WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[edwin]

Because Edwin mentioned it in a different thread.

An interview/ performance of Zorn’s Cobra.

At around 6:30 his description of his observations of this piece blew my mind.   

Edwin, I bet it was a thrill performing it.

It was amazing and very different from this one. Erik Deutsch had hooked up with Zorn and gotten the instruction book and some pointers (I guess Zorn doesn't hand it out that often). We rehearsed pretty intensely, learning all the hand signals and rules. I think I have an audio recording of it somewhere and there was a video. I would love to get that. The audience loved it. We had horn players, DJs, upright bass, electric bass, accordion, guitars, drums, percussion, and all kinds of things. It was a huge listening experience and afterwards Ron Miles gave me my best complement ever "You have big ears."

If you don't know who Ron Miles is, he's well worth looking into. He plays regularly with Bill Frisell and back in the day was in Ginger Baker's Denver jazz band. I did the audio for this video:

Pretty challenging to record a band in the round in a dining room.

[pauldo]

It was amazing and very different from this one. Erik Deutsch had hooked up with Zorn and gotten the instruction book and some pointers (I guess Zorn doesn't hand it out that often). We rehearsed pretty intensely, learning all the hand signals and rules. I think I have an audio recording of it somewhere and there was a video. I would love to get that. The audience loved it. We had horn players, DJs, upright bass, electric bass, accordion, guitars, drums, percussion, and all kinds of things. It was a huge listening experience and afterwards Ron Miles gave me my best complement ever "You have big ears."

If you don't know who Ron Miles is, he's well worth looking into. He plays regularly with Bill Frisell and back in the day was in Ginger Baker's Denver jazz band. I did the audio for this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ypIX4F0TA

Pretty challenging to record a band in the round in a dining room.

    

[edwin]

Also, did sound and recorded Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanovic on Friday. Still working on the recording, but it was something like this:

https://www.pbs.org/video/web-extra-fareed-haque-wttw-qyoaay/

[cozmik_cowboy]

My buddy over at Bluegrass Today sent me another Hawktail tune: https://youtu.be/4GLkj5uGDiw

Not much in mainstream bluegrass has interested me for a while now, but these youngsters playing out on the fringes of it, particularly this fringe, have gotten my full attention. I'm not sure how much room there is for this out there, but I am very excited that it's happening in my time. You know... instead of 100 years ago, or 100 years from now.

That sentiment kinda reminds me of Larry Groce's tagline for Mountain Stage;  "You won't hear today's pop music - but you will hear where it came from and where it's going".
And yeah - it might not be the days of Dead, Quicksilver, ABB, Traffic, Bonnie, Delaney & friends, et al, but it's out there; if you know where to look (or have friends who post cool stuff to keep you excited), it's a wonderful time to be alive musically. 


Myself, last night I watched Austin City Limits with John Prine; yeah, he's got some hard miles on him, but he's still a national treasure.


Peter

[David Houck]

Just finished watching the Ron Miles video.  Cool music and video; and nice work on the audio Edwin!

[cozmik_cowboy]

Friends took us out to an Italian restaurant tonight; this is always a touch-&-go proposition, as the Lovely & Charming Mrs. Cowboy's maiden name does, in fact, end in a vowel, and we are picky about Italian restaurants.  This one turned out to be, wonder of wonders, the 4th we've found in 35 years of marriage that we're willing to go back to (and one of the others is on a beach in Jamaica, so not really in our regular rotation).

But, more to the point, they have live jazz Tuesdays & Thursdays, with a rotating cast of 4 bands.  Tonight was Jazz This; drums, bass, keys, & tenor sax playing something about halfway between "cool' and "smooth" jazz. Nothing earth-shaking, just some fairly serious players blowing standards - hip enough to keep my head bopping, without getting hip enough to offend the squares. 

All in all, a nice evening.

Peter

[David Houck]

   

[edwardofhuncote]

Upthread, Coz mentioned Traffic and Bonnie & Delaney... and I thought of the Fleetwood Mac that almost everyone forgot... with Dave Mason and Bekka Bramlett.

I'm wondering how the new guys are working out on the tour. Not too much is showing up on YouTube yet. I liked what I heard from opening night.

[hankster]

Joni Mitchell. Hejira. Jaco.

[David Houck]

That was an interesting Fleetwood Mac lineup.  Musically, I think Mason would have been a good fit with McVie and Fleetwood.

[David Houck]

Joni's Hejira is wonderful.

[rv_bass]

Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away - Wimterland 12/31/78 - a fine piece of improvised music 😊

[edwardofhuncote]

I'll drink (coffee) to that, Rob... I was just spinning that particular track from a 9/3/77 show yesterday morning. I've accidentally started fights over at TalkBass by saying so, but that '77 - '78 band really is about my favorite timeframe for listening. Although what I like anymore seems to be a moving target with regard to Grateful Dead music. I'm really liking these Dead & Co. shows, but I realized at some point that I wouldn't have appreciated them at all had I never heard these mid-late 1970's recordings.

[rv_bass]

Greg, I went to that 9/3/77 show, it was at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ; big crowd, great show (I also went to 12/31/78).

I look at it in chunks of time, each with their own feel and mood.  Don’t overlook ‘68-‘71, there are some great jams in there, as well as some great acoustic stuff! 

[edwardofhuncote]

Somewhere in my Listening Therapy stack is "Live Dead - 1969"... that may go in the queue today.