Mary Halvorson & Miles Okazaki - Jazz Fest Sarajevo 2020

XX4 Jazz Fest Sarajevo concert
recorded on November 5, 2020 at EastSide Sound Studio, New York
premiere is scheduled for November 20 at 21.45
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Miles Okazaki - guitar
sound: Marc Urselli
video: Adrien H. Tillmann
camera: Anna Yatskevich
production: Jazz Fest Sarajevo
all festival programs are free of charge but if you like to support the festival, please make your donation at www.jazzfest.ba

[@petercoester9661]

It's only been a week since I stumbled across Mary Halvorson's music and now I can't get enough of it!

[@michagonet1659]

Tomorrow I’m going to watch this 23 times.

[@yurijo1]

Love to you both from Brisbane,Australia

[@jorgemanzano_]

I'm enjoying this a lot! Halvorson and Okazaki are such an inspiration, will definitely come back to it

[@billsimmons1753]

Fantastic performance. Hope they release something like that on cd and I can't wait until it's possible to watch them play live again. Thanks, Mary and Miles!

[@mondodave]

Go to it, masters! Wish I could there in person...

[@Montenegroguitarramusic]

Yeah, inspiradoras

[@frederickvondrasek5618]

...thanks infinitely for posting this performance...

[@J.Dove3D]

Brilliant. Inspirational

[@nickkomanowski9503]

Thank you, Mary & Miles!

[@rossknowles5608]

mesmerizing

[@punchmehard]

Brilliant.

[@timprest8486]

Excellent

[@klaussour9034]

total inspiration

[@GulliversCovers]

Excellent performance! Greetings from South KOrea! New follower here, subbed.

[@mattandtina3591]

Fantastic!

[@bzzbxx]

Fantastic

[@hatephone]

legends

[@hatephone]

wow mary's shoes are Next Level

[@karlhungus4476]

I can't imagine how anyone listened to this all the way thru.

[@pangur3257]

Very closely.

[@AEMachinas]

The New York scene used to be so amazing. Secular Humanist crap.

[@crieverytim]

Ugh. I did. But by accident.

[@benjamin9901]

Because it sounds great 😊

[@cfibanez]

Great performance. But watching this now on June 2024, I feel suffocated seeing them in those masks.

[@afxmnstr]

Man, I would kill to get paid to do this.

[@crieverytim]

So would they!

[@shaalis]

I tip my hat and give Halvorson and Okazaki all the respect they deserve, which is a lot. Free Jazz is VERY hard to get into and VERY hard to defend, but it is a gorgeous exercise in experimentation. That said...I did not like this. This was more liek soundscape. And I do aggree with a fellow below asking why use vintage archtop guitars when you have obliterated the sound of the guitar's natural abilities. To me, free-jazz improve is a very fine line between musicality, composition and skillful creativity. I don't think hits the mark on composition and I think it did nothing to make good use of what was available. I generally would consider this musical masturbation. There's nothing wrong with that, as it's a place where creativity can make some amazing things, but it doesn't mean it's going to be enjoyable for everybody, or understandible. Some folks really enjoy it. I'm glad it exists, but I wont be rewatching this video. I just find something...dishonest about the sound, here. It just sounds like a bunch of ideas that didn't talk to each other, but tried to talk over each other.

[@crieverytim]

Exactly - self indulgent masturbation. This is a lot like how I play and why I don't play out. Feels good for the player but of little interest to anyone else. As someone whose musical diet consisted mainly of free/improvisational stuff in my younger years, and who could bounce around the entire spectrum of music without flinching, I find it challenging to get back into stuff like this, esp the guitar-based wankery. I suppose It's not exactly like riding a bike! Ultimately, the free stuff feels the most restrictive. Though these days Sevish, Project JDM and Colin Stetson scratch all those itches and much more effectively.

[@carcrashbirdfuneral643]

yall just dont get it

[@carcrashbirdfuneral643]

mary should have taken his hat off his head because that would be silly

[@timzitzelsberger3200]

I hope to god this is not the future of guitar what a disgrace and i play jazz please take up another instrument where is the musicality

[@MuldrisRippedByWeasels]

Mr. Zitzelsberger, please share some of your "and I play jazz" please show us "the future of guitar", please be so kind. Because we're melting out of disgrace here without Your blessed opinions.

[@johntrik]

Free improvisation is quite interesting ,,,There s only one thing that i don t really get....what s the use of playing vintage archtops like Guild Artist Award or Gibson ES175 with fuzz pedals and all that......These guitars were primarly designed for their clean jazzy sound....Anyway i think i ll stuck to my Jimmy Bruno stuff !!! THANKS!

[@nospiral7194]

THE FUTURE IS HERE TIM, GET HIP TO IT

[@crieverytim]

Lol, I play free and what does that even mean? 'I hope it's not the future of guitar'? This isn't like Eddie van Halen playing eruption - The youth aren't collectively watching this and all scrambling to get their very own guitars so they can sit in circle jerks like this. That would be guys like Tim Henson or Max Ostro.