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193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 1 DE The only jazz magazine THE LATIN SIDE in NY in print, online P32 and on apps! OF HOT HOUSE P31 July 2018 www.hothousejazz.com 92Y Page 21 The Side Door and Mezzrow Page 10 René Marie Geoffrey Keezer John Colianni Claudia Acuña Birdand and Saint Peter's Church Page 10 Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Page 17 Where To Go & Who To See Since 1982 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 2 2 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 3 3 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 4 4 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 5 5 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 6 6 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 7 7 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 8 8 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 9 9 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 12:30 PM Page 10 WINNING SPINS By George Kanzler WO PIANISTS IN THE PRIME OF time suspending style of the late Shirley their careers bring fresh ideas to their Horn. Tlatest albums, featured in this Winning Gillian delivers her own lyrics on the Spins. Both reach beyond the usual piano pair's collaborative song, "You Stay with trio format—one by collaborating with a Me," and reveals her prowess as a scat vocalist on half the tracks, the other by set- singer on the bubbly "Guanajuato," anoth- ting his piano in the context of a swinging er collaboration with improvised sextet. exchanges over a percolating Latin On My Way to You, The Geoffrey rhythm. Keezer Trio featuring Gillian Margot Geoffrey's playing throughout the (MarKeez Records), affirms Geoffrey's sta- album is refreshingly devoid of clichés and tus as one of the most innovative, creative often surprisingly unclassifiable. pianists working in the jazz modern main- I Never Knew, The John Colianni stream today. He is joined by a versatile Sextet (Patuxent Music), is a buoyantly rhythm section of bassist Mike Pope and swinging album with John leading a mus- drummer Lee Perrson. They lock into a cular sextet featuring two tenor saxes, swinging, swaying waltz version of Stevie John David Simon and Grant Stewart, Wonder's "These Three Words," originally along with guitarist Matt Chertkoff, a gospel-pop tune in the soundtrack of bassist Ralph Hamperian and drummer Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever. It's the kind Bernard Linette. The Sammy Kahn title of audacious reimagining of a song that tune opens with a Sinatra/Count Basie marks Geoffrey's approach to others' mate- swing vibe, John's piano sharing the rial throughout the album. Jimi Hendrix's melody and solos with the saxes. There's a psychedelic ballad "May This Be Love" is swinging-the-classics approach to recast in the double-time rhythmic frame Beethoven's "Fur Elise," Matt joining the of John Coltrane's "Dear Lord," Lee chan- saxes and John in the solo sequence. neling the polyrhythms of Trane's drum- John creates an interwoven fabric mer Elvin Jones. throughout Duke Ellington's "I Didn't Geoffrey manages to reinvent one of the Know About You," solos bobbing out of the most familiar standards, Jerome Kern's "All continuing stream of melody. Like the Things You Are," with a radical rehar- Geoffrey, John includes a singular Monk monization and amorphous, sidling tune, here "Little Rootie Tootie," taken at a approach to the melody before the trio shifts Monkian mid-tempo and adding Ralph's into more driving beats as it morphs the pizzicato bass to the solo rounds. He solos track into Earth, Wind & Fire's "Serpentine arco on John's "Blues for Naomi," a rocking Fire." Thelonious Monk's "Brilliant backbeat blues with solos all around, Corners" begins with Geoffrey conjuring including from drummer Bernard. ominous Monk-like theme phrases before a Illinois Jacquet's "Achtung" is a swift drum'n'bass funky interlude of Miles Davis' barnburner with sprightly piano runs, and "On the Corner" gives way to faster, close- John David's "See Saw," a rocking riff to-the-theme piano improvising. tune. Most fetching is John's "Sunset in A solo piano Beatles' "Across the Santa Fe," an easy, heartbeat tempo ballad Universe" begins the closing track elegia- etched by unison piano and guitar in a nod cally, then the rhythm section joins for a to the famous George Shearing Quintet slow "Give Peace A Chance," the John sound. Each tenor sax gets a solo spot Lennon melody shadowed circumspectly before John's climactic arpeggios take it to rather than ever stated. the Shearing-style close. Interspersed with the piano trio tracks are ones featuring Gillian. She has an inti- Geoffrey Keezer brings his trio to mate, smoky voice that delivers lyrics with The Side Door on July 7 and performs emotional precision. She and Geoffrey cre- at Mezzrow in duos, July 1 through 5, ate a seamless version of the Roberta Flack with Ingrid Jensen, Steve Wilson, signature hit "The First Time Ever I Saw Robin Eubanks, Gillian Margot and Your Face," Gillian floating through long, Donny McCaslin respectively. The legato lines in a somnolent tempo. The two, John Colianni Sextet is at Birdland, with the trio and strings (from Geoffrey's July 2 and at Saint Peter’s Church, synth keyboard), stretch the parameters of July 11. His trio is at Mezzrow, July the title song, by Michel Legrand and Alan 18. and Marilyn Bergman, in homage to the 10 Keezer cover photo by Dawn Bowery, Marie by John Abbott. 193398_HH_July_0 6/25/18 3:20 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 listing Gwen Kelley (formerly Calvier) information contact Gwen Kelley [email protected] 203-434-4646/[email protected] Hot House Jazz Magazine is published monthly and all COPY EDITOR: Yvonne Ervin copyrights are the property of Gwen Kelley. All rights [email protected] reserved. No material may be reproduced without written PRODUCTION & ART DIRECTOR: permission of the President. No unsolicited manuscripts Karen Pica [email protected] will be returned unless enclosed with a self addressed CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: stamped envelope. 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