November 2010 | No. 103 Your FREE Monthly Guide to the New York Jazz Scene aaj-ny.com JANGARBAREK AcrossTimeandRitual JAZZ NEWHOMEGROWN YORK’S ONLY GAZETTE Danilo Pérez • Dado Moroni • Motéma Music • Event Calendar We at AllAboutJazz-New York are pleased to announce our entry into the 21st Century. We will admit to a certain trepidation towards modern social technology and media for the past few years but who are we not to take advantage of New York@Night something that can benefit our valued readers? Some of you may already have 4 guessed what this means while others are still scratching their heads, wondering what on earth “modern social technology” means. Anyway, we’ve started Interview: Danilo Pérez tweeting. Check us out on Twitter (@AAJNY) for pithy reviews of the various 6 by Terrell Holmes shows we attend nightly (and wonder if we ever sleep), just more evidence of how jazz in New York City is a simple matter of schedule and stamina. Artist Feature: Dado Moroni Of course we are still fully committed to so-called dead-only-to-survive print 7 by Thomas Conrad media and this issue is brimming full of our usual offerings, amazingly international in scope. We profile Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek (On The On The Cover: Jan Garbarek Cover), who makes a rare stateside appearance with the Hilliard Ensemble, 9 by Suzanne Lorge promoting a new ECM album. Panamanian Pianist Danilo Pérez (Interview), most Encore: Lest We Forget: famous these days for a wonderful association with Wayne Shorter, leads his trio at Jazz Standard. And another pianist, Italian Dado Moroni (Artist Feature), one of 10 Rolf Kühn Beaver Harris many compelling avorio ticklers from that nation, has a week at Dizzy’s Club. by Laurence Donohue-Greene by Clifford Allen Of great interest this month is the first Berlin-New York Festival organized by Berlin’s Jazzwerkstatt Records. Included among the performers during the five Megaphone VOXNews days is an appearance by one of Europe’s elder jazz statesmen: clarinetist Rolf 11 by Rob Garcia by Suzanne Lorge Kühn (Encore). And while we’re mentioning Europe, check out our Festival Label Spotlight: Listen Up!: Report from the HumaNoise Congress in Wiesbaden, Germany as well as something closer to home (or not) in Los Angeles’ Angel City Jazz Fest. 12 Motéma Music Warren Wolf & So you know the drill...this is where we mention our extensive CD Review section by Alex Henderson Carmen Staaf and our overflowing Event Calendar, both of which we hope you use to pack your month with jazz. 13 Festival Report: HumaNoise Congress • Angel City Jazz Festival Who knows, we may be tweeting right next to you somewhere... Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor Andrey Henkin, Editorial Director CD Reviews: Chucho Valdés, Billy Bang, Brad Mehldau, 14 Lisa Mezzacappa, Amina Claudine Myers, Odean Pope and more On the cover: Jan Garbarek (photo by Guri Dahl) 40 Event Calendar Club Directory In Correction: In last month’s CD review of Sameer Gupta’s Namaskar, musicians 45 Arun Ramamurthy and Neel Murgai are incorrectly identified as playing on the album. 47 Miscellany: In Memoriam • Birthdays • On This Day Submit Letters to the Editor at newyork.allaboutjazz.com U.S. Subscription rates: 12 issues, $30 (International: 12 issues, $40) For subscription assistance, send check, cash or money order to the address below. AllAboutJazz-New York www.aaj-ny.com Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene To Contact: Editorial Director & Production: Andrey Henkin AllAboutJazz-New York Staff Writers 116 Pinehurst Avenue, Ste. J41 David R. 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Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. ALLABOUTJAZZ-NEW YORK | November 2010 3 NEW YORK @ NIGHT Facing one another on imposing Steinway grand After seven years of annual performances, Angels pianos at the Miller Theatre (Oct. 9th), Vijay Iyer and and Accordions - the autumnal walk through Craig Taborn met for an evening billed as “Radically Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery with music by a Unfinished: Works for Solo and Duo Piano”. The coterie of accordionists led by Guy Klucevsek and Bob encounter flowed logically from their work together in Goldberg with Martha Bowers and Dance Theatre Et Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory (they both appear on Cetera - ended with two performances on Oct. 10th. Far Side, Mitchell’s latest for ECM). But the fact that Funding cuts are behind the cancellation, but with Iyer’s latest release, Solo, will soon be followed by hundreds in attendance it was hard to imagine that a Taborn’s solo piano debut for ECM made this summit way won’t be found to keep the unique program alive. all the more timely and evocative. The atmosphere of The tour through the historic grounds was led by high seriousness was hard to miss: Neither player black-suited guides in corpse-like makeup, but that spoke a single word to the audience and the program was the only thing ghoulish that afternoon. It wasn’t notes, rendered by the artists in quasi-academic prose, quite a concert (the crowd was often out of earshot of explained the “process-driven aesthetic” of the music. the musicians) and not exactly a dance (performers Yet through their pianos as well as their unpredictable were generally motionless, positioned in trees and Mon Nov 1 MONOLOGUES & MADNESS 6PM Tulis McCall, host stagecraft, Iyer and Taborn told an inviting story in atop mausoleums) and it certainly didn’t carry the feel MELODY FADER 8:30PM dovetailing languages of harsh dissonance, broad of a Halloween event, at least not in the Texas TOM TALLITSCH 10PM Victor Baker, Trifon Dimitrov, Matt Garrity sustaining resonance and decay, looping rhythms and Chainsaw sense. But it was still a musical communing, Tue Nov 2 BLUE TUESDAYS:JULIE HARDY 8:30PM dynamic contrasts. Taborn was the more physical more like a century ago when the cemetery advertised Mark Shilansky, Matt Clohesy, Jared Schonig, special guests performer, his upper-body movements accruing into a itself as a respite for walks and contemplation. As the Wed Nov 3 SUNNY JAIN 8:30PM kind of funk-informed ballet. In the midst of the third crowd moved along the paved paths, familiar strains Nir Felder, Dave Cook, Gary Wang duo number, Iyer nonchalantly left the stage, allowing filtered through the solemn improvisations; “Beautiful Thu Nov 4 STEPHAN CRUMP WITH ROSETTA TRIO 8:30PM Liberty Ellman, Jamie Fox Taborn to finish the show’s first half. Reversing this, Dreamer”, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, “Swing Iyer began the second half alone and Taborn entered Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Down by the Riverside” Fri Nov 5 RALPH ALESSI AND MODULAR THEATRE 9PM & 10:30PM Loren Stillman, Drew Gress, Mark Ferber, Will Jennings from the wings during Iyer’s second solo piece. served to remind that the stones represented past lives Sat Nov 6 LUCIAN BAN’S DECO HEART FEATURING Promptly, Taborn began to change the angles and and different times. It ended with the musicians taking BOB STEWART & MAT MANERI 9PM & 10:30PM Bruce Williams, Gerald Cleaver emphases of Iyer’s work in progress and one got an to a stage and surrounded by dancers, but the magic of odd feeling: that in some sense, he’d been there all the afternoon was in the discoveries among the tombs. Sun Nov 7 GREG WARD’S FITTED SHARDS 8:30PM Rob Clearfield, Jeff Greene, Quin Kirchner along. - David R. Adler - Kurt Gottschalk Mon Nov 8 THE CHINA PROJECT: UMS ‘N JIP 8:30PM Javier Hagen, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn Tue Nov 9 LINDSEY HORNER 8:30PM Jimmy Cozier, Sunny Jain, Neal Kirkwood Wed Nov 10 POST FOLK: ILA CANTOR 8:30PM Matt Brewer, Mike Rodriquez POST FOLK: NATE WOOD 10PM Jesske Hume, Sean Wayland, Mark Guiliana Curated by Becca Stevens Thur Nov 11 MICHAEL BATES’OUTSIDE SOURCES 8:30PM Russ Johnson, Quinsin Nachoff, Tom Rainey Fri Nov 12 THE JAMIE SAFT SPECIAL QUINTET 9PM & 10:30PM Sat Nov 13 Bill McHenry, Duane Eubanks, Ben Perowsky Sun Nov 14 THE MYSTERY CABARET 6PM Photo by Lena Adasheva Bobby Torkova, Faye Lane, Leslie Goshko SPOKE 8:30PM Dan Loomis, Andy Hunter, Justin Wood, Danny Fischer Mon Nov 15 CORNELIA TONIGHT WITH PAT DIXON 8:30PM Tue Nov 16 BLUE TUESDAYS: PETER ELDRIDGE 8:30PM Peter Eldridge, Tim Lefebvre, Ben Wittman Julie Hardy, Host Wed Nov 17 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAVID AMRARM PLUS ROBIN HIRSCH, MINISTER OF CULTURE 8:30PM Photo by Jim Anness Craig Taborn & Vijay Iyer @ Miller Theatre Kamala Sankaram @ Green-Wood Cemetery Thu Nov 18 PO’JAZZ HOSTED BY GOLDA SOLOMON 6 PM Rosemary George, Marcus Dargan, Kelvyn Bell KIRK KNUFFKE QUARTET 8:30PM Brian Drye, Mark Helias, Jeff Davis It takes confidence for a Boston-based tenor An indoor parade might seem like a paradox, but it Fri Nov 19 ADAM KOLKER TRIO FEATURIING saxophonist to crack wise about the Yankees during a isn’t an impossibility and in the case of Cyro Baptista BILLY HART AND JOHN HEBERT 9PM & 10:30PM gig at The Kitano (Oct.