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Sketches of Kg August 2013 | No. 136 Your FREE Guide to the NYC Jazz Scene nycjazzrecord.com KENNY GARRETT SKETCHES OF KG CRAIG • ANDY • SAM • JAZZHAUS • EVENT HARRIS MILNE ULANO RECORDS CALENDAR AUGUST 2013 EARL KLUGH ABBY DOBSON PAQUITO D’RIVERA & HIS LUKE CELENZA JULY 30 - AUG 4 AUG 5 PANAMERICANA ENSEMBLE AUG 12 AUG 6-11 ERIC JOHNSON & MIKE STERN LIBERATION PROPHECY ROY HARGROVE BIG BAND LAKECIA BENJAMIN ROY AYERS ECLECTIC GUITARS AUG 19 WITH SPECIAL GUEST AUG 26 AUG 27-SEP 1 AUG 13-18 ROBERTA GAMBARINI AUG 20-25 LATE NIGHT GROOVE SERIES SUNDAY BRUNCH SERIES SPIRITCHILD & MENTAL NOTES AUG 2 SPECIAL BRAZILIAN THEME - AUGUST ONLY EVA CORTES AUG 3 FEATURING FEIJOADA, BRAZILIAN FISH STEW, COURTNEY BRYAN AUG 9 AND BATIDAS! RACHEL ECKROTH AUG 10 DARREN LYONS AUG 16 HIROMI SUDA SEXTET AUG 4 SAM KINNINGER AUG 17 VIC JURIS BRAZILIAN BAND W/ KATE BAKER AUG 11 NICK SAMPLE AUG 23 AMANDA RUZZA AUG 18 AKIM FUNK BUDDHA AUG 24 NANNY ASSIS AUG 25 TBA AUG 30 AL MACDOWELL’S “JUST ORNETTE” AUG 31 TELECHARGE.COM TERMS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS APPLY “BEST JAZZ CLUBS OF THE YEAR 2012” SMOKE JAZZ & SUPPER CLUB • HARLEM, NEW YORK FEATURED ARTISTS / 7pm, 9pm & 10:30 ONE NIGHT ONLY / 7pm, 9pm & 10:30 RESIDENCIES / 7pm, 9pm & 10:30 Sundays Aug 4, 18 Friday & Saturday Aug 2 & 3 Thursday Aug 1 SaRon Crenshaw Band MARK GROSS QUINTET Vivian Sessoms Sundays Aug 11, 25 “BLACKSIDE”-CD RELEASE EVENT Wednesday Aug 7 Allan Harris EJ Strickland Quintet Mondays Aug 5, 19 Friday & Saturday Aug 9 & 10 Captain Black Big Band A TRIBUTE TO MULGREW MILLER Tuesday Aug 13 Mondays Aug 12, 26 Aaron Comess Jason Marshall Big Band THE STEVE NELSON QUARTET Tuesdays Aug 6, 20, 27 Friday & Saturday Aug 16 & 17 Wednesday Aug 14 Mike LeDonne Groover Quartet Annette St. John Eric Alexander (sax) • Peter Bernstein (g) • Joe Farnsworth (dr) PETER BERNSTEIN QT Thursdays Aug 8, 15, 22, 29 featuring Steve Nelson & her Hammond B3 Trio Gregory Generet Friday & Saturday Aug 23 & 24 Wednesday Aug 21 Misha Piatigorsky Quintet LATE NIGHT RESIDENCIES GEORGE COLEMAN QT Mon The Smoke Jam Session featuring Harold Mabern Wednesday Aug 28 Tue Milton Suggs Quartet Friday & Saturday August 30 & 31 Dena DeRose Quartet Wed Brianna Thomas Quartet CHARLIE PARKER BIRTHDAY Thr Nickel and Dime OPS Fri Patience Higgins Quartet CELEBRATION Sundays Justin Robinson, Jeremy Pelt, Larry Willis, Noah Jackson, Joe Farnsworth Jazz Brunch Sat Johnny O’Neal & Friends With vocalist Annette St. John and her Trio Sun Roxy Coss Quartet 212-864-6662 • 2751 Broadway NYC (Between 105th & 106th streets) • www.smokejazz.com SMOKE Since the founding of the Newport Jazz Festival (which will hold its 59th edition this Aug. 2nd-4th for those looking for a New England getaway), what has been New York@Night better than hearing jazz outside, freed from its typical dungeon-like locales? The 4 history of jazz in the great outdoors goes back way further than 1954, however, to Interview: Craig Harris its roots in the squares of New Orleans. What you may lose in sound quality you make up for in fresh air and the indelible image of children dancing spontaneously by Brad Farberman 6 to the sounds of great music. August may bring stultifying heat to the city but it Artist Feature: Andy Milne also brings plenty of outdoor concerts, so smear on that sunscreen, get your by Ken Waxman novelty water hats and go out to hear some music. Here are a few choices. 7 Saxophonist Kenny Garrett (On The Cover), who made his name in the On The Cover: Kenny Garrett Ellington Orchestra and the bands of Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Miles Davis, Freddie 9 by Martin Longley Hubbard and Woody Shaw, is now a respected leader in his own right. This month, he brings his group to the annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. Trombonist Craig Encore: Lest We Forget: Harris (Interview) has worked with a who’s who of avant garde jazz: Abdullah 10 Sam Ulano Brew Moore Ibrahim, Henry Threadgill, Lester Bowie, Butch Morris, Billy Bang, Cecil Taylor and Sam Rivers, to name only a few. Jazzmobile presents him in a special concert by Kurt Gottschalk by Donald Elfman celebrating late poet Sekou Sundiata’s 65th birthday. And while pianist Andy Megaphone VOXNews Milne (Artist Feature), who came out of Steve Coleman’s M-Base and boasts 11 by Don Braden by Katie Bull projects with Ravi Coltrane, Ralph Alessi and fellow pianist Benoît Delbecq, isn’t playing outdoors, his trio will be at Dizzy’s Club, perhaps the greatest view in the Label Spotlight: Listen Up!: city (he also brings his Dapp Theory to ShapeShifter Lab). In other features, we have an Encore on drummer Sam Ulano, who celebrates 12 Jazzhaus Records Bobby Avey & Emmet Cohen his 93rd birthday this month at The Cutting Room; Lest We Forget on saxophonist by Ken Dryden Brew Moore (who died 40 years ago this month); Label Spotlight on the archival imprint Jazzhaus Records; Festival Reports from Canada (Suoni Per Il Popolo) and 13 Festival Reports: Vision • Suoni Per Il Popolo right here in NYC (Vision); plus a full complement of CD reviews and packed Event Calendar, both indoors and out. Stay cool and stay cooler with jazz... CD Reviews: Alan Ferber, Paquito D’Rivera, Kermit Ruffins, 14 Ralph Peterson, Frank Gratkowski, Matthew Garrison and more Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor Andrey Henkin, Editorial Director On the cover: Kenny Garrett (Photograph © Jack Vartoogian/FrontRowPhotos) 34 Event Calendar Club Directory Corrections: In last month’s CD Reviews, Sandy Stewart and Bill Charlap’s Something 41 To Remember was actually released by Ghostlight Records. 43 Miscellany: In Memoriam • Birthdays • On This Day Submit Letters to the Editor by emailing [email protected] US Subscription rates: 12 issues, $30 (International: 12 issues, $40) For subscription assistance, send check, cash or money order to the address below or email [email protected]. The New York City Jazz Record www.nycjazzrecord.com / twitter: @nycjazzrecord Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene To Contact: Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin The New York City Jazz Record Staff Writers 116 Pinehurst Avenue, Ste. J41 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Fred Bouchard, Stuart Broomer, Katie Bull, New York, NY 10033 Tom Conrad, Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Brad Farberman, Sean Fitzell, Kurt Gottschalk, United States Tom Greenland, Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman, Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, Wilbur MacKenzie, Marc Medwin, Sharon Mizrahi, Russ Musto, Sean J. O’Connell, Laurence Donohue-Greene: Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Jeff Stockton, Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Contributing Writers Duck Baker, Mathieu Bélanger, Don Braden, George Kanzler, General Inquiries: [email protected] Martin Longley, Suzanne Lorge, Robert Milburn, Stanley Zappa Advertising: [email protected] Contributing Photographers Editorial: [email protected] Jim Anness, Scott Friedlander, Kurt Gottschalk, Ernest Gregory, Calendar: [email protected] Pierre Langlois, Alan Nahigian, Jonno Rattman, Jack Vartoogian All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | August 2013 3 NEW YORK @ NIGHT One of bassist Ben Allison’s recent obsessions is the The International Society for Improvised Music - an music of Jim Hall, which he’s explored live with the Ann Arbor, MI-based organization dedicated to the gifted guitarist Steve Cardenas. In a four-night run at education and promotion of unscripted musical Dizzy’s Club, Allison changed up the personnel while expression - culminated a weekend of workshops with maintaining a focus on Hall, at least in part. Saxophonist a night of free meetings at Roulette (Jul. 1st). Elliott Ted Nash and drummer Matt Wilson, longtime Allison Sharp opened the evening, hammering the strings on a cohorts, joined guitarist Peter Bernstein in a versatile hollowbody guitar and making sounds not so far lineup that devoted its second Thursday set (Jul. 11th) removed from Hyun-Sik Shin’s large, zither-like to tunes by Hall, Thelonious Monk, the late Jimmy ajaeng, which soon joined in. Slowly another half- Giuffre and Allison himself. Bernstein has few rivals in dozen players entered, creating something the straightahead arena in terms of tone, expression spontaneous, singular and thoughtful. Another Korean and harmonic insight. His experiences with Jimmy visitor, who goes simply by Gamin, began the second Cobb, Lou Donaldson and other masters haven’t piece on piri - a wooden flute not much bigger than a entailed much close contact with Allison, whose pencil but with a surprisingly low and rich tone. In a projects tend to fall more outside the box. But the two later piece, she played alongside Jane Ira Bloom, who are both in their mid 40s with compatible outlooks and doubled her soprano sax with a pitchshifter for a their vibe felt natural. The band sound was sparse and simple and full duo subtly underscored by Tom airy, equally suited to the folksy aesthetic of Giuffre’s Zlabinger’s upright bass. Other players listened ALBERT HEATH with “The Train and the River” and Monk’s perennial “Criss intently before joining in, which perhaps could be said Cross”. Allison’s “Weazy”, a slower ambling waltz, to be the “ism” of the ISIM. The boldest piece of the ETHAN IVERSON & BEN STREET found Nash and Bernstein voicing harmonies once evening came from Jin Hi Kim on koto and Rui Li on played by Michael Blake on two saxophones at once trumpet, ceramic flute and guttural vocals with some TOOTIE’S TEMPO (on Allison’s 2001 Palmetto disc Riding the Nuclear spirited vocalese from Amanda Schoofs, resolving with SSC 1370 Tiger). Hall’s “Bimini” and “Waltz New”, the latter a Li’s demonic whisper “Silence is golden”.
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