Joe Lovano

[JSngry]

Joey is a kid's name and it's not nice to pick on children.

[Milestones]

Joey Alexander?  He's just a very young man (no longer a "kid") and can be forgiven for drawing wild perceptions, good and bad.

Joe Lovano has paid his dues, playing and recording for 4-5 decades.

 

 

 

Edited April 10 by Milestones

[Kevin Bresnahan]

 

[JSngry]

On further reflection, the BN album he did with Greg Osby had some extra fire, maybe probably because Idris Muhammed was on hand to keep the fires fanned.

But Lovano s records are too often too concept-y for me. And I do like that he's recorded with Marilyn Crispell on ECM. That's a good thing.

[sonnymax]

7 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

...Edited to add that I removed my troll comments...

Did you also delete my post? If so, that sucks. But I'm not surprised.

[Milestones]

What about the Us Five records Folk Art and Cross Culture?  No concept on those.

[JSngry]

Didn't do much for me.

[Milestones]

I'm perfectly happy with the video that Kevin posted.

[JSngry]

Cheers!

 

[mhatta]

Joe Lovano's live recording at Village Vanguard (that was 30 years ago) wasn't bad. But on other recordings, I don't like his tone and phrasing, and I feel like he's sort of half-hearted. But that's probably his style, so there's no point in complaining about it.  BTW I saw Julian Lage at a live performance in Tokyo recently, and it wasn't bad, either. But it wasn't quite my cup of tea.

 

 

Edited April 11 by mhatta

[jazzbo]

Well I remain a Lovano fan. I like all his recordings. . . except I'm not really fond of those ECMs with gongs. Gongs just don't float my boat in jazz.

And I'll repeat he is the nicest jazz musician I ever met and conversed with. I'll never forget meeting him at Tower Records Austin.

[Milestones]

Besides his playing, one should consider Lovano's compositions and arrangements, his associations with tons of major jazz artists, and his ability to work nearly the entire  spectrum of jazz.

 

[Ken Dryden]

Joe Lovano would have been atop my list to see at Big Ears. I just did a phone interview with him for an upcoming Hot House feature in May. He was a lot of fun.

18 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I've seen that listed in the discographies but have never seen it in the wild.

There are several copies for sale on Discogs.

 

[Milestones]

I think he's a cool guy too.  His humor and sense of fun tend to sneak up on you.  

[Mark Stryker]

21 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I've seen that listed in the discographies but have never seen it in the wild.

 

22 hours ago, JSngry said:

This is the one Joe Lovano record that made a guy impact for me:

 

Eddie Baccus!!!!

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/3276396

I reviewed this record (loved it) for Cadence in the August 1989 issue, not long after it was released. Some of my earliest published jazz writing. It was just Joe's second album as a leader and he was under the radar enough that I could write: “He plays changes with an authority that should make a few more well-known tenorists nervous.”

After the review was assigned to me but before publication, Joe apparently had some things he wanted to say to the writer, so the magazine gave him the number at my parents’ house in Bloomington, Ind., where I was living (post-grad school but pre-first newspaper job at the South Bend Tribune). I was 25. So one day the phone rang, and my mom answered and called over to me: "Somebody named Joe Lovano wants to talk to you." I’ve forgotten the details of the conversation, but my recollection is that he just wanted me to know how personal and important a project the recording was to him. A musician of his stature today would never make that kind of a call to a critic — though I hasten to add that in 1989 I was young and still green, and Joe was seasoned but not famous. I combined the review of Joe's record with a review of a Houston Person record and on the same page is my review of the third Quest record (Liebman, Beirach, McClure, Hart).  

Also, for the record, Joe's call to me in fact came after I had finished the review and had just sent it to the editor, on a floppy disc by snail mail in those pre-Internet days. So the call did not influence the writing in any way.

The moral of the story is that I’m getting old.

Edited April 11 by Mark Stryker

[Steve Reynolds]

I still love Sounds of Joy & From the Soul

he’s a fine player but I’m not into the ECM esthetic at all

over 20 years ago I saw him with Mark Dresser & Gerry Hemingway and he was amazing. Talk about being in the right company. 
 

as an aside talking about cool nice guys, Marty Ehrlich & Mark Helias are simply the best. Last two shows I attended this past week they were there. 

Edited April 11 by Steve Reynolds