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JUNE 2015—ISSUE 158 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC JAZZ SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM RAN BLAKE PRIMACY OF THE EAR STANLEY SAMUEL SHUNZO BARNEY COWELL BLASER OHNO WILEN Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The New York City Jazz Record 116 Pinehurst Avenue, Ste. J41 JUNE 2015—ISSUE 158 New York, NY 10033 United States New York@Night 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: [email protected] Interview : Stanley Cowell by anders griffen Andrey Henkin: 6 [email protected] General Inquiries: Artist Feature : Samuel Blaser 7 by ken waxman [email protected] Advertising: On The Cover : Ran Blake 8 by suzanne lorge [email protected] Editorial: [email protected] Encore : Shunzo Ohno 10 by russ musto Calendar: [email protected] Lest We Forget : Barney Wilen 10 by clifford allen VOXNews: [email protected] Letters to the Editor: LAbel Spotlight : Summit 11 by ken dryden [email protected] VOXNEWS 11 by katie bull US Subscription rates: 12 issues, $35 International Subscription rates: 12 issues, $45 For subscription assistance, send check, cash or money order to the address above In Memoriam 12 by andrey henkin or email [email protected] Festival Report Staff Writers 13 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Fred Bouchard, Stuart Broomer, CD Reviews 14 Katie Bull, Thomas Conrad, Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Brad Farberman, Sean Fitzell, Miscellany 41 Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman, Event Calendar Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, 42 Suzanne Lorge, Marc Medwin, Robert Milburn, Russ Musto, Sean J. O’Connell, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman There is a nobility to turning 80 and a certain mystery to the attendant noun: octogenarian. It is especially impressive in the world of jazz, which takes an unnatural toll on those who Contributing Writers pursue it. Everyone talks about the rock ‘n’ rollers who died young; what about the myriad Duck Baker, Brad Cohan, Phil Freeman, jazz musicians? But the difference between the two genres is that jazz players are still creative Anders Griffen, George Kanzler, and probing into their later decades (take that, Mick Jagger). Mark Keresman, Ken Micallef Celebrating this feat is pianist/educator/vocal collaborator par excellence Ran Blake (On The Contributing Photographers Cover). He has worked with Jeanne Lee, Patty Waters, Christine Correa, Dominique Eade Scott Friedlander, Peter Gannushkin, and, most recently Sara Serpa, the latter with whom he will appear at Jazz at Kitano, celebrating Andy Hurlbut, Vera Marmelo, their new release and his milestone birthday (a couple of months late). Pianist Stanley Cowell Rainer Ojaste, R.I. Sutherland-Cohen, (Interview) is six years shy of 80 but has the activity level of someone half his age, releasing Jack Vartoogian, Nils Winther albums annually and now making his leader debut at Village Vanguard. It would take 2.42 Samuel Blasers (Artist Feature) to add up to 80 but the young trombonist is already prolific as a leader and collaborator beyond his years. He appears around town throughout the month. Oak is a traditional gift for one’s 80th anniversary while diamonds or pearls are a more modern nycjazzrecord.com option. All speak aptly to longevity, strength and beauty. On The Cover: Ran Blake (photo by Andy Hurlbut) In Correction: In last month’s What’s News, the full name of the Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Hero for Boston is Mark Sumner Harvey. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. 2 JUNE 2015 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD WWW.BLUENOTEJAZZ.COM JUNE 2015 SAVION GLOVER HIROMI: ROY HAYNES STANTON MOORE JUNE 2 - 3 THE TRIO PROJECT JUNE 9 - 10 TRIO FEAT. ANTHONY JACKSON & SIMON PHILLIPS JUNE 12 - 13 JUNE 4 - 7 DAVID MURRAY TRIO ABDULLAH IBRAHIM ROBERT GLASPER BEBEL GILBERTO FEAT. TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON & EKAYA TRIO JUNE 29 - JULY 1 JUNE 15 - 17 JUNE 18 - 21 JUNE 24 - 27 LEE KONITZ JUNE 1 • REVIVE PRESENTS IGMAR THOMAS FT. Special Guest MARC CARY (8PM) / RAVEL RE-IMAGINED + ORIGINAL WORKS FEAT. 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To celebrate and support the retail store/ and singer Fay Victor. The trombonists, in fact (Anderson performance space, The Stone staged a benefit (May and Wolter Wierbos) were among the first to take the 11th) featuring a series of quartets drawn from a pool stage, joining violinist Mary Oliver and cellist Tristan of ten musicians: Chuck Bettis and Ikue Mori NEW RELEASES Honsinger in a peppy dissonance. The rest of the tentet (electronics), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Marty Ehrlich flanked the stage waiting for the music to open up and Chris Pitsiokos (alto saxophones), Mark Helias enough to let them in, which wouldn’t take long— (bass), Jason Kao Hwang (violin), Ned Rothenberg things often don’t within the ICP sphere and nobody (alto saxophone/clarinet), Adam Rudolph (percussion), makes atonality swing like the celebrated band from Steve Swell (trombone) and Nate Wooley (trumpet). Amsterdam. They touched on some Monk, so beloved The changing combinations of improvisers made for by co-founder Misha Mengelberg (who no longer travels diverse musical chemistry, from Ehrlich and with the band) as well as a coterie of his compositions. Rothenberg’s two-alto onslaught; Mori and Bettis’ In his absence drummer Han Bennink was the elder, if psychedelic washes under Pitsiokos’ frenzied alto not the leader. He set the pace for the second piece, full squawks; and Swell and Wooley’s pinched brass of rich harmonies across the entire ensemble. Michael timbres against Hwang’s incisive pizzicato. The set MICHAEL GIBBS & THE NDR BIGBAND Moore took a soulful clarinet solo while Bennink hit finished with a delicate, intuitive trio piece by harder than hardbop concurrent with decorations from Rothenberg, Courvoisier and Helias. Next, pianist Play A Bill Frisell Set List the rest of the horns. For the third piece, Victor joined in, Matthew Shipp and bassist Michael Bisio played an Guitar great BILL FRISELL delivers a tour de force accompanied three clarinets in another bit of dissonance, extended improvisation with two original compositions performance on a program of arrangements designed this time slow and sweet. Victor is one of the few who (“LP-X” and “The Conduct of Jazz”) inserted. At first, specically for him and the NDR BIGBAND.