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The Selected Ballads: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. I've been checking out drummer Jeff Cosgrove's new trio record of improvised pieces and standards, Conversations With Owls. Is a rewarding listen start to finish, and it has me wanting to investigate Frank Kimbrough's music further. I tried to come up with some reference points for his sound on this album - Paul Bley, Russ Lossing, Ran Blake, Craig Taborn - but none of those were really right. And you can listen here. To the one discussed above. From Tim Berne's Snakeoil, this ti...
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The Selected Ballads: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015. Kaiser at The Stone, Frisell at The Vanguard. Henry Kaiser-Melvin Gibbs-Weasel Walter at The Stone. Antarctic diver, associate of the Grateful Dead and. Sometimes locking in with but more often playing against what the guitarists were doing. Walter injected non-stop intensity, improvisational energy and surprise to the set with his singular language, incorporating metal drum techniques to great effect. Bill Frisell at The Village Vanguard. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Music m...
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The Selected Ballads: Owls, Etc
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. I've been checking out drummer Jeff Cosgrove's new trio record of improvised pieces and standards, Conversations With Owls. Is a rewarding listen start to finish, and it has me wanting to investigate Frank Kimbrough's music further. I tried to come up with some reference points for his sound on this album - Paul Bley, Russ Lossing, Ran Blake, Craig Taborn - but none of those were really right. And you can listen here. To the one discussed above. From Tim Berne's Snakeoil, this ti...
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The Selected Ballads: Heard and Seen - Projectors, Shipp on Farfisa, Konitz, Ornette on Film
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Sunday, September 2, 2012. Heard and Seen - Projectors, Shipp on Farfisa, Konitz, Ornette on Film. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan. The new DPs album has grown on me after some initial disappointment. Though I've found much to like, I still have a hard time seeing it as a step forward from its predecessor, Bitte Orca. An album that sounded like a sustained, cohesive statement of a new direction without obvious predecessors. Swing Lo. Isn't a Nashville Skyline. Lee Konitz - Satori. The lineup is pret...
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The Selected Ballads: The Comedians
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Monday, June 30, 2014. Elvis Costello's 38-song solo performance at Carnegie Hall last week (I saw the second. Of two nights - Jon Pareles reviewed the first. In the Times) spanned his career and ranged from the biggest hits to the deepest cuts (and some that haven't even been cut). Among the most pleasant surprises for me was a performance of "The Comedians", which I first got to know via Roy Orbison's recording on Mystery Girl. As Elvis details in his reissue liner notes. For Goodbye Cruel World. With ...
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The Selected Ballads: Masabumi Kikuchi / Ornette Coleman
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Masabumi Kikuchi / Ornette Coleman. I was saddened to hear of the passing of Masabumi Kikuchi this week. Seeing him on piano at the Village Vanguard with Paul Motian truly expanded my conception of music and beauty. I put down some impressions of one such appearance here. In my negligence in updating this blog, I let the passing of Ornette Coleman go unmentioned here. Here are some earlier pieces touching on the now-departed master/magus/maverick - an early effort. An und für sich.
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The Selected Ballads: Reupholstering the Mobius Chair
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Thursday, August 14, 2014. Reupholstering the Mobius Chair. AUM Fidelity's dual record release concert Saturday night at Shapeshifter Lab featured some of that label's heaviest demonstrating two distinct approaches to improvisation. The duo of Matthew Shipp and Darius Jones, supporting their second Cosmic Lieder album, The Darkseid Recital. With drummer Jeff Cosgrove. Superbly recorded by Jimmy Katz. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Reupholstering the Mobius Chair. The Will Leitch Experience. Fork in ...
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The Selected Ballads: March 2015
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Sunday, March 15, 2015. Listening to Early Fusion. After mostly ignoring the genre for years, I’ve recently, and I suppose belatedly, been getting into fusion. For decades now, fusion has been kind of a joke or a dirty word to a lot of jazz and. Well, maybe we can at least co-credit Tony Williams and John McLaughlin. On the fusion timeline, the 1969 sessions for In A Silent Way. Preceded those for Emergency! Is a very fine album, much more jazz than rock, with a real collaborative feeling - McLaughlin...
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The Selected Ballads: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Best of 2014 - Live! Here are The Selected Ballads' choices for the Best Live Shows of 2014, loosely categorized and presented in chronological order:. Best of the Best. Winter Jazzfest: Threadgill Ensemble Double-Up @ Judson / MOPDTK and EYEBONE @ NYU Law. For each lettered section of the composition, but it didn't give me much of a clue as to how the piece was really constructed.). Neutral Milk Hotel @ BAM. Marc-Andre Hamelin @ Zankel Hall. The Clientele @ Bell House.
