Showing posts with label third steam music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label third steam music. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Newish Sounds in Third Stream* and Related Music: [*Jazz and Classical Traditions]: Saturday Music Club on Tuesday

Camila Meza and the Nectar Orchestra: 

This concert was recorded on March 26th, 2019 at a private loft in Brooklyn, N.Y. SET LIST 0:10 - "Kallfu" 6:01 - "All Your Colors" 12:23 - "Milagres Dos Peixes" 18:41 - "Olha Maria" 24:24 - "This Is Not America" 30:01 - "Ámbar" MUSICIANS Camila Meza (guitar, voice) Eden Ladin (keyboard, piano) Noam Weisenberg (bass) Keita Ogawa (drums, percussion) Ludovica Burtone (violin) Tomoko Omura (violin) Leonor Falcon (viola) Brian Sanders (cello)

Catharsis: "Sister"; "Gallop"; "Zone"


Beast: "Satan"


Matthew Shipp, Mat Maneri, & Michael Bisio: Exploring and Performing Third Stream Music, Pt. 1


Laura Jurd Ensemble: Stepping Back, Jumping In

BandCamp page for the album--free access to selected tracks

Dinosaur: rooftop concert in Holland

playlist:
"Shine Your Light" "Forgive, Forget" "Old Times’ Sake" "Swimming"
All compositions by Laura Jurd. Laura Jurd – trumpet, synthesizer, Elliot Galvin – synthesizers, Conor Chaplin – bass; Corrie Dick – drums

Maureen Choi Quartet: "Ida y Vuelta"


Maria Schneider and Ensemble Denada at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 13 July 2018


And a ringer:
George Russell and the Big Bang Band of 1967

1: from The New York, New York suite: "Manhattan Rico" 2: (10:19:07:00): "Oh, Jazz"
Poster of the video notes: "from 29:00 the audio has disappeared, no thanks to a certain tube." Here's the missing audio/replacement footage:
George Russell, conductor, piano
Woodwinds: Christer Boustedt, Claes Rosendahl, Bernt Rosengren, Jan Garbarek Trombone: Rune Ericsson, George Bernard, Folke Rabe Trumpets: Lasse Samuelsson, Rolf Ericsson, Bertil Lövgren, Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay Congas:
Rupert Clemendore Rhythm: Carl-Axel Dominique, piano Rune Gustafsson, guitar Palle Danielsson, bass Jon Christensen, drums

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Saturday Music Club: mostly jazz, a lot of keyboards, some singing...


Teo Macero and the Prestige Jazz Quartet: "Just Spring"


















Randy Weston: "African Village/Bedford Stuyvesant"

Blossom Dearie Trio and Quartet: "I Wish You Love"; "Bag's Groove" 


Aretha Franklin Band: "Won't Be Long"


Toshiko Akiyoshi: "The Village"


Toshiko Akiyoshi 2007 interview:

from the same interview: on being a Japanese jazz artist

Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: "Drum Conference"


Thelonious Monk: "Don't Blame Me"


Lenny Bruce's tv series pilot The World of Lenny Bruce 

Saturday, March 25, 2017

some jazz and hybrids: third stream, jazz/bluegrass, ska: Saturday Music Club

Emily Remler, Hank Jones, Jake Hanna, Bob Maize: Firefly

Tracklist:
1. Mocha Spice 0:00 2. Nunca Mais 4:30 3. Waltz For My Grandfather 9:37 4. Catwalk 16:16 5. Blues For Herb 26:40 6. Transitions 33:08 7. The Firefly 41:11 8. Antonio 45:20 9. Mozambique 49:50


Philly Joe Jones band: Showcase

Tracklist:
01.Battery Blues (Julian Priester)...(00:00)
02.Minor Mode (Bill Barron)...(04:09)  
03.Gwen (Philly Joe Jones)...(08:39) 
04.Joe's Debut (Philly Joe Jones)...(12:41) 
05.Gone (G.Gershwin/I.Gershwin /D.Heyward)...(18:19)  
06.Joe's Delight (Philly Joe Jones)...(23:02)  
07.Julia (Julian Priester)...(26:58)
08.I'll Never Be the Same (G.Kahn/M.Malneck/F.Signorelli)...(30:28) 
09.Interpretation (Bill Barron)...(34:30)

Personnel:
1.Philly Joe Jones - drums(tr.1,2 & 4-8);piano(tr.3)
2.Blue Mitchell - trumpet (tr.1,2 & 4-9)
3.Julian Priester - trombone (tr.1,2 & 4-9)
4.Bill Barron - tenor saxophone (tr.1,2 & 4-9)
5.Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone (tr.1,2 & 4-9)
6.Dolo Coker (tr.1,4 & 6-8);Sonny Clark(tr.2,5 & 9) - piano
7.Jimmy Garrison - bass(tr.1,2 & 4-9). 


John Lewis, Percy Heath, Chico Hamilton, Jim Hall, Bill Perkins: 

Grand Encounter

1. Love Me or Leave Me
2. I Can't Get Started
3. Easy Living
4. Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West
5. Skylark
6. Almost Like Being In Love


McCoy Tyner, Albert Heath, Jimmy Garrison: "Five Spot After Dark"



Gary Burton and Friends Near, Friends Far: Tennessee Firebird


Gary Burton (vibes, piano, organ)
Chet Atkins, Jimmy Colvard, Ray Edenton (guitar)
Buddy Emmons (steel guitar)
Henry Strzelecki, Steve Swallow (bass)
Kenneth Buttrey, Roy Haynes (drums)
Steve Marcus (tenor sax)
Charlie McCoy (harmonica)
Buddy Spicher (fiddle)
Bobby Osborne (mandolin)
Sonny Osborne (banjo)



All compositions by Gary Burton except as indicated


  1. "Gone" (Smokey Rogers) - 4:52
  2. "Tennessee Firebird" - 2:57
  3. "Just Like a Woman" (Bob Dylan) - 3:48
  4. "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (Traditional) - 1:53
  5. "Faded Love" (Bob Wills, John Wills, Billy Jack Wills) - 3:22
  6. "Panhandle Rag" (Leon McAuliffe) - 1:33 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" (Hank Williams) - 2:54
  8. "I Want You" (Dylan) - 3:28
  9. "Alone and Forsaken" (Williams) - 2:49
  10. "Walter L." - 4:41
  11. "Born to Lose" (Frankie Brown, Ted Daffan) - 2:43
  12. "Beauty Contest" - 1:25
  13. "Epilogue" - 0:23

Club Ska '67


01 - Guns Of Navarone - The Skatalites
02 - Phoenix City - Rolando And The Soul Brothers
03 - 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker
04 - Broadway Jungle - The Maytals As The Flames
05 - Contact - Roy Richards With Baba Brooks
06 - Guns Fever - Baba Brooks
07 - Rub Up Push Up - Justin Hines & The Dominoes
08 - Dancing Mood - Delroy Wilson
09 - Stop Making Love - Gaylads
10 - Pied Piper - Rita Marley
11 - Lawless Street - The Soul Brothers
12 - Skaing West - Sir Lord Comic & His Cowboys
13 - Copasetic - The Rulers

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Big Jazz Bands Writ Large: Saturday Music Club

Carla Bley/Michael Mantler Orchestra: Escalator Over the Hill


Anthony Braxton Orchestra: Creative Orchestra Music 1976


Gunther Schuller Orchestra: Jazz Abstractions


Thelonious Monk Big Band and Quartet: In Concert (Columbia)


Charles Mingus Quartet and Toshiyuki Miyama's New Herd Orchestra: 
Charles Mingus with Orchestra (Denon. 1971)


Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "Sumie"


Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra: The New Continent


David Amram Orchestra: The Young Savages

Saturday, December 12, 2015

some jazz drummers and their bands: Saturday Music Club

























Max Roach Quintet: "Crackle Hut"


Joe Morello Quintet: "I've Got the World on a String"; "Have You Met Miss Jones?" 


Milt Jackson/John Coltrane Quintet with Connie Kay: "The Night We Called It a Day"

Chico Hamilton Quintet: "El Toro"
Kenny Clarke and Lou Bennett: "Lady Bird"

The Modern Jazz Quartet: "The Jasmine Tree"


Brubeck Quartet: "Castilian Drums"


Max Roach Band: "Man from South Africa"


The Jazz Messengers: "Moanin'"


Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones Together!

"Le Roi" (Dave Baker) - 6:00 
"Beau-ty" (Philly Joe Jones) - 12:53 
"Brown Sugar" (Walter Davis, Jr.) - 14:58

Monday, June 15, 2015

More third stream music: Saturday Music Club on Monday

The Jazz and Classical Music Society: Music for Brass/
George Russell and Gunther Schuller: Modern Jazz Concert  (aka Brandeis Jazz Festival)

1. JOHN LEWIS - Three Little Feelings
1.1 - Of Hope
1.2 - From the Heart
1.3 - Majesty
2. J.J. JOHNSON - Poem for Brass
2.1 - Sonnet for Brass
2.2 - Ballad for Joe
2.3 - Meter and Metal 
2.4 - Finale
3. GEORGE RUSSELL - All About Rosie
4. CHARLES MINGUS - Revelations (First Movement)
5. JIMMY GIUFFRE - Suspensions
6. GUNTHER SCHULLER - Symphony for Brass and Percussion
6.1 - Andante - Allegro
6.2 - Lento
6.4 - Quasi Cadenza - Allegro
7. GUNTHER SCHULLER - Transformation
8. JIMMY GIUFFRE - Pharaoh
JazzTimes review of this reissue combo


George Russell and the Big Bang Band, 1967

Part 2

The Don Ellis Orchestra: "33 222 1 222"


The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra: The New Continent


Charles Mingus Band: "Minor Intrusion"


Gil Mellé: Tome VI

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: third stream music into chamber music

Chico Hamilton, Buddy Colette, Fred Katz, Steve Turre, Barry Finnerty: "My Funny Valentine" (comp. Richard Rodgers) and "Buddy Boo" (comp. Chico Hamilton)

Rather cheesy 1970s tv introduction.

John Lewis and Jim Hall: "Two Lyric Pieces: Pierrot; Colombine" (comp. John Lewis


John Lewis playing Bach

The Sextet of Orchestra U.S.A: "The Stranger" (comp Arif Marden)


Eric Dolphy, saxophone
John Lewis, piano
Benny Golson, trumpet
Gunther Schuller, French horn
Jim Hall, guitar
George Duvivier, bass

Svetlana Gorokhovich and Irina Portenko: "Points on Jazz (for Two Pianos): Prelude" (comp. Dave Brubeck)


Anthony and Joseph Paratore: the complete "Points on Jazz"

Orchestre national de France, conducted by Leonard Bernstein: "La creation du monde" (comp. Darius Mihaud)

The piece has six movements (including the Overture) :
Overture 0:00
I. The Chaos before Creation 3:55
II. The slowly lifting darkness, the creation of trees, plants, insects, birds and beasts 5:32
III. Man and woman created 8:48
IV. The desire of man and woman 10:48
V. The man and woman kiss (Coda) 14:54


Anne Mette Iversen and John Ellis: "Milo Man" (comp. Anne Mette Iversen)


Joe Morello with the Buddy Rich Big Band: "Take the 'A' Train" (comp. Strayhorn and Ellington)

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Saturday Music Club: Some More 3rd Stream Music: Modern Jazz Quartet, Brubeck Quartet, McKay & Turtle Island Quartet, Monk Quartet, Jazz Abstractions, Ellington Orchestra, Mingus Sextet, Akiyoshi/Tabackin Big Band, Roach Double Quartet, Coleman with the LSO

The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Lonely Woman"





















Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Gene Wright): "Koto Song"

The Brubeck Quartet on Jazz 625 (BBC-TV, 1964) (sadly, the bit of "In Your Own Sweet Way" at the close is pretty distorted, but most of the rest has survived OK)

Nellie McKay and the Turtle Island Quartet: "Send Me No Flowers"


Thelonious Monk Quartet: "Epistrophy"; "'Round Midnight"; "Lulu's Back in Town"

1. Epistrophy (0:00)
2. Round Midnight (3:20)
3. Lulu's Back In Town (10:30)
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charles Rouse - tenor
Lawrence Gales - bass
Benjamin Riley - drums


Gunther Schuller and the Jazz Abstractions Band: "Variants on a Theme of John Lewis (Django)"

John Lewis presents contemporary music " Jazz Abstractions "
Eric Dolphy (fl), Robert DiDomenica (fl), Jim Hall (g), Eddie Costa (vib), Bill Evans (p), Scott Lafaro (b), George Duvivier (b),  Sticks Evans (ds), The Contemporary String Quartet
Recorded 20/12/1960 in NYC

The Duke Ellington Orchestra: "Idiom '59" (Part 2)

Mingus Sextet: "Take the 'A' Train"
live on April 12, 1964 in Norway--sadly, the recording quality's a little rough in intense spots, but...
Charles Mingus - Bass
Eric Dolphy - Bass Clarinet
Clifford Jordan - Tenor Sax
Johnny Coles - Trumpet
Jaki Byard - Piano
Dannie Richmond - Drums

The Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "Feast in Milano"
Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band in Vienne (France), 1996.
Piano, leader and arranger: Toshiko Akiyoshi,
Trumpets: Mike Ponella, John Eckert, Andrew J. Gravish, Joe Magnarelli
Trombones: Pat Hallaren, Joe Helleny, Scott Whitfield, Tim Newman
saxes, flutes, clar.: Lew Tabackin, Dave Pietro, Jim Snidero, Tom Christensen, Scott Robinson
Bass: Doug Weiss
Drums: Terry Clarke

The Max Roach Double Quartet in Stuttgart, 1990
Roach, Cecil Bridgewater, Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry, Maxine Roach and Eileen Folson. The latter four being The Uptown String Quartet 

Ornette Coleman and the London Symphony Orchestra: Skies of America
1. "Skies of America" — 2:49
2. "Native Americans" — 1:10
3. "The Good Life" — 1:33
4. "Birthdays and Funerals" — 3:13
5. "Dreams" — 0:51
6. "Sounds of Sculpture" — 1:20
7. "Holiday for Heroes" — 1:10
8. "All of My Life" — 3:08
9. "Dancers" — 1:17
10. "The Soul Within Woman" — 0:47
11. "The Artists in America" — 3:54
12. "The New Anthem" — 0:31
13. "Place in Space" — 2:44
14. "Foreigner in a Free Land" — 1:19
15. "Silver Screen" — 1:10
16. "Poetry" — 1:15
17. "The Men Who Live in the White House" — 2:48
18. "Love Life" — 4:34
19. "The Military" — 0:32
20. "Jam Session" — 0:39
21. "Sunday in America" — 4:29

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Saturday Music Club: third stream music Bachanalia

Nina Simone: Love Me or Leave Me


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" BWV 645  


The Swingle Singers: Sinfonia dalla Partita n°2 in DOm BWV 826 


Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan: The Way You Look Tonight


The Modern Jazz Quartet: The Golden Striker


Brubeck Quartet (1956 version): Two-Part Contention 


The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Swingle Singers: Little David's Fugue


Jacques Loussier: Air on a G String


Mulligan Quartet: Festive Minor