#nycfreaks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nycfreaks, aggregated by home.social.
-
Caught my third of three Frisell August show at the Vanguard tonight, this with the "Four" quartet a bass-free guitar/piano/sax/drums thing. The pace was largely slow and dreamy with lots of space for the players to move around in. The opening stretch was a masterclass in 4-way improv. Rest was decent.
Frisell at the VV in August is one of my favorite NYC livemusic annual traditions.
-
And then, as luck would have it, Bill Frisell! Matinee set back at Appel with totally different band and feel. Petra Haden, Ambrose Akinmusire and Tim Angulo creating more magic, vocals and all... Including the most haunting cover of Where Have All the Flowers Gone? imaginable.
So lucky to be able to catch 3 of his birthday shows. All unique in their own way, three lineups, three side of Frisell as a bandleader. A tryptych of Frisellian magic. Grateful!
-
Tonight: haven't seen anyone over the past 4 years as much as Marta Sanchez and I don't think I've loved anyone more over that period than I've loved Bill Frisell, but I do not believe I'd ever seen them together before tonight. Needless to say, it was sublime. Trio set at the Stone with Ingrid Laubrock. As with everything in that room could've gone a million ways, but was a total lighter-than-air bliss-out. Three musicians in constant, sweet-nothing conversation with each other. Everything I dreamed it could be and then some. Perfection!
#nycfreaks #livemusic #nyc #thestone #jazz #martasanchez #billfrisell
-
And the perfect lead-in for the Bajas was Bill Frisell playing at Jazz Gallery. Early set that was like a weird jazz Jeckyll and Hyde. They'd play this relatively "straight" material at an incredibly best-ever level and then in between, they filled the gaps and cracks with oozy, ambient improvisation that only Frisell can do. Fucking incredible. With Jaleel Shaw, Cameron Campbell and Johnathan Blake.
-
Last night: exactly twenty years and a day since I last saw them, caught American Analog Set and twas like they never left. Great set last night of entrancing indie rock, steady rhythms and dreamy instrumentation. Always loved their use of vibraphone, and to experience it again last night... They were definitely ahead of their time. And also time goes fast! A good one at Pioneer Works.
Side note: show was billed as an "immersive experience" which was... Not the case. Still great!
-
Tonight: there was a 10-15 min stretch where I think Bill Frisell showed me what God sounds like. It's not that he's technically superior, it's that he creates such impossible magic & beauty. A something-else performance in duo with bassist Skuli Sverisson in a lovely (if not uncomfortable) church in BK.
Mary Halvorson in duo with Tomas Fujiwara crammed quite a bit of all flavors into their opening set. A fantastic bill for the NY Guitar Fest.
-
And now, playing to an absolutely thrilled packed house, the rather excellent La LOM.
-
Tonight: it's Friday, so yadda yadda. Same shit, different week, but you never know and so here we have Ravi Coltrane (!!) sitting in for the second set at Barbes with Oscar Noriega and Co. Coltrane is headlining the Vanguard next week, but tonight he's in a dingy back room in Park Slope. Best city ever, man.
#nycfreaks #livemusic #brooklyn #parkslope #barbes #jazz #ravicoltrane