Saying that Take 5 is a Dave Brubeck tune is like saying that the Triangle Offense is a Phil Jackson strategy. Well, no, Tex Winter basically created the Triangle Offense; Phil Jackson was just the head coach who helped bring it together for the team. Same thing here... Dave Brubeck is the head coach in this instance, taking his assistant's (Desmond's) strategy and putting it into play.
About the album/track:
Texel is a tune from the new album The Arrival by the Philip Baumgarten Trio. Texel is a beautiful island near the coast of the Netherlands.
Personnel: Leonieke Vermeer (piano), Matthias van Olst (drums), and Philip Baumgarten (double bass).
Editor's comments:
Nice straight-ahead tune from this talented trio.
About the album/track:
From Adam Cruz debut Milestone. Features Edward Simon and Miguel Zenon stretching out on the minor blues. Personnel: Adam Cruz (drums), Miguel Zenon (alto sax), Chris Potter (tenor sax), Steve Cardenas (guitar), Edward Simon (piano & Fender Rhodes), Ben Street (bass).
Editor's comments:
This album merits discussion for inclusion of top ten of the year. Absolutely stunning to see the word "debut" associated with an album of this caliber. Strength of the play is apparent from the opening notes, but its the compositions, seemingly complex while thoroughly straight ahead on their face, that sells me on this album over and over. Highly recommended. Yet one more incredible album released by the Sunnyside label.
About the album/track:
This new release Bassless Trios: Duality features 10 original compositions and includes two great bands - a US TRIO featuring Tim Berne on alto sax and Tom Rainey on drums - and a EUROPEAN TRIO featuring Achille Succi on alto sax and Roberto Dani on drums. The song "Blistering" features the American trio.
Editor's comments:
Samo continues to impress as a strong voice on the jazz guitar scene. This volatile tune has fire for emotion and precision to spread the flames fast. Even when the tempo changes, the intensity doesn't waver. Very nice.
About the album/track:
Personnel: Emiliano Sampaio (guitar), Gustavo Boni (bass), and Luis Andr Gigante (drums).
Editor's comments:
What a lovely track. The choppiness of the opening guitar notes leads into a languid ballad that gets more dreamy as it goes along. Just beautiful.
About the album/track:
Personnel: Ferit Odman (drums), Terrel Stafford (trumpet), Vincent Herring (alto sax), Anthony Wonsey (piano), and Peter Washington (bass).
Editor's comments:
A strong follow-up to the mistakenly overlooked excellent release Nommo. Odman, again, surrounds himself with true professionals, who are able to match him in talent and improvisation. A nice straight-ahead track on a very nice album.
Oops, I am guilty of jazz gender stereotyping. From the picture, I jumped to the mistaken conclusion that Susana Santos Silva was a vocalist. Finally having listened to the free track, I am straightened out.
Sounds fantastic, will have to check out further. You must admit, 99% of the time when you see a picture of a cute girl on a jazz cover, she's a singer.
I don't know which track you downloaded, but I'm about to feature a second song from that excellent album. You can access both from her AAJ Musician Profile page.
Also, she's a member of Lama, who put out an album recently on the Clean Feed label, and which I reviewed for MiG.
She's pretty damn awesome.
P.S. You can stream that Devil's Dress album on her Bandcamp page.
We're in the process of changing our mp3 upload process at AAJ. It will require much less of my time now, which I can spend on outreach. However, there may or may not be a step back in other areas that I improved... specifically, how album tracks will look after you download them. I would be very interested to get feedback on whether the tracks you're downloading include stuff like:
1. Album artwork
2. Song title
3. Artist Title
4. Track number
5. Anything else you determine is necessary but missing.
I don't think you'll start seeing results of the new upload process for a couple weeks. I'm still going to be running through some tracks from the old system.
Obviously, I haven't been updating this thread. I can't find a way to automate it, and I just don't have the time. Also, a change at AAJ has made irrelevant my dotd AAJ thread which posted the upcoming schedule, so it's not worth my effort to keep that up, either. However, I did begin a thread in which I chat about anything about the dotd that strikes my fancy, which can be read here...
I remember a remarkable number of the artists I scheduled for the AAJ dotd. It makes sense when you consider that about 75-80% were the result of my invites (which were the result of listening to everything that hit new releases and making the same kind of long lists that I make now for the eMusic Jazz Picks column). But, still, 365 a year, and I'll be damned if I don't recall most of those.
Someone followed me on Twitter, and I saw one of the bands he was in is called Turn Around Norman. Their album is okay, nothing special per se, that kind of post-bop/indie-rock blend that is pretty popular these days. But there were a couple oddball tracks on the album (which, really, was kind of uneven). I scheduled one of those, called "Transparency I," which is that chamber jazz sound that I now associate with artists like Matt Ulery and Andy Clausen's Wishbone Suite. A real gem of a track.
Anyways, seeing one of the band members following me on Twitter today reminded me of that track, so I thought I would share it again. The first link is to their Bandcamp page. The second link is to the AAJ dotd page.
And while you're at AAJ, you should grab that new free track by Andrew Hadro, from his new release "For Us, the Living." It's a really good bari sax session, with Matt Wilson on drums. That album is also available on Bandcamp.
It's seriously sad shit that runs thru the AAJ dotd these days. I feel sad that all the work I had put into building its reputation for quality has gone to pot. But whatever... it's not my site, and from what I've heard about some of the things going on around there, it's just as well that I left when I did.
Today, however, is an outstanding offering.
Here's a link to download an album track from the new Chris Lightcap album, "Epicenter."
Comments
edit: Lots of great sounds on Ted's home page
Song = "Texel", which can be downloaded from AAJ here...
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownload.php?id=6860
About the album/track:
Texel is a tune from the new album The Arrival by the Philip Baumgarten Trio. Texel is a beautiful island near the coast of the Netherlands.
Personnel: Leonieke Vermeer (piano), Matthias van Olst (drums), and Philip Baumgarten (double bass).
Editor's comments:
Nice straight-ahead tune from this talented trio.
Not available on emusic.
Song = "Emje", which can be downloaded from AAJ here...
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownload.php?id=7014
About the album/track:
From Adam Cruz debut Milestone. Features Edward Simon and Miguel Zenon stretching out on the minor blues. Personnel: Adam Cruz (drums), Miguel Zenon (alto sax), Chris Potter (tenor sax), Steve Cardenas (guitar), Edward Simon (piano & Fender Rhodes), Ben Street (bass).
Editor's comments:
This album merits discussion for inclusion of top ten of the year. Absolutely stunning to see the word "debut" associated with an album of this caliber. Strength of the play is apparent from the opening notes, but its the compositions, seemingly complex while thoroughly straight ahead on their face, that sells me on this album over and over. Highly recommended. Yet one more incredible album released by the Sunnyside label.
Song = "Blistering", which can be downloaded from AAJ here...
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownload.php?id=7003
About the album/track:
This new release Bassless Trios: Duality features 10 original compositions and includes two great bands - a US TRIO featuring Tim Berne on alto sax and Tom Rainey on drums - and a EUROPEAN TRIO featuring Achille Succi on alto sax and Roberto Dani on drums. The song "Blistering" features the American trio.
Editor's comments:
Samo continues to impress as a strong voice on the jazz guitar scene. This volatile tune has fire for emotion and precision to spread the flames fast. Even when the tempo changes, the intensity doesn't waver. Very nice.
Song = "Pe de Moca", which can be downloaded from AAJ here...
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownload.php?id=6846
About the album/track:
Personnel: Emiliano Sampaio (guitar), Gustavo Boni (bass), and Luis Andr Gigante (drums).
Editor's comments:
What a lovely track. The choppiness of the opening guitar notes leads into a languid ballad that gets more dreamy as it goes along. Just beautiful.
Song = "Alter Ego", which can be downloaded from AAJ here...
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownload.php?id=7108
About the album/track:
Personnel: Ferit Odman (drums), Terrel Stafford (trumpet), Vincent Herring (alto sax), Anthony Wonsey (piano), and Peter Washington (bass).
Editor's comments:
A strong follow-up to the mistakenly overlooked excellent release Nommo. Odman, again, surrounds himself with true professionals, who are able to match him in talent and improvisation. A nice straight-ahead track on a very nice album.
Sounds fantastic, will have to check out further. You must admit, 99% of the time when you see a picture of a cute girl on a jazz cover, she's a singer.
Also, she's a member of Lama, who put out an album recently on the Clean Feed label, and which I reviewed for MiG.
She's pretty damn awesome.
P.S. You can stream that Devil's Dress album on her Bandcamp page.
1. Album artwork
2. Song title
3. Artist Title
4. Track number
5. Anything else you determine is necessary but missing.
I don't think you'll start seeing results of the new upload process for a couple weeks. I'm still going to be running through some tracks from the old system.
Cheers.
http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=53319
Aside from a few dedicated followers on the AAJ forum, my guess is this thread will, actually, be of more interest to people here.
Cheers.
Someone followed me on Twitter, and I saw one of the bands he was in is called Turn Around Norman. Their album is okay, nothing special per se, that kind of post-bop/indie-rock blend that is pretty popular these days. But there were a couple oddball tracks on the album (which, really, was kind of uneven). I scheduled one of those, called "Transparency I," which is that chamber jazz sound that I now associate with artists like Matt Ulery and Andy Clausen's Wishbone Suite. A real gem of a track.
Anyways, seeing one of the band members following me on Twitter today reminded me of that track, so I thought I would share it again. The first link is to their Bandcamp page. The second link is to the AAJ dotd page.
Bandcamp - http://turnaroundnorman.bandcamp.com/track/transparency-i
AAJ dotd - http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownload.php?id=7031&width=1024
And while you're at AAJ, you should grab that new free track by Andrew Hadro, from his new release "For Us, the Living." It's a really good bari sax session, with Matt Wilson on drums. That album is also available on Bandcamp.
Cheers.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownload.php?id=9700&width=1024#.U4k284Vgg1k
... from Tyler Blanton's new release "Gotham." Vibraphone-lead, and featuring Matt Clohesy, Donny McCaslin, and Nate Wood.
I don't think it ever showed up on eMusic.
Today, however, is an outstanding offering.
Here's a link to download an album track from the new Chris Lightcap album, "Epicenter."
http://media.allaboutjazz.com/jazzdownload.php?id=10113&width=1024
It's an amazing album that I can't stop listening to.