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AUGUST 2017—ISSUE 184 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC JAZZ SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM NELS CLINE music for lovers VINCENT ERIC HUGH TADD HERRING HARLAND STEINMETZ DAMERON Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The New York City Jazz Record 66 Mt. Airy Road East AUGUST 2017—ISSUE 184 Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 United States Phone/Fax: 212-568-9628 NEw York@Night 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: Interview : vincent herring 6 by alex henderson [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Artist Feature : ERIC HARLAND 7 by marilyn lester General Inquiries: [email protected] ON The Cover : NELS CLINE 8 by john pietaro Advertising: [email protected] Encore : HUGH STEINMETZ by andrey henkin Calendar: 10 [email protected] VOXNews: Lest We Forget : TADD DAMERON 10 by stuart broomer [email protected] LAbel Spotlight : CIRCUM-DISC 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 Staff Writers 12 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Duck Baker, Fred Bouchard, Festival REport Stuart Broomer, Thomas Conrad, 13 Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Phil Freeman, Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, Anders Griffen, CD ReviewS 14 Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman, Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, Suzanne Lorge, Mark Keresman, Miscellany 31 Marc Medwin, Ken Micallef, Russ Musto, John Pietaro, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Event Calendar 32 Elliott Simon, Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman, Scott Yanow Contributing Writers Mathieu Bélanger, Robert Bush, Ori Dagan, Laurel Gross, A generation is loosely defined as those born within a ten-year period, given such colorful George Kanzler, Matthew Kassel, epithets as Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials. Our Big Three features this month Marilyn Lester, Ivana Ng represent three consecutive generations and were all mentored by members of earlier eras. This Contributing Photographers is the connectivity that has kept jazz in its myriad forms evolving, drawing a direct line from Valerie Gay-Bessette, Peter Gannushkin, Buddy Bolden to Ambrose Akinmusire. William Gottlieb, Pierre Langlois , Alan Nahigian, John Rogers, Guitarist Nels Cline (On The Cover, born 1956) got early direction (and a recording debut) Adrien H. Tillmann, Nathan West from reed player Vinny Golia; this month, Cline premieres the music from his Blue Note debut Lovers as part of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival and curates a week at The Stone. Fact-checker Saxophonist Vincent Herring (Interview, born 1964) had crucial experience in the bands of Nate Dorward Nat Adderley and Cedar Walton; Herring is part of a Charlie Parker birthday celebration at Birdland this month and hosts Monday Night jam sessions at Smoke. Drummer Eric Harland (Artist Feature, born 1976) attended Betty Carter University on his way to becoming one of today’s most in-demand performers; he leads a variety of bands at Jazz Standard this month. The music industry has changed, clubs come and go, jazz festivals become pop extravaganzas nycjazzrecord.com but as long as younger musicians keep learning from their elders, jazz will be just fine. On The Cover: Nels Cline (photo by Nathan West, courtesy of Blue Note Records) All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. 2 AUGUST 2017 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD WWW.BLUENOTEJAZZ.COM AUGUST 2017 CHRISTIAN SCOTT EARL KLUGH AUGUST 3 - 6 AUGUST 8 - 13 BOB JAMES FEAT. 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The venue was Noise Workshop of the venue (named for beloved fan Irving Stone) was (Jul. 14th), hosting sets from the New York Review of still months away. A denizen of erstwhile Downtown Cocksucking (NYROCS, Michael Foster and Richard ‘clubhouses’ like the “Old Knit” and Tonic (where Kamerman) and Plane Crash, the volatile but incisive MTO cut its teeth), Bernstein has learned to play (and trio of guitarist Henry Kaiser, bassist Damon Smith roll with) the changes. His nonet—clarinetist Doug and drummer Weasel Walter. NYROCS opened, sitting Wieselman; saxophonists Peter Apfelbaum (tenor/ presented by across from one another at card tables festooned with soprano) and Erik Lawrence (baritone); trombonist little and not-so-little instruments—harmonicas, Curtis Fowlkes; bassist Ben Allison; drummer Ben rattles, pot lids, cymbals, cassette players, pedals, Perowsky; plus two subs in violinist Sam Bardfeld and megaphone, no-input mixer and soprano saxophone— guitarist Will Bernard—showed fine form on the and conjured a landscape of feedback, bilious band’s traditional opener, “St. Louis Blues”, displaying multiphonic gurgle, percussive clatter and disembodied its unique but recognizable sound, which (somehow) CHARLIE PARKER voices. While both Plane Crash volumes (released on consolidates ‘20s whore-house blues, gospel, Swing, ugEXPLODE and New Atlantis, respectively) have Bird-bop, funk and free improv. Harnessed in offered sharply-defined acoustic gamesmanship, in Bernstein’s agile arrangements, the group’s strong JAZZ FESTIVAL person they stuck to a charged energy often veering personalities emerge in a communal, not individual, towards progressive rock, Walter on an expansive context, a renovation of the heterophonic style of early rock-drummer’s kit, a sweaty and powerful chug New Orleans jazz. “One 4 Dos”, a new chart, profited 25TH ANNIVERSARY behind Kaiser’s more topographical electric latticework from Bernstein’s ongoing adjustments, swelling to CELEBRATION and the throaty incisions of Smith’s arco and meaty a loud, messy collective roar. Another original, “Silver pizzicato. The trio worked through one long and one Talk”, was pure R&B, moving through cued sections. short improvisation, the rhythm section occasionally Alongside the party music were complex harmonic subsuming Kaiser’s detail under brute force, but the explorations: Charles Mingus’ “Duke Ellington’s three eventually found a common axis of listening, Sound of Love” and Ellington’s own “Flirtibird”. Sure, AUGUST 23–27 winnowing their improvisation to a focused, vibrantly The Stone will close its door, but these guys will find undulating language. —Clifford Allen new territory to travel. —Tom Greenland FREE T E M N O . C C . I AUGUST 23, 2017 | 7:30-9 PM S C Y U N CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS M S N R E The New School Auditorium W G O O T R 66 West 12th St., Manhattan N N W H O O J D . / W N AUGUST 24, 2017 | 7-9 PM I W K W H JASON SAMUELS SMITH’S “CHASIN’ THE BIRD” S S R U E REMIXED N G N O A R Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan G N R H E T O J E P © AUGUST 25, 2017 | 7-9 PM Henry Kaiser @ Noise Workshop Steven Bernstein @ The Stone ANAT COHEN TENTET / CAMILLE THURMAN IN ASSOCIATION WITH JAZZMOBILE One would be forgiven for assuming that Saxophone Sandwiched between nondescript warehouse fronts Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan Summit at Birdland (Jul. 1st) would be a blowing near the Gowanus canal, a small square box of a room session in the vein of a Tenor Conclave or an Altissimo with white brick walls and colored baffles to dampen performance.