Vision 24 to Cyrille’s drumming which brings out the brilliantly by altoist Darius Jones’s braying cosmology. After a momentary blowout, Roulette Intermedium, , US swing in Jordan’s playing, along with some drones and sour tonalities. Gibbs calls the band off stage, clearing Founded in 1996, is the disruptive squalls. At 84, Jordan is the There are very fine sets from masters the space for Total Sound Immersion’s New York free community’s annual festival’s oldest performer, and while he like Amina Claudine Myers, , gongs and bowed glasses. The group jamboree, exploring the connections alludes to health problems, he reiterates , Marty Ehrlich, Matthew is gradually reintroduced, with David between music, visual art, dance and his commitment to keeping the idiom alive. Shipp, Marc Ribot and Ingrid Laubrock, Pleasant’s knee-slapping spoons routine poetry. This year’s celebrated artist is the In addition to Cyrille’s Lifetime but younger artists deserve highlighting stealing show. Doom- basslines are legendary drummer Andrew Cyrille, who Achievement, the festival honours here. Kris Davis’s January Painters trio lifted by African percussion and neon jets curates the opening evening of duo and departed elders. reconvenes with Parker and drummer Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts of EWI: inspired Afrofuturism. trio performances, playing with Haitian Creative Collective, with is outstanding. The Canadian pianist’s In addition to performing with God drummers, poets, dancers and video drumming in place of the late . elegant constructions form a beautifully Particle and the glorious Heroes Are Gang artists. His drumming is at its most subtle There’s a spiritual intensity to their set, icy contrast to the rhythm section’s fluid Leaders, saxophonist James Brandon in Lebroba, his trio with Wadada Leo with Jordan seguing into a John Coltrane funk, although she introduces sly bluesy Lewis leads The Unruly Quintet. Propelled Smith and Brandon Ross, who replaces quote via gutsy tenor honks. Alto Gladness riffs later in the set. Her inside piano work by Warren G Crudup III’s relentless James Bill Frisell. They fold themes from their features three former students of Cecil and preparations introduce new elements Brown grooves, the group season their 2018 ECM release into a continuous set, Taylor: Jemeel Moondoc, Idris Ackamoor to the music, from gossamer EBow tones to torrential free funk with touches of post- with Cyrille’s swirling brushes leaving and Bobby Zenkel. Their compositions koto-like prickles. Guitarist Ava Mendoza rock, drum ’n’ bass and Charlie Haden the space wide open for the raw ache of have a puckish energy, grounded by brings spicy avant rock moves to a influenced Americana. Lewis’s muscular Smith’s trumpet and Ross’s slow burning, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver’s rock quartet, while Tomas Fujiwara’s tenor is matched by Jaimie Branch’s fizzy occasionally volatile, guitar. In the closing solid grooves. Douglas R Ewart’s Bamboo 7 Poets trio featuring vibist Patricia spurts of trumpet, while guitarist Anthony set, Cyrille does not so much temper Peter Constellations for Joseph Jarman begins Brennan and cellist Tomeka Reid create a Pirog brings shoegaze textures and Brötzmann’s roaring tenor as highlight its with an Art Ensemble style procession of vivid chamber music full of bright melodies punk grit. In his closing remarks, Lewis bluesier shades. musicians and dancers. A beautiful set and warped clouds of tone. emphasises the importance of community Following Cyrille’s duo with saxophonist unfolds, full of unusual tonal colours from Melvin Gibbs and Stephon Alexander’s and continuity, and his thrilling music Kidd Jordan, the latter explains that he cor anglais, bassoon and shakuhachi. In God Particle premiere a new work “Ogodo embodies that, nodding to tradition while was not improvising, but rather playing DD Jackson’s tribute to , Quanta” which explores the similarities charging into the future. with the drums. There’s a melodic quality James Carter’s brawny baritone is offset between theoretical physics and African Stewart Smith

Istanbul Jazz Festival: Vitrin ethereal vocals come to the fore. In Gaye Su Akyol Showcase For Contemporary Music another track, staccato keyboard lines From Turkey underpin echoing guitar melodies set to Various venues, Istanbul, Turkey delicate abstract visuals, Now in its third year, the Vitrin Movement between venues makes it Showcase For Contemporary Music From possible to only catch the final piece Turkey kicks off the annual Istanbul from Volkan Incuvez’s Kün performance in Jazz Festival. The opening night’s a small church. As I enter, an expressive line-up features variations on a jazz ney, an end-blown flute that has been in theme, including the competent jazz-rock use in the Middle East for millennia, is of Efe Demiral and his band, the avant soloing over a backdrop of baritone vocal garde stylings of Can Tutuğ Trio and the drones and the effect is mesmerising. charming seven-piece No Land. But it soon Later a quartet of neys join together and, becomes apparent that the inevitable coupled with the hall’s acoustics and deep problem with fitting many acts into a tight mauve lighting, the audience is further schedule, across different venues, is that drawn into a calm, meditative stillness. it’s impossible to get a taste of them all. Nusaibin, playing at nearby Moda The venue for the first concert Kayıkhane, is a different prospect on the second day is inspired: the altogether: starting as a four-piece Şerefiye Sarnıcı, part of the city’s large but soon expanding to seven musicians underground network of water reservoirs. on stage, many of the band are playing Lalalar, a trio consisting of guitar, rhythmic squeezing of an array of squeaky Built around 1600 years ago and newly hand-held tar drums with the addition of electronics, bass and vocals, follows. toys of different pitches and timbres restored, it is now used as an exhibition electronics and a didgeridoo. The pulsing Singer and bassist Ali Güçlü Şimşek, fresh which lends a humorous interlude to space and provides a cool (in all senses) basslines, synchronised drumming and from performing in Gaye Su Akyol’s band proceedings. Joining the group later, the backdrop for a quartet featuring the Sol occasional vocal samples (in one instance minutes earlier, proves to be an engaging radiant vocals of Esen’s wife Randy K add clarinettist Ramazan Sesler. Coming from the distinctive, urgent strains of folk frontman and the crowd again react with brightness and sparkle. a long family line of musicians specialising legend Selda Bağcan) create infectious an energetic fervour. If new wave, rock and There are several more shows the in festivities and weddings, Sesler’s dancefloor-friendly grooves that energise electro were all to collide on a dancefloor, following day which conclude the event, instrument soars and swoops, enhanced the crowd while a welcome breeze drifts in Lalalar could well be the result, and the including the pyrotechnics of microtonal by the room’s natural reverb, while his from the nearby waterfront. band end the night on a high. guitar duo Tolgahan Çoğulu and Sinan fellow musicians on qanun, darbuka and Over at the Moda Stage, Gaye Su The next day, after an illuminating Ayyıldız and the smouldering slow-builds oud at once back him up with almost Akyol emerges with a dazzling, theatrical panel discussion investigating how of jazz trio Töz at the Salon venue, and telepathic precision and solo beautifully glamour, her sparkling costume more Turkish acts can be booked Barış Demirel’s genre-hopping Barıştık Mı when required. enshrouded by a silver gossamer cape internationally (most agree that further project and the jazz-funk flavours of the Later that evening the pace picks up giving the impression of a benevolent building the infrastructure within the Turgut Alp Bekoğlu Love Jazz Quartet in as 21 concerts await, spread over eight fairy queen. Traditional Turkish melodies country is necessary for artists to Beykoz Kundura, a disused shoe factory different venues in Kadıköy, a bustling mix with psychedelia, surf rock and become more “export ready”) the next now used as a film studio. district on the Asian side of the city. pop sensibilities, creating the perfect concert awaits, this time at the large While some of the music may have felt Drone-pop singer Ekin Fil performs with an backdrop for Akyol’s distinctively elegant UNIQ auditorium. Aydın Esen Group, a little hit and miss (an inevitability when array of effects pedals on a table before vocals. Her rapport with the audience is consisting of influential jazz keyboardist there are over 30 concerts to digest), it’s her and an electric guitar stationed on easy and immediate, and despite having and composer Aydın Esen, drummer Tommy surely only a matter of time before more of her lap. Her set begins with some gently played in the city only weeks earlier, Campbell and bassist Greg Jones, play Turkey’s emerging artists will be seen on echoing guitar work with slow-motion the crowd react like it’s a long awaited a set that includes an unexpected ten stages around the globe. Dimitri Djuric Emre DurmusEmre synth pulses before her beguiling, homecoming appearance. minute solo by Campbell involving the Shane Woolman

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