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Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet, (2xVinyl/LP, CD, Digital album, Poster), feat. Ingrid Laubrock, Chris Lightcap, and Tom Rainey, Blue Note Records, 2025

Nels Cline: electric guitars, acoustic guitars, effects, production, additional mixing Chris Lightcap: acoustic bass, effects Ingrid Laubrock: tenor saxophones, soprano saxophones Tom Rainey: drums

Cover Painting: © Hiroki Katayama ('Magata Jinja') Package Design: Todd Gallopo Photography: Nathan West

[jgthirlwell]

05.04.24 Darius Jones fLuXkit Sextet with Yuniya Edi Kwon – Violin, Ledah Finck – Violin, Christopher Hoffman – Cello, Chris Lightcap – Bass, Ches Smith – Drums and Darius Jones – Alto Sax and Composition. For the Bang On A Can Long Play Festival. At Roulette in downtown Brooklyn

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Listen/purchase: Implicatures by Sam Weinberg Trio w/ Chris Lightcap & Tom Rainey

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Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet - Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog

On "Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog," Ghost Train Orchestra teams up with the trailblazing Kronos Quartet to celebrate and reimagine the music of Louis Hardin, aka Moondog, the ground-breaking composer and poet who lived on the streets of New York City in the 50s and 60s, and influenced the minimalists Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley. A blind composer who moved from Kansas to New York City and built his own instruments and mythology, Moondog's story and music continue to be an inspiration to many. Along with guests Sam Amidon, Jarvis Cocker, Petra Haden, Karen Mantler, Marissa Nadler, Aoife O'Donovan, Rufus Wainwright and Joan Wasser, the two groups explore Moondog's sense of whimsy, wonder and adventure through a cross-section of songs and instrumentals for large ensemble, string ensemble, percussion and voice. The vinyl and CD packages include an essay by biographer Robert Scotto, Moondog's song lyrics, extensive in-studio photographs by Dan Efram, and an interview with Kronos Quartet founder David Harrington and Ghost Train Orchestra founder Brian Carpenter, mediated by music historian Irwin Chusid. Kronos Quartet David Harrington - violin John Sherba - violin Hank Dutt - viola Sunny Yang - cello Ghost Train Orchestra Brian Carpenter, trumpet, harmonica, vocals Andy Laster, alto saxophone, flute Dennis Lichtman, clarinet Matt Bauder, bass clarinet, tenor, baritone saxophones Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon Curtis Hasselbring, trombone, guitar Ron Caswell, tuba Brandon Seabrook, guitar Chris Lightcap, bass Rob Garcia, drums David Cossin, marimba, percussion Maxim Moston, violin Colin Stetson, bass saxophone Guests: Sam Amidon, Jarvis Cocker, Petra Haden, Karen Mantler, Marissa Nadler, Aoife O'Donovan, Rufus Wainwright, and Joan Wasser All new arrangements by Ghost Train Orchestra Dedicated to the memory of Hal Willner

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COUCH TOUR: THE MATT WILSON QUARTET (Kirk Knuffke, Jeff Lederer, and Chris Lightcap) with Anat Cohen sitting in, SMALL’S JAZZ CLUB, 19 SEPTEMBER 2023, 9 pm set

Since this is a working band, I have listed them as such rather than leader plus side players. A piano-less quartet, the inclination is to think of Ornette Coleman and yet that didn’t quite fit in the moment. The voicings were similar but they were just more comfortable with what they were doing. Undoubtedly we as listeners have the benefit of listening to Ornette and they stand on those mighty and broad shoulders. The horns also did this wonderful thing of passing solos around in chunks of a chorus or half a chorus and, equally, the heads were loose.

In real time, they brought out Anat Cohen who was both very much her exuberant self and right at home in a much freer context than I’ve seen her. Then, I read a review of their album “Hug” which used “ebullient” to describe the music. Right. Comfortable, having fun, cracking one another up. Ornette used found elements to evoke a long history, but his profound vulnerability is always prominent. They mashed up a satire of Trump’s Space Force with a march for that sixth branch of the US Military with Sun Ra’s “Interplanetary Music” which is whimsical. But I have never figured out the line in Herman Blount’s music between the joke and the madness.

I’m also in the middle of a four part Ethan Iverson/Transitional Technology essay on Charles Ives, so I’m reminded to look for those elements too. But being able to see them enjoy what might otherwise be daunting is infectious. And to see them throw some of those found elements into those fragmented solos in conversation to amuse and challenge one another is special. One sustained found element is the oddly pop-py “Sunny and Share” (a reviewer compared it to Herb Alpert) which works whereever in the cheek their tongue was at any particular moment.

They also did Abdullah Ibrahim’s “Jabulani” which was a rhythmically jerky anthem and had South Africa in it. Then I thought “Space Force March” had more than a little Eastern Europe in it and those rhythms made it a funny march.

I have seen MATT WILSON on streamed gigs, but this is the first time as a leader. Jeff Lederer and Chris Lightcap are new to me. They served this music well but is Wilson as a leader like Mingus or Zappa or even Ellington where musicians are strategically deployed by the leader to serve their vision, however much said vision is shaped by the genius leader? Kirk Knuffke, however, has been on my radar as an early member of Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom and on a duet album playing Mingus music with Jesse Stacken. So it was good to see him in a related context.

But throwing Anat Cohen in was a special treat.

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Chris Lightcap - Nine South

[michaelparque]

CRAIG TABORN QUARTET @ Europa Jazz Festival, Le Mans 02/05/2018

Concert - Abbaye de l’Epau

Chris Speed (ts, cl)

Craig Taborn (p, keys)

Chris Lightcap (b)

Dave King (dms)

Copyright Michael Parque 2018 All rights reserved

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Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – October 2019 Let me tell you about an amazing band you’ve probably never heard. Over the past few weeks, I’ve become obsessed with the George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet, a group that released twelve albums in eight years, beginning almost exactly 40 years ago. More »

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La Montaña Rusa #427. Jean-Luc Ponty & Masahiko Sato. Elisabet Raspall. Roberto Occhipinti. McCoy Tyner & David Holland. Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth.

La Montaña Rusa #427. Jean-Luc Ponty & Masahiko Sato. Elisabet Raspall. Roberto Occhipinti. McCoy Tyner & David Holland. Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth.

Jean-Luc Ponty con su Astrorama es nuestro clásico de la Semana en este número de La Montaña Rusa. PLAYLIST LMR#427 CLÁSICO DE LA SEMANA JEAN-LUC PONTY & MASAHIKO SATOH Astrorama 1970 Motohiko Hino – drums Yoshiaki Masuo – electric guitar Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – bass Jean-Luc Ponty – electric violin Masahiko Satoh – piano, electric piano 01. Golden Green 13:17 ———————————————– JAZZ EN…

[jgthirlwell]

This Sunday February 2nd 2020 at (le) poisson rouge in NYC, Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra will perform a concert of interpretations of the works of Moondog with special guest singers JG Thirlwell, Karen Mantler, Joan Wasser, and Theo Bleckmann. For this concert Ghost Train Orchestra will be a 14 piece comprising of Matt Bauder, Andy Laster, Dennis Lichtman, Ron Caswell, Sara Schoenbeck, Curtis Hasselbring, Sara Caswell, Rob Garcia, Dina Maccabee, Maxim Moston, David Cossin, Chris Lightcap and Alex Waterman. Tix here

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Listen to: Falls and Pratfalls by Sam Weinberg Trio w/ Chris Lightcap & Tom Rainey

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bluenoterecords: RT nelscline: It begins! I feel very lucky to do this with Julian, Tom, Jorge, and (for our first 3 concerts) Chris Lightcap. C’mon out and THANKS to everyone who makes this happen (and that certainly includes YOU, the ardent listener). … https://t.co/MqsK0PKUe3 http://twitter.com/BlueNoteVinyl/status/1093646996827709442 BlueNoteVinyl

bluenoterecords: RT nelscline: It begins! I feel very lucky to do this with Julian, Tom, Jorge, and (for our first 3 concerts) Chris Lightcap. C’mon out and THANKS to everyone who makes this happen (and that certainly includes YOU, the ardent listener). … pic.twitter.com/MqsK0PKUe3

— Blue Note Collector (@BlueNoteVinyl) February 7, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/BlueNoteVinyl February 07, 2019 at 06:05PM via IFTTT

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COUCH TOUR: JON IRABAGON’S OUTRIGHT!, SMALL’S JAZZ CLUB, 3 DECEMBER 2020

I have known of Jon Irabagon through his work with Dave Douglas and work that shows up on Jazz Spectrum from time to time. But I don’t know him (as I don’t know many many players). The streaming-verse makes possible chances like this show to begin a more developed acquaintance.

I sense that he, like Douglas (whom I have dropped in on but barely know), is a restless talent. Certainly this show, “Recharging the Blade” sponsored by a grant from Chamber Music America New Jazz Works, served up a kaleidoscope of sounds. In some ways it was a going back in time as it started very very abstract but by the end there was a very modern still but subtle evocation of New Orleans. The full composition was to be debuted over both sets and I only stuck around for one. That said, the handful in the room (which is a bit unsettling) had to clear out as the second set was sold out. “Real” listeners wouldn’t have heard the whole thing; neither did I.

Irabagon played soprano and he had Ray Anderson’s trombone on the front line. That’s an appealing combination, both with the near Dixieland pairing of clarinet and trombone and, more directly, the Steve Lacy/Rosewell Rudd collaboration. Getting the high notes from the reed and the lower ones from brass nicely inverts the trumpet/tenor sax expectations.

The opening was very abstract, very New Music. Fascinating particularly had I been in the room. I had planned to watch with a friend, texting back and forth, but he had a long day and is recovering not just from an illness, but THE illness. Of course, he should rest and this wasn’t restful, particularly early.

Frankly, I was about to give up when some Coltranishness broke out. Late Coltrane but still above the churning modal piano and rhythm section finding an idiosyncratic groove, Irabagon’s horn soared with Anderson’s trombone comments. Okay, it was jazz. Then, after more abstraction, it took a riffy hard boppish turn. Both Anderson and pianist Matt Mitchell each got a couple of turns of interacting solos, not just providing tonal colors before the piece, the actual Recharge the Blade, about 37 minutes long, ended with a catchy if frantic melody.

Glad I stayed. Nightshade was a ballad with Anderson getting the first solo and Mitchell’s was rhythmically angular. Next was a dirge that reminded me of the first Liberation Music Orchestra with the horns dancing around one another. Chris Lightcap got a bass solo but he was part of the anchor throughout with Dan Weiss. Needless to say they anchored, not by being fixed, but by creating the churning and responding/shaping where the horns were going.

The outro was a cockeyed blues-y-ish riff. Fitting with the explorations and evocations of all the roots of the music. Not going all in with the influences but using them inventively.

When my friend is better, we’ll watch the second set and see where the rest of the work went.

I don’t know Jon Irabagon yet. But I’m glad I stuck with this set.

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735: Chris Lightcap on forging a path in jazz

Chris Lightcap is a bassist and composer with over 80 album credits and six critically acclaimed albums of original music.  Chris is known for his work with Marc Ribot, Regina Carter, Craig Taborn, and many other noted artists, and his 2019 album SuperBigmouth was listed by Rolling Stone in their Best Jazz of 2019 article.

  We dig into Chris' early years, his circuitous path through the music world, his appearance on the burning ambulance podcast, and much more.

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