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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" (Yusef Lateef), 1995.
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- Bouncy shells & low brass.
- Béla Fleck & Edmar Castañeda, Live at Big Ears Festival, 2019.
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- A banjo and a harp. No trombones, promise.
Contents
More memorable titles
- 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.
What could go wrong?
- Mary Halvorson / Bill Frisell – The Maid With The Flaxen Hair: A Tribute to Johnny Smith, 2018
- I'm one of those people who had never listened to Mary Halvorson until someone who shall remain nameless got me looking into prolific women in jazz. I've included the subtitle, so the title doesn't mislead readers into thinking this CD is all about Debussy. In fact, it is a tribute to a guitarist who once taught Bill Frisell "old fuddy duddy corny schmaltzy stuff". Frisell has since recanted this view and has dedicated songs and now, along with Mary Halvorson an album to him. Described as a case study in "the bankruptcy of modern jazz guitar"[5], it is ipso facto worth a listen. :)
Refs
- ↑ Sebastien Scotney, "Album: Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords", The Arts Desk, 24 July 2020.
- ↑ Nathalie Piolé, Fabien Fleurat & Emmanuelle Lacaze, Les ombres amis, Banzzaï, 25 Jun 2020, France Musique.
- ↑ Douglas Preston, Dave Yoder, Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest, 2 March 2015, National Geographic.
- ↑ Lev!vich, "well that didn't go as planned, 2020 WikiSlam Bot Bracket, 4 Aug 2020, InedibleHulk's TP.
- ↑ Martin Schray, Mary Halvorson / Bill Frisell – The Maid With The Flaxen Hair: A Tribute to Johnny Smith (Tadzik, 2018), The Free Jazz Collective, 28 January 2019.
