This new Jeff Parker album slaps, to use the current vernacular.
Re: Just Jazz!
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 4:29 pm
by Heraclitus Akimbo
Recent local jazz-ish notes:
Been meaning to mention these here for awhile: Astral Spirits released two albums of awesome Toronto players interfacing with NY peeps: [bandcamp links]
And meanwhile, recent-ish from my own stock of field recordings:
Out to Lunch is a tribute, unsurprisingly, to the seminal Dolphy album, but pushing things even further out. Recommended if you wanted a bit more feedback and squealing in yr Dolphy. Instrumentation is double bass, percussion, vibraphone, guitar, soprano saxophone, and no-input mixer.
The Ryan Driver Sextet plays standards in a really off-kilter way. Extended, patient drowsy grooves (with occasional weirdo-whammy melty guitar solos).
Here's Colin Fisher (playing sax in the Astral Spirits album above) imploding some skulls with guitar and pedals.
The Necks are awesome! I hadn't delved into their far-back stuff as much, but I was listening to Silent Night the other, er, day and digging it muchly.
Edit: for anyone who likes that sort of longform slowly-developing simmer type of improvisation, I also recommend Aurochs.
Re: Just Jazz!
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:30 pm
by Chankgeez
Anybody know of any other jazz versions of this song?
Preferably the more out the better (though there's certainly nothin' wrong with Clark Terry and the gang and this purple album cover):
