Jazz Journalists Association Awards 2010

June 15, 2010 — Mike

The JJA has announced this year’s winners. Notables below.

Musician of the Year – Vijay Iyer
Up & Coming Artist of the Year – Darcy James Argue
Record Label of the Year – Pi Recordings
Large Ensemble of the Year – Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Alto Saxophonist of the Year – Rudresh Mahanthappa
Flutist of the Year – Nicole Mitchell
Soprano Saxophonist of the Year – Evan Parker
Bassist of the Year – Dave Holland
Percussionist of the Year – Cyro Baptista

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Matana Roberts Interviewed on Ten Thousand Hours

June 15, 2010 — Mike

From Ten Thousand Hours:

Saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts speaks with James Ilgenfritz about the technical and metaphysical aspects of her dynamic and highly autobiographical music, including her ongoing blood narrative project Coin Coin (documented on her blog In the Midst Of Memory as well as an upcoming record on the Canadian label Constellations, and the interactive nature of her site-specific solo work. During the many years Roberts has been busking in New York and many other cities, she has come to see the process as an interactive dialogue with architecture. Roberts also discusses her early years in Chicago, including her association with the AACM and the support from Chicago elders like Fred Anderson an contemporaries like Josh Abrams and Chad Taylor. She also discusses her ongoing self-published Zine, “Fat Ragged”, and her enthusiasm for the transformative power of youth outreach, specifically describing recent work with ICASP in Montreal and The Future of Music Coalition and Air Traffic Control in New Orleans. Roberts and host James Ilgenfritz also perform duo colorful and engaging duo improvisations.

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Dusted Reviews

June 15, 2010 — Mike

From Dusted:

Artist: Frank Bretschneider
Album: Exp
Label: Raster-Noton

Artist: Blitzen Trapper
Album: Destroyer of the Void
Label: Sub Pop

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Undead Jazzfest Roams the West Village

June 15, 2010 — Mike

From NYTimes.com:

The festival’s 35 bands represented the sparky, autodidactic present in American jazz, which of course gathers in the past as well. So there was Steve Coleman’s multimetric funk; the blurriness of cool and spastic in Bill McHenry’s kind-of-post-bop quintet and the kind-of-rock Minneapolis trio Happy Apple; the immaculate and roughed-up big band music from John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble and the Virginia band Fight the Big Bull; David Weiss’s Point of Departure quintet exploring the liminal state of some lesser-known jazz form the mid-’60s, both inside and outside of traditional time and harmony; and Josh Sinton’s Ideal Bread playing songs by the saxophonist, composer and cult hero Steve Lacy.

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AMN Podcast: Miguel Frasconi, Denman Maroney – Gleam

June 15, 2010 — Mike

GleamMiguel Frasconi, Denman Maroney
“Gleam” (mp3)
from “Gleam”
(Porter Records)

Buy at Amazon MP3
More On This Album

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Musique Machine Reviews

June 15, 2010 — Mike

From Musique Machine:

Dead Body Collection – Throat
Art Muscle / No orgaNs – Split
Jason Steel – Baby, Wolves Abound
XV Parówek / The Sleep Sessions – Split C40 tape
North Korea – Untitled
I Dreamt of Her Beautful Tentacles – Concrete Vamp

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