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This wiki needs a jazz page.  It will very likely grow.
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This wiki needs a jazz page.  It will very likely grow. The name of this page is taken from Oakland-based Ishmael Reed's 1972, ''Mumbo Jumbo'', which, has been described as "an ironic reimagining of 1920s Harlem as the focal point in a centuries-old battle between two shadow forces: a group representing European institutional order and Jes Grew, a virus/movement/pleasure-seeking principle originating among black artists."<ref>Nawal Arjini (3 June 2019), "[https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ishmael-reed-haunting-of-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-play-review/ Ishmael Reed Tries to Undo the Damage ‘Hamilton’ Has Wrought]", ''The Nation''.</ref>
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=Fall 2020 (Northern hemisphere)=
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[[File:EverFonkyLowdown.jpg|thumb|right|Wynton Marsalis' latest opera<br />cover: Jessica Benjamin<br />([https://wyntonmarsalis.org/pdf/booklet/EFLD_booklet_FINAL.pdf liner notes in pdf)]]]
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As this issue was in preparation, Maria Schneider's ''Data Lords'' release was so widely covered I was able to hear not just the first but also the last song on the double album on France Musique,<ref>Alex Dutilh, Fabien Fleurat, Emmanuelle Lacaze (24 August 2020), [https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/open-jazz/maria-schneider-connections-naturelles-et-deconnection-numerique-86242 Maria Schneider, connexions naturelles et déconnexion numérique], Open Jazz, ''France Musique''</ref> in addition to the short extracts at [https://www.mariaschneider.com/home/albuminfo?id=1083 her website].  For the moment, I'm not going to say much more than that I love the title and that this level of digital inaccessibility is a ''surprisingly'' rare thing.  I learned while making this page that ECM held out until almost three years ago before "finally" dropping their catalog into the bitstream.<ref>John Pareles (17 November 2017), "[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/arts/music/ecm-catalog-streaming-guide.html ECM's Catalog is Finally Streaming].  Here are 21 Essential Albums.", ''NY Times''</ref> 
  
==Summer 2020==
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However, and there's ''always'' a however, that album struck my admittedly already fatigued ear <span style="font-size:70%;">(good reader, please forgive me)</span> as being ''exactly what Alex Dutilh calls it'', music "inspired by the conflictual dialectic of... ", which reminded me of Leonard Harris once asking me if I was still jumping through them di'lectical hoops, <span style="font-size:86%;">as I was off to testify on the yen and yawn of Sartre getting gifted Mauss.</span>
===Passages des passeurs===
 
====McCoy Tyner====
 
McCoy Tyner died on March 6, 2020, aged 81.<ref>Ben Ratliff, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts/music/mccoy-tyner-dead.html McCoy Tyner, Jazz Piano Powerhouse, Is Dead at 81]", ''New York Times'', 6 March 2020 </ref> It appears he was scheduled to be at Jazz à Vienne, perhaps even with Ravi Coltrane (again?)
 
  
Less than two weeks later, Nduduzo Makhathini <span style="font-size:72%;color:#777;">(cf. ''infra'')</span>, a South African pianist/healer,<ref>Staff Reporter, "[https://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-30-ndudozo-makhathini-in-sync-with-a-higher-power/ Nduduzo Makhathini finds the gift of healing in song]", ''Mail & Guardian'', 30 October 2014 </ref> had posted :
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In short, I'd much rather see Wynton Marsalis get yet another Shiny Grammar Prize for his "'''[https://wyntonmarsalis.org/discography/title/the-ever-fonky-lowdown Ever Fonky Lowdown]'''" <span style="font-size:67%;">[https://www.facebook.com/jazzatlincolncenter/videos/10156483892939675/ full concert from 13:25]</span>, released on '''Blue Engine Records''' than to see ''Data Lords'' rake '''''all''''' the cake <span style="color:#fb7;font-size:82%;">(& ice cream)</span> off the big game board.
 
<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZEX0uACd64</html5media>
 
  
Great energy... (fun bass solo at 7:30 or so)
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''O pieuvre, œuvrez !''  How this is worth a time!  Like ''Blood in the Fields'' 25 years ago, but Cassandra Wilson retells that story best...
  
<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCPuPRjWRN8</html5media>
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<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B5ARA5RI6k</html5media>
  
The '''Real McCoy''' @ Jazz à Vienne with Ravi Coltrane playing "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit", 20??:
 
 
::<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dFtZbha29M</html5media>
 
  
::*[https://www.deezer.com/album/1069725 Just Feelin'], 1985.
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Now I may go back to those Mahlerian textures of the ''Data Lords'' with fresh ears, but what is sure at the moment is that
  
====Manu Dibango====
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<blockquote style="padding:8px;border:3px solid #7AA;border-radius:6px;margin-right:22%;">  [[File:trombone.jpg]] Wagner once said, “Don’t look at the trombones, it only encourages them."<ref>Sebastien Scotney (24 July 2020), "[https://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/album-maria-schneider-orchestra-%E2%80%93-data-lords Album: Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords]", ''The Arts Desk''.</ref> [[File:trombone.jpg]]</blockquote>
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...) <ref>Emmanuel Macron (?) (25 March 2020), [https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2020/03/25/deces-de-manu-dibango Décès de Manu Dibango], ''L'Elysée''</ref>
 
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-pkgVyhIuU</html5media>
 
  
===Nduduzo Makhathini===
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==And then the Word said, "Let there be paperclips," and there were trombones.==
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;Bob Moses, ''When Elephants Dream of Music'', 1983.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYMiU7OAEU</html5media>
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::musicians [https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Moses-When-Elephants-Dream-Of-Music/release/2664116 include] Barry Rogers (trombones), Chris Rogers (trumpet), Doc Halliday, Jim Pepper, David Gross (sax), Howard Johnson (contrabass, clarinet, tuba), Terumasa Hino (cornet), Bill Frisell (guitar), Steve Swallow (el. bass), Michael Formanek (ac. bass), ...
  
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.<ref>Alex Dutilh (15 April 2020), "[https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/open-jazz/avis-de-jazz-frais-mama-africa-nduduzo-makhathini-shabaka-hutchings-tony-allen-et-hugh-masekela-82991 Avis de jazz frais - Mama Africa : Nduduzo Makhathini, Shabaka Hutchings, Tony Allen et Hugh Masekela]", ''France Musique''.</ref><ref>Bob Doerschuk (June 2020), "[https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/modes-of-communication-letters-from-the-underworlds Review] of Ndudo Makhathini,  ''Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds''", ''DownBeat''.</ref>
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<span style="color:#053;">& then... the shells got bouncing</span>
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;Steve Turre, "Morning" (Yusef Lateef), 1995.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVoVmw1Z9k</html5media>
  
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhc6XhSUBVk</html5media>
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<span style="color:#053;">... & the cat fused</span>
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;Hitoshi Suzuki, ''Cat'', 1975.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqvMGE9xzT8</html5media>
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::Hiroshi Suzuki (trombone & keyboards), Takeru Muraoka (sax), Kunimitsu Inaba (bass), Akira Ishikawa (drums).
  
===John Zorn===
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<span style="color:#053;">off to Nubia</span> <span style="font-size:80%;color:#6B9;">(where there was only a mellophone)</span>
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;Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, "Ethio", 2011.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyyxYqbLsQ</html5media>
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::with Michael Leonhardt (trumpet, mellophone, cornet, vibraphone).
  
Two simultaneous releases:
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<span style="color:#053;">"No Fear</span> <span style="color:#6B9;">!</span><span style="color:#053;">", Jaco'll save us</span> <span style="color:#6B9;">!</span>
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;Béla Fleck & Edmar Castañeda, Live at <span style="color:#E0A;">Big Ears</span> Festival, 2019.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOKmRf5QnU</html5media>
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::<span style="color:#053;">(with a banjo & a harp)  <span style="font-size:80%;color:#6B9;">Praise be.</span>
  
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1PaSdZ7b8</html5media>
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==Monkey God and Lizard Queen==
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[[File:Mosquito_coast.jpg|thumb|right|Mosquito Coast]]
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;The Sorcerers, ''In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God'', 2020.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIg9LY6-AA</html5media>
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A well-spent hour at ''Banzzaï'' (France Musique) led me to this memorable title,<ref>Nathalie Piolé, Fabien Fleurat & Emmanuelle Lacaze (25 Jun 2020), [https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/banzzai/les-ombres-amies-kate-stables-fantasy-orchestra-erroll-garner-chip-wickham-and-more-84806 Les ombres amis], Banzzaï, ''France Musique''. </ref> which is apparently the soundtrack to a documentary about the (re)discovery of ancient ruins in  Mosquitia.<ref>Douglas Preston, Dave Yoder (2 March 2015), [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-honduras-lost-city-monkey-god-maya-ancient-archaeology/ Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest], ''National Geographic''.</ref>
  
:It's easy to get stressed by both "The <span style="color:#66D;font-size:68%;">G</span>host of Departed Quantities"<span style="font-size:55%;">RIP</span> <span style="font-size:75%;">(the opening salvo <span style="color:#777>''slightly''</span> overstates the violence the listener will be done)</span> 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.
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With unexpected citations and funny deformations throughout&mdash;[https://youtu.be/bVIg9LY6-AA?t=354s wait! what are you doing to Antônio & Luiz in the trunk, there ?!]&mdash;this made for a great entry into a unique blend of sounds (bass clarinet, vibes & flute, in particular, with an excellent drummer).  ([https://sorcerers.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god bandcamp])
  
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKDl7VGUyQ</html5media>
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;Sons of Kemet, '''''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Queen_Is_a_Reptile Your Queen is a Reptile]''''', 2018.
:a pluckier guitar trio, much easier on the brain  <span style="font-size:75%;">though "Infernal Night (Sin Is Behovely)" does get a bit <s>squirrely</s> spidery</span>.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S00QHjIhDfk</html5media>
;''The Book Beri’ah, Vol. 6: Tiferet'' (2019)
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:Shabaka Hutchings (tenor sax) Theon Cross (tuba), Joshua Idehen (poetry), five drummers. Congo Natty (jongleur)
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRFy2SLLCyc</html5media>
 
:: Maria Emilia Martinez is the flautist.<ref>Gender Desk (8 May 2020), [https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/maria-emilia-martinez/ María Emilia Martínez].</ref>
 
  
===Hugh Masekela===
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==Chess in your head==
I wouldn't be making this page if it weren't for Tony. :)
 
;Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony)
 
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxPpDAv3ZQI</html5media>
 
::(full [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEQG7N7Oik&list=PLetv3SCC-r3ZYlcii-LJxd3eaSQbM-xxn CD])
 
  
==!Jazz==
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;Arve Henriksen, "Patient Zero", 2017.
;Liquid Swords (2020)
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSRKgBDxMok</html5media>
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ietk55KLnY</html5media>
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:from a CD called ''Towards Language'' which gets thumbs up from the maskèd many.  The bamboo sound of his mouthpiece-less trumpet<ref>John Lewis (1 June 2017), [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/01/arve-henriksen-towards-language-review-pushing-the-trumpets-sonic-capacities Arve Henriksen: Towards Language review – pushing the trumpet's sonic capacities], ''The Guardian''</ref> sent me looking in the time machine for Steve Turre.  I found him back in Vienne in 1997 making <span style="font-size:80%;">(very different)</span> sounds with his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJbdWn7ltDg sanctified shells].
  
:;Liquid Swords (1995)
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;Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran, "Hagar's Lullaby", "Prayer", "Sand Rhythm", NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, 2016.
:::<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA49DaVmJWQ</html5media>
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKqnfdBfaEw</html5media>
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:The first piece is from ''Hagar's Song'' (part V of "Hagar's Suite") (2013). Charles Lloyd apparently isn't ''only'' referring to the Biblical character but also to an enslaved forbear (his great-great-grandmother was taken from her parents at 10 and sold upriver at a slave market).<ref>Tryan Grillo (9 March 2013), [https://ecmreviews.com/2013/03/09/hagars-song/ Charles Lloyd/Jason Moran: Hagar’s Song], ECM Review</ref>  I have little common ground for a story like this as my distant forbears were likely more familiar with serfdom than slavery and I don't know Old World family stories.  As a result, I remember in the mid-nineties being very perplexed about growing into 21st century "America". First there was "Call me Ishmael," then Mr. Reed, then "Lawd, lawd, wad'nat a fish"?  "[[Juvenilia#The_Old_Wives.27_Whale |The Old Wives' Whale]]" is from that time. For some presumably good reason I did some ''Bib la'' study back then, and was encouraged to write a poem rather than an essay to prove I hadn't just been chewing on the corners of The Book<sup style="font-variant:small-caps;">tm</sup>. 
  
;François Poulenc, Ensemble ACJW (2013), from ''Sextet for Piano and Winds'' (1939)
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:The structure of Lloyd's suite and the choice of Monk's "Bolivar's Blues" (named not for Simón, but for a Manhattan hotel) as the next-to-last piece  makes you wonder ''what exactly is being named''.
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrPV67JAVA</html5media>
 
: Catherine Gregory (flute), Stuart Breczinski (oboe), Tyler Wottrich (piano), Laura Weiner (French horn), Nanci Belmont (bassoon), Gabriel Campos Zamora (clarinet)
 
  
==Older==
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==Menagerie==
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;Artemis, "The Sidewinder", ''Artemis'', 2020.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJK23qV1RYY</html5media>
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::Both the Rolling Stone reporter covering the Newport Jazz festival in 2018<ref name="RS_Newport_2018">Hank Shteamer (6 August 2018), [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/newport-jazz-festival-2018-best-george-clinton-laurie-anderson-706824/ Newport Jazz Festival 2018: 14 Best Things We Saw], ''Rolling Stone''</ref> and the president of the Blue Note magic department took note of the spellbound crowd.<ref>Alex Dutilh, Fabien Fleurat, Emmanuelle Lacaze (11 September 2020), [https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/open-jazz/artemis-sept-deesses-chez-blue-note-86602 Artemis, sept déesses chez Blue Note], Open Jazz, ''France Musique''</ref>  With such star power the solos are short and the textures are deep.  Lee Morgan & Joe Henderson's famous piece ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJK23qV1RYY §]) is the last song on the album. It is cut in half, slowed down and reworked into what ''Sketches of Spain'' might have sounded like with a bass clarinet, a sax, and a round piano fused into the brew.  It conjures up slitherin' sidewinders getting on very nicely with their sunny day.
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;Eliane Elias, "A Ra (The Frog)", 2009.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV-_p-NPUpA</html5media>
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::Eliane Elias (piano + vocals), Marc Johnson (bass), Rubens de La Corte (guitar), Rafael Barata (drums)
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;Tomoko Omura, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachi-kachi_Yama Revenge of the Rabbit]," ''Branches, v.1'', 2020.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjRSNWzgIXs</html5media>
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::Tomoku Omura (violin), Glenn Zaleski (piano), Jeff Miles (guitar), Pablo Menares (bass), Jay Sawyer (drums).<ref>[https://jazztimes.com/audio-video/premieres/jt-video-premiere-the-revenge-of-the-rabbit-by-tomoko-omura/ JT Video Premiere: “The Revenge of the Rabbit” by Tomoko Omura], 4 September 2020, ''Jazz Times''</ref>
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;Michael Leonhart & Avaramina 7, "Theme for a Jaguar Shark", ''The Seahorse & the Storyteller'', 2010.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfFOP3GvKm4</html5media>
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::19  [https://www.discogs.com/Michael-Leonhart-And-The-Avramina-7-Seahorse-And-The-Storyteller/master/320926 credited] & most creditable musicians. :)  There is a Steely Dan/War (-ish) feel to at least one song ("[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1SPr-JP5gM Dreams of an Aquarian]") on the non-instrumental version of the album.
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;Camille Bertault, "A quoi bon",  ''Le Tigre'', 2020.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxYpAY0xexU</html5media>
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::Camille Bertault (vocals), Jacky Terrasson (piano), Christophe Minck (D. Bass),  Donald Kontomanou (drums), Minino Garaï (perc.), Stéphane Guillaume (winds), Michael Leonhart (producer, brass & perc.); "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym6YG99TYec Tous ego]" is a fun reminder that the tiger is the boss of its carosse, even in ''"Le Tube"''.
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;Rabih Abou-Khalil, 1) "Maltese Chicken Farm", ''The Cactus of Knowledge'', 2001.  . . . 2) "Is there wine?", ''The Flood and the Fate of the Fish'', 2019.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMf5u_f7hM</html5media> . . . <html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo3YtsRfc2k</html5media>
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::1) Rabih Abou-Khalil (oud), Eddie Allen & Dave Ballou - (trumpet), Gabriele Mirabassi (clarinet), Antonio Hart (alto saxophone), Ellery Eskelin (tenor saxophone), Tom Varner (French horn), Dave Bargeron (euphonium), Michel Godard (tuba), Vincent Courtois (cello), Jarrod Cagwin (drums), Nabil Khaiat (frame drum)
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::2) Rabih Abou-Khalil (composer, oud), Kudsi Ergüner (ney), Jarrod Cagwin (percussion), Eri Takeya (violin), Gavion Murgia (''[https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantu_a_tenore cantu a tenòre]'', launeddas), Luciano Biondini (accordion)
  
===Bouncy===
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==Under Cover==
;Kuba Więcek, "Niszczycielskie buldożery", 2019.
 
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbxNO_HopSM</html5media>
 
:Saxophone: Kuba Więcek, Double Bass: Michal Barański, Drums: Łukasz Żyta
 
  
===Brazil===
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;Lonnie Smith, "As the World Weeps", ''<span style="color:#800;">Rise Up!</span>'', 2012
;Chico Buarque - Construção (Construction)
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::<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBGC4oirSs</html5media>
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmGrRmXivmM</html5media>
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::Lonnie Smith's original studio version finishes with a choir reminiscent of Donald Byrd, ''A New Perspective'', but over the voices, there's a rebellious saxophone.  
::Voted the greatest Brazilian song, like, ever by ''Rolling Stone'' (Brazilian ed.).<ref>GenderDesk (18 Nov 2019), "[https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/the-second-greatest-brazilian-song/ The second greatest Brazilian song]".</ref>
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;Anat Cohen Quartet & Paquito D'Rivera, "As the World Weeps", ''[https://anzicstore.com/album/claroscuro Claroscuro]'', 2012.
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::<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6V030_WP78</html5media>
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::Anat Cohen & Paquito D'Rivera (clarinet), Jason Lindner (piano), Joe Martin (bass), Daniel Freedman (drums), Sixth & I, Washington DC, 2011. 
  
===Brazil, abroad===
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::Arguably closer to the original than the Artemis cover of "The Sidewinder" above,
;Alexandra Whittington, "Saudade No.3 (Roland Dyens)", 2017.<ref>Gender Desk (17 September 2019), [https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/alexandra-whittingham/ Alexandra Whittingham].</ref>
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:::it <u>un</u>arguably <s style="color:#9BB;font-size:80%;">brought down the synagogue</s> made the crowd <sup style="color:#800;">'''''Rise Up!'''''</sup>
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18iAuiAoc0w</html5media>
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::::<span style="font-size:75%;">(''Quod erat factum.'')</span>
;Esperenza Spalding & Gretchen Parlato, "Inutile Paisagem", 2011.
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::The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Hf88I-QaM album version] also features a trombone -- <span style="color:#777;font-size:75%;">(what else?)</span> -- making -- <span style="color:#777;font-size:75%;">let's say</span> -- occasional sounds, which gives a very different feel to the piece.
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbtMCB5g7E</html5media>
 
;McCoy Tyner, "Manha de Carnaval", 1985.
 
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-18plst0YA0</html5media>
 
  
===Chamber Rap===
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;Mulatu Atsatke, "Yèkèrmo Sew", 1972.
;Ambrose Akinmusire, ''Origami Harvest'', 2018.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRtyE6Lqd4o</html5media>
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMNkovunICI</html5media>
 
  
===Chill===
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==In Memoriam==
;Fish in Oil (Serbia)
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;Ryo Kawasaki, ''<span style="color:#F70;">Juice</span>'', 1976.
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZNU1dNQYdY</html5media>
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVYgvrvL4k8</html5media>
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:<span style="color:#FC2;">as described on the label</span>
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;Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) <span style="color:#677;">Concierto de</span> <span style="color:#F70;">Aranjuez</span>
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svHsTRRwKg0</html5media> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9xvSRWpnyw</html5media> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSS5p9BdNGU</html5media>
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:Ryo Kawasaki (1947-2020), 1981. (<span style="color:#063;font-weight:bold;">guitar</span>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dorothy Ashby (1932-1986), 1984. (<span style="color:#036;font-weight:bold;">harp</span>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Miles Davis (1926-1991), 1960. (<span style="color:#306;font-weight:bold;">trumpet</span>)
  
===Ghosts===
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==!jazz==
;the lingering velocity of the dead's ambitions
 
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SjPrwRClSs</html5media>
 
;Youn Sun Nah, "Ghost Riders in the Sky" (Jazz à Marciac, 2014)
 
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GzIuRl5RiE</html5media>
 
  
===Kokoroko & Snarky Puppy===
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===Ox on the Roof===
Kokoroko ended up opening for Snarky Puppy at Jazz à Vienne, 2019. :)  Recorded here in London.
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;Darius Milhaud, ''Le bœuf sur le toit'', 1920.
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUnKDK1iklo</html5media>
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===Seafaring===
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===Sea-sounds===
;Maria Chiara Argirò, ''Hidden Seas'', 2019.
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;Dominique Guiot – ''L'Univers De La Mer'', 1978.
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBtJuyJUNQQ</html5media>
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKvMLu0oTkU</html5media>
:Leïla Martial (vocals).<ref>Ally J. Steel (26 September 2019), [https://www.jazzrevelations.com/post/hidden-seas-maria-chiara-argir%C3%B2-review Hidden Seas - Maria Chiara Argirò] (Album Review), ''Jazz Revelations''.</ref>  ''Hidden Seas'' are a series of compositions inspired in spirit by Edward Macdowell's 1898 ''Sea Pieces''.<ref>Cree McCree (November 2019), [http://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/hidden-seas Review: Maria Chiara Argirò ''Hidden Seas''], ''DownBeat''.</ref>
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:most excellent prog food :)
:;"Dream R", ''Fall Dance'', 2016.
 
:::<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf6CGRsDq80</html5media>
 
  
===Slow===
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===Some bob-foolery===
;Grant Green, 1999.
 
:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0m0hbCjFQ</html5media>
 
:Tenor Sax: Joe Henderson, Vibes: Bobby Hutcherson, Piano: Duke Pearson, Bass: Bob Cranshaw
 
  
==Refs==
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overheard at the 2020 Wikiwiki BotSlam gala,<ref><sup>Le</sup>v!v<sup>ich</sup> (4 Aug 2020), "[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AInedibleHulk&type=revision&diff=971198511&oldid=971194849#2020_WikiSlam_Bot_Bracket well that didn't go as planned], 2020 WikiSlam Bot Bracket, ''InedibleHulk's TP''.</ref> from ''Easy Rider'' (1969) ([[It's Alright Ma, I'm only bleeding|lyrics]])
Some reading material:
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;Roger McGuinn, "It's Alright Ma, I'm only bleeding" (Bob Dylan), 1969.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1icOc8N5M</html5media>
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:Cf.  Shirley Jackson, "[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery The Lottery]" (1948) & then "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm-po_FUmvM Rainy Day Women #12 and #35]", 1966.
  
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==What could possibly go wrong?==
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;Mary Halvorson / Bill Frisell – ''The Maid With The Flaxen Hair: A Tribute to Johnny Smith'', 2018.
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:<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqhn1wL4woQ</html5media>
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: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 you 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",<ref>Martin Schray (28 January 2019), [https://www.freejazzblog.org/2019/01/mary-halvorson-bill-frisell-maid-with.html Mary Halvorson / Bill Frisell – The Maid With The Flaxen Hair: A Tribute to Johnny Smith (Tadzik, 2018)] The Free Jazz Collective.</ref> it's ''ipso facto'' worth a listen, or even several. :)
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;Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, "Vanished Gardens", 2018.
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::<html5media>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELf0JnBTX6A</html5media>
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::Charles Lloyd (tenor sax), Bill Frisell (guitar), Eric Harland (drums), Greg Leisz (dobro, pedal steel), Reuben Rogers (bass).  The album also features Lucinda Williams (vocals) on five of the ten tracks (including "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXBRWT-LCsM Dust]"). "''Vanished Gardens'' shows how the many currents of American music all flow into a single stream",<ref name="RS_Lloyd">Hank Shteamer  (27 June 2018), [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/review-charles-lloyd-and-lucinda-williams-fuse-jazz-and-roots-on-vanished-gardens-666138/ Review: Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams Fuse Jazz and Roots on ''Vanished Gardens'']", '' Rolling Stone''.</ref> maybe somewhere between Cairo, Memphis and the Atchafalaya.
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=Previous issues=
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*[[Jes' grew (summer 2020)|été 2020]]
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=References=
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This wiki needs a jazz page. It will very likely grow. The name of this page is taken from Oakland-based Ishmael Reed's 1972, Mumbo Jumbo, which, has been described as "an ironic reimagining of 1920s Harlem as the focal point in a centuries-old battle between two shadow forces: a group representing European institutional order and Jes Grew, a virus/movement/pleasure-seeking principle originating among black artists."[1]

Fall 2020 (Northern hemisphere)

Wynton Marsalis' latest opera
cover: Jessica Benjamin
(liner notes in pdf)

As this issue was in preparation, Maria Schneider's Data Lords release was so widely covered I was able to hear not just the first but also the last song on the double album on France Musique,[2] in addition to the short extracts at her website. For the moment, I'm not going to say much more than that I love the title and that this level of digital inaccessibility is a surprisingly rare thing. I learned while making this page that ECM held out until almost three years ago before "finally" dropping their catalog into the bitstream.[3]

However, and there's always a however, that album struck my admittedly already fatigued ear (good reader, please forgive me) as being exactly what Alex Dutilh calls it, music "inspired by the conflictual dialectic of... ", which reminded me of Leonard Harris once asking me if I was still jumping through them di'lectical hoops, as I was off to testify on the yen and yawn of Sartre getting gifted Mauss.

In short, I'd much rather see Wynton Marsalis get yet another Shiny Grammar Prize for his "Ever Fonky Lowdown" full concert from 13:25, released on Blue Engine Records than to see Data Lords rake all the cake (& ice cream) off the big game board.

O pieuvre, œuvrez ! How this is worth a time! Like Blood in the Fields 25 years ago, but Cassandra Wilson retells that story best...


Now I may go back to those Mahlerian textures of the Data Lords with fresh ears, but what is sure at the moment is that

Trombone.jpg Wagner once said, “Don’t look at the trombones, it only encourages them."[4] Trombone.jpg

And then the Word said, "Let there be paperclips," and there were trombones.

Bob Moses, When Elephants Dream of Music, 1983.
musicians include Barry Rogers (trombones), Chris Rogers (trumpet), Doc Halliday, Jim Pepper, David Gross (sax), Howard Johnson (contrabass, clarinet, tuba), Terumasa Hino (cornet), Bill Frisell (guitar), Steve Swallow (el. bass), Michael Formanek (ac. bass), ...

& then... the shells got bouncing

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

... & the cat fused

Hitoshi Suzuki, Cat, 1975.
Hiroshi Suzuki (trombone & keyboards), Takeru Muraoka (sax), Kunimitsu Inaba (bass), Akira Ishikawa (drums).

off to Nubia (where there was only a mellophone)

Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, "Ethio", 2011.
with Michael Leonhardt (trumpet, mellophone, cornet, vibraphone).

"No Fear !", Jaco'll save us !

Béla Fleck & Edmar Castañeda, Live at Big Ears Festival, 2019.
(with a banjo & a harp) Praise be.

Monkey God and Lizard Queen

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,[5] which is apparently the soundtrack to a documentary about the (re)discovery of ancient ruins in Mosquitia.[6]

With unexpected citations and funny deformations throughout—wait! what are you doing to Antônio & Luiz in the trunk, there ?!—this made for a great entry into a unique blend of sounds (bass clarinet, vibes & flute, in particular, with an excellent drummer). (bandcamp)

Sons of Kemet, Your Queen is a Reptile, 2018.
Shabaka Hutchings (tenor sax) Theon Cross (tuba), Joshua Idehen (poetry), five drummers. Congo Natty (jongleur)

Chess in your head

Arve Henriksen, "Patient Zero", 2017.
from a CD called Towards Language which gets thumbs up from the maskèd many. The bamboo sound of his mouthpiece-less trumpet[7] sent me looking in the time machine for Steve Turre. I found him back in Vienne in 1997 making (very different) sounds with his sanctified shells.
Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran, "Hagar's Lullaby", "Prayer", "Sand Rhythm", NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, 2016.
The first piece is from Hagar's Song (part V of "Hagar's Suite") (2013). Charles Lloyd apparently isn't only referring to the Biblical character but also to an enslaved forbear (his great-great-grandmother was taken from her parents at 10 and sold upriver at a slave market).[8] I have little common ground for a story like this as my distant forbears were likely more familiar with serfdom than slavery and I don't know Old World family stories. As a result, I remember in the mid-nineties being very perplexed about growing into 21st century "America". First there was "Call me Ishmael," then Mr. Reed, then "Lawd, lawd, wad'nat a fish"? "The Old Wives' Whale" is from that time. For some presumably good reason I did some Bib la study back then, and was encouraged to write a poem rather than an essay to prove I hadn't just been chewing on the corners of The Booktm.
The structure of Lloyd's suite and the choice of Monk's "Bolivar's Blues" (named not for Simón, but for a Manhattan hotel) as the next-to-last piece makes you wonder what exactly is being named.

Menagerie

Artemis, "The Sidewinder", Artemis, 2020.
Both the Rolling Stone reporter covering the Newport Jazz festival in 2018[9] and the president of the Blue Note magic department took note of the spellbound crowd.[10] With such star power the solos are short and the textures are deep. Lee Morgan & Joe Henderson's famous piece (§) is the last song on the album. It is cut in half, slowed down and reworked into what Sketches of Spain might have sounded like with a bass clarinet, a sax, and a round piano fused into the brew. It conjures up slitherin' sidewinders getting on very nicely with their sunny day.
Eliane Elias, "A Ra (The Frog)", 2009.
Eliane Elias (piano + vocals), Marc Johnson (bass), Rubens de La Corte (guitar), Rafael Barata (drums)
Tomoko Omura, "Revenge of the Rabbit," Branches, v.1, 2020.
Tomoku Omura (violin), Glenn Zaleski (piano), Jeff Miles (guitar), Pablo Menares (bass), Jay Sawyer (drums).[11]
Michael Leonhart & Avaramina 7, "Theme for a Jaguar Shark", The Seahorse & the Storyteller, 2010.
19 credited & most creditable musicians. :) There is a Steely Dan/War (-ish) feel to at least one song ("Dreams of an Aquarian") on the non-instrumental version of the album.
Camille Bertault, "A quoi bon", Le Tigre, 2020.
Camille Bertault (vocals), Jacky Terrasson (piano), Christophe Minck (D. Bass), Donald Kontomanou (drums), Minino Garaï (perc.), Stéphane Guillaume (winds), Michael Leonhart (producer, brass & perc.); "Tous ego" is a fun reminder that the tiger is the boss of its carosse, even in "Le Tube".
Rabih Abou-Khalil, 1) "Maltese Chicken Farm", The Cactus of Knowledge, 2001. . . . 2) "Is there wine?", The Flood and the Fate of the Fish, 2019.
. . .
1) Rabih Abou-Khalil (oud), Eddie Allen & Dave Ballou - (trumpet), Gabriele Mirabassi (clarinet), Antonio Hart (alto saxophone), Ellery Eskelin (tenor saxophone), Tom Varner (French horn), Dave Bargeron (euphonium), Michel Godard (tuba), Vincent Courtois (cello), Jarrod Cagwin (drums), Nabil Khaiat (frame drum)
2) Rabih Abou-Khalil (composer, oud), Kudsi Ergüner (ney), Jarrod Cagwin (percussion), Eri Takeya (violin), Gavion Murgia (cantu a tenòre, launeddas), Luciano Biondini (accordion)

Under Cover

Lonnie Smith, "As the World Weeps", Rise Up!, 2012
Lonnie Smith's original studio version finishes with a choir reminiscent of Donald Byrd, A New Perspective, but over the voices, there's a rebellious saxophone.
Anat Cohen Quartet & Paquito D'Rivera, "As the World Weeps", Claroscuro, 2012.
Anat Cohen & Paquito D'Rivera (clarinet), Jason Lindner (piano), Joe Martin (bass), Daniel Freedman (drums), Sixth & I, Washington DC, 2011.
Arguably closer to the original than the Artemis cover of "The Sidewinder" above,
it unarguably brought down the synagogue made the crowd Rise Up!
(Quod erat factum.)
The album version also features a trombone -- (what else?) -- making -- let's say -- occasional sounds, which gives a very different feel to the piece.
Mulatu Atsatke, "Yèkèrmo Sew", 1972.

In Memoriam

Ryo Kawasaki, Juice, 1976.
as described on the label
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) Concierto de Aranjuez
         
Ryo Kawasaki (1947-2020), 1981. (guitar)       Dorothy Ashby (1932-1986), 1984. (harp)      Miles Davis (1926-1991), 1960. (trumpet)

!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,[12] from Easy Rider (1969) (lyrics)

Roger McGuinn, "It's Alright Ma, I'm only bleeding" (Bob Dylan), 1969.
Cf. Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery" (1948) & then "Rainy Day Women #12 and #35", 1966.

What could possibly 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 you 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",[13] it's ipso facto worth a listen, or even several. :)
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, "Vanished Gardens", 2018.
Charles Lloyd (tenor sax), Bill Frisell (guitar), Eric Harland (drums), Greg Leisz (dobro, pedal steel), Reuben Rogers (bass). The album also features Lucinda Williams (vocals) on five of the ten tracks (including "Dust"). "Vanished Gardens shows how the many currents of American music all flow into a single stream",[14] maybe somewhere between Cairo, Memphis and the Atchafalaya.

Previous issues

References

  1. Nawal Arjini (3 June 2019), "Ishmael Reed Tries to Undo the Damage ‘Hamilton’ Has Wrought", The Nation.
  2. Alex Dutilh, Fabien Fleurat, Emmanuelle Lacaze (24 August 2020), Maria Schneider, connexions naturelles et déconnexion numérique, Open Jazz, France Musique
  3. John Pareles (17 November 2017), "ECM's Catalog is Finally Streaming. Here are 21 Essential Albums.", NY Times
  4. Sebastien Scotney (24 July 2020), "Album: Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords", The Arts Desk.
  5. Nathalie Piolé, Fabien Fleurat & Emmanuelle Lacaze (25 Jun 2020), Les ombres amis, Banzzaï, France Musique.
  6. Douglas Preston, Dave Yoder (2 March 2015), Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest, National Geographic.
  7. John Lewis (1 June 2017), Arve Henriksen: Towards Language review – pushing the trumpet's sonic capacities, The Guardian
  8. Tryan Grillo (9 March 2013), Charles Lloyd/Jason Moran: Hagar’s Song, ECM Review
  9. Hank Shteamer (6 August 2018), Newport Jazz Festival 2018: 14 Best Things We Saw, Rolling Stone
  10. Alex Dutilh, Fabien Fleurat, Emmanuelle Lacaze (11 September 2020), Artemis, sept déesses chez Blue Note, Open Jazz, France Musique
  11. JT Video Premiere: “The Revenge of the Rabbit” by Tomoko Omura, 4 September 2020, Jazz Times
  12. Lev!vich (4 Aug 2020), "well that didn't go as planned, 2020 WikiSlam Bot Bracket, InedibleHulk's TP.
  13. Martin Schray (28 January 2019), Mary Halvorson / Bill Frisell – The Maid With The Flaxen Hair: A Tribute to Johnny Smith (Tadzik, 2018) The Free Jazz Collective.
  14. Hank Shteamer (27 June 2018), Review: Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams Fuse Jazz and Roots on Vanished Gardens", Rolling Stone.