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HENDERSON Trumpeting Change November 2012 | No. 127 Your FREE Guide to the NYC Jazz Scene nycjazzrecord.com EDDIE HENDERSON Trumpeting Change FRED • TED • PHIL • GLIGG • EVENT VAN HOVE NASH COHRAN RECORDS CALENDAR CHICK COREA & ELLIS MARSALIS QUARTET ERIC PERSON CURTIS STIGERS KENNY G STANLEY CLARKE BAND 11/8 - 11 11/12 11/13 - 14 11/15 - 18 ft. RAVI COLTRANE & MARCUS GILMORE 11/3 - 7 SHEILA JORDAN & STEVE KUHN DUO JACQUI NAYLOR THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER CASSANDRA WILSON 11/19 11/20 - 22 11/23 - 25 11/29 - 12/2 LATE NIGHT GROOVE SERIES: SUNDAY BRUNCH SERIES: JEFF FOXX & CHARMAINE AMEE 11/2 NYU JAZZ: MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ 11/4 THOUSANDS OF ONE 11/3 IRIS ORNIG 11/11 RITMOSIS 11/9 JUILLIARD JAZZ ENSEMBLE 11/18 MAURICIO ZOTTARELLI - MOZIK 11/10 ERIKA 11/25 JOHN RAYMOND PROJECT 11/16 MUTHAWIT 11/17 MATT DICKEY & TRY THIS AT HOME 11/23 SWISS CHRIS 11/24 MICHAEL FEINBERG 11/30 TELECHARGE.COM TERMS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS APPLY Everyone has seen one of those classic kung fu movies where some line like “Now the student has become the master” is spoken. It may seem a bit trite when heard with bad overdubbing but jazz wouldn’t be the same without the concept. While New York@Night there have been some players that appeared fully formed, most worked numerous 4 apprenticeships - learning on the bandstand, as it were - with their elders, Interview: Fred Van Hove absorbing lessons they themselves later passed on. Trumpeter Eddie Henderson (On The Cover) got his start as part of Herbie 6 by Clifford Allen Hancock’s Mwandishi band in 1970 but is now an elder statesman himself, sharing Artist Feature: Ted Nash decades of jazz wisdom. He performs at Smoke and Village Vanguard this month. Belgian pianist Fred Van Hove (Interview) came up in the groups of saxophonist by George Kanzler 7 Peter Brötzmann in late ‘60s Europe and now is a legendary free improviser in his On The Cover: Eddie Henderson own right. He makes two rare New York appearances this month at ShapeShifter by Brad Farberman Lab and The Firehouse Space. And saxophonist Ted Nash (Artist Feature) learned 9 his lessons early on at the hands of his trombonist father Dick and saxist uncle Encore: Lest We Forget: Ted. A founder of the Jazz Composers Collective, Nash takes part in that 10 organization’s 20th anniversary celebration at Jazz Standard and is part of the Jazz Phil Cohran Gigi Gryce at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Rose Hall this month. Sun Ra veteran trumpeter by Kurt Gottschalk by Ken Waxman Phil Cohran (Encore) takes the idea of mentorship to its extreme, schooling his Megaphone VOXNews eight sons to be musicians (they perform together as the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble). by Andy Milne by Katie Bull One imagines saxophonist Gigi Gryce (Lest We Forget) and pianist Andy 11 Milne (Megaphone) had similar experiences. Jazz thrives on its history and the Label Spotlight: Listen Up!: griot tradition. The youngest alto saxophonist just starting out can be traced, no matter how indirectly, to Charlie Parker. But jazz at its best is not a calcified, 12 Emily Braden Gligg Records nostalgic exercise. Each new generation, imbued with the knowledge of their by Ken Waxman & Louise DE Jensen forbears, makes the music its own, which then gets transmogrified down the line, keeping the music vital and constantly evolving. 13 Festival Report: Jazz Brugge We’ll see you out there in the middle of the whole process... CD Reviews: Richard Sussman, Roscoe Mitchell, JD Allen, Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor Andrey Henkin, Editorial Director Ben Holmes, Sara Gazarek, Anthony Braxton, Houston Person and more 14 On the cover: Eddie Henderson (photo by Alan Nahigian) Event Calendar Corrections: In last month’s NY@Night on Wilbur Ware, the MC/bassist’s name is 38 spelled Bill Crow. In On The Cover, Brad Mehldau’s Introducing was released by Warner Bros. In VOXNews, the Voxify Festival at Cornelia Street Café was not curated by Inner Circle Music. In the Globe Unity three-CD review, Ankara, not Club Directory Istanbul is the capital of Turkey and Mark Alban is based in The Hague, not Berlin. 45 In the Boxed Set review, “Just You, Just Me” is the basis of Monk’s composition “Evidence”. Miscellany: In Memoriam • Birthdays • On This Day 47 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, George Kanzler, Andy Milne Advertising: [email protected] Contributing Photographers Editorial: [email protected] Jim Anness, Peter Gannushkin, Erika Kapin, Alan Nahigian, Susan O’Connor, Jack Vartoogian Calendar: [email protected] All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | November 2012 3 NEW YORK @ NIGHT An announcer at Town Hall (Oct. 12th) erred when he The Interpretations series brought an inspired first- introduced the night’s marquee act as the Pat Metheny time pairing to Roulette (Oct. 11th) in the form of ®Group. It was in fact the Pat Metheny Unity Band, with trumpeter Peter Evans and visiting German bassist Chris Potter on reeds, Ben Williams on upright bass John Eckhardt, each playing short solo sets before an andJAZZ&SUPPER Antonio Sanchez on drums. Winding downCLUB a exploratory duet. Eckhardt opened with a surprisingly SMOKEJazz & Supper Club 2751 BROADWAY • NEW YORK • NY 10025worldwide • 212 tour,864 the 6662 band • dugWWW.SMOKEJAZZ.COM into material from its rich arco growl and slowly crawled up the neck, deftly Friday & Saturday Nov 2, 3 eponymous Nonesuch CD but also explored a range of moving between tonal territories (the sounds were too the master guitarist’s older repertoire. Potter’s bass resonant to call them simply “notes”). Each movement Orrin Evans Quintet clarinet on the opening “Come and See” was right of the bow seemed essential: from a full 15 seconds in Joel Frahm (sax) • Jack Walrath (tp) • away a departure - a tone color not found in Metheny’s silence spent building up enough vibration in the Orrin Evans (p) • Ben Wolfe (b) • Obed Calvaire (dr) previous work. There were moments, such as the bridge for the strings to resonate to a percussive vivacious coda of “New Year”, the flowing rubato exploration of bow handle between muted strings. Wednesday, Nov 7 portions of “This Belongs To You” or the slightly sour Evans similarly explored minutiae, although magnified Brandon Wright Quintet harmony of “Interval Waltz”, which pointed to subtle by the microphone and moving into jet propulsion. He compositional triumphs. Crowd energy surged when considered and then pushed past the instrument’s Friday & Saturday Nov 9, 10 Metheny detoured into “James”, an older concert sonorities, working it as a sound chamber, a feedback staple, and “Two Folk Songs”, a rare gem from the chamber, seeming to give it breath of its own and Jeremy Pelt Quintet 80/81 album with Potter in Michael Brecker’s perhaps not getting to what might be called a melody Roxy Coss (sax) • Jeremy Pelt (tp) • Danny Grissett (p) • unforgettable role, blowing brutally dissonant tenor line or three until the last few minutes of his solo. Their Dwayne Burno (b) • JD Allen (dr) sax lines over a simple strumming progression. duo began cautiously, Eckhardt traipsing across the Wednesday, Nov 14 “Signals”, which found the band creating in tandem bass before settling at the back of the scroll where he with Metheny’s “orchestrion” - a jaw-dropping array matched Evans in a prolonged but broken single note. George Burton Quintet of mechanized instruments - was climactic in its way. From there on they stayed in close proximity like a But the machines were put to even more inspired use joint monologue. Perhaps it was a part of feeling each Friday & Saturday Nov 16, 17 in the early ’80s classic “Are You Going With Me”, the other out, playing together for the first time. Perhaps first of three encores. Airy textures and beats, meshing there was a bit of a shared hesitancy, but even if so it David Hazeltine Quartet with Potter’s gorgeous alto flute (in place of Lyle Mays’ was a hesitancy of alarming proficiency, resolving with Jim Rotondi (tp) • David Hazeltine (p) • Peter Washington (b) • Joe Farnsworth (dr) original synths), brought the night to another level. a wonderfully satisfying sort of walking (and tripping) - David R. Adler blues. - Kurt Gottschalk Wednesday, Nov 21 Vondie Curtis Hall Friday & Saturday Nov 23, 24 Eddie Henderson Quintet Javon Jackson (sax) • Eddie Henderson (tp) • Kevin Hays (p) • Doug Weiss (b) • Carl Allen (dr) Wednesday, Nov 28 Cynthia Holiday P h s s o e t o Friday & Saturday Nov 30 & Dec 1 n n b y A E m r i i J k Victor Bailey’s V-BOP a y Alex Foster (sax) • Monte Croft (p) • Victor Bailey (b) • b K o a Lenny White (dr) t p o i h n P Sundays, Nov 11, 25 Chris Potter & Pat Metheny @ Town Hall John Eckhardt @ Roulette SaRon Crenshaw George Papageorge (o) • Thomas Hutchings (sax) • After a warm spell of several days, the temperature It says something pretty remarkable about a band that Richard Lee (tp) • Cliff Smith (b) • Damon Due White (dr) was dropping just outside The Bar on Fifth, on the it can remain contemporary while doing what it’s done Sundays Nov 4, 18 ground floor of the Setai Hotel (Oct.
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