5 Passion Records, 2022
Ubiegłoroczny album “Skyline” nagrany z udziałem Rona Cartera i Jacka DeJohnette’a zapoczątkował prezentację nagrań Gonzalo Rubalcaby z różnymi składami klasycznego fortepianowego tria. Drugą odsłoną tego projektu jest płyta „Turning Point”, a pianiście towarzyszyli tym razem Matt Brewer oraz Eric Harland.
Pierwsza część zaplanowanej trylogii dała Rubalcabie możliwość…
Crickets and cicadas fill the air as Florist salute the Catskills and a decade-long journey of friendship, while Sam Gendel swings by the San Antonio River, Texas Hill Country, and a ballroom in Corpus Christi to ring out his inimitable brand of tactile jazz. Meanwhile Brian Eno conjures the endless loss of a future grimly foretold by the climate crisis, overlooking Athens from the Acropolis on a day when wildfires raged and lit the margins of the Greek capital with an apocalyptic hue. Sharing a love for loops, Ben Vince shrouds the vocal swoons and melodic motifs of the folk singer Cucina Povera in smudged sax and spectral synths. And James Brandon Lewis teams up with The Messthetics for a sonic poem full of energy and resilience which holds out hope for a brighter tomorrow. Tracks by Rosalía, Harish Raghavan, TSHA, Friendship, and $OMBI also feature in the latest roundup of new music.
I’ve seen you mention structuralism and post-structuralism in some of your posts - can you recommend any books/articles/anything else on that topic?
tried to arrange in approximate order of most to least friendly for a reader unfamiliar with specialist philosophical language / concepts. also, this includes both secondary and primary literature and one might even say implicitly challenges some of the assumptions that structure that dichotomy. if one were in an impish sort of mood.
poststructuralism: a very short introduction, by catherine belsey
twentieth-century french philosophy, by eric matthews
the columbia history of twentieth-century french thought, ed. lawrence kritzman
what is enlightenment? by michel foucault, tr. paul rabinow, in 'the foucault reader'
death of the author, by roland barthes, tr. stephen heath, in 'image-music-text'
structure, sign, and play in the discourse of the human sciences, by jacques derrida, tr. alan bass, in 'writing and difference'
superstructuralism: the philosophy of structuralism and poststructuralism, by richard harland
how do we recognize structuralism? by gilles deleuze, tr. david lapoujade, in 'desert islands and other texts'
madness and civilization, by michel foucault, tr. jonathan murphy and jean khalfa
philosophy in turbulent times: canguilhem, sartre, foucault, althusser, deleuze, derrida, by élisabeth roudinesco, tr. william mcuaig
untying the text: a post-structuralist reader, ed. robert young
Tagged by @agirlbetweentwoseas . Haven't done these in awhile, thanks!
Last song: Exclamation by Chris Potter, James Francies, Eric Harland
Fave colour: To look at - all the earthy ones, like warmer greens and greys, the off-whites browns and reds of interesting geological sites. To wear - I guess it's the usual black green and grey
Currently reading: Musashi by Yoshikawa Eiji. Surprisingly fast-moving and funny with some progressive ideas re: women for its time
Currently watching: Nothing :P I've no more patience for TV shows
Spicy/savoury/sweet: Spicy... but sweet is a close second now, which is unusual because I never had much of a sweet tooth really
Relationship status: Single!
Currently obsessions: OSINT, sour candy, chewy candy (am very particular about these), video games, refreshing some now-rusty language fluencies, getting back into farming or kitchen work, retrieving soul fragment from parallel universe
ANOTHER NIGHT (10 JUNE 2024) AT SMALL’S and MEZZROW’S
ARI HOENIG with Gilad Hekselman and Ben Tiberio, SMALL’S JAZZ CLUB, 7:30 pm set
ALAN BROADBENT with Harvie S and Billy Mintz, MEZZROW’S, 9 pm set
Again, these notes are equal parts souvenirs, writing prompts, and amusements. I have seen these artists again and again with great pleasure, so I don’t need the souvenir of these particular shows. But it is amusing to think of how to write about them.
I have reflected on Vijay Iyer and Kevin Hays from my last two shows as different flavors of “smart” and ALAN BROADBENT is a third. I hasten to add that playing jazz requires genius, so the term may not be that useful and, in fact, cerebral can be an obstacle to good playing.
So I will take up how Broadbent is smart by which I think he is a student of the music.
And for ARI HOENIG with a guitarist becomes a fresh take on the trio which he has an unusual knack for being a drummer. I am in a run of drummers—Rodney Green, Eric Harland, and, coming Thursday, Ben Perowsky—as leaders. But guitarists, hmm, well, I gave Gilad Hekselman a chance on Hoenig’s recommendation. And, gasp, I’m going to catch a big (-ish, 10 pieces) band tomorrow, so I could have waited and lumped those two shows together to dislocate my shoulder patting myself on my back for being broadminded enough to enjoy quite popular forms of jazz.
I often think of the similarities in spite of glaring differences between Billy Mintz, the minimalist drummer with Broadbent, and the hyperactive Hoenig. But another recitation of that would not be amusing.
Still it pays to celebrate the drummers. Hoenig likes trios, I think, because he needs the space to be a soloist. In that way, unlike Green and Harland who gave themselves one showcase and didn’t trade fours after the bass solo, Hoenig claimed space in each tune because he plays drums as an accompanist and plays the tune in his solos. He becomes a percussionist and can make his kit not exactly a marimba but a highly nuanced instrument. He also is a composer and his set alternated standards—Days of Wine and Roses and Embraceable You—with originals. The first, The Painter, took advantage of Hekselman and his instrument for a first section that sounded like a koto. The other was for his daughter and had first a funk and then a rock feel. The spaces the guitar presents, as opposed to the piano, suited Hoenig just as Gadi Lehavi, his usual pianist, is a sparer pianist. But with Hekselman, I think I could get a better sense of what Hoenig does every gig.
ALAN BROADBENT has been frequently described, by me!, as “elegant” which also imperfectly gets at something similar to “smarts.” He/they swing quite well and they don’t play it safe as the On Green Dolphin Street was adventurous. But there is a deep commitment to taste. Above all, there’s a curation, yes of the Great American Songbook—from an old chestnut, Body and Soul, done freshly to Irving Berlin’s later They Say It’s Wonderful. But he includes jazz compositions in equal measure—a Charlie Parker blues, Dizzy Gillespie’s rarer I Waited For You as a piano solo, and This I Dig Of You. It’s a Hank Mobley tune, but Broadbent announced it as by Gigi Gryce because he also does his Minority.
Smart? Or simply a wily veteran? I will see him, just as I will Hoenig, to keep figuring out why I value them so much and am glad they are on Small’s Live regularly.
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