chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 saw keith jarrett trio last night, had the best seat in the house, front box on keiths side of stage, 2nd level, so enough height to see single thing jack was doing on each drum including snare, and stull being right behind jarrett, and could see all of gary peacock. keith only freaked out on select individuals, and did not piss off the entire audience. but im telling you, with what he does, hes -asking- for it.....a little baby made a baby noise or somethin like that right at the start and he turned around and said: "i should tell you ive never played the muppet show"....he must be freaking out more and more cause 8 years ago and then before that 9 or 10 yrs ago i dont recall him communicating at all with words w/ the aud.-- they just played.---- they did a funky version of the pop-jazz tune 'fever' which i thought was an odd choice for this particular band, kind of out in left field, but i liked it! dont have really much to go on and on about regarding the rest of music, but it was good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBop Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 With any luck, Sonny Simmons on Sunday in Oakland. (C'mon United Airlines, you can do it!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 Saw Stephen Stills at the Birchmere tonite. Left after the first set. All around not good -- vocals and guitar playing. He needs to call it a day. That's a shame, he's one of my favorites. I saw him in the late 80's and he was fantastic, though granted ALOT of time has passed since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 9:00PM at Elastic, 2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Fl, 773.772.3616 ($15) 6th Annual Umbrella Music Festival Nick Mazzarella Trio, with Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly John Butcher Solo Tim Berne Trio, with Devin Hoff, Ches Smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 9:00PM at Elastic, 2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Fl, 773.772.3616 ($15) 6th Annual Umbrella Music Festival Nick Mazzarella Trio, with Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly John Butcher Solo Tim Berne Trio, with Devin Hoff, Ches Smith One of the things I envy Chicagoans (I lived there for 14 yeas BTW), is the Umbrella Festival. There have been some darn good line-ups. Butcher did 3 great nights at the High Zero Festival in Baltimore last month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) Just saw Lydia Loveless. Little girl with a BIG voice. Edited November 5, 2011 by BFrank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 9:00PM at Elastic, 2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Fl, 773.772.3616 ($15) 6th Annual Umbrella Music Festival Nick Mazzarella Trio, with Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly John Butcher Solo Tim Berne Trio, with Devin Hoff, Ches Smith Mazzarella was on fire, has taken the biggest step forward in the shorrtest span of time of any player I think I've ever encountered. Suddenly there's implied space and time around every note, whereas before that was much less the case -- and all of this now is language, takling to us and itself. Wow. Butcher has great instrumental gifts but does it amount over time to more than a string of effects? Sometimes it did IMO, mostly it didn't. Berne I left part way through -- in part because I was tired, in part because he seemed to be trudging Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 Heard Hal Galper's Trio last night in downtown Detroit. Fantastic -- very free and full of surprise, though the band is still fundamentally playing tunes with strong harmonies ("Alice in Wonderland," "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry," old "Milestones," Hal's originals, etc. It's Hal's rubato concept. There's time and pulse but it's super loose rhythmically, all three players swirling around an amorphous but definite groove. Everyone once in a while they fall into straight time but not often. Hal, Jeff Johnson and John Bishop have been playing this way for years and they breathe as one. They're playing the the Showcase in Chicago on Monday and Tuesday and I'd highly recommend it. I wrote this short critic's pick a few days ago: http://www.freep.com/article/20111103/COL17/111030346/Pianist-Hal-Galper-brings-his-trio-Carr-Cultural-Arts-Center Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 Friday night: Javon Jackson tenor saxophone Mulgrew Miller piano Nat Reeves bass Jimmy Cobb drums Tonight - but Eric Reed on piano, not Mulgrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 Last night, Lucky Peterson at Tuckers. He did not bring his organ, playing mostly piano, with occasional guitar. Too much singing from his wife tonight, but his trio is good, and Lucky's playing was incredible as usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Last night at the Hungry Brain, final night of the Umberlla Fest, Matt Wilson solo (IMO he's the Elmer Fudd of the drums, utterly square) and the Mary Halvorson Quintet, with trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, altoist Jon Irabagon, a bassist whose name I can't recall, and drummer Ches Smith. Halvorson was fine, Finlayson has a nanny-goat tone, nor was anyone else in the band much to my taste -- their playing rather New York athletic, "Is it my turn in the spotlight now?" which didn't fit Halvorson's compositions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Was there a helpful lady in the audience to suggest who should play now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 I like Irabagon in MOPDTK, but maybe that's just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Was there a helpful lady in the audience to suggest who should play now? BTW, even though I thought the logic of what was actually happening onstage supported my sense that she was chastising the Lithuanian soprano saxist for playing too much and not giving Boykin a chance (though I chalk up what was happening to that point to Boykin's diffidence, not to any piggishness on the Lithuanian player's part), I've since found out that the off-the-wall lady was a Lithuanian fan of the very good soprano saxist, and thus she may have wanted Boykin to not play at all. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 He needed a solo. Barbara needs numbers. Mars needs women. Everybody needs pitching. It's an imperfect world, ya'know? Whatcha' gonna do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 Last night at the Hungry Brain, final night of the Umberlla Fest, Matt Wilson solo (IMO he's the Elmer Fudd of the drums, utterly square) and the Mary Halvorson Quintet, with trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, altoist Jon Irabagon, a bassist whose name I can't recall, and drummer Ches Smith. Halvorson was fine, Finlayson has a nanny-goat tone, nor was anyone else in the band much to my taste -- their playing rather New York athletic, "Is it my turn in the spotlight now?" which didn't fit Halvorson's compositions. Finlayson is ho-hum for me, but Irabagon positively puts me off. I like Ches Smith's album but have not seen him live. I think Halvorson's music was very well-served in "Cracklenob" with Radding and Wooley. The group above sounds like one one of the constantly mutable arrangements of NY players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Storer Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Tonight, at the New Morning in Paris, the Steve Swallow Quintet, with Carla Bley, Steve Cardenas, Chris Cheek, Jorge Rossi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 little trip ahead next week... Monday Nov. 14 - Sex Mob (in Cologne, with Niko! ) Wednesday Nov. 16 - Henry Threadgill (at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam) Friday Nov. 18 - Craig Taborn Trio (again in Cologne) Then there's Bill Frisell's 858 group coming to Zurich Monday Nov. 21 (not sure I'll go but I had a weird dream [not a wet one, mind you] about Jenny Scheinman recently, so...) And at the end of November, there'll be some great stuff at this year's Unerhört festival - planning to catch: Friday Nov. 25 - Christoph Grab, Co Streiff/Russ Johnson/Gerry Hemingway, Lake-Weber-Ulrich feat. Nils Wogram As for Ingrid Laubrock, her Octet will appear in Zurich Dec. 10 and I plan to attend - missed her previous appearances, alas. On Mar. 7, The Nu Band will ply, and on Mar. 22, I'll get to hear chapter 2 of Matana Roberts' "Coin Coin" project, titled "Mississippi Moonchile"... quite exctiting times ahead! Last live concert I saw was George Gruntz' Concert Jazz Band, in a small club, me first row... amazing! The band included Dave Bargeron, Larry Schneider, Gary Smulyan, Luciano Biondini and many others. Was half deaf in the end, but there's nothing like a great big band! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Going to see something tonight that FreeForAll will appreciate. SFJazz members event: Robin Eubanks Listening Party The Trombone In Jazz History Robin Eubanks has achieved a triple-crown reputation as a master performer (trombonist for the SFJAZZ Collective, Dave Holland), arranger (McCoy Tyner Big Band, Mingus Big Band) and educator. Robin will be playing recordings and sharing his insights on some of the legends of the trombone, including Kid Ory, J.J. Johnson, Slide Hampton, and Curtis Fuller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 tomorrow night: Village Vanguard BILL McHENRY QUARTET Orrin Evans-p, Eric Revis-b, Andrew Cyrille-d I have never heard McHenry (I have heard good things) but I *have* see Andrew Cyrille at the Vanguard saw him recently @ The Stone from 5 feet away and he was his usual magnificent self. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedR Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 My wife and I are looking forward to a rare (at least in Northeast Ohio I believe) appearance by Booker T. Jones tomorrow night here in Cleveland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Saw Bassekou Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba in Vancouver last night. Almost sure I saw them one time a while back. Last year they were coming through Chicago but something came up and the gig was canceled. Definitely a great group to see live, though I have to admit it took them a while to really get the crowd going after the intermission. Still the closing number was ace! Probably should have stuck around for the encore, but I was way out in Kitsilano and the trains and buses really start slowing down around 10:30. Thinking back over the last 5 years, it really is amazing how many great African bands I've gotten to see live -- Toumani Diabate is probably still the top, then Tinariwen (twice), then perhaps a tie between Konono #1 and Ngoni Ba. And a bunch of other great concerts. I have to be honest, if it came down to a world music concert and a jazz concert, I would probably go with the world music if it was an African group -- you can always count on a strong rhythmic component (even if it doesn't swing in 4/4). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 Freddie Redd Quintet at Smalls in NY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Greg Abate with the Vinnie Parker Trio at Wilmslow, Cheshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcello Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Rene Marie. Wonderful 2 sets with a REAL jazz singer with a lot of heart and and a commanding stage presence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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