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Submitted by EyeShotJazz
Here is a color version of the photograph on the cover of this month’s Earshot Jazz, the magazine, honoring Seattle’s Garfield High School, under the direction of Clarence Acox, for taking top honors on Sunday, May 10th in New York at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 14th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band [...]
(Summer of the) Year of Glad
Submitted by Secret Society
Infinite Summer has begun.
I will be reading Infinite Jest for the third time. Here’s why.
And also: my consumption of pixels-on-a-screen has been vastly outstripping my consumption of ink-on-cellulose-pulp for many years now. I have mixed feelings about this, but it seems healthier to start getting a larger dose of the latter in [...]
RIP Charlie Mariano
Submitted by Secret Society
(Photo: Paul G. Deker)
“At this moment I’d like to pause for station identification. Station SOUL and LOVE. Charles Mariano, lead alto and alto solos.”
This is Mingus, in his liner notes to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. Mariano is the leadoff soloist, and sets up the entire record with his open, [...]
Hardbop Muscle from Jim Snidero & Eric Alexander
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I am having fun playing with audacity. I am having more fun listening to Jim Snidero’s magnificent recording, Close Up. This is straightforward hard bop with all the impurities cooked out of the ore. Eric Alexander joins Snidero on a couple of cuts, a fact that promises a lot and delivers [...]
RIAA, Angst, Audacity, and Jim Snidero
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Okay, that was quick. In about a half hour’s time I managed to produce an MP3 clip from Alto man Jim Snidero’s version of ‘Round Midnight’, on the marvelous album Standards + Plus. I am pretty sure I can post this under fair use law, as this is a scholarly website. [...]
It may be time to close this thing down
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I love jazz very much, and this blog has been part of that affair. I have provided songs hosted on drop.io to give my readers a taste of the music I am talking about, and to encourage them to buy the music for themselves. I never post entire albums. I get [...]
Thingin’- Lee Konitz
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s Konitz’s Thingin’ by request. The alto part has the intro/ending written, but the concert part doesn’t. I have a harmony tenor part for this and will post it soon.
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Long Yellow Road- two horn arrangement
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s another tune from the Toshiko/Mariano album that Pere Soto arranged for me. Toshiko composed this one.
Long Yellow Road- alto/trumpet/rhythm charts
Long Yellow Road mp3
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Lawrence Williams charts for three horns
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here are two arrangements that I commissioned Dan Gaynor to do for my three horn group. They were composed by my close friend and mentor Lawrence Williams, who passed away a few years ago. Lawrence was a master drummer and world class Jazz composer. Both of these tunes are very [...]
More?
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
You guys interested in more arrangements? I have a bunch of two and three horn charts that I could start posting here. So far I’ve only gotten feedback from one person about the stuff that I’ve posted recently. Server space is getting pretty tight, so I don’t want to be [...]
LT- by Lee Konitz
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
LT mp3 from our gig at the Tugboat
(missing the first couple bars of the first head)
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Konitz’s Skylark reharm
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s a cool Lee Konitz reharm of Skylark that Dan Gaynor transcribed.
An audio clip from our gig at the Tugboat last weekend: Skylark mp3
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Matana Roberts’ Illumination @ Roulette
Submitted by Secret Society
Matana Roberts took a furlough from her long-running, ongoing blood narrative Coin Coin to present some new music at Roulette last night — a suite called “New York Stories,” performed by Roberts, Vijay Iyer (piano), Liberty Ellman (guitar), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Damion Reid (drums). (Tenor saxophonist JD Allen was also on [...]
She loves a crowd, that’s what I hear
Submitted by Secret Society
(Photo: Nicken05)
SECRET SOCIETY
MOERS FESTVIAL
31 MAY 2009
SETLIST
(click to listen; right-click/ctrl-click to download)
1) MP3: Phobos
Solos: Jon Wikan, cajon; Mark Small, tenor sax
2) MP3: Zeno
Solo: Ryan Keberle, trombone
3) MP3: Redeye
Solo: Sebastian Noelle, guitar
4) MP3: Obsidian Flow
Solo: Erica vonKleist, alto sax
5) ENCORE - MP3: Transit
Solo: Ingrid Jensen, trumpet
DOWNLOAD ALL (ZIP ARCHIVE)
More photos from Moers…
CO-CONSPIRATORS
WINDS
Erica vonKleist
Rob Wilkerson
Sam [...]
Dan Berglund (E.S.T.)
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Dan Berglund is the drummer on the Esbjörn Svensson Trio albums. I posted recently on this trio, and the untimely death of its leader. I just chanced upon Berglund’s MySpace Music page. He has a solo piece there, Impro 1, that is simply superb. I don’t think it’s downloadable, but it [...]
Two horn arrangement of Konitz’s Round & Round & Round
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s another Dan Gaynor arrangement of one of my favorite Konitz tunes called Round and Round and Round. It’s arranged for alto and tenor and it’s a blast to play once you get the hang of it.
Dan Gaynor is an excellent arranger/transcriber and he’s available for hire if anyone needs [...]
Toshiko’s Elegy- complete two horn arrangement!!!!
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
One of my favorite albums of all time is Toshiko/Mariano Quartet. I listened to this album countless times when I was younger. The tunes are all great and Charlie is just burning. I asked Pere Soto to arrange a few of the tunes from the album for some gigs we [...]
Charlie Mariano Fake book
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
In honor of the recent passing of Charlie Mariano, one of the greatest alto players that ever lived, I’m posting an out of print Mariano fake book that was published in the 60’s by Berklee press. I posted this book a while back, but thought it would be appropriate to [...]
Lee Konitz’s Kary’s Trance- alto/tenor/concert charts
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s a transcription of Konitz’s Kary’s Trance done by Dan Gaynor . There’s some very nice two part counterpoint in the bridge. Kary’s Trance MP3
(click the graphics for larger printable versions)
(alto)
(tenor)
(concert)
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Saxophonist Charlie Mariano dies
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Charlie Mariano, saxophonist, musical sojourner
By Joan Anderman
Boston Globe Staff / June 17, 2009
Charlie Mariano, the Boston-born saxophonist who gained world renown as a performer with his former wife, Toshiko Akiyoshi; Stan Kenton; and Charles Mingus, among many others, died yesterday at Mildred Scheel Hospiz in Cologne, Germany, his longtime home. [...]
Ted Brown’s Feather Bed
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Ted Brown was a fantastic tenor player and a student of Lennie Tristano who got far less recognition than even Warne Marsh. Here is a two horn transcription of his tune Feather Bed, which was written over the changes of You’d be so Nice to Come Home to. Thanks to [...]
From the mailbag
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Catching up on a couple of e-mails, and passing along the goodies.
Chops
A new jazz documentary about one high school jazz band’s experience at the Essential Ellington high school jazz competition.
The trailer:
Chops Trailer from B-Side Entertainment on Vimeo.
Chops Trailer from B-Side Entertainment on Vimeo.
Follow updates on this film and find out where it [...]
Jazz at the White House
Submitted by Jazz Suite
One thing you certainly could take from the last eight years was there wasn’t a lot of jazz going on at the White House (though I am sure there were the occasional nods). Inevitably, much has been made of the Obama’s connection to the music. Monday, some kids got the opportunity to [...]
Now if you ain’t runnin you ain’t handicappin your vision
Submitted by Secret Society
Milford Graves Quartet
Saw the Vision Festival in their new digs at the Abrons Arts Center on Saturday. Abrons is a real theatre, so the acoustics are much improved from the beautiful-but-cavernous Angel Orensanz Foundation (which is still ground zero for the VF’s final night tonight). Unfortunately, the amplified sound was a wee [...]
Another gig and another guilder
Submitted by Secret Society
Let me be the latest to welcome NYT stringer and JazzTimes exile Nate Chinen to the Fraternal Order of Jazzbloggers. His new blog, The Gig, has been officially unveiled and already has some killer content — the audio interview with Grizzly Bear bassist and former Branford Marsalis student Chris Taylor (no, really), [...]
