TGJ are releasing a new album. Their first full album I believe:
I wonder if Rina’s fingers are even longer than Josh’s!
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Killer music. Beautiful bass too.
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Great news. I wonder how much their US popularity helped drive things here.
Is Emi the only continuous member? I wonder if she’s the bandleader, I guess probably.
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Yes I think she is, though it’s a bit fluid, Juna Serita still frequently pops up either on Sax or as a second bass. And various others make regular appearances. But I think Emi is the only continuous member and probably the bandleader. I think she also older than the others but I’m a lousy judge of that.
I do think Rin has really matured on the bass these last 12 months or so.
Note that it is a digital only release, no physical disk, but it’s available from all the major players such as Apple, Amazon etc.
@joergkutter, some serious badassery goin’ down here.
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Hiromi loves ramen
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That’s a great YT channel I’ve never heard of before. Sub’d!!!
Another great one from PMJ.
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From Royal Street in New Orleans. The tradition lives on.
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I’ve been following Tuba Skinny for a LONG time. Whenever I had to work in New Orleans, I stayed at the Bourbon Orleans hotel. I much preferred hanging out on Royal St. instead of Bourbon St. Better locals/tourists mix. The street musicians were always entertaining, if not always talented.
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Marcus Miller interviews Miles Davis before the band launches into “Mr. Pastorious”
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Nice find, @MikeC !
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All-star band plays tribute concert for the late alto sax legend David Sanborn — A must-watch show for jazz lovers and anyone who digs outstanding musicianship
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Severely, underrated song, by jazz legend, Herbie Hancock.
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Thanks for the heads-up! Bookmarked, so I can watch it on my home theater system.
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His first solo album kicked off a brilliant, prodigious career. It was released 3 years before I saw him with Miles Davis at the Plugged Nickel in Chicago, just before Christmas 1965. I’ve been a fan for a long time, but I really do need to go back and replay some of his early recordings like Takin’ Off, Empyrean Isles and Maiden Voyage.
If you get a chance, try to track down The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 by Miles Davis box set, a 2-night (the 2nd and 3rd nights of a 2-week engagement), 8-CD release. It’s stupendous. I think it’s out of print, but there’s always the used market.
I was there on the 23rd, the second night in the box set. If you listen closely, you’ll hear the clink of a glass by a Coke bottle from a 14 year old in the back corner. 
From Wikipedia (I can’t say it any better):
The Plugged Nickel set list consisted of mostly standards, with the exception of “Agitation” from E.S.P. Hancock wrote: “from the moment Miles counted off the first song, I started focusing on how I could play against expectation. Whenever a song would build up, getting to a natural peak, the natural inclination would be to push it over the top—but instead I would suddenly bring it down with one quiet note. Tony did the same, building up his playing in volume and intensity, and then, instead of hitting the bass drum, he’d gently tap the cymbal. We did the opposite, too, suddenly ratcheting up the intensity just as a tune was winding down.” Shorter recalled: “When I heard those guys dropping the bottom out from under me, I knew it was ‘Go for it’ time!.. I’d been in the band for a little over a year, and the next thing I knew we were way out there. It was like… this is what freedom means. The awareness was that the great responsibility that came with the territory was to push the envelope. You heard responsibility converted into expression that sounded like a great adventure.” During these sets, tempos were shifted and tunes were stretched to the verge of unrecognizability.
Although Davis was still recovering from his ordeals, he seemed to enjoy the unexpected challenge, and allowed the other players extra space. According to Hancock, Davis “never said a word about it. He knew better than anyone that something strange was going on, but he never asked us, and we never told him. He just went with it. And he was brilliant!” At the conclusion of the concerts, according to Shorter, “we were raising so much hell [musically] that when we came off we couldn’t say nothing to each other. We were lethargic in a princely way. We weren’t trying to put on airs… it was like, ‘let’s not touch this.’ You were in the royalty of the moment, and such royalty need never be tampered with.” Hancock wrote that when he finally mustered the courage to listen to the recordings, he was surprised: “There was so much going on, and it sounded so little like what I remembered, that I was shocked. I really liked it, but I’m not even sure I could explain why. I would call it profound, except that the word ‘profound,’ to me, implies something that’s deep and elegant. This was not elegant. This was naked and had guts. It was raw. To this day, when I hear recordings from the Plugged Nickel, I’m knocked out by their sheer raw intensity and honesty.”
Here’s the entire 2-night playlist.
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Thanks for these insights, man. Priceless. 
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Please avail yourself of this concert as soon as possible. The rotating array of jazz artists appearing throughout the show is mind-bogglingly great. Truly stunning, all.
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