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Jazz Worldwide 54 29 September 2014

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Tone Science – 09/28/2014

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The Whole Shebang

Posted by Howling Dick on September 28, 2014 @ 1:30 am | Comments Off on The Whole Shebang

This week Howling’s getting smug with his poker hand, waking up on a desert island and moaning about the Grammys (AGAIN!). All sound familiar? Yup, its another hour  nonsense but as always on Taint mixed up with the finest blues and roots you’ll find on the net.

Billy “The Kid” Emerson – presenting the weather report

Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Friday Sept 26 & Tuesday Sept 30

Posted by Rafi Zabor on September 25, 2014 @ 2:30 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Friday Sept 26 & Tuesday Sept 30

This week’s show opens with some of the freshest mainstream jazz-blues tenor playing I’ve heard lately, and yes it’s sometimes Rollins-inflected, from a player name of Nir Naaman, out of Israel, backed up by a band of American aces like George Cables, Marcus Printup and Greg Hutchinson; and their Ohali Blues seemed an excellent way to start off Updoc’s 299^th show—8PM Friday and noon next Tuesday, Manhattan Felafel Time—but the show’s main business moves on to the music of two recently deceased luminaries, Kenny Wheeler and especially Milton Cardona. Kip Hanrahan did an all-Cardona show earlier this week, from the heart and inside the scene, since Milton was one of Kip’s key collaborators on his musical enterprises. Kip said it all, or most of it, certainly more than I can, but I still wanted to play a couple of sets from Cardona’s leader projects on America Clavé, and I did; also slotted in what I think is an interesting compare-contrast with vintage Cecil Taylor, and followed Cardona’s Santeria music with contemporary American composer Christopher Rouse’s orchestral portrait of a Russian woman he did not choose to name, though the alternately lyrical and hard-edged drama of the piece, Odna Zhizn (A Life), tells quite a story on its own. I’ve been wrapping a lot of recent shows up with Mozart piano concertos and this one’s no exception: No. 26 in D-major, Murray Perahia—Murray from the Bronx—playing and conducting and bringing Mozart’s emotional subtext further forward than most do, while retaining the necessary sublime delicatesse. This show’s mixology is unusually stimulating, I think. What the heck am I gonna do for Updoc 300?

Tone Science – 09/22/2014

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Jazz Worldwide 53 22 September 2014

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Thank You Houston

Posted by Howling Dick on September 21, 2014 @ 1:30 am | Comments Off on Thank You Houston

This week Howling is getting lost in translation, tracing lines of royalty and telling tales of lost limbs. As usual, its a load of nonsense mixed up with an hour of great blues ‘n roots

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The Reverend Shawn Amos – “Big in the boardroom”

Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Friday 9/19 & Tuesday 9/23

Posted by Rafi Zabor on September 18, 2014 @ 3:29 pm | Comments Off on Rafi Zabor’s Updoc, Friday 9/19 & Tuesday 9/23

Okay, I flunked Collage but aced Music Appreciation. And Glenn Gould sang funny, as catching the start of this week’s Updoc—Friday at 8PM and noon next Tuesday, Carnegie Hall time—will confirm as he croons, with piano accompaniment, while working out his interpretation of Bach’s Partita No. 2; but then he finds his way, the voice desists, and awe might be an apt response to what happens then. This tracklet is followed by Gould’s classic studio recording of the piece, and this is succeeded by an exceptionally lo-fi recording of the John Coltrane Quartet—pre-Elvin Jones, with Pete LaRoca on drums—working out its interpretation in a Philly nightclub of My Favorite Things a few months before the famous recording. Five years later the classic Quartet was playing Afro-Blue in Paris, and by the miracle of modern bootlegging we can listen in; and I didn’t mean to make things difficult for the Charles Lloyd Quartet by playing a concert clip of theirs right after: Lloyd is in more bustling, brawling form than usual, and Keith Jarrett, after a dauntingly virtuoso start of his solo . . . well, I say it in the intro on the show. Meanwhile the great pianist Leon Fleisher, having recovered the use of this right hand after decades of a debilitating nerve disorder, doesn’t have to play left-hand-only anymore, but his recent such recording of a piano transcription Bach’s solo violin Chaconne inspires a different but no less powerful awe than the dazzling Mr. Gould; after which Updoc’s perusal of the Mozart piano concertos takes up Annie Fischer’s performance of No. 20 in D-minor. You want to know what dark and stormy sounded like before Beethoven and the Romantics? The great melodist Mozart finds no better way to begin this concerto than with a series of deep orchestral grunts. After the resolution, we are lost in the stars with Kurt Weill and Heather Masse and Dick Hyman and nuff said.

Jazz Worldwide 52 15 September 2014

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Tone Science – 09/14/2014

Posted by David Menestres on September 14, 2014 @ 8:00 pm | Comments Off on Tone Science – 09/14/2014

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