RECENT LISTENING #2

Ryan Jewell Quintet, Low, Yusef Lateef, Beat of the Earth, Electronic Hole, Fad Gadget, MeTV FM, The Clash, The Grateful Dead

RYAN JEWELL QUINTET Vibration! (TWO ROOMS) I first heard music by Ryan Jewell like ten years ago, when he was a noise-scene tape-label experimental percussionist coming out of the Columbus, Ohio scene… then like three years ago, I saw him going full rockist, playing killer drums live with Chris Forsyth’s Solar Motel Band (on tour in Chicago, opening for Heron Oblivion)… neither of which prepared me for this Vibration! album, which is a straight-up jazz record. And not ‘noise-scene experimental’ jazz either, this is very much the real deal, like on the sophisticated extrapolative Dolphy/Hutcherson/Mingus level. I’m not saying it’s better than Out to Lunch or anything, but considering it’s not from 1960s and was “recorded live in the studio at Musicol in Columbus, OH on Sept 12, 2016,” it’s pretty goddamn impressive. A superb quintet of absolutely no one you’ve heard of, on alto sax, guitar, keyboards, and double bass, rounded out by Jewell on drums and compositions.

LOW Double Negative…