George Lewis Interview

NewMusicBox.  Really great interview with George Lewis. (via A Blog Supreme)

Mary Halvorson on Roulette TV

Some really nice looking and sounding video from Roulette of Mary Halvorson’s quintet. A pretty compelling preview of some new tunes as well as interview footage. Worth spending your next 15min on! The trio version of this band is playing TONIGHT at Jazz Gallery, two sets. Hoping to make one after I get the kiddies in bed.

Roulette TV: MARY HALVORSON from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.

MARY HALVORSON QUINTET:

Jon Irabagon- alto saxophone
Jonathan Finlayson- trumpet
Mary Halvorson- guitar
John Hébert- bass
Ches Smith- drums

Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson premieres a set of new pieces for the Mary Halvorson Quintet as well as material from her upcoming release on Firehouse 12 Records. Halvorson has been active in New York since 2002, following jazz studies at Wesleyan University and the New School. In addition to her own band, The Mary Halvorson Trio, she co-leads a chamber music duo with violist Jessica Pavone and the avant-rock band, People, with drummer Kevin Shea.

A veteran of the ensembles of esteemed saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, she has also performed with groups led by Tim Berne, Taylor Ho Bynum, Trevor Dunn, Tomas Fujiwara, Curtis Hasselbring, Tony Malaby, Myra Melford, Nicole Mitchell, Jason Moran, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Elliott Sharp, John Tchicai and Matthew Welch among many others.

Downloadable Malcolm McLaren Tribute Megamix from 4/13 Show

Malcolm McLaren megamix by longrally

Joe Strummer, 1981

(photo credit: Allan Tannenbaum)

Playlist for The Long Rally with Scott McDowell – April 13, 2010

Playlist for The Long Rally with Scott McDowell – April 13, 2010
Tuesdays 6am – 9am on WFMU 91.1fm 90.1fm wfmu.org
Drawing an endless knot.

April 13, 2010: Buffalo Gals (+ Malcolm McLaren tribute megamix)

Artist – “Song” – Album (Label) *=New

Grachan Moncur III – “Hipnosis”
Malcolm McLaren and The World’s Famous Supreme Team – “Buffalo Gals” – Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren and The World’s Famous Supreme Team – “She’s Looking LIke a Hobo” – Double Dutch 12″
World’s Famous Supreme Team – “radio show excerpt” – WHBI, April 13, 1983
Malcolm McLaren and The World’s Famous Supreme Team – “World’s Famous” – Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren and The World’s Famous Supreme Team – “D’Ya Like Scratchin’” – Double Dutch 12″
World’s Famous Supreme Team – “radio show excerpt” – WHBI, October 1982
Malcolm McLaren and The World’s Famous Supreme Team – “Punk It Up” – Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren And The Ebonnettes – “Double Dutch (New Dance Mix)” – Double Dutch 12″
Tambours Royaux – “Ingoma” – Burundi Musiques Traditionelles
Bow Wow Wow – “C30 C60 C90 Go!” – 7″
Bow Wow Wow – “Go Wild in the Country” – I Want Candy
World’s Famous Supreme Team – “radio show excerpt” – WHBI, June 18, 1982
Malcolm McLaren and The World’s Famous Supreme Team – “Hey DJ” – 12″

The Byrds – “Hey Joe, My Back Pages, Mr. Tambourine Man, He Was A Friend Of Mine, So You Want To Be A Rock & Roll Star, Roll Over Beethoven” – California Acid Folk
Zachary Cale – “The Wedding Party” – 7″ (All Hands Electric) *
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang – “Troublesome Houses” – The Wonder Show of the World
Torn Curtain – “Nail in the Coffin” – 7″

Tomas Fujiwara/Taylor Ho Bynum – “B.C.” – Stepwise (Not Two) *
Scritti Politti – “Bibbly-o-tek” – Hegemony EP
Arthur Doyle – “Ghosts II (Part 1)” – 7″ (Final Frequency) *
Box Elders – “Stay” – Alice and Friends (Goner)
Kourosh Yaghmaie – “Gol-e Yakh” – Pomegranates [V/A] (B-Music)
Television – “Little Johnny Jewel” – 7″

Growing – “Challenger” – Pumps (Vice) *
Amon Dude & the Hoopo – “In Full Flight” – 7″ (Nuslux) *
Glenn Branca – “Carbon Monoxide” – The Ascension: The Sequel (Systems Neutralizers) *
Matt Bauder – “track F” – Paper Gardens (Porter) *
Louis Armstrong – “West End Blues” – Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
Louis Armstrong – “Gut Bucket Blues”

The Long Rally with Scott McDowell playlists: http://wfmu.org/playlists/MD
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Cooper-Moore: A Retrospective Now Up on the FMA

Stream/download. I wrote it about this here.

Ten Years of International Music Archives from BBC Radio 3

BBC – Radio 3 – World Music – On Location.

Explore ten years of Radio 3 archive recordings from 2000 to the present, recording the life and musical traditions of countries ranging from Brazil to North Korea and Cuba to Turkmenistan.

Thx, Doug.

Little Women Tour Dates

via Improvised Communitacions – Little Women’s North American Tour Begins Tonight

This band’s new album is a monster. Nice cover, too, would be great to have on vinyl, wouldn’t it? It’s available on limited edition vinyl! I hope to see this band live at some point.  Destination:OUT! posted an mp3 from the record, Throat.

Weasel Walter says:

Right now, Little Women is one of the most unique bands around who bridge the gap between high-energy free jazz influences and gnarly noise rock bombast. Their odd, angular compositions shoot beyond idiomatic constraints, made from sets of foreboding blocks containing intense molecular activity, rammed up against each other in inexplicable manners. The music seems to objectively reflect the internal behavior of the components of each sonic cell – the various instruments fighting, mocking each other, trying to mate in awkward counterpoint or slamming together in unexpected unision. There is a tortured feel to the music of Little Women, possibly the result of some very sick notion of black humor shared amongst its members. It slices like a hundred rusty razor blades, the wound cauterized by the hot wind from subway vents and spashed in half-drank cans of Red Bull . . . jittery, squirming and totally alive.

Little Women: Travis Laplante (tenor saxophone), Darius Jones (alto saxophone), Andrew Smiley (guitar) and Jason Nazary (drums).

Complete Spring 2010 Itinerary:

04/01 :: King Street Manor (Northampton, MA)
04/02 :: Random House (Ottawa, ON)
04/03 :: Teranga (Toronto, ON)
04/04 :: East Village Arts Co-Op (East London, ON)
04/05 :: Soundlab (Buffalo, NY)
04/06 :: Louie’s Trophy House Bar & Grill (Kalamazoo, MI)
04/07 :: The Hideout (Chicago, IL)
04/08 :: The Velvet Lounge (Chicago, IL)
04/09 :: Bela Dubby (Lakewood, OH)
04/10 :: The Shop (Pittsburgh, PA)
04/11 :: The Windup Space (Baltimore, MD)

04/29 :: Bruar Falls (Brooklyn, NY)

05 May :: Jazzclub Neue Tonne (Dresden, Germany)
06 May :: Jazzclub Hipnoza (Katowice, Poland)
07 May :: Stadtwerkstatt (Linz, Austria)
08 May :: JazzDock (Prague, Czech Republic)
09 May :: Black Box at cuba-cultur (Münster, Germany)
10 May :: WORM (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
11 May :: Voorhuit (Gent, Belgium)
12 May :: Bunker Ulmenwall (Bielefeld, Germany)
13 May :: Lades (Copenhagen, Denmark)
14 May :: Café Lobby (Århus, Denmark)

Learn more about Little Women in this video retrospective.

Reckless Parts

The mind is a funny thing, the way it connects moments, splices information, grafts it back together. Music does this to the brain, scrambles it up, sends you off and chasing a feeling. Anything interesting does this, really.

Today following a friend’s link, I got to watching some amazing Group Doueh videos on YouTube. Listed among the “Related Videos” were, curiously, videos of Bill Orcutt (ex-Harry Pussy, now a solo acoustic guitar player). I think I actually laughed out loud. The impact of that idea, that there was a direct aesthetic connection between Group Doueh and Bill Orcutt, seemed humorous to me! Though it actually makes a kind of perfect sense.

I have a complicated relationship with Bill Orcutt’s 2009 album, A New Way to Pay Old Debts. When I first heard it, I wanted to like it. It confused me. I thought it was a cheap copy of Derek Bailey. I tried to understand how it related to Harry Pussy. I didn’t like it. I was almost offended by it. I’ve since grown to adore it like few other records. It’s so personal and intense and confusing but threaded with a kind of purity of intention that is rare. I hear all kinds of things in Orcutt’s playing: old blues, folk, free jazz, the primordial howl of rock ‘n roll. All from an old beat up Kay acoustic with only four strings. (Not so far from John Lee Zeigler, either.)  I love Derek Bailey, but his music is at arms length, the emotion in it a reflection in myself, as opposed to emanating from the guitar.  The emotion in Orcutt is a deeply human feeling, and one that may be uncomfortable at first.

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Bill Orcutt – My Reckless Parts

Video: Cecil Taylor with the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Thanks to Kurt Gottschalk for hipping me to this one.

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