#third stream

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Tracklist:

II B.S. • I X Love • Celia • Mood Indigo • Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul • Theme For Lester Young • Hora Decubitus

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[zef-zef]

Laurel Halo

Late Night Drive

Atlas from: Laurel Halo - Atlas (Awe, 2023)

[iamlisteningto]

Nala Sinephro’s Endlessness

[arterrorist]

Mingus merging classical compositional tricks with jazz in 1954.

[theparanoid]

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle

(1973 album)

Full Youtube Video | Spotify

[Spiritual Jazz, Third Stream, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop]

[mywifeleftme]

282: Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble // Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes 1972–1977

Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes 1972–1977 Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble 2018, Tompkins Square (Bandcamp)

Still wildly underknown given the transporting beauty of their compositions, there is a world next door to this one where Baltimore’s Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble is as popular a soundtrack for meditation and study as Steve Reich or Philip Glass are in our own. Their music lies somewhere between modern chamber music and progressive folk, with a dash of jazz, and it was often used to score experimental dance and theatre productions. The band released two albums in the 1970s on Folkways before dissolving following the death of bandleader Joe Clark in 1983. Most probably their obscurity came from practicing their craft outside a major cultural centre; if anything, the 1,600 monthly listeners they command on Spotify represents wider exposure than they enjoyed in their prime.

Ceremony of Dreams, available in a three-hour digital format or an abridged ten-track vinyl, collects material that didn’t make it onto either of their Folkways records. Compared to Entourage and The Neptune Collection, these tracks are a little less playful, less overtly experimental in their production; they weren’t after all recorded specifically for release as an LP. But even in its condensed wax form, I can speak to the quality of Ceremony’s sober reveries, the lot of it grey or ghost-haloed yet coruscating, like black and white footage of waves crashing at night. Rather than a mere trove of demos, it meaningfully expands on their discography.

The Pitchfork review does a better job of namedropping comparable artists than I have the chutzpah for today (Arvo Pärt, Bert Jansch, La Monte Young, John Cale, Sandy Bull, raga like in general), but if you have a taste for open-concept acoustic music, Ceremony of Dreams is a sure shot.

(As an aside though: It's either endearing or grownworthy that the Entourage boys still have the classic doofy musician dude sense of humour that compels them to give these ethereal compositions "Lick My Lovepump"-ass names like "Sleazy Sue" and "Necrophelia.")

282/365

[theraff]

Alright this shit rules. It's blowing my mind.

Gaining a serious appreciation for jazz, even though I think it'll never be my main genre.

[jazzdailyblog]

Gunther Schuller: Bridging Jazz and Classical Traditions

Introduction: Few figures in the world of music have successfully traversed and united the seemingly disparate worlds of jazz and classical music. Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) stands as a towering example of this rare synthesis. As a composer, conductor, educator, historian, and instrumentalist, Schuller left a profound legacy that not only enriched the individual genres of jazz and classical…

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Sounds That Have Been Made, EP 122: Mathias Eick "Arvo"

Mathias Eick is a rather interesting character; a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist (although predominantly on trumpet) who has a spectacular chamber-jazz career (mostly on the tier 1 ECM label) but who also has collaborated or been a member of psychedelic art-rock band Motorpsycho, punkers Turbonegro, alternative/modern rock bands DumDum Boys and BigBang, and the sort of indie-pop of D’Sound. I…

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Tracklist:

Señor Mouse • Arise, Her Eyes • I'm Your Pal • Desert Air • Crystal Silence • Falling Grace • Feelings And Things • Childrens Song • What Game Shall We Play Today

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[musicandotherdelights]

Daily Listening, Day #44 - February 13th, 2020

Album: Sketches Of Spain (Columbia, 1960)

Artist: Miles Davis

Genre: Modal Jazz, Third Stream

Track Listing: 

"Concierto De Aranjuez"

"Will O' The Wisp"

"The Pan Piper"

"Saeta"

"Solea"

Favorite Song: "Concierto De Aranjuez"

[sonmelier]

11. Laurel Halo | Atlas

🇺🇸 Etats-Unis | Awe | 41 minutes | 10 morceaux

Laurel Halo inaugure en beauté le label Awe qu’elle vient de fonder, avec ce mélange envoûtant de jazz aérien, d’énergie orchestrale et d’ambiances planantes. Atlas est bâti autour du piano, instrument avec lequel l’artiste a récemment renoué, mais il agrège aussi des textures électroniques et des ajouts de guitare, de violon ou encore de vibraphone. Une ambiance profondément immersive et apaisante s’en dégage, propice à l’émerveillement. A noter la présence de la violoncelliste Lucy Railton et du saxophoniste Bendik Giske, dont les albums respectifs sortis aussi cette année n’étaient pas loin de figurer dans le cut final de la cuvée 2023.

[iamlisteningto]

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve’s The Sport Of Love

[worldwithoutmiracles]

I've been getting into more third stream jazz, specifically been listening to a lot of Charles Mingus, and his song titles are all-time. Just wanted to share some favorites:

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Gregarian Chant

Pithecanthropus Erectus

New Now Know How

No Private Income Blues 

Mingus Fingus No. 2

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

Please Don't Come Back From The Moon

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers

Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too

Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me

Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (actually an album, not a song)