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Post by Offering on Dec 24, 2011 17:34:33 GMT -5
Here are mine. In no real order, but I'd say the NZT if I had to pick out one...
NEW ZION TRIO
Fight Against Babylon
AUTOPSY
Macabre Eternal
CUT HANDS
Afro Noise 1
NATE YOUNG
Stay Asleep ( Regression Vol. 2 )
LES RHINOCEROS
Les Rhinoceros
GANGPOL & MIT
The 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club
TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION
Hater
COLIN STETSON
New History Warfare 2 : Judges
JOHN ZORN
Nova Express
TYSHAWN SOREY
Oblique 1
MORPHOSIS
What Have We Learned
FRANK ZAPPA
Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison
MATANA ROBERTS
COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
JEREMIAH CYMERMAN
Fire Sign
CATHEDRAL
Anniversary
THE NECKS
Mindset
YES
Fly From Here
JAMIE SAFT
Borshct Belt Studies
WORMROT
Dirge
MITOCHONDRION
Parasignosis
MILES DAVIS
Bitches Brew Live
CLOUD RAT
Fever Dreams
MASTODON
The Hunter
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Post by sarahv on Dec 29, 2011 11:54:05 GMT -5
I've been away from my music collection all week, so I'm probably missing something obvious from earlier in the year, but off the top of my head I'd say Joe Henry, Jolie Holland, Les Rhinoceros are on my best-of-2011 list. The Dreamers probably (weirdly) is my most listened-to Zorn release...
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Post by Offering on Dec 29, 2011 15:46:41 GMT -5
I've been away from my music collection all week, so I'm probably missing something obvious from earlier in the year, but off the top of my head I'd say Joe Henry, Jolie Holland, Les Rhinoceros are on my best-of-2011 list. The Dreamers probably (weirdly) is my most listened-to Zorn release... A Dreamer's Christmas was on ratation constantly here all Christmas day....Not sure that would have happened with any other Zorn album! |
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Post by sarahv on Dec 29, 2011 16:06:32 GMT -5
I didn't listen to it on Christmas (known as the sixth night of Chanukah 'round these parts) but I listened to it a lot since I got it. The only Christmas music I listened to on purpose this year.
They did a great version of "Winter Wonderland" at the concert on the 24th at the Sixth Street Synagogue. JZ on sax, Frank London, Kenny Wollesen, Jon Madof, Shanir Blumenkranz, Rabbi Greg, and I think Tim Keiper and Cyro Baptista too...
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Post by thelema on Jan 22, 2013 19:23:06 GMT -5
Because I saw this right now and love lists ... *nerd* - my "top ten" 2011:
01 Marilyn Crispell & Gerry Hemingway - Affinities
02 Bill Dixon - Envoi
03 Nucleon - Fitoplankton
04 Der Blutharsch & Aluk Todolo - Untitled
05 Nils Petter Molvaer - Baboon Moon
06 Oranssi Pazuzu - Kosmonument
07 Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
08 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From The Stairwell
09 MISH - The Entrance
10 Light Bearer - Lapsus
And some more albums I like (but more metal than jazz; I think that's not really a focus in this forum ...):
Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore
The Ocean Walker - Into The Depths (EP)
Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling
SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty One
Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields
Caïna - Hands That Pluck
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Samdhi
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Post by thelema on Jan 22, 2013 19:26:31 GMT -5
"I didn't listen to it on Christmas (known as the sixth night of Chanukah ...)" I guess you're Jewish?  |
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Post by sarahv on Jan 22, 2013 21:12:23 GMT -5
You guessed it right!  |
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Post by thelema on Jan 23, 2013 6:37:45 GMT -5
They did a secular concert in a synagogue? With "christmas jazz"? Unconceivable in Germany (at least in Frankfurt)! But worth a try ... |
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Post by sarahv on Jan 23, 2013 9:01:11 GMT -5
It was a Masada concert, actually. (Well, JZ's part was Masada - there were other bands that did their own thing, but it was all Jewish music - the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Jon Madof's band that later became Zion80). They just threw in "Winter Wonderland" for fun since it was Christmas Eve. And actually, that song has nothing about Christmas or Christianity or Jesus in it, it's just a song about winter and snow. And like every piece on "A Dreamers Christmas," it was written or co-written by a Jewish composer! |
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Post by thelema on Jan 23, 2013 11:24:59 GMT -5
I know this, but that's not my point. Perhaps the Jews in Germany are too German ... (just to name a large bag of clichés) There's a place for secular party (community center) and a place for SERIOUS (!) business (synagogue) in Frankfurt. On parties the music doesn't matter, as long as it's Jewish ... (it's a mess!) - except for the liberal rabbi who prefers alternative rock I copied a cd with Masada studio tracks for her, but gave her the wrong cd and she was pleasantly surprised. She complained that she always gets Jewish music, just because she is the rabbi. I presume they are more relaxed in the US ... (?) |
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Post by sarahv on Jan 23, 2013 12:37:26 GMT -5
It depends on the synagogue. There are very liberal ones and very conservative ones and everything in between. The synagogue where concert this took place is known for its music program and their "jazz rabbi" Greg Wall - they have tons of music events and they have even hosted Tzadik festivals there. It was a little weird going to see a concert in the big fancy sanctuary at the synagogue, I'll admit... |
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Post by thelema on Jan 23, 2013 13:26:30 GMT -5
Greg Wall is your rabbi? The organ player?  The last remaining historical synagogue in Frankfurt, a former liberal synagogue, is now home of a unified community. For obvious reasons most German Jews in our time are descendants of (mostly orthodox) Eastern Europeans who dominate the community, so keeping the form dominates the content ... Sorry ... |
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Post by sarahv on Jan 23, 2013 14:25:13 GMT -5
He played the saxophone when I saw him.
He is not my rabbi, though. That synagogue is 300km away from where I live. I just went there once for a concert.
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Post by thelema on Jan 23, 2013 16:06:00 GMT -5
My fault, I mixed him up with Dan Wall (from the John Abercrombie Trio).
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