit subdued as a good portion of the crowd are regulars who have really seen and heard it all. The lesson is dont leave before the second set. Three amazing pieces with the second being a masterpiece of doom metal free jazz improvisation with these masters inventing something they didn't know existed in them. It ended almost better with a searching unexpected Smith solo completing the best set of music I've heard this year. Still Coming Down the Mountain Quote
relyles Posted July 8, 2013 Report Posted July 8, 2013 July 8, 2013 - Monday Night Jazz in Bushnell Park Rahstet Mario Pavone Orange Double Tenor Sextet (Mario Pavone – bass, compositions; Jimmy Greene – tenor and soprano saxophones; Noah Preminger – tenor saxophone; Dave Ballou – trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet; Peter McEachern – trombone; Peter Madsen – piano; Steve Johns – drums) Quote
webbcity Posted July 8, 2013 Report Posted July 8, 2013 Hey, I know Dave Ballou-- great player, great guy! Been a long time since I've been in touch with him though. Enjoy the show! Quote
jeffcrom Posted July 8, 2013 Report Posted July 8, 2013 A couple of nights ago in Bellingham, Washington, I went to the opening concert of the Bellingham Festival of Music, an annual two-week-long classical festival. My sister-in-law, an amateur cellist, wanted to go to hear young cello hotshot Joshua Roman, whom she apparently has a crush on. The nature of the concert wasn't explained to me, and I thought it was to be a cello recital, but it was a full symphonic concert, with Roman as soloist in two pieces. He was very impressive, although I didn't really care for the two pieces he was featured on - Aaron Jay Kernis' "Dreamsongs," basically a cello concerto, was a real compositional mess. But after the intermission, the Bellingham Festival Orchestra played Beethoven's Third. It had been awhile since I had heard it, and I had forgotten what an amazing piece it is. The orchestra was excellent - it consisted mostly of principal players from orchestra all over the country. The horn section in particular played like heroes, and I admit to feeling local pride when I saw that the principal horn was Brice Andrus, principal of the section in the Atlanta Symphony. Quote
BillF Posted July 10, 2013 Report Posted July 10, 2013 Greg Abate with the Vinnie Parker Trio at Wilmslow, Cheshire last night. Quote
relyles Posted July 12, 2013 Report Posted July 12, 2013 UMOJA Music Series Stephen "King" Porter Trio Stephen "King" Porter- Bass Curtis Torian - Drums Abraham Burton - Saxophone Josh Evans Trumpet Ensemble Josh Evans - Trumpet Brian Lynch - Trumpet Darren Barrett - Trumpet Chris Beck - Drums Davis Whitfield - Piano Ryan Berg - Bass Quote
Blue Train Posted July 16, 2013 Report Posted July 16, 2013 Trio 3 + Special Guest Vijay Iyer (Reggie Workman / Oliver Lake / Andrew Cyrille) @ Birdland August 7-10.http://www.birdlandjazz.com/event/309503-trio-3-special-guest-vijay-new-york/ Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted July 18, 2013 Report Posted July 18, 2013 The Bad Plus at the Village Vanguard. Wednesday The Heath Brothers at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola. Thursday. Quote
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