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Summer 2020

McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner died on March 6, 2020, aged 81.^[1] It appears he was scheduled to be at Jazz à Vienne, perhaps even with Ravi Coltrane (again?)

Less than two weeks later, Nduduzo Makhathini, a South African pianist/healer,^[2] had posted :

Great energy... (fun bass solo at 7:30 or so)

The Real McCoy @ Jazz à Vienne with Ravi Coltrane playing "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit", 20??:

• Just Feelin', 1985.

Manu Dibango

Dibango, from Cameroun, died on the 24th of March, aged 87.^[3]

Nduduzo Makhathini

Live at the Untitled Basement. Intense. A couple of reviews concur that his initial Blue Note album after working on his own label (Gundu) is a remarkable and much-remarked success.^[4][5]

John Zorn

Two simultaneous releases:

It's easy to get stressed by both "The Ghost of Departed Quantities"RIP (the opening salvo slightly overstates the violence the listener will be done) and "Parabolas". Both have some cool Snoopy (Vince Guaraldi) moments and amazingly stitched transitions. Hedge-clippers have been tuned to sound either like a typewriter or scissors in the second track. There's Schroeder piano tantrums, grand eerieness and delicacy, even a few stop-with-all-the-damned-notes-already moments thrown in for good measure... overall... a lot of fun.

a pluckier guitar trio, much easier on the brain though "Infernal Night (Sin Is Behovely)" does get a bit squirrely spidery.

Hugh Masekela

I wouldn't be making this page if it weren't for Tony. :)

Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony)

(full CD)

!Jazz

Liquid Swords (2020)

Liquid Swords (1995)

Older

Bouncy

Kuba Więcek, "Niszczycielskie buldożery", 2019.

Saxophone: Kuba Więcek, Double Bass: Michal Barański, Drums: Łukasz Żyta

Chamber Rap

Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest, 2018.

Chill

Fish in Oil (Serbia)

Slow

Grant Green, 1999.

Tenor Sax: Joe Henderson, Vibes: Bobby Hutcherson, Piano: Duke Pearson, Bass: Bob Cranshaw

Refs

Some reading material:

1. Jump up ↑ Ben Ratliff, "McCoy Tyner, Jazz Piano Powerhouse, Is Dead at 81", New York Times, 6 March 2020
2. Jump up ↑ Staff Reporter, "Nduduzo Makhathini finds the gift of healing in song", Mail & Guardian, 30 October 2014
3. Jump up ↑ Emmanuel Macron, 25 March 2020, Décès de Manu Dibango, L'Elysée
4. Jump up ↑ France Musique, Alex, Dutilh "Avis de jazz frais - Mama Africa : Nduduzo Makhathini, Shabaka Hutchings, Tony Allen et Hugh Masekela" 15 April 2020
5. Jump up ↑ Bob Doerschuk, "Review of Ndudo Makhathini, Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds", Downbeat, June 2020.