有別於紐約發展的前衛爵士，AACM提供一個完全不同的方向，從各種文化汲取養分，化為全新聲響的創作。然而80年代在原音回歸大軍壓境下，AACM遭到邊緣化，直到Pi Recordings廠牌的崛起，終於讓AACM獲得應有的榮光....

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<div class="draft-block draft--quotesSpecial center"><div class="content">一月，紐約的冬季爵士音樂節 （NYC Winter JazzFest）正如火如荼地在多個場地展開。我在寒冷的夜晚來到Vandam Street以及第六大道交界處的SOHO Playhouse，聆聽Pi Recordings廠牌下的歌手Jen Shyu的演出。默默立於舞台上的她背對聽眾。電話鈴聲響起，Jen Shyu拿起電話道具接聽了一段預錄的對話，描述她的友人車禍猝逝的消息。旋即Jen Shyu以如同舞台劇的形式般，獨自撥彈月琴、日本琵琶、敲擊小樂器，演唱著來自日本的歌謠，以音樂悼念著離式的友人。這般結合音樂、表演藝術、多樣樂器演奏、各式小道具的演出形式，不免讓人驚艷又狐疑：「這是爵士樂嗎？」然而，早在上世紀60年代中，一群出身芝加哥的音樂家就已致力於這樣的實驗，他們有個名號，叫AACM....</div></div>

Radiohead、Björk、Nirvana、Oasis....這些MTV世代中建立90年代之聲的搖滾/獨立音樂人不僅擄獲樂迷的心，也在同時期成長的爵士音樂家身上播下種子，不僅誘使這批新世代以爵士的敏銳度翻演改編，進而開花結果為新的爵士創作養分...

獨立／流行融合#1：MTV世代 | Indie Rock/Brit-pop的滲透

一月，紐約的冬季爵士音樂節 （NYC Winter JazzFest）正如火如荼地在多個場地展開。我在寒冷的夜晚來到Vandam Street以及第六大道交界處的SOHO Playhouse，聆聽Pi Recordings廠牌下的歌手Jen Shyu的演出。默默立於舞台上的她背對聽眾。電話鈴聲響起，Jen Shyu拿起電話道具接聽了一段預錄的對話，描述她的友人車禍猝逝的消息。旋即Jen Shyu以如同舞台劇的形式般，獨自撥彈月琴、日本琵琶、敲擊小樂器，演唱著來自日本的歌謠，以音樂悼念著離式的友人。這般結合音樂、表演藝術、多樣樂器演奏、各式小道具的演出形式，不免讓人驚艷又狐疑：「這是爵士樂嗎？」然而，早在上世紀60年代中，一群出身芝加哥的音樂家就已致力於這樣的實驗，他們有個名號，叫AACM....

奇數，是不規則的。在過慣多年的規則、盡量開發旋律與和聲的可能性後，當代爵士音樂家終於將頭腦動到了節奏上，開啟了不規則節奏與曲式的大航海時代...

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Excerpts from Nine Doors (2017)
by Jen Shyu

Jen Shyu: voice, Taiwanese moon lute, Korean gayageum and soribuk drum, Japanese biwa, piano, dance, sound design, choreography, Timorese gong, Korean gong (ggwaenggwari)

Door 5: Wehali Kingdom's Ati Batik story
Door 6: Blink of an Eye—A Cure for the Heart's Longing
Door 8:Song of Baridegi + Ati Batik
Door 9: Contemplation

September 12, 2018
at Roulette

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Videography by Cutting Bird Video

RBF 2018 NYC - Jen Shyu - Nine Doors (excerpt)

It’s easy to get teary-eyed over this reunion of the illustrious collective ensemble that helped start it all for the AACM. The collective dates back to 1962, when a group of young musicians began rehearsing at the C&C Lounge at Cottage Grove and 63rd under the direction of the brilliant pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams. “I was getting my writing chops together and he always encouraged people to write, write, write,” Roscoe Mitchell says in George Lewis’ definitive AACM history, A Power Stronger Than Itself.” The way the members played, played, played grew out of those compositions, which were given a hearing no matter how odd or personal they might have seemed to the composer.

All these years later, the music retains its power and intrigue. But don’t approach this performance expecting a waltz down memory lane. The spirit of spontaneous invention will be carried forth by the 2015 version of the Experimental Band, including Abrams, alto saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill, baritone saxophonist and flutist LaRoy Wallace McMillan, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith (coming off his magnificent opus Ten Freedom Summers and last year’s poll-winning The Great Lakes), pianist Amina Claudine Myers, trombonist George Lewis, bassist Leonard Jones, drummer/vibraphonist Thurman Barker and drummer/marimba player Reggie Nicholson.

Expectations for the performance are especially high following the memorable 2013 Millennium Park reunion of Mitchell, Threadgill and Smith in a Jack DeJohnette-led band. The acclaimed live album of the concert, Made in Chicago, has led to a concert tour and plans for a second album. Would it be too much to hope that same kind of after-life awaits this performance?

 

 


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Chicago Jazz Festival - 50 th anniversary of AACM

This is a short tour visiting some of the former places of the most famous Jazz Lofts from the 70's. Incomparable New York spirit. Bless it.

Visiting Jazz Lofts with Ed Hazell and Danas Mikailionis / Sam Rivers / John Zorn

1. Legba Ati Bon - (Zankel)
2.70,000 Veils of Light and Darkness- (Locandro) -26.30
3.Questioning the Mysteries -(Zankel) -55.12
4 Entrance to Paradise-(music Locandro, lyrics Zankel) -85.29

Kaballah Ensemble  was band led  by Bobby Zankel that  was part of the early 1970s New York Loft Jazz scene.  The core members were Bobby Zankel-alto saxophone-Joselo Locandro-piano-William Parker-bass-Rashid Bakr (Charles Downs)-drums-Arthur Williams-trumpet. The group exclusively performed  original material  composed by Bobby Zankel and Joselo Locandro. Rehearsal .sessions were held at Bobby Zankels Brooklyn brownstone with visits from many local musicians  .The historical recording  presented here is from Sunrise Studios , July 6, 1975 with the participation of  Ellen Cristi, Genie Sherman, Breda Bakr  -vocals, David Wertman -bass and Dave Easton -congas.   There were several  appearances  at 501 Canal Street  as well as a second Sunrise Studio concert on March 12 ,1976 that included as guests  Toshi Tsuchitori , Malik Baraka, Keshavan Maslak, Leo Witlarge and Ken Simon. Shortly after, the group disbanded as Bobby moved to Philadelphia, Joselo to Rio de Janeiro and  Cecil  Taylor hired William Parker and Rashid Bakr to become members of his band.. 
 The combination of singers, percussion, and call and response melodic lines  make this music a unique experience that conceptually was well  ahead of its time.

Bobby Zankel + Joselo Locandro- Kaballah Ensamble -Loft Jazz

From Blog: http://theevilmonkeysrecords.blogspot.com/2012/02/art-ensemble-of-chicago-tutti-i-luoghi.html

ART ESNEMBLE OF CHICAGO + GUESTS
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Berlin Jazzfest - October 31, 1991

Lester Bowie (tp)
Joseph Jarman (reeds)
Roscoe Mitchell (reeds)
Malachi Favors Maghostut (b)
Famoudou Don Moye (d)

Brass Fantasy: *
Gerald Brazel, Earl Gardner, Jim Sealy (tp)
Luis Bonilla, Jamal Haynes (tb)
Vincent Chancey (frh)
Marcus Rojas (tu)
Vinnie Johnson (dr)

Amabhuto Male Chorus: +
Max Bhe Bhe, Ndonda Kunze, Joe Leguabe, Thomas Moyo, Kay Nxumalo, Jack Nyoni, David Serame (voc)

01 New York Is Full Of Lonely People
02 Ohnedaruth
03 Song For Atala
04 The Emperor *
05 Siesta For The Fiesta *
06 In The Still Of The Night *
07 Variations *
08 African Woman *+
09 Menangege *+
10 America *+
11 Black Man  *+

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Berlin Jazzfest - 1991 - Ohnedaruth

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NW-5-94 (Opus 76) (Version One) · Anthony Braxton

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I took a deep dive into Anthony Braxton's 'Tri-Axium Writings' and 'Composition Notes' in a quest to finally understand the mystical alchemy of his compositional world.  I learned a lot more about myself in the process... which I think might have been Mr. Braxton's goal all along?

0:00- Intro
6:43- Some History
10:58- Exploring the Tri-Axium Writings
16:02- Making Sense of the Titling System
20:45- Analysis of Composition 23B
29:25- Conclusion

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-The underscoring in this video is “I am a worm and no man” from my album, VISCERA.
-The transition music comes from my band liddle’s recording of “Composition 23B,” also from VISCERA.
-The final ‘universe’ music is an excerpt of Anthony Braxton’s “Composition No. 56.”

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Braxton, Anthony. _Tri-Axium Writings (Book 1)_
Braxton, Anthony. _Composition Notes (Book 2)_
Heffley, Mike. _The Music of Anthony Braxton_
Lewis, George. _A Power Stronger than Itself_
Lock, Graham. _Forces In Motion_
Shteamer, Hank. _Anthony Braxton’s Big Ideas_ 
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Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - Eclipse (2005, La Huit)

Wadada Leo Smith : trumpet
Vijay Iyer : piano
John Lindberg : bass
Ronald Shannon Jackson : drums

Recorded live at Festival Banlieues Bleues in 2004.

Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet

What unifies all of Wadada Leo Smith's projects is what also makes them so different from each other—Smith's commitment to every musician having an individual sound. 

Video presentation by Molly Sheridan.

Read a transcript of the entire conversation at NewMusicBox: http://www.newmusicbox.org/?p=13798

Wadada Leo Smith: Decoding Ankhrasmation

A rare Washington appearance from Henry Threadgill, "one of the most important living composers in and around the jazz idiom" (Nate Chinen) and a dazzling alto saxophonist and flutist with masterly improvisational skills. 

Speaker Biography: At the edge of the jazz avant-garde since the early 1960s, composer-performer Henry Threadgill operates within a sophisticated, multi-sourced musical language developed over decades, since his early years with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. It's a language uniquely his own, one that his Zooid colleagues speak fluently. 

For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6619

Henry Threadgill's Zooid

"Magic," a composition from Miles Okazaki's album GENERATIONS.   Video shows the structure of the composition, based on cycles of 15 beats and interlocking major and minor triads.   Each collection of 3 figures is 15 beats, and each consecutive 4 triads in rows and columns make 12 tones.   Colors correspond to the roots of the harmony.

Form:
A: 3 rows
B: 3 columns
C: 2 diagonals

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"Magic" from GENERATIONS (Animated Score)

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Standards With Friends #20 // Off Minor With Miles Okazaki & Ben Wendel

Excerpt from a concert at the Jazz Gallery in NYC in January 2016 in preparation for recording the album TRICKSTER. "Kudzu" is the opening song on this gig and is also the first track on the album. Featuring Craig Taborn, Anthony Tidd, and Sean Rickman. Video by Dimitri Louis. 

A review of this show appeared in the New York Times:
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Trickster is available from Pi Recordings: https://pirecordings.com/album/pi68

Trickster, Live at the Jazz Gallery - "Kudzu"

MOTHER OF TIME is a video by Sujin Lee for the song MOTHER OF TIME from the album Sounds and Cries of the World by Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue. The album was released by Pi Recordings on September 18, 2015 at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. 

"Jen Shyu is among New York's most invigorating vocal presences. And perhaps the most enigmatic.” - Larry Blumenfeld, Wall Street Journal.

Credits:
Jen Shyu: vocals, kemanak, ggwaenggwari
Ambrose Akinmusire: trumpet
Mat Maneri: viola
Thomas Morgan: bass
Dan Weiss: drums
Composition and lyrics by Jen Shyu, © Chiuyen Music (ASCAP)
Produced by Jen Shyu
Executive Producers: Seth Rosner and Yulun Wang
Recorded August 27, 2014 at Brooklyn Recording, Brooklyn NY by Andrew Taub with assistance from Nick Nagurka
"Mother of Time" edited and mixed by Andrew Taub and Nick Nagurka
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, New York NY
Ambrose Akinmusire appears courtesy of Blue Note Records

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Filmed on location at Namsan Park, Bukchon Traditional Crafts Experience Center, and Bongwonsa Temple in Seoul, South Korea, August 2015.

Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Sounds and Cries of the World — Mother of Time (a video by Sujin Lee)

Excerpted from September 12, 2018's performance at  Resonant Bodies Festival 2018, filmed by Cutting Bird Video

Nine Doors
Jen Shyu: Composition, vocals, Taiwanese moon lute, Korean gayageum and soribuk drum, Japanese biwa, piano, dance, sound design, choreography, Timorese gong and Korean gong (ggwaenggwari)
Alexandru Mihail: Director
Kristen Robinson: Set & Props Designer
Solomon Weisbard: Original Lighting Designer
Naoko Nagata: Costume designer
Danang Pamungkas: Javanese “Bedhaya Pangkur Tunggal” choreography
Lianne Arnold, Projection Programmer
Satoshi Haga: Co-director with Shyu of Song of Silver Geese (2016)*

Synopsis
Nine Doors is a ritual and celebration of our lost loved ones and how, through the eyes of a 6-year old girl, trauma and tragedy can be overcome and transformed into a life better lived. When Shyu lost her friend Sri Joko Raharjo “Cilik,” a famous Javanese shadow puppeteer who died with his wife and infant son in an automobile accident at the age of 30, she created this piece to honor him and his family and provide the audience members a chance to meditate on their lost loved ones as well. His 6-year-old daughter, who survived the crash, is the central character. Time stops as she encounters powerful female legends—from the Wehali Kingdom of Timor to the Korean folkloric myth of Baridegi—who become her guides. A mysterious phone booth in a gardener's yard in Otsuchi, Japan, which has become a comfort to the families who lost loved ones in the 2011 Tsunami, also enters into the story. The work reflects the parallels that exist between life and death, different cultures, and the importance of empathy over destructive assumptions that divide humanity. 
 
Nine Doors incorporates Shyu’s 15 years of study of traditional music from five countries: epic storytelling (Pansori), East Coast shaman music (동해안별신굿or “Dong Hae Ahn Byeol Shin Gut”), and Binari, usually performed as a blessing for an audience, all from Korea; music from sub-districts Aileu and Ataúro from East Timor; Bedhaya or Javanese sacred dance from Indonesia; and the "speaking-the-song" or "katari" with Japanese biwa, the rare 4-stringed instrument originally used by monks and priests.
 
Thank you to all my teachers: Kwon Song-hee and Bae Il-Dong (Pansori); Ha Kyung Mee (gayageum); Seo Hanna (East Coast Shaman Music,동해안별신굿); Jo Mun-ju (Binari); Sim Woonjung (soribuk); Arai Shisui (biwa); Zhu Ding Sun, Chen Yin, and Zhang Ri Gui of Taiwanese folk song and moon lute. Tonight’s performance is dedicated to the late Sri Joko Raharjo “Cilik” and his family; to the late Edward Cheng whose text “Contemplation” closes the work; and finally to Kim Yong Taek, the elder shaman drummer of East Coast shaman music who welcomed me to witness many rituals, who sadly passed away on April 30, 2018. 
 
*Nine Doors is expanded from Song of Silver Geese which was premiered at Roulette on March 28, 2016, and recorded featuring Mivos Quartet and Shyu’s band Jade Tongue.

Jen Shyu's Nine Doors (Door 8 & 9) at Resonant Bodies Festival 2018

Studio footage from the recording of Dan Weiss's 5th cd, FOURTEEN. Released March 25, 2014 on Pi Recordings.

Featuring Katie Andrews, Judith Berkson, David Binney, Stephen Cellucci, Jacob Garchik, Ben Gerstein, Lana Is, Matt Mitchell, Thomas Morgan, Maria Neckam, Miles Okazaki, Jacob Sacks, Ohad Talmor, Dan Weiss.

Recorded at Systems Two in Brooklyn, NY. 

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Dan Weiss - The Making of FOURTEEN

Dan Weiss Starebaby

Supergroup with New York jazz musicians sharing their fascination for metal, ambient and electronic music in intensely structured pieces. ‘Darkly alluring’ (Downbeat).

Craig Taborn fender rhodes/midi controller, Matt Mitchell piano/prophet 6/modular synthesizers, Ben Monder guitar, Trevor Dunn bass guitar, Dan Weiss drums

Alongside jazz and Indian music, Dan Weiss is equally at home in metal and electronica. The stark contrasts, but also the similarities between these worlds fuel his band Starebaby. On the eponymous album, Weiss and co. have created fascinating works, sometimes dark and complex and sometimes dreamy and cinematic, with for example a track dedicated to Angelo Badalamenti, composer of the Twin Peaks soundtrack.

Live on stage the band from New York promises to deliver pure sensation, featuring, on guitar, Ben Monder, who played on David Bowie’s last album Blackstar, plus bass guitarist Trevor Dunn (o.a. Secret Chiefs 3, John Zorn’s Electric Masada) and no less than two pianists: Matt Mitchell (Claudia Quintet, Time Berne’s Snakeoil), who plays on synthesizers as well, and Craig Taborn (Dave Holland’s Prism), also on Fender Rhodes.

BIMHUIS - March 7 2019

BIMHUIS TV | Dan Weiss Starebaby | part 1

Phalanx Ambassadors

Matt Mitchell - piano, composition
Kim Cass - bass
Kate Gentile - drums
Satoshi Takeishi - percussion
Patricia Brennan - vibes, marimba
Miles Okazaki - guitar

Phalanx Ambassadors - stretch goal 4

Matt Mitchell Quartet, Jazz Gallery, NYC, Jan 6, 2015

Composed by Matt Mitchell. Copyright 2015 Matthew Tily Mitchell

Wearing the Wig of Atrophy - Matt Mitchell Quartet

Preview of "Mise en Abîme" by The Steve Lehman Octet. To be released on Pi Recordings on June 24, 2014.

Steve Lehman Octet -- Mise en Abîme Preview

SardinenUSF: 3.nov. -17  -  HPRIZM vocal - GASTON BANDMIC vocal
STEVE LEHMAN altsax - Composer MACIEK LASSERE altsax
CARLOS HOMS tangenter - DREW GRESS bass - 
JACOB RICHARDS drums

STEVE LEHMAN & SELEBEYONE | Bergen Jazzforum

Composer, multi-instrumentalist and 2017 MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey stretches boundaries and defies casual listening. He leads an electro-acoustic ensemble that includes a gong snare, in-studio.

Live In Studio: Tyshawn Sorey

Tyshawn Sorey quartet - Tyshawn Sorey/ Acts

Tim Berne's Snakeoil

David Torn / Tim Berne / Ches Smith
Sun of Goldfinger

Tim Berne: alto saxophone
Ches Smith: drums, electronics, tanbou
David Torn: electric guitar, live-looping, electronics

ECM 2613
Release: March 1, 2019 

Available on CD, download & streaming: https://ecm.lnk.to/SunOfGoldfingerYD 

Guitarist-composer David Torn, a longstanding ECM artist, has enjoyed a particularly fruitful 21st-century with the label, releasing two albums under his own name – the solo only sky and quartet disc prezens – in addition to producing records by Tim Berne and Michael Formanek. With Sun of Goldfinger, Torn returns in a trio alongside the alto saxophonist Berne and percussionist Ches Smith (a member of Berne’s Snakeoil band who made his ECM leader debut in 2016 with The Bell). The Torn/Berne/Smith trio, also dubbed Sun of Goldfinger, features alone on two of this album’s three intense tracks of 20-plus minutes; the vast sonic tapestries of “Eye Meddle” and “Soften the Blow” – each spontaneous group compositions – belie the fact that only a trio is weaving them, with live electronics by Torn and Smith expanding the aural envelope. The third track, the Torn composition “Spartan, Before It Hit,” showcases an extended ensemble with two extra guitars, keyboards and a string quartet; it’s an otherworldly creation, ranging from hovering atmospherics to dark-hued lyricism to storming, sky-rending grandeur. The words of LondonJazz, reviewing Sun of Goldfinger live, also suit the band’s debut on record: “This is dangerous music – at times angry, at others blissed-out and illuminating – with its thunderous rumblings… delivering not so much a wash of sound, more a tidal wave.”

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David Torn, Tim Berne, Ches Smith - Sun of Goldfinger (Teaser) | ECM Records

Broken Shadows performs "Dogon A.D.", an alternate take from their self-titled album.

Broken Shadows is available as part of a Newvelle Season 4 subscription. For more information visit: https://bit.ly/2E0Slvz

Broken Shadows is a working band tackling the music of Ornette Coleman, Julius Hemphill, Dewey Redman and Charlie Haden.  Featuring Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King. Broken Shadows has already garnered stellar reviews worldwide for their ferocious and insightful live shows. 
Tim and Chris worked together for many years in the band Bloodcount and in many other ensembles and, of course, Reid and Dave are the rhythm section of the Bad Plus Trio, one of the mainstays of the jazz scene over the past 20 years.

Broken Shadows - "Dogon A.D."

The collective trio will present new music from their forthcoming album, Never is Enough, plus a selection of tunes from their latest release, The Anthony Braxton Project, mixed in with other originals and covers developed over the past nine years of playing music together. Please tune in and celebrate Mary’s 40th birthday with us!

The trio Thumbscrew came about by accident, after bassist Michael Formanek subbed in a band including guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tomas Fujiwara back in 2011. Something special happened among them right away, so they formed a trio, a co-operative in the truest sense. They play originals by all hands, compositions whose rhythms may surge or lag or veer sideways according to their own internal logic. Bass and drums solo within the ensemble, not in quarantine. No one needs to be loudest. The blend is tight: one string (or metal) sound may bleed into another. It’s something to hear—something twisty and turny and always on the move. The band has released five albums to date, all on Cuneiform Records: The Anthony Braxton Project (2020), Ours and Theirs (2018), Convallaria (2016), and Thumbscrew (2014). Their sixth album, Never is Enough, is coming in February 2021.

“Made up of three highly distinctive voices in the world of jazz and avantgarde music, Thumbscrew should probably collapse under the weight of its own star power but Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Mary Halvorson (electric guitar) and Michael Formanek (acoustic bass) are just too aware of the potential of this supertrio to let that happen.”

– S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!

Drums – Tomas Fujiwara
Bass – Michael Formanek
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
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Music Video from the Firehouse 12 release Code Girl
https://maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/code-girl
Video by Jennifer Hsu + James Wang

"Pretty Mountain" from Mary Halvorson's Code Girl

Craig Taborn speelt Untitled II/American Landscape tijdens live broadcast VPROJazzLive in het Bimhuis in Amsterdam op 6-3-2010. Craig Taborn - piano. Meer video's op vprojazzlive.radio6.nl

Craig Taborn speelt Untitled II/American Landscape

Craig Taborn: Chants

Craig Taborn: piano
Thomas Morgan: double bass
Gerald Cleaver: drums

Recently hailed by Down Beat as “one of the visionaries of the current wave”, Craig Taborn has a unique perspective on creative music-making. Just as Avenging Angel subverted expectations of solo improvised piano, so does “Chants” find its own response to the vast tradition of the piano trio. The pieces that Taborn has been writing for the band in the eight years of its existence are set up to generate a new group music by channelling the special skills of drummer Gerald Cleaver and bassist Thomas Morgan. “I knew that if I created a context and then deferred, fully, to Gerald’s and Thomas’s sensibilities it would inherently be stimulating and would also challenge the context. I wanted to invite that challenge: I’d much rather engage with the group, always, than have the format be ‘piano adventures with supporting cast’”. Morgan and Cleaver share the leader’s concern for compositional shape and multi-layered improvisational detail, as the music is pulled between the poles of density and spaciousness, to dramatic and thrilling effect. “Chants” was recorded in New York in June 2012, and produced by Manfred Eicher. Its release is accompanied by international touring with concerts in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and the US.

Recorded June 2012
ECM 2326

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Craig Taborn Trio: Chants (Album EPK) | ECM Records

Duo performance featuring fellow pianist Kris Davis and guitarist Bill Frisell playing a free improvisation from Davis' "Duopoly" (Pyroclastic Records, 2016). To purchase Duopoly, visit https://krisdavis.bandcamp.com/releases

16. Kris Davis & Bill Frisell - “Bill Frisell” (Free Improvisation)

Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons with Esperanza Spalding, Nels Cline, Tony Malaby, JD Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Marc Ribot, Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn, Val Jeanty and Kris Davis.  Film by Mimi Chakarova

Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons

from Binary, to be released on Skirl Records on October 25, 2016
PRE-ORDER HERE:
https://annawebber.bandcamp.com/album/binary

Anna Webber - tenor sax, composition
Matt Mitchell - piano
John Hollenbeck - drums

annakristinwebber.com
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Rectangles 2 - Anna Webber's Simple Trio

A short movie about the making of 'Twice Dreamt' - the second side of Ingrid Laubrock's double CD 'Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt', featuring Cory Smythe, Sam Pluta, Adam Matlock, Zeena Parkins, Josh Modney and Ingrid Laubrock. 
Filmed by Mimi Chakarova at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, on December 22 and 23, 2019. 

DREAMT TWICE, TWICE DREAMT will be released on Intakt Records on 11/20/20 http://www.intaktrec.ch

To pre-order the digital version, please visit https://laubrock-intakt.bandcamp.com/album/dreamt-twice-twice-dreamt
To pre-order a physical copy, please visit 
http://ingridlaubrock.com/dreamt-twice-twice-dreamt.html

Recording info for the double album:
DREAMT TWICE (CD 1)

EOS Chamber Orchestra:
CONDUCTOR: Susanne Blumenthal
VIOLIN: Ségolène de Beaufond, Mayumi Sargent Harada, Alex Semeniuc Terese Pletkute, Volhar Hanchar, Christine Schäfer, Eva Csizmadia 
VIOLA: Pauline Buss, Lydia Haurenherm 
CELLO: Mateusz Kwiatkowski, Tom Verbeke
DOUBLE BASS: Pierre Dekker
FLUTE: Roland Meschede
OBOE, ENGLISH HORN: Anja Schmiel
CLARINET, BASS CLARINET: Blake Weston 
BASSOON: Eugenie
Ricard TRUMPET: Susanne Knoop
FRENCH HORN: Chris Weddle
TROMBONE: Matthias Schuller

SOLOISTS: Sam Pluta: Electronics.
Cory Smythe: Piano, Quarter-Tone
Keyboard. Robert Landfermann:
Double Bass. Tom Rainey: Drums.
Ingrid Laubrock: Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
1. Dreamt Twice 9:58
2. Snorkel Cows 13:19
3. Drilling 18:38
4. I Never Liked That Guy 11:11
5. Down the Mountain, Down the Mountain 7:42


Compositions and copyright by Ingrid Laubrock (PRS/MCPS). Recorded December 5 and 6, 2019, by Brigitte Angerhausen at Riverside Studios, Köln. 
Assisted by Nick Benoy. Mixed May 11-16, 2020, by Ron Saint Germain at Saint's Place.
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, Peekskill, NY. Recording produced by David Breskin and Ingrid Laubrock.
CD produced by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt, Anja Illmaier, Florian Keller.


TWICE DREAMT (CD 2)

INGRID LAUBROCK: Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
CORY SMYTHE: Piano and Quarter-Tone Keyboard
SAM PLUTA: Electronics
GUESTS:
Adam Matlock: Accordion (2, 4, 5)
Josh Modney: Violin (2 + 4)
Zeena Parkins: Electric harp (2 + 5)

1. Snorkel Cows 12:13
2. Drilling 15:53
3. I Never Liked That Guy 10:22
4. Down the Mountain, Down the Mountain 7:22
5. Twice Dreamt 8:35

Compositions and copyright by Ingrid Laubrock (PRS/MCPS).
Recorded December 22 and 23, 2019,by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio,
Mount Vernon, NY. Mixed February 27–29, 2020, by Ron Saint Germain at Saint's Place.
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, Peekskill, NY.
Recording produced by David Breskin and Ingrid Laubrock.
CD produced by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt, Anja Illmaier, Florian Keller.

ingridlaubrock.com

Ingrid Laubrock   Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt

Excerpt from jaimie branch's FLY or DIE performance at Moods, Switzerland, on January 23rd 2020.

To be released as part of IARC0041 FLY or DIE LIVE on May 21st 2021.
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/fly-or-die-live

This entire live concert video is available on demand via Moods platform www.moods.digital (starting May 16th 2021).

jaimie branch – trumpet, vocals, vibraslap
Lester St. Louis – cello, vocals, tiny cymbal
Jason Ajemian – bass, vocals, egg shakers
Chad Taylor – drums, vocals, mbira

Engineered by Thierry Looser.
Mixed by Dave Vettraino.
Mastered by David Allen.

jaimie branch - theme 001 (Live at Moods 1/23/2020)

Tomeka Reid Quartet
January 7, 2016
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia, PA

Tomeka Reid - cello
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Jason Roebke - bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums

Filmed by: Christopher Andrew McDonald
christopherandrew.net

Tomeka Reid Quartet - Philadelphia Art Alliance

Live at Cornelia St Café on November 28th 2018
María Grand - tenor saxophone and composition
Kanoa Mendenhall - bass
Savannah Harris - drums
Video by Pedro de las Rosas

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