Dec 16 2016
As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m now compiling a monthly Best of Bandcamp Jazz for the Bandcamp Daily blog. The newest installment covers albums for November (more of a October 20th – November 20th thing, really). There’s ten primary recommendations in total, plus some side recommendations to boot.
Follow this LINK to read those recommendations and listen to music from each album.
Have fun going through the list!
Cheers.
Dec 16 2016
Today’s videos feature an artist who has recently made an appearance in a This Is Jazz Today column and another who will be shortly.
First up is Christophe Dal Sasso and a trailer from his new album Les Nébuleuses.
You can read more about the album here (LINK).
Your album personnel: Christophe Dal Sasso (flute), David El-Malek (tenor & soprano saxophones), Pierre de Bethmann (piano, Fender Rhodes), Manuel Marches (bass), Lukmil Perez (drums), Youri Bessières (violin), Martin Rodriguez (viola) and Jean-Philippe Feiss (cello).
And if you want to skip the write-up and just immediately go buy the album, you can scoop it up at the artist’s Bandcamp page.
And the trio Inventions and Dimensions, and their new EP Wabi Sabi, will be receiving some This Is Jazz Today attention in the very near future.
Here’s a live 2016 performance at Jazz Central, on their home turf of Minneapolis, MN.
Your video personnel: Joe Strachan (piano), Chris Bates (bass) and Matthew Buckner (drums).
And if you don’t feel like waiting for the write-up and just want to buy the album right now, you can scoop it up at the artist’s Bandcamp page.
Dec 15 2016
There’s a dreamy quality to the music of PHD that’s tough not to fall for. The self-titled recording from the quintet PHD sends melodies into motion with the idea of a lullaby’s gentle rocking in mind. Peter Delannoye‘s trombone typically lights the way with the guitars of Thomas Decock and Peter Hertmans rounding out the edges, while the bass and drums of Pol Belardi and Matthias De Waele create a rhythmic susurrance that moves songs along more as undercurrent than driving force.
“Cry No More” and “Evolver” raise the temperature just a bit, but keep closer to the imagery of comforting fireplace than dramatic conflagration. This is the kind of music that wants to approach tranquility without actually attaining it, preferring to retain the flexibility of bursts of liveliness and unexpected turns within the nuance. The deep voicing of trombone matches so very nicely with the brightness of guitars, and the effect is made more arresting by the intersecting patterns their paths take them… not quite weaving together and never quite achieving complete separation… a feeling of tight motion within the tiny space of a melody.
This one’s got some serious allure to it.
Your album personnel: Peter Delannoye (trombone), Peter Hertmans (guitar), Thomas Decock (guitar), Pol Belardi (bass, moog) and Matthias De Waele (drums).
This album is Self-Produced.
Listen to more of the album at the artist’s Bandcamp page.
Jazz from the Brussels, Belgium scene.
Available at: Bandcamp
Dec 15 2016
Let’s get right to today’s featured videos…
The first video is a solo saxophone performance from Harald Lassen, in Emanuel Vigeland’s Museum at Slemdal. Lassen’s latest recording, Rainbow Session, has him performing with a quartet, and was one of the recommendations in the latest This Is Jazz Today column (LINK).
Your video personnel: Harald Lassen (tenor sax).
You should check out the actual YouTube page this video resides on. It provides some cool background on the venue.
And if you want to buy his latest album, Rainbow Session, you can scoop it up at Bandcamp.
And our second video is from the quintet PHD, whose self-titled recording will be featured later today.
Your video personnel: Peter Delannoye (trombone), Peter Hertmans (guitar), Thomas Decock (guitar), Pol Belardi (bass, moog) and Matthias De Waele (drums).
And if you don’t feel like waiting for the write-up and just want to buy the album right now, you can scoop it up at the artist’s Bandcamp page.
Dec 17 2016
The Game of Thrones theme is the worst song ever… except this time
I detest the theme song to Game of Thrones. If I don’t hit the mute button when that corny, melodramatic atrocity comes on, it ruins that nifty clockwork castle opening montage. I mean, seriously, nobody likes the GoT theme, right? As messed up as this world is, I can at least count on that.
Well, the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys make the theme not so bad. Tolerable, even.
Here’s their 2014 performance of the GoT theme at B.B. King’s Blues Club in Times Square.
Your video personnel: Wes “Quad” Anderson IV (sousaphone), Sam Friend (vocals, banjo), Joe Goldberg (clarinet, saxophone, piano), Josh “Jams” Marotta (percussion), Jon Ramm (trombone) and James Williams (vocals, trumpet).
You can buy their version of the song at Amazon.
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