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www.jazzINSIDEMaGazINE.coM fEbruary 2011 Indie Artist Issue Roger Davidson Joe Magnarelli Jovino Santos Neto Bill O’Connell Davidson Matt Savage Sara Serpa Plenty of CD Reviews Ira Gitler’s Apple Chorus Randy Comprehensive Directory of NY Club, Concert & Event Listings Weston The Jazz Music Dashboard — Smart Listening Experiences www.SavageRecords.com www.JoeMagnarelli.com www.SoundBrush.com www.motema.com Like Us facebook.com/JazzInsideMedia Follow Us twitter.com/JazzInsideMag Watch Us youtube.com/JazzInsideMedia Jazz Inside™ Magazine ISSN: 2150-3419 (print) • ISSN 2150-3427 (online) CONTENTS February 2011 –Volume 2, Number 7 Credit: Joe Patitucci CLUBS, COnCERtS, EvENTS Cover Design by Shelly Rhodes Cover photo of Randy Weston by Joe Patitucci 15 Calendar of Events 24 Announcements — Upcoming Events; Publisher: Eric Nemeyer Regular Engagements; Additional Club and Editor: Gary Heimbauer Advertising Sales & Marketing: Eric Nemeyer Venue Schedules Circulation: Robin Friedman, Susan Brodsky 28 Directory of Clubs, Venues, Music and Photo Editor: Joe Patitucci Record Stores, Schools & Universities, Layout and Design: Karry Thomas and more Contributing Artists: Shelly Rhodes Contributing Photographers: Eric Nemeyer, Joe Patitucci, Ken Weiss. 44 Around Town Contributing Writers: John Alexander, Chuck Anderson, Al Bunshaft; Curtis 50 Noteworthy Performances Davenport; Bill Donaldson; Shannon Effinger; Dimitry Ekshtut; Robert Gish; Ira Gitler; Eric Harabadian; Gary Heimbauer; Rick Helzer; Jan Klincewicz; Joe Cover: Randy Weston COLUMnS Lang; Ronald Lyles; Matthew Marshall; Joe Patitucci; Ken Weiss. 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With backing by Eric’s always apt piano; and bass its founder, Billy. master Sean Smith (his bowing in several numbers I had every intention of going to that event but was top shelf) the deft duo explored a wide range of a conflict in my schedule intervened. In the middle material. In addition to individual vocal solo numbers of December I called Billy to congratulate him and there were those where one had a chance to answer the tell him that I was sorry I had missed it. We talked other plus the combining two songs in one package, about what each other had been up to since we last sometimes back to back and also melded. What better talked. He spoke about the Schomburg event. I in- way to open than with Jerry Herman’s “Put On Your formed him of my son (who shares a birth date with Sunday Clothes” and “Broadway” a number by Teddy him) becoming a bridegroom. McRae, Bill Bird and Henry Woode that jazz fans of a When the news of his passing was one of the certain age remember for Count Basie’s instrumental first things I saw on the Internet after I woke up on Bucky Pizzarelli version featuring Lester Young. A cherry on the top the morning of the 28th, I felt shock and sadness. here was the inclusion of a bit of “Crazy Rhythm.” The next thing to enter my head were the words of- I felt a reflective gladness in that I had made They closed with a dual entry of “Lullaby of ten repeated by Reverend John Garcia Gensel when that call. Broadway” and “Two Sleepy People” but if anyone he was conducting one of the many services for de- We went back a long way. I was working with was in danger of being lulled, the tumultuous ova- parted jazz heroes at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church. It Prestige Records and hanging out at the clubs at night. tion given the “cast” – and they are artful actors – was about people thinking of their friends and saying I knew of Billy, had heard him on one of his early side- demonstrated otherwise. to themselves, “I’ve got to call so and so and see how man recordings from the ‘40s - “The Bottle’s Empty,” Rather than give you a laundry list of composers they’re doing” and then not getting around to it. led by tenorman Walter “Foots” Thomas – but hadn’t and songs, just take my word that the performance heard him in person. In the late ‘90s he did a trio CD, had it all and then some. Helluva Town would make Music Keeps Us Young for the Arkadia label and asked one heck of a CD. Eric, Barbara? me to do the notes. In writing them I touched on lis- Just two days after the Algonquin we (my wife Louis Armstrong tening to his trio (Earl May, bass; and Charlie Smith, and I) went over to the 92nd Street Y for the first drums) at Le Downbeat, a club at the northeast corner of five concerts celebrating the 85th birthday of the and Race of 54th and Eighth. To quote from my notes: “I was an evergreen guitarist, Bucky Pizzarelli. The basic band habitue, so by the time the first Prestige session came was Bucky’s son, the illustrious John Pizzarelli, gui- A special presentation by Armstrong expert up, we were not strangers. It probably wouldn’t have tarist, vocalist, raconteur and ad-libber, and his regu- Ricky Riccardi using private mattered if we were. Billy Taylor, among his other at- tape recordings and rare footage. lar group (Larry Fuller, piano; brother Martin Piz- tributes, has an upbeat, welcoming personality that zarelli, bass; and Tony Tedesco. drums) with added has served him in good stead as one of jazz’s most im- starters: Ken Peplowski, reeds; Aaron Weinstein, portant ambassadors. That he was a thorough profes- violin. The vocalists, besides John, were his wife, Jes- FEBRUARY 12 & 26 sional made it easy to work with him.” sica Molaskey, who co-directed the show with her We did two trio sessions for Prestige in Novem- husband; Judy Kuhn and Darius de Haas.