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The Monthly Newsletter of JazzErie December 2007 Issue No. 154

14 Years Serving the Community Holiday Concert GODFATHERS OF GROOVE Ambassador Banquet & Conference Center, 7792 Peach Street. (just north of I-90). 8:00 PM

REUBEN WILSON GRANT GREENE, JR. Tickets: $5 Students and children with his new project, the Godfathers of Detroit-born Grant Green, Jr., son $20 JazzErie members Groove. “I thought the music could be of a legendary , enjoyed a $25 Adults well served by a pop feeling. I liked constant parade of jazz giants streaming Special rate for Dinner & the Concert!!! what drummers Bernard Purdie and through his living room as a boy. Settling $34.95 Adults Idris Muhammed were doing…their in NYC, he established versatility in $19.95 Students & children appeal was to a younger crowd.” This the many and jazz clubs there, Dinner begins at 6:00 PM at the Safari forward moving sound has found a developing a style which blends funky Grille (adjacent to the Ambassador), and home in the Godfathers. The group has grooves with melodic soul jazz and blues. offers a choice of tenderloin marsala, just released a new CD, “Godfathers of This led to his association with Wilson grilled salmon or portabella chicken. Groove”(Allegro, 2007). and Purdie as the third member of the You must call for reservations: Godfathers. 814/868-9538 Bernard Purdie also came to the Godfathers by traveling through the Advance concert tickets are available at: Hammond B-3 organist Reuben worlds of jazz and soul. He was Aretha’s World of Music 459-2585 Wilson helped usher in a new era, based main drummer in the early ‘70’s, also East Erie Turners 452-2564 on the soul sounds of and backing Isaac Hayes, B.B.King, Lou Erie Art Museum 459-5477 “Groove” Holmes, but moving forward. Donaldson, and Hank Mercyhurst Box Office 824-2000 He first found fame as a “godfather” of Crawford. At the same time, he was Glass Growers Gallery 453-3758 acid jazz in the late ‘60’s, and playing working with , , Erie Book Store 480-5671 with a range of artists from Sam Rivers and the Brecker Brothers Lynch Music 814/474-2047 to Grant Green and Roy Hanes. He (Soul to Jazz,” ACT Music & Vision Latino’s Restaurant 452-1966 developed a major audience in Europe GMBH, 1996), and backing pop stars Osiecki Bros. Music 453-6565 in the ‘70’s, where his influence is still Tom Jones, the Rolling Stones and James Romolo Chocolates 452-1933 felt. He’s currently hunkered down Brown. Acid jazz to groove, Purdie is at home. For More Information: www.jazzerie.com azz rie DAVE STEVENS THE “REAL” BIRTH J E BIG BAND – OF THE COOL JazzErie is a com- CHRISTMAS munity of music lovers and musicians and, a member- SWING CONCERT ship organization dedicated to sharing with children, adults and one an-other an awareness and love of music, particularly jazz. JazzErie brings toget-her people who want to listen to jazz, learn about it, play it and just live it.

Check out our website at www.jazzerie.com for complete Dr. Allen Zurcher information on current and upcoming events. ‘Cool’ or West Coast jazz is an Friday, Dec. 7 8:00 PM offshoot of Be Bop popularized in the 1950s due in part to the release of 2007-2008 Board of Directors Saturday, Dec. 8 8:00 PM Miles Davis’s album, Sunday, Dec. 9 2:00 PM (Capital T-762) in 1957. This album was President...... Dr. Carl Hultman previously released as singles between Vice President...... Ed Goebel Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts 1949 and 1950. Probably the group Treasurer...... Liz Scarpelli Center, Mercyhurst College, 501 E. and song most commonly associated 38th Street Phone: 824-3000 Directors with the ‘Cool’ style of jazz is the Dave In what has become a much- Brubeck Quartet and Paul Desmond’s Joe Curlett Brian Sheridan anticipated annual performance, the composition, Take Five (Time Out, Robb Hoff Charles Lute Dave Stevens Big Band will return to the Columbia CK 65122, recorded on 6- Al Lubiejewski John Marzalek Mary D’Angelo Center stage this year, 8/1959). Scott Meier Ted Ely augmented by classy British singer Helen Sheldon Peterson Allen Zurcher Welsh and the local (General McLane and Be Bop, like many Mary Watson Dick Thompson High School) talents of GM Vocal Jazz other styles of music are not mutually John Kytic Ensemble. exclusive to each other. Cool jazz has its roots in Be Bop and, in some cases, Past Presidents Stevens’ Big Band, which includes can be virtually indistinguishable from David F. Van Amburg 1994-1995 many of the area’s most talented jazz its predecessor. That having been said (Founding President) musicians, was the winner of this year’s there are a few characteristics which may Atty. Al Lubiejewski 1995-1997 Erie Rocks Music Award for “Best Jazz be used to determine which is which. Virginia M. Pelkowski 1997-1999 Band.” The Christmas show is always Generally speaking, Cool jazz is less R. Patrick Rodgers 1999-2002 a season highlight, with bandmembers edgy, lower in volume, tends to avoid bringing their best chops to the array of Steve Eidell 2002-2003 high notes, and has little or no vibrato. new material and old favorites. The melodies may be as complex as Tom McLaren 2003-2005 those found in Be Bop but are generally Singer Helen Welch, with a more subdued. Improvisation in Cool JazzErie Notes is published monthly background in stage, by JazzErie which is a subsidiary organiza- jazz tends to be more cerebral and may cabaret and jazz include greater attention to details such tion of the Erie Art Museum, venues, will be well a nonprofit organization. as melodic development. In addition remembered by those to the traits mentioned above, from JazzErie Notes who saw last year’s a compositional standpoint greater Editor - Dick Thompson show and loved her attention was given by composers and published by work. New this arrangers to find unusual ways to group year is the General PIP Printing West instruments together which provide McLane vocal group, 2825 West 26th St. • Erie, PA 16506 unusual textures and colors to the music. which is making a Deadline is the 15th of each month. name for itself in the area. The marketing of ‘Birth of the Cool’ Send articles to: Ticket prices: by Columbia led many people to believe [email protected] Mercyhurst students, and youth 15 and this album was the first time such a new or Box 8833, Erie, PA 16505 under $10 and innovative approach to jazz had been Seniors and students $15 taken. The reality however, was quite Adults $20 different. The characteristics of Cool Advance tickets available at the Continued on pg. 3.... Mercyhurst box office. Page 2 JazzErie Notes jazz described above are the result of their tone was brighter, and, in the case Originally the Miles Davis Nonet the synthesis and evolution of several of Beiderbecke somewhat brittle. The was intended to be musical threads which can be traced way Beiderbecke and Young approached a ten-piece band, back to the mid 1920s beginning with their attacks was very light and well with the inclusion Duke Ellington. If one looks beyond controlled and they had a much more of clarinetist Danny jazz, the roots of this movement may ‘cerebral’ approach to improvisation. Polo. However, be traced back to French Impressionist These characteristics were imitated due to Polo’s composers such as and and expounded on by saxophonists, frequent road trips . Prelude to the Afternoon , Paul Desmond, and Gerry with the Thornhill of a Faun (1894) by Mulligan; and trumpeter, . Orchestra, Polo was Debussy (pictured MILES DAVIS not available for left) is attributed by The Miles Davis Nonet was rehearsals on a consistent basis. So, rather many to be the first originally a rehearsal band which than use a substitute, the members of the Impressionistic piece, was formed as the result of musical nonet agreed to do without. The creation and was written discussions which took place in Gil of the nonet had a practical side as well. some 30 years before Evan’s apartment in in The arrangers decided the smallest group composers such 1947 -8. , , they use to get the ‘Thornhill’ sound was as Duke Ellington , and John Lewis all had a 6 horns, piano, bass and drums. The use began to write music much larger role in the development of of and tuba in the nonet was influenced by Debussy, Ravel and other the group than they were given credit borrowed from the Thornhill orchestra as French Impressionist composers. for on the original release. The original well. Thornhill (pictured below) had been intent of the group was to continue the using alternate instrumentation in his Part of Duke Ellington’s significance innovative sound which Gil Evans and orchestra since the early 1930’s. as a composer was how he took the Claude Thornhill (and to a lesser extent, approach to tone color and extended Gerry Mulligan) developed in the Claude Interestingly, tuba was not used as a composition from composers such as Thornhill Orchestra in the late 1930s bass instrument Debussy and combined them with the and early 1940s. With the advent of Be as it would have instrumentation, use of ‘blue’ notes, other Bop in 1944 Gil Evans (pictured below) been in the early coloristic effects, and syncopated rhythms discovered that he wanted to combine 1930s in big bands found in jazz. Ellington, (pictured right) the complex melodic ideas and chord or in early jazz was the first great structures of Be Bop (Dixieland). It was jazz composer to with the color palette used to extend the write ‘across’ sections he had been working lower range of the in a jazz orchestra. with as the arranger trombone section. Instead of grouping for the Claude So, instead of the saxophones the Thornhill Orchestra. playing bass lines brass and the rhythm Recordings of Evans’ like an acoustic string bass, it was used to section as three arrangements of fill out harmonies in the ensemble. distinct and separate Charlie Parker’s sections he would Anthropology, Also consistent with the Thornhill often write chords with saxophones and , and orchestra concept was as shift in trombones, clarinets and trombones, may be found on Gil Evans emphasis away from the soloist and or flutes and trumpets, which creates the Real Birth of the Cool (The Jazz on to the composer/arranger. Note the an entirely different color than people Factory: JFCD 22801). These recordings length of solos on the Miles Davis Nonet were accustomed to hearing at that were originally released from 1941 recording; solos are consistently shorter time. Glen Grey and the Casa Loma -7, well before the Birth of the Cool in length than most Be Bop solos. Some Orchestra was another popular group in recording sessions in 1948 – 49. Gerry are as short as 16 measures; a length the early 1930s which attributed much Mulligan’s wrote arrangements of Jeru more consistent with the length of solos of their critical acclaim to the influence and Joost on the Roost for both Claude heard in most swing bands. of Duke Ellington and his adaptation of Thornhill and the Miles Davis Nonet. Impressionist influences to jazz. It is not clear when Mulligan did the The evolution of ‘cool’ jazz, like arrangements for the Thornhill orchestra, any genre of music did not magically Soloists such as Bix Beiderbecke however it may be inferred that they were appear as many marketing types would and Lester Young (pictured below) had done before the nonet arrangements as have us believe. It is most often a a much more subdued approach to their Mulligan’s association with the Thornhill process of combining different attitudes instruments orchestra was over before the Nonet and approaches to music introduced by than their ‘hot’ recordings were completed in the studio. musicians and composers who have come counterparts The Claude Thornhill recording of Jeru together from different backgrounds with Louis is available on HEP Records CD 80. common goals. In the case of cool jazz, Armstrong The inference is only speculation on my musicians wanted to explore the subtlety and Coleman part as there is no definite information of color and texture found in much Hawkins. available as to when Gerry Mulligan’s with the melodic and As a result association with Thornhill ended. rhythmic intensity of Be Bop.

Issue No. 154 Page 3 composer/educator John Faddis and EAST ERIE TURNERS the Chicago Jazz Ensemble perform The 452-2546 at MCG. Tickets: Call for specific information $37.50 Jazz Line Mar. 27 – 30, 2008 Monty Alexander www.jazzerie.com DOCKSIDER Trio and musicologist Music from 10 PM - 1 AM Dr. Anthony Brown Schedules below reflect information available 454-9700 explore “Many at the time of publication, and are subject to Fri., Dec. 7 Chaka 9:30 PM – 2 AM Cultures, One Voice” change. Call Club to confirm. (rock/blues/Caribbean) – jazz-inspired music Thurs., Dec. 27 Gallopagos across the world. SCOTTY’S JAZZ CLUB Tickets: $42.50. 459-3800 10 PM– 1:00 AM May 1 – 4, 2008 Musical legend, Live jazz from 10 PM to 1 AM. $5 cover. Pittsburgh-born pianist , AREA EVENTS who has influenced musicians from Fri., Dec. 7 String Theory UNION CITY Miles Davis to Keith Jarrett. Tickets Sat., Dec. 8 Dave Callighan & Carl $42.50. 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Pianist, 7 PM Drummer Jamey Haddad with BREWERIE composer and visionary Weston has special guests. $20 cover. immersed himself in the rhythmic New Years Eve 8 and 10 PM at UNION STATION heritage of Africa in recent years, and 459-2220 x231 Dominick Farrinacci Quartet. $20 brings the products of his experiences to cover. Pittsburgh. Tickets: $42.50. Fri., Dec. 7 Jake’s Blues 5:30 – 8:30 Visit website for additional offerings. Thurs., Dec. 20 MCG Jazz Night at PM (blues) the Omni. $24.95 gets you a three- Want your upcoming performance Sat., Dec 8 Nuclear Angels 9 – 12 course dinner at the Omni William Penn or special events listed in Jazz midnight (rock/blues) Hotel, plus a concert featuring estimable Line? Contact me at 814/734-4344 musical talent from the Pittsburgh area. or [email protected]. GINO’S BISTRO AND JAZZ Call 412/553-5235 for dinner/concert Information must be received by the reservations. 15th of the month preceding publication 454-4466 (Dec. 15th for the January issue). Dick Feb. 28 - Mar. 2, 2008 Trumpeter/ Thompson, ed. Page 4 JazzErie Notes Ambrose Bierce demolition and removal services. Thanks JAZZERIE DISCUSSION GROUP decried, “Worse for the great trip, McCoy. October 18, 2007 than the sound of a This has been one Hades of a clarionet (clarinet) is by Charles Ventrello crepuscule. The musical spectrum is a two clarionets.” To perpetual source of wonderment. We paraphrase, better than close with a Ken Gamble pick: “The one trombone is two, Rocky Winslow Quartet and Guests.” I notably manned by confess to recognizing only bassist Eddie Jiggs Whigham and the Gomez. Would that the other players spectacular Carl Fontana. be known as jazz household words, as The tune is “Take The trumpeter/leader Rocky, tenor saxist Coltrane” by Duke Mark Solis and alto saxist Phil Wigfall Ellington from the album, (shades of Cannonball), wailers all. From “Nice n’ Easy.” Bob the album “Simple Complications” we From the flurry of recording activity Gross made this excellent enjoy a way-up minor blues called “Blues in the years before his death, Joe choice and the case for trombone as one For Drew.” Steaming players from the A Henderson has produced this touching of the two world’s greatest inventions. Troppe Note/Cambria label in California. masterpiece of an album dedicated to the Readers are invited to submit their music of Billy Strayhorn: “Lush Life.” preference for the other one. Next meeting: Thursday, December Unfamiliar with Strayhorn? In addition 20, 7:30 PM, Erie Art Museum Annex, 20 Can it be? Over thirty years have to the title song, he is responsible for E. Fifth Street. Great recorded jazz, latest passed since I lugged a two foot stack “Take The A Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” music news and stimulating dialogue. “Johnny Come Lately,” “Raincheck,” of vinyl LP’s to the public library. The “A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing” and library collection needed some “Passion Flower.” Henderson and his and frankly, I was growing weary of JAZZERIE stablemates Wynton M arsalis, Stephen listening to guys “Chasing the Bird.” I Scott, Christian McBride and Gregory never gave away any Charlie Parker, PERFORMANCE Hutchinson, define empathy as they however. The fates threw me in with CALENDAR capture the essence of “Blood Count” and a band of young Aquarians (Dave nine others from this crucible of joy and Blaetz, Sheldon Peterson, Rock Lopez) Friday, Dec. 28 8:00 PMAmbassador who introduced me to the ensemble pathos. Thanks to Don Schwab. Banquet & Conference Center, 7792 “Oregon.” I quote from the album “Ain’t Nothin’ New” is the album jacket “Oregon In Performance,” Elektra Peach St. Godfathers of Groove: title, but you know what is likely Records, 1980, with notes by jazz critic Reuben Wilson - Hammond B-3; Grant new? The lengthy notes are written Conrad Silvert. “Oregon is like no other Green, Jr. - guitar and Bernard Purdie by a bartender. It seems that Oregon band in the world. The multiplicity - drums. $25 adults, $20 JazzErie trombonist Stan Bock and his octet of sounds, the wealth of textures and members, $5 students. perform with regularity at Jimmy Mak’s moods, the classical technique behind where J.D. Stubenberg mixes drinks, the jazz improvisation, the merging Friday, Feb. 8 8:00 PM Walker practices liquid psychiatry and adroitly of Eastern and Western instruments, writes music criticism. Tangentially: A the seriousness and humor – all these Recital Hall, Mercyhurst College. professor of classics sits at the bar and things, and more, make Oregon stand in Bassist Avishai Cohen Jazz Trio. $15 says, “I’ll have a martinus please.” The a class by themselves.” I wish I had said adults, $12.50 seniors & students, $10 bartender replies, “You must mean a that. Denny Kitchen plays a track from Mercyhurst students, $5 youth under 15. martini, sir.” Whereupon the scholar their new album, “1000 Kilometers,” replies, “No, thank you, I only want demonstrating Oregon is back with a Saturday, March 15 8:00 PM, venue one.” So, anyhow, at Jimmy’s, Bock’s smack playing with all the tenderness, TBA. Singers’ Night, headlined by octet plays great jazz, reminding me of muscle and surprise of a Bartok string the medium sized band writing of Don quartet. The only change is a new the Collegiate Academy Vocal Jazz Sickler. Bock would be pleased with the drummer, Mark Walker, who joins the Ensemble, directed by Susan Huster. comparison. From Al Lubiejewski via usual suspects: , guitar and The evening will also feature singers Origin Records. piano; Paul McCandless, reeds and Glen Katie Chriest, Lydia Marks, Marilyn This is Dick Thompson’s pick. Dick Moore, bass. Outstanding. Livosky & Chris Sorce backed by the is a strong bassist and editor of this Don Swift chooses from an Howard Hamme Quartet, with Harry newsletter. I recommend him highly for anthology titled “Take Five,” a take by Jacobson, Carl Alanakian & Stan his pizzicato and punctuation. Michael McCoy Tyner on the song “You Taught Bialomizy. $25 adults, $20 JazzErie Moore is a bass player’s bassist. Bill My Heart To Sing.” Tyner, a member of Charlap is becoming increasingly the quintet most influential pianists of our members, $5 students. recognized as a pianist’s pianist. time, shared with Corea, Hancock, Jarrett Together they are a duoist’s duo and and Evans, accomplishes everything one April, “Kids Have Their Say.” Date and sonority is their game, with a capital can do with a piano: from polite, pensive venue TBA. S. Their take on “I Should Care” is cocktail lounge tinkling to keyboard spellbinding. Issue No. 154 Page 5 Charlie Parker, better know as the “oFF tHE tOP: Standards 1,” a direct-to- JAZZ-E “Bird”, was a must to disc set of solo guitar versions of nine be included with his well chosen (standards) buttressed by a “Yard Bird Suite,” as trio of jazz classics… the tune that had every horn player in a state “…this CD goes over the top in at of envy. For those least three ways. The album’s subtitle – exhilarating, timeless ‘solo guitar from off the top of the head” – suggests the first. Singer’s goal – ‘to vocalists, it was most honor the tune and yet leave it wide open appropriate to unearth to anything.’ Jazz cats worldwide follow Joe Williams and Count Charlie Parker this basic tenant. But the trick is in Basie’s “Everyday I Have the Blues” but getting the balance between composition by Joe Curlett also Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane’s and improvisation just right so that you RICH Classics: take on the Strayhorn tune “Lush Life,” don’t baffle, or worse yet, bore your to bring the conversation back into listeners. Happily, Singer blends the “The proof is the puddin” as the perspective relative to where jazz actually saying goes. And we jazz students, tried-and-true with the unknown in got its true roots. Tenor saxophonist beguiling fashion. Secondly, the playlist, because we are always learning and Coleman Hawkins and pianist Ahmad growing and more from this magnificent Jamal were definitely prime for inclusion art form, can attest that there are just to this classic artists’ list that transformed JAZZERIE THANKS THE some cuts that defy time and space. jazz, still getting FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS Their eternal worth and sound outlast the generous playing artists, their era, and even the “how” and time. FOR THEIR SUPPORT “why” becomes so mysterious that we Gannon University, 109 University keep on playing them. They get passed Whatever on to other generations of aficionados your station and Square. who continue to appreciate them as maturity with MacDonald, Illig, Jones and much, if not more, due to their musical jazz, these cuts Britton, Attorneys, 100 State Street, and lyrical clarity. Ahmad Jamal are “in there” Suite 700. and are a requirement to be qualified Glenwood Beer, 2177 W. Grandview I had a conversation with a true as a jazz nut and not buff. Because as Boulevard. jazzman and disc jockey for over twelve foundational pieces to understanding Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts years, Aubrey Dillon of WQLN, “Lush whence jazz evolved, here is where you Life Show,” and we were brewing over cut your teeth. So be ready to open wide. Center, Mercyhurst College. what were some of the great cuts of jazz. Erie Art Museum, 411 State Street. We understood without defining the term HOLIDAY REVIEWS Glass Growers Gallery, “classic,” but went right in to spilling 10 E. 5th Street. guts out of some super, phenomenal In this month’s issue we seem to World of Music, tunes, vocalists and instrumentalists that be offering a multitude of suggestions for great CD’s – from the JazzErie 1355 W. 26th Street. created a mood and lineage that literally Froess Pianos and Keyboards, 2558 had us gasping from pure excitement. Discussion Group’s always delicious array of interesting offerings to Joe W. 8th Street. We kicked it off with none other Curlett and Aubrey Dillon’s tasty list of Romolo Chocolates, the Julliard School of Music trumpeter, all-time greats. As newsletter readers 1525 W. 8th Street. Miles Davis’ “All Blue” and off to know better than most holiday buyers, Lynch Music, Rte. 9 & Rte. 20, the races we went. Moving on to the gifts of music don’t have to be the same Fairview. supreme Hammond B3 organist Jimmy overripe Christmas tunes by everybody. Erie Book Store, 137 E. 13th Street. Smith’s “The Sermon,” of which enough Here are some additional choices of Raven Sound, 2617 Peach Street. could not be said about this extended digestible fare. By the way, consider a version of slips, slides and dips of the gift of a JazzErie membership, along with Edinboro University of keys. Then on to my personal favorite the CD, for the friend or family member Pennsylvania, Edinboro by the infamous Horace Silver, his “Song whose tastes you’re cultivating. Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Wesleyville For My Father” which rocks right into 1. Frank Singer: “oFF tHE tOP: your musical genes for total effect. Yes, Standards 1,” (CD Baby, 2003). Best to Lake Erie Fanfare, 113 W. 10th we did not omit the start at home! Al Lubiejewski reviewed Street. evergreen piano play this CD for News Notes in Jan., 2004 as Coors Beer “Take Five” by the Dave follows: “For those of you who know Scott Enterprises/Ambassador Brubeck Quartet that Frank Singer as an in-your-face, ripping, Center, 8040 Peach Street richly deserves a spot. rocking electric and eclectic guitarist in East Erie Turners Club, Dillon made it plain groups like Cats A Bear, One World Tribe 829 Parade Street. and emphatic that the and J.D.’s Blues, you’ll be delighted to Mercyhurst College, 501 E 38th St. learn he has a lush and lyrical side, too. premier saxophonist Second Hand Rose, 351 W 26th St. That introspective side is displayed to Frank Corapi Horace Silver perfection on Frank’s new CD called Page 6 JazzErie Notes like a fine whiskey, is stocked from the them, try “The Very Best Of Diana top shelf… Krall” (Verve, 2007), a fine record which, incidentally, includes a Frishberg “And finally, the performance is Jazz composition. But if they like wry wit, Singer at his tops. For those who love creatively bent song structure with jazz the detailed sound of a Gibson On The Radio sensibilities, sung by the composer adventurously tackling some well-known accompanying himself on the piano, try tunes in a style that can serve as a backup WQLN FM (91.3) this. (Full disclosure: Dave is a personal to a candlelit dinner and hushed late- The Source for Jazz friend. I became his regular bass night listening that follows, you can’t do player when we were both in college in any better than ‘oFF tHE tOP.’” Minneapolis/St. Paul.) When Dave went Monday thru Thursday 2. Anything by saxophonist, to NYC he worked with Ben Webster, 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. composer, creator Wayne Shorter, Al & Zoot, Kai & JJ among others, Jazz Flight - Rob Hoff perhaps the greatest mature jazz genius then veered into songwriting. Tired of on the scene today, but especially struggling to convince singers to record “FOOTPRINTS: Live!” (Verve, 2002). his material, he noticed that other writers Friday The CD documents excerpts from public with voices no better than his were 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. concerts during 2001 in Spain, France displaying their own wares with success, Bob ‘n Blues - Al Lubiejewski and Italy by Shorter’s quartet, which so he gave it a try and has been doing 10:00 p.m. - Midnight includes pianist Danilo Perez, bassist so ever since. His introductions and Deep Blue - Jason Gibbs John Pattitucci and drummer Brian Blade. asides themselves are worth the price of The quartet (which seems much larger at admission. times) is locked into an uncanny level of Saturday 5. For your friends with edgier tastes, molded but free musical communication. there are a multitude of choices. One 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Shorter guides, nudges, opens doors – all to consider before it gathers too much Saturday Swing Session without hogging space. Their combined dust in the back racks is the once avant -Bill Garts purpose: to tell of life’s excitement, garde, now 44-year-old classic “Out loneliness, intricacies, frustrations, 11:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. To Lunch” by Eric Dolphy (Blue Note/ beauty and love. Lush Life - Aubrey Dillion Capital Records, Inc., reissued in CD 3. Bill Charlap. Take your pick: format in 1999) with a “best in class” “Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin lineup of Freddy Hubbard, trumpet, Sunday – The American Soul” (Blue Note, Bobby Hutcherson, vibes, Richard Davis, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 2005); “Love Is Here To Stay” (Blue bass and a young Tony Williams, drums. Riverwalk - (Network) Note, 2005) with his mom, singer Sandy Dolphy plays alto sax, bass clarinet and 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Stewart; “Somewhere: The Songs Of flute, each with unique style. As in the “Jazz, Ballads & Blues” Leonard Bernstein” (Blue Note, 2004); Wayne Shorter CD mentioned above, with Al Lubiejewski “Stardust” (Blue Note, 2002), or other there are composed sections, usually earlier releases. A latecomer, I became at fore and aft, but much of the music 9:00 p.m. - Midnight aware of pianist Charlap via a recorded develops organically, at the initiative “Everything Jazz” duo with Michael Moore, a bassist I of one or another player or pairings in with Bob Protzman much admire, and then hearing Charlap the quintet. As composer/bassist Dave in person as a member of the Phil Woods Holland has noted about his own quintet, Quartet in a concert at Edinboro Univ. a the use of vibes as a chording instrument Classy 100 couple of years ago. He has depth, touch, gives an open feel to the music which taste, sophistication and creative energy permits great flexibility to the other WXKC-FM (99.9) – plus a cleanliness of conception and players. It’s searching, surprising, funny, Sunday execution that reminds me of Nat Cole in yearning, always humanizing music. his day. He clearly loves standards, and 9:00p.m. - 11:00p.m. by Dick Thompson that makes his work an accessible contact Jazz Tracks point for newcomers exploring the genre. On most of the CD’s above he is joined JazzErie performances are supported in part wrie-am (1260) by the estimable New York rhythm by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Sunday section of bassist Peter Washington and Pennsylvania and the National Endowment of (unrelated) drummer Kenny Washington. the Arts, a federal agency. 7:00p.m. - 9:00p.m. Their music is thoughtful, highly JazzErie performances are also funded in part Big Band Jump articulate, interactive, swinging and by The Erie Arts Endowment of the Arts Council lovely. of Erie. wERG-Fm (90.5) 4. In a different vein, try “Dave Gannon University Frishberg: Do You Miss New York?” 8:00 - 11:00p.m. live at Jazz at Lincoln Center (Arbors Records, Inc., 2003). This is not for Dan Jones, “Mr. J” your friends who want smoothed-voiced perfection from a singer/pianist. For Issue No. 154 Page 7 Non Profit JazzErie Notes Organization U.S. Postage November 2007 Issue No. 153 Paid Erie, PA The Monthly Newsletter of JazzErie Permit #44

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