Here is the review that I wrote about Kidd Jordan's 2002 JazzFest appearance. Maybe you were there? Or others reading this? Check it out.
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𝑲𝒊𝒅𝒅 𝑱𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒍 𝑭𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝑨𝑸 JazzFest - Jazz Tent May 5, 2002 Review by Noel Mayeske
The festival highlight for me: purest free jazz I’ve ever heard... like 3 or 4 loco-motives barrelin' full tilt down burning tracks and eventually converging into one. Shockingly powerful stuff. I felt my head spinning during the set... going closer to the stage I was walking on air. Air was shaking.
Had a person parachuted into the middle of this show, the horns, piano, bass and drums may have almost seemed to be in seizure mode, a paroxysm of confusion - but the musicians' compasses were all pointed the same direction. Kidd and his band's genius lay in the logic of that hurtling train of sound - the inner cohesion beneath surface chaos. A larger fabric keeping the threads together... you felt it intuitively even as the thing threatened to burst apart at its seams.
I’ve heard some free jazz, from Albert Ayler to late Coltrane, Sun Ra, and of course Ornette, but this was the best yet for me. And I was impressed that the most challenging and experimental music of this JazzFest was played by a buncha older guys. It's easy to associate radicalism with youth, but not necessarily so - from the avant garde pianist Henry Cowell to late-period Edward Munch to William Burroughs - heck, even Rosa Parks was 42 when she took her seat on the bus. Folks can keep pushing at any age.
I mean, Kidd Jordan and his band looked like the guys you see at neighborhood meetings, or hanging out at the lake house on the weekends. Except their minds were bursting with ideas and passion. The whole event was enhanced by a painter onstage creating an abstract painting using yellow and black (with some red at the end) during the show itself.
Nice review, Noel. I saw Kidd Jordan twice at Jazz Fest, once with the Improvisational Arts Quintet, or a version of it. I don't remember a painter at either, so it may not have been 2002. I do think it was the same year as Ornette and that was 2003. Mind blowing.
I had a Sunday pass for Ornette's 2003 JazzFest set, and to this day it galls me that I had to return to Atlanta Saturday night (after the closing of the fest for the day) for a family event I couldn't miss.
I wouldn't have missed the family event for the world, but that ended up being my only chance to see Ornette, so I never did. My buddy at the event is a guy whose favorite musician is Ornette, so he was in heaven because he was able to see him.
Marc, The Bad Brains trading cards are actually prints designed by "Stuff By Mark," an artist out of the U.K. that I follow on Instagram. This is the link to where he sells his t-shirts. I don't see the prints, so that may be only through Instagram. Here is that link: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvWBXUq0Gt/
He's selling signed prints of about a dozen or so bands imagined as trading cards, including Patti Smith, VU, Captain Beefheart, Elvis C.... https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvWBXUq0Gt/
Great dump! Where would meme writers be without conservatives? Melania seems to have gone into hiding. Don Martin, Cookie Monster. More great people passed, unfortunately. RIP.
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Many good ones again - I wasn't aware of the passing of Ryuichi - loved his work with David Sylvian.
Randy
So many good ones. And - KIDD JORDAN !!!
Damn.
Here is the review that I wrote about Kidd Jordan's 2002 JazzFest appearance.
Maybe you were there? Or others reading this? Check it out.
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𝑲𝒊𝒅𝒅 𝑱𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒍 𝑭𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝑨𝑸
JazzFest - Jazz Tent
May 5, 2002
Review by Noel Mayeske
The festival highlight for me: purest free jazz I’ve ever heard... like 3 or 4 loco-motives barrelin' full tilt down burning tracks and eventually converging into one. Shockingly powerful stuff. I felt my head spinning during the set... going closer to the stage I was walking on air. Air was shaking.
Had a person parachuted into the middle of this show, the horns, piano, bass and drums may have almost seemed to be in seizure mode, a paroxysm of confusion - but the musicians' compasses were all pointed the same direction. Kidd and his band's genius lay in the logic of that hurtling train of sound - the inner cohesion beneath surface chaos. A larger fabric keeping the threads together... you felt it intuitively even as the thing threatened to burst apart at its seams.
I’ve heard some free jazz, from Albert Ayler to late Coltrane, Sun Ra, and of course Ornette, but this was the best yet for me. And I was impressed that the most challenging and experimental music of this JazzFest was played by a buncha older guys. It's easy to associate radicalism with youth, but not necessarily so - from the avant garde pianist Henry Cowell to late-period Edward Munch to William Burroughs - heck, even Rosa Parks was 42 when she took her seat on the bus. Folks can keep pushing at any age.
I mean, Kidd Jordan and his band looked like the guys you see at neighborhood meetings, or hanging out at the lake house on the weekends. Except their minds were bursting with ideas and passion. The whole event was enhanced by a painter onstage creating an abstract painting using yellow and black (with some red at the end) during the show itself.
Everything stirring, everything alive.
Nice review, Noel.
I saw Kidd Jordan twice at Jazz Fest, once with the Improvisational Arts Quintet, or a version of it. I don't remember a painter at either, so it may not have been 2002. I do think it was the same year as Ornette and that was 2003. Mind blowing.
I had a Sunday pass for Ornette's 2003 JazzFest set, and to this day it galls me that I had to return to Atlanta Saturday night (after the closing of the fest for the day) for a family event I couldn't miss.
I wouldn't have missed the family event for the world, but that ended up being my only chance to see Ornette, so I never did. My buddy at the event is a guy whose favorite musician is Ornette, so he was in heaven because he was able to see him.
Who's hanging with Sean Lennon?
cmealha,
Zak Starkey and Zak's wife.
The beer joke was my favorite! Happy Saturday!
Were Bad Brains trading cards really a thing?!?! And if so, what other bands got Topps cards?
Mad Magazine was a huge part of my life from elementary school through college. I need to go dig out some Don Martin classics now.
Marc
Marc,
The Bad Brains trading cards are actually prints designed by "Stuff By Mark," an artist out of the U.K. that I follow on Instagram. This is the link to where he sells his t-shirts. I don't see the prints, so that may be only through Instagram. Here is that link:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvWBXUq0Gt/
He's selling signed prints of about a dozen or so bands imagined as trading cards, including Patti Smith, VU, Captain Beefheart, Elvis C....
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvWBXUq0Gt/
Sorry...here is the t shirt link:
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?query=stuffbymarkuk%20shirt&ref=search_box
some pretty funny stuff in there
Thanks for the links!
Marc
Great dump! Where would meme writers be without conservatives? Melania seems to have gone into hiding. Don Martin, Cookie Monster. More great people passed, unfortunately. RIP.
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