I’m in the mood for something new and hair-raising. Any suggestions?
Any Hair-Raising Jazz Released This Year?
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I’m in the mood for something new and hair-raising. Any suggestions?
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Local jazzer Dave Keech has a rather groovesome EP out this week. None newer. Maybe not hair raising tho.
Nice! A bit too nice.
😉
My reaction also.
One man’s hair-raising is another man’s shiny bald pate. You could try these they may tickle your follicles but I doubt they’ll make your hair stand on end.
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio – The Cosmic Tones Research Trio.
Christer Bothén – L’ Invisible.
Myra Melford Splash.
Sinsuke Fujieda Group – Fukushima.
Cosmic Ear – Traces.
Amina Claudine Myers – Solace of the Mind.
When I remember more I’ll post again.
I haven’t heard any of them. I hope they raise some of the few hairs I have left.
Righty-ho I’ve remembered another three. I’m avoiding posting those albums I know you have heard for self-evident reasons.
Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet and the Madman.
Jason Rigby – Mayhem.
Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet – Live Spirit I.
I’m putting a playlist together: “recommended by pencil”.
Cosmic Ear is definitely hitting the spot!
Oh I say! Jolly good.
Turns out I am familiar with the Myra Melford because of the drummer Ches Smith. Here he is as band leader. Mary Halvorson is one of the two guitarists. She’s having a very busy year.
Some of these would raise my hair, if I had some.
Includes a few previously-unreleased vintage live shows.
Dave Manington’s Riff Raff – Weightless
John Zorn’s Bagatelles Vol. 1 – Mary Halvorson Quartet
Marshall Allen – New Dawn
PAZ – Variation And Creation: The Story Of PAZ
Yazz Ahmed – A Paradise In The Hold
Joe Armon-Jones – All The Quiet Pt. I & Pt. II
Artemis – Arboresque
Nels Cline – Consentrik Quartet
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith – Defiant Life
Ketil Bjørnstad – Evening Song-Aftensang
Gary Peacock, Bill Frisell – It Happened Again
Muriel Grossman – MGQ Live In King Georg, Köln
Jon Balke – Skrifum
Tony Coe – The Buds Of Time
Sun Ra – Uncharted Passages
Sun Ra – Hidden Fire
Sault – 10
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland – After The Last Sky
The Tubby Hayes Quintet – Antibes ’62
SAROST – Aurora
Emma Rawicz, Gwilym Simcock – Big Visit
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Out There
Vega Trails – Sierra Tracks
Emma-Jean Thackray – Weirdo
Shai Maestro – Solo: Miniatures & Tales
Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts
Donovan Haffner – Alleviate
Theo Croker – Dream Manifest
Phi-Psonics – Expanding To One
Brandee Younger – Gadabout Season
Allexa Nava – No Language
The Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet – The Endangered Species
Kokoroko – Tuff Times Never Last
Neil Charles – Dark Days
Geoff Castle – Impressions Of New York
Tingvall Trio – Pax
Gerald Clayton – Ones & Twos
Brad Mehldau – Ride Into The Sun
Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, Tyshawn Sorey – Strange Heavens
Chip Wickham – The Eternal Now
Christian McBride Big Band – Without Further Ado, Vol. 1
Jim Watson – Calling You Home
Mujician – In Concerts
Tom Skinner – Kaleidoscopic Visions
Ruby Rushton – Legacy!
Andrea Vicari – Lost In Dreams
Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Cécile McLorin Salvant – Oh Snap
Gordon Beck – Pay Now, Live Later: Live At The Bass Clef ’85
Alfa Mist – Roulette
Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine
John Taylor, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron – Tramonto
I’ve heard a surprising number of those. I regret not buying the limited edition CD of Tubby Hayes. And Cécile McLorin Salvant is probably the most hair-raising.
I’ll definitely listen to the ones I’ve not heard.
Mike_H certainly has named some good ‘uns there.
I’ve also enjoyed:
Steve Okonski – Entrance Music
Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano & Jan Lundgren – Mare Nostrum IV
GoGo Penguin – Necessary Fictions
Plus reissues:
Kristen Noguès & John Surman – Diriaou
Grant Green – Solid (Blue Note Classic Vinyl series)
Concur with the Mulatu Astatke choice – fabulous.
Would also suggest Charles Lloyd -, Figure in Blue – some lovely playing and merges some Blues into the pieces.
If my hair needs raising I usually start with “The Shape of Jazz to Come”. Still sounds out there.
Late, posthumous Coltrane?
Early Ornette Coleman.
Interstellar Space – woof!
Yttling Jazz – Illegal Hit
Sounds tasty but, most of all, that sleeve art boggles my mind!
Sounds sort of Sun Ra-ish, but with some spit & polish on it.
Interesting.
Don’t know if these will fit your definition of Hair-raising but try these recent releases from Australia.
Max Alduca – Monastery. Max is an “up-and-coming” bass player who seems to have arrived. This is his first album under his own name. Produced by Lloyd Swanton from The Necks
Evans-Robson Quartet – Zenith. Sandy Evans and Andrew Robson are well established brilliant sax players and the rhythm section of Brett Hirst and Hamish Stuart have played with everyone
Chloe Kim – Music For Six Double Bassists. Chloe Kim is an expat South Korean drummer who composed all this music although she doesn’t actually play on it.
https://peoplesound.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-six-double-bassists
Intriguing.
Otomo Yoshihide with veterans Yosuke Yamashita ( piano) and Hiroshi Yamazaki ( drums) for Old and New Dreams ( chapter 2)
There has been some intersting re-releases such as Grachan Moncur III New Africa, Roy Brooks – The Free Slave, and volume 2 of the BBE compilation World Jazz Grooves.
I’m looking forward to the new Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s live album which is out next month.
https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-spirit-out-live-at-mu-london?label=1834660757
This sounds very promising. I love a farty sax.
Also this: Omasta – Jazz report from the hood
And this: Emergence Collective – Swimming in the Early Hours
I confess I’m slightly off the truly hair-raising jazz, the kind that makes you feel that someone has taken a Brillo pad to you cerebral cortex – it makes me run into the comforting arms of Ella, Miles, etc. I must be getting old…
You should try some of these suggestions. Most are very lovely indeed.
Not really what you requested in the OP, then? Or am I misinterpreting “hair raising”?
Yes. Not many are hair-raising but most are excellent.
I might have suggested
Olivia Cuttill – …And Writing and Singing and Tunes to be Swingin’
and
Fabia Mantwill Orchestra – IN.SIGHT
Both are excellent – but neither of them are hair-raising, so I stayed away!
(Edith: also Hedvig Möllestad Trio – Bees in the Bonnet – they are hair-raising, but you may not consider them to be “jazz”.)
Cool!
Not hair raising at all, more of a soothing ruffle, the new Fergus McCreadie came out a couple of days ago. Piano trio, with a hefty waft of his Scots heritage seeping into it. Lovely melodic stuff, with enough grit to pearl the oyster. It is called The Sheiling.
FFS, is this a taste free thread or something? Surely someone is interested, other than me.
I played it through on it’s day of release and I’ve listened to it off and on ever since.
I love Fergus. Is this album a development of more of the same?
It’s not without merit…
Actually, that was unfair – I wrote that before listening to it, my knee-jerk reaction to a style that “revolves around a fusion of contemporary jazz with Scottish folk music”.
I’ve now listened to it.
@tiggerlion : a distillation rather than any new direction.
Emma Rawicz new album fresh out.
https://emmarawicz.com/so/98Pexm77f/c?w=snWZGw2R6J6TDK2uR84YeVWMoi8swWQ7hLxnSKwMDX8.eyJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9lbW1hcmF3aWN6LmJhbmRjYW1wLmNvbSIsInIiOiIzNTY4MDc2MC1mYjFhLTRmMTMtODgzYy0xMDVhNjUwMTk5NDEiLCJtIjoibWFpbCIsImMiOiIwYjY3ZWFhNi1hYTVkLTQ0ZGUtOTEzOS1mOTllOGQ4YWQ1YTYifQ
It’s a belter!
Do you have it @tiggerlion? I haven’t bought it yet.
It is very excellent. I don’t know if Tigg has purchased it, I haven’t bought this one unlike her previous releases. I’m weaning myself off buying physical product purely because I’m running out of space and getting up and down to play discs is a bit of a drag at the present time so I’ve been streaming it along with everything else from Qobuz. I’ve got a couple of box sets arriving later this month and they may be the last physical product I indulge in for some time. Unfortunately the buying of endless quantities of discs is no longer practical.
Same here – I bought her last one, I think this is better!
I’m with you there though I don’t buy much anyway, only things I really love. I will buy this one though. I might go to the launch gig in London and buy a signed one to go with my other two.
Update: Just bought it! Only one remaining on Bandcamp.
Yes. Purchased from bandcamp. The physical product will arrive soon. She’s maturing very nicely indeed.
Not hair-raising but very classy stuff:
Misha Mullov-Abbado -Subsonic Glow from his most recent album “Effra”