Trish Clowes and Tangent Quintet/Nonet

[Old Grumpy]

Saw these at the Sage last night. Two excellent sets, the second with an "improvising string quartet" alongside the
quintet. They are currently on tour with a new CD And in the night time she is there.


OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Saw these at the Sage last night. Two excellent sets, the second with an "improvising string quartet" alongside the
quintet. They are currently on tour with a new CD And in the night time she is there.


OG

Glad you enjoyed our Trish, OG - one of S London's most promising exports, imo. There's a track from her new album on Jon3 tomorrow.

[Old Grumpy]

Glad you enjoyed our Trish, OG - one of S London's most promising exports, imo.

Well, I guess Gateshead is almost as far as you can get from Sarf London without needing an export licence!

Good value CDs too - a tenner each or both for 15 quid - and signed gratis:

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Jazz Lives!!!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Just back from seeing Trish at St James's Piccadilly, backed by the string quartet playing eleven Kurt Weill arrangements by Mike Westbrook, Barry Guy, Neil Ardley, Richard Rodney Bennett, Mike Gibbs and Barbara Thompson on Barbara's album of some 20 years ago, "Barbara Song" - part of the tour referred to by OG in Msg 1.

It is one thing to improvise on typical standards and blues, where harmonies can be altered to suit playing with mutual engagement, but quite another to be backed by a string ensemble alone, and Trish made a brilliant job of it. A recording and film was made, whether for broadcast or CD release or not wasn't clear. Barbara, present in the audience - and btw coping amazingly with her condition - would be more than agreeable to the latter, and was to say the least delighted with Trish's performance.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

thanks for that S_A

[handsomefortune]

she sounded great (with chris montague on guitar) on jez's show, and is on again tonight on jlu.

[Old Grumpy]

she sounded great (with chris montague on guitar) on jez's show, and is on again tonight on jlu.

More here: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-the-playlists

[Ian Thumwood]

I'm convinced that, an an aggregate, women in jazz are often making more interesting music than their male counterparts. If you look at the different styles of jazz, you can find women taking the music in an interesting direction, whether it be Maria Schneider (big band jazz), post-bop (Geri Allen) , more contemporary styles (Epseranza Spalding) or singers as diverse as Dianbe Reeves or Gretchen Parlato. Terri-Lynne Carrington's current band , which consists largely of women, played at Vienne this year and I have always been enthusiastic about her drumming. There are many women out there who approach their music in a wholly original fashion.

However, I think this pianist is something else and have been been rehearsing some of her easier tunes which are available on her website. For me,Eri Yamamoto is a beacon of light in the over-crowded and often uninspiring world of the piano trio. I loved her playing on William Parker's seminal "luc's Lantern" album and have even managed to convince my friends who I play with of her abilities. She is a great composer too and gets my thumbs up for her approach to improvisation which has been compared to the great Paul Bley. For me, Eri Yamamoto is one of the most important jazz pianists on today's scene amongst such worthy contemporaries as Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, John Escreet or even Gerald Clayton. This is where I feel today's jazz piano "is at." I appreciate the tracks by Trish Clowes, but I think Eri Yamamoto is World Class.

I think Jazzrook but a shout out several years ago for Matana Roberts . I've been checking out flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell but will start a new thread on her music after the weekend.

[Ian Thumwood]

This is too good not to post:-

[Ian Thumwood]

This is even better!!! Hamid Drake lays down a tremendous groove after this cadenza. REAL JAZZ

[Old Grumpy]

Trish Clowes is a guest on In Tune tomorrow:

Sean Rafferty's guests include young jazz saxophonist Trish Clowes, one of the new crop of Radio 3's New Generation Artists, ahead of her gig at London's Pizza Express. She plays live in the studio.

It will probably be on before I've left work - but looking forward to catching it on i-player.

OG

[Old Grumpy]

Worth a listen.

Interesting how Sean changed from Clowes (as in cows) to Clowes (as in clues) after the news at 1700. Someone must have had a word!

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Worth a listen.

Interesting how Sean changed from Clowes (as in cows) to Clowes (as in clues) after the news at 1700. Someone must have had a word!

OG

Thanks OG - missed this - there's nothing like a good friend pointing to the germane part of a programme on iPlayer.