TenuredVulture wrote:Mrs. Vulture and I really enjoyed at Terrence Blanchard at Birdland.

when wazzat, TV?

drsmooth wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Mrs. Vulture and I really enjoyed at Terrence Blanchard at Birdland.

when wazzat, TV?

Last Friday night. Birdland is a great place to see a show--we got there maybe 45 minutes before the set started, and had a table maybe 15 feet from the stage. Also, the Mojito was outstanding.

TenuredVulture wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Mrs. Vulture and I really enjoyed at Terrence Blanchard at Birdland.

when wazzat, TV?

Last Friday night. Birdland is a great place to see a show--we got there maybe 45 minutes before the set started, and had a table maybe 15 feet from the stage. Also, the Mojito was outstanding.

It is indeed, and they do a terrific job of booking top talent.

Of course there are lots & lots of places around NYC that book jazz, known of by too few. Here's a nice little map-based NYC jazz venues finder that provides location, program & contact info for many, possibly most of them (click on a "pushpin", click on the website link in the popup for schedules). Click the View menu, then List, to display a list of clubs for which locations are provided

for no particular reason, other than I personally am feeling fine & mellow



love the way Young cuts Coleman like mellow warm butter through a fine butcher knife

the good Bastardo has the same single-purpose, doll-eyed look Holiday has here - get back, bastard!

oh, and Dafnis Prieto was the most recently named contemporary jazz performer awarded a MacArthur Prize

Percussionist Prieto is jaw-dropping, is all I will say. Hear him live & you have lived

someone at MacArthur is a major jazz head, because they've bestowed their sweet $100k awards on many a stellar contemporary jazz figure over the years:

Ran Blake Composer and Pianist
Anthony Braxton Jazz Composer and Performer
Regina Carter Jazz Violinist
Ornette Coleman Jazz Performer and Composer
Steve Lacy Saxophonist and Jazz Composer
Jason Moran Jazz Pianist and Composer
Dafnis Prieto Jazz Percussionist and Composer
Max Roach Percussionist and Jazz Composer
Reginald Robinson Ragtime Pianist and Composer
Gunther Schuller Composer, Conductor, and Jazz Historian
Cecil Taylor Jazz Pianist and Composer
Ken Vandermark Jazz Composer and Performer
John Zorn Musician and Composer

Autumn in New Yorks - yeah, corny; fuck you

Ahmad Jamal

Arthur Blythe

Tal Farlow

Clifford Brown

Hipsters of the era hated it, but it holds up.

TenuredVulture wrote:Hipsters of the era hated it, but it holds up.

almost made my list but didn't mainly because I am too lazy

gr wrote:

This guy's career would probably have taken off but for this bit

well, actually it probably wouldn't have taken off anyway

I see he's from philadelphia

sorry philadelphia

and if he's you, GR, sorry GR

I love Gabor. So hypnotic. Not sure if it's DeJohnette or Cobham (or both) on this, but love the drums.

Speaking of Gabor, gotta love Chico

Speaking of hypnotic, who can't eat an 1/8th of shrooms and get down with this?

Slowhand wrote:Speaking of Gabor, gotta love Chico

Willie Bobo chipping in on blocks?

liked the 1st, loving this one (more like these 2), expect to like the Pharoah Sanders

Dave Brubeck visiting Moscow in the '80s

Fuck jazz, fuck Miles Davis, the ornery jackass, Charlie Parker, who killed himself for a high, Ornette Coleman, a fraud, Bix Beiderbecke, pinheaded douche, Louis Armstrong, Uncle Tom, Duke Ellington, eat shit and die, Count Basie, sounds like a vampire, Dorsey brothers, Shenandoah jackoffs, Mahavishnu Scientologist Motherfuckers, fuck you bongo guy from the Simpsons who wrote the song about Burns, fuck you Stan Getz, dopehead, fuck you Gene Krupa, fucking drummer, fuck you Buddy Rich, egotistical blowhard.

But Dizzy, you're okay.

Oh, and fuck that bass player from Weather Report who introduced himself as the "best bass player in the world" and died in his 30's because he couldn't handle drugs. Fuck him too.

whoa

Rev_Beezer wrote:Oh, and fuck that bass player from Weather Report who introduced himself as the "best bass player in the world" and died in his 30's because he couldn't handle drugs. Fuck him too.

Jaco Pastorius. Mingus (a bass player's bass player) called him "Yokah" (Jokah?). You can hear him do it on Joni Mitchell's album of the same name (Mingus, not Jokah).

There were, & probably are, plenty of low-lifes & generally messed-up individuals in jazz. Our ravin' righteous Reverend has named several "worthies" for the list. Art Pepper tops mine most days. Mingus would probably be on there. Frank Rosolino, jayzis. Keith Jarrett's a prick.

Some were messed up by drugs, some were messed up & did drugs, some were just messes. And some in that group, even in the midst of their messiest, made downright holy sounds.

It's a funny world.

Rev's round-up prompted me to consider jazz musicians who appear to be at the other end of the behavioral spectrum. One of the things I remember enjoying about performances I've attended by Jason Moran, Evan Christopher, Geri Allen, & Ari Hoenig was an impression of "workmanship", how fully they seemed to have invested themselves in rendering their music, to the extent that they had pared away practically every vestige of ego, of self, in service of their music. Not just their self, but the idea of self. Not a speck of "gaga" in 'em.

Could be they're just boring people.

herbie hancock seems like a saint.

keith jarrett is a dick.

OTOH, I met Marcus Roberts, and he seemed to be both a great person and musician. He's of the school that the best jazz is looking at the "classic" eras, rather than looking forward (most of his performance he spent talking about Theolonius Monk).