The Yvonne Rogers recommendation has opened up so many new avenues to me. Cheers from my ears. My account balance, however, is making rude gestures I won't attempt to articulate.
There is this phrase by Vinnie Speranzza's substack:
"... playing a Tom Harrell tune is still what I think of as “NYC jazz”, even though this kind of music is seldom heard today ..."
I hear You talking about "nyc jazz" which I think is what cliff jordan, art farmer, cesar Walton and others were doing along side the concord crew (tom harrell, phil woods, hal galper, etc) on the 70s/80s. It's that right?
In any case, I would love some comments on that style of jazz, which it's a sum up of all what was come before but without the intensity of the late hard bop. It has a sound of it's own. Also, it seems that the style died with the death of many old school players and the advent of the Young lions.
Hello! This year I listened to two italian albums that I thought you might enjoy! They are my peers and colleagues and I'm a big fan of both of them.
Esmeralda Sella- Magma
Jacopo Fagioli- Dialogues
Esmeralda's album is a piano trio, Jacopo is guitar trio+trumpet.
I've never talked about lineage with them, but I feel you might like Esmeralda's album because I recall you saying [super paraphrasing] that modern jazz piano trios tend to be too piano-centric and not focused enough on bass and drums. Well, I feel like you might enjoy the balance of drums/piano/bass here! Piano plays like a drum too, sometimes (I guess prepared piano).
Jacopo is one of my favourite trumpet sounds here in Italy, and he also does a lot of cool stuff on piccolo trumpet.
Both albums fairly avant garde.
I am very lucky to know them both, I hope you'll enjoy their work too!
I really like that photo of Billy and Nicole. I haven't met either but they seem like good people.
The Yvonne Rogers recommendation has opened up so many new avenues to me. Cheers from my ears. My account balance, however, is making rude gestures I won't attempt to articulate.
There is this phrase by Vinnie Speranzza's substack:
"... playing a Tom Harrell tune is still what I think of as “NYC jazz”, even though this kind of music is seldom heard today ..."
I hear You talking about "nyc jazz" which I think is what cliff jordan, art farmer, cesar Walton and others were doing along side the concord crew (tom harrell, phil woods, hal galper, etc) on the 70s/80s. It's that right?
In any case, I would love some comments on that style of jazz, which it's a sum up of all what was come before but without the intensity of the late hard bop. It has a sound of it's own. Also, it seems that the style died with the death of many old school players and the advent of the Young lions.
I would love to see you review Jai Jeffryes’ 2016 album “Tangent Shores: Amethyst” of contemporary piano music. I love that album.
Hello! This year I listened to two italian albums that I thought you might enjoy! They are my peers and colleagues and I'm a big fan of both of them.
Esmeralda Sella- Magma
Jacopo Fagioli- Dialogues
Esmeralda's album is a piano trio, Jacopo is guitar trio+trumpet.
I've never talked about lineage with them, but I feel you might like Esmeralda's album because I recall you saying [super paraphrasing] that modern jazz piano trios tend to be too piano-centric and not focused enough on bass and drums. Well, I feel like you might enjoy the balance of drums/piano/bass here! Piano plays like a drum too, sometimes (I guess prepared piano).
Jacopo is one of my favourite trumpet sounds here in Italy, and he also does a lot of cool stuff on piccolo trumpet.
Both albums fairly avant garde.
I am very lucky to know them both, I hope you'll enjoy their work too!
Have an amazing summer!