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All About Jazz New York October 2010 | No. 102 Your FREE Monthly Guide to the New York Jazz Scene aaj-ny.com GARY BURTONVIBES VIRTUOSO ABBEY IN MEMORIAM LINCOLN1930-2010 Cyro Baptista • Kresten Osgood • Resonance • Event Calendar One of the most interesting things about jazz is its intergenerational aspect, something that separates it from many other genres of music. It is not uncommon New York@Night for a band to feature players with wide age gaps. And the flow of information is 4 two-way: older musicians can act as mentors concurrently with being inspired by Interview: Cyro Baptista their younger charges. Vibraphonist Gary Burton (On The Cover) has been doing just that for by Kurt Gottschalk 6 decades, whether it be as an educator or as a bandleader bringing up a host of Artist Feature: Kresten Osgood young guitarists like Larry Coryell, Pat Metheny or Kurt Rosenwinkel. This month by Martin Longley Burton and his new quartet, with another up-and-coming guitarist in Julian Lage, 7 plays Blue Note. The bands of percussionist Cyro Baptista (Interview) like Beat On The Cover: Gary Burton The Donkey or Banquet of the Spirits have benefited greatly from youthful 9 by Ken Dryden exuberance but most of that comes from the leader, who turns 60 this year and brings his Vira Loucos project to Zankel Hall. And the baby of this month’s Encore: Lest We Forget: featured musicians is Danish drummer Kresten Osgood who, besides being one of 10 Sonelius Smith Louis Prima Scandinavia’s most dynamic players, has an ear for history, recording albums with legends such as Yusef Lateef, John Tchicai, Paul Bley, Sam Rivers, Dr. Lonnie by Alex Henderson by Donald Elfman Smith and Oliver Lake. And our Encore, pianist Sonelius Smith, continues this Megaphone VOXNews trend, having gotten his start in the ‘70s bands of Rahsaan Roland Kirk. 11 by Steven Bernstein by Suzanne Lorge On a sad note, we mourn the passing of vocalist/rights activist Abbey Lincoln, who died Aug. 14th at 80. Her impact as a musician and champion of Label Spotlight: Listen Up!: causes still resonates in the music today. To honor her memory, we have put 12 Resonance Records Josh Deutsch & together an In Memoriam spread of remembrances from her colleagues. As baseball season gives way to football and barbecues to sweaters, New by Marcia Hillman Ben Syversen York’s jazz calendar stays packed. Browse our CD Reviews or our Event Calendar for some ideas of people to hear live...who knows you may rediscover a legend or 13 Festival Report: Météo Festival • Detroit Jazz Festival stumble across a future one. We’ll see you out there... 14 In Memoriam: Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010) Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor Andrey Henkin, Editorial Director CD Reviews: Ted Rosenthal, John Tchicai, Robin Verheyen, Jazz 16 Passengers, Tomas Fujiwara, Kenny Werner, Vijay Iyer and more On the cover: Gary Burton (photo by Phil Farnsworth) Event Calendar 44 In Correction: In last month’s NY@Night, the name of the journal The Improvisor was misspelled. In the Vision Festival report, Ned Rothenberg’s band is simply called Club Directory Sync. In the In Memoriam section, reports have trumpeter Harry Beckett dying at 86 49 rather than 74. Miscellany: In Memoriam • Birthdays • On This Day Submit Letters to the Editor at newyork.allaboutjazz.com 51 U.S. Subscription rates: 12 issues, $30 (International: 12 issues, $40) For subscription assistance, send check, cash or money order to the address below. 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Adler, Clifford Allen, Fred Bouchard, Stuart Broomer, Ken Dryden, New York, NY 10033 Donald Elfman, Sean Fitzell, Graham Flanagan, Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, United States Laurel Gross, Marcia Hillman, Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, Francis Lo Kee, Martin Longley, Suzanne Lorge, Wilbur MacKenzie, Marc Medwin, Russ Musto, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Jeff Stockton, Celeste Sunderland, Andrew Vélez Laurence Donohue-Greene: [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Contributing Writers Steven Bernstein, Thomas Conrad, Alex Henderson, Lyn Horton, George Kanzler, General Inquiries: [email protected] Gordon Marshall, Sean O’Connell, Michael Steinman, Seth Watter, Ken Waxman, Advertising: [email protected] Contributing Photographers Editorial: [email protected] Jim Anness, Adger Cowans, Phil Farnsworth, Jeff Forman, Calendar: [email protected] Scott Friedlander, Peter Gannushkin, Susan O’Connor, Jack Vartoogian All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. ALLABOUTJAZZ-NEW YORK | October 2010 3 NEW YORK @ NIGHT What made guitarist Bill Frisell’s old trio from the In light of the brilliant individual careers of Steve late ‘80s with drummer Joey Baron and bassist Kermit Kuhn, Dave Liebman, Steve Swallow and Billy Driscoll so spectacular (and still some of the guitarist’s Drummond, their collective billing as The Masters finest work) was the lost-and-found interplay between Quartet is no overstatement. Celebrating Rosh Frisell and Baron: Frisell lost in a muddle of loops and Hashanah (Sep. 10th, Jewish Year 5771) at Birdland, Baron inexplicably finding him, setting rhythm to Kuhn kicked off the evening with the classic Big Ben mayhem. Frisell is a much more controlled player chime sequence leading into a romping “If I Were a these days (and no longer tells vulgar jokes, at least not Bell”, his soulful swing phrasing peppered with fast from the stage) and their duo at The Stone (Sep. 7th) triplets. The pianist’s plodding, bluesy “Two by Two” was a meeting of genteel spontaneity. They opened followed, capped with a clever paraphrase of “I’m with a little ditty, almost silly, sharing a familiar smile. Getting Sentimental”. Liebman then joined the trio on Frisell gradually developed the phrase into a full line, “Radio”, a singable, stream-of-consciousness theme by crafting the suggestion of a song, hinting at what the Swallow. The quartet hit full stride on Wayne Shorter’s refrain might be before abandoning it - that was all “Black Eyes”, Liebman switching from tenor to that was needed - and then wandering around in the soprano sax for a lovely reading of the melody, buoyed Fri Oct 1 MIKE BAGGETTA QUARTET 9PM & 10:30PM Jason Rigby, Eivind Opsvik, George Schuller bass region for a short while before finding his way to by Drummond’s dense but empathetic drumming, a Charlie Parker tune. By the 20-minute mark Baron Swallow’s thin, musky bass-tones and Kuhn’s Sat Oct 2 MICHAELADKINS QUINTET 9PM & 10:30PM Russ Lossing, Todd Neufeld, John Hébert, Billy Mintz (The Stone’s co-curator last month) began pushing and alternating in-the-pocket and over-the-bar timing - Sun Oct 3 BILL WARE’S VIBE QUARTET 8:30PM they worked a strange sort of metal Mancini, Frisell collectively pulsing like a four-chambered heartbeat. Matt King, Carlo De Rosa, Jaime Aff robbing his distortion pedal of any sustain for a sort of By “Remember”, Swallow’s minor blues-waltz, Mon Oct 4 MONOLOGUES & MADNESS 6PM Tulis McCall, host jagged fragility and laying a few loops for Baron to Liebman had taken flight with quicksilver flourishes, AMRAM & CO 8:30PM contend with. He then pulled a switch and laid into a soaring bird-calls and hushed hoarse cries in the David Amram, Kevin Twigg, John de Witt, Adam Amram, John Ventimiglia repeating three-chord ‘big ending’ he refused to stratosphere of his range, the arc of his solo in no way Tue Oct 5 BLUE TUESDAYS: DOUG WAMBLE 8:30PM Doug Wamble; Julie Hardy, Host resolve and forcing Baron to fill in the gaps. They hindered by the dense intelligence of his ideas. weren’t the pair they were 20 years ago and the sticky Swallow’s solos revealed a composerly mindset, often Wed Oct 6 ARUN RAMAMURTHY WITH AKSHAYANANTAPADMANABHAN 8:30PM heat in the room didn’t help, but they still had a sounding like off-the-cuff songs. After Kuhn’s colorful wonderful way of finding songs like pennies on the ballad “Adagio”, the set concluded with “Mr. P. C.”, Thu Oct 7 JESSE STACKEN TRIO 8:30PM Eivind Opsvik, Jeff Davis ground, melodies within melodies and another rhythm featuring Drummond’s boisterous, episodic soliloquy Fri Oct 8 REZ ABBASI ACOUSTIC QUARTET always laying underneath. - Kurt Gottschalk and a ‘rock’n’roll’ finish. - Tom Greenland Sat Oct 9 (RAAQ) CD RELEASE 9PM & 10:30PM Bill Ware, Stephan Crump, Eric McPherson Sun Oct 10 ANDREW RATHBUN CD RELEASE EVENT FOR THE IDEA OF NORTH 8:30PM Taylor Haskins, Nate Radley, Frank Carlberg, Jay Anderson, Ted Poor Mon Oct 11 TRAVELS WITH MA OWN SELF 8:30PM Deborah Latz, Don Flagg, Daniela Schächter, Oleg Osenkov Tue Oct 12 LOREN STILLMAN AND BAD TOUCH 8:30PM Nate Radley, Gary Versace, Ted Poor Wed Oct 13 BECCA STEVENS PRESENTS: ALAN HAMPTON’S PARTS AND PIECES 8:30PM Jason Moran, Gretchen Parlato, Dayna Stephens Thu Oct 14 PO’JAZZ: THE DOUBLE SHARPS 6 PM JOHN O’GALLAGHER 8:30PM Photo by Jim Anness Ben Monder, Dan Weiss Fri Oct 15 JUERGEN FRIEDRICH, JOHN HÉBERT, TONY MORENO WITH Sat Oct 16 GUESTS BEN MONDER (Fri) & LOREN STILLMAN (Sat) 9PM & 10:30PM Sun Oct 17 JANE IRA BLOOM TRIO 8:30PM Mark Helias, Bobby Previte Mon Oct 18 Morrison Motel, Comedy Night w/John Morrison 8:30PM Photo by Peter Gannushkin/DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Joey Baron & Bill Frisell @ The Stone Steve Swallow, Dave Liebman @ Birdland Tue Oct 19 BLUE TUESDAYS: AMANDA BAISINGER 8:30PM John Shannon, Pete Rende, Garth Stevenson, Dan Mintzer Julie Hardy, Host It takes a bold vocalist to step up in front of the mighty Under a blanket of end-of-summer humidity, Frank Other Dimensions in Music.
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