April 14, 2009

Avishai Cohen Trio live in Berlin 2008

Shai Maestro, Piano
Avishai Cohen, Bass, Vocals
Itamar Doari, Percussion

recorded live at Jazzfest Berlin November 6, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Seattle
2. Umray
3. Yesh Li Gan
4. Eleven Wives
5. Structure In Emotion
6. Gently Disturbed
7. The Ever Evolving Etude
8. To The Bird
9. Shalom
10. Remembering

This is a re-post of this concert with two additional tracks featuring Avishai on vocals. Avishai released a great trio recording on Razdaz called "Gently Disturbed":

April 11, 2009

Bobo Stenson Trio live at Jazzfest Berlin 2008


Bobo Stenson, piano
Anders Jormin, double-bass
Jon Fält, drums

recorded live at Jazzfest Berlin, November 8, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Polska Of Dispair (Traditional/ Jormin)
2. Seli (Jormin)
3. El Mayor (Silvio Rodriguez)
4. M (Jormin)
5. Don's Kora Song (Don Cherry)

Master pianist Stenson, long term bassist Anders Jormin and alertly responsive young drummer Jon Fält have developed a richly detailed sound-world like nothing else in modern jazz – at once an extension of the jazz piano tradition and, with its windows opening onto classical music and world folklore, a force apart from it. Their latest effort on ECM is the 2008 album "Cantando":

April 10, 2009

Trio Patitucci-Rogers-Penn live Montréal-Frontenac 2005

John Patitucci - Acoustic & Electric Bass
Adam Rogers - Guitar
Clarence Penn - Drums

recorded live Montréal-Frontenac/Canada, October 18, 2005

Tracklist:
1. Evidence (Monk)
2. Up with the lark (Kern)
3. Jesus is on the main line (trad.)
4. Purpose (Rogers)
5. Here, there and everywhere (Lennon/McCartney)

John Patitucci latest album is called "Line by Line" and features - among others - Adam Rogers on guitar.


April 07, 2009

Andy Emler MegaOctet live in Berlin 2008

Andy Emler - piano, compositions and direction
Laurent Dehors - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, bagpipe
Thomas de Pourquery - alto and soprano saxophone
Philippe Sellam - alto and soprano saxophone
Laurent Blondiau - trumpet
François Thuillier - tuba
Claude Tchamitchian - doublebass
Eric Echampard - drums
François Verly - percussions

recorded live Festival Jazzdor Berlin, October 4, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Mail to Elise
2. Go Down Swimming
3. La Regamuse/Reouvertoire et Postlude
4. Introduction
5. Crouch, Touch, Engage

Through many line-up changes over the years, the MegaOctet, formed in 1989 and led by Andy Emler, has remained what André Francis once described as "a laboratory for some of the most beautiful, daring and inventive playing today". Too turbulent and festive to be just a miniature version of the conventional jazz big band, and too virtuosic and extravagant to merely provide high class musical entertainement, it continues to defy expectations.
2007 this band recorded "West in Peace", released on Nocturne:

April 05, 2009

Richard Galliano Quartet feat. Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Clarence Penn live in Mannheim 2008

Richard Galliano: accordion
Charlie Haden: bass
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: piano
Clarence Penn: drums

recorded live at Alte Feuerwache Mannheim, October 18, 2008

Tracklist:
1. Bonjour
2. Poème
3. Mister J
4. Love Day
5. Aurore
6. Laurita
7. Tango Pour Claude
8. Apple Pie
9. Hymne

Look out for "Love Day", an album Galliano, Rubalcaba and Haden recorded with Mino Cinelu:

April 04, 2009

Dee Dee Bridgewater "Red Earth" live at Jazz Open Stuttgart 2007

Dee Dee Bridgewater, vocals
Ira Coleman, stand-up electric bass, musical director
Edsel Gomez, piano
Lansine Kouyate, balafon
Baba Sissoko, n'goni
Adama Diarra, djembe
Mamadou Cherif Soumano, kora, guitar
Kabine Kouyate, vocals
Assitan Kita, vocals
Minino Garay, drums, cajon, percussion

recorded live at Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany, July 12, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Afro Blue
2. Bani (Bad Spirits)
3. Footprints
4. Demissénw (Children Go Round)
5. Sakhodougou (The Griots)
6. Massane Cissè (Red Earth)
7. Compared To What

The material of this concert was recorded on Dee Dee´s really great album "Red Earth - A Malia Journey" released on DDB Records/ Emarcy: