Which artists have you seen live the most?

[Hardbopjazz]

I've seen Randy Weston 25 times in the past 15 years. Next I've seen Lee Konitz and Jimmy Heath 20 times. Sonny Rollins 15 times.

Mulgrew Miller I was able to see live 10 times before he departed. Renee Rosnes also 10 times. Cecil Taylor 9 times.

Who have others here seen several times?

[medjuck]

In 5 decades I've seen Sonny Rollins 6 times in 4 different cities.

[GA Russell]

I have seen Miles Davis, Herbie Mann and Roland Kirk three times each.

[LWayne]

Over the years, I have probably seen Bill Frisell 20-25 times in different formats, Paul Motian about 20 times, and Joe Lovano about 12-15 times.

(Bet you can't guess who my favorite trio was)...

LWayne

[Chuck Nessa]

I have no idea.

[Homefromtheforest]

Probably Han Bennink; since 1993 I've seen him at least 20 times.

Edited February 22, 2014 by Homefromtheforest

[danasgoodstuff]

Bill F 7-8 times, Sonny R maybe 6 times, lots of locals 20+

[Steve Reynolds]

Mat Maneri 4 times with his dad Joe

Probably about 10-12 times the last 3-4 years

Tony Malaby probably 12-15 times the last 4 years

Peter Brotzmann probably 8-10 times the last 15 years

Han Bennink 6-8 times the last 15 years

Andrew Cyrille 10-12 times those last 15 years

Hamid Drake 12-15 times those last 15 years

Gerry Hemingway 8-10 times the last 15 years

Least for those I love:

Barry Guy - once

Mark Sanders - once

Alexander Von Schlippenbach - once

Paul Lovens - once

Never have I seen:

Louis Moholo-Moholo

John Edwards

[jeffcrom]

The only journal I've ever kept is of my New Orleans visits; I realized pretty early on that I wanted a record of where I went and who I heard on my annual (and sometimes more-than-annual) visits. I see to my surprise that I've seen the Preservation Hall Jazz Band 37 times - 32 times at the Hall and five times on tour. Of course, that may not really mean anything, since the "Preservation Hall Jazz Band" is a brand more than it is a band - it was a different band almost every time. But among those concerts, I heard Percy Humphrey four times and Willie Humphrey three times, and those shows were as meaningful as all the others put together.

I heard my hero, Steve Lacy, seven times. That may not sound like much, but - he's been dead for nearly ten years (which still seems hard to believe), he lived in Europe for most of my life, and I never heard him outside of the Deep South. So that's not bad. I'm grateful for each of those occasions.

[BFrank]

I've seen Billy Harper a bunch of times - with the Cookers, his own group, Randy Weston and Max Roach.

Also saw Blakey a number of times through the 70s-80s.

More recently I seem to catch Jason Moran on a regular basis.

[JohnS]

David Murray in just about every configuration. Maybe one or two local players run him close.

[A Lark Ascending]

Probably Kenny Wheeler and John Taylor in the jazz world. Though I imagine the record would go for a bass player like Andy Cleyndert or a drummer like Seb Rochford who seem to turn up backing all manner of people.

Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, John Kirpatrick - more times than I can imagine.

[BillF]

Bill F 7-8 times

I deny this!

For me, it's the ubiquitous Alan Barnes of course.

http://www.alanbarnesjazz.com/gigs.html

[mjazzg]

without doubt London's ever marvellous rhythm section John Edwards with Mark Sanders or Steve Noble. Evan Parker, John Russell, Peter Brotzmann, Kenny Wheeler, Tim Berne

[Steve Reynolds]

without doubt London's ever marvellous rhythm section John Edwards with Mark Sanders or Steve Noble. Evan Parker, John Russell, Peter Brotzmann, Kenny Wheeler, Tim Berne

Of course the rhythm sections I want to hear live more than any others

Of course we are not lacking great drummers in NYC

[kh1958]

In jazz, I've seen McCoy Tyner and David Newman twelve times each. Ornette Coleman, nine times. Ronald Shannon Jackson eight times; Freddie Hubbard and Mike Stern, seven times each.

In blues, Buddy Guy, at least twenty-seven times. Lucky Peterson, twenty-two times.

[sidewinder]

It must be Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins. John Taylor and Kenny Wheeler well up there too.. and McCoy..

Edited February 22, 2014 by sidewinder

[Leeway]

I don't keep very good track of my concert attendance, but I have a good idea of whom I've seen most often. It occurred to me that I would have to say William Parker, even though many of those instances I did not go to see William himself. It's just that he is so ubiquitous on the Downtown scene. Anyway, I've seen Parker, Hamid Drake, Rob Brown, and Matthew Ship at least 15 times each, probably more with Parker.

I go to see Peter Brotzmann whenever he comes through NYC or DC/Baltimore, and that so far has been at least a dozen times for me. Ditto Ken Vandermark (even when I am carping about him, I still go see him). Interestingly enough, Nate Wooley is getting into the most attended category as well. I've seen Tim Berne fairly often, but I have had to go to Baltimore, Philly or NYC to do it, as he has only done one DC gig in the last decade or so, and that was just in 2013.

Evan Parker-- not so many individual appearances, but attended both of his week long residencies at The Stone in NYC, 2 sets a night. Plus I've caught some additional shows (great when he came to Baltimore!).

I'm probably forgetting someone. There are plenty of others I've seen two or three or four times each; that's a different post.

[Cyril]

The most? Let me think...

The Rein de Graaff trio, Piet Noordijk, Eric Ineke, Benny Bailey, Marius Beets, Houston Person, Benjamin Herman, Jarmo Hoogendijk, John Marshall, Han Bennink, Ali Haurand, David Murray, Lee Konitz, Abraham Burton, Roy Hargrove, James Carter, Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, Andrew Cyrille....

[Bill B]

Bill Evans trio -10 times 1963-1973 once @ The Vanguard

[Larry Kart]

Easy -- Wilbur Campbell. He was pretty much the house drummer at the various incarnations of the Jazz Showcase from about 1968 (when he got out of Stateville, where he had been imprisoned on a drugs charge) until his death in 2000 at age 73. I also heard him a good many times before that, beginning in 1957. Thanks be, he was a great drummer, too.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

yes 17 times

[A Lark Ascending]

Evan Parker must be up there with me too - in various Nottingham dives in the 80s, at Appleby over several years, at the RFH in one long day of various improvised music in the early noughties, at Cheltenham (the last time I saw him a few years back) and sat in the Kenny Wheeler Big Band a couple of times.

[brownie]

My all-time champion is Cecil Taylor.

Saw him at dozens of appearances between 1965 and 1980 in France, Holland and the US.

Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille are in a tight group right behind him (some of CT's appearances I attended were solo performances).

[king ubu]

Hey, good to see you around, hope all is well!

Here, I think Oliver Lake leads with five appearances (Trio 3 or co-led affairs all), Bob Dylan four times ... not sure how often I saw some rhythm section players, really.