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TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON Social Science | Waiting Game
HAROLD LOPEZ-NUSSA trio . NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
CHRIS POTTER UNDERGROUND At The Village Vanguard
THE BAD PLUS | Never Stop II
A new chapter, I keep listening to it, I can’t stop it!
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/11/576523371/first-listen-the-bad-plus-never-stop-ii
ROBERT GLASPER & BILAL | NPR Music’s 10th Anniversary Concert
At NPR Music’s 10th Anniversary Concert at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., Glasper came to play, bringing longtime associate Derrick Hodge on electric bass and a newer collaborator, Justin Tyson, on drums. The performance began with something like an invocation, as Hodge played a chiming and meditative elaboration on “Portrait of Tracy,” a ballad by Jaco Pastorius.
What came next was an unbilled guest: Bilal, the shape-shifting R&B vocalist who has known Glasper since the first day of freshman year at the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music in New York. They dug into “All Matter,” a tune that first appeared on Glasper’s 2009 album Double Booked, later resurfacing on Bilal’s 2010 release Airtight Revenge. The lyrics establish a philosophical reflection well suited to our times:
We’re all the same
And all so very different
Divine by design
It all intertwinesGlasper and Bilal have performed “All Matter” countless times, always managing to find some new motivation in the song. This performance features a keyboard solo that starts out terse and gradually opens up and expands, hinting at some tricky rhythmic displacement that Tyson later ratifies, in his spectacular drum solo.
Glasper’s solemn but uplifting piano interlude leads into another Bilal original, “Levels,” a portrait of relationship strife that refuses to lay the blame fully on either side. It’s an argument for rendering complexity with clarity — something Glasper and crew know a thing or two about.
— Nate Chinen
Rudresh Mahanthappa | NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Really think well on what is your voice, or is your voice you, or is your voice some sort of regurgitation of what’s around you or what’s happened in the very near past… think about this stuff. And I think if you think about all of that, whether or not you’re a leader, if you’ve got integrity, it will be fine – it will just happen.
Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone
Rez Abbasi, guitar
Rich Brown, bass
Rudy Royston, drums
Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran // NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
How can you not admire this true legend? God! I think I’ve found something precious!
Esperanza Spalding // Emily’s D+Evolution in concert at BRIC House in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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