AllenLowe Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 (edited) I think that at heart my musical approach owes more of a debt to '50s modernists than to any other era; like early Mingus, LaPorta, Macero, Bob Prince, Bley with Ornette, Carisi, Gil Evans, George Russell; I admire the harmonic ingenuity of these players and composers and the sense off discovery in a lot of those '50s recordings. .Also the early Third Stream, the stretching of triadic harmony, the early liberation of certain kinds of improvised freedom coming out of Rollins, Coltrane, and then Ornette. And I also love that era in terms of recording projects; the idea of the anthology album, like Something New, Somthing Blue, some of the Teddy Charles things, some Third Stream things like the Brandeis concert. there are few contemporary jazz composers I listen to; mostly because of time and focus, as there's only so much I can do while holding down a day job and getting older and trying to keep up with my own music. so the idea is this - a recording project in which I assemble maybe 5 or 6 composers and ask each to contribute 2 pieces. None of these people has to resemble me in terms of the approach; all I seek is someone I like, they can be as far outside or inside as necessary. I have in mind two particular writer/players for a start - Tyshawn Sorey and Steve Lehman - but so far I am not getting a yes from anyone; even tried Braxton on a long shot, as he is sometimes responsive, but not this time. so throw a few contemporary names at me, if you will; people who really compose. thanks Edited June 6, 2014 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Ingrid Laubrock, Kris Davis for starters. Also Taylor Ho Bynum. Katherine Young. How about Old Lion Tim Berne? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Maria Schneider may be up for this. How about . . . Monday Michiru. I'm in love, so I'm thinking about women composers, but these two could really deliver imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Another vote for Tim Berne. Also: Vijay Iyer, Mary Halvorson, Matt Bauder, Ellery Eskelin and Henry Threadgill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted June 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 good ideas; I've already been turned down by a bunch of those above, but some others sound good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Gerry Hemingway or Michael Moore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Threadgill makes me think of Matana Roberts (and vice versa). I'm completely in awe of your ability to get things done, either your own playing projects or the compilations of others work would be fulltime by itself for most people. Or Muhal, or Tom Harrell, not that they need to be giving you stuff, but maybe they have some leftovers that just don't fit their other projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 How about choosing a composer and selecting a bunch of different folks to do the arrangements? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted June 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 that's a possibility. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Anthony Davis? Or maybe ask the guys who are turning you down to refer you to somebody they know who is worthy of the exposure? Or even better still, write it all yourself and then create a pseudonym and persona for each "composer" and revel in the critical afterflow...like, one guy's from Queens, the other's from Tuscon, oh my, here's this woman from Qatar of all places, and wow, this cranky octogenarian recluse from Portland, and most remarkable of all, the deaf-mute from England who "hears" the music by the shapes the notes make on the score, like Bob Graettinger cutting out all the middlemen, some shit like that. It'll really all be you but watch the projected-perception game get played out in very real time. Putting suspicions to the test in the name of hijinks, or vice-versa. And also - are you looking for everything to be played by more or less the same ensemble? Or is somebody gives you, say, a piece for chamber orchestra and alto that just knocks all the lights out, what then? You got a budget for anything like that (he says knowing that probably not, but hoping so!)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted June 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 (edited) my hope is to get a roster and then raise funds; ideally I think I would have maybe 5 composers recording 2 things each; wide variety of styles. geograhically would be nice to spread it around, but logistically too tricky probably; would like the piece to be written specially for the project. Would also probably be easiest to have it played by the same group, yes. Or maybe commission it for myself. funding-wise, I've done best in the past with pre-orders, but with a project like this the timing is complicated. I would like a ringer in this; I can find one or more, as my rep, based on the last two things we did, has actually gotten a lot of 'sidemen' interested. Composers are more difficult to find. My latest thinking is to find a gathering of the obscure who are widely divergent. This would probably be musically most interesting and financially the most manageable. Edited June 7, 2014 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybert Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 A few names, throwing practicality/probability to the wind: Adam Lane Ben Allison John Zorn John Hollenbeck Darren Johnston Eri Yamamoto Jim Hobbs Joe Morris Harris Eisenstadt Nicole Mitchell Matana Roberts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Allen Lowe plays Toni Braxton MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted June 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 close enough, as they say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Larry Ochs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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