NYC

Just checked this HQ video of Fieldwork live on stage at Padova. Fieldwork consists of the hottest three names in today’s free / improv jazz Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey and Steve Lehman. Very good wish the camera wasn’t static but anyways.

Two albums that I’ve been procrastinating over for a few months, Vijay Iyer’s Historicity and Ben Allison’s Think Free has been topping nearly all the noteworthy jazz lists. Historicity is the effort of a piano trio with Stephan Crump on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums, but it’s not a standard piano jazz album.

Another duo from USA this time leaning more on good spirited rock music, is Luke and Mitch Meseke’s Woozy Viper. The brothers apparently think that in an information-abundant society, there’s never enough ego-boosting and self-identification, so they opted out of it completely. All we’ve got is a 12 song debut album for free download and a cover photo.

Brooklyn guitar & drum duo Noxious Foxes has just self released their debut LP Lovestorm. Their music is a balanced combination of loud shapeshifting riffs and drumming, what you’d come to expect from a math rock band, with a little touch of Karate style sophistication. Gripping compositions, this band needs to be heard more.

Brooklyn Free jazz / noise rock / improv duo Talibam! will be performing at Peyote Istanbul tomorrow night as part of their 9th European Tour.

Quickies from NYC power trio Rashanim and 70’s German prog band Exil.

The connection tying this to the previous NYC jazz posts is his regular sidekick Joey Baron who is a pillar of the Masada clique and Joe Lovano on tenor who tries to fill Coltrane’s shoes with quite a success.

Yesterday’s post already mentioned the percussion wiz Cyro Baptista’s upcoming album with his Banquet of the Spirits troupe. It’s no secret Cyro loves huge ensembles that’s why I guess he decided to transfer Banquet of the Spirits from a quartet to a 26-strong ensemble.