What live music are you going to see tonight?

[jlhoots]

The Cookers

[Steve Reynolds]

Trio 3 plus Vijay Iyer

Trio 3 is, of course: Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille

[Steve Reynolds]

Fwiw we have real nice seats about 10 feet from Andrew Cyrille's bass drum

Life is good

[Steve Reynolds]

Fine performance. Cyrille is mesmerizing with his seemingly simple freeish groove. My wife went nuts when they played his feature "A tribute to Bu" which is 90 percent Andrew with a little duo with Lake emerging after about 6 or 8 minutes of what is still an amazing to see and hear, melodic somewhat composed solo from the legendary drummer.

Iyer was fine as was Workman(although undermiked) and The band hit their groove with a Workman tune titled "Synapse" when the Cyrille groove became unshakable and Lake really took it up and OUT. I think he scared a few tourists! Last 2 tunes were Wha's Nine from the great Live in Willisau CD from 1992 and then another older tune from that amazing record where Lake really let loose and I be a very happy boy by then.

First time seeing the great trio in ten years and the addition of Iyer was very nice. The guys sound and look great and they deserve to have the crowds they have. Really about time.

Only thing missing was Cyrille's "Shell" but that would be asking too much!

[Hardbopjazz]

Tuesday night. What a happy event for a sad loss for jazz. Mulgrew Miller Celebration, Dizzy's Club Cola,

What a lineup celebrating the life and music of Mulgrew. I've never been to a set that had this many musicians.

Steve Wilson- as, ss,

Steve Nelson- vib,

Rodney Green- b,

Dwayne Eubanks- tp,

Richie Goods- b,

Matthew Fries- p

Chris Pattishall- p,

Anthony Wonsey- p,

Sullivan Fortner- p,

Jonah Jonathan- b,

Johnny O'Neil- p,

Kenny Barron- p,

Cyrus Chestnut- p,

Bill Charlap- p,

Joe Lovano- ts,

Javon Jackson- ts,

Peter Washington- b,

Kenny Washington- d,

Rusell Malone- g,

Lewis Nash- d,

Ray Drummond- b,

Wallace Roney- tp

Edited August 15, 2013 by Hardbopjazz

[BFrank]

Cookers - Yoshi's, Thurs

[BFrank]

The Cookers tonight at Yoshi's.

Bobby Hutcherson was in the house, too!

[Cali]

Poncho Sanchez tomorrow night, The Cookers Sunday night.

[tomatamot]

To night at Jazz Middelheim, Antwerpen, Belgium:

Randy Weston’s African Rhythms Septet:

Randy Weston (piano),

Talib Kibwe (dwarsfluit, saxofoon),

Bill Saxton (tenorsaxofoon),

Robert Trowers (trombone),

Alex Blake (bas),

Neil Clarke (percussie),

Lewis Nash (drums)

And

Charles Lloyd Quartet:

Charles Lloyd (saxofoon, fluit, taragot),

Jason Moran (piano),

Reuben Rogers (bas),

Eric Harland (drums)

Edited August 17, 2013 by tomatamot

[Blue Train]

Anyone in the Houston area between Oct 7-9

Keiji Haino & Peter Brötzmann either solo, or together. The solo Brötzmann is free.


http://namelesssound.org/events/2013_10_07_09_brotzmann_haino.html

[jlhoots]

Terri Hendrix / Lloyd Maines

[king ubu]

yowzah!

[BFrank]

Just saw John Beasley's MONK'estra at SFJazz.

Solid and entertaining big band evening, and an enthusiastic crowd.

Can't complain ...

[Hardbopjazz]

I caught the George Coleman Quartet at Smoke last night. George's playing was extremely sharp. Two years ago he said he was retiring. I guess you can't stop fir good when music is your life.

Tomorrow, Endangered Species at Dizzy's Club.

Edited August 24, 2013 by Hardbopjazz

[Larry Kart]

9:30PM

at Constellation, 3111 N Western ($12)

• Michael Moore, Josh Berman, Jason Roebke, Frank Rosaly

[king ubu]

Damn! Cecil Taylor at Willisau, to take place Sunday, just got cancelled .... bad artritis, in medical treatment etc.

They got Braxton (with Hemingway and Taylor Ho Bynum) as replacement ... but damn I'm so pissed and sad about this right now I'm just about to tear up my ticket rather than go there. Damn, damn!

[jlhoots]

Slaid Cleaves

[kh1958]

Buddy Guy at the Bedford Blues Festival. Feels LIke Rain never sounded better than when played during an actual light rain, cooling off the brutal heat.

[king ubu]

Anthony Braxton / Taylor Ho Bynum / Gerry Hemingway - Willisau, 1 September 2013

couple o'bad snapshots:

[Al in NYC]

This past weekend at the Detroit Jazz Festival:

Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes, Mack Avenue Records Suberband - with a very cool vibes/marimba duet between Gary Burton and Warren Wolf, JD Allen trio, Charles Lloyd with Bill Frisell, McCoy Tyner (with Savion Glover tapping along), Tony Monaco & Fareed Haque, 3 Baris (Gary Smulyan, Howard Johnson, Frank Basile) with Mike LeDonne, a Bill Frisell group playing John Lennon tunes, Warren Wolf quartet with Benny Green and Carl Allen, Dave Leibman and Richie Beirach (sublime), Danilo Perez & Geri Allen, James Carter playing Don Byas on Don Byas' old sax with an all-Detroit band, Karriem Riggins with Orrin Evans, The Cookers (David Weiss, Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, George Cables, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, with Gary Bartz added - great stuff!), U of M jazz band with Lee Konitz, Quest reunion (Dave Leibman, Richie Beirach, Ron McClure, Billy Hart - exceptional and deeply absorbing), Terrell Stafford quintet, Lee Konitz quartet with Dan Tepfer, Ray Drummond, Matt Wilson (cantankerous, in a beautiful way), Marcus Belgrave with several Detroit-raised trumpeters, a Miles Davis tribute with Wallace Roney, Rick Margitza, Larry Coryell, Ralphe Armstrong and Alphonse Mouzon.

[Justin V]

I just caught Lee Konitz with Dan Tepfer in Lewisburg, PA, having just caught him in 3 different setting in Detroit (in a duo with Tepfer, a quartet with Tepfer, Ray Drummond and Matt Wilson, and as a soloist with the University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble). I can't say enough about him, as Konitz is as brilliant as ever. He really has something special going with Tepfer, who's one of the finest young pianists out there.

[jlhoots]

Tom Russell

[Steve Reynolds]

Saturday, Sep 07 - 9:00PM & 10:30PM

CHRIS LIGHTCAP - BIGMOUTH

Chris Lightcap, bass; Chris Cheek, tenor sax; Tony Malaby, tenor sax; Matt Mitchell, piano; Gerald Cleaver, drums

[Steve Reynolds]

Saturday, Sep 07 - 9:00PM & 10:30PM

CHRIS LIGHTCAP - BIGMOUTH

Chris Lightcap, bass; Chris Cheek, tenor sax; Tony Malaby, tenor sax; Matt Mitchell, piano; Gerald Cleaver, drums

Tony Malaby just got here and I'm first in line and ready as I'm gonna be

[Steve Reynolds]

Had quite a few mixed thoughts on the show on Saturday - but overall a very fine band and a very enjoyable night - always nice to be about 3 or 4 feet from the bell of Tony Malaby's tenor saxophone - I NEVER take this blessing for granted.

Lightcap writes some very nice tunes but he does very little besides keep time and provide accents for the band but maybe that is the plan - he didnt even have a bow with him which for me is always a let down from the standpoint of the bass. They played a set of two short compositions during both sets that were beyond striking and which contained no solos and the improvisation was basically Cheek, and to a greater degree, Malaby improvising off the theme and the melody.

First set took a while to get going with Cleaver playing well but not anywhere near with the aggressive force that he sometimes displays in other contexts. He did ratchet it up a bit during one of the stronger pieces in the second set - but never did we get the real powerhouse groove and vibe that sometimes vaults his playing to the level of the great drummers.

Mitchell is a very talented pianist but he tends to the more flowery, high note content playing that is sometimes a bit much for my ears - very impressive but sometimes for me the question is tho what end?

Cheek is like Warne Marsh on stroids - competely emotionally controlled and very mathematical in his approach and a couple of the solos he took were close to magnificent. His accents with Malaby when the two tenors soloed together during a couple of tunes were apt and invigorating.

Malaby finds himself with this band in a restrained and controlled environment and he was easily to most interesting voice in the band - as some know he is maybe strongest when he is really stretching out and improvising at length on either soprano and especially on tenor saxophone - but here that was not the context. He took a very strong short solo on the first tune of the night staying mostly within the normal range of the horn and towards the end of the first set he got some space and played some shit that was within the framework of what the band was doing but surprised me with incorporated those gnarly and skronky sounds without disrupting the flow of the music.

Second set stronger and Malaby at points had BOTH elbows cranking and Malaby aficianados know what that means.......

said good bye - Tony tells me to send Evan his love on the 18th and I was on the way home

and yeah - it is about the love and the vibe - and fwiw - the place was packed for both sets and the crowd loved this band.

Edited September 9, 2013 by Steve Reynolds