Jazz in Kentucky

May 17 2012

Notes From The Holler: Jeb Bishop – Tim Daisy Duo in Lexington, KY on Friday 5/18/12

 

There’s a show of note coming up this Friday. It’s the Jeb Bishop – Tim Daisy Duo, and they’re playing at the Mecca Dance Studio at 7pm (map and links below).

Based out of Chicago, both Bishop and Daisy have been involved in some of the niftiest modern avant-garde and experimental jazz around. In addition to their roles as composers, Bishop, makes his mark on trombone and Daisy on drums and percussion. They’re touring in support of their new release Old Shoulders.

You can read the rest of the info at my sister site: Notes From the Holler.

Also, over time, I’ll be summarizing the Notes From the Holler posts on the Bird is the Worm page HERE (at the moment, this was my inaugural post, so there’s just the one).

Honestly, I haven’t decided yet whether to simply post all Jazz in Kentucky content on both sites or just do a lead-in paragraph like above with a link to my other site.  If you’d like to offer any feedback, I’d really appreciate it.

I like the idea of having my Jazz in Kentucky content on just the one site (Notes From the Holler), but I always don’t want to make it a drag on my readers to have to read two sites.

So, yeah, go ahead and comment if you have an opinion.

Cheers.

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Apr 15 2012

Jazz in Kentucky: Diego Palma radio interview of Will Fisher

 

Diego Palma runs a radio show on Crescent Hill Radio called The Sunday Sessions Radio Show.  It airs on Sunday nights at 6pm (EST).

I just noticed that he interviewed Louisville resident Will Fisher on his show back in January (2012), so I figured I’d give it a mention.  Palma takes the recordings of his interviews and streams them on a Soundcloud page, just in case listeners aren’t able to hear his show live.  I’ve embedded the Soundcloud player just below.  The interview talks about Fisher’s background, his album Portage (reviewed on Bird is the Worm), his time at U of L, and his plans for the future.  It’s a nice little interview.  It also plays some music from the album.

At the time, Fisher was in the home stretch of his grad degree in Jazz Composition from the University of Louisville.

Here’s a link to a Facebook page that Palma set up for the radio show.

You can stream the Crescent Hill Radio station from their site, HERE.

And here’s the post on Bird is the Worm regarding my review of Will Fisher‘s Portage.  It’s a strong album, especially considering it’s Fisher’s debut.  Always a promising sign when that happens.  You should give his album a listen.  Follow the link to the BitW post, and there’ll be all types of links, including a review, places to stream and purchase album, artist site, etc.

I’ll add more posts like this if Palma interviews any other Kentucky jazz artists.

I think that’s about it.

-Cheers

*****

I don’t know how the rights for this kind of thing works, but if the radio station, Diego Palma, or anybody else has a problem with me posting the above or providing insufficient attribution, please let me know and I’ll rectify things to your(s) specifications.

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Apr 6 2012

Jazz in Kentucky: Laurence Hobgood Trio w/ Ernie Watts

 

On Saturday, April 7th (2012), the city of Louisville will have the pleasure of welcoming the Laurence Hobgood Trio, with a guest appearance by Ernie Watts.

The show will be held at the newly renovated Theater @ Kentucky Country Day School at 7:30pm.  Information on the Theater’s site can be found HERE.

The line-up:  Laurence Hobgood (piano), Jared Schonig (drums), Matthew Rybicki (bass), and Ernie Watts (sax).

Pianist Laurence Hobgood is best known for his long-time collaboration with supreme jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, which resulted in a handful of Grammy nominations and a Grammy award for best vocal jazz record in 2010.  Though if you lived in Chicago during the 90s and wandered into the Green Mill, there’s a good chance that you saw Hobgood playing with Ed Peterson.  Hobgood also had a trio with (Pat Metheny’s drummer) Paul Wertico and Eric Hochberg.  More recently, Hobgood has recorded on a couple Chicago musicians albums:  guitarist John Moulder‘s Trinity and trumpeter Brad Wheeler‘s The Future Was Yesterday, both on the Origin label and both solid recordings.

(Hobgood, on Wheeler’s Future)

Hobgood also has several albums under his own name:  Left to My Own Devices, Crazy World, and When the Heart Dances, all on the Naim Label.  On When the Heart Dances, Hobgood’s piano is joined by jazz giant, bassist Charlie Haden, for a set of sublime pieces, with a guest appearance by vocalist Kurt Elling on a few tracks.  If you’re looking for a quiet evening jazz album, you should probably pick this one up.

Hobgood’s latest project, POEMJAZZ, has him collaborating with three-term U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.  Released on the Circumstantial Productions label, POEMJAZZ  features Pinsky reading his poetry to Hobgood’s piano, with the emphasis on interplay between vocal and piano phrasing, as opposed to a conventional spoken word album.

Saxophonist Ernie Watts has been on the scene for the better part of fifty years, and appearing on the albums and stages of a disparate group of artsts ranging from Cannonball Adderley, Buddy Rich, Oliver Nelson, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orichestra to Frank Zappa and Aretha Franklin.

His current release Oasis is pretty terrific, released on his own label Flying Dolphin (run in partnership with wife Patricia).  Oasis will have a Tiny Review coming up soon on Bird is the Worm, but likely will be receiving a proper review as well.

A free album track from Oasis is available at AllAboutJazz, courtesy of the artist.  Also, there’s some music to stream on Ernie’s site (linked to above).

Definitely encourage you to go.  It should be a great evening of undistilled jazz from some giant names on the jazz scene.  A wonderful opportunity to see great musicians live.  Plus, live music is a wonderful experience in and of itself; it just makes life seem so much richer and vibrant.

Here’s a neat video of both Hobgood and Watts performing with Kurt Elling…

 

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