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Kenny Werner Frode Gjerstad Frank Gant Butch AUGUST 2016—ISSUE 172 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC JAZZ SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM STEVE SWALLOW FOCUSED AHEAD KENNY FRODE FRANK BUTCH WERNER GJERSTAD GANT MORRIS Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The New York City Jazz Record 66 Mt. Airy Road East AUGUST 2016—ISSUE 172 Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 United States Phone/Fax: 212-568-9628 New York@Night 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: Interview : Kenny Werner 6 by ken dryden [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Artist Feature : Frode Gjerstad 7 by ken waxman General Inquiries: [email protected] On The Cover : Steve Swallow 8 by john pietaro Advertising: [email protected] Encore : Frank Gant by john pietaro Calendar: 10 [email protected] VOXNews: Lest We Forget : Butch Morris 10 by eric wendell [email protected] LAbel Spotlight : Yolk by ken waxman 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] In Memoriam by andrey henkin Staff Writers 12 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Duck Baker, Fred Bouchard, Festival Report Stuart Broomer, Thomas Conrad, 13 Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Philip Freeman, Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, Anders Griffen, CD Reviews 14 Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman, Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, Suzanne Lorge, Marc Medwin, Miscellany 31 Ken Micallef, Russ Musto, John Pietaro, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Event Calendar 32 Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman Contributing Writers Mathieu Bélanger, Matthew Kassel, Eric Wendell Contributing Photographers The term “voice” is thrown around a lot in jazz, and not just in terms of singers. One must Denis Alix, Scott Friedlander, absorb the voices that constructed the history of this music in order to create one’s own voice Peter Gannushkin, Pierre Langlois, and then speak through it as an oeuvre develops over time and various scenarios. But that Alan Nahigian, Susan O’Connor, voice cannot simply speak alone; it has to communicate with other voices, creating a unified Claire Stefani, Katia Sukhotskaya, chorus of individuality, the hallmark of the best jazz. Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen Steve Swallow (On The Cover) had a strong voice on the upright bass for nearly a decade, then Fact-checker made the courageous permanent move to electric bass guitar and has become even more of a Nate Dorward voice. He performs twice this month, both times at Birdland, a week with pianist Steve Kuhn’s trio and as part of The Jazz Masters Play Monk project. Pianist Kenny Werner (Interview) has established his voice not only as a player but also as a composer and educator. His longtime trio plays Dizzy’s Club for two nights this month. And saxophonist Frode Gjerstad is one of the voices of an entire nation as an elder statesman of the Norwegian free jazz scene. 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JOHN CLAYTON JIMMY COBB & JEFF HAMILTON; LEE RITENOUR & GEORGE CABLES THEBAD PLUS HARLEM KINGSTON EXPRESS AUGUST 2 - 7 AUGUST 9 - 14 AUGUST 16 - 21 AUGUST 23 - 28 KIND OF NEW FT. 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Jazz traditions results in an artificial pairing, but Amir and improvised music, when performed without lyric ElSaffar’s Two Rivers Ensemble is something more. specificity, generates an abstract sense of feeling—as When the Iraqi-American trumpeter (who sings and trumpeter Bill Dixon has said, “[abstraction] strips plays santur) brought his decade-old group to The Jazz away the filigree and [goes] to the center.” That said, Gallery (Jul. 14th) to perform the entire title suite from when Israeli pianist Anat Fort brought her augmented his latest Pi album Crisis, the packed house was treated trio with Italian alto clarinetist Gianluigi Trovesi (in a to a truly bilingual and bicultural concert, where rare stateside appearance), bassist Gary Wang and elements of Iraqi maqam and North American jazz drummer Roland Schneider (her very longtime rhythm melded into an organic whole. Filling in for Nasheet section who appeared on her previous ECM CD And If) Waits, drummer Tomas Fujiwara set the scene with into the Rubin Museum (Jul. 8th), sculpted visions of sustained rolls, soon joined by ElSaffar on trumpet and mythic birds and notions of flight were a major part of Ole Mathisen on tenor saxophone, with Tareq Abboushi the music. The foursome was celebrating their new on buzuq and Zafer Tawil on oud (both Arabic lutes) ECM release Birdwatching and this was Fort’s first trilling behind them and Carlo DeRosa holding down performance at the Rubin Museum since 2008—which the bass. Several times, ElSaffar moved over to the was highly anticipated, judging from the crowd’s santur (hammered dulcimer), singing Ottoman and jovial burble. Among the 11 tunes the group played Sufi poetry in a subdued, soulfully melismatic baritone. were two piano-clarinet duets, ranging from drolly- Though his warm, brash trumpet tone and Mathisen’s FREE PERFORMING ARTS halting folk to hushed, filmic reverie while Trovesi sat aggressively chromatic solos, buoyed by a firm bass- out for “Melafefon”, as rumblingly alliterative as its and-drum hook-up, may have suggested classic IN ALL 5 BOROUGHS title. The bassless “Murmuration” set piano swirling hardbop, there were simultaneous suggestions of the and wheeling against a reed-drum tide; in fact, while maqam (modal) tradition: half-flatted intervals; quick MAY – SEPTEMBER Fort’s compositions often feature poppy, groovy modulations to related modes; and a highly ornamental rejoinders, the improvisations are a layered affront to and sequenced approach to melody and improvisation. 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