Travis – Surprise Jazz trumpet dinner combo from Travis. I’m not sure he has ever been particularly Jazz forward at a Sesh. Weird Improv yes, Jazz influenced music and a hell of a lot of Funk and Fusion, but rarely something like this. Dreamy, and I think it is an original tune that is very reminiscent of a Standard, but not actually an old song. There is another song on the tip of my lips, but I can’t place it. The trumpet is pretty gorgeous, maybe the piano is a little too clean, but the bass sounds great. Ziv Grinberg & Yuval Shapiro – “She’s in Love” – Israeli Jazz, here a little controlled. I’d love a little edge in there. It immediately made me think this is a Bart play of some obscure Euro trumpet player – but Bart is away so I guess Travis decided to take up the cause.
(ps. Ziv looks a little like Mad Nawi with a Beard!!)
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Nawi – Arabic sounding flute. Then Flamenco guitar? Then some other weirdness, like Zappa Flamenco? But it also has a Fusion thing going on simultaneously. I think its newer, evident by the way the styles are sort of juxtaposed over a blend. It reminds me a little of the 70’s Paco De Lucia that I played a few weeks back, which was Flamenco teamed with an absurd electric bassist. I love the clash (and love making!) between traditional and modern elements. Beledo – “Djelem Djelem” Seems like someone Nawi knows, or performed with.
Dan – Meredith Monk – “Ascent” – I’ve been tracking down Meredith Monk records and this piece is really vibrant and beautiful. Ms. Monk’s explorations of vocal possibilities is often challenging, but here everything feels clear and intended. It is brisk, constantly rising and the first comment was “I would really like to hear this in concert” and the performance seemed to be site specific and integral to the process. Lovely when a performance can make you want to experience the place even as the recording is lacking a key element of the experience. Its long but it doesn’t feel like it, I’m rapt in wonder as to where it is going to lead.
Matt – Paul Galbraith – Ma mere l’oye (Mother Goose) (arr. P. Galbraith) : I. Pavane de la belle au bois dormant – Weird! I have 3 Folk songs played by Mr. Galbraith waiting in my cue that were almost played tonight! Weird, because he is an 8 String Guitar (?) Classical musician and its quite lovely. Mine, possibly at a later date, were Folk songs from a variety of unusual places. All this is to say this is an unusual, compelling artist who I’m interested in discovering more about.
Tonight was a pretty wild mix of very self reliant musicians from around the world… Don’t sleep on our own Bart Miltenberger either.
Found Sounds 