Jazz reborn

I haven't bought an album in a few weeks, so I picked up:

 

Never thought of myself as an organ person, but I recently bought a package of Stanley Turrentine CD's and one was Dearly Beloved. Pretty cool use of the organ, to me.


I started digging and it turns out the organist in question was actually his wife, Shirley Scott and was known as the Queen of the Organ. I ended up buying Shirley Scott and the Soul Saxes. Pretty cool. My interest in jazz is pretty much all horns, but this is a cool little off shoot and still has lots of horn action.

 

Some new releases that deserve (re)listening, varied styles:

The Berlin Sessions — Anat Fort Trio (with Gary Wang, Roland Schneider)
Corridors — Kendrick Scott, Reuben Rogers, Walter Smith III
Prime — Christian McBride's New Jawn (with Josh Evans, Marcus Strickland, Nasheet Waits)
Ghost Cat — Christoph Irniger Pilgrim (with Stefan Aeby, Dave Gisler, Raffaele Bossard, Michael Stulz)
No Subject — East Axis (Gerald Cleaver, Kevin Ray, Scott Robinson, Matthew Shipp)
Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live at the Village Vanguard — Chris Potter, Craig Taborn, Scott Colley, Marcus Gilmore
Conversation #8 - Ablaze — Florian Arbenz, Jorge Vistel, Wolfgang Puschnig, Oren Marshall, Michael Arbenz

 

Just arrived, Aruán Ortiz's Serranías (I love this title, there's definitely so much of the mountains here) hits it out of this world.

 

Worthy reading on Monk.

 

I have been on a Clifford brown binge. He has a wonderful tone which sounds amazing even on crap laptop speakers.

 

I let my streaming subscription lapse and started digging through some cds and found this:

 

Rich Ruth - "Older But Not Less Confused" from the album I Survived, It's Over.
Definitely John Surman influenced with new-agey sythed out vibes at times, but usually driving, goovy drums and great saxing.
Edit: Recently released a live version of the album at Third Man Records, but I don't like it as much as the studio takes.

 

Tidal recommended this track and it's surprisingly good. Great composition, ECM vibes.

 

I picked up the Tone Poet series vinyl release of this lp. Really good stuff.

 

Wadada Leo Smith dances on the high wire with trumpet-electronic jazz that is a worthy successor of Miles on Bitches Brew. Shiver-inducing. On Bandcamp.

 

Second vote for this one, I got drawn in by Bill Laswell on bass duties. The only downside of the album for me is the synth that swells in occasionally on the first track around the same frequency as my tinnitus, I have to skip that one.

 

I bought the album because I buy pretty much everything Wadada Leo Smith makes. Lol I kept listening to that section when the piercing tone comes in. I can’t believe that it is intentional, but yeah hard to listen to.

 

It could be a reference to the similar high frequency break-in attacks in Bitches Brew, I just can't take it.

 

The video for this one is way different that the feeling I got listening to the song, maybe don't watch if you just want to enjoy the music. "Wynter Time" from Turbulence and Pulse out recently on International Anthem by South African percussionist Asher Gamedze. Definite spiritual jazz influence with some more free and contemporary influence. Pretty great album overall.

 

I missed this album before, but it’s amazing and just picked it up on bandcamp!! Thank you!

And adding something not new but new to me, Larnell Lewis. His live album, a re-interpretation of the studio album is fantastic.

 

Just got back from 2 weeks traveling, catching up on new Bandcamp releases. Two to savor at diagonally opposed corners of the jazz universe:

https://michaelformanekintakt.bandcamp.com/album/as-things-do
https://bennygreen.bandcamp.com/album/solo

This music is so expansive, so many contrasts with so much cross-linking kinship.

 

As usual, some eclectic recommendations from recent Bandcamp releases:

Carta by David Virelles with Ben Street and Eric McPherson
Short Stories by Vicente Archer with Gerald Clayton and Bill Stewart
Unclosing by Illegal Crowns (Tomas Fujiwara, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Benoît Delbecq)
The Glass Hours by Linda May Han Oh with Mark Turner, Sara Serpa, Fabian Almazan and Obed Calvaire
Day by Rudy Royston's Flatbed Buggy