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MARY STALLINGS ANGELICA SANCHEZ PAUL Mccandless SEPTEMBER 2016—ISSUE 173 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC JAZZ SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM STEVE COLEMAN elemental MARY ANGELICA PAUL LAURIE STALLINGS SANCHEZ McCANDLESS FRINK Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The New York City Jazz Record 66 Mt. Airy Road East SEPTEMBER 2016—ISSUE 173 Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 United States Phone/Fax: 212-568-9628 New York@Night 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: Interview : Mary Stallings 6 by suzanne lorge [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Artist Feature : Angelica Sanchez 7 by ken waxman General Inquiries: [email protected] On The Cover : Steve Coleman 8 by russ musto Advertising: [email protected] Encore : Paul McCandless by john pietaro Calendar: 10 [email protected] VOXNews: Lest We Forget : Laurie Frink 10 by eric wendell [email protected] LAbel Spotlight : WhyPlayJazz 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 33 Ken Micallef, Russ Musto, John Pietaro, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Event Calendar 34 Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman Contributing Writers Tyran Grillo, Matthew Kassel, Eric Wendell, Scott Yanow 60 is the new 40, which is the new black, which is the...you get the idea. Age is just a number: Contributing Photographers 60 could be the highest amount you can score with a single dart or maximum number of Mars Breslow, Eliseo Cardona, marbles in Chinese Checkers; Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927; it is also the international Enid Farber, Scott Friedlander, Peter Gannushkin, Dragoslav Nedici, code to call Malaysia. Alto saxophonist Steve Coleman (On The Cover) is just the kind of Gabe Palacio, Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen, conceptualist to consider all these iterations of the number 60 as he celebrates his diamond Jack Vartoogian anniversary with a month-long curation at The Stone. Fact-checker It is said to be impolite to reveal a woman’s age; we abide by this courtesy but will say that Nate Dorward singer Mary Stallings (Interview) will shimmer like the element iridium during her three nights at Smoke and that pianist Angelica Sanchez (Artist Feature) will hit it out of the park like Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey or Reggie Jackson when she presents her nonet as part of the fall season at Greenwich House Music School, among her other local activities. Reed player Paul McCandless (Encore), who has spent 46 of his 69 years in the legendary band Oregon, performs at Birdland with the California-based trio Charged Particles while esteemed trumpeter/educator Laurie Frink (Lest We Forget), who died in 2013 at 61, is the nycjazzrecord.com subject of a panel discussion at this year’s Festival of New Trumpet Music. On The Cover: Steve Coleman (John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. 2 SEPTEMBER 2016 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD WWW.BLUENOTEJAZZ.COM SEPTEMBER 2016 THE DUKE ELLINGTON MCCOY TYNER QUARTET ORCHESTRA SEPTEMBER 6 - 7 REBRITH BRASS BAND AUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 4 SEPTEMBER 8 - 11 JOHN SCOFIELD: THE TAJ MAHAL TRIO DAVID SANBORN COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN SEPTEMBER 13 - 18 SEPTEMBER 20 - 25 SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 2 ERIC HARLAND / JAMES FRANCIES / LOVE SCIENCE MUSIC SEPTEMBER 5 AHMAD JAMAL PRESENTS: SHAHIN - ALBUM RELEASE SEPTEMBER 12 ERIC PERSON & META-FOUR ACOUSTIC SEPTEMBER 19 • DIZZY GILLESPIE™ ALL STARS SEPTEMBER 26 SUNDAY BRUNCH 4U ~ ELIOT ZIGMUND-CETTINA DONATO JAZZ QUARTET SEPTEMBER 4 • ASSAF KEHATI TRIO SEPTEMBER 11 RHYTHM FUTURE QUARTET SEPTEMBER 18 • GENE ESS & FRACTAL ATTRACTION “ABSURDIST THEATER” ALBUM RELEASE PARTY SEPTEMBER 25 LATE NIGHT GROOVE SERIES MICHAEL VEAL & AQUA IFE SEPTEMBER 2 • AMANDA RUZZA SEPTEMBER 3 • REBIRTH BRASS BANDSEPTEMBER 9 & 10 DEEJ & SONIC REVOLUTION SEPTEMBER 16 • YOOJIN PARK SEPTEMBER 17 • MANUEL VALERA SEPTEMBER 23 • EMMA LARSENSEPTEMBER 24 • ADRIAN HIBBS SEPTEMBER 30 l3l WEST 3RD STREET NEW YORK CITY • 2l2.475.8592 • WWW.BLUENOTEJAZZ.COM @bluenotenyc TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY 8PM & l0:30PM • FRIDAY & SATURDAY LATE NIGHTS: l2:30AM TELECHARGE.COM TERMS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS APPLY SUNDAY BRUNCH, ll:30AM & l:30PM, $35 INCLUDES BRUNCH MUSIC AND DRINK NEW YORK @ NIGHT As part of the tenth anniversary of Issue Project Swing, as in rhythm, seems a bit old hat to many of the Room’s artist-in-residence program, the Brooklyn younger cats around the city, but Heads of State were space presented a program of duets between trumpeters (s)wingin’ it with a capital ‘S’ on their gig at Smoke Peter Evans and Joe McPhee (Aug. 13th). Evans was in (Aug. 5th). Led by two mid-septuagenarian veterans, residence at the vaulted, marble-coated building in alto saxophonist Gary Bartz and pianist Larry Willis, 2014 while McPhee has performed at Issue a number of with bassist David “Happy” Williams and drummer times over the years. Separated by over four decades, Lewis Nash (at 57, the ‘youngblood’ of the group) McPhee quipped that Evans “helped to extend my sitting in for the gig, the quartet inhabited that old childhood” and his crackling, wispy masses offset axiom that great jazz comes not from what you play, Evans’ explosive poise with measure and wit. This was but how you play it. In less experienced, less their fifth meeting, building on previous improvisations enthusiastic hands, warhorses like Jackie McLean’s at The Stone, JACK and in the midwest and Krakow. “Capuchin Swing” (a contrafact based on “Star Eyes”), Utilizing close-micing techniques and architectural Charlie Parker’s “Moose the Mooche” (based on resonance, though no electronic effects, the pair created George Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm”) or McCoy Tyner’s music that superseded perceived instrumental semi-modal “Passion Dance” might sound like capabilities. Often and especially on piccolo trumpet, business as usual, but Bartz and Willis, spurred on by Evans’ conical bore curls recalled a soprano saxophone, Williams’ bubbling pulse and Nash’s ebullient but ever casting McPhee’s part of the conversation (the space tasteful touch, injected their performance with presented a living third element) into a light not spontaneous fervor. The group members were closely dissimilar to his duos with Steve Lacy or Evan Parker attuned, inspired and amused by each other’s musical while spanned chuffs acted as brushes may on a snare. antics and the small but vocally responsive summer At a certain point it became clear that instrumentation crowd seemed to hang on every phrase, tuned in to matters less than the form producing sound—this was each nuance. The second set also included a shuffling no longer a trumpet duo, but a music duo and as such “Ezekiel Saw the Wheel” and a sensitively rendered it’s hard to capture in words the honesty, power, feeling ballad, “Crazy She Calls Me”. Bartz’ appeal lay in the and invention that both players’ horns and voices cast subtle details of his lines, Willis’ in his volatile, into the air. Across one lengthy piece and two childlike unpredictability while Nash, a permanent explorations of decreasing duration, McPhee and grin spread across his face, achieved that paradoxical Evans gave a concert for the ages. —Clifford Allen balance of leading and following. —Tom Greenland G R O . S S N O O T I S O S H E P R P W X O E R Z T Z N A J O / R F N / E N H A I O G C - O D O N T R A L A R V E K H C T A U J S 6 . 1 I . 0 R 2 © © Peter Evans & Joe McPhee @ Issue Project Room Gary Bartz @ Smoke When I spoke with baritone saxophonist/bass These are troubling times, politically, but then when clarinetist Josh Sinton, he offered the following: “a lot haven’t they been? For 11 years the Dissident Arts of the people you’d assume by now I’d have played Festival, founded by percussionist John Pietaro, has with I actually haven’t. If I want to play with someone, been an organ for left-wing expressive culture, from I often have to hire them. I’d wanted to play with Pete Seeger (featured the first year) to free jazz. The [trombonist] Steve Swell, for example, so I put together spirit of activism was rife at 5C Café (Aug. 12th) when, this band.” TSSS joined Sinton and Swell with a pair of following Pietaro’s consciousness-raising prefatory drummers, Satoshi Takeishi and Ryan Sawyer, for a remarks, pianist Trudy Silver, drummer Newman lengthy improvised performance at Manhattan Inn Taylor Baker and Butoh mime artist Sanae Buck (Aug. 11th), arranged in a cruciform pattern with performed “Where’s the Outrage?”, a multimedia drummers and horn players facing one another. Swell’s piece with slides and film clips of grassroots protests garrulous cries and chortles, mated to athletic vertical during which Buck’s gestures seemed to pose questions doppler-like playing, were quite a match for Sinton’s to the projected images, the musicians, even the floor-rattling huffs and multiphonic exuberance. audience. Bookended by more political rhetoric and Sinton also presented incredible facility on the bass poetry, the second set, flutist/tenor saxophonist Ras clarinet, drawing from classical purity befitting a Moshe’s “Black Lives Matter Suite”, utilized bass sonata and melding that with fluttering runs and clarinetist Matt Lavelle, pianist Chris Forbes, bassist unhinged, raucous vocalizations.
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