Contemporary anybody ? What current jazz are folks diggin ?
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Tonight’s listening: Charles Lloyd’s “The Water is Wide”
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Gregory Porter, Jason Morans, Joey Defrancesco and Kurt Rosenwinkel to name a few. Some of the best most entertaining music I’ve experienced was at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Highly recommend a visit for any jazz fan.
Thats a nice list. I hope to visit Chicago soon. My father goes alot and I always mean to tag along.
Moran is great. Traditional yet what I would call "modern tonality". Kurt is also great - he's in that Bill Frisell realm in my opinion. Exploring new ideas without pushing the boundary too much. Beautiful tone as well. Defrancesco is another I dig. I'd put him more in the Scofield/Medeski realm. Compositions are a blend of styles that really work well together. Also, he always works with great players.
Thanks for the input. I'll look more into the Jazz Showcase
Listening to this at the shop today, pretty incredible actually but anybody got a pipe ID ? What is going on here with that stem misalignment? Everyone's go their own style I guess but I found this interesting.
Looks like a bent and he's just got the stem twisted at 45° so the bowl isn't hanging off to the side of his mouth. Maybe it makes it easier to clench?
Perfect under the nose alignment clenched to the right, a true original.
Always love hearing Herb work with the Trio. The comping here is unreal (per usual with "O"). Ray especially shines as well.
I love Avishai Cohen.
Funnily enough, there's another Avishai Cohen who's an excellent trumpet player. He used to play in Omer Avitals bands. I'd really recommend these. I saw them live in France a few years ago and it's still one of the best things I've seen.
His son, Tyondai Braxton, has created some really strange music. It's not exactly my cup of tea, but I'll put it on occasionally.
Listening to the The New Orleans Jazz Band of Cologne in an old cinema of the 1960s now. They play lots of old swing and blues tunes.
Yeah, this record has what looks like to be bread-board electrical schematics for musical scores, pushing avant-garde but tasteful, no annoying skronk. Minimal too, highly recommended
Central Market is the album I was thinking about, turns out the whole thing is on YouTube:
Who did you tour with? I was a big Death Metal guy back in my younger and wilder days. Now I am far more likely to listen to Red Garland or Oscar Peterson.
Heard that title yesterday presented by the New Orleans Jazz Band of Cologne featuring Jimmy Rimington. Great blues, Here it is by John Hurt:
Amazing photograph. Love everything about it. I just want to be in that room hearing them play. The singer looks like a doll, too.
Love how Oscar dropped in some "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" at the 1:08 mark.