Recent Jazz "discoveries"

[James]

I'm still "basking in the glow" of a concert I experienced last night. I spoke of it on the thread titled "Jeff Hamilton Trio Live" and won't repeat myself too much. but it's occurred to me just how many times I've fallen in love with jazz all over again as a result of a "new discovery".

In this case, the magic of new discovery was attached to hearing two musicians I'd never heard before - live or recorded. Tamir Hendelman (piano) and Christophe Luty. (bass) I'd heard the amazing percussionist Jeff Hamilton before, and last night he was certainly a monster. But by virtue of their *newness* I found myself focusing on the work of Jeff's associates.

Tamir Hendelman was responsible for writing many of the arrangements of standard compositions, and I'm here to tell you that they were absolutely spellbinding. Difficult as hell at points, but not in the least bit stiff or academic sounding - smart and soulful. His soloing too was on a very high plane.

Bassist Christophe Luty has an absolutely wonderful sound with a crisp delivery - and displayed his incredible facility when playing unison lines with Tamir at frightening tempos. The joy of playing was evident throughout his performance and was certainly transmitted to me.

This was one of those performance so filled with nuance and virtuosity that you are delivered an endorphin high, and that's how I felt for hours later. So - what "new discovery" delivered these sensations to you recently?

[BruceH]

The album "When Farmer Met Gryce"---got it a few days ago. It's great. Maybe this is a dumb reply because I was already into Art Farmer, but this proved to me bigtime what a great composer Gryce was. ALL the tracks on the CD are by him; a couple at least (Capri, Blue Lights) have become semi-standards. I'd now like to track down that bio of him, Rat Race Blues I believe it's called. What a talent!

[LeMo]

Noah Rosen is the greatest discoveries I'have done lately. He reminds me of Pandelis Karayorgis but with more radical option.
What he does on piano (here in trio setting - Noah Rosen: Trips, Jobs and Journeys, Cadence CJR 1152) is the impossible mixture of Bill Evans & Cecil Taylor (or, perhaps, Borah Bergman - one of the more underrated musician of all time by the way -?).
Worth listening.
Not for all ears, of course. Just for the good ones.

[D.D.]

Originally posted by LeMo
Noah Rosen is the greatest discoveries I'have done lately. He reminds me of Pandelis Karayorgis but with more radical option.
What he does on piano (here in trio setting - Noah Rosen: Trips, Jobs and Journeys, Cadence CJR 1152) is the impossible mixture of Bill Evans & Cecil Taylor (or, perhaps, Borah Bergman - one of the more underrated musician of all time by the way -?).
Worth listening.
Not for all ears, of course. Just for the good ones.

Sounds great - I'll definitely check him out.

[Muskrat Ramble]

I was listening to samples on http://www.epitonic.com and heard Sweden's Mount Everest Trio for the first time. Their 1975 album, Waves from Albert Ayler, has be reissued by Atavistic.

Imagine an acoustic trio (alto/tenor sax, bass, drums) that sounds like a cross between Ayler and classic Ornette (they even play his great tune "Ramblin'") with a lot of rock and roll energy and groove. Their bassist, Kjell Jansson, is extremely impressive (and excellently recorded--you can hear all the details easily).

Very cool stuff if you like free/avant-garde/European jazz.

[LeMo]

Yes, this is a good one.
By the way, it was the one of the very first "Unheard Music Series" than Atavistic as realised.