What live music are you going to see tonight?

[T.D.]

 Pedja Mužijević, solo piano concert

"Bach Dialogues"
J.S. Bach, Partita in C minor BWV 826
Fulmer, “whose fingers brush the sky” (2014)
J.S. Bach, Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother BWV 992
Joslin, Cadaquésan Landscape (2017)
J.S. Bach, Sarabanda con Partite BWV 990

This (free!) event was pretty good. The non-Partita Bach pieces are relative obscurities. The Fulmer piece involves piano "preparations" and strumming inside the piano; the Joslin piece utilizes 2 metronomes and a music box.

 

[kh1958]

Tonight, the Brazilian rock band Boogarins at Deep Ellum Art Company, and Mdou Moctar.

Consecutive nights of African music is almost inconceivable in Dallas.

Tinariwen, a good band.

Mdou Moctar, simply awesome.

[BFrank]

26 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Tonight, the Brazilian rock band Boogarins at Deep Ellum Art Company, and Mdou Moctar.

Consecutive nights of African music is almost inconceivable in Dallas.

Tinariwen, a good band.

Mdou Moctar, simply awesome.

I saw Boogarins a few years ago. An interesting blend of Brazilian and psychedelic. I liked them!

Tinariwen is always good, too. Seen them 2-3 times.

[kh1958]

7 hours ago, BFrank said:

I saw Boogarins a few years ago. An interesting blend of Brazilian and psychedelic. I liked them!

Tinariwen is always good, too. Seen them 2-3 times.

I liked Boogarins; they have some appealing songs. Their closing number, on which Mdou Moctar joined them onstage, was so good.

[Steve Reynolds]

Matt Mitchell’s group - I’m 99% sure this is a first time playing together ensemble. About a month ago, Jon Irabagon was listed as being included on saxophone. I’m not upset he’s been dropped as I’m still not on board to what he’s doing despite his obvious virtuosic abilities. That being said:

Mitchell on piano & compositions

Brandon Seabrook on electric guitar

Ben Gerstein on trombone

Mat Maneri on viola 

Kate Gentile on drums 

Gentile is new to me and I’ve been almost a year without seeing my favorite of all-favorites, the brilliant Mat Maneri

show is @ 8:30 @ The Stone at New School’s Glass Box Theatre, 55 West 13th Street near 6th Avenue 

[medjuck]

                                         Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul.  All rock bands should have a horn section like this. (The girls too.) .   This was last Monday. It took me this long to figure out how to post the photo. 

Edited September 19, 2019 by medjuck
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[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

TWO MAGICAL NIGHTS, ALL THE SPECIAL SONGS, ALL THE SPECIAL EXPEIRENCES 

 

[Tom in RI]

Bill Frisell, solo, at an intimate theater in East Greenwich, RI. He had several pedals and used loops judiciously. Also played an acoustic interlude including a stunning workout on Moon River. I get out to shows almost never so this was quite a treat. The experience was marred somewhat by an annoying buzz in the stack on stage right.

[BFrank]

SFJAZZ - Broken Shadows w/ Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Dave King, Reid Anderson. It's their Ornette (and related musicians) tribute. This is the second time I've seen them. Recommended!

[kh1958]

On Friday I traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico for the Fifteenth annual Globalquerque.

This diverse World Music festival has three stages and ten acts per night at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

On Friday night, I heard:

Nohe y Sus Santos: A mixture of Latin Pop and Cumbias, featuring Honduran vocalist Nohelia Sosa. Not my usual fare, but a fine group.

Mdou Moctar: Niger's guitarist extraordinaire presents shattering Saharan Desert blues.

Natu Camara: Vocalist from Guinea is not bad.

Finally for the evening, the wondrous Garifuna Collective from Belize present the music of the Garifuna people. And a new CD!

On Saturday night:

Sahba Motallebi: A revelatory concert for me, as the Iranian tar virtuoso presents Persian classical music with percussion accompaniment on tonbak. With music of some similarity to Indian classical music, including improvisation, she was utterly masterful.

Finally, closing out with Vivalda Dula, from Angola, and the sound of East Africa. This was another welcome discovery. An excellent vocalist and performer with a fine band. 

Edited September 24, 2019 by kh1958

[relyles]

Wednesday night I caught the Ingrid Laubrock quartet with Brandon Seabrook, Michael Formanek and Tom Rainey in Easthampton, MA. Tonight I will likely go hear the sextet with Tomeka Reid and Mazz Swift added at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT.

[BFrank]

Tomorrow night: Brian Blade's Life Cycles. Looking forward to seeing the amazing Blade!

[cliffpeterson]

I was the same Ingrid Laubrock concert as relyles.  Caught the Miles Davis documentary in Hudson Last night. Off to see Frank Wakefield, a bluegrass mandolin player, at the Parting Glass in Saratoga Springs tonight.  Tomorrow night I plan on catching the Tony Malaby trio with Ben Monder and Billy Mintz at the Falcon in Marlboro  And if I am really ambitious I might see Alvaro Domene, Michael Bisio and Nick Lyons at the Lace Mill in Kingston earlier in that afternoon. 

[ejp626]

On 2019-09-16 at 1:30 AM, BFrank said:

Tinariwen is always good, too. Seen them 2-3 times.

Tinariwen was in Toronto last night.  I think this is a slightly smaller touring ensemble than I've seen in the past, only 6 members including a dancer (who at one point in the middle of the set did play 2 guitar pieces).  It was a good show.  This actually makes the 4th time I've seen them over the years -- twice in Chicago and twice in Toronto.

[kh1958]

2 hours ago, ejp626 said:

Tinariwen was in Toronto last night.  I think this is a slightly smaller touring ensemble than I've seen in the past, only 6 members including a dancer (who at one point in the middle of the set did play 2 guitar pieces).  It was a good show.  This actually makes the 4th time I've seen them over the years -- twice in Chicago and twice in Toronto.

In Dallas, there were only four members (bass plus three guitar/vocalists), with a guest drummer.  It was explained that the drummer was unable to obtain a U.S. visa.

[ejp626]

1 hour ago, kh1958 said:

In Dallas, there were only four members (bass plus three guitar/vocalists), with a guest drummer.  It was explained that the drummer was unable to obtain a U.S. visa.

It did appear to be a guest drummer (in baseball cap), but definitely five others.  I've seen a slightly larger configuration, and I think one time (in Chicago) they had joined up with female vocalists/dancers but that is quite rare.

[jcam_44]

Patrick Shiroishi solo Baritone and Alto Saxophone, Tashi Dorji solo electric guitar and Makoto Kawashima solo alto saxophone. I left before they played as a trio since I had to working the next morning but Makoto was worth the sleep deprivation and trip alone. What an incredible artist he is.

[jlhoots]

Gerald Clayton Quartet tomorrow night.

[HutchFan]

Earlier this week, I saw King Crimson on their 50th Anniversary Tour.

Good stuff!

[Steve Reynolds]

Mat Maneri 50th Birthday Celebration

7:30 & 9:30 sets @ Jazz Gallery in NYC

Set 1: 

with Lucian Ban on piano, Brad Jones on double bass & the *great* Randy Peterson on drums

Set 2: 

with Craig Taborn & Matthew Shipp on piano, Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Joe Morris on guitar & Tanya Kalmanovitch joining Mat on viola

Edited October 4, 2019 by Steve Reynolds

[mikeweil]

We saw Ragna Schirmer replicate a concert Clara Schumann performed in Hamburg in 1878, on a Grotrian-Helfferich-Schulz piano from 1875 (from Schirmer's collection, identical to the piano Clara Schumann purchased in 1875). That piano was developped with Schumann's ideas, and combines the power of a modern instrument - it was one  of the first models with a cast iron frame - with the colors of a Viennese piano from Beethoven's time. The "Waldstein" sonata sounded clearer on it than we are used to; Robert Schumann's "Carnaval" was great. Schirmer is a fantastic pianist rendering these pieces with power and not a trace of egomania.

Edited October 5, 2019 by mikeweil

[jlhoots]

Allison Miller / Jenny Scheinman: Parlour Game

[BFrank]

11 hours ago, jlhoots said:

Allison Miller / Jenny Scheinman: Parlour Game

I like both of them. Haven't heard the new album yet, but will be seeing them next year.

Tomorrow at SFJAZZ:
Kris Davis' Diatom Ribbons w/Terri Lyne Carrington and Haitian DJ, sound sculptor and percussionist Val Jeanty

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Jamaaladeen Tacuma trio featuring Gary Bartz.  I've never heard of this guy, but I looked him up and now i do.   I'm all set for it, Gary Bartz with electric bass and drums. I mean hell when was the last time you've seen Bartz w/ an electric bassist?  The miles era? (michael henderson)

 

Edited October 6, 2019 by chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez

[sidewinder]

40 minutes ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

I mean hell when was the last time you've seen Bartz w/ an electric bassist?  The miles era? (michael henderson)

 

About 14-15 years ago at a gig put on over here by Soul Brother Records with Eddie Henderson playing their 70s classics. Eddie with a bank of wah wahs ! Even bought a signed copy of Bartz’s Soul Brother 2LP set after the gig. So - rare event but does occasionally happen. Bartz was predictably great by the way.