Nothing to say really, just wanted to plant my flag. Jazz is great.
What are you looking forward to this year? I’m mostly excited at finally seeing Maria Schneider with the Oslo Jazz Ensemble.
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Sad to hear we just lost Susan Alcorn, virtuoso of the pedal steel. RIP.
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Off to see JSPHYNX play with a quintet at Faith in Strangers in Margate tonight. They have started putting on live gigs there in their nightclub space. Saw corto.alto there last year and JSPHYNX did some guest solos on trumpet and flugel that evening.
Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis next weekend in Belfast. Chris Corsano and an Alina Bzhezhinska tribute to Alice Coltrane here next month as part of the local jazz festival.
Anything else on that anyone would recommend?
https://www.brilliantcornersbelfast.com/
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Ruth Goller and Bex Burch the other acts there that I’d be interested in.
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kaidi tatham, a broken beat originator. consistently fun productions, guess he’ll be playing keys
Didn’t even spot him in the lineup!
Enjoyed the new Black Flower record and he Damon Locks EP. Both released yesterday. Locks leans into hip hop whilst Black Flower are mining some psychedelia it seems.
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Joona Toivanen Trio - Gravity
Finnish piano trio doing fairly quiet improv with some less typical instrumentation and an interesting sound. A lot of space to it, bordering on ambient at times, and occasionally menacing threads that brought Death Ambient to mind.
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Ambrose Akinmusire - Honey from a Winter Stone
Long unfolding jazz compositions with vocal improv/rap and a more robust string section than you might expect. Band can find some pretty dirty grooves and also swerve into areas closer to chamber music.
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Mainly a note to myself and a reminder to come back to it, but I just really enjoyed Archie Shepp’s Four for Trane (1965…not 2025 [edit: should this be in the rolling thread then?]). Not exactly unknown it seems, but very cool arrangements, and cool instrumentation (not cool in any technical sense, I don’t think)
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the roy hargrove documentary is really good and on youtube…
Hargrove | Jazz Documentary | Full Movie | Roy Hargrove - YouTube
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Watched this twice yesterday. If anyone needs endorphins.
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missed that Louis Moholo died a few days ago, truly incredible drummer (and anti-apartheid activist)
Hearing this album got me back into jazz a few years ago, and was one of the first times I’d be genuinely and immediately excited about music for a while. Relistening now, and it’s still astounding to me
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Going to have to check this out
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Have only very recently discovered Mary Halvorson, so having lots of fun listening to her stuff. ‘Cloudward’ and ‘About Ghosts’ so far.
Right up my street.
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She is an absolute genius. Somehow combines being really melodic and ‘straight ahead’ with wildly wonky without it sounding odd.
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That’s a very good description indeed!
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Came out last year, but just started digging into the Ahmed - Giant Beauty boxset from last year. Fierce, beautiful stuff
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Have a go on Artlessly Falling - 3 songs ft. Robert Wyatt are just absolute chef’s kiss.
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