kjb
Proof reading not always a strength
There's rightly a lot of love around here for classic 50s/60s Jazz, as celebrated in the Jazz on Vinyl series and various posts about Miles Davis and others. During 2015 I bought plenty of back catalogue - replacing the RVG CDs with the fabulous Blue Note 75 vinyl reissues, yet another version of KoB - in mono this time - and finally getting Ornette Coleman's "Beauty" CD box.
However, the jazz I play most is recently released so I thought it would be worth seeing if there's interest in a jazz thread for new records rather than the legacy reissues.
Here's a few to kick things off:
Maria Schneider - The Thompson Fields: a beautiful, complex and superbly recorded record of orchestral jazz, only available on CD via Artist Share. Schneider worked on the a track on Bowie's Blackstar and the saxophonist on the Bowie record is in her band. The music is closer to Gil Evans than Bowie but has some great improvisations on it.
http://www.mariaschneider.com
Charles Lloyd: Wild Man Dance - a live show from a few years ago released last year. In a tradition from both John and Alice Coltrane with a jazz quarter playing alongside two Greek instrumentalists - and sounds much better than that promises.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TXW3OKO/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Three: river run thee - on the verges of jazz and noise - this is a great series, the latest has sax and voice against electronic and found sounds. Compelling but not party music.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00QF91RKC/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
Mary Halvorson - Meltframe - picking up from ( and playing with) Marc Ribot - a solo jazz guitar record that blends jazz playing with distortion and electronic effects. This is a record of covers but nothing sounds familiar even with tunes I know well
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0133G18B2/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
So what else have you got? For me, current jazz builds on the tradition - it's not museum music and, as I said above, the new stuff gets played even more than the archive. Labels like Pi and ACT have lots of good records but , other than this, it's not always easy to find anew stuff and I tend to catch up via end of year articles - hence the thread
Kevin
However, the jazz I play most is recently released so I thought it would be worth seeing if there's interest in a jazz thread for new records rather than the legacy reissues.
Here's a few to kick things off:
Maria Schneider - The Thompson Fields: a beautiful, complex and superbly recorded record of orchestral jazz, only available on CD via Artist Share. Schneider worked on the a track on Bowie's Blackstar and the saxophonist on the Bowie record is in her band. The music is closer to Gil Evans than Bowie but has some great improvisations on it.
http://www.mariaschneider.com
Charles Lloyd: Wild Man Dance - a live show from a few years ago released last year. In a tradition from both John and Alice Coltrane with a jazz quarter playing alongside two Greek instrumentalists - and sounds much better than that promises.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TXW3OKO/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Three: river run thee - on the verges of jazz and noise - this is a great series, the latest has sax and voice against electronic and found sounds. Compelling but not party music.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00QF91RKC/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
Mary Halvorson - Meltframe - picking up from ( and playing with) Marc Ribot - a solo jazz guitar record that blends jazz playing with distortion and electronic effects. This is a record of covers but nothing sounds familiar even with tunes I know well
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0133G18B2/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
So what else have you got? For me, current jazz builds on the tradition - it's not museum music and, as I said above, the new stuff gets played even more than the archive. Labels like Pi and ACT have lots of good records but , other than this, it's not always easy to find anew stuff and I tend to catch up via end of year articles - hence the thread
Kevin
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