(It must be more than a little intimidating having Chet standing over you in the studio. )
Re: Just Jazz!
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:17 pm
by Heraclitus Akimbo
Ooh, yeah! Many thanks, will save that for a cozy evening under the comforter.
meanwhile, not sure if this belongs here or in the band names thread... Downbeat contest winners suggesting new names for "jazz" in 1949:
Re: Just Jazz!
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:26 pm
by Heraclitus Akimbo
One more documentation: Ryan Driver's xtet (usually a sextet, here a quintet without vibes) is, in my estimation, one of the great Toronto bands.
They play standards, they play them languidly, and yet there's a wonderful soupçon of weirdness around what they do. That's partially down to Martin Arnold's guitar work (he's from the same scene that produced Eric Chenaux.... these folks were rocked to their cores when the possibilities of the Whammy pedal presented themselves) but also just the players' deep mutual sympathy — this group has been around for a good while with a pretty regular membership, so they're generally really in sync with each other. They sometimes play other places, but generally to see 'em, you have to hit The Tranzac on the last Friday of the month for their regular residency night.
An unusual hybrid show, with ace trumpeter Lina Allemano mixing members of two of her regular groups: Titanium Riot (abstract but obliquely funky landscapes) and Bloop! (trumpet + realtime processing):
Been a treat to have Jasper Stadhouders around in town lately, some folks might know him from Vandermark's Made to Break or the rather excellently-prickly Cactus Truck. Here playing guit and bass in a two-horn (alto/clari) quartet:
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