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If you are here, hear this!

You have found the secret cauldron where the next season's issue of jes' grew gets stirred up & out into cupcake molds. Sometimes there is (the) resistance.

Maria Schneider's Data Lords falls into that category.

Whereas Wagner once said “don’t look at the trombones, it only encourages them", I had the sense that Maria Schneider must keep looking at the trombones a lot. And they certainly deliver here.^[1]

Bob Moses, When Elephants Dream of Music, 1983.

Steve Turre, "Morning" (Yusuf Lateef), 1995.

Bouncy shells & low brass.

Béla Fleck & Edmar Castañeda, Live at Big Ears Festival, 2019.

no trombones here at all, just a banjo and a harp.

More memorable titles

Mosquito Coast

The Sorcerers, In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God, 2020.

A well-spent hour at Banzzaï (France Musique) led me to this memorable title,^[2] which is apparently the soundtrack to a documentary about the (re)discovery of ancient ruins in Mosquitia.^[3]

With unexpected citations and funny deformations throughout—wait! what are you doing to Antônio & Luiz in the trunk, there ?!—this made for a doubly smooth tour.

Sons of Kemet, Your Queen is a Reptile, 2018.

Shabaka Hutchings (tenor sax) Theon Cross (tuba), Joshua Idehen (poetry), five drummers. Congo Natty (jongleur)

Arve Henriksen, "Patient Zero", 2017.

from Towards Language. This Norwegian trumpeter's sound is remarkable. It got me to look back to 1997, when Steve Turre brought his sanctified shells to Jazz à Vienne.

In Memoriam

Ryo Kawasaki (1947-2020), Juice, 1976.

as described on the label

!jazz

Ox on the Roof

Darius Milhaud, Le bœuf sur le toit, 1920.

Sea-sounds

Dominique Guiot – L'Univers De La Mer, 1978.

most excellent prog food :)

Some bob-foolery

overheard at the 2020 Wikiwiki BotSlam gala,^[4] from Easy Rider (1969). (lyrics)

Roger McGuinn, "It's Alright Ma, I'm only bleeding" (Bob Dylan), 1969.

Weird unwindings

Mary Halvorson (w/ Bill Frisell) – The Maid With The Flaxen Hair, 2018

Refs

1. ↑ Sebastien Scotney, "Album: Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords", The Arts Desk, 24 July 2020.
2. ↑ Nathalie Piolé, Fabien Fleurat & Emmanuelle Lacaze, Les ombres amis, Banzzaï, 25 Jun 2020, France Musique.
3. ↑ Douglas Preston, Dave Yoder, Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest, 2 March 2015, National Geographic.
4. ↑ ^Lev!v^ich, "well that didn't go as planned, 2020 WikiSlam Bot Bracket, 4 Aug 2020, InedibleHulk's TP.