Tag: Free Jazz Blog
Well, it’s a stream, I can bring it to wherever I am, and just as easily as I pick it up, I can drop it. I’m not in the concert hall, rather I’m in the kitchen, or in the home-office, or who knows where. I’m not packed into a seat, and I’m not exactly glued to one either. What does it mean? It means that no one would notice if I showed up late for …
The connection between Berlin and New York for Jazzfest Berlin 2020 was fully realized today. Starting at 4 p.m. CET (Central European Time) or 10 a.m. EST (ya know, New York Time), WBGO’s Nate Chinen introduced alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin who led her group through a set of John and Alice Coltrane’s music.Lakecia Benjamin ©Wolf DanielSuffice…
Jazzfest Berlin opened with a 90 minute live-cast ‘show.’ Of course, it was not supposed to go down this way. The previously scheduled meet the artists panel had to be swiftly reconfigured as a broadcast event, and the result was an inviting tour of the long weekend of music ahead. Streamed live, the event took on a variety show format with the fe…
If anything, Jazzfest Berlin’s curator Nadin Deventer and the team behind the Jazzfest Berlin have taken the constraints and unpredictability of these Corona ravaged times and crafted them into something even bigger. Other mediums that had already played a part in the previous two festivals have become core elements: namely the extension of the con…
We had to do some digging in our archives to find percussion duets. We found the following:Michel Lambert & Rakalam Bob Moses – Meditation On Grace (FMR 2008)Lucas Niggli & Peter Conradin Zumthor – Profos (Not Two, 2009)Hamid Drake & Jesse Stewart – Timelines (Art Stew, 2013)Dane (Claire) Rousay & John Kennedy – Audit (Congruence, 2…
This may be the Terje Rypdal album I have been waiting for, how did they know?Conspiracy is the first since the Norwegian guitarist’s 2013 classical album Melodic Warrior(with the Hilliard Ensemble and Bruckner Orchester Linz, which never really struck a chord with me), and suffice to say, I am quite happy to hear Rypdal back in the small group ter…
Bassist Gary Peacock passed away earlier this month, leaving behind a vast and varied discography. The Free Jazz Blog pays tribute to the great bassist with a selective and subjective look back on his some of the recordings that made their impressions personally and musically.
Albert Ayler Trio – Spiritual Unity (ESP-Disk, 1965)
By Nick Metzger
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Gary Peacock, photo by Roberto Masotti.Bassist Gary Peacock passed away on Friday, September 4th at age 85. Peacock’s work in free jazz goes back to nearly to the genre’s beginning with his work in saxophonist Albert Ayler’s groups, recording the highly influential Ghosts (Debut, 1964), Prophecy (ESP-Disk, 1964), New York Eye and Ear Control (ESP-D…
Open Border has been with me for many, many months. I’ve listened to it numerous times, and each time thought “ok, now, I will sit down a write something.” However, it wasn’t until I plugged in my earbuds and took a walk that it finally happened.One way to listen to music is of course to listen closely, intentionally, and with minimal background so…
© Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Vera MarmeloI’m very thankful for the excellent condition of my rented mountain bike’s brakes at the moment. Since picking it up from a shop near the river, I had been riding up, up the Avenue de Liberdade, past the tourist shops with cork hats and colorful tiles, past the many restaurants and upscale shops, pa…
© Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Vera MarmeloJuly 31, 2020PrologIt is quiet in Lisbon, relatively speaking. The same streets that were teeming with tourists this time last year, even impassable at times, now allow for wide berth. Even the precipitous, winding streets of Barrio Alto, with its (at best) foot wide sidewalks, seem spacious. The se…
A number of relatedly unrelated things come to mind each time that I listen to 85bears. First there is how the winding lines of the windy instruments in the foreground bop and weave around each other with melodically free abandon, kind of like the early recordings of Ornette Coleman. Then of course, Chicago. Allusions to the Chicago Bears football …
