New Jazz: tradition or technology?

[Fritz The Cat]

Courtney Pine: "Back in the day", 2000, Verve EU, 543 580-1.
Perfect dynamics/pressing.
With Acid Jazz back in the new week. With a swing.
Listen to Curtis Mayfield's "Hardtimes" A3.

[Fritz The Cat]

Witty and bold compositions. Tradition, technics and prowess. Direct metal mastering by TELDEC. Listen to guitar solo by Allan Jaffe in "Slickaphonic Stomp" B4. Modern jazz from NYC. But is it new? At least it's all good clean fun!

[Fritz The Cat]

Swiss Ethno-Jazz. Why not? Anybody knows the Swiss music instrument "Hackbrett"? It's a hammered dulcimer from the Kanton Appenzell. It awakens associations to gypsy and Persian music. "Da pfeift der Wind, rumpelt der Berg, dann wieder reitet die letzte Hexe Europas auf einer Kuhherde zur Walpurgisnacht, bis zuweilen ein Gletscher durch die Gegend schlafwandelt.= The wind whistles, the mountain grumbles, and then, the last of Europe's witches rides on a cattle herd to the walpurgis night while a glacier sleep-walks around sometimes." (liner notes on inner sheet) Na, ja...

[Fritz The Cat]

Listen to the Jazz-suite "The patient prince" B1: all acoustic, but very funky part "First sight". Great dynamics. Listen to the acoustic bass played by George Mraz. Sir Roland Hanna, piano. Gottseidank, welche Wohltat: keine Synthesizer!

[eso]

And these two kids and absolutely stratospheric. You can find videos of here doing recitals of Franz Liszt works when she was only 14. And now working multiple keyboards and a full rack of bass pedals she's awesome.

JD Becks drumming is also nuts, seeming playing D&B beats that only drum machines used to do.

When I first heard their record I thought , cool, and good session players too. Then I looked on youTube and realized they can cover it all as a duo.

To me they are mind blowing.

An NPR Tink Desk Concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPbOxaRIO0




eso

[DerekTheGreat]

This was pretty cool too, she can really play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sUfa05cZOA

Not sure I'm a fan JD Becks, what I've heard was a little too fast for me.

[Fritz The Cat]

The first problem is there's not much guitar. But the other problems are weightier: the album is dominated by dated drum machines, synthesizers and cheesy keyboards. The synthesizers pretend to be orchestras. Too much technology. No soul at all. No personality. Just MOR jazz.
P.S.: look at the prices for this German pressing at discogs. Unbelievable! (The price is just a sign of supply/demand for an artificial market. So forget discogs' pricing!)
P.P.S: Am i too critical of the US music business?

[Fritz The Cat]

He was one of the best studio guitar players. But what crap did he produce on this one?! Too much dumb technology. "Stuff" was an inspired band of superb musicians. But this one has no soul at all. Don't listen to "I heard it through the grapevine" B2: it's the ultimate sin....

[Fritz The Cat]

Hot Swing and Latin Jazz from the coldest European island. Björk is the vulcano: exuberant and reckless.
Listen to B1 "Litli Tonlistarmadurinn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKYXGUkbqCU

[Fritz The Cat]

2LP special edition. Grammy winning reggae legends Sly & Robbie (Black Uhuru) feat. Norwegian Jazz innovator Nil Petter Molvaer. Beyond all boundaries! Blooming meditative sound landscapes...

[Ducatista47]

2LP special edition. Grammy winning reggae legends Sly & Robbie (Black Uhuru) feat. Norwegian Jazz innovator Nil Petter Molvaer. Beyond all boundaries! Blooming meditative sound landscapes...

I finally caught up with this tonight. Frankly, fantastic. It streams just fine from Amazon in HD.

[Fritz The Cat]

Flutist Friedemann Leinert is Lenny Mac Dowell. No chance with a German name? In fact this album had no chance at all in Germany in 1980 . In 1980 the "NDW"= "Neue Deutsche Welle" was rampant like an epidemic disease. After 40 years we may find this a delectable playful psychedelic jazzrock album. Dumb NDW is (nearly) forgotten, but this one is somehow ageless. No dull minute.
PS: anybody owns the "direct-to-disc-cut" vinyl version?

[Fritz The Cat]

Recorded live by Martyn Webster with the Pumacrest Mobile, 7. & 8. Nov. 1987, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London.
Jon Hiseman dr, Phil Mulford b, Peter Lemer kb and striking guitar playing by Paul Dunne.
Barbara Thompson: fantastic compositions and performance! "Member Of The British Empire" since 1995. Stopped her career because of Parkinson disease: https://www.melodiva.de/reports/buhn...a-thompson-gb/
Superb live recording conditions.

[Ducatista47]

Recorded live by Martyn Webster with the Pumacrest Mobile, 7. & 8. Nov. 1987, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London.
Jon Hiseman dr, Phil Mulford b, Peter Lemer kb and striking guitar playing by Paul Dunne.
Barbara Thompson: fantastic compositions and performance! "Member Of The British Empire" since 1995. Stopped her career because of Parkinson disease: https://www.melodiva.de/reports/buhn...a-thompson-gb/
Superb live recording conditions.

There is more. In 2003 she returned to performing and recorded at least through 2013. She is 77 now.

Thank you for the tip. I have been streaming her on Amazon Music and she is a very interesting player and composer.

[Fritz The Cat]

There is more. In 2003 she returned to performing and recorded at least through 2013. She is 77 now.

Thank you for the tip. I have been streaming her on Amazon Music and she is a very interesting player and composer.

My (yesterday) link to a crispy solo by Barbara Thompson here: http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...l=1#post440677

Best wishes from Switzerland