Mary Halvorson Trio @ Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2010

Mary Halvorson Trio @ Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2010 , http://www.muzicadevest.ro

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[SkeletonMr]

that drummer is pretty inspirational. at least to me.

[Daionzrip]

Amazingly good stuff, for sure up there with Good For Cows/Less Than or Equal To disc and the 2nd Trio Convulsant disc ...amazingly dumb comment from koreankayagum... Why would anyone want to wake you up? It probably wouldn't make you a better listener and there's high likelihood that really stupid comments would come out. Here's a tip... if you ever grow a brain, learn to play some of this stuff and then provide comments.

[gretschjazzer]

puke

[cssource]

@koreankayagum I'll agree that bebop is very evolved and complex but its just one of the many forms of expression that jazz takes. charlie parker opened new doors and took melodic and rhythmic experimentation to its limits. this isn't bebop, don't listen to it expecting bebop.

[peainapodtube]

This number is called "See Seizure" and is on the Saturn Sings album by Mary Halvorson Quintet

[Kento617]

@CoprophilicMassage yeah this is the first time i heard her too. I was on Wikipedia looking up Brian Chase from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and found that he collaborated with her.

[CoprophilicMassage]

this is the first time ive ever listened to her. She definitely has her own sound, very interesting....still dont know what to think of it as a whole

[Basiledes]

This is cool, im happy I was pointed to her

[Nuditeaf]

@koreankayagum shuddap



[MrFalkets]

i'm seeing them the 14th im pumped!!

[dhorne2525]

@koreankayagum ... and you define "interesting"? (you seem to think that you do) Mary Halvorson isn't interesting TO YOU ... again, so what? ... I've stood in quite a few rooms full of people who find her downright riveting. Don't go to her concerts, and you probably should stop watching her videos ... duh. (well, unless you like being bored and whining ... and I think that might be the case).

[dhorne2525]

@koreankayagum Well, I haven't listened to any hip-hop since PE's "It Takes a Nation of Millions" but I don't feel compelled to go on every hip-hop thread and tell people the music isn't interesting (when they obviously find it thrilling) ... I don't get it, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Go somewhere "interesting". I get it, you don't like this. So what? Who cares? I'm only interested that you seem to feel compelled to try to teach me a lesson ... whatever indeed. Are you done yet?

[bertdockx]

@mookooable "john cage etc."? i wonder for who the "etc" stands for... why would every improviser have to be a good 'traditional' jazz-musician? which one is the real master: the one who apes another one's style (9 out of 10 contemporary jazz-conservatory students), or the one who masters his own style (charlie parker, john coltrane, derek bailey, ornette coleman, lester young, steve lacy, cecil taylor, evan parker, sun ra, thelonious monk...). john cage did his thing better than anyone else.

[dhorne2525]

@koreankayagum ... you sound like Stanley Crouch talking about Miles Davis. I just kept on listening to Bitches Brew, and he kept on telling me it was shitty and broke with "tradition" ... of course, that's what they said endlessly about Charlie Parker (and most other interesting musicians) ... "yawn" is better applied to your analysis.

[dhorne2525]

Strange how some folks think they are contributing to a conversation by saying "I don't get it" ... there's no information being provided there. Anyway, Mary Halvorson is pretty much at the top of my (and many other's) jazz lists these days ... I'd buy stock in her if I could. To me, this rocks and is gorgeous in a way you don't hear too many other places. First time I saw her play was with Braxton and it blew my mind ... been following her ever since. Don't like it? Listen to what you like.

[dhorne2525]

Strange how some folks think they are contributing to a conversation by saying "I don't get it" ... there's no information being provided there. Anyway, Mary Halvorson is pretty much at the top of my (and many other's) jazz lists these days ... I'd buy stock in her if I could. To me, this rocks and is gorgeous in a way you don't hear too many other places. First time I saw her play was with Braxton and it blew my mind ... been following her ever since. Don't like it? Listen to what you like.

[Daionzrip]

All three players are on recordings that demonstrate an exceptional ability to read and play difficult charts. A Sonny Rollins tour would not be a tough assignment for any of them. There's no shortage of chimps who will knock something they don't understand or players who are good at aping established icons . Some musicians choose to do something more. Rengaartist is right, this isn't a big leap from a lot of other great stuff, its not "free" or "experimental" to a well informed listener.

[rengaartist]

"...coming from nowhere and not part of a natural evolution." Really? Thelonius Monk, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane's later work, Eric Dolphy, Anthony Braxton, Billy Bang, Marion Brown, Derek Bailey and many other contemporaries.

[saln]

@saln as in the comments not the video those guys are GREAT(and girls)

[saln]

you guys are all jerks

[mookooable]

@jweihaas I have to side with koreankayagum somewhat. Many videos of these guys on youtube, but nothing that hints of an ability to play over changes/traditional jazz. Guys like Rollins and Coltrane could easily dip into these more angular, free styles, but of course they were/are absolute masters of ballads, bop. etc. I haven't seen any evidence that the folks in the video can go the other direction. "Experimental" sometimes means a lack of musicianship and/or real talent (John Cage, etc.).

[jweihaas]

@koreankayagum. Yo. These cats obviously are trying to further a tradition that you seem to have an undeserving sense of accomplishment about. Yes bird and sonny rollins were amazing and sheded for hour all day every day. But to discredit someone because theyre not playing bebop, or hardbop, postbop, (true jazz that really hasn't been popularly promoted since the 1940s) is just ignorant man. I'm sure if you put any of those musicians in a setting to play bop they could swing their asses off