2011 likes and dislikes in jazz music

Sean Trane wrote: darkshade wrote: yes, sober musicians are much more prolific, since they dont waste time with narcotics **EDIT** woops, I didn't realize that was part of your sig. I think the colors threw me off   Sorry about that!!     This said, I don't think that jazzmen have any less problems with drugs than other types of musos. If Coltrane managed to kick it out, Parker & Miles didn't.   s

With jazz, it's a little different. There isn't as much composing as classical, or prog, so it wouldn't take as much time to record an album than say a rock band. MAny jazz albums were recorded in 1 or 2 takes, many times by the entire band(s)

This should be a good one.

The record, Bienestan, is a collaboration between Guillermo Klein and pianist Aaron Goldberg, with crack players Miguel Zenón, Chris Cheek, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland filling out the band. Klein composed and/or arranged all the songs on Bienestan and Goldberg takes on the role of featured soloist. "We were conceiving of it almost in a Gil Evans-Miles kind of way," Goldberg writes in the press release announcing the album.

 

darkshade wrote: @ Sean Trane - I only mentioned composition in terms of Classical where almost everything is composed, whereas with Jazz, there is a large amount of improvisation involved. I wasn't talking about the level of composition some jazz tunes have (where some rival or even beat Classical)

I'd understood what you said, ,and completely agreed, but there was the drug issue at stake in this conversation, ,that's all

Edited by Sean Trane - 02 Jun 2011 at 2:56pm

         

IMO another average ECM piano trio release, didn't impress me at first hearing , it improved after a few more hearings but doesn't stand out from among other average piano trios releases

Recent stuff in my playlist, Ken Vandermark has two new releases, one with Resonance and an OST with Predella Group, both not your usual Vandermark. Jazz that can open your senses, in fact.

Angelica Sanchez's piano solo album (A Little House) puts me off a bit, uneven album with both hollow and interesting compositions. Never made up my mind how I feel about toy piano music, either.


Edited by Ricochet - 01 Jul 2011 at 8:05am

snobb wrote: Ricochet wrote: Recent stuff in my playlist, Ken Vandermark has two new releases, one with Resonance and an OST with Predella Group, both not your usual Vandermark. Jazz that can open your senses, in fact. Angelica Sanchez's piano solo album (A Little House) puts me off a bit, uneven album with both hollow and interesting compositions. Never made up my mind how I feel about toy piano music, either. I tried Angelica's album few times but didn't get that music, or better to say - it was interesting at first few minutes, but later I missed interest very soon

The other way around, second half makes me wonder...

Hey Slava, did you hear Chicago Odense Ensemble? I just added them to Post Rock on PA, but their album could also pass as one of the best Nu-Jazz albums of 2011. 

harmonium.ro wrote: Hey Slava, did you hear Chicago Odense Ensemble? I just added them to Post Rock on PA, but their album could also pass as one of the best Nu-Jazz albums of 2011.

Confused now, I was referring to Alex's COE, which you haven't heard yet, as you said above.

It might turn out the same with Shepp/Kuhn, but I have to hear it first.


Edited by Ricochet - 05 Jul 2011 at 6:34am