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Joe Lovano (On the Cover) Has Released Cross 4 Culture, His 23Rd Album for Blue Note and Third with His Us Five Quintet February 2013 | No. 130 Your FREE Guide to the NYC Jazz Scene nycjazzrecord.com LOVAN JOE O U E S FIVE TO NIN CHRIS • KRIS • CLIFFORD • UMLAUT • EVENT POTTER DAVIS BARBARO RECORDS CALENDAR The poet RH Newell, writing about months like February, said “Surely as cometh the Winter, I know / There are Spring violets under the snow.” It may be hard to believe, when cold wind slaps you in the face and your extremities seem like distant memories. But we at The New York City Jazz Record are bringing the spring violets up a bit early, with three important releases tied to our triumvirate of New York@Night features this month. Saxophonist Joe Lovano (On The Cover) has released Cross 4 Culture, his 23rd album for Blue Note and third with his Us Five quintet. One of Interview: Chris Potter the living legends of the music, Lovano brings the group to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s by Brad Farberman Allen Room for two nights this month. Saxophonist Chris Potter (Interview) has 6 appeared on ECM albums by Paul Motian, Steve Swallow and, most notably, Dave Artist Feature: Kris Davis Holland’s Quintet and Big Band but now he steps out as a leader with his ECM 7 by Martin Longley debut The Sirens and celebrates with a week at Village Vanguard. And rising star pianist Kris Davis (Artist Feature) follows up her excellent solo debut for Clean On The Cover: Joe Lovano Feed Records with the quintet outing Capricorn Climber and a CD release concert at 9 by Russ Musto Cornelia Street Café. If that doesn’t warm up the fingers and toes a bit, how about features on Encore: Lest We Forget: Strata-East Records/Sun Ra stalwart drummer Clifford Barbaro (Encore), leading 10 Clifford Barbaro Eubie Blake a group at Cleopatra’s Needle; pianist Eubie Blake (Lest We Forget), fêted at by Clifford Allen by Ken Dryden Queensborough College Performing Arts Center; progressive European imprint Umlaut (Label Spotlight); a Megaphone by clarinetist Mort Weiss; Listen Ups on Megaphone VOXNews two of the recent Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Competition winners and all 11 by Mort Weiss by Katie Bull the CD Reviews and concerts you could shake a leafless stick at? February may not have any jazz tunes named for it (Does Julie London’s Label Spotlight: Listen Up!: “February Brings The Rain” count?) but that doesn’t make it any less jazzy of a 12 Umlaut Records Jamison Ross & Colin Stranahan month, especially in New York, where bad weather never kept anyone sitting at home when there was good music to be heard. by Ken Waxman We’ll see you (bundled up) out there... CD Reviews: Wayne Shorter, Hasidic New Wave, Avishai Cohen, 14 Dexter Gordon, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Fred Ho and more Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor Andrey Henkin, Editorial Director On the cover: Joe Lovano (Photo by Jimmy Katz/Courtesy Blue Note Records) 34 Event Calendar Corrections: In last month’s Globe Unity: Austria threefer review, only one member Club Directory of the Barcode Quartet is based in the UK. In last month’s birthday spotlight, 41 saxophonist Steve Potts’ birthday was incorrect (he was born Jan. 21st, 1943) and his time with Chico Hamilton was, in fact, documented on two Solid State albums from 1968 and 1969 (he appeared as Stephen Potts). 43 Miscellany: In Memoriam • Birthdays • On This Day Submit Letters to the Editor by emailing [email protected] US Subscription rates: 12 issues, $30 (International: 12 issues, $40) For subscription assistance, send check, cash or money order to the address below or email [email protected]. The New York City Jazz Record www.nycjazzrecord.com / twitter: @nycjazzrecord Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene To Contact: Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin The New York City Jazz Record Staff Writers 116 Pinehurst Avenue, Ste. J41 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Fred Bouchard, Stuart Broomer, Katie Bull, New York, NY 10033 Tom Conrad, Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Sean Fitzell, Graham Flanagan, United States Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman, Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, Francis Lo Kee, Martin Longley, Wilbur MacKenzie, Laurence Donohue-Greene: Marc Medwin, Matthew Miller, Sharon Mizrahi, Russ Musto, Sean O’Connell, Joel Roberts, [email protected] John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Jeff Stockton, Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Contributing Writers General Inquiries: [email protected] Brad Farberman, Laurel Gross, George Kanzler, Mort Weiss Advertising: [email protected] Contributing Photographers Editorial: [email protected] Jim Anness, Peter Gannushkin, Jimmy Katz, Alan Nahigian, John Rogers, Michael G. Stewart Calendar: [email protected] All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | February 2013 3 NEW YORK @ NIGHT Having endured as a working band for nearly a While the late author Josef Škvorecký was the star of JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER decade and a half, The Bad Plus doesn’t lack for an evening of music and readings at the Bohemian material. The first Sunday set at Village Vanguard (Jan. National Hall Jan. 9, the Czech pianist Emil Viklický 25 YEARS OF JAZZ 6th) featured pieces from the trio’s latest Made Possible was a worthy stand-in for his jazz-loving countryman. but also others stretching back to Give (2004) and Škvorecký is known for his 1967 novella The Bass Suspicious Activity? (2005). It’s a repertoire of great Saxophone and that instrument was well represented in distinction and all of it in this set was original, with Viklický’s quartet by Scott Robinson during a half- each of the bandmates (pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist dozen tunes interspersed with readings of Škvorecký’s FEB Reid Anderson, drummer Dave King) contributing work and reminiscences about the Czech dissident, tunes. No deconstructed rock-pop-disco-electronica who died in January 2012 at the age of 87. The program covers for now - but note that originals have made up included an adaptation of a Czech folk song also used the bulk of the band’s work from the start. Iverson’s by the composer Janácek, the title song from a film “Mint” led it off, stormy and rubato, pushing toward adaptation of Škvorecký’s “The Little Mata Hari of chaos and yet unmistakably precise. King’s “Wolf Out” Prague”, an arrangement of Dvořák’s “Humoresque” followed with insistent polyrhythm and faster, higher and an inventive arrangement of Gershwin. precision - a strong example of the band’s willingness Appropriately enough, Robinson’s massive horn to foreground composition entirely, leaving improv dominated without amplification in the small room, temporarily to the side. Yet there were solos as well even at a whisper - and with Viklický’s penchant for and powerful ones: King’s commanding statements rich, Ellingtonian arrangements, the spirit of Harry toward the end of Anderson’s “You Are” and Iverson’s Carney was never far from the room either. The “Reelect That” brought the energy in the house to a strongest piece was Viklický’s arrangement of high. The playing was extraordinary, the musical “Summertime” (a particular favorite of Škvorecký’s), language inimitable: melodically pure and pop-like, which cast the piano, bass and drums very much as ‘swinging’ in the broad sense, at times as dense and rhythm section while Robinson richly carried the intricate as the most modern chamber group. Anderson melody. When Viklický took the melody for the second took to the role of banterer between tunes, winding the chorus, Robinson rocketed into an impossibly high audience up in deadpan fashion with tales of body register and then, as if to prove the might of his sax, sprays, science fair volcanoes and a tabla-playing E.T. dropped in a flash to somewhere below the floorboards. - David R. Adler Škvorecký would have been thrilled. - Kurt Gottschalk joe lovano Photo by Frank Stewart P h o t s JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE o s FEB 9 e b y n FAMILY CONCERT: n 1 PM & 3 PM A A l WHAT IS LATIN JAZZ? a n m i J N Drummer, percussionist, y a b h and educator Bobby Sanabria i o g t i o a h and his Multiverse Big Band n P Free pre-concert activities at The Bad Plus @ Village Vanguard Emil Viklický Group @ Bohemian National Hall 12:15pm & 2:15pm Pianist Gerald Clayton told his audience at Smalls Among his many projects, tenor saxophonist David FEB 21–23 BLOOD ON THE FIELDS (Jan. 9th) that he had to “work up the courage” to call Murray has been serving as Musical Director for the 8 PM Pulitzer Prize work featuring tenor saxophonist Mark Turner when putting together R&B singer Macy Gray for several years so it was only the Jazz at Lincoln Center the band. It was Clayton’s first gig there in some time a matter of time before they flipped the relationship Orchestra with Wynton and the quartet, with Turner, bassist Matt Brewer and and Gray took a turn as jazz diva in a Murray-led big Marsalis, special guest pianist drummer Obed Calvaire, offered something different band. They made their New York debut at Iridium over Eric Reed, and vocalists Gregory from Clayton’s celebrated working trio. They started the weekend of Feb. 11th and the first set of the run Porter, Kenny Washington, and simply, with the midtempo Charlie Parker blues showed an easygoing and fun-loving relationship Paula West “Relaxin’ at Camarillo” serving as a launch pad into between the pair. And in true diva fashion, Gray let the space. No matter how far they stretched, however, they band take an instrumental first and disappeared mid- swung and Brewer maybe most of all: his solos held set for a costume change.
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