Cornelia Street Cafe 2/2 & 2/16

[Steven Reynolds]

Probably only going the show on the 16th due to other life issues, but the band on the 2nd is tremendous, abstract and oblique with quite a bit of dynamic interplay. When i saw them over a year ago (I think?) the compositions were all from Kris and the band was as one would expect - stellar and precise when needed, and a bit wild on a few passages:

Saturday, Feb 02 - 9:00PM & 10:30PM
KRIS DAVIS CAPRICORN CLIMBER QUINTET, CD RELEASE PARTY
Kris Davis, piano; Ingrid Laubrock, tenor sax; Mat Maneri, viola; Eivand Opsvik, bass; Tom Rainey, drums
$10 cover plus $10 minimum

This band I need to see if just to hear Jim Black at this great little club live - I love Noriega and Formanek and havn't seen Chris Speed in over a decade.

Saturday, Feb 16 - 9:00PM & 10:30PM
ENDANGERED BLOOD
Chris Speed, tenor sax, clarinet; Oscar Noriega, alto sax, bass clarinet; Michael Formanek, bass; Jim Black, drums

[djangoblackbird]

I'm most certainly going to try to see Endangered Blood. The CD they put out in 2011 was fantastic (I'm actually transcribing one of Noriega's solos) and they put on a great live show. I'm also really curious to hear how Formanek sounds with them (the record has Trevor Dunn and the time I saw them live, they used Drew Gress)

[Steven Reynolds]

Drew Gress and/or Trevor Dunn are fine bassists (Dunn was the bassist with the Kris Davis band when they played @ Jazz Gallery when I saw them), but Michael Formanek is one of the great ones - his playing a few weeks back with Travis Laplante, Mat Maneri and Randy Peterson was very inspired.

I havn't heard the Endangered Blood recording, but I can't imagine that band with Jim Black roarin in that great little room, will be anything less than spectacular.

I have few memories of Jim Balck live but there was one night maybe around 1999 or 2000 at Tonic when Eskelin-Parkins-Black turned it all the way up and out!

When they played India - their version with the escalating drum sequences with Ellery and Andrea playing the modal vamp - the roof was blown off, and THEN when Black took a solo during one crazy piece from one of theose great early hatology trio records, I thought "THAT is not possible"

and when they closed upon my request with 40 West from the first record, my heart and mind was convinced that there is love and beauty in a trio known as Eskelin-Parkins-Black

One Great Day, baby

[hamlake]

Originally Posted by Steven Reynolds

Probably only going the show on the 16th due to other life issues, but the band on the 2nd is tremendous, abstract and oblique with quite a bit of dynamic interplay. When i saw them over a year ago (I think?) the compositions were all from Kris and the band was as one would expect - stellar and precise when needed, and a bit wild on a few passages:

Saturday, Feb 02 - 9:00PM & 10:30PM
KRIS DAVIS CAPRICORN CLIMBER QUINTET, CD RELEASE PARTY
Kris Davis, piano; Ingrid Laubrock, tenor sax; Mat Maneri, viola; Eivand Opsvik, bass; Tom Rainey, drums
$10 cover plus $10 minimum

This band I need to see if just to hear Jim Black at this great little club live - I love Noriega and Formanek and havn't seen Chris Speed in over a decade.

Saturday, Feb 16 - 9:00PM & 10:30PM
ENDANGERED BLOOD
Chris Speed, tenor sax, clarinet; Oscar Noriega, alto sax, bass clarinet; Michael Formanek, bass; Jim Black, drums

I'll being catching Kris Davis at the Bohemian Caverns in DC on February 10th! I'm thinking of making a trip to NYC on February 16th, but there are so many competing shows, it's difficult to decide: Endangered Blood at Cornelia St Cafe, William Parker's "Essential Orchestra" at Roulette in Brooklyn, and Jack DeJohnette Trio with Ravi Coltrane & Matt Garrison at ShapeShifter Labs also in Brooklyn. Any suggestions?

[Steven Reynolds]

Jim Black and those guys @ Cornelia Street is my suggestion.