Can’t remember where I read it, but I enjoyed the hugely bitchy description of Whiplash and La La Land as “Damien Chazelle’s doomed campaign to convince the world he ‘gets’ jazz”
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I have mixed feelings about the films as a jazz fan. They make me cringe on a number of levels but anything that gets people to listen to jazz, however loosely, can’t be a bad thing. For many people jazz is such a scary place and if these films open the door even a little bit I don’t mind.
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New Comet is Coming album in September!
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this is so good. sort of like I Trawl The Megahertz meets The Blue Notebooks meets film noir.
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took me a while to realise the spoken word stuff is only on the first track ha but yeah those two records have a similar spoken word vibe but are also both 10/10! if not very jazz
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Edit: Jaimie Branch has died, RIP
Quite a shock
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Shit. A great talent lost at no age at all.
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Fuck. That’s come out of nowhere. RIP.
Woah, really sad news.
That’s really sad news, i’m proper gutted, She was an amazing talent, and a pretty unique one too.
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I always just think of them as the contractually obliged albums. Don’t think there is a collective term for them.
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Awful news. A real talent. The Fly Or Die Live album is absolutely phenomenal. Really hoped I could see her play someday, gutted I won’t be able to now.
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Oh yeah, that must be it! Thread title updated in tribute.
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She was supposed to play over here (or at least in Belfast) as a guest in somebody else’s band last year. I think it was cancelled last minute though.
This is shit news. You’ve prompted me to get this album now. I’ve got fly or die which is great - giving its spin now.
just saw this. awful news
There’s been quite a lot of great stuff on ECM over the past couple of years - it’s not always pushing the envelope but it is reliably polished, quality jazz. This album from a quartet led by German pianist Hülsmann is no exception, a real class act.
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This is also a great album - reckon this could be up there with my favourite jazz records of the year.
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Both the Makaya McCraven and The Comet is Coming albums are insanely good. Like, AOTY top 10 bothering good.
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