All posts tagged: VAX

Playlist for Week of December 8, 2014

Matt Nelson – Lower Bottoms (Tubapede, 2014) Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance – Palace of Wind (NNA Tapes, 2014) Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans – Live in Lisbon (No Business, 2014) Tyshawn Sorey – Alloy (Pi, 2014) VAX – Count to VAX (self-released, 2014) [vinyl] Jesse Stacken – Helleborus (Fresh Sound, 2014) Taylor Ho

Best Albums of 2014

This was an amazing year with a number of innovative and revolutionary releases that made it very difficult to choose. I spent many days narrowing the best records of 2014 down to fifteen: Josh Sinton’s Ideal Bread – Beating the Teens (Cuneiform) Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance – Palace of Wind (NNA Tapes) Rodrigo Amado Motion

Playlist for the Week of December 1, 2014

Silke Eberhard Trio – What a Beauty Being (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) William Parker’s In Order to Survive – The Peach Orchard (AUM Fidelity, 1998) VAX – Count to VAX (self-released, 2014) Matt Nelson – Lower Bottoms (Tubapede, 2014) Jesse Stacken – Helleborus (Fresh Sound, 2014) Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)

VAX, New York, and the Death of Art: A Review

On a weekly, and often daily, basis, I have conversations with friends, email exchanges, or Facebook interactions about the decline and inevitable death of the New York new jazz scene. Many of the concerns people raise are very real: fewer opportunities to play live (and fewer that pay well), eroding audience numbers, venues closing, gentrification

Playlist for the Week of 15 March 2014

VAX – self-titled (self-released, 2013) [vinyl] Miles Davis – Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige, 1956) [vinyl] Lee Morgan – Here’s Lee Morgan (Vee Jay, 1960) [vinyl] Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble – Live in Antibes, vols. 1-2 (Actuel, 1970) [vinyl] Matthew Shipp Trio – Root of Things (Relative Pitch, 2014) Sun