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[Joseph K]

[Jazzrook]

Art Pepper: Notes From a Jazz Survivor

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=q-WDnfZGJGg

JR

[Jazzrook]

Andrew Hill solo at Montreux, 1975:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=TZ0iN0gdpQc

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Latest email from Smalls - streaming & survival:


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The SmallsLIVE Foundation Newsletter
8/29/20
Dear Friends:

Frank Lacy's live streamed show this week will be number #100 in a row since we started our "Get The Cats Working Again" initiative. Our goal was to employ one band per day and raise money to pay rent on the venues. We never imagined that it would go on this long. We have been closed now 175 days, nearly 6 months. This is far longer than we had anticipated. The government loan we received on April 15th (the so-called PPP loan) has long been depleted having been designed to last only 8 weeks. We are now months after that with no further help and in debt to the government. Since then there has been zero help from any agency either city, state or federal. Restaurants and bars in New York City are the very last businesses to still be shut in the entire country. If it hadn't been for the support of our fans through our foundation Smalls and Mezzrow would have been history already.

It's exhausting work maintaining the clubs and keeping them clean and ready. The musicians who come each day to perform are so grateful for any opportunity. The music has been stellar, each artist performing at the very top of their ability - nobody mailing it in here. My skeleton crew has been working tirelessly and with the faith that we will return one day. I also have that faith. I believe that music will return to this city again. New York has set records for the lowest infection rate and we've maintained that now for 30 days in a row with infection rates less than 1% and nearly zero deaths. It's time to give us the chance to prove that we can operate within guidelines that protect our customers and musicians and still give us a fighting chance to survive.

I can only say that we are grateful to the jazz fans of the world who value our music and tune in each day. We see 20K viewers average on each show with wonderful support from all over the world. My deepest and most sincere thanks to our foundation supporters who have made donations towards keeping the clubs afloat until the day that we can reopen again. If you think you would like to sponsor a live show at Smalls please email us directly at foundation@smallslive.com and we'll send you the information. Otherwise, please check our site, www.smallslive.com. A minimum donation of $10 gets you access to our historic archive of past shows, now more than 19,000 sets of music in our library.

I wish everyone peaceful abiding and clarity of mind in this confusing era.

Regards,

Spike




Monday 9/7
JEB PATTON TRIO
4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
Jeb Patton / Piano
David Wong / Bass
Billy Drummond / Drums
SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY IN HONOR OF SPIKE WILNER AND THE SMALLS/MEZZROW TEAM

Tuesday 9/8
4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
FRANK LACY SEPTET
Frank Lacy / Trombone
Mike Lee / Tenor Sax
Brian Simontacchi / Trombone
Christopher Hoffman / Cello
James Robbins / Bass
Brandon Lee Lewis / Drums
Wen-Ting Wu / Drums
SPONSORED BY AN ANONYMOUS SPONSOR

Wednesday 9/9
4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
TARIK SHAH QUINTET
Tarik Shah / Bass
Alvin "Wink" Flythe / Tenor Sax
Kevin McNeal / Guitar
James Weidman / Piano
Nasheet Waits / Drums
SPONSORED BY BLUESWINGJAZZ RECORDS & PUBLISHING

Thursday 9/10
4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
ROXY COSS QUINTET
Roxy Coss / Tenor Sax
Alex Wintz / Guitar
Miki Yamanaka / Piano
Rick Rosato / Bass
Jimmy Macbride / Drums
SPONSORED BY ALAN FISHBEIN

Friday 9/11
4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
GERRY GIBBS QUINTET
Gerry Gibbs / Drums
Ravi Coltrane / Tenor Sax
Jeremy Pelt / Trumpet
Andy Ezrin / Piano
Ben Williams / Bass
SPONSORED BY ANTHONY WRIGHT

Saturday 9/12
4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
ED CHERRY QUARTET
Ed Cherry / Guitar
Marvin Sewell / Guitar
Gary Wang / Bass
McClenty Hunter / Drums
SPONSORED BY ANTHONY WRIGHT

Sunday 9/13
4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
PASQUALE GRASSO QUARTET
Pasquale Grasso / Guitar
Stefano Doglioni / Clarinet
Ari Roland / Bass
Clifford Barbaro / Drums
SPONSORED BY NANCY DAZZA


JOSH EVANS QUINTET
SMALLS, 02/25/2020

Josh Evans / Trumpet
Stacy Dillard / Tenor Sax
Theo Hill / Piano
Rashaan Carter / Bass
Rodney Ruckus / Drums

Click Here To Watch This Show

CHRIS BYARS ORIGINAL SEXTET
SMALLS, 04/28/2019

Chris Byars / Tenor Sax
Zaid Nasser / Alto Sax
John Mosca / Trombone
Stefano Doglioni / Clarinet
Ari Roland / Bass
Phil Stewart / Drums

Click Here To Watch This Show

DENNY ZEITLIN, BUSTER WILLIAMS & MATT WILSON
MEZZROW, 05/04/2019

Denny Zeitlin / Piano
Buster Williams / Bass
Matt Wilson / Drums

Click Here To Watch This Show

NASHEET WAITS / ABRAHAM BURTON QUARTET
SMALLS, 02/12/2020

Nasheet Waits / Drums
Abraham Burton / Tenor Sax
Marvin Sewell / Guitar
Luques Curtis / Bass
Click Here To Watch This Show

THE JOHN FEDCHOCK NY SEXTET
SMALLS 02/23/2013

John Fedchock / Trombone
Scott Wendholt / Trumpet
Walt Weiskopf / Tenor Sax
Allen Farnham / Piano
Phil Palombi / Bass
Dave Ratajczak / Drums

Click Here To Watch This Show

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[Tenor Freak]

An important video which questions a lot of assumptions in Western music:

[Jazzrook]

Von Freeman & Clifford Jordan with Willie Pickens, Dan Shapers & Robert Shy playing 'Oleo' at the Chicago Jazz Festival, 1988:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=HzuYo6OxkaY

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

An important video which questions a lot of assumptions in Western music:

Very interesting, if slightly reductive by treating of 18th century Austro-German harmonic processes (via Schenker) to make them the main point about music theory per se. Not knowing anything about Schenker beyond his being an influential name, assuming one particular criticism to be true I hadn't realised that he had no interest in the relationship of harmony - of any given type of harmonic language in use - to rhythm. That's another matter of course, though it does shift the focus away from Schenkerism and restore a possibilty of musical theory as a non-racially specific discipline for studying the evolution of harmonic/rhythmic musical forms, both from within practices and in relation to why and how Western compositional practices arguably underwent greater changes between, say, the times of JS Bach and those of George Russell, than musics in any other national culture.

[Joseph K]

Am I imagining it or did the title of that video change? I swear when I first saw it it was something like 'music theory is racist'.

In any case, I'd guess that it would be something about Schenker. I haven't yet watched it, not sure if I will. I mean, there is a load of jazz music theory, I wonder if that too is deemed racist.

[Jazzrook]

Chick Corea with Joe Henderson, Gary Peacock & Roy Haynes playing 'Trinkle, Tinkle', Montreux(?), 1981(?):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Ia25tm3pHsA

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Peter King at the Soho Pizza Express in 2015:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oyd-wgnh_o

[Joseph K]

Starts at around 16 minutes in...

[Joseph K]

[Joseph K]

More Lage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSeidSX6dg0

I have to say, while initially but also to some extent right now, I find Lage's compositions a bit on the thin side, I've nonetheless been seeking his stuff out a fair amount - since he is a brilliant soloist, I have come around to his compositions because while they are IMO quite thin or simple or on the face of it not too interesting, what they do is enable Lage's brilliant improvisations...

[Joseph K]

[Tenor Freak]

Am I imagining it or did the title of that video change? I swear when I first saw it it was something like 'music theory is racist'.

In any case, I'd guess that it would be something about Schenker. I haven't yet watched it, not sure if I will. I mean, there is a load of jazz music theory, I wonder if that too is deemed racist.

Yes, it did. Adam Neely changed it a couple of days after he first posted it; he said the original post was intended to be provocative, which it was.