Make a Jazz Noise Here

[Artem]

Bill Dixon is a musician I am very interested in (I purchased some of his albums) but his music is still difficult to me. I remember the album with Exploding Star Orchestra was very nice and powerful. I think this Bill Dixon Orchestra album is a limited edition reissue. I should purchase it soon.

That reissue packaging is very nice, like a miniature lp. The music is prett good too. It reminds me of Mingus's Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

If you enjoy Bill Dixon, I'd highly recommend this boxset if you don't have it yet:
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[torut]

That reissue packaging is very nice, like a miniature lp. The music is prett good too. It reminds me of Mingus's Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

If you enjoy Bill Dixon, I'd highly recommend this boxset if you don't have it yet:
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I have the box set for quite a long time but that is the only Jazz box set I have not finished listening to. The contents are mostly small groups. The reason I am reluctant to continue listening to it may be because Dixon's weirdness is more directly felt in small settings. I am going to resume hearing the set.

[Mirror Image]

Any John Zorn fans around here?

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I like John Zorn pretty good. He's really hit/miss for me. His Masada recordings are very good. I also like his Filmworks series. Good stuff there. The Big Gundown was another recording I thought highly of when I heard it years ago.

[torut]

I liked this album a lot. John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and George Lewis played hard bop compositions of Hank Mobley, Sonny Clark, Kenny Dorham, Freddie Redd.

[torut]

An entertaining showcase of saxophones. I have never seen some of the instruments before. Charlie Parker's plastic saxophone (I believe) was interesting to me. (2:55~)

https://www.youtube.com/v/I98B7n0jN0g

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

It's Sun Ra's 100th Birthday!  Fans and other earthlings may want to listen to NPR's commemoration of him, link below: 

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/22/314593139/saturn-still-swings-celebrating-sun-ra-at-100

[Mookalafalas]

This is a sweet deal if you can find it...

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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Jazz fans: I caught Youn Sun Nah twice (yeah!) at the Rochester Jazz Festival last year and as I didn't see a mention of her in these pages I thought some of you might enjoy an introduction.  She is extraordinarily talented and a huge hit in Europe. 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgKMdqSUkKc

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Jazz fans: I caught Youn Sun Nah twice (yeah!) at the Rochester Jazz Festival last year and as I didn't see a mention of her in these pages I thought some of you might enjoy an introduction.  She is extraordinarily talented and a huge hit in Europe. 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgKMdqSUkKc

Didn't really care for that song or her style. This is more to my liking:

https://www.youtube.com/v/MA39pXfBBRE

Of course, John Zorn is all over the musical map stylistically, but this particular song is incredibly beautiful and one of the best things in jazz I've heard in quite some time. For me, jazz will forever be a 1950s/1960s style as I do think the genre didn't fare well in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or now, but sometimes little gems like this Zorn piece pop up and still give me some reassurance that there's still good jazz music being written.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

This is more to my liking:

Of course, John Zorn is all over the musical map stylistically, but this particular song is incredibly beautiful and one of the best things in jazz I've heard in quite some time. For me, jazz will forever be a 1950s/1960s style as I do think the genre didn't fare well in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or now, but sometimes little gems like this Zorn piece pop up and still give me some reassurance that there's still good jazz music being written.

THAT was beautiful and moving.  Thank you!  I couldn't agree more:  jazz was so brilliant, innovative and interesting in the 50s-60s that it was a tough act to follow.  Please keep us (me) posted on other gems like this. 

[Mookalafalas]

from the box above. I never heard of this guy before. I've heard of him now.  Really blues-drenched jazz.  It's actually small combo jazz.  Everybody is smokin', especially Phineas...
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[king ubu]

So this time, after all, it is true - Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (2 Sep 1928 - 18 June 2014)

Here's Peter Keepnews' obit from the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.html?_r=0

[Brian]

This morning I was listening to the album Hank Mobley Quintet, and in particular the final track, "Base on Balls," thinking, wow, I really like what Horace Silver is doing here. Very old-fashioned solo work on that track, almost '20s, but eloquent and a perfect fit with the band. Then arrive at the office, check the news, find out he is dead.

Here is that superb tune, "Base on Balls".

http://www.youtube.com/v/04gciaso09Q

[Mirror Image]

THAT was beautiful and moving.  Thank you!  I couldn't agree more:  jazz was so brilliant, innovative and interesting in the 50s-60s that it was a tough act to follow.  Please keep us (me) posted on other gems like this.

Sorry for the late response. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I will keep you informed on anything else I can dig up.

[Karl Henning]

Now Playing: "Straight Up and Down"

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So this time, after all, it is true - Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (2 Sep 1928 - 18 June 2014)

Here's Peter Keepnews' obit from the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.html?_r=0

He was a great composer and pianist. His Blue Note albums (Styling of Silver, Song for My Father, etc.) are special to me.
I love his Lonely Woman (not Ornette Coleman's) very much. A beautiful piano trio piece.
https://www.youtube.com/v/OkbwGv3QKQc

[early grey]

Another CD's worth of Duke Ellington's marvellous music has been added to my site, it is labelled " Duke1". When I started on this lark I used about a third of my father's Ellington 78s with a fair number of tracks that were lively and would show off the process, when/if successful. Then, when the website came into being I chose to process all the other ones so as to come fresh to  them, as I was a bit over-familiar with the third I'd used.  Anyway, these new tracks are from the original third and there are some gems.
There is the existential angst of "Haunted Nights" and the mellow charm of the first recording of "In a Sentimental Mood" which must be one of Duke's most recorded compositions.  Listen out for the interesting harmonisation of the second "B" 8-bar section, the overall structure being AABA. " High Life" has a marvellous trumpet solo and a surprise toward the end ( well, only if you don't know the piece). "Jubilee Stomp", "The Duke Steps Out" and "Double Check Stomp" have an infectious joie-de-vivre and the final track "Steamboat Shuffle" is a musical portrait of the steam-driven paddle-wheels.... and on top of all that is the extraordinary "The Mooche" with its insistent rhythm sounding for all the world like coconut shells.

http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/transcriptions_14.php

[bwv 1080]

Uri Caine's Mahler interpretations

https://www.youtube.com/v/nQJIgjZz4Ms

https://www.youtube.com/v/urtnR6iFDpE

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I want to investigate Tord Gustavsen and his ensembles. Anyone got specific recommendations?

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Just back from the Rochester Jazz Fest - some standout performances for me were:  Vijay Iyer (solo and trio); Les Doigts de l'homme (French Gypsy Jazz); Jon Ballantyne (solo and trio); Brain Cloud (Western Swing); David's Angels; Stephanie Trick (Harlem Stride); and the Deciders.  It's a wild, exciting, fun nine days and when it's over you feel much like a child does when its candy has been taken away... 

Add: oh, and how could I forget?, the Flat Earth Society (think the offspring of Zappa, Weill, Stravinsky, Waits, and Mingus) whose enviable motto is: " The most unreliable music since 1999."