MORE DRAWINGS OF JAZZ DUDES
This one from a show I went to last night with my friend Kelly at the Patchwork Playhouse, a room in the back of Century (a local vintage shop) which is covered walls and ceiling in quilts and generally soft stuff. Instead of chairs there's a ridiculous profusion of sofas everywhere, and everyone kind of squeezes in to watch. What's so great is that all the fabric and upholstery everywhere COMPLETELY deadens the sound, so they almost never mike anything and everything sounds pretty crystal clear. I love it.This band was called "Arrive", and hail from Chicago. Pretty good, although sometimes when trained musicians make random noises it's hard for me to tell if it's good or not. Using all those brains and training to make all these "found" sounds seems a little histrionic, although it by and large sounded really good. The vibes player sounded especially sweet, although the more that I think about it it was the sax player who did the coolest stuff. He was so unassuming, and moved so little, that it was easy to forget him. But he had a really amazing sound, and never overplayed at all, which is refreshing from younger musicians. I know if I could play like that I'd be soloing all over the place.
Afterwards we saw them out at Snug Harbor, where we missed no opportunity to say the name of the beanbag-pitching game they were playing ("Cornhole") over and over and over again.