BillF Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 Alan Barnes and the Swingshift Big Band play Ellington compositions at Southport this afternoon. Quote
kh1958 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 Zac Harmon at Babb Bros. Good blues singer/guitarist from Jackson, Mississippi, now residing in Dallas, but too loud for the room, so I only stayed for one set. Quote
jcam_44 Posted March 25, 2015 Report Posted March 25, 2015 Bobby Bradford Quartet/Vinny Golia Sextet, which turned into a Septet at the Blue Whale. Amazing show and well worth the lack of sleep it produced!!! If only someone had taken their Tascam recorder to capture the music for repeated listening.... Quote
BillF Posted March 25, 2015 Report Posted March 25, 2015 Video clips of March 13th David Newton solo piano gig at a friend's house now posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pHikwP5iDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrKtYLdqUIk Quote
RiRiIII Posted March 27, 2015 Report Posted March 27, 2015 Friday 3/27: DAVID MURRAY TRIO in Athens! Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted March 27, 2015 Report Posted March 27, 2015 Tonight, Roscoe Mitchell Quartet with Tomeka Reid, Junius Paul and Vincent Davis. Quote
kh1958 Posted March 27, 2015 Report Posted March 27, 2015 (edited) Tonight, Buddy Guy at the House of Blues. A rarity (blues at the House of Blues), and I don't much care for the venue, but it's a short walk from my office. Edited March 27, 2015 by kh1958 Quote
Larry Kart Posted March 27, 2015 Report Posted March 27, 2015 Tonight, Roscoe Mitchell Quartet with Tomeka Reid, Junius Paul and Vincent Davis. See you there, I hope. Quote
Patrick Posted March 27, 2015 Report Posted March 27, 2015 Tonight: Cassandra Wilson doing a Billie Holiday themed concert Tomorrow: Jason Moran's Monk at Town Hall project both at Kennedy Center Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted March 28, 2015 Report Posted March 28, 2015 Mundell Lowe / Bucky Pizzarelli / John Pisano all star gtr summit,- best jazz show ive seen in a long while, it was amazing. their tone is so pure and you can hear the pluck of the strings almost, i love their sound. it was a real guitar jam, w/ someone rockin a lead while others did rhythm, 2 rhythm, it was really great Quote
Larry Kart Posted March 28, 2015 Report Posted March 28, 2015 Tonight, Roscoe Mitchell Quartet with Tomeka Reid, Junius Paul and Vincent Davis. Interesting to realize last night that I don't find Roscoe fitting into the realm of the exciting per se, both in how his music affects me and, perhaps, in how he makes/conceives it. Incredibly intense, yes, but it's as though he and the music and its auditors are transported to a plane where things are at once coruscating, ordered, and even more or less calm, where the "flames" (so to speak) are not those of combustion but construction. To put it another way, there seems to be little or no sense of struggle or "outcry" involved. One is just, not so simply, invited to witness/participate in (again) an act of construction -- one that calls for an atmosphere of great heat, but it's not a heat that overwhelms the creator or us; it's just what's required to do what's novel and necessary. Quote
John Tapscott Posted March 28, 2015 Report Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Tonight in Toronto: Ryan Truesdell and the Gil Evans Project Edited March 28, 2015 by John Tapscott Quote
BillF Posted March 28, 2015 Report Posted March 28, 2015 Tonight in Toronto: Ryan Truesdell and the Gill Evans Project Enjoy! Quote
John Tapscott Posted March 29, 2015 Report Posted March 29, 2015 (edited) Tonight in Toronto: Ryan Truesdell and the Gill Evans Project Enjoy! I did! It was the best concert I have been to in ages! Truesdell is an excellent and personable and enthusiastic leader who obviously loves Gil's music. Along the way he gave little insights into Gil's arranging craft which were not over the head of the laypeople in attendance (thankfully it was a full house, lots of grey for sure, but still full). The music was taken basically from the Thornhill years up to and including the Individualism album. ( I felt really good when Ryan said that The Individualism of Gil Evans was his favorite Evans recording, because it's mine too!) The only later chart was Gil's mid-seventies updating of The Meaning the Blues which on this night featured Scott Robinson on tenor. And the band was superb, so in tune, so well-balanced. A lot of the names were new to me, but some there were some terrific solo performances - Robinson and Tom Christensen on tenor, Mike Rodriquez and Mat Jodrell on trumpet, (great lead by Augie Haas), Nick Finzer and Ryan Keberle on trombone and monster bass trombonist George Flynn. The rhythm section - Frank Kimbrough, Jay Anderson, and Dennis Mackrel was a model of taste and swing. I bought the band's newest CD released just two weeks ago Lines of Color and Ryan signed with "Gil's Music Lives". Indeed it does. An evening to remember, for sure. Edited March 30, 2015 by John Tapscott Quote
BillF Posted March 29, 2015 Report Posted March 29, 2015 Tonight in Toronto: Ryan Truesdell and the Gill Evans Project Enjoy! I did! It was the best concert I have been to in ages! Truesdell is an excellent and personable and enthusiastic leader who obviously loves Gil's music. Along the way he gave little insights into Gil's arranging craft which were not over the head of the laypeople in attendance (thankfully it was a full house, lots of grey for sure, but still full). The music was taken basically from the Thornhill years up to and including the Individualism album. ( I felt really good when Ryan said that The Individualism of Gil Evans was his favorite Evans recording, because it's mine too!) The only later chart was Gil's mid-seventies updating from Miles Ahead of The Meaning the Blues which on this night featured Scott Robinson on tenor. And the band was superb, so in tune, so well-balanced. A lot of the names were new to me, but some there were some terrific solo performances - Robinson and Tom Christensen on tenor, Mike Rodriquez and Mat Jodrell on trumpet, (great lead by Augie Haas), Nick Finzer and Ryan Keberle on trombone and monster bass trombonist George Flynn. The rhythm section - Frank Kimbrough, Jay Anderson, and Dennis Mackrel was a model of taste and swing. I bought the band's newest CD released just two weeks ago Lines of Color and Ryan signed with "Gil's Music Lives". Indeed it does. An evening to remember, for sure. Sounds great, John! Quote
niels Posted April 3, 2015 Report Posted April 3, 2015 Ab Baars and Ig Henneman last night. beautiful duo concert of Ig Henneman on Violin and Ab Baars on Tenor Sax, Clarinet and shakuhachi. The venue itself was also really nice; an old soup factory (Honig) nowadays transformed into a sort of cultural hot spot with many cultural entrepreneurs, a local beer brewery, restaurant and a venue/podium which overlooked the river "De Waal", so during the concert you could see the ships sailing by in the background. Quote
jlhoots Posted April 3, 2015 Report Posted April 3, 2015 Sat. night - Open Loose (Helias, Malaby, Rainey) Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted April 3, 2015 Report Posted April 3, 2015 Sat. night - Open Loose (Helias, Malaby, Rainey) Enjoy - I'm seeing them on April 25th @ Cornelia Street. Tell Tony Steve Reynolds says hello. Quote
jlhoots Posted April 3, 2015 Report Posted April 3, 2015 Sat. night - Open Loose (Helias, Malaby, Rainey) Enjoy - I'm seeing them on April 25th @ Cornelia Street. Tell Tony Steve Reynolds says hello. Will do. Quote
jcam_44 Posted April 3, 2015 Report Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) Open Loose is at the Blue Whale Monday. I might try and go. If it was on the weekend I'd make it for sure. Edited April 3, 2015 by jcam_44 Quote
Leeway Posted April 3, 2015 Report Posted April 3, 2015 Last night at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Daniil Trifonov, piano Shostakovitch, Symphony No. 10, National Symphony Orchestra, Krzystzof Urbanski, conductor. Very enjoyable performances. Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted April 3, 2015 Report Posted April 3, 2015 Open Loose is at the Blue Whale Monday. I might try and go. If it was on the weekend I'd make it for sure. Please go if you have not seen the trio recently. People call me a fanboy but Malaby is playing the best saxophone of his life the past year. Quote
kh1958 Posted April 5, 2015 Report Posted April 5, 2015 Nishat Khan (sitar) and Gouri Shankar (tabla): Allen Public Library. Amazing sitar player. Quote
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