Mary Halvorson Trio @ Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2010

[@postatility]

I haven't found anything not to love about this woman! Her imagination,creative spirit and determined individuality have me fascinated. Besides that,having seen and heard her interviewed,she is thoroughly beautiful in all respects. Keep up the great work,Mary!!

[@figueroa661]

Damn this jam is incredible. It's by far my favorite Halverson performance!

[@ProfJazz]

My favorite guitar player!

[@peainapodtube]

This number is called "See Seizure" and is on the Saturn Sings album by Mary Halvorson Quintet

[@KyleS.1987]

This is badass, total Sonny Sharrock vibe.

[@paulbushnell461]

This seems to be like riding a new wave, biking a fun trail, skiing new snow, climbing a new wall. Very cool.

[@gregarnold1696]

Mary is fearless 🎸✌🏽

[@rafaarcentales9914]

My complete suport! thanks for the music

[@MrFalkets]

i'm seeing them the 14th im pumped!!

[@lukebyrnes7238]

hell yeh, that's some super fresh guitar playin

[@joshreichbart5462]

Yeah, and the wind cries, Mary !

[@robertbodle2354]

that was great - tight, loose and interesting.

[@graemebarnes4405]

Way cool.

[@suricatafari]

brilliant complete non-cliche stuff here! thanks for sharing this.

[@Mortison77577]

+suricatafari complete random whacked out stuff here! thanks for barfing it up.

[@cometcourse381]

But is "random" and "whacked out" always bad?I don't exactly like this, but you seem to be closed minded.

[@Gjini.]

3:50 me and my band start jamming😂

[@Trombonology]

Brilliant!

[@Basiledes]

This is cool, im happy I was pointed to her

[@coulton-davisjazz2872]

Just wicked.

[@Clismoambient]

very original composition. the guitar lines twist and turn on themselves in a structured way although on first listen the lines appear random. that is the genius in this music Peace

[@hanearlpark]

Seriously cool.

[@CoprophilicMassage]

this is the first time ive ever listened to her. She definitely has her own sound, very interesting....still dont know what to think of it as a whole

[@dhorne2525]

Strange how some folks think they are contributing to a conversation by saying "I don't get it" ... there's no information being provided there. Anyway, Mary Halvorson is pretty much at the top of my (and many other's) jazz lists these days ... I'd buy stock in her if I could. To me, this rocks and is gorgeous in a way you don't hear too many other places. First time I saw her play was with Braxton and it blew my mind ... been following her ever since. Don't like it? Listen to what you like.

[@rinahall]

LOL. ''Zdouing zdouing in the moonlight'' !!

[@ustwoalberts]

Ms. Halvorson has such wit and intelligence . A Thelonious Monk for our times?

[@farthead9999]

wow

[@montibass]

Great stuff. I would love to play in her trio. Not much commercial potential, but artists have to make art.

[@Mortison77577]

+gabriel monticello Artists just have to go nuts sometimes.

+Ester Samuels sometimes?

+gabriel monticello bue..!

[@spwr1931]

gabriel monticello Not much? Not at all I'd say and I love it.

[@fosterchristian92]

I love the dissonance of the chordal and melodic approach

[@sparrowx4442]

Pretty! (I mean the music.)

[@saln]

@saln as in the comments not the video those guys are GREAT(and girls)

[@Kento617]

@CoprophilicMassage yeah this is the first time i heard her too. I was on Wikipedia looking up Brian Chase from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and found that he collaborated with her.

Aguante la Mary!! ..y el Ches la rompe también!

[@christophernoble289]

If I was on stage with Derek Trucks, I would shrug, pretend my amp had blown, and just listen to what that cat was laying down.

[@geecen]

Great to see exponents of non-cheeesy jazz guitar! Few and far between for some reason.

[@dexterslobotomy]

Great stuff - I'd love to find musicians in my local area who would want to play this kind of music, but very few are willing to take chances. Plus, there are no venues willing to submit to this kind of "attack on culture" (as one of my heroes, Robert Fripp might say).

[@Mortison77577]

+dimaensionx Did Robert Fripp say much about this type of stuff?

[@davelanciani-dimaensionx]

+Ester Samuels Not sure ... but this music is in the vein of Crimson improvisation. I'm pretty sure he'd appreciate it.

[@Mortison77577]

Dave Lanciani To me, it seems like it starts out sounding like King Crimson but then gets far more chaotic.

[@SuperJBrowne]

But can they play "Smoke On The Water"???

[@endezeichengrimm]

I don't get it

[@jazzerrocker]

Its cool if you don't. At least you can acknowledge you don't get it without insulting the integrity of the musicians or their music. So many people just want to bash things they don't like, calling it crap, when in fact art is as subjective as cuisine tastes.

[@alfonsoteja]

La música, sensacional... ¡Despidan al camarógrafo!...

[@nckncknck7408]

finally, smh decent from mary.

[@bertdockx]

@mookooable "john cage etc."? i wonder for who the "etc" stands for... why would every improviser have to be a good 'traditional' jazz-musician? which one is the real master: the one who apes another one's style (9 out of 10 contemporary jazz-conservatory students), or the one who masters his own style (charlie parker, john coltrane, derek bailey, ornette coleman, lester young, steve lacy, cecil taylor, evan parker, sun ra, thelonious monk...). john cage did his thing better than anyone else.

[@rengaartist]

"...coming from nowhere and not part of a natural evolution." Really? Thelonius Monk, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane's later work, Eric Dolphy, Anthony Braxton, Billy Bang, Marion Brown, Derek Bailey and many other contemporaries.

[@randywest1185]

Mingus.

[@25reki]

i don't know about this music very.......very ####....@@@@#####

[@Dan-ew4ol]

+No more dynamic, yet latin and with a little in your face sonic youth style, then, random beauty

[@MrLucasars]

king crimson?

[@luapago]

How far can you take a melody outside standard tonality and still call it music? .....that's what keeps me coming back....its like a beautiful train wreck.

[@tarantism]

the most amazing part isn't her technical ability but to be able to sight read and perform such out there melodies .. i'm assuming it's composed right? It sounds like it's improvised but i don't think it is. weird piece of music

[@tudorstempo]

@koreankayagum I'll agree that bebop is very evolved and complex but its just one of the many forms of expression that jazz takes. charlie parker opened new doors and took melodic and rhythmic experimentation to its limits. this isn't bebop, don't listen to it expecting bebop.

[@ThusOwls]

Hey, it's Ceramic Dog minus Ribot, but replaced with an equally as talented guitarist! Although the music sounds nothing Ceramic Dog. But digging it nonetheless.

[@Mortison77577]

+Thus Owls I wish she would solo over the first vamp thing they did with lines that are a little nicer and not go so crazy later on.

[@dhorne2525]

@koreankayagum ... you sound like Stanley Crouch talking about Miles Davis. I just kept on listening to Bitches Brew, and he kept on telling me it was shitty and broke with "tradition" ... of course, that's what they said endlessly about Charlie Parker (and most other interesting musicians) ... "yawn" is better applied to your analysis.

[@joepalooka2145]

NO. Why? Why?

[@grayson84111]

This makes me feel good about my guitar skills. If this is what you call talent then I am a legend on guitar....

[@JonathanSureau1]

+grayson84111 Which is why we see you playing onstage in this video. Oh, wait, that's....

[@ideath173]

No. you still suck, and always will

[@dhorne2525]

@koreankayagum Well, I haven't listened to any hip-hop since PE's "It Takes a Nation of Millions" but I don't feel compelled to go on every hip-hop thread and tell people the music isn't interesting (when they obviously find it thrilling) ... I don't get it, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Go somewhere "interesting". I get it, you don't like this. So what? Who cares? I'm only interested that you seem to feel compelled to try to teach me a lesson ... whatever indeed. Are you done yet?

[@jakerjexzz1623]

mucha patilla y poco mas

[@michaelaylward3212]

fuckin a............

[@Daionzrip]

Amazingly good stuff, for sure up there with Good For Cows/Less Than or Equal To disc and the 2nd Trio Convulsant disc ...amazingly dumb comment from koreankayagum... Why would anyone want to wake you up? It probably wouldn't make you a better listener and there's high likelihood that really stupid comments would come out. Here's a tip... if you ever grow a brain, learn to play some of this stuff and then provide comments.

[@robertgiles9124]

Seems the white folks aint sending them our best musicians.

[@thomasmilovac]

uh, what?

[@dhorne2525]

@koreankayagum ... and you define "interesting"? (you seem to think that you do) Mary Halvorson isn't interesting TO YOU ... again, so what? ... I've stood in quite a few rooms full of people who find her downright riveting. Don't go to her concerts, and you probably should stop watching her videos ... duh. (well, unless you like being bored and whining ... and I think that might be the case).

[@danhope77]

well, they play Marc Ribot's game: we are weird, only very intellectual people can understand us, the others are stupid. I wouldn't mind a bit of madness, in the style of Bill Frisell, but with moderation.

[@JazzInATinCan]

There is no script to whats right in this kind of music, they play in their instinct and she writes so that the music fits what she likes. So it's kind of impossible to make this music like a programme-music for fitting into an intellectual keyhole on purpose.. So whether Marc or Mary is understood only by some, and some of them being boasting intellectuals (all kinds op people like MR I suppose) they create music from what they feel like, just like Tom Waits or Miles Davis or Lady Gaga or whatever.

[@matthewbritt8498]

danlovesnan why are you speaking for them on their approach to playing music? They're following their inspirations/intuition

[@totallyfuckingdead]

this trio is badder than fuck. for dudes who can't get with the hip shit.. that's cool; different strokes and all that. but why so quick to post? your disdain is only demonstrative of a lack of cultivation. i bet you don't "get" islay malts, hard lambic, or performance art, either, right? heh. cheers

[@musik102]

This sounds so awful I guess she must be a genius.

[@pgonzo98]

its just over your head..go listen to norman brown...

[@LAOMUSICARTS]

Crap noise.

[@swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046]

yup

[@henriquecepul2209]

+LAOMUSIC ARTS I understand your indigestion with such confusingly non-linear and counterintuitive art. But this is a very difficult, skillful and expressive art, with such a complex performance that it has to be respected by its difficulty and innovation. Cheers ^^

[@Daionzrip]

...only if you have a crap brain

[@swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046]

Daionzrip lol

[@dhorne2525]

Strange how some folks think they are contributing to a conversation by saying "I don't get it" ... there's no information being provided there. Anyway, Mary Halvorson is pretty much at the top of my (and many other's) jazz lists these days ... I'd buy stock in her if I could. To me, this rocks and is gorgeous in a way you don't hear too many other places. First time I saw her play was with Braxton and it blew my mind ... been following her ever since. Don't like it? Listen to what you like.