KEXP presents King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 11, 2017.
Setlist:
Welcome to an Altered Future
Digital Black
Han-Tyumi The Confused Cyborg
The Lord of Lightning
Altered Beast I
Alter Me I
Altered Beast II
Alter Me II
Altered Beast III
Alter Me III
Altered Beast IV
Today we feature a live duo performance from Raz Mesinai and Shahzad Ismaily.
The Deets:
Raz Mesinai - frame drum, effects
Shahzad Ismaily - bass
Yesterday we began a short series of posts highlighting 2023 albums I didn’t get a chance to spend enough time with prior to compiling my year-end list with Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah’s “The Falcon Ate The Flower.”
Next up is the self-titled release from Dosh, Ismaily, Young. Featuring “drummer Marty Dosh (Dosh, Andrew Bird, Fog), bassist Shahzad Ismaily (Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, Secret Chiefs 3, Arooj Aftub), and guitarist Tim Young (Wayne Horvitz’s Zony Mash, David Sylvian, Michael White).”
With Shazad already appearing on the 2023 round up with Love In Exile by Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily, this marks Ismaily’s second appearance on my favorite albums of 2023.
This is not so much a review as a profile, so I take no shame in quoting the Bandcamp page to help you get a picture of this wild ride: “On their debut self-titled release, these master musicians effortlessly deliver six solid tracks including an 11-minute krautrock mindblower, a meditation on the end of the world, and explorations into Stax-soul, space-rock, and free-jazz.”
If you’ve taken the time and effort to read this far, it’s probably because we share the same music vibes. I highly recommend this release, especially since physical copies are in short supply.
Watch the official video for the opening track, “Blast:”
Welcome to the 2023 Holiday at the Sea year-end music list. There was a lot of great music in 2023, but I’ve narrowed it down to my favorite top 50, presented here in alphabetical order. I hope you see some of your favorites and find something new. I’d love to hear your thoughts. What has been your favorite music of 2023?
the 2023 Holiday at the Sea year-end music list:
Afro Futuristic Dreams by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids // BC // FB // Amzn //
A Trip To Bolgatanga by African Head Charge // BC // FB // Insta //Amzn //
Tony Allen JID018 by Tony Allen, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Jazz Is Dead) // site // BC // FB // Amzn //
My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross by Anohni & The Johnsons // site // BC // Insta // Amzn //
James and the Giants by James and the Giants // BC // Amzn //
Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd by Lana Del Rey // site // FB // Amzn //
New Future City Radio by Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek // BC // Amzn //
No Fixed Point In Space by Modern Nature // site // BC // FB // Amzn //
the Age of Pleasure by Janelle Monae // site // BC // FB // Amzn //
From the Youtube page:
“Festival TV on KEENSTREAM, a YouTube program that started in April 2020, hoping that the day will come when we can enjoy the music and outdoor activities that we love. We welcome over 100 artists in total and liven up the program with MC George Williams.”
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
So far we’ve visited a solo set, a trio set and a two-part live show. Let’s round out the week with this quartet setup, live from 2018. This one includes a bit more information, including the players, which include branch on Trumpet, Anton Hatwich on Bass ,Lester St. Louis on Cello, Chad Taylor on Drums.
This was at: Roulette Intermedium, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn May 28th 2018
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
So far, we/ve visited a solo set and examined two of her songs with lyrics and another one Yesterday we covered a band set, and today is branch in a trio format. As with the other sets, not a lot of information or tracklisting here, but ti’s great nonetheless. This set features Branch on trumpet, Luke Stewart on bass, Mike Pride on drums.
OH, and apparently this was “on Roy Campbell & Steve Dalachinsky's birthday.”
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
Yesterday, we visited a solo set and examined one of her songs with lyrics and another one today. Here is branch with branch on trumpet, Lester St. Louis on cello, Jason Ajemian on bass, and Chad Taylor on drums.
As with the other one, not much information to go by here other than “Jaimie Branch - First Set (New Morning - Paris - July 12th 2021).” No setlist or anything, but you can figure it out if you really want to. I’m just grooving.
Set One:
Set Two:
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
First up is a solo set from “Record Shop - July 2 2022.”
Not much else information about this one, but it’s well worth your time.
Charles Mingus Sextet, at the Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, April 13th, 1964 (Colorized).
Setlist:
So Long Eric
Meditations
So Long Eric (Second Version)
Players:
Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Eric Dolphy
Bass – Charles Mingus
Drums – Dannie Richmond
Piano – Jaki Byard
Tenor Saxophone – Clifford Jordan
Trumpet – Johnny Coles
“This concert was recorded at The Mill & Mine on March 24, 2019, as part of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn.”
Setlist:
"My Queen is Ada Eastman"
"My Queen is Angela Davis"
"The Itis"
"Breadfruit"
"Mo' Wiser"
"My Queen is Harriet Tubman"
"My Queen is Mamie Phipps Clark"
"Inner Babylon"
"My Queen is Berta Cáceres"
"My Queen is Albertina Sisulu"
"Afrofuturism"
Players:
Shabaka Hutchings (saxophone)
Theon Cross (tuba)
Tom Skinner (drums)
Eddie Hicks (drums)
Shabaka and The Ancestors :: Live at the NTS Live at Jazz Cafe (2017). Sorry, I don’t know much else about this show. The Youtube page doesn’t include any further information or setlist.
Oh well.
Enjoy.
Thelonious Monk Quartet, live in Amiens, France, 1966. This show is often referenced as part of the “Gordon Skene Sound Collection.”
Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France, March 23, 1966.
Setlist:
Blue Monk
Crepuscule With Nellie
Rhythm-A-Ning
Hackensack
Epistrophy
Evidence
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Round Midnight
Epistrophy
Players:
Thelonious Monk
Charlie Rouse
Larry Gales
Ben Riley
Galactic & Macy Gray performing live on KEXP from The Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club Concert series. Recorded July 16, 2015.
Setlist:
Long Live the Borgne
Sugar Doosie
Go Go
Ooh Nah Nay
Into the Deep
Relating to a Psychopath
I Try
Important People:
Audio Engineer: Craig Montgomery
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Shelly Corbett, Scott Holpainen, Luke Knecht, Justin Wilmore
Editor: Luke Knecht
If you don’t know, Dave Pike, was a jazz vibraphone and marimba player.
Sorry, I don’t know anything about this one or have the setlist. I think this was on Belgian TV, but what do I know.
It’s worth your time.
Purchase Dave Pike’s music at Amazon
Miles Davis Quintet live at the 1967 Stockholm Jazz Festival.
From the Youtube comments: “This is 50 YEARS AGO, and it sounds like tomorrow. How the hell???”
Setlist:
Agitation
Footprints
‘Round Midnight
Gingerbread Boy
Players:
Trumpet: Miles Davis
Saxophone: Wayne Shorter
Piano: Herbie Hancock
Bass: Ron Carter
Drums: Tony Williams
Here’s a Youtube Treasure I don’t know much about.
Sorry, I’ve never bothered to much research beyond knowing that it’s Coltrane in Belgium in 1965. I’m sure some of you can hep me to the jive and I’m always interested in details if you’re interested in providing them.
Otherwise, let’s just enjoy the sublime.
Setlist:
Untitled Original (Vigil)
Naima
My Favorite Things
Other Players:
McCoy Tyner - Piano
Jimmy Garrison - Bass
Elvin Jones - Drums
Miles Davis Quintet Live at Teatro dell'Arte in Milan, Italy on October 11, 1964.
Setlist:
Autumn Leaves
My Funny Valentine
All Blues
All of You
Joshua
Players:
Trumpet: Miles Davis
Saxophone: Wayne Shorter
Piano: Herbie Hancock
Bass: Ron Carter
Drums: Tony Williams
Caleb Nei bills himself as: “Washington DC Area Event & Cocktail Pianist,” usually playing “about 180 jazz dates each year throughout Virginia and Washington DC.”
Nei’s newest project Wordless Flight. “Emergence,” Nei’s first release under the new moniker is a collection of improvisations “Recorded on a felted upright piano, a Mason & Hamlin reed organ, and a collection of analog synths.” Nei says that “Emergence” is the first of several releases in this vein, with lots more music already recorded.
“Recorded in the early-morning hours before the family wakes,” Nei’s improvisations are meditative pieces walking the border between minimalism, new age age, and contemporary classical.
Opening track “Another Morning” is representative of the rest of the album in all of the good ways. Interesting melodies over ambient background noise unfolding and swirling up and around to greet the day before folding back into itself.
“Murmur” propels these themes forward, while “1997” begins to push into Ambient territory and “Landscape From A Bus” pulses with an Ambient loop and “Moored Boats” makes you wonder if this wasn’t an electronic album the whole time.
This is music created with the sun rise to fill your while day.
This one’s audio only but well worth your time.
April 9, 1970 Fillmore West, San Francisco, California opening for The Grateful Dead.
Personnel:
Miles Davis: Miles Davis (tpt);
Steve Grossman (ss);
Chick Corea (el-p);
Dave Holland (b, el-b);
Jack De Johnette (d);
Airto Moreira (perc)
Setlist:
“Directions” (J. Zawinul)
“Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” (M. Davis)
“This” (C. Corea)
“It's About That Time” (M. Davis)
“I Fall in Love Too Easily” (S. Cahn-J. Styne)
“Sanctuary” (W. Shorter-M. Davis)
“Spanish Key” (M. Davis)
“Bitches Brew” (M. Davis)
“The Theme” (M. Davis)
Concert recording, soundboard source