jazz in the papers part two ...........

[Serial_Apologist]

Last time I went to Ronnie Scotts I ended up sitting behind a pillar and didn't see a thing. What a rip off !!!!

606 Club down in Chelsea is much better.

But more difficult to get to... and, they expect you to EAT there...

(Haven't been to Ronnie's for 40+ years, mind)

[Old Grumpy]

nearly started jazz in the papers 3 this was so buried but here it is an interesting new column in the graun by John Fordham offering nourishment for the jazbo in all of us ....

feel free to remind us all of what you find in the media about jazz ....

Thanks Calum. I always enjoy JF's contributions to the paper, and have been very pleased with some of his CD review recommendations in the Friday edition. I think he does appear on the occasional Jazz Line Up/Jazz on 3.

I see a jeznelson is one of the commentators at the bottom, unless of course it's somethin else masquerading as da Man!

OG

[charles t]

Yes, John Fordham has been very consistent for a jazz critic.

Personally, am glad to called attention to New York Jazz Quartet which features Tim Armacost, - whose tenor playing as consistent as J.F.'s birding....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

and here is John Fordham's May blog

he was also waxing lyrical about a gig by the Lighthouse Trio who presently look like this

[Old Grumpy]

and here is John Fordham's May blog

he was also waxing lyrical about a gig by the Lighthouse Trio who presently look like this

Mr Shipton himself was fairly effusive in this regard in April's* Jazzwise also.

OG

*Yes, I know it's now May - always up with the times (no not that one) me!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

some interesting cds reviewed in the graun today

[Byas'd Opinion]

I was at the gig the Arild Andersen/SNJO CD was recorded at. A great concert, and I can't wait to hear the album (I think the official release date is Monday 18th).

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

looking forward to that Byas'd ... i have developed a taste for Arild Anderson and i like the big band description in the review ...

[Byas'd Opinion]

A couple of interviews in the Glasgow Herald with folk appearing at the Glasgow Jazz Festival:

• Pharoah Sanders
• Robert Glasper

[handsomefortune]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jun/18/graham-collier-lullaby-lonely-child

i enjoyed this article especially, as well as the discussion in the comments below.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center feature in today's T'graf

[grippie]

Tia Fuller: what does she have for breakfast

[Serial_Apologist]

Tia Fuller: what does she have for breakfast

Tia Maria?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

John Fordham had a very good June it seems

[Serial_Apologist]

John Fordham had a very good June it seems

Well JF can "keep" Glasper, as far as I'm concerned: late 70s-type Herbie that only really caught on here in the pop charts at that time, when British fusion groups were developing the genre in our own way as the American model got stuck in a rut.

However John is certainly right about Zhenya Strigalev, whom we here saw in sarf Lunnun last year - nearly as much one might have observed by his unusual stance, straight back, head bent sharply down, as for the compressed complexity emanating from his sharp-toned alto, more Steve Coleman than McLean, one might conclude, as from listening to John's clip there. Once again, jazz-rock more as our freer guys would have tackled it back in the 70s/ early 80s, themewise especially (Dreamtime, anybody?). Genius of an idea combining our own Liam Noble with the American backers on this album, which I must look out for.