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OCTOBER 2017—ISSUE 186 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC JAZZ SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM BOBDOROUGH from bebop to schoolhouse VOCALS ISSUE JOHNNY JEN RUTH BETTY O’NEAL SHYU PRICE ROCHÉ Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The New York City Jazz Record 66 Mt. Airy Road East OCTOBER 2017—ISSUE 186 Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 United States Phone/Fax: 212-568-9628 NEw York@Night 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: Interview : JOHNNY O’NEAL 6 by alex henderson [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Artist Feature : JEN SHYU 7 by suzanne lorge General Inquiries: [email protected] ON The Cover : BOB DOROUGH 8 by marilyn lester Advertising: [email protected] Encore : ruth price by andy vélez Calendar: 10 [email protected] VOXNews: Lest We Forget : betty rochÉ 10 by ori dagan [email protected] LAbel Spotlight : southport by alex henderson US Subscription rates: 12 issues, $40 11 Canada Subscription rates: 12 issues, $45 International Subscription rates: 12 issues, $50 For subscription assistance, send check, cash or VOXNEwS 11 by suzanne lorge money order to the address above or email [email protected] obituaries Staff Writers 12 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Duck Baker, Fred Bouchard, Festival Report Stuart Broomer, Robert Bush, 13 Thomas Conrad, Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Phil Freeman, Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, special feature 14 by andrey henkin Anders Griffen, Tyran Grillo, Alex Henderson, Robert Iannapollo, Matthew Kassel, Marilyn Lester, CD ReviewS 16 Suzanne Lorge, Mark Keresman, Marc Medwin, Russ Musto, John Pietaro, Joel Roberts, Miscellany 41 John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Andrew Vélez, Scott Yanow Event Calendar Contributing Writers 42 Brian Charette, Ori Dagan, George Kanzler, Jim Motavalli “Think before you speak.” It’s something we teach to our children early on, a most basic lesson for living in a society. -
132 New on Maybe Monday
New on INTAKT RECORDS www.intaktrec.ch One marker of bassist Michael Formanek's creativity and versatility is the range of distinguished musicians of several generations he's worked with. While still a teenager in the 1970s he toured with drummer Tony Williams and saxophonist Joe Henderson. Starting in the '80s he played long stints with Stan Getz, Fred Hersch and Freddie Hubbard. Formanek is also a composer and leader of various bands. One of his principal recording and international touring vehicles has been his acclaimed quartet with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver. His occasional groups include the 18-piece all-star Ensemble Kolos- sus, roping in many New York improvisers he works with. Currently his primary focus is the Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet with Tony Malaby, Kris Davis, and Ches Smith. In putting together the Elusion Quartet, interpreting his music with these specific musicians, Michael Formanek says he sought “a more direct connection to emotions: mine, theirs and the listener’s.” Hank Shteamer writes in the liner notes: "As one zeroes in on the details of Time Like This, it's clear that this sort of emotional immediacy permeates the album. You hear it in Kris Davis’ flowing, balletic solo on “A Fine Mess”; in Tony Malaby's ululating tenor cries on “The Soul Goodbye”; in Ches Smith’s raucous grooves on “That Was Then”; or the leader’s poised, sinewy lines on “Culture of None.” Elusive? MicHaeL FOrManek Certainly. But as this album proves, under the right conditions, with the eLusiOn QuarTeT right personnel, it’s still out there." Der New Yorker Bassist und Komponist Michael Formanek präsen- TIME LIKE THIS tiert mit seinem Elusion Quartett ein neues, wegweisendes Projekt. -
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New on INTAKT RECORDS w w w . i n t a k t r e c . c h With Untucked in Hannover, Tom Rainey's top-notch quintet Obbligato presents a third album of a collection of jazz stan- dards – with Jacob Sacks on piano replacing regular pianist Kris Davis for this live recording. Wonderful jazz tunes like Stella by Starlight or I Fall in Love Too Easily are interpreted in an open dialogue with stunning joy of playing and improvisation. And though standards are the modus operandi of Obbligato, their approach is intended to be less conventional, less reverential and certainly less solo-centric than many other bands that tack- les with Standards.Obbligato sometimes plays with the essences of famous jazz standards in an implied way, sometimes in a teasing and mysterious way, but always in a tantalizing way. "Close your eyes, imagine sitting in the front row of your favorite jazz club, sit back and enjoy Obbligato playing pieces from the Great American Songbook in a way you've never heard them before: and by one of the most inventive and inspiring live bands of the last decade," writes Laurence Donohue-Greene in the liner notes. TOM RAINEY M it «Untucked in Hannover» legt Tom Rainey's hochkarätig besetztes Quintett Obbligato ein drittes Album mit einer Samm- OBBLIGATO lung von Jazz Standards vor – mit Jacob Sacks am Piano, der die reguläre Pianistin Kris Davis für diese Live-Aufnahme UNTUCKED IN HANNOVER ersetzt. Mit umwerfender Spiel- und Improvisationsfreude wer- den wunderbare Jazz-Tunes wie «Stella by Starlight» oder «I Fall in Love Too Easily» in einem offenen Dialog interpretiert. -
3. Dezember 2017 Unerhoert.Ch
10 Tage 12 Spielstätten u 25 Konzerte n Jazzfestival 24. Zürich November e Winterthur — 3. r Dezember 2017 h Jazz in Winterthur Schlosserei Nenniger Theater Rigiblick ö Kulturhaus Helferei Museum Rietberg Mehrspur Jazz im Seefeld / GZ Riesbach r WIM Rote Fabrik Theater Neumarkt AZ Bürgerasyl-Pfrundhaus Moods t unerhoert.ch ! Willkommen zum 16. unerhört!-Festival 16. zum Willkommen Andi Schnellmann, Michael Fehr. Foto: Eve-Marie Lagger 3 Gleichzeitigkeit des Verschiedenen Überraschungsreiche Musik, ausgefallene Spielformen, erstaunliche Allianzen und spezielle Bühnen: Das ist das unerhört! Die breite Ab- stützung des Festivals mit zwölf verschiedenen Veranstaltungsorten gibt der Vielstimmigkeit der hiesigen und internationalen Jazzszene jeweils passende Räume – eine Dezentralisierung, die der Gleichzei- tigkeit des Verschiedenen Tribut zollt und damit der stilistischen Viel- falt des heutigen Jazz gerecht wird. Von der Schule und der Schlosse- rei über Clubs bis ins Altersheim: Das ist gewissermassen der Lauf des Lebens – und der Ariadnefaden des Festivals, der im Zickzackkurs durch die verschiedenen Kulturorte in Winterthur und Zürich führt. Das un- erhört! stellt sich gegen die Stromlinienförmigkeit und bevorzugt die verschlungenen Pfade gegenüber dem geraden Weg. Die komplizen- haften Worte des Philosophen Michel Serres lassen sich auf das Credo des unerhört! übertragen: «Uns gilt das lineare Denken als ein wenig starr und grobschlächtig; früher hielt man es für effizient und optimal, heute ist es überholt.» Qualität statt Stil Die Begeisterung für das Beste im Neuen wie im Bestandenen. Denn von einem sollen uns die stilistische Öffnung und die neue Breite des Festivals nicht ablenken: Die Qualität muss immer die höchstmögliche bleiben wollen, ohne dass uns das zur Mutlosigkeit verführen darf. -
075 New on CD
New on INTAKT RECORDS www.intaktrec.ch W ährend Ken Vandermarks Gastspiel im New Yorker Jazzclub Moods traten Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, Sylvie Courvoisier und Tom Rainey in verschiedenen Zusammenhängen auf. Die Idee eines gemeinsamen Quartetts entstand. Ein Jahr später – nach Proben in Courvoisiers Atelier – gingen die vier Musiker/in ins Tonstudio. Sie nahmen neun Kompositionen auf, je drei von Vandermark, Wooley und Courvoisier. Es ist ein Gipfeltreffen von vier Musikerpersönlichkeiten. Alle vier leiten ihre eigenen Bands. Im Quartett VWCR teilen sie die Verantwortung und wiegen im Kollektiv ihre Erfahrungen auf zu einer Musik voller Überraschungen und reich an Kontrasten. Die transparenten, unklischierten Kompositionen mit ihren unter- schiedlichen Handschriften bieten Raum für spannende, wun- derbare Improvisationen. Die CD lebt von der Frische dieser jungen Begegnung, dem unverbrauchten Interessen der Musiker aneinander, und deren je unverwechselbaren Sounds. VWCR I t was only during Ken Vandermark's residency at the Jazz club KEN VANDERMARK - NATE WOOLEY The Stone in January 2016 that Vandermark found himself in the same vicinity as Nate Wooley, Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey. SYLVIE COURVOISIER - TOM RAINEY A year later they went into the studio with nine compositions – three each by Courvoisier, Vandermark and Wooley. NOISE OF OUR TIME These four musicians have well-documented, distinct personalities which, in this context, results in performances full of sur prises, Ken Vandermark Saxophone, Clarinet rich contrasts and shared responsibilities. The music sounds Nate Wooley Trumpet thoughtful, but never over-wrought. They play by in tuition, yet Sylvie Courvoisier Piano retain a vivid complexity. Their composing is transparent and Tom Rainey Drums unclichéd; their improvising provided with a remarkable coherence and openness. -
Intakt Records 2018 2018
INTAKT RECORDS 2018 2018 Welcome to the Intakt Catalogue with our releases for spring 2018, and the twenty CDs which we released in 2017. CDs can be ordered from your regular CD store, or by mail order from our partners. Information about these different purchasing options is on our website: www.intaktrec.ch/store.htm 2017 and 2018 have been years of major awards for the jazz musicians who release their music on Intakt Records. So our warmest congratulations go to: Aki Takase – Berlin Jazz Prize 2018 Irène Schweizer – Culture Prize Canton Zürich 2018 Hans Hassler – Central Switzerland Art Prize 2018 Sylvie Courvoisier – Foundation for Contemporary Arts Awards 2018 (USA) –Jazz Prize 2017 of the Fondation SUISA (Switzerland) Alexander von Schlippenbach – Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany, December 2017 Angelika Niescier – Albert Mangelsdorff Prize 2017 Christian Lillinger – SWR Prize 2017 Co Streiff – Aargau Art Prize 2017 Intakt Records was chosen by New York City Jazz Record in January 2018 – alongside Blue Note, ECM, PI, Clean Feed – as the best jazz label of 2017. Our website www.intaktrec.ch has news, updates, information, supporting data and images for all our CDs, as well as musicians’ touring schedules. There is also a sign-up for our newsletter. We are pleased to offer our listeners newly created music worlds; so this is the opportunity to wish you many hours of pleasure, excitement and fascination in them. All the best from the Intakt Team 298 ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA -
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New on INTAKT RECORDS www.intaktrec.ch Tom rainey’s Quintett Obbligatio versammelt einige der herausragenden musikerinnen und musiker der aktuellen Brooklyn-Szene: die Pianistin Kris Davis, die Saxophoni - stin Ingrid Laubrock, den Trompeter ralph Alessi und den Bassisten Drew Gress. Auf dem zweiten Album überzeugt Tom raineys Quintett wiederum mit einer Sammlung von Jazz Standards. Die Band spielt wunderbare Jazztunes und schöne Liebeslie - der wie «Stella by Starlight», «What Is This Thing Called Love» und «I Fall in Love too easily». mit umwerfender Spiel- und Improvisationsfreude halten sie die musik im Fluss, transzendieren in kollektiver Impro - visation die Themen zu einer eigenen, optimistisch freien musik. Christian Broecking schreibt in den Liner Notes: «mit Obbligato will rainey Spaß haben und Vergnügen bereiten und: die musik relevant, also aktuell und bedeu - tend machen.» TOM RAINEY O n this second CD with his band Obbligato Tom rainey OBBLIGATO surprises with standards and beautiful love songs like «Stella by Starlight», «What Is This Thing Called Love» or FLOAT UPSTreAm «I Fall in Love too easily». Tom rainey has played in bands with Tim Berne, Fred Ralph Alessi Trumpet Ingrid Laubrock Saxophones Hirsch and Craig Taborn, and his own trio with Ingrid Lau - Kris Davis Piano brock and mary Halvorson. For this ensemble he chose Drew Gress Bass some of the finest players New York has to offer: Ingrid Tom Rainey Drums Laubrock, ralph Alessi, Kris Davis and Drew Gress. Christian Broecking writes (liner notes): „With Obbligato, recorded at Brooklyn recording in NYC by Andy Taub on January 19th, rainey brings two familiar acquaintances from Jazz 2017.