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Comment by Jo- Koo of DojO- on February 18, 2022 at 6:18pm

Re: Paint it MetalJazz

List: Super Bowl LVI halftime show. A whiter shade of black.
Links: This week's L.A. streaming & in-person shows by Maxayn Lewis, ...more.

The World Stage in Leimert Park (Village) hosts Friday 8pm PT LIVE STREAMS of righteous (J)azz; join in here for live concerts & here for replays of past shows on its YouTube channel. Fri. Feb. 18: former Ikette Maxayn Lewis. Fri. Feb. 25: John B. Williams' L.A. Bass Choir. Donations encouraged here.

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Comment by Jo- Koo of DojO- on February 11, 2022 at 12:37pm

Re: Osirian MetalJazz

Links: This week's L.A. streaming & in-person shows by Steve Turre, Alan Pasqua, Nile, Marc Ribot, Dug Pinnick, more.
The World Stage in Leimert Park hosts Friday 8pm PT LIVE STREAMS of righteous (J)azz; join in here for live concerts & here for replays of past shows on its YouTube channel. Fri. Feb. 11: famed trombonist Steve Turre. Fri. Feb. 18: Maxayn Lewis. Fri. Feb. 25: John B. Williams' L.A. Bass Choir. Donations encouraged here.
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Comment by Jo- Koo of DojO- on February 4, 2022 at 1:34pm

Re: MetalJazz Lounge

Virtual live review: Jeff Parker-Paul Bryan-Dan Schnelle at Sam First. Tamping the fireworks.

Links: This week's L.A. streaming & in-person shows by Runson Willis (III), ...more.

The World Stage in Leimert Park hosts Friday 8pm PT LIVE STREAMS of righteous (J)azz; join in here for live concerts & here for replays of past shows on its YouTube channel. Fri. Feb. 4: guitarist-singer Runson Willis (III). Fri. Feb. 11: famed trombonist Steve Turre. Fri. Feb. 18: Maxayn Lewis. Fri. Feb. 25: John B. Williams' L.A. Bass Choir. Donations encouraged here.

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Comment by Jo- Koo of DojO- on January 28, 2022 at 11:58am

Re: MetalJazz canto

West Coast abstractionist shorts: ...

Links: This week's L.A. shows by Roger Guenveur Smith (& Mark Brovard), ...more.

The World Stage in Leimert Park has resumed its Friday 8pm PT LIVE STREAMS of righteous (J)azz; join in here for live concerts & here for replays of past shows on its YouTube channel. Fri. Jan. 28: Roger Guenveur Smith (& Mark Brovard). Fri. Feb. 4: Runson Willis. Fri. Feb. 11: Steve Turre. Fri. Feb. 18: Maxayn Lewis. Fri. Feb. 25: John B. Williams' L.A. Bass Choir. Donations encouraged here.

Comment by Jo- Koo of DojO- on January 16, 2022 at 6:11am

Re: MetalJazz convocation

Record review: The Gathering, "Healing Suite." Use your words.

The oral tradition, as much as the instrumental one, marks this recording selected from a 2015 concert by the Gathering. The occasion was already historic -- a reunion of South L.A. jazzfolk who had assembled in 2005 to celebrate the four-decade Horace Tapscott legacy. Young and old, the more recent incarnation spoke up behind a mission of message and purpose, and Wayne Peet's microphones were present to document.

Maia scream-sang without straying from a keen melodic sensibility, even while reminding us to remember the dark 400 years. Dwight Trible searched the limits of range and intonation as he referenced a couple of great mothers -- his own, and the mother of modern jazz singing, Billie Holiday, whose "Strange Fruit" provided a vehicle for unrestrained exorcism. Kamau Daáood roared his poetry, making his people visualize the barbed wire wrapped around their hearts but insisting that their prayers could cut through the air like a virus.

Even the instruments seemed to speak: the rapping traps and chanting congas of Fritz Wise and Derf Reklaw; the eloquent bass solo of Roberto Miranda; the pillow-talk trombone of Phil Ranelin; the declamatory bass clarinet of bandleader Jesse Sharps.

Since every conversation requires an atmosphere, the 15-member Gathering arrayed the room with musical drapes and chandeliers fit for a state banquet. Theo Saunders' flowing piano kept providing fresh options for harmony and melody, while the dissonant Tapscottian horn charts on the three-part "Freedom's Sweet" lent vibrant color to the late maestro's memorable waltz riffs and Caribbean rhythms.

The whole thing was impressive at the time, and it remains so now. History isn't all old, y'know.


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"Healing Suite" releases Jan. 21. Listen/preorder here. The Gathering streams live from the World Stage the same evening, here.

Read MetalJazz's review of the 2015 concert here.

Comment by Jo- Koo of DojO- on January 7, 2022 at 4:28pm

Re: Moving MetalJazz

Links: This week's L.A. shows... ; plus web-only concert by Liz Whitted Dawson.

The ('new') World Stage in Leimert Park has resumed its Friday 8pm PT LIVE STREAMS of righteous (J)azz; join in here for future live concerts & here for replays of past shows on its YouTube channel. Fri. Jan. 7: Liz Whitted Dawson Jazztet. Fri. Jan. 14: Eric Reed, master of postbop piano. Fri. Jan. 21: The Gathering. Fri. Jan. 28: Roger Guenveur Smith. Fri. Feb. 4: Al Williams Jazz Society. Fri. Feb. 11: Steve Turre. Fri. Feb. 18: Maxalyn Lewis. Fri. Feb. 25: John B. Williams' L.A. Bass Choir. Donations encouraged here.
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