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182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 1:21 PM Page 1 The only jazz magazine in NY in print, online THE LATIN SIDE and on apps! OF HOT HOUSE P31 July 2017 www.hothousejazz.com Smoke Jazz & Supper Club Page 4 Saint Peter's Church Page 21 Allan Harris Giacomo Gates Jon Faddis Jazzmeia Horn Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Page 17 Birdland Page 4 Where To Go & Who To See Since 1982 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 2 2 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 3 3 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 4 Sponsored by Dot Time Records WINNING SPINS By George Kanzler RADITIONS, AND THE SONGS to Pascalle Bouef's funky organ and a that helped form them in the jazz and backbeat from drummer Shirazette blackT vocal heritage, loom large on the new Tinnin; and a romantic version of the albums from two singers that comprise James Moody/Eddie Jefferson vocalese this Winning Spins. Allan Harris belongs classic "Moody's Mood For Love." The lat- to the school of romantic, bluesy crooners ter is particularly fetching, with Pascalle's stretching from Nat "King" Cole to Brook piano backing Allan's balladic choruses up Benton and Joe Williams, and has in fact to the bridge, where the tempo picks up for recorded a tribute to Cole. Jazzmeia Horn, the piano "vocalese" solo, dropping again a new voice whose debut is this album, con- for the coda. tinues and extends a lineage of female jazz The band, which also includes Allan singing that broadens in technique from and Freddie Bryant on guitars and bassist Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan to Russell Hall, gets to swing out on Allan's Betty Carter, and in activism and social "Swing" and brings an easy, loping feel to commentary from Billie Holiday and Lena "I Remember You," notable for Pascalle's Horne to Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln. incisive organ solos. Allan's sentimental Nobody's Gonna Love You Better (Black side comes out, tempered by a sprightly Bar Jukebox Redux), Allan Harris (Love beat, on his "Mother's Love (Nobody's Records), finds Allan mixing pop/soul hits Gonna Love You)," Pascalle switching from and standards from his formative years piano to organ for the vampy coda. Allan with four originals, including a funkier references Charles Earland's soul jazz ver- version of his "Blue Was Angry" that origi- sion of "More Today Than Yesterday" and nally appeared on his impressive tribute to recalls Nat Cole's heartbeat tempo on a black cowboys, Cross That River song standard associated with Nat, "Ruby." All cycle. The non-original selections are wide in all, this is an eclectic vocal album that ranging, from a bossa/samba, "Doralice," hangs together with Allan's rich, honeyed sung in Portuguese and Steely Dan's hip- voice and a band that exemplifies the ster "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" done sounds of a black bar jukebox. A Social Call, Jazzmeia Horn (Prestige/Concord), rivals Cecile McLorin Salvant's as an immensely impressive debut for a jazz vocalist, especially consid- ering that she is still in her early 20s and many jazz singers take decades to mature and develop their artistry. The album title has a double resonance. "Social Call" was a signature Betty Carter song (by Gigi Gryce and Jon Hendricks) and the title also expresses Jazzmeia's "call in peace about issue affecting peace." Jazzmeia is strongly influenced by Betty, and includes not only "Social Call" but the Carter original, and tour-de-force of tempi and rhythm change-ups, "Tight." Tenor saxophonist Stacey Dillard engages in four-bar trades with Jazzmeia's exuber- ant scat on "Tight," while she begins "Social Call" over just Ben Williams’ pizzi- cato bass. He is one of the album's core rhythm section, along with pianist Victor Gould and drummer Jerome Jennings. While Betty is a major influence, Jazzmeia's voice is much rangier, with also more tonal and timbral variety. So, it is not surprising that she channels her inner Sarah on "East of the Sun," begun like Sarah's with a full chorus of just voice and bass, or that she can conjure the pure dul- cet tones of Sarah and Ella in a legato mood on the pensive Jimmy Rowles/Norma Winstone ballad "The Peacocks," delivered over just Victor's piano, Josh Evans adding continued on page 29 4 Faddis cover photo by John Abbott, Gates by Keyvan Behpour, Harris by Shervin Lainez, Horn by Fran Kaufman. 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 5 5 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 6 6 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 1:23 PM Page 7 7 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 8 8 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 9 9 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 10 10 182999_HH_July_0 6/23/17 12:23 PM Page 11 Sign-up for our E-ALERT at www.hothousejazz.com and be the 1st to know when the latest Hot House is available on line PUBLISHER/MANAGING EDITOR: For advertising requests and Gwen Kelley (formerly Calvier) listing info contact Gwen Kelley [email protected] Toll Free Phone: COPY EDITOR: Yvonne Ervin 888-899-8007/[email protected] [email protected] Hot House Jazz Magazine is published monthly and all PRODUCTION & ART DIRECTOR: copyrights are the property of Gwen Kelley. 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Jul 18-20&25-27: 7:30pm Jazz in July Festival feat 07/18 Dick Hyman, Bill Charlap, Ted Rosenthal, Sandy Stewart, Ken Peplowski, Randy Sandke, Walter Blanding, Chuck Redd, Howard Alden, Jay Leonhart & Dennis Mackrel, 07/19 Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Jeremy Pelt, Bill Charlap, David Wong & Kenny Washington, 07/20 Jane Monheit, Bill Charlap, Renee Rosnes, Jon Gordon, Ingrid Jensen, Gary Smulyan, Sean Smith & Carl Allen, 07/25 Cécile McLorin Salvant, Bill Charlap, Harry Allen, Peter Washington & Kenny Washington, 07/26 Bill Charlap, Harold Mabern, Roger Kellaway, Aaron Diehl, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth & Eric Alexander, 07/27 Jon Faddis, Warren Vaché, Brian Lynch, John Allred, Ken Peplowski, Nick Russo, Bill Charlap, Peter Washington & Paul Wells. BILL’S PLACE: 148W 133rd St (bet Lenox & 7th Avs). www.billsplaceharlem.com. 212-281- 0777. Fri-Sat: 8&10pm $20 don Bill Saxton Bebop Band. CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE: 2485 Bway (bet 92nd & 93rd Sts). www.cleopatrasneedleny. com. 212-769-6969. 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