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[hide]Summer 2020
Passages des passeurs
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 (cf. infra), 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
Manu Dibango, from Cameroun, died on the 24th of March, aged 86. A necrology was posted the next day on the site of the Elysée (by a staff writer, or by Macron himself is a mystery...) [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
squirrelyspidery.
Hugh Masekela
I wouldn't be making this page if it weren't for Tony. :)
- Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony)
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- (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
Brazil
- Chico Buarque - Construção (Construction)
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- Cf. Voted the greatest Brazilian song, like, ever. [6]
Chamber Rap
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest, 2018.
Chill
- Fish in Oil (Serbia)
Kokoroko & Snarky Puppy
Kokoroko ended up opening for Snarky Puppy at Jazz à Vienne, 2019. :) Recorded here in London.
Seafaring
- Maria Chiara Argirò, Hidden Seas
- Leïla Martial (vocals).[7] Hidden Seas are a series of compositions inspired in spirit by Edward Macdowell's 1898 Sea Pieces.[8]
Slow
- Grant Green, 1999.
- Tenor Sax: Joe Henderson, Vibes: Bobby Hutcherson, Piano: Duke Pearson, Bass: Bob Cranshaw
Refs
Some reading material:
.- Jump up ↑ Ben Ratliff, "McCoy Tyner, Jazz Piano Powerhouse, Is Dead at 81", New York Times, 6 March 2020
- Jump up ↑ Staff Reporter, "Nduduzo Makhathini finds the gift of healing in song", Mail & Guardian, 30 October 2014
- Jump up ↑ Emmanuel Macron (?), 25 March 2020, Décès de Manu Dibango, L'Elysée
- Jump up ↑ France Musique, Alex, Dutilh "Avis de jazz frais - Mama Africa : Nduduzo Makhathini, Shabaka Hutchings, Tony Allen et Hugh Masekela" 15 April 2020
- Jump up ↑ Bob Doerschuk, "Review of Ndudo Makhathini, Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds", Downbeat, June 2020.
- Jump up ↑ GenderDesk, "The second greatest Brazilian song", 18 Nov 2019
- Jump up ↑ Ally J. Steel, Hidden Seas - Maria Chiara Argirò] (Album Review), Jazz Revelations, 26 September 2019.
- Jump up ↑ Cree McCree, Review: Maria Chiara Argirò Hidden Seas, Down Beat, November 2019.
