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168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:02 PM Page 1 The only jazz magazine in NY in print, online and on apps! April 2016 www.hothousejazz.com Saint Peter's Church Page 10 Brooklyn Center Page 17 Junior Mance Regina Carter Tierney Sutton Roger Davidson Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Page 21 Caffé Vivaldi Page 10 Where To Go & Who To See Since 1982 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 2 2 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 3 3 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 4 4 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 5 5 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 6 6 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 7 7 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 8 8 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 9 9 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 PM Page 10 WINNING SPINS By George Kanzler WO PIANISTS WHO HAVE PLIED Crusaders hit "Hard Times" with a deep Ttheir trade in the Big Apple for many blues feel, including locked hand triplets years, Junior Mance and Roger Davidson, and soul jazz backing to Fuji's persuasive are the principals of the albums compris- solo. The violinist carries the swing of ing this Winning Spins. Mance is a long- "9:20 Special," with Mance joining in at the time veteran of the jazz scene, and one of climax for scintillating four-bar exchanges the few musicians still with us who per- to take it out. formed with Charlie Parker. Davidson is Live at Caffé Vivaldi, Volume 3, Roger an eclectic player with roots in classical Davidson (Soundbrush), is a collection of and Brazilian music as well as jazz. 16 solo performances by pianist Davidson, For My Fans, It's All About You, Junior the third such album recorded over the Mance (JunGlo Music), is presented as a course of a long-running gig at the recording envoi, Mance's final such offer- Manhattan club. Davidson is not shy about ing, dedicated to his longtime listeners. displaying his fulsome classical technique After two solo tracks, it features the trio in these often virtuosic solo performances, with whom he's worked in recent years at but he also exhibits a couple of very wel- the Café Loup in Greenwich Village, with come attributes for a jazz musician: a vig- the unusual instrumentation of piano with orous embrace of rhythms and a penchant violinist Michi Fuji and bassist Hidé for creating catchy, memorable melodies. Tanaka. Except for the flag-waving closer, The tracks are three to five minutes long the old Count Basie Band standard, "9:20 and Davidson sustains momentum and Special," tempos are medium slow to delib- creativity throughout. erately paced, with Mance adding bluesy This robustly two-handed pianist has a gravitas. gift for warm-hearted ballads, from the "Emily" opens as a meditative piano unabashedly romantic "Amazing You" to solo, Mance crawling deep inside the the plush, tropically tinged "Amor chords, treating the melody like a warm Brasileiro." Davidson's wife is Brazilian, bath. A solo "Home On the Range" brings helping to explain his fondness for South out the blues inflections buried in the American rhythms and forms, which he familiar tune, making it a jazz-blues employs with practiced ease. The album anthem. It is reprised by the trio later, opens with a vigorous samba, "Alegria with the leader and violinist Fuji trading Brasileira" and includes both bossa varia- ideas over the structure. tions—"Bossa Para Vocé" and "Bossa Para Two of the most impressive trio tracks Celia"—as well as tunes that suggest tango come from Miles Davis and Duke and other Latin American rhythms. Ellington. The former is represented by Some of his selections tweak memories one of the most popular tunes from Kind of of other pieces, elusively on the suggestive- Blue, "All Blues." Mance and his cohorts ly 6/8 "Comment Je t'Aime," and quite bla- return the tune to its early, slow walking tantly on the peppy, high-stepping "Dia tempo, moodily outlining the slightly mys- Feliz," which borrows directly from the oft terious modal feel of the piece, given fur- quoted and adapted "(Back Home in) ther emphasis by Fuji's sustained long Indiana." And he proves he can swing a bowing over repeating piano figures and a waltz on his "Entradecer." Two standards bass solo maintaining the mood. A piece round out the album. Cole Porter's "I Love from Ellington's Far East Suite, "Sunset You" is given a tour de force at three dif- and the Mockingbird" follows; its romantic ferent tempos, while "Autumn Leaves" exoticness is perfectly spotlighted by enjoys a rousing mid-tempo, totally two- Mance's very Dukish piano chords and handed rendition. trills behind Fuji's vibrating, slithering melody. The performance is a sustained Roger Davidson has a release event impressionistic sound portrait right down for his new album at Caffé Vivaldi on to the final Ducal rumbles of the piano that April 5. Junior Mance plays materials end it. from For My Fans, It’s All About You Long known as a pianist who mixes at Saint Peter’s Church April 13. blues and bop, Mance invests the 10 Mance cover photo by Roberto Cifarelli, Carter by David Katzenstein, Davidson by Janaina Moreira Farias. 168556_HH_April_REV_0 3/24/16 2:03 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 Gwen Kelley (formerly Calvier) listing info contact Gwen Kelley [email protected] Toll Free Phone: COPY EDITOR: Yvonne Ervin 888-899-8007/[email protected] [email protected] Hot House Jazz Magazine is published monthly and all PRODUCTION & ART DIRECTOR: copyrights are the property of Gwen Kelley. All rights Karen Pica [email protected] reserved. No material may be reproduced without written permission of the President. 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    Canterbury Christ Church University’s repository of research outputs http://create.canterbury.ac.uk Copyright © and Moral Rights for this thesis are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder/s. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given e.g. Ribeiro, H. (2011) Symmetry and proportion: how these issues guide, inform and add coherence to musical composition. Ph.D. thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University. Contact: [email protected] Symmetry and Proportion: How These Issues Guide, Inform and Add Coherence to Musical Composition by Hugo Ribeiro Canterbury Christ Church University Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2011 Abstract The central subject of this thesis is the application of the concepts of symmetry and proportion in music and how these can be used to generate original compositions. Information about the musical application regarding concepts of symmetry and proportion both in the twentieth-century and earlier is provided. The first section also offers additional information about the construction of symmetrical harmony and its common usage; here too, principles of intervallic proportion are explained based on the compositional thinking of English composer Christopher Bochmann.