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MARCH 2018—ISSUE 191 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM

MARY lou williams first lady of the piano

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ANAT TIA NANCY HADDA COHEN FULLER HARROW BROOKS Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The City Jazz Record 66 Mt. Airy Road East MARCH 2018—ISSUE 191 Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 Phone/Fax: 212-568-9628 New York@Night 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: Interview : ANAT COHEN 6 by anders griffen [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Artist Feature : TIA FULLER 7 by russ musto General Inquiries: [email protected] On The Cover : MARY LOU WILLIAMS 8 by Advertising: [email protected] Encore : by marilyn lester Calendar: 10 [email protected] VOXNews: Lest We Forget : HADDA BROOKS 10 by jim motavalli [email protected] LAbel Spotlight : DARK TREE by stuart broomer 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] obituaries by andrey henkin Staff Writers 12 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Duck Baker, Stuart Broomer, FESTIVAL REPORT Robert Bush, Thomas Conrad, 13 Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Phil Freeman, Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, Anders Griffen, CD Reviews 14 Tyran Grillo, Alex Henderson, Robert Iannapollo, Matthew Kassel, Marilyn Lester, Suzanne Lorge, Miscellany 33 Mark Keresman, Marc Medwin, Russ Musto, John Pietaro, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Event Calendar 34 Andrew Vélez, Scott Yanow Contributing Writers Marco Cangiano, Jim Motavalli, Eric Wendell Contributing Photographers Enid Farber. William P. Gottlieb, Shervin Lainez, Alan Nahigian, Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen, As we move from winter towards spring, we go from one Mary (Halvorson) to another, Mary Adrien H. Tillmann, TuKe Photography Lou Williams, no less visionary and the ideal choice for the cover of our annual issue in conjunction with Women’s History Month. The pianist/composer was present for pretty Fact-checker much every innovation in jazz history and is definitely the only person to play with both Benny Nate Dorward Goodman and . Jazz at ’s Jazz for Young People series presents a celebration of Williams’ life led by vocalist Catherine Russell and drummer LaFrae Sci.

As Williams’ life was drawing to a close, two future jazz stars were born: clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen (Interview) and saxophonist Tia Fuller (Artist Feature) are carrying on the legacy of female instrumentalists and composers, both with brand-new . Cohen is at 92nd Street Y as part of the Woman to Woman allstar band while Fuller gets a late-month weekend at Smoke. We also celebrate two figures whose careers were concurrent with that of Williams: singer/composer Nancy Harrow (Encore) and the late pianist/singer Hadda Brooks (Lest We Forget). And the front end of our CD Review section (pgs. 14-18) is dedicated to the many nycjazzrecord.com women whose contributions—year-round—make jazz as vibrant as it is.

On The Cover: Mary Lou Williams (William P. Gottlieb Collection of The Library of Congress)

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This year is Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier’s 20th in Jazz is one of the only sports in which age can be a the city and moving here probably put her on the distinct advantage. Sure, its younger athletes are often global map more quickly than had she taken a different faster, stronger, hungrier for glory, but when a veteran route. Since her first recordings were released in 1997 like 89-year-old vocalist clambers on (just before she hopped the pond) she has worked with stage to make her play, audiences know there’s history a staggering array of improvisers and composers, there, a (long) lifetime of experience to be shared. though a traditionally structured piano trio was not Valentine’s Day at Mezzrow, the long narrow bare- one of those models. In 2014, that changed with the brick room was packed with lovers (jazz and otherwise) release of Double Windsor (Tzadik), which joined her come to harken and hearten to Jordan’s siren songs. with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen, Like any old-timer, she was showing her age: her voice who revisit and expand the format’s possibilities on a bit slower, wobblier, less fluid than in her prime. But the just-released Intakt CD D’Agala, celebrated on the in all other aspects, she was at the top of her game, final two nights of her week-long Stone residency in setting the crowd immediately at ease with scatted February. The second of those nights (Feb. 11th) added repartée, relating personal anecdotes about Bird trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson to the proceedings—a () and Miles (Davis) while guiding secret weapon, in that his economical approach to listeners through a romantic evening of well chosen Courvoisier’s fiendish multi-part compositions lent and paced repertoire. Enjoying the sparse but measured them a burnished, elegant swing, especially on the support of pianist John di Martino and bassist Harvie dedication to late guitarist John Abercrombie, “South S, she sang “Better Than Anything”, “If I Had You”, Side Rules”. The pianist is rightly noted for her use of “I Concentrate on You”, her own “The Bird” (a vocalese the piano’s guts and wood to create a Karel Appel-like on Parker’s “”, itself a contrafact of painting of garish, violent sounds, employing “Embraceable You”), the wonderful but not-often- hammers, metal balls and other objects to the wires enough-heard “Look for the Silver Lining”, which she and soundboard. She filled the small room with completely transformed, “Slow Boat to China”, piercing scrapes and reverberant, stomach-churning a mashup of her “Ballad for Miles” with “My Funny knocks, then just as quickly turned to anthemic charge Valentine” and “Waltz for Debby (Lazy Days)”. She or lush romanticism in the vein of Mal Waldron or closed with her minor-key “Workshop ”, during Abdullah Ibrahim, wheeling like those fine Seagulls of which she traded one-bar phrases with her by-now Kristiansund. —Clifford Allen enraptured fans, all young at heart. —Tom Greenland . a h t 1 9 8 5 c o m R . I S u t h e r l a n d - C o / j z x p s i g A d r i e n H . T l m a - w Sylvie Courvoisier @ The Stone Sheila Jordan & @ Mezzrow

Even the avant garde has gotten commercialized and Jacob Sacks, a generous leader, is secure enough in his when that happens, some artists have to go further vision to surround himself with top-shelf musicians underground, or sub-underground, for their work to and give them ample creative space in which to express retain its original merit. Saxophonist and performance themselves. Shepherding his five-man flock through artist Kenny Millions (né Keshavan Maslak, b. 1947) a set of original compositions during the early set at said pretty much the same in a 1999 interview in the Cornelia Street Café (Feb. 10th), he was simultaneously Miami New Times: “[the] mentality was that avant restrained and exuberant, delicate and assertive. With garde has to be atonal, has to be dissonant, has to be the puissant (musical) personalities of tenor wild and crazy every minute. If it has to be that, then saxophonists Tony Malaby and Ellery Eskelin out it’s very conservative.” Millions hasn’t played this front, the equally puissant rhythm team of bassist music in New York in years (he now resides in Florida and drummer Dan Weiss behind, and has become associated with the noise scene there) Sacks himself at the piano, his back to the audience, the and it was fitting that his return would be in a secret stage was set for a clash of titanic intensity. That the basement show in Bushwick, replete with graffiti- tunes they played (“Saloon Short Jazz Farm”, “Playing covered walls and crumbling floors and no heat on one with Blocks”, “Gray Plaid”, “The Opener” and of the coldest nights of the year thus far (Feb. 2nd). “Carnegie Sketch”) were anything but confrontational, Millions was joined by bassist and displaying instead an impressive level of both empathy drummer Weasel Walter for two lengthy improvisations; and vibrancy, heard in various transitory duo and trio in the first, he waited for the rhythm section to work formats, is a resounding tribute to the quintet’s up a pretty good tangled froth before bringing in his listening skills. This resulted in the most profound searing, curdled wide-vibrato alto in at just the right moments, as during the penultimate number, when moment, a false-fingering hellhound harking back to Malaby, inspired by Eskelin’s restrained ‘soloing’ over his days in the lofts and as an itinerant player in the animated interplay of Sacks and Weiss, hefted his —and then came the theatrical brutalism of horn sideways, Lester Young style, to lead the music to berating the audience and writhing on the concrete, a quieter yet somehow more ecstatic realm. Amid the sort of like a bar-walk gone completely bonkers, yet melée, Sacks, by nature a pointillist, deconstructionist with a frailty and grotesqueness that kept things and sculptor of audio fractals, was a study in surprise: captivating. There is free music and then there is the brief episodes of calm, of hesitation, interrupted by bellow of Millions. (CA) sudden explosive, decisive attacks. (TG)

4 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD For some, “jazz with strings” is basically a dirty word, Returning to the Rose Theater for her first engagement conjuring up the worst excesses of Creed Taylor. For after a health-related hiatus (Feb. 9th), others, it simply is a means to an end for better sales; delivered a performance that more than confirmed her WHAT’S NEWS see Charlie Parker or . Bassist Linda May assurances to the audience that, following a period of Han Oh, presenting music from a forthcoming at rest and recovery, she was back feeling “one hundred Winners of the 2018 Grammy Awards have been announced. Relevant winners are: Best Traditional Pop The Stone at The New School (Feb. 3rd), obliquely per cent”. Joining her band of pianist Peter Martin, Vocal Album: Celebrates 90 (Columbia); referenced the latter pair in versions of “Au Privave” guitarist , bassist Reginald Veal and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Prototype, Jeff and “Time Remembered”, leading a quartet of alto drummer Terreon Gully, Reeves began her set with a Lorber Fusion (Shanachie); Best Improvised Jazz Solo: saxophonist Miguel Zenón, pianist Matt Mitchell and moving rendition of “The Twelfth Of Never”, which John McLaughlin from Live @ ’s (Abstract drummer Ches Smith augmented by a string quartet of had her virtuosity on full display as she effortlessly Logix); Best Jazz Vocal Album: Dreams And Daggers, Cécile McLorin Salvant (Mack Avenue); Best Jazz Fung Chern Hwei and Sara Caswell (violins), Benni blended her emotional reading of the lyric with tonally Instrumental Album: Rebirth, Billy Childs (Mack Avenue); Von Gutzeit (viola) and Jeremy Harman (cello). Yet it compelling register-leaping scatted interludes. On Pat Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Bringin’ It, Christian was another forebear, Andrew Hill’s 1969 music for Metheny’s “Minuano” she revealed an uncanny ability McBride (Mack Avenue); Best Album: jazz quartet and strings released on One For One, noted to convey effusive emotion convincingly without the Jazz Tango, Pablo Ziegler Trio (ZOHO); Best Instrumental by Oh as the inspiration for the currently-titled benefit of lyrics, wordlessly swinging the Brazilian- Composition: “Three Revolutions”, Arturo O’Farrill (from Familia, Motéma Music); Best Surround Sound Album: “Sketch”, which best exemplified this expansive project. tinged melody with verve, while on ’s Early Americans, Jane Ira Bloom (Sono Luminus). For It was not a simple grafting of classical filler onto “Infant Eyes” she stretched out Doug Carn’s sensitive more information, visit grammy.com. traditional jazz but rather a carefully produced hybrid words to heighten their stirring sentiment. Singing her species, possible now with ‘jazz’ musicians well versed own lyric to Eduardo del Barrio’s “Nine” she displayed Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, trumpeters Terence with classical forms and ‘classical’ musicians the playful spirit of childhood. A duo performance of Blanchard and Amir ElSaffar, pianist Danilo Pérez, vocalists Toshi Reagon and Somi, drummer Tyshawn comfortable with improvisational environments. Oh “Corcovado” with Lubambo was followed by a second Sorey and poet/cultural critic Fred Moten have been packed a lot of music into her 70-minute set and lots of Jobim classic, “Triste”, with the full band. The named among the 2018 United States Artists USA music within each piece, yet it never felt leaden or performance of Billy Childs’ treatment of Leonard Fellows, each receiving $50,000 in honor of their creative contrived. Especially appealing were opener “Ebony”, Cohen’s “Suzanne” was fraught with melancholic accomplishments and to support their ongoing artistic and with a Mediterranean feel conjuring up salt spray from emotion and flowed into Patsy Moore’s “Goodbye”. professional development. For more information, visit unitedstatesartists.org. a warm ocean; dedication to a niece, “Bright Eyes”, After a potent rendering of Abbey Lincoln’s “Long As which moved from an Irish jig to grand waltz; and the You’re Living” the show closed with Mali Music’s Preceding trumpeter aTunde Adjuah’s strings’ bowed counterpoint to Oh’s solo on the lilting “Beautiful”, as the crowd waved lighted cellphones Stretch Music Festival at Stage Gatehouse (Mar. “Deep Sea Dancers”. —Andrey Henkin like so many stars in the night. —Russ Musto 30th-31st), there will be an afternoon workshop with Scott (Mar. 27th), a screening and discussion of Kiel Adrian Scott’s short film Samaria with music composed by Scott (Mar. 28th) and a moderated discussion between Scott and Stefon Harris on the topic “Jazz Then and Now” (Mar. 29th). For more information, visit harlemstage.org. Sheila Jordan will receive the 2018 Bistro Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Art of Jazz in a Mar. 12th ceremony at the Gotham Comedy Club. Additional winners include Pete and Will Anderson for Instrumentalists. For more information and to purchase tickets to the event, visit bistroawards.com. As part of its annual Women’s Jazz Festival, the Schomburg

o Center for Research in Black Culture will include a panel discussion, “For the Love of Abbey Lincoln”, taking place Mar. 19th at 7 pm. For more information, visit nypl.org/ events programs/2018/03/05/2018-womens-jazz-festival. a r b e F o t The Jazz Gallery will present its new Vinyl Listening Series starting in March, with “Dan’s Dilemma”, hosted by Hank a l n h i g © E n i d F O’Neal and on Mar. 5th at 7 pm. Apr. 2nd @ The Stone at The New School Dianne Reeves & Reginald Veal @ Rose Theater will be “Jazz. Past. Present. Future....” with James Browne and Lezlie Harrison and May 14th “Getting It On The Record—Tales of the Tape” with Todd Barkan, Houston German pianist George Gräwe said nary a word Celebrating the release of his new album Blues For Person and Michael Cuscuna. Tickets are $50 or $120 for before or after his 50-minute solo recital at Roulette Memo (Motéma Music), David Murray brought his the series. For more information, visit jazzgallery.nyc/vinyl. (Feb. 1st), the first half of the first concert in the spring Infinity Quartet with pianist Carlton Holmes, bassist Interpretations series. Rather than think he was Jaribu Shahid and drummer Nasheet Waits into The Jazz Education Network awarded its top two honors uncomfortable speaking English, it is better to assume Birdland for a five-night stand. The saxophonist kicked to John Edward Hasse and Bobby Sanabria, LeJENd of Jazz Education and LeJENd of Latin Jazz, respectively, he had said all he needed at the keyboard. Gräwe, off his final set of the engagement (Feb. 3rd) with one during its January 2018 annual conference in Dallas. For whose recordings on FMP, Music & Arts, Nuscope and of his older compositions, “Morning Song”, a soulful more information, visit jazzednet.org. his own Random Acoustics mark him as one of the paean to his mother, which alternated a funky backbeat more effective marriers of classical and free and swinging straightahead rhythms, over which he As part of its “Scenes Through The Cinema Lens” series, improvisation methodologies, was giving the U.S. blew relentlessly powerful serpentine tenor lines, Tribeca Performing Arts Center will present “Leading Ladies Who Sing” on Mar. 20th at 7:30 pm, moments premiere of three pieces and the world premiere of a showcasing expansive range and formidable circular from the on-screen careers of several jazz singers, fourth. “Afternoon in Coloured Frames”, breathing prowess. Reaching further back into his including Abbey Lincoln, and . For “AusFaltungen” and “Rhyme and Discourse” were voluminous songbook, Murray followed with his more information, visit tribecapac.org. presented as a suite, broken up with micropauses by classic anthem “Flowers For Albert”, raucously the composer and taking up almost three-fourths of the blowing shrieking squeals and bellowing squalls over The Creative Music Studio has announced two upcoming worskhop events. The first will take place Apr. 27th-29th at performance. “Behauptung und Nachtrag III”, in Waits’ inexorable marching beat and Holmes’ Greenwich House Music School with Jen Shyu, Jason contrast, stood apart. What distinguishes Gräwe is his Capetown-tinged accompaniment. The mood turned Moran, Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Billy Martin. The remarkable control, a focused urgency making his romantic for the band’s rendition of “Body and Soul”, second is the annual retreat at Big Indian, NY (Jun. compositions/improvisations feel twice as dense. The featuring bowed bass and sensitive brushwork, along 11th-15th) with Anthony Coleman, Arturo O’Farrill, Peter way his hands tumble across the keys and over each with tradition-steeped solos by Murray and Holmes. Apfelbaum, Ingrid Laubrock, Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. other should make it inevitable that his fingers would Turning to the new album, the group let loose on Butch For more information, visit creativemusic.org. get twisted up like Bugs Bunny playing Liszt, yet there Morris’ “Obe”, a freebopping tour de force. This Starting Feb. 24th and running weekly on Saturdays is never a moment of anything other than perfect featured a lengthy rhythm section outing, with the trio through Apr. 21st will be a seminar at Hostos Community articulation. This is complemented/contrasted by an burning up the stage before Murray’s fiery entrance College on the history of Latin jazz from the ‘30s to the unusual rhythmic sense in some sections, almost a and a climactic extended drum solo that had the present, hosted by historian Joe Conzo, Sr. and featuring guests. For more information, visit hostos.cuny.edu/ drunken lurch approaching proto-stride. And when he audience loudly hollering its approval. The set culturearts. plays slow passages, the loveliness is highlighted by concluded with another Murray composition from the his seeming to wait until the absolute last possible new record, “Circles and Seasons”, a jaggedly sinuous Submit news to [email protected] millisecond to play a note. (AH) melodic excursion. (RM)

THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | MARCH 2018 5 INTERVIEW

TNYCJR: Do you any plans to travel back to Brazil in the near future?

AC: I try to go once a year, every two years. If I get to work there, great. If not, I just go to get some inspiration from one of my favorite places in the world, Rio de ANAT Janeiro. There’s some feeling I get that’s very hard to explain. I don’t have any roots in Brazil, no Brazilians in my immediate family and, yet, something about the music, something about Rio makes me feel longing for something that is part of me, but I can’t explain why. It’s absolutely a feeling. COHEN (CONTINUED ON PAGE 42) v i n l a e z

s h e r by anders griffen Anat Cohen is a clarinetist and saxophonist raised in Tel people around a table. Yet the music is so detailed it Aviv, Israel and living in New York for almost 20 years. She requires some serious concentration and skill on the has toured the world, performing and recording with a instrument. So, it’s always a combination of being range of musicians, including her brothers, trumpeter serious and having humor. You know, one of my idols, Avishai Cohen and saxophonist Yuval Cohen, as well as Paquito D’Rivera, is a person that takes the music very Paquito D’Rivera, , , Ben Street, seriously. There’s nothing funny about it. But when the and . Over the past 10 music stops, oh is he going to crack a joke and just be years she has received numerous awards and accolades from relaxed and acting like he’s in your living room? Yes, ASCAP, the Jazz Journalists Association and DownBeat’s there are moments for humor, of course, and they may Critics and Readers Polls. For the 2018 Grammy Awards quote and be funny inside the music, but it’s very she received two nominations: Outra Coisa: The Music Of serious. Again, there’s something about this Moacir Santos with Marcello Gonçalves in the Best Latin combination of who we are. Of course not every person Jazz Album category and Rosa Dos Ventos with Trio is cracking jokes at every given moment, but you talk Brasileiro in the Best World Music Album category. We about the humor and I like a smile to connect people, managed to catch up just before she embarked on her to use smiles in order to bridge gaps. It could be just February tour with Gonçalves. give a smile get a smile back. So, I communicate that way and I try to make the same effect through the The New York City Jazz Record: As I understand it, music. your personal discovery of Brazilian and AfroCuban music started when you attended Berklee in the ‘90s? TNYCJR: On your recently released tentet album Happy Song, I noticed the Egberto Gismonti piece Anat Cohen: Pretty much. I started opening my eyes to “Loro”, which I don’t think too many people have world music by meeting students like me that came recorded. Was that your selection of that piece or the from other parts of the world and actually had personal arranger’s? interactions with other musicians and got to know music that people play. So, Berklee was a good launch AC: The arranger, my musical director, my business for my world music exploration. partner and music partner for many years is Oded Lev-Ari. He deserves so much credit for so much. TNYCJR: Some of this music is perhaps more readily Oded has been a New York resident for pretty much as enjoyed by listeners than mastered by non-native long as I have. He was a composition student with Bob musicians. Is this a challenge for you and do you , attended New Conservatory, continue to consider yourself a student of this music? moved to New York and he’s just one of the most brilliant people that I’ve ever met. We went to high AC: Absolutely! It is a challenge and I think I’ve been school together, so we’re friends for many, many years. fortunate that I was able to travel and to meet people, We have a record label together; he’s the mastermind meet the source, basically. To get the accents of the behind Anzic Records. He wears a lot of different hats, music, I often have to be the only gringa, so I can he can do so many things. He’s just a brilliant, actually get the flavor and see it’s not just the sound of wonderful person worth exploring. Oded did the the music. It’s the way people are, the way they relate for “Loro”. For the past 15 years or more to each other, the way they talk, the volume of their I played with the great Duduka Da Fonseca— voices, the kind of casual way of the jokes, the humor. a wonderful drummer, part of Trio da Paz and played The whole way of being is all part of the music. So, you with Jobim. I suggested the song because I played it get the accent of the music together with getting to with Duduka. know the people, the culture. There’s so much, even within one country. Inside Brazil there’s not the same TNYCJR: Can you comment briefly on the rhythm and music from the north to the south. It’s just an endless, character of that tune? ongoing journey. AC: The rhythm is technically from the northeast of TNYCJR: You mention the humor and I think it’s Brazil called baião. For me it’s very much connected to evident in some of your music on the albums with the Middle Eastern rhythm, it’s not so far. It’s basically Marcello Gonçalves and Trio Brasiliero, for example. three over two, you have the feeling of the three and Some of it is quite challenging, but there’s a lightness the two in the bass and comping, both exists and the to it, humor and joy. accent…it’s just different flavors, different spices. In the arrangement for the tentet we actually break AC: If we’re talking specifically about choro music, it down for a moment of forró, where just the accordion through that music I met Marcello and Trio Brasiliero. and the percussion are playing, a very common thing It’s interesting because this music is basically informal that you could hear, also from the northeast of Brazil, and you sit out of a concert hall for the most part. The music called forró. James Shipp on percussion and that’s way the music started is just a casual, social gathering, where Vitor Gonçalves is wailing on the accordion.

6 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD ARTIST FEATURE

stage or standing in front of a classroom, however God wants to use me is where it’s at for me.” v

For more information, visit tiafuller.com. Fuller is at Smoke Mar. 30th-Apr. 1st. See Calendar.

TIA Recommended Listening: • Sean Jones—Eternal Journey (Mack Avenue, 2003)

t i s • Tia Fuller—Pillar of Strength (Wambui, 2005) a r • Tia Fuller—Healing Space (Mack Avenue, 2006) • Tia Fuller—Decisive Steps (Mack Avenue, 2008) • Mack Avenue Superband—Live from the Jazz o f t h e Festival 2012 (Mack Avenue, 2012) NYCJR12thPageAd0318.qxp_Layout 1 2/1/18 9:54 AM Page 1 t e s y FULLER • Tia Fuller—Angelic Warrior (Mack Avenue, 2012) o c u r Diane Moser’s p h o t by russ musto Composers Saxophonist Tia Fuller is one busy woman. Since her The men are equally admiring. Jones declares, Big Band recent appearances at NYC’s Winter JazzFest, she’s kept “Tia is a prime example of someone who has the ability Celebrates a demanding schedule, commuting to , where to flourish in any musical situation while bringing one she is a professor at , and of the brightest spirits that I’ve even known to those Women In Jazz! traveling westward, first to The Ozarks, where she was moments. Tia is truly the full package.” McBride says, the first black woman guest conductor at the Missouri “Tia is one of the most talented and professional featuring the music Music Educator Association Convention, and then to musicians I’ve ever known. She works hard, practices of Ann Belmont, Lawrence, Kansas to give master classes and perform as hard and is always prepared. She’s a model not only Barbara Cifelli and a guest with the University of Kansas Big Band. for young ladies wanting to get into the music, but for Diane Moser She’s most eager to discuss her forthcoming young men learning how to be professional.” And Wolf Wednesday, March 21st • 8-11 p.m. recording Diamond Cut, her fourth on Mack Avenue. notes, “Tia is the one of the best examples of a woman For more info: She notes, “I have two different rhythm sections. It’s in music, period. She’s a very spiritually driven artist Photo: dianemosermusic.com [guitarist] Adam Rogers, [bassist] and who plays the with fire and passion. She’s Chris Drukker [drummer] Jack DeJohnette for the first rhythm section also a great writer who strives to touch the souls of 6 Depot Square Montclair, NJ 07042 and then the second rhythm section is [bassist] James those who listen to her music.” TRUMPETS For reservations, call 973-744-2600 Genus, [drummer] and Adam Rogers. So Fuller’s tenure with Beyoncé taught her important J A Z Z C L U B www.trumpetsjazz.com it’s all absent of piano. It’s definitely an evolutionary lessons: “How to not accept no for an answer if it’s project. I’m able to delve more into the guitar the way something that’s really a strong part of my vision and, that Adam Rogers is playing harmonies and at times two, and probably more importantly, how to conduct playing melodies with me. There’s a lot more space for myself not only as a bandleader, but as a businesswoman. me, so it’s more evolved and more open.” I would see how she would negotiate, I would see how The date’s producer Terri Lyne Carrington says of she would speak to her crew, how she would speak to Fuller, “Tia is a real special talent. She has all of the her band, I would see how she put a setlist together. important qualities for being a great jazz musician. She Performance-wise how she would speak to the has vast knowledge of the music and a strong presence audience, engage the audience. All of those are really and is an advocate for gender equality. Tia is proof that priceless because I was getting it on a nightly basis. women can excel on whatever instrument they want.” Now it’s become an innate part of me and of my shows.” That proof is on Fuller’s first three albums for Another singer that Fuller cites as a driving force Mack Avenue, where her rhythm sections featured is Dianne Reeves. “When I went on tour with her all pianists Shamie Royston and Miki Hayama, bassist I could see was regalness. She’s so soulful and anytime Miriam Sullivan and drummer Kim Thompson. she would step on the stage she would command it. Traveling with an all-woman ensemble has made Fuller And just having the opportunity to hang with her, acutely aware of the barriers for female artists. “It’s all she’s become one of my big sisters now. Her struggles the subliminal implications that happen daily in the that she’s had to go through with management, with music scene and it does need to stop because it really booking agents, promoters and we sit down and talk does cause psychological—and sometimes physical about all of that, especially being two black women, so damage—to a lot of women out there,” she says. “We that’s been really, really powerful.” have to build these barriers up in order to function. Continuing to speak of important women in her “I think that probably the most important thing career development, she says, “I do have to say that that I’ve been sharing, because I’ve been part of a lot of Terri Lyne, she’s been on the forefront of a lot of the woman’s initiatives and since the rise of the #metoo people that I’ve met within the past six or seven years. movement, I think it’s important for men to hold men I’m just really thankful for her because she hasn’t just accountable to their actions towards women. It’s one done it for me, but she’s done it for so many different thing for us as women to hold men accountable and women and men, juxtaposing worlds, coming together gang up on them and say you men have to stop doing as women and men, she has crossed over between the this. But to me it resounds more when another man is jazz and pop worlds early and now has created an holding another man accountable.” arena for herself where she is able to juxtapose all of Fuller’s albums have also featured some talented these different musicians, which is really empowering.” men, including Mack Avenue labelmates trumpeter Reflecting on her development during the almost six Sean Jones, vibraphonist Warren Wolf and bassist years between Diamond Cut and her previous recording Christian McBride. She says, “All of those people, Sean Fuller opines, “I think this whole span of time I’ve been and Warren and Christian, they’re all very close friends able to edge further into my being and all of the things as well. They’re like my brothers in the music and so that have been poured into me by my mentors, from the they’ve been extremely supportive, not only musically, people that I’ve played with. Now I’m able to reflect that but also personally. They’ve given me guidance… I feel onto my students and pour that into my students to that we’re able to interconnect with the music more where a lot of my students will say, Tia I feel like you’re deeply because we know the inner workings of our preaching…I could see you being in a church some day. beings. We know the inner workings of the relationships One thing that I do realize is that my purpose is to be a that we have with one another.” light for others and whether that means standing on

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Throughout her life, Mary Lou Williams was regularly mid ‘40s, including Thelonious Monk, and She was one of the stars of Goodman’s 40th called “the top female jazz musician.” While meant to , while updating her own style. She anniversary concert in 1978. be a compliment, that title completely missed the point. wrote the fable “In The Land Of Oo-Bla-Dee” for player Warren Vaché remembers, “She impressed me As a pianist, arranger and composer, Williams was one Gillespie, composed the 12-part Zodiac Suite and was as being very elegant, professional and an exciting of the top jazz musicians, period. What other musician part of Goodman’s short-lived bop combo in 1948. soloist. Benny had booked and John of the ‘20s still sounded modern in the late ‘70s while George Wein booked Williams for the Newport Bunch as the band pianists with Mary Lou Williams never losing the ability to play in her earliest style? Jazz Festival and in the ‘50s for the Storyville club. scheduled to be a guest. When the time came for the Williams was virtually alone in having played and “By that time, Mary Lou was playing in a contemporary concert and Jimmy discovered it was being recorded, contributed through all of jazz’ eras. style as developed by Bud Powell and Thelonious he asked for an over-scale payment. Benny being “The history of the music would have been much Monk, although with her own approach,” Wein says. Benny then arranged for Mary Lou and John Bunch different without Mary Lou Williams,” says bassist Buster “Because of her background and her curiosity in to split the band book minutes before the concert. As a Williams. “She was one of the innovators and a great experimenting with new harmonies she, in a sense, result, Mary Lou ended up sight-reading all of the inspiration, particularly to a lot of the female musicians created her own style. There was genius in Mary Lou’s parts she did with the band perfectly.” who came along. She made it possible for them to break artistry and she was a shy but determined person, a Williams spent her last years (1977-81) at Duke through the glass ceiling as they fought to make their way fine composer but not a great organizer. That kept her University, directing the jazz ensemble and teaching a into the music and be accepted as one of the cats.” from reaching the pinnacle of success but her legacy History of Jazz class. On May 28th, 1981 she passed She was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs on May 8th, has become a permanent part of the jazz vocabulary.” away from bladder cancer at 71. In 1996, the Kennedy 1910 in Atlanta, moving with her family to Pittsburgh By 1950, Williams was a highly individual if often Center in Washington D.C. started hosting an annual and soon attracting attention as a self-taught child overlooked bop pianist, continually frustrated by both Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival. Among prodigy on the piano. One of 11 children, when she the constant racism of the white world and sexism she those artists who have recorded tributes to her music was 6 she supported her family by playing at parties. felt from many African-American musicians. Williams are Dave Douglas, , Dutch Jazz Orchestra She worked as Mary Lou Burley (using her stepfather’s spent much of 1952-54 performing in Europe but and Geri Allen’s Mary Lou Williams Collective. Tenor last name) in shows by the time she was a young personal problems resulted in her suffering a nervous saxophonist Virginia Mayhew made her own tribute teenager. Her early idol was , a pianist/ breakdown. She found solace in Catholicism, taking album, The Next 100 Years, in 2010. “Mary Lou Williams bandleader, whom she saw playing onstage with her time off from music. She performed Zodiac Suite at the was always at the forefront of what was happening in left hand while writing music for the next act with her 1957 with Gillespie but was in jazz but, despite being well respected by other jazz right, a feat she later learned to duplicate. and out of music for the next decade. musicians, she never got her due.” She married saxophonist John Williams when she Williams struggled, trying to reconcile her religious Singer Catherine Russell, along with drummer was 16, a union that ended in divorce by 1942. Williams faith with her musical talents. Many of her recordings LaFrae Sci, will be hosting “Who Is Mary Lou made her recording debut in 1927 with the Synco of the ‘60s, including Black Christ Of The Andes, recorded Williams?” as part of Lincoln Center’s Jazz For Young Jazzers and in 1929 her husband joined ’s at Carnegie Hall, and Music For Peace were primarily People series this month. “I will be giving some of the Twelve Clouds Of Joy. When the regular pianist did not religious works. She wrote three masses, including one history of her extensive career and will introduce show up for their first record date, Williams (already performed at New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. An musical selections that will be played by the band. My contributing ) sat in and helped the band important turning point took place when Williams mother Carline Ray played with Ms. Williams for years land a record contract. Despite her obvious brilliance, befriended the much younger Catholic priest Peter on many different kinds of gigs, as well as helping her Kirk was very reluctant to have a female in his orchestra, O’Brien, who became her manager and persuaded her with the recording of Mary Lou’s Mass. Mary Lou holding out until finally hiring her in 1931. to have a more active performing career. Williams was a creative genius who was always Williams spent the ‘30s as Andy Kirk’s main Bassist Williams met the pianist in 1968 and forward-thinking in her musical ideas. Her music is arranger and top soloist, composing such pieces as worked with her on and off during the next decade. such an important part of Women’s and African- “Froggy Bottom”, “Mary’s Idea”, “Walkin’ And “Sometimes people would see us together and ask her American history.” Sci adds, “I once saw a copy of a Swingin’”, “Lotta Sax Appeal”, “Keep It In The Groove”, if I was her son! I would go over to her house and there handwritten piece that she wrote for three pianos and “A Mellow Bit Of Rhythm” and “What’s Your Story, were always musicians present. I remember her in the corner she had written the names of who should Morning Glory?” She also worked as a freelance teaching Hilton Ruiz how to play the blues. She was play what part: Bud, Mary and Monk. I visited her arranger, writing the swinging boogie-woogie blues a beautiful person and always giving of herself.” archive at Rutgers and it was immense. She left behind “Roll ‘Em” for , which remained in his Having recorded A Keyboard History back in 1955, not only her musical legacy but quite a paper trail.” v book for 40 years. “Her arranging for Benny Goodman Williams expanded upon the concept in the ‘70s, provided great vehicles for his band,” says pianist Dick performing her version of “The History Of Jazz” often, A tribute to Williams with Catherine Russell and LaFrae Hyman. “Her own playing was a light and airy stride in tracing the music from , stride and swing to Sci is at Rose Theater Mar. 24th. See Calendar. comparison with Fats Waller, a bit influenced by Earl bebop, originals inspired by McCoy Tyner and an Hines although she did not display the what-the-hell avant garde piece. Bassist Brian Torff worked with her Recommended Listening: nerve of the latter. I appreciate how she kept up with the regularly during 1975-76 and wrote about the • Mary Lou Williams—The Chronological Mary Lou times in her career, both rhythmically and harmonically.” experience in his book In Love With Voices—A Jazz Williams: 1927-1940 (Classics, 1927-40) Although she was saluted in the song “The Lady Memoir: “When we began working together, I was 21 • Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams— Who Swings The Band”, Williams was never fully years old and very green, but so hungry to play this Mary’s Idea (Decca-GRP, 1936-41) appreciated by Kirk. In 1942 the pianist left Kirk and music. We worked six nights per week for three • Mary Lou Williams—Signs of the Zodiac (Zodiac Suite) soon started a short-term marriage to trumpeter months, Monday through Saturday, 8 pm until 1 am. (Asch-Smithsonian Folkways, 1945) Harold “Shorty” Baker. When Baker joined Duke When Mary Lou and I were really on, it was the deepest • Mary Lou Williams—Live at the Cookery (Chiaroscuro, 1975) Ellington, she came along and for a time was one of sense of soulful swing, defying description. Mary was • Mary Lou Williams—Live at the Keystone Korner Ellington’s staff arrangers, contributing the exciting brilliant, spiritual, very intense and moody. She was (HighNote, 1977) “Trumpets No End”. Williams enthusiastically very, very tough on me and.. though I have the bruises • Mary Lou Williams—Solo Recital: Montreux Jazz encouraged and taught the young modernists of the to show for it, I am very glad to have experienced this.” Festival 1978 (Pablo, 1978)

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It was a grand start, followed by You Never Know in pursuits. “I feel most proud of the five CDs that I wrote 1963 on Atlantic with , , Phil based on literary works,” she asserts. Harrow wrote 21 NANCY Woods, , Richard Davis and . songs for an adaptation of The Adventures of Maya the Harrow’s musicality in this album is indisputable, with Bee, which ran for seven years Off Broadway, toured an underlay of Billie Holiday evident in tunes such as internationally and was revived for an Off Broadway “Lover Come Back to Me” and “Tain’t Nobody’s run in 2013. Among other efforts, Harrow wrote the HARROW Bizness If I Do”. Her ability to inhabit a lyric with an music for the album Winter Dreams: The Life and Passions easy style and grace permeates an eclectic set of tracks. of F. Scott Fitzgerald in 2003, which morphed into the by marilyn lester But then came a great gap in Harrow’s recording. stage work This Side of Paradise: A New Musical About “Probably the biggest roadblock was when rock became Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, with book by Harrow. It Among the many superlatives that come to mind for popular and it was difficult to find work as a jazz singer debuted Off Broadway in 2010, enjoying a healthy run. Nancy Harrow, the first might be “blessed”. The singer unless you were already well known,” she recalls. Of these experiences, she says, “I was involved in the has had a blessedly abundant career and is still going Harrow had married and raised two small children and casting, the rehearsals and all the details of production. strong. The energetic octogenarian (born in New York found editing work again. “Then jazz came back,” she It was totally satisfying.” To have her work picked up City in 1930) released The Song Is All in 2016, comprised explains, “and I was able to sing and record again.” by other theaters she calls “also a lot of fun.” of 14 tracks of original material, resplendent with the Harrow returned to singing in 1975 and went on to Another recent project was writing the music for musicality evidenced on her first album, Wild Women record over 15 albums, many self-produced, which The Cat Who Went to Heaven, based on a 1931 Japanese Don’t Have the Blues, in 1960. In this now classic granted her the control she sought over her own work. children’s book. Following the 2005 CD release, The Cat recording, Harrow revealed impeccable phrasing and a In midlife, two seminal events greatly influenced Who Went to Heaven opened as an Off Broadway puppet natural, instinctive feel for jazz. the direction of Harrow’s work. The first was her show in 2008, enjoying many subsequent runs through Harrow’s entry into the jazz world was late in emergence as a songwriter. In 1981 she wrote lyrics for 2014, when the show played last at the coming. Her original career path was in dancing. She some John Lewis music and then discovered she could Academy of Music. For The Last Time, Harrow’s jazz was also drawn to the world of words, majoring in write music as well. “One of the first songs I wrote musical, ran for six weeks in 2015 on New York’s literature at Bennington in Vermont. When Harrow happened by accident,” she recalls, “because I admired Theater Row and her album Other Standards was graduated she undertook a career in editing, working a poet’s [Raymond Patterson] blues lyric and told him released by Fresh Sound in 2015. “The young band on at William Morrow & Company. Yet music was always he should put it to music. He didn’t know any the CD had been onstage in my last theatrical a feature of her life: “I played piano since the age of musicians, so I told him I would find someone to write production,” she says, “and several of those musicians seven. And my father sang to us.” She also remembers a blues with his lyric. But no one I asked was interested wrote new arrangements for me. This proved to be as listening to a lot of jazz from a very early age “because in doing it, so I finally decided that it wouldn’t be that exciting as my first album had been all those years my two older brothers had a big collection of swing hard for me to do it myself and it came out well and ago.” Clearly, with such energy and enthusiasm, records.” The singing and performing bug that had lain I recorded it.” With that door opened, Harrow began to Harrow is much blessed—as are we who can still enjoy dormant was activated by Harrow’s discovery of Billie combine her newly found talent with her love of the fruits of her creativity. v Holiday. Editing by day, Harrow would go to the clubs literature. “Then I thought of a book that I could bring at night and listen to musicians she came to know. to life by writing songs telling the story—that is when For more information, visit nancyharrow.com Eventually she began singing with them. “Musicians I realized I could write both the music and lyrics— influenced me after I started to meet them and work getting pianists I knew to help me with the chord Recommended Listening: with them,” she says. “And later it was actors who structure,” she remembers. The result was the 1994 • Nancy Harrow—Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues helped me find my own style, which came from the thematic album Lost Lady, inspired by a 1923 Willa (Candid, 1960) personal reading of the lyric.” Cather novel. The album was selected as one of the best • Nancy Harrow—You Never Know (Atlantic, 1962) Harrow briefly toured with the jazz albums of the year by both the Village Voice and • Nancy Harrow—Anything Goes (Audiophile, 1978) Orchestra, but it was Nat Hentoff who sparked her the Boston Globe. • Nancy Harrow—You’re Nearer career by producing Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues With both a love of music and literature ingrained (Tono-Baldwin Street Music, 1986) for the Candid label, featuring , Dick from a very early age, it’s no surprise that Harrow has • Nancy Harrow—Secrets (Soul Note, 1990-91) Wellstood, Buddy Tate and , among others. derived much pleasure from melding these two • Nancy Harrow—The Song Is All (Benfan Music, 2016) LEST WE FORGET

Lux Lewis if she hadn’t preferred singing ballads to In 1984, a compilation disc entitled Queen of the playing boogie style. She worked briefly with bandleader Boogie was released and Brooks started working HADDA and he encouraged her to sing. again—her voice and piano undiminished. She sounds In short order, Brooks was singing hits—in the great singing “That’s My Desire” in a 1994 TV movies. She scored with the title song to the 1947 Out of appearance you can find on YouTube. That same year, the Blue and also appeared at the piano in the film. Both Bonnie Raitt presented her with a BROOKS and also auditioned, but Foundation Prestigious Pioneer award. Brooks got the role. The In a Lonely Place appearance is Most performers given lifetime achievement by jim motavalli similar and that’s her singing “Temptation” in the Kirk awards are headed for retirement, but not Brooks. In Douglas vehicle The Bad and the Beautiful. 1995, she was back in the movies with a brief appearance Remember Humphrey Bogart’s pianist in Casablanca, At least when she was singing, Brooks didn’t in Sean Penn’s The Crossing Guard (at the piano, of Dooley Wilson, playing “As Time Goes By”? Well, swing as much as her friend Billie Holiday or Dinah course). Two more movies followed, as did new Bogart and gal pal Gloria Grahame also take the time to Washington—the classical training was always there. A albums—featuring original compositions. She played listen to pianist/singer Hadda Brooks croon better comparison is to , another trailblazer Johnny Depp’s Viper Room (including 80th birthday “I Hadn’t Anyone ‘Til You” in 1950’s In a Lonely Place. in films and TV. Brooks’ good looks and unthreatening appearances) and the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room in It’s another torch song and what Brooks was famous for, ballads earned her a local television spot in New York. Brooks only seemed ageless; she died in though her first regional hit was the driving instrumental 1957—around the same time Nat Cole was the first 2002 at 86. v original “Swingin’ the Boogie”. When she turned out African-American with a network show. Each of the 26 some churning (and very similar) classically influenced half-hour episodes opened with Brooks at the piano Recommended Listening: follow-ups, Brooks was dubbed “Queen of the Boogie”. (did she ever move from it?), cigarette at the ready. • Hadda Brooks—That’s My Desire (The Modern Like Nat Cole, Brooks was a talented pianist who Brooks found work hard to come by in the ‘60s- Recordings) (Modern—Virgin/Flair, 1945-51) found crossover fame when she started singing. Born 70s, but she kept the lights on with appearances in • Hadda Brooks—Sings & Swings (Crown, 1950/51) in (as Hattie L. Hapgood), she studied Europe. “I was doing lovely when rock ‘n’ roll came • Hadda Brooks—Jump Back Honey (The Complete OKeh classical piano, then got signed by Jules Bihari to his along,” she said in a 1993 LA Times article. “And I got Sessions) (OKeh-Columbia, 1952-53) new Modern Records in 1945. Bihari (who gave her the very upset with it. I remember working in Michigan • Hadda Brooks—Anytime Anyplace Anywhere name Hadda Brooks) challenged his protégée to come when all I could hear on the radio was ‘Don’t step on (DRG, 1994) up with a boogie tune and gave her a week to write it. my blue suede shoes,’ and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m • Hadda Brooks—Time Was When (Point Blank-Virgin, 1996) We’d remember Brooks mostly as a flash-in-the-pan gone.’ Elvis put a lot of us out of business. I didn’t do • Hadda Brooks—I’ve Got News For You disciple of Albert Ammons, and Meade the type of music he did. I was melodic. Still am.” (Point Blank-Virgin, 1945-98)

10 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD LABEL SPOTLIGHT

sounds nothing like the label’s other releases and that’s Rejoice. Bang! Then his two Shandar LPs from the the point. Levin remarks, “When I was thinking about Fondation Maeght: Bang! Bang! I fell in love DARK TREE a label for Stomiidae, it made sense to approach immediately. Then on my parents’ advice, I started Bertrand, because I know that he places a high value listening to , , Steve Lacy and by stuart broomer on originality and inventiveness, regardless of style or Cecil Taylor…” genre. The music on Stomiidae may sound different Gastaut moved to Paris in 2001 and soon started There are certain labels that release very few CDs but from most of the Dark Tree catalogue, but I think that it an internship at Universal Music Jazz France. A series manage a high percentage of masterpieces. It’s not a shares these same essential qualities in common with of part-time and contract jobs followed, including great business model, but definitely contributes to the many of the other records. I’m proud to be on Dark work with Bleu Regard, the label started by Charles art. The French seem particularly good at this. One Tree.” Tyler (as a child Gastaut had met the veteran of Spirits example is Jacques Oger’s Potlatch, which has released The duo of poet Steve Dalachinsky and bassist Rejoice in Marseilles) and a contract stint at Universal 52 CDs since 1998. Bertrand Gastaut launched Dark Joëlle Léandre created one of the most intimate of Dark to work on complete sets of legendary singers like Tree in 2011 and has so far released just nine CDs. Tree releases, The Bill Has Been Paid, for Léandre Maurice Chevalier, everything from seeking masters to Every one of them demands attention, whether “a really intense and beautiful meeting.” For her, research at the French National Library. He worked contemporary or California “Bertrand makes beautiful work with knowledge and with guitarist Pascal Marzan organizing concerts of recordings from the ‘70s. passion,” and Dalachinsky “is like a musician with his distinguished free improvisers like John Russell, Roger It’s hard to imagine a label more driven by pure words, moving like a dancer in osmosis with the Turner, Isabelle Duthoit and Urs Leimgruber, then love for the revelatory power of and musician. You can feel how he listens and pulses, worked for Orkhestra, the French distributor for improvised music and “love” keeps coming up with proposes and invents.” For Dalachinsky, “the Tzadik, Clean Feed, ESP, Intakt and AUM Fidelity. musicians associated with the label. Asked to comment importance of working with someone like Joëlle is that, With the birth of his first daughter in 2010, on his previously unreleased No U-Turn – Live in though demanding, she is both professional and Bertrand gave up precarious music business Pasadena, 1975, trumpeter Bobby Bradford exclaimed, generous. She gives her all and she plays a lot when employment for work as a night desk-clerk in a Paris “We played this music then and we play this music she plays, but still in that space and language she hotel. It was around then that he started to pursue his now, for love and little else. Sometimes the little imp of generates she also generates space for the other’s own projects. The first was a house concert with doubt creeps into our midst, then along comes Bertrand language even if both of us are going non-stop—when Dalachinsky, bassist Benjamin Duboc and drummer and Dark Tree to remind us that someone is always different languages find a common ground, the Didier Lasserre in the apartment of his sister Marie: “It listening.” For bassist Benjamin Duboc, Dark Tree fills compatibility factor just happens.” That kind of special was a nice experience and different people—the artists, a special need “between love, luck and professionalism.” relationship characterizes all the Dark Tree releases. the audience, my sister—kept telling me: ‘It was great! Pianist Eve Risser sums it up: “Bertrand trusts the Gastaut was born in 1979 in Marseille to jazz- You have to think about another concert in this place.’” music with his whole soul and Dark Tree is an loving parents and was immersed in jazz by eight, A few months later he thought of combining “my instinctive and militant record label.” initially attracted to Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown favorite sax player with my favorite pair of bass and The latest release, Stomiidae by the hyper-kinetic and . Eventually that enthusiasm drums” and asked Duboc and Lasserre, “what about New York trio of cellist Daniel Levin, saxophonist took a dramatic turn: “One day, when I was around 10 a concert with Daunik Lazro and both of you?” Chris Pitsiokos and guitarist Brandon Seabrook, years old, I played my parents’ LP Spirits (CONTINUED ON PAGE 42)

The Bill Has Been Paid No U Turn Generation Live at The Century City Playhouse Stomiidae Steve Dalachinsky/Joëlle Léandre Bobby Bradford/John Carter Quintet En Corps Vinny Golia Wind Quartet Levin/Pitsiokos/Seabrook VOXNEWS

most arrestingly, a voice-percussion-only arrangement of her native Toronto, New York City and the road— “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music, with a challenging beat for an artist with a family. Biali rearrangements close vocal harmonies by Mark Kibble and Armand addresses this conflict in her original tune, “Satellite”, Hutton. Bentyne will present the new album at Birdland one of 12 contemporary jazz compositions on her latest by suzanne lorge (Mar. 5th), right in the heart of New York’s theater district. eponymous release on Kobalt. With an impressive A few weeks later on Mar. 30th, The record as a touring musician with leading pop acts, Cheryl Bentyne joined The Manhattan Transfer to sing Transfer—Bentyne, Janis Siegel, Alan Paul and Biali brings a fresh sound and skilled songwriting the soprano part left open by Laurel Massé in 1979. Ten newcomer Trist Curless (who replaces Manhattan hand to the recording and a uniquely female point of Grammys and 38 years later, she still performs with the Transfer founder Tim Hauser, who passed away in view. Biali, currently crossing the U.S. on a CD release group. But her solo output, while perhaps less well 2014)—will release its first album in 10 years. The Junction tour, will play Birdland on Mar. 8th. known, is just as dynamic as her group work—and (BMG) takes its title from ’s “Tuxedo After three years of hosting weekly jazz jams up in intriguingly diverse. As a soloist Bentyne has tackled Junction”, a vocal version of which appeared as the first Hudson Heights, WaHi Jazz founders singer Louise film soundtracks, audiobooks and meditation music in tune on the original quartet’s first album back in 1975. Rogers and pianist Mark Kross will kick off the addition to the masterfully arranged standards that are With that release, The Manhattan inaugural WaHi Jazz Festival Mar. 9th. The festival, her bailiwick and with reArrangements of Shadows: The Transfer introduced a new generation to the magnetic which lasts for three days, features various local jazz Music of Stephen Sondheim (ArtistShare), she makes her appeal of vocalese and a cappella jazz. All of the singers artists performing in three different Heights initial foray into musical theater. Don’t expect any in the long-lived quartet have other musical identities, establishments. Rogers, who scats like a reincarnated belting or showstoppers, however. Though wide- but when performing together harmony rules. horn player, will open the festival and Songbook stylist ranging, Bentyne’s exploration of Broadway’s most Alexis Cole has recorded four albums for the La Tanya Hall will close it. sophisticated composer/lyricist—her avowed “personal Japanese label Venus, each one a masterful collaboration Other gigs: Bobby McFerrin, who in 1985 snagged hero”—stays well within the jazz purview. with premier jazz musicians like and a best vocal arrangement Grammy with Bentyne for Sondheim’s compositions take on added sheen . In 2010 she joined with the seriously their a cappella hit “Another Night in Tunisia”, will be through this lens: percussive “Everybody Says Don’t” swinging sextet One For All to record You’d Be So Nice playing at Blue Note with SpiritYouAll (Mar. 23rd-Apr. from Anyone Can Whistle with only bass and drum as To Come Home To—11 straightahead tunes (e.g., “Moon 1st). You can catch Pamela Hamilton, perhaps the only accompaniment; slow, swinging “Ladies Who Lunch” River”, “Cry Me A River” and the title cut) that show vocalist-cum-violinist around, at Sistas’ Place (Mar. from Company, with scats and side commentary by fellow off Cole’s consummate command of . Cole is 24th) performing her big-hearted renditions of pop, vocalists Tierney Sutton and Janis Siegel; a jazz string- at her finest on this release, which just became available jazz and R&B classics. And Danish phenom Sinne Eeg quartet setting for “Comedy Tonight” from in the U.S, and will be at Smoke (Mar. 15th). drops her first U.S. album, Dreams, at Jazz at Kitano on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; and, Singer/pianist Laila Biali splits her time between Mar. 7th (see review on page 15 by yours truly). v

THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | MARCH 2018 11 IN MEMORIAM

BILL HUGHES (Mar. 28th, 1930—Jan 14th, 2018) The trombonist began playing with in 1953, making dozens of albums and, after by andrey henkin Basie’s 1984 death, leading the band from 2003-10, as well as featuring on a trombone-centric Savoy album from 1956 and recording with Osie Johnson, , , The Manhattan Transfer, Lena Horne and others. Hughes died Jan. 14th at 87.

WILBERT LONGMIRE (1941—Jan. 3rd, 2018) The soul-jazz guitarist had releases on World Pacific, Astra, J&M and Tappan Zee and credits with Jean- Luc Ponty, , Rusty Bryant, mostly in the ‘70s. Longmire died Jan. 3rd at 77.

BILL MOODY (Sep. 27th, 1941—Jan. 14th, 2018) Though the drummer’s discography was slight, a handful of albums with Dick Fregulia, Hans Koller, Trumpeter Hugh Masekela, among the most famed Dick Conte, Terry Henry and Susan musicians of his native South Africa, died Jan. 23rd at Sutton, he contributed to jazz in a different 78 from a protracted bout with prostate cancer. way through the seven books in his Evan Masekela was born in Witbank, South Africa, Horne jazz mystery series. Moody died Jan. 14th at 76. about 90 miles northwest of Johannesburg, on Apr. 4th, 1939. It was American cinema and jazz—Kirk Douglas COCO SCHUMANN (May 14th, 1924— in Young Man with a Horn, a movie loosely based on the Jan. 28th, 2018) The German guitarist’s life of Bix Beiderbecke and featuring trumpet by Harry career was interrupted by World War II James—that inspired Masekela to take up the trumpet when he was sent to concentration in his teens. He blossomed under Apartheid as a camps as a Jew and forced to perform member of The Jazz Epistles (which contained another for Nazi officers but he went on to future star in pianist Dollar Brand) and work with perform and record from the ‘50s vocalist Miriam Makeba but the oppressive regime onwards. Schumann died Jan. 28th at 93. made the trumpeter yearn for escape to America for direct contact with his jazz idols, which he achieved FRANK SMITH (Aug. 25th, 1936—Jan. upon entering the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) 15th, 2018) The saxophonist and in 1960 with the assistance of singer Harry Belafonte. woodwind player was part of the avant Within two years of his move, Masekela released garde jazz scene of ‘60s New York though his debut album for Mercury, Trumpet , only appearing on a single track of recorded when he was only 23 and featuring a number Burton Greene’s eponymous 1966 ESP- of his originals written with Makeba (whom Masekela Disk’ album and, decades later on the would marry in 1964 and divorce in 1966). Recounting Revenant boxed set Holy Ghost, with the same band his early years in New York to our own Russ Musto in playing with Albert Ayler. Smith died Jan. 15th at 82. 2013, Masekela said, “When I came to New York, I was a walking anthology of swing and bebop. I could tell MARLENE VERPLANCK (Nov. 11th, you the taxi fare from the Apollo Theater to Birdland 1933—Jan. 14th, 2018) The vocalist (and through Central Park and knew the way to every club accomplished jingle artist, particularly and concert hall. I strived to become a better player for the Campbell Soup Company) through the multiple jazz sessions at private homes recorded for Savoy in 1956, Mounted in and some clubs. Cecil Collins, my trumpet teacher at the late ‘60s and Audiophile in the ‘80s Manhattan School of Music, was instrumental in and again in the new millennium and upgrading my technique and knowledge of the had credits with J.J. Johnson and the Glenn Miller instrument.” It was at MSM that Masekela would meet Orchestra. VerPlanck died Jan. 14th at 84. v pianist Larry Willis, a few years his junior, a musical partnership that would continue regularly for the ensuing decades. Masekela would go on to record for MGM, Uni, Chisa (his own label run with producer Stewart Levine, whom Masekela also met at MSM), Blue Thumb, Casablanca, A&M, Novus and Columbia. Though based in the States, he never abandoned his cultural roots, mixing South African music with jazz, pop, and soul and promoting social and political awareness. He also would appear on albums by mentor Belafonte, Eric Gale, Hamiet Bluiett, and, in the pop/rock world, The Byrds, Bob Marley, Paul Simon and Cyndi ALEXIS PARSONS DUO Lauper. His most recent album was made for Universal Alexis Parsons-voice / Freddie Bryant-guitar South Africa, 2016’s No Borders, the same year he Thursday, March 29, 2018, 9-11 pm reunited with Brand, now Abdullah Ibrahim, under The BarThalia at Symphony Space Jazz Epistles banner. Like many South Africans, he 2537 Broadway returned home following the dissolution of Apartheid www.symphonyspace.org

and formation of a new government by the African “Alexis Parsons” (Best CDs of 2012) - DownBeat Magazine National Congress. In 2015 he was awarded the Gold “Parsons’ breathy, desultory delivery reminds us that Order of Ikhamanga by then South African President love is not a game to be entered into lightly.” - John Ephland, DownBeat Magazine Jacob Zuma for exceptional achievement in music.

12 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD FESTIVAL REPORT

Gordon, Sean Jones, Michael Rodriguez, , Joe LaBarbera, Terell Stafford, . Introducing the debut album THE JAZZ CRUISE After seven days of music overkill, memories of the experience were as jumbled as the jambalaya you ‘spin’ by thomas conrad ate in New Orleans. But a few aural and visual of Irene Kepl’s string quartet impressions were so vivid they stood apart and kept coming back: How set the vibe for the week on the very first night. His repertoire came from a pure jazz strain, by players who composed: Duke Pearson, , , Hank Jones, himself. Very few pianists can overwhelm a theme with variations like Green. He can get you high on the thrill of sheer speed while he challenges your intellect to perceive the wholeness of his vast, complex designs. How Trio Da Paz always works their magic and draws you inexorably into their elegant, sensuous, idealized world. Romero Lubambo, and o g r a p h y Duduka Da Fonseca have been together 30 years. They function like three tributaries to a single stream of consciousness. Lubambo is a virtuoso of intricate glistening five-finger melodies. Da Fonseca can play T u K e P h o t skating the boundaries between Marcus Miller an elegy to his grandmother (“Dona Maria”) and make a drum kit sound like a voice of the heart. jazz, groove, song form, Jazz cruises are the last stage in the progression of jazz How ’s tribute locked contemporary music and noise. addiction, after compulsive record collecting, club and Benny Green into his sweet spot, where he exulted concert attendance and jazz festivals. Jazz cruises are over “Señor Blues” and “Nica’s Dream” and “Song for for the hardcore. my Father”. Entertainment Cruise Productions (ECP) has been How the natural human soulfulness of Houston operating jazz trips for 17 years. From Feb. 3rd-10th, Person’s tenor saxophone sound embodied the core “The Jazz Cruise” sailed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to cultural values of this particular boat trip. New Orleans, Louisiana to Cozumel, Mexico and back to How a piano trio really can be led by a drummer, Fort Lauderdale. ECP advertises it as “the first and only even when the pianist is as accomplished as Tamir full ship charter in the world dedicated to ‘straightahead’ Hendelman, if the drummer is . However, jazz.” Nowadays most major jazz festivals on dry land bassist Christoph Luty stole the show with his yearning dilute their programs with pop. But on the sold-out arco version of “Someone to Watch over Me”. Celebrity , 2,000 passengers were living the How hard it was to walk between venues without straightahead dream: no fusion; no rock ’n’ roll. stopping in the Grand Foyer, where a noteworthy There were over 100 musicians on board and nine pianist like Renee Rosnes or or Emmet spaces for music, including a luxurious 1,000-seat Cohen was always playing. Nicki Parrott also theater and a dining room turned into Birdland. If you performed there. When she sang in a small, flawless had the juice, you could hit all or most of seven concerts voice, accompanying herself on bass, songs like “The in a day and still have time to eat too much, swim laps Very Thought of You” and “What a Diff’rence a Day in the ship’s salt-water pool and ride a stationary bike Made” were stripped bare and allowed to stand clear. in the fitness center next to trombonist . How a project led by Marcus Miller, marking key The whole point of this cruise was the breadth and moments in the life of (from “Now’s the depth of talent on offer. There were established Time” through “Tutu”), caused your own life to pass working bands: Marcus Miller, The Cookers, Kurt before your eyes. Guitarist was Elling, Brecker Brothers Reunion Band, Joey De brilliant. 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THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | MARCH 2018 13 CD REVIEWS

McPartland’s “There’ll Be Other Times”, Meredith colors. But there’s a reason that not many songs other D’Ambrosio’s “Melodious Funk”, Abbey Lincoln’s than “Send in the Clowns” have become jazz standards. “You Gotta Pay the Band” and Patricia Barber’s The master’s stuff is tough and not for novices. “I Could Eat Your Words”. Territo also acknowledges Bentyne spent six years contemplating this project. Melba Liston, a fine but underexposed trombonist, on Some songs don’t lend themselves easily to a jazz the torch ballad “We Never Kissed”. Peggy Lee, best treatment and she doesn’t try to pound them into remembered for her singing, was also a talented lyricist place. “Comedy Tonight”, for instance, uses the Bevan and Territo gives her a nod on Dave Barbour’s 1946 Manson String Quartet in a busy and slightly jagged jump blues “Everything Is Moving Too Fast”, arrangement that productively undermines the song’s

Ladies Day a humorous reflection on how much technology was inherent theatricality. The standout is “Ladies Who MJ Territo (Jollie Mollie) evolving in the ‘40s and still relevant in 2018. Lunch”, which gets two versions here. On the first, a by Alex Henderson Ladies Day paints an attractive portrait of both brassy Bentyne is joined by Transfer colleague Janis Territo and the women to whom she pays tribute. Siegel and the great Tierney Sutton. Together, these In the past, most of the women who achieved major three ladies work up quite a noise. The version without recognition in jazz did so as vocalists. But female jazz For more information, visit mjterrito.com. This group is at the two guests is also nice, but superfluous. instrumentalists have made their presence felt in recent Club Bonafide Mar. 1st. See Calendar. There’s no avoiding “Clowns”, which is the only decades. Vocalist MJ Territo celebrates them on Ladies track here with a Transfer-type vocal treatment

Day, a tribute to female composers. featuring Mark Kibble and Armand Hutton. It works, Territo is backed by a trio of pianist Linda but doesn’t reach the towering purity of Judy Collins’ Presgrave, bassist Iris Ornig and drummer Barbara version. “Clowns” is actually a song that shines with Merjan, expanded by flutist Andrea Brachfeld on Dave just piano and that’s what Bentyne (with Tom Zink) Brubeck’s “In Your Own Sweet Way” and Blossom does to “I Wish I Could Forget You”. Jazz fans can revel Dearie-Johnny Mercer’s “I’m Shadowing You”, tenor in “I Remember” and “Sand”, both of which benefit saxophonist Virginia Mayhew on pianist Mary Lou strongly from punchy piano work by John Beasley. Williams’ “Strange Fascination” and harpist Brandee “Everybody Says Don’t” features the rhythm section of Younger on Lorraine Feather-Dave Grusin’s “True”. bassist Kevin Axt and drummer Dave Tull without The arrangements are melodic, easy-to-absorb postbop Beasley and they rise to the challenge. “Not a Day Goes reArrangements of Shadows and Territo isn’t afraid to explode lesser-known songs. By” adds Tom McCauley on guitar and percussion and Cheryl Bentyne (ArtistShare) “In Your Own Sweet Way” is presented here with by Jim Motavalli it’s a song other jazz singers should explore. the lyrics that Brubeck’s wife Iola added to his melody. Bentyne is in lovely form, fully inhabiting every On Mexican songwriter Maria Grever’s “Cuando “This is not a Broadway album,” declares Cheryl song and exploring her lower register. I’m still not Vuelva a Tu Lado” (aka “What a Diff’rence a Day Bentyne, a mainstay of The Manhattan Transfer. But this convinced that Sondheim’s music easily translates into Made”), Territo performs the original Spanish lyrics is a tribute to a Broadway master, Stephen Sondheim, jazz, but this album is original, provocative and fun. rather than the Stanley Adams words best known to whose songs are deeply imbedded in his hit shows. English-speaking audiences. Thanks to some clever “rearranging” from Bentyne’s For more information, visit artistshare.com. This project is Territo unearths many quality songs: Marian many collaborators, Sondheim’s songs don coats of many at Birdland Mar. 5th. See Calendar.

Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY 10014

NEW WORKS, NEW COLLABORATIONS, NEW DIRECTIONS MARCH 22 - MAY 10 • THURSDAYS AT 8 PM A SEASON OF INCREDIBLY DIVERSE WOMEN ARTISTS

3/22 - MOLLY POPE 3/29 - EVA SALINA & PETER STAN 4/5 - CAMILLE THURMAN 4/10 - * 4/9 - ANI CORDERO 4/26 - APRIL CENTRONE 5/3 - MARIKA HUGHES 5/10 - CAMILA MEZA *Special Beneet Concert for GHMS

For tickets and concert information, please visit greenwichhouse.org/uncharted or call (212) 242-4770

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a drawn-out, full-throated blues, Eeg shows off R&B making subtle undercuts to isolate and shunt an idea chops any pop singer would covet; on “Aleppo”, her off in a different direction. Following a - awareness-raising ode to the Syrian refugees, she uses like pizzicato statement from Duboc, resonant, open space and subdued instrumentation to infuse the economical and full-toned, the trio returns in rivulets jazz ballad with heartbreak and mournfulness; and on and agitated superimpositions to close the piece out. the title track, she positions her smooth vocalese One would think that this breathtaking album- against crisp instrumental lines at a bright tempo, length improvisation was enough, but a 17-minute engaging neatly and cleanly with a band of pianist improvisation quickly follows, singing bowls and Jacob Christoffersen, guitarist Larry Koonse, bassist drumstick scrapes blurring with metallic natter before

Beautiful Love and drummer Joey Baron. coalescing into breaker-crested forward motion. This Fred Hersch/Jay Clayton (Sunnyside) By contrast, Eeg adopts a straightahead approach exciting and sonically gorgeous performance is an by Joel Roberts to standards. Her effortless solos on tunes like Cole essential document of this French trio. Porter’s “What Is This Thing Called Love”, Richard The superb pianist Fred Hersch has had a number of Rodgers-Lorenz Hart’s “Falling In Love With Love” For more information, visit darktree-records.com rewarding pairings with vocalists over the years, and Gene DePaul-Patricia Johnston-Don Raye’s “I’ll including Janis Siegel, Nancy King, Norma Winstone, Remember April” demonstrate a deep understanding Kurt Elling and Kate McGarry. But Beautiful Love, his of traditional vocal jazz; the swing, the trilled phrases, UNEARTHED GEM 1995 album with the avant garde singer Jay Clayton, is the restrained vibrato and the time-tested scat syllables one of the very best. Newly remastered, it’s an intimate all speak to Eeg’s mastery of the art form. What’s and inspired meeting of two like-minded souls that intriguing is that this traditional singer coexists so raises the bar for piano-vocal duos. peaceably with the modern singer/songwriter. This Although uniting two exceedingly adventurous ability to move in and out of different jazz artists, the focus, perhaps surprisingly, is almost vocabularies—rare even among U.S. vocalists—serves wholly on standards. But in the hands of two such to set Eeg apart from other international jazz singers. gifted performers, the ten covered here are presented After nine albums as a leader in Scandinavia, Eeg in anything but standard form. While Clayton steers was invited to record Dreams on the U.S.-based fund- clear of some of the wilder improvisational techniques raising label ArtistShare, thus joining the ranks of such Live in Tokyo 1964 Anita O’Day (Boundee) for which she’s long been known, she’s never content world-renowned musicians as Maria Schneider, Danilo by Ori Dagan to play the tunes entirely straight. She’s constantly Pérez and Jane Ira Bloom. Good company. pushing at the edges and putting her unique creative imprint on the material, making something fresh out of For more information, visit artistshare.com. Eeg is at Jazz at The eight tracks that open this recently discovered even such familiar fare as “Blame It on My Youth” and Kitano Mar. 7th. See Calendar. performance by vocalist Anita O’Day are a delight, “You Don’t Know What Love Is”. She also proves with -Abe Lyman-’s herself a thoughtful and dramatic interpreter of lyrics, “I Cried for You” a standout for the call and response digging into classic songs by the likes of Cole Porter of O’Day’s scat with Tetsuo Fushimi (trumpet), and Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart for all their Shigeo Suzuki (alto saxophone) and Tadayuki Harada emotional worth. (baritone saxophone). As captured famously at This is certainly one of the most accessible of Newport ‘58 with drummer John Poole on Bert Clayton’s recordings, but there are some freer moments Stern’s Jazz on a Summer’s Day, O’Day’s exploration too. Most notable is her wordless vocalizations of trading time—opposed to taking choruses upon throughout Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints”, replete with choruses à la Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan— trilling and chirruping and dazzling virtuosity. And speaks to her quest to be treated equally as a musician. Hersch, a technically brilliant musician with a poetic On standards such as Harold Arlen-Ted Koehler’s Generation heart, is with her every step of the way, at times playing “Let’s Fall in Love” or the Gershwins’ “Who Cares”, En Corps (Dark Tree) the role of accompanist, at times taking the lead, by Clifford Allen she’s subtle when trading time with the great pianist always in total control. Theirs is a true collaboration, Bob Corwin (the only other American in a group which seems to reflect an abiding sense of mutual French pianist Eve Risser has, over the last decade, completed by bassist Tatsuro Takimoto and drummer respect and affection. The result is an album of pure, crafted a language of play rooted in gradual material Takeshi Inomata) while on Gene de Paul-Don Raye’s unabashed beauty. isolation and elaboration, as well as utilizing resources “Star Eyes” and Kurt Weill-Ogden Nash’s “Speak available both inside the piano as well as its exterior Low” the listener is invited to bathe in her For more information, visit sunnysiderecords.com. Hersch (keys, pedals, hull). While delving into the music of rhythmically flowing liquid tone. This is a fine is at Village Vanguard Mar. 6th-11th. See Calendar. Robert Wyatt and Astor Piazzolla has shown an ear for companion to Anita O’Day in Tokyo 1963. diverse sources, the trio En Corps is perhaps the Also included are two solid live sets from 1956-

clearest exposition of her ensemble work. Joining her 57, rare but previously released, featuring different with bassist Benjamin Duboc and percussionist Edward sextets in Los Angeles. The sprightly all-scat Perraud, the trio has released two discs, of which this performance of Dave Lambert-Buddy Stewart’s is the latest, two long-form improvisations recorded at bebop line “A Cent and a Half” is worth every the Austrian free music festival Artacts in 2016. penny; other tracks offer uniquely subtle contrasts The first piece, clocking in just shy of 40 minutes, to the takes on period Verve albums like Anita, begins in hushed muted glances, airily hanging, with Pick Yourself Up with Anita O’Day and Anita Sings the arco bass and brushy cymbal deflections as Most. With the exception of rare dramatic tour-de- accompaniment. Prepared piano gobs and measured force on Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart’s “My Funny knocks sound distinctly koto-esque, reflecting the fact Valentine” and the deliciously syrupy take of Dreams that the initial reasoning behind extending the Manning Sherwin-Eric Maschwitz’ “A Nightingale Sinne Eeg (ArtistShare) by Suzanne Lorge instrument’s sonorous range offered a distinctly non- Sang in Berkeley Square”, the mood is joyous thanks Western palette, as well as standing in for a percussion to a perfectly audible smile on O’Day’s face as she Sinne Eeg’s popularity both within and outside of her orchestra. Ghostly pitch-bends couple with a distinctly swings with all her might. -Gus native Denmark has been on the rise the last 10 years. roomy recording, rendering the sounds’ center oblique Kahn’s “Love Me or Leave Me” with Alan Marlowe She won the Danish equivalent of the Grammy four and amping up the cloud-like quality of enveloping on piano has the misfortune of being compared to times for Best Vocal Jazz Album and has a strong trio activity before pitched and direct slices (including the version. On the Gershwins’ following in Asia and Europe. She’s also toured the U.S. a train-whistle-like long bowed tone) herald an “The Man I Love”, O’Day reimagines the melody extensively but remains less well known here—this is emerging fullness. Perraud’s kit, involving thinly sprinkled with dissonance before swinging the about to change with Dreams. quavering sheets of metal, rosin, gongs and snappy living hell out of the second chorus; few, if any, The new album is heavily weighted toward Eeg’s impulsions, is a crisp and often jarring counterpoint to singers in jazz could get away with breaking up originals, each one a tight, modern jazz composition Risser’s lengthening motifs and squabbling accents. “Stay” into “stay, eh, eh, eh, eh”. that speaks not only to Eeg’s broad knowledge of Without the trance-like minimal pools of a group like American jazz but also to her global appeal as a singer. The Necks, En Corps continues to stir its own pot, For more information, visit spaceshowermusic.com For instance, on opening track “The Bitter End”, setting up areas of clambering, rising tones before

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harmony rather than being simple extensions. The GLOBE UNITY same is true of chorale-like “Gen Himmel”, though the reflectively triadic melody doesn’t appear until this long version is more than half over. Low-register octaves are dizzyingly rife with overtones and so crystalline are the pianissimi it can be difficult to tell if the string is plucked or struck. This is now the best solo disc in a catalogue containing many. Atody Man is from longtime quartet Kaze with Cellular Resonance Mia Zabelka (LCR) Momentum trumpeters Natsuki Tamura and Christian Pruvost and SololoƧ Muriel Grossmann (Dreamland) drummer Peter Orins. Fujii’s “Morning Glow” moves Irene Kepl (Fou) from a deliciously modal atmosphere, slowly infiltrated Voyage Apollonian by Elliott Simon Mari Kimura (Innova) by a repeating melodic figure, which then becomes grist by Tom Greenland The spiritual connection on Momentum is immediately for the group mill of groove and vamp. Her other obvious. Saxophonist Muriel Grossmann has long contribution, “Moving”, inhabits a space fairly far afield Violin techniques have come a long way since Stuff histories with guitarist Radomir Milojkovic, bassist from traditional notions of New Thing form. Its driving Smith, Joe Venuti and others adapted ’s Gina Schwarz and drummer Uros Stamenkovic, force, at least initially, is superbly recorded drums, quintessential instrument to the heterodox demands developed through many performances and recordings. setting up something approaching multiple pulses only of jazz. Three recent solo albums show just how far. Grossmann is clearly in control as she uses tenor, alto to eschew them. Then, there is Orins’ “Hypnotique Viennese violinist Mia Zabelka has, with and soprano to lead band and listener on a journey that Sympathie”, which involves trumpets slowly wringing Cellular Resonance, produced one of her most takes off like a missile, passes through meditation, the beats out of gradually detuned unisons, a technique panoramic soundscapes to date, a miasmic, tactile, reaches nirvana and ends with thanksgiving. that would doubtless make Alvin Lucier smile. That kinesthetic, cautiously exuberant voyage to far-off Grossmann’s intense solo supplication and unison is actually the seed from which the rest of the and far-out sonic spaces. Of the three CDs reviewed powerful jousting with Milojkovic begins the session as piece grows, which says nothing of the square pop-tune here, hers is the least ‘violinistic’, with fewer obvious “Elevation” rises into a sanctified setting. The vibe Fujii and Orins eventually lay down and which the references to signature timbres. Rather, she favors comparison to Coltrane is clear but the quartet finds its trumpets do everything in their power to subvert. all manner of electronic processing (assisted by own supreme space through the title track’s initial Indeed, it is the trumpeters who continually shake Lydia Lunch on half the tracks), generating a introspection, gorgeous tenor phrasing and penetrating things up, especially on Tamura’s “Inspiration”, where mélange of ambiguous yet highly evocative textures: guitar soloing. Schwarz and Stamenkovic buttress the they employ an encyclopedia of timbre and technique. a sputtering factory engine spewing coolant; rubber- melodies with unceasing rhythm and shifting These discs speak as much to evolution as to backward booted footfalls echoing away down a long cement augmentation. The latter is a beautifully emotive player glances and to the restlessly creative spirits that fostered tunnel; a stylus scratching vinyl on a decelerating and ensures that the excursion remains smooth and on their creation. Fujii plans to release a disc per month in turntable; braying elephant; bull-roarer; theremin; course. “Chant” cleverly gives her space, allowing a 2018 and if these first two offerings indicate what’s to gas-burner flames squelched by a boiling teakettle; pizzicato solo to define a mantra answered by the come, a top-drawer series is in the offing. moths close-buzzing a lantern. Impressions of the melismatic saxophone/guitar pairing on “Sacred”. biosphere: close, visceral, immersive, visual. “Horizon” is a glimpse of enlightenment, soprano For more information, visit librarecords.com Irene Kepl, also from Vienna, takes a contrasting painting a free landscape before “Rising” snakecharms approach on SololoƧ, her suite of ruminative its way to a penultimate peaceful groove driven by improvisations all recorded in a single day. Like percussive decoration. “Gratitude” appropriately closes Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Kepl’s the session with a graceful benediction, highlighting improvisations unwind in endless streams of notes, Grossmann’s improvisational skills. Known primarily finding their variety and interest in the counterpoint for her exceptional work on alto and soprano, Grossmann between simultaneous independent themes voiced uncovers new spiritual spaces on Momentum by skillfully in the low, middle and upper registers. At times she incorporating the expanded tonal and textural palette of presses double-stopped strings into triples, wrings her tenor in the context of a compatible quartet. falsetto howls from reluctant pitches, working the recording space’s natural acoustics for maximum For more information, visit murielgrossmann.com reverb. Her pianissimi are like small mammals skulking at night, bow chops like birdcalls, pizzicatos tinkling kotos, glissandi drifting sirens. On “Forget-Me-Not”, the most compelling track, pressure builds from skidding samisen tones to panning Doppler whistles to distorted explosions, resolving into a slowly ripping string noise. And just when you think you’ve heard all a solo violin can do, hear again. Mari Kimura’s Voyage Apollonian is the latest progress report in the Japanese Solo violinist’s development of human-computer Satoko Fujii (Libra) Atody Man interactive improvisation. Wearing a custom WiFi KAZE (Circum/Libra) motion detector on her right hand that transmutes by Marc Medwin physical gestures into digital algorithms, she configures string quartets (creating low cello tones Stockhausen’s landmark Telemusik exhibits a quality of with her trademark subharmonic technique), canons, simultaneous speed and stasis and the same could be harmonizing choirs and other ultimately unclassifiable said of pianist Satoko Fujii. The lack of a steady pulse is virtual realities. Imagine HAL, the irrepressible certainly a variable, but her music is imbued with space, supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, in a free-fall thick connective tissues it would be incomplete to label free improv with astronaut Dave Bowman and you’ll silences. These first two discs in her 60th birthday year get a sense of it. Three covers by Brazilian composers celebration speak to that stasis and to the many contrasts are less effective, the virtual piano comping an in mood and dynamic arising from them. acquired taste at best, the transcriptions imitative Solo is a fortuitously recorded recital in which an rather than generative, but cuts like the title track, absolutely exquisite room acoustic becomes as much a “Eigenspace”, “Canon Élastique” and “Breuer Vivant” musical element as the stunningly tuned instrument. show a degree of invention and independence only A piece such as “Spring Storm”, for trio, possible in a Kimura-ian space-time continuum. takes on new life and dimension, despite its fairly traditional free jazz arc. Multi-timbral explorations of For more information, visit littlecrackdrabbit.co.uk, the piano’s outside and innards bring a small ensemble fourecords.com and innova.mu quality, each opening event punctuated by a pause and the echoes of chords in the room adding a layer of

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there’s an Ornette-ish bounce to some of the tunes here, wordlessly further highlight these infrastructural though the trombone adds a New Orleans flair. relationships. Of these, the jig-like comportment of Iversen is a subtle, self-effacing bassist, mostly “Meryton Town Hall” comes as a welcome splash of staying in the background on tunes like “Ataraxia On Technicolor in an otherwise noir-ish program. My Mind”, as the horn players take turns strutting and Lyrically, too, this record stands out within an Schneider rumbles and clatters along, recalling Ed already-distinguished discography. Beginning with Blackwell. In the piece’s final two minutes, the rhythm the title song, one of six for which Winstone penned section drops away almost entirely, leaving the horns to her own words, and continuing on through to “So converse in a manner not unlike the interactions between Close To Me Blues” (her take on the theme from Taxi

Tensegridad Anthony Braxton and George Lewis in the mid ’70s. Driver), she demonstrates a keen understanding of the Paula Shocron/Germán Lamonega/Pablo Díaz Eberhard is a quick-thinking player, comfortable magnitude of intimacy, thereby providing shelter for (hatOLOGY) with jazz’ creative fringes: her Potsa Lotsa project exists any soul craving refuge from its weary transit. by Marco Cangiano to explore the music of Eric Dolphy. Her solos here have some of the crying quality that gave Dolphy’s music so For more information, visit ecmrecords.com There is an inherent dancing quality here that may be much of its power, but she’s also able to whip around missed on first listen. This is a modern and yet somewhat the curves of a melody like a Red Bull-fueled child historicized free piano trio, even if pianist Paula Shocron playing Forza Motorsport 7. De Masure’s playing is IN P RINT appears to be in charge much of the time. Tensions surprisingly crisp; on “Trio One”, his notes emerge in alternate with and dissolve into musical dances, at times short, precise bursts, like they were typed out. Even on just hinted by the piano’s patterns, which also mirror a a ballad like “Solus”, he is able to maintain precise sense of tradition traced to Shocron’s earlier recordings. articulation while almost droning. At a few points, he The very title of the CD is quite revealing. As goes so deep into the horn’s lower range to be almost a explained by the extensive liner notes, the word tuba, or a second bassist, but then leaps smoothly ‘tensegrity’ owes to visionary architect Buckminster upward, commiserating with Eberhard in bluesy Fuller by combining ‘tensional’ and ‘integrity’, the conviviality. On “Eburnine”, he can be heard playing an concept visualized by his geodesic domes. In musical eight-note riff pulled from the salsa song “La Murga”. terms, the concept is more akin to “biotensegrity”, Every few tracks, a short (under a minute) which describes the body’s muscular and skeletal variation on a melody appears—it’s called “My Changing The Tune: The Kansas City systems, hence the connection with the music’s Revised Head”, recurs as “Their Revised Head” and Women’s Jazz Festival, 1978-1985 inherent dancing quality, which also reflects Shocron’s finally “Your Revised Head”. It gives the album just Carolyn Glenn Brewer (University of North Texas Press) Imuda project combining music, poetry, visual arts and enough structure to seem like a through-composed by Anna Steegmann dance. These aspects are most evident in “Universo work, though each tune stands proudly on its own. Tiene Sentido”, based on Shocron’s recited poem, and Today we can barely imagine the sexist challenges the title track, where Germán Lamonega’s insistent For more information, visit bjurecords.com female jazz musicians faced well into the ‘70s and arco bass drone supports hypnotic piano patterns and ‘80s (not that they are by any means absent in the

Pablo Díaz’ dancing—once again—drumming. 21st century): hostile club employees, condescending This is a varied program: one original from each bandleaders and pompous jazz critics. This book, member; three co-authored by the trio; two rarely written by Kansas City historian, writer, music performed compositions by Mal Waldron and Charles educator and clarinet player Carolyn Glenn Brewer Tolliver; and a dramatic yet lyrical dedication to provides some fascinating insight. Changing The “Connie” (Crothers) by Shocron herself. It starts with Tune: The Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival, 1978- a deep, suspenseful bass intro to Lamonega’s “Vera”, 1985, rigorously researched and referenced, based which turns rapidly into an almost -like on numerous interviews, tells the story of the piano dance, leaving to Díaz the task of filling space. influential Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival, its As in many of the compositions, the tension builds up founders, supporters and notable performers. Descansado to a peak then resolved in a quiet coda. A similar Carol Comer, a singer and pianist, and Diane Norma Winstone (ECM) development is found in Díaz’ “El Origin”, with piano by Tyran Grillo Gregg, host of the radio show “Women in Jazz”, were repeating a carillon motif, whereas the trio’s “Casa driving back from the 1977 Wichita Jazz Festival Rodante” progresses along a martial cadenza. Finally, Vocalist Norma Winstone returns to ECM with pianist bemoaning the fact that vocalist Sarah Vaughan had Waldron’s “Snake Out” is given a post-1964 Coltrane Glauco Venier and reedplayer Klaus Gesing to explore been the only female performer. They questioned treatment with evident echoes of McCoy Tyner after the relationship between song and cinema. Interpreting what a festival celebrating female jazz musicians a dark if not ominous incipit; Tolliver’s “Truth” follows the scores of Legrand, Rota and Morricone, among might look like. Thus the idea for the Kansas City the tension/release pattern. This is a well-balanced others, and referencing such filmmakers as Godard, Women’s Jazz Festival was born. They recruited recording rewarding multiple listens. Fellini and Scorsese, the result is a collection of moving board members and volunteers, found many creative images in and of itself. ways to raise funds (such as athletic games between For more information, visit hathut.com Winstone’s penchant for moody arrangements Kansas City classical and jazz musicians) and and organic insights into the human condition shares realized their idea the following year.

the silver screen’s existential concerns. Said concerns The author writes authoritatively, as if she has are made explicit as her trio, joined by percussionist attended every performance herself. She introduces Helge Andreas Norbakken and cellist Mario Brunello, us to Kansas City as a jazz town (far more than just flip through the pages of the human heart. The power Count Basie and Charlie Parker), the female of memory to shape how we live and love is a central musician-trailblazers and the hardships they theme. Whether toeing the line between past and experienced. She takes us to clubs, performances, future in “Il Postino” or weaving through the corridors board meetings and lets us witness the controversies of yearning in “Amarcord (I Remember)”, Winstone’s that came with success: purists were alienated; voice knows where it stands at any given moment. established musicians and emerging artists clashed; Thus, “What Is A Youth?”, along with the opening “His male sidemen were not welcome by all. Ternion Quartet Eyes, Her Eyes”, set the tone for a plaintive emotional Best of all, the reader experiences sitting on the Anne Mette Iversen (BJU Records) by Phil Freeman experience, like a dark filter placed over the lens of the hard chairs in Memorial Hall and the excitement of mind through which she captures parries of affection. listening to , Carla Bley, Carmen McRae, Bassist Anne Mette Iversen’s Ternion Quartet, formed Winstone’s musicians soliloquize the finer Nancy Wilson and Urszula Dudziak, to name a few. in 2015 and recording for the first time, is comprised of implications of her sentiment. Norbakken and Brunello This book chronicles the successes and setbacks alto saxophonist Silke Eberhard, trombonist Geoffroy add points and lines, respectively, setting the scene for of this groundbreaking festival and should be a De Masure and drummer Roland Schneider. Iversen every story, while Venier populates those backdrops must-read for anyone interested in the history of claims the music is “based on a linear and horizontal with extras. Gesing, alternating between soprano women in jazz. concept, allowing the individual instruments’ melodies saxophone and bass clarinet, is a protagonist on par to conduct the harmonic map”—which sounds a lot like with Winstone, responding to her every move in For more information, visit untpress.unt.edu what was doing in 1959. And indeed, dialogic fashion. Four tracks in which Winstone sings

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Rhapsody unfolds a grand mise-en-scène by purely eventually collapses into a quiet heartbeat pulse. acoustic means. “Casting Off” and “I Arrive”, Laplante reenters with an almost choral, circular- respectively, begin and end the album by threading the breathed figure, recalling the work of fellow vocal delivery of Jen Shyu (whose erhu playing is saxophonist Colin Stetson yet more insistent via another distinct color in this palette) through the Cleaver’s equally rotational drumming. Before things netting of John Medeski’s piano and Fabian Rucker’s veer out of control, a bluesy tag is introduced, alto saxophone. As the center of the action, Shyu grounding the flight. The final section introduces imbues Previte’s lyrics (a first for him) with theatrical Cleaver’s cymbals as a new sonic element, in effect punch, singing the role of an airplane traveler cycling turning the duo into a trio, Laplante at his most keening

Joey.Monk.Live! through various stages of self-awareness until she and exalted, ending on a triumphant, two-minute long Joey Alexander (Motéma) reaches her unknown destination under cover of night. circular-breathed note. by Ken Dryden That state of liminality—of hanging suspended between locations with only a thin layer of metal and For more information, visit newamrecords.com. This project is There have been a number of young jazz prodigies to plastic between you and certain death—is beautifully at Spectrum Mar. 3rd and Union Pool Mar. 4th. See Calendar. garner attention over the decades, but none have rendered in Previte’s downright cinematic movements, caught fire as quickly as pianist Joey Alexander, who each of which variously highlights the strengths of one made his debut recording as a leader at 11. There has or more of his bandmates. Medeski shines in “When I been pushback from some critics about his two Land”, his precise syncopations seeming to chart every Grammy nominations, but that is hardly the fault of leg of the journey, and, in tandem with harpist Zeena the gifted teenager. Although Alexander’s technique is Parkins, he renders the backdrop of tracks like “The strong and he already seems comfortable playing Lost” and “The Timekeeper” while Ruckman carefully challenging jazz standards, his improvising on those links his own chains of melody and abstraction. first two releases was not anywhere near the level of Hearing Parkins unplugged is an especial privilege; in many veteran pianists who have explored the same this context, her crystalline beauty feels nearly all- music in depth for ages. Yet Alexander is maturing consuming. Guitarist Nels Cline treads a parallel path quickly, gaining confidence while remaining humble and to highest effect in “All Hands”, in which his slide about his abilities. guitar sounds almost like a pipa. Previte himself He set up a tremendous challenge for himself by completes the picture, playing an assortment of drums tackling seven jazz standards written by Thelonious and percussion and, in “Last Stand/Final Approach”, Monk, since there are ample recorded versions autoharp and harmonica to boot. He treats himself no available by the composer and other great jazz pianists. differently than his other musicians, letting his singular He opens this June 2017 Lincoln Center concert with compositional voice ring over all, handing us a light to a strikingly fresh solo interpretation of “‘Round navigate the darkness in which he leaves us. Midnight”, which has a versatile, inventive arrangement full of twists and occasional humor in the For more information, visit rarenoiserecords.com. This spirit of its author. For the remainder of the set, he is project is at Roulette Mar. 2nd See Calendar. joined by two seasoned musicians, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Willie Jones III. Alexander’s setting of • Alexis Cole (with One For All)— “Evidence” is brisk and playful with plenty of R You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To (Venus) interaction with his skilled rhythm team, leaving room • Michael Dessen Trio— to showcase Colley’s adept solo. “Ugly Beauty” is e Somewhere in the Upstream (Clean Feed) given a sauntering rhythm in its disguised introduction • Kat Edmonson— before Alexander takes a more traditional approach in c Old Fashioned Gal (Spinnerette) a duet with Colley, the latter playing both pizzacato o • Sigurd Hole—Elvesang (Elvesang) and arco. Alexander’s rollicking interpretation of • Jon Irabagon/Joe Fiedler/Todd Neufeld— Monk’s theme song “Epistrophy” swings with gusto, m In Formation Network (Nuscope) taking a looser approach than its composer, freeing the A Dance That Empties • Kaze—Atody Man (Libra) usual tension and incorporating more than a few solo m Subtle Degrees (New /NNA Tapes) • Dave Liebman/Tatusya Nakatani/ piano detours to flesh out his own vision. A darting, by Andrey Henkin e Adam Rudolph—The Unknowable freewheeling rendition of “Straight, No Chaser” is (RareNoise) equally adventurous, revealing new dimensions to this Had John Coltrane lived much past Feb. 22nd, 1967 n • /Dave Douglas Sound Prints— frequently performed gem. and continued his ascent (or, depending who you ask, Scandal (Greenleaf Music) While it is still far too soon to crown Joey descent) outwards, he likely would have pre-dated d • /Barry Guy/Paul Lytton— Alexander a future jazz master, if he continues to Anthony Braxton’s 1972 For Alto with his own solo e Music for David Mossman (Live at Vortex broaden his repertoire and work with experienced saxophone album. He and still left us with ) (Intakt) players who challenge him, it would be foolish to bet Interstellar Space. The saxophone-drum duet is now a d • Clemens Salesny/Woody Schabata/ against his career prospects. trope for avant garde musicians; even not making one Raphael Preuschl/Herbert Joos— acknowledges its significance. Jekyll & Hyde (Jazzwerkstatt Records) For more information, visit motema.com. Alexander is at So 50 years (plus a couple of months) after Coltrane, n The Appel Room Mar. 2nd-3rd. See Calendar. saxophonist Travis Laplante and Gerald Cleaver, Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor aka Subtle Degrees, recorded A Dance That Empties. e Laplante, as evidenced by his own solo saxophone w • AKA Moon—Now (Outhere Music) album Heart Protector and saxophone quartet Battle • Arild Andersen—In-House Science (ECM) Trance, is far more than a firebreather and Cleaver • Anthony Braxton—Sextet (Parker) 1993 stands out as one of the most sculptural drummers r (New Braxton House) playing today. As such this is one of the more thoughtful • Satoko Fujii—Solo (Libra) entries in the canon. The density is offset by pristine e • Large Unit—Fluku (PNL) audio, rendering every detail perfectly. • Jay Leonhart—Don’t You Wish What links A Dance That Empties to Interstellar l (feat. Tomoko Ohno) (s/r) Space—and what so many have missed in the interim • Dave Liebman/Tatsuya Nakatani/ —is that both use composition, not free improvising, e Rhapsody Adam Rudolph—The Unknowable as their foundation. Laplante composed the piece, split Bobby Previte (RareNoise) a (RareNoise) by Tyran Grillo into three movements, and Cleaver then created his • —Live at Montreux 1975 drum parts. What results are cohesion and a narrative s (Eagle Rock) For the second part of his Terminals trilogy, an ongoing arc rather than formlessness and focuslessness. • Slivovitz—Liver (Moonjune) ode to transit and migration, drummer Bobby Previte Laplante begins the album unaccompanied before e • Jeff Williams—Lifelike (Whirlwind) has convened a dream group. Although featuring Cleaver joins. At the ten-minute mark, saxophone musicians often found in electr(on)ic settings, cedes the space to a malleted exploration, which s Andrey Henkin, Editorial Director

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(played by Robert Boston) is given the foreground Alongside bassist Chris Morrissey and drummer through much of “Sextet For The End Of Democracy”. Josh Dion, Live at Rockwood Music Hall NYC displays The use of violin (Jason Kao Hwang) and cello (Tomas a working unit not afraid of exploring the moment and Ulrich) adds chamber music ambience with an edge. journeying to wherever the sounds take them. The way Swell and Co. are first and foremost improvising the trio innately bounces ideas off of each other allows musicians and that’s what gives this music, even at its the melodic character of each of the eight songs to most composed, its ebb and flow. The most overtly jazz- shine brightly. derived piece is “Joy And The Remarkable Behavior Of Stemming from a Monday night residency at the Time”. After a lengthy, pointillistic introduction of the titular New York City club, Campilongo and Co’s

Music for Six Musicians (Hommage à Olivier Messiaen) material, the piece picks up steam for a round of solos. genre-bending peculiarities change nearly bar to bar. Steve Swell (Silkheart) Music for Six Musicians shows just what can be This is evident from the git-go with opener “I’m Helen by Robert Iannapollo done when ‘foreign’ materials are placed in the hands Keller and You’re a Waffle Iron”, beginning with of a musician who shares similar views regarding a swift blues riff before switching to a twitchy, Trombonist Steve Swell is regarded as one of the best expansion of his methodology. harmonic-infused pattern. trombonists to emerge in the late ‘80s but his skills as a The trio follows through with this trajectory for composer, which are formidable, tend to be overlooked. For more information, visit silkheart.se. Swell is at H0l0 much of the album, the subsequent song “Big Bill” an Combing through his discography, as far back as 2003’s Mar. 3rd and Happylucky no.1 Mar. 14th. See Calendar. early highlight showcasing Campilongo’s chicken- Suite For Players, Listeners And Other Dreamers, Swell picking Telecaster sound, Morrissey’s use of double- was looking at the total picture. So, an album inspired stops and Dion’s fluid playing. The latter’s singing on by the music of 20th century French composer Olivier the blues-saturated “Here I Am”, the sole vocal on the Messiaen shouldn’t be too surprising… but it is. Music record, is sultry, sullen and not overly sentimental. For Six Musicians is a live performance of a five-part The true standout is “Cock and Bull Story”, which suite played by an assembled group of old cohorts. features a cameo by guitarist Nels Cline, who doesn’t Messiaen is a major figure in modern European so much add counterpoint but rather an impartial music, expanding the scope of orchestral, chamber, organ thread weaving in and out of Campilongo’s sound. and piano music, bringing in original ideas regarding This is followed by “Sal’s Waltz”, a sparse, heartfelt rhythm (particularly influenced by Eastern music), avant garde ballad of sorts with touches of Americana. orchestral colors, unusual instrumentation, including The album does suffer from an overall lack of color; Live at Rockwood Music Hall NYC early electronic instruments like the ondes Martenot. Jim Campilongo Trio (Blue Hen) Campilongo’s tone is so distinguished that when aimed What Swell has derived from Messiaen may not by Eric Wendell at a different genre or style, his Telecaster-twang is just always be readily apparent to someone with a limited too hard to deny. A small price to pay for being such a knowledge of his canon yet there are moments that Signature sounds in the New York City music scene distinctive quality in the New York City jazz scene. seem to reference it overtly. The percussive flurry at are hard to come by in a scene robust with distinctive the beginning of “Vautour Fauve” is reminiscent of its acts. Guitarist Jim Campilongo stands out with a mix For more information, visit jimcampilongo.com. This project use in the Turangalila Symphonie and beautifully of abstract rock and obtuse funk, a rewarding mix on is at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 Mar. 5th and 12th and delineated by percussionist Jim Pugliese. The organ his latest release. 55Bar Mar. 11th. See Calendar.

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Wayne Kelly and bassist Ashley Turner are joined by Open at American tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander. The music is mostly hardbop with Alexander sometimes sounding a little like late ‘50s John Coltrane. 7pm! The CD begins with an obscure Duke Pearson song, “Is That So?”, swinging easily even if the melody is not that memorable. Alexander and Kelly take fine solos and Dickeson’s feature recalls . The quartet takes J. Fred Coots-Sam M. Lewis’ “For All

Hope and Knowledge We Know” at a faster-than-usual mid-tempo pace, Ron McClure Trio (McJolt) Kelly displaying some attractive chord voicings in his by Jim Motavalli solo. Ferde Grofé’s “On The Trail” is also a little hotter than one would expect, benefitting from being given a This Month! Ron McClure held the bass chair in fusion group The rhythmic figure similar to ’s famous Live! Fourth Way, which formed in 1967—predating Weather version of “Poinciana” , which featured Fournier. THU ED CHERRY TRIO 7:30PM Report by three years. McClure played electric, The chords of Richard Rodgers-Oscar 3/1 HIGH & MIGHTY BRASS BAND 10:00PM complementing Mike Nock’s Rhodes and Michael Hammerstein’s “The Surrey With The Fringe On Top” FRI KEN FOWSER QUINTET 7:30PM White’s plugged-in violin. So is the music McClure’s are modernized, making Dickeson’s rendition 3/2 MIKE SAILORS BIG BAND 10:30PM making now, 50 years later, pointing to an as-yet surprisingly dark. Jimmy Van Heusen’s lesser-known unseen electronic future? Not a bit of it; it’s an acoustic “To Love And Be Loved” has some particularly warm SAT JOHNNY O’ NEAL TRIO 7:30PM 3/3 BRUCE HARRIS 10:30PM piano trio. Not that it isn’t progressive—all the songs ballad playing from Alexander. The Gershwins’ “The are McClure’s own, with the exception of “Impromptu Man I Love”, not played all that often these days, is TUE JAZZ & COMEDY NIGHT FT. 3/6 THE BRIAN CHARETTE ORGAN TRIO 7:00PM #1 (Ethan’s Tune)” written by pianist Michael Eckroth. taken at a fast pace with fluent solos by Alexander, Almost all of it is pretty, midtempo bop. Kelly and Dickeson. Bronislaw Kaper’s “Invitation” WED PASQUALE GRASSO SOLO GUITAR 7:30PM Eckroth is a bouncy, lyrical player à la Wynton inspires some atmospheric drumming and a fiery 3/7 DJANGO 10:00PM Kelly (in whose trio McClure worked), but with some statement from the saxophonist who, on Roberto THR DAN ARAN BAND 7:30PM of McCoy Tyner’s rhythmic force. He’s dominant, as Menescal’s “Little Boat” plays his version of Coltrane’s 3/8 ELI “PAPERBOY” REED 10:00PM pianists usually are in piano trios, but that’s not the “sheets of sound” while still sounding like himself. FRI KEN FOWSER QUINTET 7:30PM full story. Pete Zimmer on drums is a find too and then Is That So? concludes with Alexander’s original 3/9 MICHAEL ARENELLA there’s the bass-on-top playing of McClure, who “Iron Man”, a no-nonsense uptempo blues with a DREAMLAND ORCHESTRA 10:30PM doesn’t grandstand but is upfront anyway: in the mix, bridge that gives the quartet an opportunity to cook SAT RAY GALLON TRIO 7:30PM as a composer and in his active support. once more, wrapping up a highly enjoyable CD. 3/10 EYAL VILNER BIG BAND FT. “New Autumn” is a standout tune with a lovely VOCALIST BRIANNA THOMAS 10:30PM melody crying out for lyrics (players contemplating For more information, visit andrewdickeson.com. Eric Alexander TUE BRAZILIAN NIGHT yet another run at “On Green Dolphin Street” should is at An Beal Bocht Café Mar. 7th with and 3/13 W/ THE QUARTET 7:30PM consider recording it instead). On the title track, Smoke Mar. 16th-18th with . See Calendar. WED PASQUALE GRASSO SOLO GUITAR 7:30PM McClure alternates lead duties with Eckroth and then 3/14 DJANGO JAM SESSION 10:00PM Zimmer moves up front over Eckroth’s comping. THR ARTHUR VINT & ASSOCIATES 7:30PM “Impromptu #1” starts out slow and dark, then settles 3/15 MARK WHITFIELD 10:00PM into some gentle swinging. “The Yes I Never Heard” features deep conversations between the players— FRI KEN FOWSER QUINTET 7:30PM 3/16 LEZLIE HARRISON 10:30PM everybody listening to one other—and McClure offers a yearningly effective solo. Here and elsewhere, he SAT NEAL CAINE QUINTET 7:30PM is really pushing the trio forward. “All Things 3/17 PROFESSOR CUNNINGHAM & HIS OLD SCHOOL 10:30PM Considered” may or may not be about the NPR show, but, like the news, it has urgency to it. “Daphne” is TUE TANGO NIGHT HOSTED BY 3/20 PEDRO GIRAUDO & FRIENDS 7:30PM another strong melody, with a building intensity. The worst thing you could say about this record is WED PASQUALE GRASSO SOLO GUITAR 7:30PM that there isn’t enough variety (“In His Name” and 3/21 DJANGO JAM SESSION 10:00PM “Pre-Pirogian Dirge” are welcome ballads) and it’s THR FREDDY DEBOE BAND 7:30PM perhaps overlong. The best thing? Listeners would be 3/22 IAN HENDRICKSON-SMITH 10:00PM hard-pressed to identify the leader in a blindfold test. March 6th FRI KEN FOWSER QUINTET 7:30PM They’re all leading and all playing together. 3/23 CHRIS NORTON 10:30PM Lou Caputo SAT PETE MALINVERNI TRIO 7:30PM For more information, visit ronmcclure.com. This project is Little Big Band 3/24 FT. VOCALIST TONY HEWITT at Mezzrow Mar. 7th. See Calendar. STEVEN FEIFKE BIG BAND 10:00PM

TUE LATIN GROOVES March 13 3/27 FT. GERARDO CONTINO 7:30PM Mike Longo and the WED PASQUALE GRASSO SOLO GUITAR 7:30PM 3/28 DJANGO JAM SESSION 10:00PM NY State of the Art THR STAFFORD HUNTER & CONTINUUM 7:30PM 3/29 THE BINKY GRIPTITE ORCHESTRA 10:00PM Jazz Ensemble FRI KEN FOWSER QUINTET 7:30PM 3/30 ITAI KRISS & TELAVANA March 27th FT. BELLY DANCER ELENA NAYIRI 10:30PM

SAT DIDA PELLED 7:30PM Is That So? Jay D’Amico Trio 3/31 “KING” SOLOMON HICKS 10:30PM Andrew Dickeson (with Eric Alexander) (s/r) by Scott Yanow The Roxy Hotel New York Baha’i Center 2 AVE. OF THE Andrew Dickeson, a drummer from Australia in his 53 E. 11th Street Reservations Information AMERICAS late 40s, has been a professional since he was 13, active (212)519.6649 Cellar Level in Sydney from 1987, spending 1991 in New York (between University Place and Broadway) THEDJANGONYC com Shows: 8:00 & 9:30 PM Tribeca studying with and Vernel Fournier, and since performing with notable jazz artists from the U.S., Gen Adm: $15 Students $10 CRAFT COCKTAILS, SMALL PLATES & LIVE JAZZ! Australia and Europe. Is That So?, which follows 2011’s 212-222-5159 , is his second recording as a leader. bahainyc.org/nyc-bahai-center/jazz-night LOCATED IN THE OF TRIBECA For this set, recorded in Sydney, Dickeson, pianist

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like “General Thunder”, a number suspended between down-home comfort music and film noir jazz. Those complex moods are common here, resulting from a combination of precision and subtlety that highlights harmonic nuance. “Wordsmith” emphasizes a certain woodland delicacy while “Revelry”, country with touches of Bach, might summon the shade of Hank Williams. The brief “Earth Science” combines that Telecaster sonority with a fractured theme that heads in

Modern Lore the direction of collective improvisation while concluding (Mack Avenue) “Pantheon” uses minimal and gentle melodic means to by Stuart Broomer develop a rare and somehow spacious grandeur. Lage succeeds in creating music that rewards a At 30, guitarist Julian Lage is already distinguished by certain close attention but one that also never demands it. his duo and quartet collaborations with Nels Cline, his work with and fellow guitarist Gyan Riley For more information, visit mackavenue.com. This project is and the journeys into early jazz that contributed so much at Le Poisson Rouge Mar. 9th. See Calendar. to Arclight, his previous Mack Avenue trio recording.

His musical associations move between easy listening and the avant garde (touching at times on the ADAM NUSSBAUM easy listening wing of the avant garde), a phenomenon that touches guitarists in particular; witness others like THE LEAD BELLY PROJECT Bill Frisell and Mary Halvorson whose fealty is to an instrument rather than a genre. with In this sense, guitarists are simply different, playing an instrument only incidental to certain jazz STEVE CARDENAS styles while tapping into its heartland legacy as the NATE RADLEY defining instrument of blues, country and rock. And Live & Uncut OHAD TALMOR that’s just what Lage does here, making his presence Mark Whitfield (Chesky) felt in beautifully articulated details while his original by Phil Freeman SSC 1500 - IN STORES NOW compositions resonate with early rock, surf and country instrumentals of the ‘50s-60s. He does it with Guitarist Mark Whitfield, bassist Ben Allison and he discovery of the music of Lead Belly was the stellar support of his trio regulars, bassist Scott drummer Billy Drummond tear through a six-song set Ttransformative for young Adam Nussbaum. The Colley and drummer/vibraphonist Kenny Wollesen. of mostly jazz standards (Edward Eliscu-- only child of artistic parents in Norwalk, , Lage favors the bubbly, treble-rich sound of a ’ “Without A Song”, Bronislaw Telecaster here and it suits the light lyricism of a theme Kaper’s “Invitation”, Ann Ronell’s “Willow Weep For Nussbaum was exposed to many recordings, from Me”, Monk’s “Jackie-Ing”) on this live album, recorded classical and folk to jazz and blues. It was the image at Rockwood Music Hall in February 2017. As with all of Huddie Ledbetter on the original Folkways 10-inch Chesky releases, Live & Uncut features binaural sound record covers that fascinated the five year old. The intended to mimic the live experience as accurately as celebrated blues and folk musician’s music seared MARK WADE TRIO possible—and so it does. The impression, on WITh itself into his ears, as it does in young listeners, headphones at least, is of sitting front and center. TIM hARRIsOn (pIAnO) informing the future drummer’s musical approach for Whitfield is heard in the left channel and Drummond years to come, most explicitly on his new recording, scOTT nEuMAnn (DRuMs) in the right, with Allison not exactly in the middle, more like an ambient presence, a steady series of The Lead Belly Project. underwater booms. The small (let’s be nice and call it lIvE AT club bOnAfIDE “intimate”) audience seems to be behind one’s head, ussbaum has had a long association with MOvIng DAy cD RElEAsE cOncERT enthusiastic but never overbearing. bassist Steve Swallow, through whom he met MARch 3RD AT 8pM N The opening number, “Without A Song”, sets a 212 E.52nD sTREET ny ny saxophonist/composer/arranger Ohad Talmor, who tone of moderate intensity; it’s a 10-minute burner that TIcKETs AvAIlAblE AT clubbOnAfIDE.cOM then became a great friend and collaborator. It was lets Whitfield fly along, letting loose rippling bursts of Talmor who suggested that Nussbaum begin a new ultra-clean fast picking. Behind him, Allison throbs project. It was for this that the drummer decided to and Drummond keeps the beat swinging without ever driving so hard that you might accidentally start revisit some of the music that inspired him early on, tapping your foot or anything. This is head-nodding specifically the music of Leadbelly. Nussbaum found jazz, the melodies simple and the solos rising that the simplicity and clarity of Leadbelly’s songs organically out of them. As things progress, though, provided many possibilities in interpretation. It was the energy level gradually rises. “Willow Weep For only a matter of finding the right voices to fill out an Me” is performed with a punchy hardbop feel, recalling ensemble. ’s version from 1964’s Our Man In Paris, though Whitfield’s bent notes and occasional bursts of or his quartet in addition to Talmor, Nussbaum reverb add a bluesy twang. Drummond swings harder on this number, brushed snare and aggressive kick Fdecided to eschew the bass and employ two “OnE Of ThE KEy bAss bouncing the track higher and higher. electric guitarists (two six stringers for Leadbelly’s plAyERs Of ThE TIMEs.” The eight-minute “Changes For Monk And Trane” single 12-string guitar) whose only requirements - JAzz In EuROpE (one of two tunes by Drummond) is one of the peak would be to be open-minded, stay out of each other’s “WhAT IT TAKEs TO moments; despite sounding like he’s playing an way and be supportive of the music. Steve Cardenas lEAD A JAzz TRIO acoustic guitar, Whitfield rips it up, swinging in a ‘30s was an obvious choice as Nussbaum had been a fan TO gREATnEss.” style, and when Drummond takes his own solo, it’s a of his playing and felt that he would be receptive and - ThE JAzz READER -esque avalanche of melodic tom work, sensitive to this melding of jazz, blues and folk. Nate speedy rolls and dancing cymbals, after which Allison slowly brings the groove loping back in. There’s Radley was a perfect foil for Cardenas and a sensitive nothing revelatory here—just three dudes swinging listener who could bring much to the music. hard for an hour. But frankly, that’s more than enough.

For more information, visit chesky.com. Whitfield is at Zinc Bar Mar. 12th, 19th and 26th with Strings Attached and The iTunes.com/AdamNussbaum MARKWADEMusIcny.cOM Django at Roxy Hotel Mar. 15th as a leader. See Calendar. www.sunnysiderecords.com

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excellent Too Many Continents (Clean Feed, 2015) with pianist Kris Davis. So it’s no surprise that the pair continue to thrive on Is Life Long?. Fraser completes the roster with two further Canadian collaborators, Rob Clutton (bass) and Andrew Downing (cello). Fraser’s six originals achieve a winning symbiosis between tightly scripted events and apparently organic unfolding frameworks. He often sets up driving riffs in overlapping voices, but then tends to play around any

Chansons du Crepuscule actual or implied time himself, using imaginative Hélène Breschand/Elliott Sharp (Public Eyesore) textures to lend an engaging off-kilter aspect to the by Mark Keresman momentum. You certainly wouldn’t know he was the leader from the amount of prominence he allots SWING BY TONIGHT Hélène Breschand is French, a Parisian, a vocalist, himself. The nearest he gets to a solo is a clattering 7:30PM & 9:30PM composer and harpist. She’s collaborated with such très undertow on the sprightly “Skeleton”. Instead, the avant mavens as David Toop and Christian Marclay and draw here is the way in which his compelling charts

musicians Zeena Parkins and Tony Hymas. Elliott Sharp is promote freewheeling interaction. MAR 1–4 charles mcpherson quintet an American, a New Yorker, guitarist, composer and That said, Malaby impresses as a fount of off-the- saxophonist. He writes songs for his blues band Terraplane cuff invention, mixing sudden yelps, feral squeals and

MAR 5 • MONDAY NIGHTS WITH WBGO and assorted classical chamber ensembles, studied under discordant overtones in a dazzling display. He new york youth symphony jazz featuring classical composer Morton Feldman and points to Howlin’ produces an astonishing hissed scream as part of the vuyo sotashe Wolf’s guitarist Hubert Sumlin as an inspiration. Chansons extemporized dialogue that ends “Disclosure”. But he du Crepuscule finds them playing tribute (though not also performs a structural role and in “Arachnid” it’s MAR 6–7 exactly reverently) to the sophisticated, somewhat Malaby’s repeated line that holds everything together denise thimes baroque-ish pop of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, until the others gradually fall in step, increasing both whose sleek, suggestive “Je t’aime…moi non plus” was the impetus and the impact. Other highlights include MAR 8–11 a massive European hit in 1969. the eerie scene-setting of “Quicksand”, which duduka da fonseca and Opener “Extase” displays Breschand’s elated incorporates both chamber elements and a nexus of featuring maucha adnet: samba jazz and whoops intertwining with Sharp’s fuzzed-out guitar turbulent propulsion from cello, bass and drums, and the music of jobim lines and what sounds like a sitar—this serves as slow-burning martial tattoo of “The Predictor”, a clarion call and perfect introduction to this vocal finishing the disc in fine style with an explosion of MAR 12 counterpart to a corridor of funhouse mirrors. The duo spiraling cries and splintered abrasions. youth orchestra with does a unique rendition of “Je t’aime”, recasting it as special guest a blues-drenched dirge; Breschand makes with For more information, visit cleanfeed-records.com. Fraser is appropriately breathy/breathless cooing before loosing at Downtown Music Gallery Mar. 18th, Bushwick Public MAR 13 some stratospheric wails while Sharp plays eerie House Mar. 19th and Korzo Mar. 20th. See Calendar. akira tana and otonowa bottleneck blues, set to a percussion loop. This song goes from seduction to apocalypse in a few (un)easy MAR 14 minutes. For a taste of the Infernal Depths, take a listen mark sherman quartet with special guest to “Goutte à Goutte”—Breschand sings wordlessly in a bruce barth husky (and impressive) range amid eerie guitar sustain and clattering, echoing, hellish soundscapes. MAR 15–18 “The Cuckoo”, presumably an ode to the bird, freddy cole quintet features a rare vocal from Sharp, his deep, velvety baritone almost a ringer for ‘60s pop craftsman Lee MAR 19–20 Hazlewood. Brittle, crackling, swirling harp and guitar brubeck brothers quintet with special carry country blues overtones and some noir-esque guest twang over a slinky, loping groove before a somewhat psychedelic guitar storm. This duo, if not apparent by MAR 21 now, likes to start with one type of ambiance and then duchess invert/subvert it. But not all the way through: on “Amor” the harp is plucked sweetly, Breschand’s voice MAR 22–24 • FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NY dorantes with adam ben ezra and special floating somewhere between coziness and lament, the mood musing and contemplative. guest tim ries The pair maintain the sultry, refined, shrewdly erotic vibe of the Gainsbourg/Berkin collaboration MAR 25 miho hazama and m_unit while moving into surreal realms as yet undreamt. For more information, visit publiceyesore.com. Sharp is at MAR 26 manhattan school of music afro-cuban Roulette Mar. 13th. See Calendar. jazz orchestra

MAR 27–28 judy carmichael quartet with special guest

MAR 29–APR 1 the diva jazz orchestra's 25th anniversary celebration and cd release party

Is Life Long? Nick Fraser (Clean Feed) JAZZ.ORG / DIZZYS by John Sharpe 212-258-9595 Canadian drummer Nick Fraser has developed quite jazz at lincoln center a partnership with saxophone ace Tony Malaby since broadway at 60th st., 5th fl. they first combined on Towns And Villages (Barnyard) by Fraser’s quartet in 2013. And it was also evident on the

24 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD Let’s Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire Cory Weeds (Cellar Live) Dreamsville Cory Weeds & Jeff Hamilton Trio (Cellar Live) by Tom Greenland

Saxophonist and impresario Cory Weeds has been a significant presence on the Vancouver jazz scene. Known especially for his 13-year run at the helm of the Cellar Jazz Club (sadly, now defunct) and as head of its namesake record label, Cellar Live (happily, alive and well and the purveyor of the two discs here), Weeds was always a hands-on caretaker, sharing the stand with many of the musicians coming through, producing a dozen recordings of his own along the way. Two recent releases show two sides of his musical talent. Let’s Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire is a collaboration with New York-based Hammond B3 specialist Mike LeDonne, a tribute to (and take-off from) the funk super-group formed in 1969, huge in the ‘70s and still active today. Weeds and LeDonne bonded on two of the former’s earlier projects, so when the latter brought drummer Jason Tiemann with him to join tenor saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, guitarist Dave Sikula and conguero Liam MacDonald in “Rain City” (Vancouver’s nickname), the session benefited from a certain pre-built, West-meets-East cohesion. Their inspiration may have been catchy funk songs but the sound owes more to hardbop and organ trio traditions, LeDonne’s agile left hand handling all bass chores, in Kryptonite lockstep with Tiemann’s urgent ride patterns. The big hits are there—“Let’s Groove”, “Devotion”, “The Way of the World”, “Shining Star”, “After the Love Is Gone” (taken from albums recorded between 1974-81)— but you probably wouldn’t recognize them in this context, which could be a result of that particular repertoire: songs that rely more on layered rhythmic grooves than on melodic-harmonic prosody for effectiveness. Weeds plays alto throughout, matched with Kaldestad on the heads, pitching it in lower register, sliding smoothly between tones, sketching his scenes in bluesy pastels. LeDonne is the group cynosure, adding the x-factor to a capable if somewhat predictable blowing session. Dreamsville partners Weeds (now exclusively on tenor) with veteran drummer Jeff Hamilton’s trio (pianist Tamir Hendelman and bassist Christoph Luty), continuing the relationship they began on 2015’s This Happy Madness, fostered by a trio of gigs just prior to the recording date. Similar to the above album, this is a highly cohesive blowing date, one in which the quartet is compatible enough to speak in a kind of musical shorthand. Here the mood is more relaxed, with a generous helping of ballads (Michael Franks’ “The Lady Wants to Know”, Henry Mancini’s “Nothing to Lose” and the title track, Anthony Newley’s tender but unsentimental “Love Is a Now and Then Thing”) alongside uptempo originals (Weeds’ “How Do You Like Them Apples”, Hendelman’s “Bennissimo”), midtempo swingers, even a bossa-rock cover of ’s “She Walks This Earth” (based on Chico César-Ivan Lins-Vitor Martins- Brenda Russell’s “Soberana Rosa”). Hamilton, master of delicate sticking and sinewy brushwork, orchestrates the dynamics, allowing Weeds’ warm, slow-boiling sounds to grin and glow. Not the sort of music to make your jaw dangle but just the thing for which you’d come to a club.

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standard equipment, the format of the sophomore Warfield and his band bring individual color to a recording by Dialectical Imagination offers considerable broad spectrum of musical expression: Wayne Shorter’s nostalgia. But what appears to be a cassette actually “The Three Marias” reflects its composer with a bouncy conceals a fold-out USB flash drive. In addition to the groove and high notes from the ; original four cuts herein, one can also download artwork. Surely “A Little Circus Music” is a non-stop dance and features a novel approach, but how about the music? that same kind of force from tenor saxophonist Rich The duo of pianist Eli Wallace and drummer Rob Perry; and Charles Mingus’ “Goodbye Porkpie Hat” Pumpelly is born of the time-honored tradition of free has a bittersweet feel via Warfield’s muted trumpet and jazz. The pair offer well-performed, expressionistic brilliant arrangement, with which, apparently, Soloff

After The Fall selections dubbed “ecstatic music”, though it’s unclear was quite taken. As he might well be by all these fine Keith Jarrett//Jack DeJohnette (ECM) how this differs from “fire music”, “The New Thing” or performances by this dynamic big band. by Robert Bush free improvisation itself. Much of the selections are, frankly, almost interchangeable, recalling the For more information, visit planetarts.org. This project is at For more than 30 years, Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary thunderously free pianistic sounds coined by Cecil Zinc Bar Mar. 24th. See Calendar. Peacock (bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums) operated Taylor well before the days of cassettes. “Autopoetica”, as one of the finest piano trios in modern history, with “Hatchling” and “Strength and Presence” (the last a slew of touchstone recordings since their official coming in at nearly 14 minutes before slowly fading out) inception in 1983 (after Peacock’s 1977 ECM album are branded by the burning intensity so characteristic of PRISM QUARTET Tales Of Another). Sadly, the trio stopped performing in this music: rapid-fire runs up and down the keyboard at 2015, but ECM may just be sitting on a treasure trove of presto; smashing two-handed chord crunches; and wITh unreleased material that could sustain the listening percussive attacks in concert with perpetual-motion audience for years to come, if the notoriously hard-to- drumming. In such excursions there isn’t room for DAvE LIEbMAn please Jarrett consents to their unveiling. This session breath, let alone atmosphere, so it’s hard to hear the comes from a 1998 concert (most of the Standards Trio unique ecstasy within. More so, in the frenzy, one RUDRESh MAhAnThAPPA discography, aside from the first three studio records wonders how dialectics can possibly feature into this. and the 1993 offering Bye Bye Blackbird, is concert Only “Autopoetica II” stands out, as it includes a variety recordings), when Jarrett emerged from a serious bout of motifs and a harmonic structure framed by pedal MIgUEL ZEnón with chronic-fatigue-syndrome, an ailment that tones, albeit with no loss of liberty. And as the piece sidelined him for several years. comes down in dynamics, it also increases the sense of TIM RIES He decided on a bebop-centric program for this beauty from which unfortunately avant gardists comeback performance and the results are typically sometimes will run. Wallace and Pumpelly, who hail MARch 22nD, 7 PM $8-23 exhilarating. The first disc opens with Jarrett alone, from the Bay Area but have apparently moved to New SyMPhony SPAcE contemplating Allie Wrubel-Herb Magidson’s pensive York as of late, are fine musicians with much to add to 2537 bRoADwAy AT 95Th STREET “The Masquerade is Over”, injecting each phrase with Brooklyn’s own ‘downtown’. Their vision, however, maximum humanity until his partners join him at the would be better served by an embrace of the full midpoint, whereupon a glorious groove emerges—the spectrum of sounds born of jazz’ liberation. PRISMQUARTET.coM detail and punch of DeJohnette’s brushes propel the piece into a higher dimension. The full band hits from For more information, visit atmanadi.com. Eli Wallace is at bar 1 on Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple From the Apple”, Bushwick Public House Mar. 12th, St. Lydia’s Mar. 22nd swinging like there’s no tomorrow, but Joseph Kosma- and Pete’s Candy Store Mar. 30th. See Calendar. Jacques Prevert-Johnny Mercer’s “Autumn Leaves” ratchets up the excitement quotient exponentially. The inevitable vamp-out finds the drummer activating thunderous percussion in trademark fashion. Disc 2 opens with the unfettered rhythmic and melodic joy of Bud Powell’s “Bouncin’ with Bud” and Jarrett manages to populate every square inch with wicked strands of knotted melody. Everyone attacks the classic “Doxy” with languid swagger, eager to tear the meat off the bones. Peacock indulges in a wonderfully dark low-end moment, delivering his For Lew most satisfying solo on the date. Crisp ride cymbal Bill Warfield Big Band (Planet Arts) pings propel and illuminate the path for a blistering by Donald Elfman reading of John Coltrane’s “Moment’s Notice”, allowing Jarrett to glide over the minefield of tricky This extraordinary compilation of recordings made modulations with characteristic effusive power. between 1990-2014 documents the continued vitality of One can only hope that there are still more live the big band format, especially when populated by sessions like this in the vaults at ECM. exceptional players and led by an artist of broad vision. It takes on special poignancy as trumpeter Bill Warfield For more information, visit ecmrecords.com dedicates it “to the memory of my mentor, colleague, friend and inspiration, Lew Soloff” (who passed away

three years ago this month). For Lew also includes two unreleased tracks from those earlier recordings and four tunes featuring Soloff in the trumpet section; in one case he’s the featured soloist. Standard “Old Devil Moon” is an unreleased track from 1997 and a powerful and vibrant opener. The band, buoyed by guitarist and the trumpets, swings definitively, with bracing solos by alto saxophonist Andy Fusco and pianist Joel Weiskopf. From the same album and also unreleased comes John The Angel and the Brute Sing Songs of Wrath Dialectical Imagination (Atmanadi) Coltrane’s “Some Other Blues”, a dazzling showpiece by John Pietaro for the orchestra in beautifully frenzied mode. is the passionate tenor soloist and is followed Downtown aficionados of the analog DIY age may in equal measures of intensity by the leader himself. recall Generator, an East Village music shop specializing Bassist Jeff Fuller wrote and arranged “Salsa En Mi in underground cassette tape releases. What with the Alma”, a lovely Latin dance number with flute and development of digital technology and the internet as piccolo and a beautiful, imaginative solo by Soloff.

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saxophonist’s trips to perform in Europe. The entire propulsive energies that inspired it. Influences range date is devoted mostly to the leaders’ strong originals from Indian classical music to mathematical properties and the quartet devours them all. (the piece is, after all, dedicated to his father, a UCLA Winther proves to be a capable partner for the professor of engineering), bringing solid returns on his usually hard-blowing saxophonist, though he also is emotional investments. There’s a backwater charm able to bring out some of Bergonzi’s lyrical side. lurking within and a feeling of memory tying it all Winther’s “Talisman” takes a little time to simmer as together. Violist Benjamin von Gutzeit’s “Propeller” is the co-leaders play a tantalizing unison line, something of a sister piece, as it deals equally with showcasing Bergonzi’s boisterous, inventive mechanisms in motion, if on a more intimate scale. Its

More Powerful improvising and Winther’s superb postbop chops. balance of curves and straights is emblematic of what George Colligan (Whirlwind) “Requiem For JW” is a heartfelt tribute to Winther’s this quartet is capable of at its finest. by Matthew Kassel father, a moving elegy opening with searching, unaccompanied horn before the piece transforms into a For more information, visit azica.com. This project is at The “Whiffle Ball”, the first track on More Powerful, is more sauntering samba powered by Bergonzi’s anguished Cutting Room Mar. 9th. See Calendar. powerful than its title suggests. It’s a force right out of the tone. The pianist’s breezy “KMA” is perfect fodder for gate, with a brisk, stop-time introduction lasting only the energetic flights of Bergonzi, who contributed the about 30 seconds, until George Colligan takes over with a bluesy “Bar None”, which conjures the feeling of lost splashy solo, setting the mood for most of the record. love through his keening sound. Mogensen penned the This is Colligan’s 28th album as a leader, a lot for any equally mournful “Wheel of Fortune”, which features recording musician. But for a 48-year-old jazz pianist— a sparse piano solo and emotional saxophone outburst, and occasional drummer and trumpeter—it’s kind of supported beautifully by the rhythm section. Winther’s ungodly. To his credit, Colligan isn’t a conceptualist. miniature “Long Gone” is just as intense, piano coming What he is is a workhorse, who is always writing new in waves behind saxophone, conveying a sense of songs and moving forward. He knows how to lead a loneliness amid turmoil, fueled by darting bass and recording session without being glib or commandeering. sparse percussion. Winther’s robust “Golem” finishes He is accompanied by drummer Rudy Royston, the session with a flourish, highlighted by its playful, a longtime collaborator, bassist Linda May Han Oh twisting theme. With the strong chemistry throughout and saxophonist Nicole Glover, a former student of this record date, it is a safe bet that Winther, Bergonzi Colligan from Portland State University. They run and company will cross paths again in the near future. through these finely constructed postbop compositions, all of which were written by the leader, with aplomb. For more information, visit steeplechase.dk. Bergonzi is at Though this is a Colligan production through and Jazz at Kitano Mar. 10th. See Calendar. through, his bandmates aren’t relegated to the background: Royston holds the group together with fleet-fingered power; Oh takes several lovely solos, her sound woody and distinct; Glover’s guttural braying on soprano and tenor often evokes Coltrane. Colligan is at his best when he’s working his way through a fast-paced, straightahead swing rhythm though there are moments that give the listener a subtler sense of his sound and style. For instance, on the second track, “Waterfall Dreams”, Colligan plays a series of liquid chords that in many ways recall Keith Bird’s Eye View Jarrett’s open-hearted approach. As the album nears its Turtle Island Quartet (Azica) end, there are more opportunities to hear this side of by Tyran Grillo Colligan. The record gets slower, darker and a little more rhythmically free as it reaches its end. The Turtle Island Quartet presents a new program “Southwestern Silence” and “Empty”, for example, are centered on the spirit of Charlie Parker. Although only particularly contemplative and even occasionally one of his tunes is included, these four impeccable spooky. But they are no less powerful because of that. musicians share Bird’s penchant for expanding parameters and the results of their alchemy are just as For more information, visit whirlwindrecordings.com. golden. Like the other jazzy ingots herein—namely, Colligan is at Smoke Mar. 29th. See Calendar. “Subconscious-Lee” () and “Miles Ahead” (Miles Davis)—“Dewey Square” makes artful use of

extended techniques. Violinist/founder David Balakrishnan employs scratch tones for a delightfully percussive effect while cellist Malcolm Parson (who, along with violinist Alex Hargreaves, is new to the group) plays the role of bassist via robust pizzicato. The in-house arrangements alone boast of interdisciplinary genius at play, allowing for plenty of improvisation to show the quartet’s combinatory properties. The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Django” gets a welcome spin and in its central section evokes the Inner Journey fluidity of Stéphane Grappelli, whom Balakrishnan Carl Winther/Jerry Bergonzi (SteepleChase Lookout) by Ken Dryden calls a “patron saint” of the quartet. Yet Balakrishnan’s own compositions are the support beams of this Carl Winther, a talented young pianist, is one of the soundly engineered structure. They sometimes reveal many European musicians who record regularly on the an underlying quirkiness, as in his “Rebirth of the continent yet only sporadically get the opportunity to Holy Fool”, which puns on Davis’ Birth of the Cool, and play in the U.S. This son of late Danish trumpeter Jens “Squawk”, taking its inspiration from a mysterious Winther is well on the way to making a name for incident in 2011 when the town of Beebe, Arkansas himself, having won several awards in Europe. This awoke on New Year’s Day to find that 5,000 dead studio session pairs him with veteran tenor saxophonist blackbirds had fallen from the sky. The composer Jerry Bergonzi, supported by bassist Johnny Åman and navigates these images with delicate rigor. His drummer Anders Mogensen. The foursome are hardly “Aeroelasticity: Harmonies of Impermanence”, strangers, having recorded earlier dates for Savant and however, is the album’s centerpiece. A multivalent Stunt and have also shared the stage during the suite in four movements, it hums with the very

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meth-addled. Punk exuberance is doused by Its third album, All Can Work, operates on several Necrophagist-level precision. Without the chunkiness levels. Many of the compositions were written in of Stadhouders, Almeida and especially Moser, the homage to recently departed close friends: trumpeter horns’ whimsy would come across as too diffuse; the Laurie Frink, a Large Ensemble mainstay whose loss key to the band is that juxtaposition, as the urge to tap was deeply felt; trombonist , a mentor; one’s foot is upended by said foot being blown off by trumpeter . The most affecting piece is a shriek from a saxophone or trumpet death ray. the title track. Hollenbeck collected his emails from The band’s first album was called Hipsters Gone Frink and fashioned a fragmented text expressive of Ballistic and certainly this would be dubbed hipster her personality, sung by frequent Hollenbeck

Amphibian Ardour jazz in the States. That, however, would imply a lack of collaborator Theo Bleckmann. He gives the lyrics the Spinifex (Trytone) seriousness, a transience of purpose. Like those mighty right mix of humor and pathos without over- by Andrey Henkin perennial coastal plants in the grass family, Spinifex is emphasizing either. The words are couched in warm firmly rooted. brass/reed voicings and, at over ten minutes, present Spinifex is everything the European Union is not. Fun. a firm idea of Frink and her relation to the ensemble. Effective. Collaborative. This group of musicians from For more information, visit trytone.org. Dikeman and An uncharacteristic version of ’s Portugal, and has been around Stadhouders are at H0l0 Mar. 3rd. See Calendar. “Isfahan”, stemming from a commission from 2015, the since 2005 in various forms, built around the core of composer’s centennial year, appears under its original Tobias Klein (alto saxophone), Gonçalo Almeida (bass title “Elf” in a much livelier, less rapturous take than guitar), Philipp Moser (drums) and Jasper Stadhouders the original. Tony Malaby’s soprano saxophone is (guitar) and not-so-quietly inhabiting a wonderful given free rein and he delivers one of his best recorded plane of European jazz absurdity. According to solos on the instrument. Wikipedia, Spinifex is a genus of perennial coastal One of Hollenbeck’s strongest assets is knowing plants in the grass family. This is purely a fact for his players and how to write for them. “From trees” cocktail parties. stems from the influence of painter Piet Mondrian. There are two key additions to this, the group’s The opening gauzy orchestral textures are a perfect fourth album. Gijs Levelt has been replaced on trumpet analog to his earlier canvases, which were a major step by Belgian Bart Maris, adding some veteran swagger, toward pure abstraction. The dialogue between Malaby and Spinifex has opened its borders to tenor saxophonist All Can Work (tenor), Jacob Garchik (trombone) and Dave Ballou John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble (New Amsterdam) John Dikeman, a musical refugee born in Wyoming and (trumpet) keeps the music texturally loose for the first by Robert Iannapollo living in Holland. Dikeman and Stadhouders are two- part of the piece. The album ends with a rousing thirds of Cactus Truck and some of that bombast is Drummer John Hollenbeck helms several groups that version of Kraftwerk’s “The Model” and it takes the present here. The latter is also a key collaborator of Ken have made their mark on the current jazz scene. His album out on a positive note, which seems appropriate. Vandermark, whose Vandermark 5 is a loose forebear. most famous, The Claudia Quintet, actually has had a Apart from a raga (“Revathi Tillana”) and Sufi modicum of commercial success, not easy to do when For more information, visit newamrecords.com. Hollenbeck chant (“Zikr”), the tunes are mostly by Klein (Almeida working in the field of creative music. The John is at Miller Theatre Mar. 24th with Claudia Quintet. See contributing a pair), sometimes funky, other times Hollenbeck Large Ensemble is his flagship group. Calendar.

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Cuba has given us great jazz figures, from bandleader Chico O’Farrill and percussionist/ collaborator Chano Pozo to the band Irakere and its horn players such as Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo Sandoval. It has also produced a rich vein of AfroCuban jazz pianists, from patriarch Chucho Valdés to the co-leader of these two albums: 50-something Omar Sosa, who also plays electric keyboards, mallet instruments and percussion. He is an endlessly questing musician who has collaborated with musicians from all over the world. And while he is rooted in Latin and/or AfroCuban jazz, his style is elastically malleable, able to embrace a wide swath of jazz and world music styles. On the first of these albums, he and a German big band create a more-than-believable version of an AfroCuban jazz orchestra that could as well be headquartered in Havana as in its actual base of . On the other he collaborates with a legendary West African musician/singer, adding, on select tracks, musicians playing their cultures’ native percussion, wind and string instruments from Africa, Asia and South America. Except for Gustavo Ovalles, a France-based percussionist from Venezuela, and Sosa, es:sensual is an album by a German radio network’s in-house jazz orchestra, the NDR Big Band. Conductor took Sosa’s works from earlier albums and arranged them for big band in tribute to the styles and with the inspiration of past and present noteworthy Cuban musicians. Sosa is the beating heart of this music, joyously riding the clavé and montuño rhythms in high-spirited fashion, completely aligned with the stellar tradition of rhythmically charged, percussive Cuban piano. But he is far from the only prominent soloist. Memorable leads (uncredited in the notes) abound. Robust trombones stand out, especially on the brash open horn solo on first track “Cha Cha Du Nord” and the variety of slippery horn solos on “Glu-Glu”, including open horn, wah-wah and tightly muted. The reed section boasts contrasting tenor saxophone styles, from avant skittering to lush -ian crooning and convincing flute, piccolo and clarinet leads mimic the favored instruments of AfroLatin bands. Morelenbaum’s charts are often complex, even convoluted, yet always propulsive, attacked with verve and fervor by this splendid big band. Although “sensual” isn’t in the title of Transparent Water, the music of West Africa, particularly Seckou Keita’s native Senegal, is lushly sensual. Keita is the lodestar on the album, as Sosa sublimates his rhythmic exuberance and extroverted style to the languorous flow of Keita’s playing and singing. This is music that floats, individual tracks blending and melding into one another; solos, mostly from Sosa on piano and keyboards and Keita on (the stringed) kora, wafting in and out of the aural soundscape. Yet there are only two duos among the 13 tracks: “In The Forest” begins with kora and electronic keyboard sounds before acoustic piano solos over the top and is joined by kora in a suave duet. Keita’s voice is multi-tracked, and he overdubs percussion on the kora and piano duet “Fatiliku”. It is music that insinuates rather than asserts, best taken as a whole.

For more information, visit omarsosa.com/ota.php. Sosa’s Transparent Water is at Roulette Mar. 22nd. See Calendar.

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The Songbook My Foolish Heart (Rhythm and Blues) Ralph Towner (ECM) by Scott Yanow by Robert Bush

Harry South, who died 28 years ago this month, is not Ralph Towner has carved out a singular niche in modern a name one comes across too often. The composer- music over the last 50 years, eschewing the electric pianist was a major force in Great Britain’s modern jazz instrument in favor of chamber music on classical guitar scene of the ‘60s when he led a significant big band. and acoustic 12-string, either through solo performance A fine bop-based pianist who worked with such or in collaboration with key partners like Paul Winter, top-notch London-based jazz musicians during 1954-60 Gary Peacock, Jan Garbarek and John Abercrombie. as tenor saxophonist , trumpeters Dizzy My Foolish Heart, the 78-year-old guitarist’s latest effort Reece and , alto saxophonist Joe on ECM, finds him in prime condition and ready to Harriott, clarinetist/tenor saxophonist and deliver a crowning achievement. The album was drummer , South’s playing abilities were recorded in an empty concert hall and ECM’s fastidious soon dwarfed by his writing. He put together an allstar dedication to sonic clarity is well served here, as one can big band in 1960 that included such major names as revel in every intimate gesture the master conjures. Hayes, Deuchar, Harriott, tenor saxophonist Ronnie Things begin strongly with “Pilgrim”, where the Scott, baritone saxophonist Ronnie Ross and pianist mixture of precise finger-style plucking and exquisite Terry Shannon. South spent much of 1962 working and balance in all registers makes even the squeaks of flesh playing in India with saxophonist , on string sound hyper musical. “I’ll Sing To You” blends returned to England and reconvened his orchestra, an intoxicating mélange of layered chords and single- with many of the same players from his 1960 outfit. His note motifs, which ring in the air and linger in the ear; 1966 Mercury LP Presenting The Harry South Big Band one can hear the pianist and trumpeter in Towner’s created a minor stir and showed that his writing had background quite clearly. The title track references Bill continued to move up with the times on par with Evans, by way of Lenny Breau and perhaps Andrés Americans like Gerald Wilson, Oliver Nelson and Segovia, and “Dolomiti Dance” sends each finger . But although his big band was together dancing in a lush orchestral presentation. Towner’s until 1975, there were no further albums. South, who 12-string guitar really sings on “Clarion Call”, a master worked as ’s musical director and on his class in harmonics, selective muting, double-stops and album, became busy as an arranger- an incredible ringing sustain. Some of the most composer for TV and films, the theme for British compelling cuts, including “Two Poets” and “Shard”, detective series The Sweeney easily his most famous are over in a flash, but each piece represents a complete work. He reemerged in the jazz world in the late ‘80s and distinctive idea. Especially striking is the penultimate shortly before his death from a brain tumor at 60. track, “Blue As In Bley”, a dedication to , where The four-CD set The Songbook is the definitive one can indulge in the incongruous delight of Towner Harry South release. All 63 selections are South’s ‘laying it down’ on nylon-string guitar—conjuring up a compositions and programmed roughly in weird juxtaposition of the baroque and the barrelhouse. chronological order. South is heard as a boppish Closer “Rewind” celebrates three-and-a-half pianist-composer with Hayes, Harriott and Morrisey minutes of unbridled joy as classical guitar races from and his songs are also interpreted by bands led by basso continuo to biting 9th chords in the upper register, Ross, drummer Basil Kirchin, trumpeter Humphrey all unified by a brilliant architecture. One does not need Lyttelton, pianist Roy Budd and guitarist Terry Smith, to be a fan of Towner or the solo guitar album concept in plus one number sung by . general to be won over by the music on My Foolish Heart. The bulk of this package features South’s big band. Four of the eight pieces that were on his Mercury For more information, visit ecmrecords.com. Towner is at album (the other four are standards) are here along Roulette Mar. 26th as part of a John Abercrombie tribute. with mostly previously unreleased performances from See Calendar. 1964-75, greatly increasing his discography. One can hear the evolution in South’s writing from bebop to hardbop, , pieces that hint at the avant garde and music open to the influences of rock and funk. His band followed a similar path as that of and while still retaining its roots in swinging jazz. In addition to the musicians already mentioned, South welcomed such soloists as trumpeters Kenny Wheeler and Ian Carr, tenor saxophonist Alan Skidmore, pianist Gordon Beck and drummer to his orchestra, sometimes utilizing electric keyboards. After stopping in 1975 when South largely left jazz, The Songbook concludes with two swinging songs from 1990 performed by the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, an ensemble for whom South wrote in his last years. LOU CAPUTO NOT SO BIG BAND MArCh 6Th - BAhA’I CeNTer Outfitted with an informative 36-page booklet, The APrIL 25Th - SAINT PeTer’S Songbook makes a strong case for South’s musical MAy 14Th - SIr D’S contributions to jazz. Lovers of modern big band jazz “TrIeD AND TrUe SwINGerS, They CAN TAke yOU ArOUND The BLOCk will find much to discover in this well-conceived set. wITh A BUNCh Of STOPS IN BeTweeN, ALL Of whICh Are PLAyeD TO PerfeCTION ThrOUGhOUT.” -MIDweST reCOrD

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of over 20 albums for various European labels. This Brandt has a few solo spots during the hour-long German release, recorded in the U.S., features an set but is more prominent for his composing. 10 of the outstanding international cast from the U.S. (pianist 13 tracks are his pieces (the others are Vincent Youmans’ Bill Cunliffe, pianist/organ player Gary Versace, reed “Tea for Two” and a pair by Dutch film composer Jerry player Scott Robinson and drummer Matt Wilson), van Rooyen, brother to Ack), including the six-part, Canada (trumpeter Ingrid Jensen), Israel (clarinetist 26-minute “Ferrien Suite”. If your CD wasn’t labeled, Anat Cohen) and Brazil (drummer Duduka Da Fonseca the music could easily be mistaken for hip American and vocalist Maucha Adnet), interpreting ten of Wind’s jazz of the period, sharing much with the music of the originals. Although Wind has plenty of bass chops to aforementioned Nelson and executed with the precision

Spaceships Over Africa share, his primary focus is on his musicians, though he expected from German radio band players. The suite, Ra Kalam /Bukky Leo (Ra-Kalam) does take the spotlight from time to time. however, distinguishes its composer and his band with by John Pietaro Organ adds to the funky atmosphere of “While I’m movements of sprightly shuffle and featured flute. Still Here” (a very transparent reworking of the A thicket of clouds ominously close out the sky and standard “Sweet Georgia Brown”), also featuring Wind For more information, visit sonorama.de burst in a barrage of rolling thunder on “Cosmic Soul and Robinson’s surprisingly soulful tenor saxophone. Spirits”, opening Spaceships Over Africa. Drummer Bob The upbeat “Ten Minute Song” (literally written in that Moses’ trademark triple-time, varied sticking phrases time frame) showcases Robinson on the infrequently around an expansive drumkit are on full display. Ever heard bass saxophone, with inspired soloing from so slowly, the piece works its way to midtempo jazz, Versace (piano), Jensen and Cohen. “February” is a concurrently singing praise and crying out of gorgeous melancholy ballad with richly textured loneliness. The piece and so much of what comprises interplay, featuring fiery trumpet. the rest of this album, speaks to the career of Ra Kalam For the second half of the CD, Da Fonseca and Bob Moses. His early work with Cunliffe take over on drums and piano. The heartfelt (when Moses was still in high school) was followed by tribute “A Genius and a Saint” is a waltz saluting the gigs with , , Jack DeJohnette late bassist Bob Bowen, utilizing both Cohen and and Dave Liebman at the dawn of fusion. Moses Robinson on clarinet in a call-and-response pattern but became a band leader in the ‘70s and embarked on a with overlapping lines, lush piano adding the perfect visceral study of music and spirituality that has served seasoning. “Seven Steps to Rio” is an engaging samba him well. He has released some historic works in these adding Adnet, Da Fonseca nearly stealing the show decades and surely this latest on his own label, with his drum break. Wind switches to playing arco recorded six years ago this month, is among them. bass for the haunting ballad “Sad Story”; Adnet Leo Olubukola Afolabi, better known as Bukky composed its Portuguese lyric, which beautifully Leo, is an tenor saxophonist of note and the conveys the song’s sense of loss, with Cohen’s full breadth of his artistry is made clear from track one. expressive clarinet serving as a bridge before the He seems to call on the spirit of John Coltrane, most vocalist returns with Lice Cecato’s English lyric. It’s evident in the first track as well as the following “How hard not to become caught up in Wind’s infectious Light Dances”. Leo’s lilting, broad instrumental voice, bossa nova “De Norte A Sul”, highlighted by sensuous however, moves into a decidedly Ayler-esque place as vocals and captivating piano. the album progresses, with a reed sounding as indelible as sand-laden beech wood. This Janus-like alternation For more information, visit laika-records.com. This project Academy Records is most befitting as the music shifts around him. The is at Jazz at Kitano Mar. 30th-31st. See Calendar. collaborative nature of this pairing is overt; each has a page of liner notes to personalize the relationship. & CDs The album contains nine selections as intriguing as they are brief and on three tracks guests add new layers to this duo, which begins where the Coltrane/ Rashied Ali pairing left off. Bassist Don Pate, a frequent Moses collaborator, is present on two tracks and adds a Cash for new and used sonic woodiness quite reminiscent of the late Johnny Dyani. His lines would have been welcome throughout compact discs,vinyl the disc. Vivek Patel’s trumpet opens and closes the records, blu-rays and album but is most effectively heard on “Joyous Spree Coast Jazz (Berlin 1963) Gathering”, the centerpiece, which also includes alto Helmut Brandt Orchestra (Sonorama) dvds. saxophonist Kritavi Jim Warshauer. The full quintet, by Andrey Henkin only present here, is most compelling and Moses would be robbing listeners of a brilliant band if he On Mar. 27th, 1963, the Academic Senate of Freie doesn’t record a full album of this joyful noise. Universität Berlin unanimously passed a resolution We buy and sell all naming then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy an For more information, visit nativepulse.com/ honorary member of the university and inviting him to genres of music. Ra-KalamRecords.html speak on his forthcoming trip, during which he would All sizes of collections give his famed “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, a defiant

moment in the Cold War. Some seven kilometers north, welcome. German baritone saxophonist and bandleader Helmut Brandt, active from the mid ‘50s until his death in 2001, was making his own international statement, recording a jazz orchestra featuring American players. Over 50 For large collections, years later, that music is finally heard on this release. Those Americans were West Coast alto saxophonist please call to set up an star , bebop trumpeter and appointment. /Francy Boland Big Band trombone stalwart , joining members of the RIAS and Light Blue SFB radio orchestras in Harry Samp and Ack van Martin Wind (Laika) by Ken Dryden Rooyen (trumpets), Stefan Von Dobrzynski (tenor saxophone and flute), Siegfried Schmidt (valve Open 7 days a week 11-7 Bassist Martin Wind has long been in demand as a trombone), Günter Meier (piano), Hajo Lange (bass) sideman, having made many recordings with artists and Heinz Niemeyer (drums); a variation of this band 12 W. 18th Street NY, NY 10011 like Bill Mays, , Dena DeRose and others. would record Oliver Nelson’s Berlin Dialogue For 212-242-3000 The German native has also been the leader or co-leader Orchestra in 1971.

THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | MARCH 2018 31 letting them go. It’s fun. It’s energy and passion.” in 2000 and originally released by Ayler Records in BOXED SET This music is completely improvised, but not a 2006), they explore different combinations: “Duo” freak-out. It has a vibrant, simmering energy. The consists of saxophone and bass and “The Other Duo” trio is not in a terrible hurry to get somewhere; is saxophone and drums. These combinations lead to they’re enthusiastic about being here, which a greater range of outcomes. produces a current and they discover a lot of places The sense of space significantly affects how this along the way. That is largely what this music is music is perceived. The first disc sounds like it is in a about: searching with sound and feeling and making large, open space, perhaps outdoors, while Disc 2, decisions in real time. Like traditional jazz, this is a from a smaller club, is a little more immediate and cooperative effort and listeners are encouraged to go intense. Discs 3 and 4 are studio recordings (the latter along for the ride. They arrive at some truly recorded in 2006 and released as On Reade Street by compelling and enveloping themes, creating a FMR in 2008) and listeners can feel the loss of the live With Hamid Drake and William Parker setting where they can be free. audience. The music still has vitality and drive, but Frode Gjerstad (Not Two) The first two discs consist of the live albums the studio sessions after the live dates highlight how by Anders Griffen Ultima and Remember To Forget, which were recorded an audience is part of an exchange in performance. on consecutive days, October 7th and 8th, on tour in Parker and Drake have broad musical palettes This four-CD set is a complete and chronological in 1997. The former gets its name from the from which to draw. The former makes occasional compilation of Norwegian saxophonist Frode contemporary music festival in Oslo where this use of an ostinato, which sometimes yields fantastic Gjerstad’s previously released recordings in trio performance took place. On the original Cadence CD results, and the pair can hit some hard grooves. with bassist William Parker and percussionist Hamid released in 1999, Ultima was a single track, 58:33 in Parker also gets a great range of timbre and between Drake. Gjerstad, a prolific artist since the late ‘70s, length. On this set, it is divided into four parts, but he and Gjerstad there are moments where it is not will turn 70 years old on Mar. 24th and has performed the music is continuous. Remember To Forget, immediately apparent who is producing a sound. with heavyweights of improvised music such as recorded at Café Sting in Stavanger, gets a similar Gjerstad plays alto saxophone almost throughout Bobby Bradford, Alvin Fielder, Louis Moholo, Derek treatment: originally released as two pieces, (we hear clarinet on Disc 4) and while comparisons Bailey, Billy Bang, Peter Brötzmann, Borah Bergman “Remember” and “Forget”, these have now been to Ornette Coleman or Jimmy Lyons may be and , among many others. divided into three parts each. inevitable, Gjerstad is a different player with his However, he may be best known for his band On both discs the track number usually changes own voice and his own journey. Because this set Detail with British drummer John Stevens and after or during a bass or drum solo, the next track compiles the work of this trio over the course of bassist Johnny Mbizo Dyani until the latter’s tending to start as the trio reassembles, but almost nine years, listeners can start to recognize untimely death in 1986. “For me this trio is the sometimes the new ‘part’ seems to come at an that voice and understand part of the journey. This is present day Detail,” Gjerstad said of this group with arbitrary time. On the first two discs Parker and a nice package with illuminating notes from the Parker and Drake in an interview with Vittorio Drake take unaccompanied solos and spend time as leader and highly engaging music. LoConte. “The basic thing we did in Detail is still a duo, whereas Gjerstad only plays in a trio setting. with us in the new trio: playing with rhythms, This is addressed on the third disc, which took place For more information, visit nottwo.com. William Parker turning them around, crossing over them and just almost three years later. On The Other Side (recorded and Hamid Drake are at Roulette Mar. 13th. See Calendar.

32 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD MISCELLANY ON THIS DAY by Andrey Henkin

Plenty for Kenny UK Live 1967 Live at The Plough Daybreak Commandment Kenny Clarke/Ernie Wilkins (Savoy) (Jazzhus Disk) John Stevens (Ayler) Dave Burrell/David Murray (Gazell) Billy Bang (No More) March 30th, 1955 March 30th, 1967 March 30th, 1979 March 30th, 1989 March 30th, 1997 Drummer Kenny Clarke and alto/ Pat Smythe was a Scottish pianist When this album was released in Pianist Dave Burrell (b. 1940) and Subtitled For The Sculpture of Alain tenor saxophonist Ernie Wilkins whose discography was mostly made 2003, 24 years after it was recorded at saxophonist David Murray (b. 1955) Kirili, this was recorded in the NYC would both become expatriates in up of sessions by saxophonist Joe the London club, it was the latest never recorded together in the period loft (and surrounded by his work) of Europe, though decades apart. While Harriott and trumpeter extant recording of late alto of 1975-86 when the latter was first the French artist, who has a long still U.S.-based, they collaborated though he worked with British and saxophonist Mike Osborne (Force of active. But after Burrell was part of history of collaborating with avant several times in the mid ‘50s in visiting American musicians in a Nature, Reel Recordings, 2008, would Murray’s octet for 1987’s Hope Scope garde musicians like Cecil Taylor and various formats for Savoy. This career ending with his 1983 death. include live Osborne material from (Black Saint), it resulted in a large Steve Lacy, several instances being particular instance is a septet This session from Nottingham, 1980-81). Though nearly the same age number of albums through 1993. This released, like this with late violinist completed by (baritone released 45 years after it was recorded, and both seminal figures in British duet session comes in the middle of Billy Bang. This is his second of two saxophone), George Barrow (tenor becomes his only album as a leader jazz, Osborne and drummer John that period and while it is Burrell’s solo albums after 1979’s Distinction and baritone saxophone), from the era. Bassist Stevens rarely worked together and name first and his picture on the Without A Difference (hatHut), Bang (trombone), Hank Jones (piano) and and drummer Tony Crombie join him this is the only small-group iteration, cover, this is a truly collaborative playing “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”, (bass) playing for this two-volume set, saxophonists a trio completed by younger bassist project, both Burrell and Murray (who originals, including the title piece tunes by Wilkins, Charlie Parker and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Harold Paul Rogers, playing Osborne also plays bass clarinet) contributing named for the sculpture, and music session producer Ozzie Cadena. McNair appearing as guests. originals and jazz standards. tunes to the proceedings. by Sun Ra and Butch Morris. BIRTHDAYS March 1 March 6 March 11 March 16 March 22 March 27 †Glenn Miller 1904-44 †Red Callender 1916-92 †Miff Mole 1898-1961 †Ruby Braff 1927-2003 †Fred Anderson 1929-2010 † 1906-69 †Teddy Powell 1906-1993 †Howard McGhee 1918-87 † 1919-96 † 1930-2001 John Houston b.1933 † 1909-73 † 1930-2010 †Wes Montgomery 1925-68 †Ike Carpenter 1920-98 Keith Rowe b.1940 †Masahiko Togashi 1940-2007 †Sarah Vaughan 1924-90 Gene Perla b.1940 †Ronnie Boykins 1935-80 †Billy Mitchell 1926-2001 John Lindberg b.1959 George Benson b.1943 † 1925-2003 Ralph Towner b.1940 Charles Tolliver b.1940 †Leroy Jenkins 1932-2007 Woody Witt b.1969 †Bill Barron 1927-89 Vinny Golia b.1946 Peter Brötzmann b.1941 Vince Giordano b.1952 March 23 †Burt Collins 1931-2007 Norman Connors b.1947 †Robin Kenyatta 1942-2004 Judy Niemack b.1954 March 17 †Johnny Guarnieri 1917-85 b.1968 Elliott Sharp b.1951 Flora Purim b.1942 †Paul Horn 1930-2014 Dave Frishberg b.1933 Dom Minasi b.1943 March 12 †Grover Mitchell 1930-2003 †Dave Pike 1938-2015 March 28 March 2 Ayelet Rose Gottlieb b.1979 †Sir Charles Thompson †Karel Velebny 1931-89 †Masabumi Kikuchi 1940-2015 † 1890-1967 †Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis 1918-2016 Jessica Williams b.1948 Gerry Hemingway b.1950 † 1907-96 MICHELE ROSEWOMAN 1921-86 March 7 †Hugh Lawson 1935-97 Abraham Burton b.1971 Stefon Harris b.1973 †Thad Jones 1923-86 March 19th, 1953 † 1934-62 Alexander von Schlippenbach Ned Goold b.1959 Daniel Levin b.1974 Bill Anthony b.1930 Buell Neidlinger b.1936 b.1938 Peter Knight b.1965 March 24 † 1933-97 The Oakland-born pianist Bob Neloms b.1942 Herb Bushler b.1939 March 18 †King Pleasure 1922-81 Barry Miles b.1947 first appeared on record in Wolfgang Muthspiel b.1965 March 13 † 1915-88 Dave MacKay b.1932 b.1954 1981 as the junior member in March 8 †Dick Katz 1924-2009 †Sam Donahue 1918-74 †Kalaparusha Maurice Orrin Evans b.1975 violinist Billy Bang’s band March 3 †George Mitchell 1899-1972 Roy Haynes b.1926 Bill Frisell b.1951 McIntyre 1936-2013 Jen Shyu b.1978 on Rainbow Gladiator (Soul † 1906-80 Dick Hyman b.1927 † 1930-79 Joe Locke b.1959 Steve Kuhn b.1938 Note). Two years later she †Cliff Smalls 1918-2008 b.1935 Michael Jefry Stevens b.1951 Paul McCandless b.1947 March 29 waxed her debut for the †Jimmy Garrison 1934-76 †Gabor Szabo 1936-82 Akira Tana b.1952 March 19 Steve LaSpina b.1954 †George Chisholm 1915-97 same label, The Source, a Luis Gasca b.1940 †James Williams 1951-2004 b.1962 †Curley Russell 1917-86 Renee Rosnes b.1962 †Pearl Bailey 1918-90 quartet session with Baikida Biggi Vinkeloe b.1956 Shoko Nagai b.1971 †Lennie Tristano 1919-78 Dave Douglas b.1963 Allen Botschinsky b.1940 Carroll, Roberto Miranda March 4 Anat Fort b.1970 †Bill Henderson 1930-2016 Joe Fiedler b.1965 †Michael Brecker 1949-2007 and Pheeroan akLaff. Since † 1926-2015 March 14 Mike Longo b.1939 then she has been a guest †Cy Touff 1927-2003 March 9 †Joe Mooney 1911-75 b.1948 March 25 March 30 artist with Greg Osby’s †Barney Wilen 1937-96 †Ornette Coleman 1930-2015 †Les Brown 1912-2001 Chris Brubeck b.1952 Cecil Taylor b.1929 † 1900-69 Sound Theater and Arturo David Darling b.1941 †Keely Smith 1932-2015 †Sonny Cohn 1925-2006 Michele Rosewoman b.1953 †Paul Motian 1931-2011 b.1934 O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Jan Garbarek b.1947 Kali Z. Fasteau b.1947 †Mark Murphy 1932-2015 b.1960 † 1936-95 Karl Berger b.1935 Orchestra. Her discography Kermit Driscoll b.1956 Zakir Hussain b.1951 † 1934-2002 †Lonnie Hillyer 1940-85 b.1947 comprises several albums Albert Pinton b.1962 †Thomas Chapin 1957-1998 Dred Scott b.1964 March 20 Makoto Ozone b.1961 Dave Stryker b.1957 on Enja, Evidence, Blue Dana Leong b.1980 Erica von Kleist b.1982 †Marian McPartland 1920-2013 Frank Gratkowski b.1963 Note and her own Advance March 15 †Sonny Russo 1929-2013 March 26 Dan Peck b.1983 Dance Records, which most March 5 March 10 †Jimmy McPartland 1907-91 Harold Mabern b.1936 †Abe Bolar 1908-2000 recently released New Yor- † 1910-87 †Bix Beiderbecke 1903-31 †Spencer Clark 1908-1998 Jon Christensen b.1943 † 1915-2001 March 31 Uba: A Musical Celebration of †Bill Pemberton 1918-84 †Pete Clarke 1911-75 † 1916-83 †Andy Hamilton 1918-2012 †Santo “Mr. Tailgate” Pecora Cuba In America, a large †Dave Burns 1924-2009 †Don Abney 1923-2000 † 1928-2006 March 21 † 1924-73 1902-84 ensemble project revisiting †Lou Levy 1928-2001 Louis Moholo-Moholo b.1940 Charles Lloyd b.1938 †Hank D’Amico 1915-65 †James Moody 1925-2010 †Red Norvo 1908-99 the pianist’s long-standing †Wilbur Little 1928-87 Mino Cinelu b.1957 Marty Sheller b.1940 Mike Westbrook b.1936 Maurice Simon b.1929 †Freddie Green 1911-87 interest in Cuban folkloric †Pee Wee Moore 1928-2009 Bill Gerhardt b.1962 Joachim Kühn b.1944 Herbert Joos b.1940 Lew Tabackin b.1940 †Jimmy Vass 1937-2006 traditions. -AH David Fiuczynski b.1964 Ofer Assaf b.1976 Anne Mette Iversen b.1972 Amina Claudine Myers b.1942 Hiromi b.1979 Christian Scott b.1983 CROSSWORD

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1. 1969 Noah Howard Freedom album The Black ____ 1. wrote a tune for this snake on Paul 7 8 9 4. Label founded by Jost Gebers in 1969 Gonsalves’ 1963 Impulse album Cleopatra Feelin’ Jazzy 7. and Charles Thompson 2. Berlin-based big band formerly directed by trombonist 10 11 12 9. ’70 trumpeter Domenick Jiggs Whigham 10. Brazilian guitarist Irio De 3. Drum battler of Rich 12. Where jazz is rarely found? 4. 1975 Lol Coxhill Caroline album ____ In Custard 13 14 13. wrote a blues for this superhero 5. Flutist Herbie 15. 1980 David Earle Johnson/Jan Hammer CMP album 6. Dutch pianist Beck 15 Hip _____ 8. Mathematical alternate title for the / 16. Charles Mingus wrote a song for an iteration of man J.J. Johnson 1955 Bethlehem album K + J.J. who walks like this 9. His house is in Corona, Queens 16 17. 1960 Charles Mingus Mercury album 11. 178 7th Avenue South is the Village Vanguard’s 19. Pianist Burton Greene lives in one of these in 12. Joe Cuba, Klaus Weiss and Jeff Lorber all have songs 17 18 Amsterdam named for this largest of Puerto Rican cities 21. Saxophonist Gonsalves and pianist Bley 14. Vocalist Christelle Durandy has worked with this 22. Miles Davis 1972 Columbia album ____ Corner dance company, ____ Kouliballets 19 20 24. Norwegian label ____ Grammofon 17. 2014 Henry Threadgill Pi album For A Penny, In For 25. Evan Parker has a piece in honor of the quilting A ____ 21 22 23 societies of ____ Bend, Alabama on his 2006 Tzadik 18. Discographical information album Time Lapse 19. Jazz____Musik, label once affiliated with Köln’s 26. John Coltrane was supposedly on this when he Stadtgarten 24 25 recorded OM in 1965 20. Matana Roberts 2014 Constellation album Coin Coin 27. Birthday mo. of Chapter Three: River Run ____ 26 27 21. Dutch pressing catalogue prefixes 23. Label founded in 1963 by Bernard Stollman

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Thursday, March 1 • Alex LoRe Trio with Martin Nevin, Jochen Rueckert • David Amram and Co. with Rene Hart, Kevin Twigg, Elliot Peper Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 Cornelia Street Underground 8:30 pm $10 • Turn the World Around—The Music and Legacy of Harry Belafonte: Ty Stephens, • Meets Soulbop: Mike Mainieri, , Bill Evans, , • CompCord Big Band: Franz Hackl, Peter Oswald, Wayne J. Du Maine, Branice McKenzie, Richard Cummings, Jr. Steve Smith Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 Dennis Hernandez, , Mike Seltzer, David Whitwell, Jonathan Greenberg, Aaron Davis Hall 7:30 pm $30 êMaceo Parker Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 Gerson Galante, Paul Jones, Paul Carlon, Scott Hoefling, Mercedes Beckman, • Rico Jones Trio with Cole Davis, Colin Stranahan; Andrew Van Tassel Trio with • Lady Got Chops Fest: Karen Maynard with Bertha Hope, Yuka Tadano, Sylvia Cuenca Richard Sussman, Lawrence Goldman, Joe Abba, Melanie Mitrano, Gene Pritsker Edward Perez, Colin Stranahan Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2 pm The Cutting Room 7:30 pm $20-25 • David Bixler Auction Project with Arturo O’Farrill • Denton Darien Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm • New York Youth Symphony Jazz with guest Vuyo Sotashe Birdland 6 pm $30 • Mark Wade Trio with Tim Harrison, Scott Neumann; Tribute to John Coltrane and Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Steps Ahead Meets Soulbop: Mike Mainieri, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Tom Kennedy, Johnny Hartman: Kevin Harris, Michael Wolff, Patience Higgins, Tony Garnier, • The Better Tones; Behn Gillece; Billy Kaye Jam Steve Smith Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 Mike Clark Club Bonafide 8, 10, 11:30 pm $15-20 Fat Cat 6, 9 pm 12:30 am $10 êMaceo Parker Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 êLage Lund Quartet with Micah Thomas, Matt Penman, Obed Calvaire • Lady Got Chops Fest: Rebecca Levinson Workshop Band • Durrah David Duo Cleopatra’s Needle 7 pm Cornelia Street Underground 8:30, 10 pm $10 Local 802 7 pm • Emilie Surtees; MJ Territo’s Ladies Day Jazz Quartet with Linda Presgrave, Iris Ornig, êCharles McPherson Quintet with Yotam Silberstein, Jeb Patton, Todd Coolman, • David Berkman/Chris Lightcap Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Barbara Merjan Club Bonafide 5:30, 7:30 pm $15 Chuck McPherson Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 • Jim Campilongo Trio with Chris Morrissey, Josh Dion êCharles McPherson Quintet with Yotam Silberstein, Jeb Patton, Todd Coolman, • Barry Stephenson Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $20 Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 10 pm Chuck McPherson Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 • Johnny O’ Neal Trio; Bruce Harris The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm êA Celebration of Alice Coltrane: Brandee Younger • Barry Stephenson Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 • Nick Dunston solo; Stephen Boegehold Quartet with Yuma Uesaka, Jessica Ackerley, The Schomburg Center 7 pm $35 êEd Cherry Trio; High and Mighty Brass Band Lim Yang The Drawing Room 7 pm $10 • Brian Krock’s Big Heart Machine Sir D’s 8, 9:30 pm The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10 pm êIbrahim Maalouf Drom 8, 11:30 pm $35 • Jeremy Udden Sound Pairings Threes Brewing 8 pm $15 • Aubrey Logan Drom 8 pm $20 • Chris Hemingway; Raphael D’lugoff Quintet; Greg Glassman Jam • Davis Whitfield Maniacs of the Fourth Dimension; Saul Rubin Zebtet; Paul Nowinski Fat Cat 7, 10 pm 1:30 am $10 Fat Cat 7, 10 pm 1:30 am $10 • Daniel Levine’s Knuckleball with Marc Hannaford, Devin Gray; Santiago Liebson Trio • John Dokes Quintet with Mark Gross, Steve Einerson, Alex Claffy, Jay Sawyer with Michael Formanek, Devin Gray Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 Greenwich House Music School 7:30 pm $15 • Taylor Ho Bynum 9-Tette with Jim Hobbs, Ingrid Laubrock, Bill Lowe, Mary Halvorson, êKate Gentile/Davy Lazar; Sandy Ewen/Weasel Walter; Steve Swell, John Dikeman, Tomeka Reid, Stomu Takeishi, Ken Filiano, Tomas Fujiwara Jasper Stadhouders, Tony Piazza, Adam Shead The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $20 H0l0 7 pm $10 êJazzmeia Horn with Marcus Miller, Victor Gould, Barry Stephenson, Henry Conerway III • Yoon Sun Choi’s Night Owls with Dana Lyn, Scott Colberg, Vinnie Sperrazza Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 Ibeam Brooklyn 8:30 pm $15 • Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes Joe’s Pub 9:30 pm $15 • Janice Friedman Trio with Marco Panascia, Joe Strasser • Rachel Z Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 • Brian Jackson Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Chris Dingman Trio with Linda Oh, Jared Schonig • Lady Got Chops Fest: Mala Waldron MIST 8 pm The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 • Aaron Irwin Sextet with Peter Hess, Matthew McDonald, Emily Wong, Terry McManus, • Patrick Sargent Quartet with David Linard, Mike Harlen, John Fatum Gary Wang; Sebastien Ammann’s Color Wheel with Michaël Attias, Noah Garabedian, Jazz Standard 12 pm $10 Gerald Cleaver The Owl Music Parlor 7:30 pm $10 êJazzmeia Horn with Marcus Miller, Victor Gould, Barry Stephenson, Henry Conerway III • Interpretations: Frozen Music: Gustavo Matamoros, David Dunn, Rene Barge; Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 Ben Manley Electroacoustic Solos and Duos • Ronny Whyte/Boots Maleson Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 9, 10:15 pm $3.50 Roulette 8 pm $20 • Mimi Jones’ The Black Madonna with Léonor Falcon, Nir Felder, Darrian Douglas • Anibal Rojas Silvana 6 pm Lehman Center 7:30 pm $25 • Davy Mooney Quintet with John Ellis, Jon Cowherd, Matt Clohesy, Brian Blade; • Edith Lettner’s Freemotion with Gerhard Franz Buchegger, Gerhard Graml, Darrian Douglas Quintet with Andrew McGowan, Jordan Pettay, Jon Beshay, Stephan Brodsky; Delight: Donald Smith, Edith Lettner, Gerhard Graml, Devin Starks; Davis Whitfield Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 Leopoldo F. Fleming, Warren Smith Metro Baptist Church 7:30 pm $20 • Jochen Rueckert Quartet with Lage Lund, Mike Moreno, Matt Penman êDanny Grissett/E.J. Strickland Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $15 êAlfredo Rodríguez Trio with Munir Hossn, Michael Olivera • Leni Stern St. John Lutheran Church 7 pm Miller Theatre 8 pm $20-35 • Jonathan Finlayson/Steve Lehman The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 • Shevelovin’ Quartet Shrine 7 pm • Ben Wendel Seasons Band with , , Matt Brewer, êMiguel Zenón with Fred Harris and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Festival Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Jazz Ensemble and guest Evan Ziporyn Silberman Auditorium at Hunter College Harlem 8 pm $20 • Joe Pino Quintet Silvana 6 pm Friday, March 2 • Lady Got Chops Fest: Stephanie Bates and Friends Sistas’ Place 9, 10:30 pm $20 • Hope DeBates with Luca Benadetti, Danny Fox, Matt Pavolka, Diego Voglino • Jade Synstelian Quartet with Greg Glassman, Alexi David, Brandon Lee Lewis; 55Bar 6 pm Tim Hegarty Quartet with Ben Rosenblum, Vince Dupont, ; • Zaid Nasser with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams Stafford Hunter and Continuum with Todd Bashore, Willerm Delisfort, Alexander Claffy, The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 Chris Beck; Philip Harper Quintet Smalls 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 êWoman To Woman: Renee Rosnes, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ingrid Jensen, êHelen Sung’s The (re)Conception Project with Ingrid Jensen, John Ellis, Melissa Aldana, Anat Cohen, Noriko Ueda, Allison Miller Ricky Rodriguez, Kush Abadey Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $38 92nd Street Y 8 pm $80 êSubtle Degrees: Travis Laplante/Gerald Cleaver • Rags, Strides & Habaneras: Dick Hyman; Joey Alexander; Chano Dominguez; Spectrum 8:30 pm Sullivan Fortner; Jared Grimes; Eddie Torres, Jr.; Jesús Carmona • Jonathan Finlayson Sextet with Steve Lehman, Brian Settles, Matt Mitchell, Edith Lettner’s Freemotion The Appel Room 7, 9:30 pm $100-110 John Hébert, Craig Weinrib The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 • Leandro Pellegrino Trio with Tim Norton, Roberto Giaquinto • Ben Wendel Seasons Band with Gilad Hekselman, Aaron Parks, Matt Brewer, & Delight Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 Eric Harland Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Steps Ahead Meets Soulbop: Mike Mainieri, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Tom Kennedy, Steve Smith Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 Saturday, March 3, 2018 êMaceo Parker Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 Sunday, March 4 • Libby Richman Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm • Chloé Perrier and French Heart; Secret Mall: Alfredo Colon, Edward Gavitt, • Owen Howard solo 440Gallery 4:40 pm $10 Steve Williams, Andres Valbuena; Nir Naaman Quartet with Simona Premazzi, • Ron Aprea Birdland 6 pm $30 Marco Panascia, Ofri Nehemya; The Dayz: Dax Callner, Terry Shook, Aaron Green, • Dave Pietro NYU Jazz Ensemble Blue Note 11:30 am 1:30 pm $39.50 Richie Phillips, Alroy Teves, Michael Villarosa, Alix Briard, David Kahler êMaceo Parker Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 Club Bonafide 6, 8, 10, 11:30 pm $10 • Charlie Roman with Rocky Chiu, Ellie Goodman, Abe Pollack; Josh Dunn with • Stream Trio: Yago Vazquez, Scott Lee, Jeff Hirshfield and guest Billy Drewes Gabe Terracciano, Ian Hutchison Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 Cornelia Street Underground 8:30, 10 pm $10 êCharles McPherson Quintet with Yotam Silberstein, Jeb Patton, Todd Coolman, êCharles McPherson Quintet with Yotam Silberstein, Jeb Patton, Todd Coolman, Chuck McPherson Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 Chuck McPherson Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 • Raf Vertessen, Keisuke Matsuno, Hans Tammen • Barry Stephenson Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 Downtown Music Gallery 6 pm • Ken Fowser Quintet; Mike Sailors Big Band • Terry Waldo’s Gotham City Band; Jade Synstelien’s Fat Cat Big Band; The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm Brandon Lewis/Renee Cruz Jam Fat Cat 6, 8:30 pm 1 am $10 • Oscar Williams Trio; Jared Gold/Dave Gibson; Craig Wuepper êJazzmeia Horn with Marcus Miller, Victor Gould, Barry Stephenson, Henry Conerway III Fat Cat 6, 10 pm 1:30 am $10 Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 êLady Got Chops Fest: Bertha Hope Manna House 3 pm ©osaka.at • Carl Stone, Ned Rothenberg, Ami Yamasaki ©Ruth Meier Issue Project Room 8 pm $15 • Joel Frahm Trio with Spike Wilner, Joe Martin • Larry Fuller Trio with George DeLancey, Jason Tiemann Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 • Beat Kaestli Trio with Loic Cardeone da Silva, Gary Wang • Andrew D’Angelo Trio with Carmen Rothwell, Allan Mednard North Square Lounge 12:30, 2 pm “Taking Off” CD Release The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $20 • Alex Simon Gypsy Swing Ensemble Radegast Hall 7 pm êJazzmeia Horn with Marcus Miller, Victor Gould, Barry Stephenson, Henry Conerway III • Lady Cantrese and Gents with Marcus Persiani, Santo Albert, Mike Fitzbenjamin Edith Lettner, alto/soprano sax/duduk Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 Russian Samovar 3 pm Gerhard Franz Buchegger, piano • Ronny Whyte/Boots Maleson Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 9, 10:15 pm $3.50 êCatherine Russell Saint Peter’s Church 5 pm êDanny Grissett/E.J. Strickland Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Shrine Big Band Shrine 8 pm Gerhard Graml, bass êTheo Hill Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Ai Murakami Trio with Zaid Nasser, Sacha Perry; Dave Glasser Quartet with Stephan Brodsky, drums • Bobby Previte’s Rhapsody Band with Nels Cline, John Medeski, Zeena Parkins, Martha Kato, Nick Dunston, Connor Parks; David Gibson Quintet with Freddie Hendrix, Jen Shyu Roulette 8 pm $20 Davis Whitfield, Alexander Claffy, Mark Whitfield, Jr.; Hillel Salem • Dogwood: Nico Soffiato/Zach Swanson Smalls 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 Scholes Street Studio 8 pm $10 êHelen Sung’s The (re)Conception Project with Ingrid Jensen, John Ellis, Delight • Sten Hostfalt’s Soundalkike with Johnny Lapio; Field Theory: Matt Vashlishan, Ricky Rodriguez, Kush Abadey Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $38 Bob Sabin, Mark Ferber, Matt Panayides • Bill Stevens Songbook with Corey Larson, Paul Pricer and guests Sebastian Gil, Donald Smith, piano/vocals ShapeShifter Lab 7, 8:15 pm $10-12 Mark Nelms Tomi Jazz 8 pm • Furmi Gomez 4tet; Alicyn Yaffee Trio êSubtle Degrees: Travis Laplante/Gerald Cleaver Edith Lettner, alto/soprano sax Shrine 6, 7 pm Union Pool 8 pm $12-15 Gerhard Graml, bass • Hilliard Greene and The Jazz Expressions with T.K. Blue, Sharp Radway, Bruce Cox; • Ben Wendel Seasons Band with Gilad Hekselman, Aaron Parks, Matt Brewer, Stafford Hunter and Continuum with Todd Bashore, Willerm Delisfort, Alexander Claffy, Eric Harland Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Leopoldo F. Fleming, percussion Chris Beck Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 êHelen Sung’s The (re)Conception Project with Marquis Hill, John Ellis, Ricky Rodriguez, Warren Smith, drums/vibraphone Kush Abadey Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $38 Monday, March 5 êLady Got Chops Fest: Bertha Hope Trio The Sound Bite 7, 9 pm $15 • Sagi Kaufman Trio with Yoav Eshed, Stephen Boegehold; Valentina Marino Trio with Metro Baptist Church êJoanthan Finlayson and Sicilian Defense with Miles Okazaki, Matt Mitchell, John Hébert, Taulant Mehmeti, Myles Sloniker Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 Craig Weinrib The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 êAllison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom with Carmen Staaf, Tony Scherr 410 W. 40th Street • Ben Wendel Seasons Band with Gilad Hekselman, Aaron Parks, Matt Brewer, Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 (9th & 10th Avenue, behind Port Authority) Eric Harland Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Cheryl Bentyne’s ReArrangements of Shadows with Yaron Gershovsky, Matt Aronoff, Clint De Ganon, Aaron Weinstein Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $30-35 7:30 PM Performance / Doors open at 6:45 PM Saturday, March 3 • The Showdown Kids: Scott Metzger, Katie Jacoby, Simon Kafka Blue Note 8 pm $25 Admission Cash Only / $20; Senior/Students, $15 • Zaid Nasser with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams • Devin Brahja Waldman, Brandon Lewis, Reggie Sylvester; Stephen Gauci, Sandy Ewen, The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 Adam Lane, Kevin Shea; Rick Parker, Martin Philadelphy, Jeremy Carlstedt; General Seating-Reservations: • Rags, Strides & Habaneras: Dick Hyman; Joey Alexander; Chano Dominguez; Joe McPhee, Elias Stemeseder, Ken Filiano, Raf Vertessen; Eriq Robinson, Dave Ross, [email protected] / 646.206.2080 Sullivan Fortner; Jared Grimes; Eddie Torres, Jr.; Jesús Carmona Matt Chilton, William Hooker; Prawit Siriwat, Daniel Durst, Colin Hinton Venue not wheelchair accessible The Appel Room 7, 9:30 pm $100-110 Bushwick Public House 7 pm $10

34 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD Tuesday, March 6 • Megumi Yonezawa Trio with Mike McGuirk, Mark Ferber • Samba Jazz and the Music of Jobim: Romero Lubambo, Billy Drewes, Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 Hans Glawischnig, Maucha Adnet, Helio Alves, Duduka Da Fonseca • Niall Cade Trio with Kaisa Maensivu, Emil Kristinasen; Alicyn Yaffee Trio with • Chet Doxas Rich in Symbols with Brad Shepik, Rob Ritchie, Zach Lober, Jerad Lippi Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $45 Kyle Koehler, Colin Stranahan Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Nate Sparks Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $20 êCyrus Chestnut Quartet with Steve Nelson, , Lenny White êHarlem Speaks: Henry Threadgill Jazz Museum in Harlem 8 pm $10 • Ray Gallon Trio; Eyal Vilner Big Band with Brianna Thomas Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 êSexmob: Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm • Pete Rock and The Soul Brothers with Daru Jones, Maurice Brown, Mono Neon, Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Ivan Renta Quintet; Lawrence Clark; Greg Glassman Jam Marcus Machado, Anu Sun, Lakecia Benjamin, Devone Allison • , Dave Stryker, Charlie Apicella Fat Cat 7, 10 pm 1:30 am $10 Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $25 Mezzrow 8 pm $20 êMichaël Attias Quartet with Aruán Ortiz, John Hébert, Nåsheet Waits • VoxEcstatic: Gabrielle Stravelli’s Dream Ago with Joshua Richman, Pat O’Leary; • Maurice Brown Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 Greenwich House Music School 8 pm $15 Vanisha Gould Group with Ludovica Burtone, Leandro Pellegrino, Dan Pappalardo • Lady Got Chops Fest: Kim Clarke’s Aqua Ninjaz êRed Baraat Festival of Colors; Women’s Raga Massive Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 MIST 8 pm Highline Ballroom 8 pm $20-35 • Denise Thimes with Adaron “Pops” Jackson, Jamal Nichols, Charles Heath, • Kane Mathis, Moto Fukushima, Rich Stein; Andreas Arnold/Jeremy Smith • Brutal Measures: Lydia Lunch/Weasel Walter; Keijaun Thomas; Alexa Tarantino, Marquis Hill Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 The Owl Music Parlor 7:30 pm $10 Thomas Boettner’s Straight Panic Issue Project Room 8 pm $15 • Nate Sparks Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $5 • Whitney Marchelle with Sweet Lee Odom, Arco Sandoval, , êJerry Bergonzi Quartet with Matt Mitchell, Harvie S, Donald Edwards • Jazz and Comedy: Brian Charette Trio Bernard Linnette Pelham Fritz Recreation Center 6:30 pm Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 The Django at Roxy Hotel 7 pm • Joe Pino Quintet Shrine 6 pm • Godwin Louis with Adam O’Farrill, Joel Ross, Victor Gould, Luques Curtis, • Saul Rubin Zebtet; Willie Martinez y la Familia; Yoshi Waki • Mike Fahn Silvana 6 pm Jonathan Barber The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 Fat Cat 7, 9 pm 12:30 am $10 • Yotam Silberstein Quartet with Nitai Hershkovits, ; Behn Gillece Quartet • John Fatum and Friends with Michael Fatum, Adam Brisbin, Dave Speranza, • Lena Horne at 100: Candice Hoyes and Dormeshia Sumbrey-Edwards with Rick Germanson, Ugonna Okegwo, Jason Tiemann; Jonathan Thomas Jamie Eblen Jazz Standard 12 pm $10 Harlem Stage Gatehouse 7:30 pm $20 Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 êSteven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra with Charlie Burnham, Curtis Fowlkes, • Myriam Phiro’s Mariposa with Hyuna Park, Léonor Falcon, Tina Lama, • Carolyn Leonhart Quintet with Myron Walden, Theo Hill, Richie Goods, Rodney Green Doug Wieselman, Peter Apfelbaum, Erik Lawrence, Matt Munisteri, Ben Allison, Jacqueline Avecedo Iridium 8:30 pm $25 Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $15 Ben Perowsky Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 • Logan Richardson Quintet with Justus West, Igor Osypov, DeAndre Mannings, êJames Brandon Lewis/Chad Taylor Spectrum 7 pm • Russ Kassoff/Jay Anderson Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 9, 10:15 pm $3.50 Ryan Lee Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 • The Actual Septet: Andrew D’Angelo, Jessica Jones, Claire Daily, John Schott, • Washington Heights Jazz Festival: Street Beat Brass; Tobias Gebb’s Pop; • Matt Pavolka’s The Horns Band with Mike Rodriguez, Charlotte Greve, Jacob Garchik, Will Bernard, Dan Seamans, John Hanes Matt Davis’ Aerial Photograph; Cocomama Quartet; Berta Moreno Quartet; Blue Food; Mark Ferber; Caleb Wheeler Curtis Korzo 9, 10:30 pm The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 Eddy Khaimovich Project; Mark Kross’ Uptown Aesthetic êJeremy Pelt/Jeb Patton Mezzrow 8 pm $20 êFred Hersch Trio with Drew Gress, Billy Hart Le Chéile 1 pm $50 • Syndee Winters and Suite Assembly with Michael Eckroth, Taylor Jones, Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Peter Zak Trio with Ed Howard, Billy Drummond Mary Ann McSweeney, Bendji Allonce • Hanka Gregusova Williamsburg Music Center 9, 10:30 pm $10 Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Paul Bollenback Quartet with Will Boulware, James Cammack, Atri Dixon and guest • Lou Caputo Little Big Band New York City Baha’i Center 8, 9:30 pm $15 Ken Giofree Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Brian Krock’s Little with Olli Hirvonen, Marty Kenney, Nathan Ellman-Bell and guest Friday, March 9 • Nursery Song Swing: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra ShapeShifter Lab 9:30 pm $10 Rose Theater 8 pm $35-125 • Brian Kastan Shrine 6 pm • Chris Flory with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams • Andy Bianco Quintet Shrine 6 pm • Tom Blatt Project Silvana 6 pm The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 êPearring Sound Silvana 6 pm êTheo Hill Trio; Abraham Burton Quartet • Will Bernard Band Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 • Lady Got Chops Fest: Tulivu Donna Cumberbatch Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 • Pasquale Grasso Trio with Ari Roland, Keith Balla Sistas’ Place 9, 10:30 pm $20 • John Schott/Matt Wright The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 • Quintet with Chris Hemingway, Mamiko Watanabe, Ruslan Khain, êFred Hersch Trio with Drew Gress, Billy Hart êCyrus Chestnut Quartet with Steve Nelson, Buster Williams, Lenny White Alvester Garnett; Steve Slagle A.M. Quartet with Keith Brown, Gerald Cannon, Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 Jason Tiemann; Brooklyn Circle: Stacy Dillard, Diallo House Ismail Lawal • Andromeda Turre Band with Roxy Coss • Rebirth Brass Band Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $35 Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 Warwick Hotel 6 pm • Jo Lawry Quartet The Cave at St. George’s 7:30 pm $15 êChico Freeman Plus-tet with Theo Hill, Kenny Davis, Rudy Royston • Chip Shelton Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 • Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis and Bobby Darin Celebration: Marcus Simeone; êCooper-Moore/Andrew Drury Duo; We Free Strings: Melanie Dyer, Gwen Laster, Wednesday, March 7 Michael McNeill Trio with Ken Filiano, Phil Haynes; Eliane Amherd Band; Charles Burnham, Alex Waterman, Ken Filiano, Michael Wimberly Pedro Barboza Trio with BamBam Rodriguez, Franco Pinna Soup & Sound 8 pm $20 • Joe Farnsworth Quartet with Eric Alexander, Isaiah J. Thompson, Gerald Cannon Club Bonafide 6, 8, 10, 11:30 pm $10-20 êExceptional Quartet: Robert Dick, Denman Maroney, James Ilgenfritz, Lou Grassi An Beal Bocht Café 8, 9:30 pm $20 • Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, Tom Rainey Spectrum 9 pm • Dida Pelled Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 Cornelia Street Underground 8:30, 10 pm $10 • Cosmic Diaspora: Jake Marmer, Anthony Coleman, John Schott, Aaron Alexander • Austin Zhang Trio with Niklas Lukassen, Andrew Pitarch Mach • Turtle Island Quartet’s Bird’s Eye View: Alex Hargreaves, David Balakrishnan, The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 Bar Next Door 6:30 pm Benjamin von Gutzeit, Malcolm Parson • Fernando García Band Teatro Latea 9 pm $15 êCyrus Chestnut Quartet with Steve Nelson, Buster Williams, Lenny White The Cutting Room 7:30 pm $25 êFred Hersch Trio with Drew Gress, Billy Hart Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • Luiz Simas/Wesley Amorim The DiMenna Center 8 pm $15 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Weedie Braimah and Friends with Christian Scott, Pedrito Martinez, Abdoulaye Diabate, • Samba Jazz and the Music of Jobim: Romero Lubambo, Billy Drewes, • Aaron Burnett and Big Machine Williamsburg Music Center 9, 10:30 pm $10 Dwayne “MonoNeon” Thomas, Sam Dickey, Yacouba Sissoko, Munir Zakee, Hans Glawischnig, Maucha Adnet, Helio Alves, Duduka Da Fonseca Luke Quaranta Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $25 Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 • Jeremy Powell Quartet with Nitzan Gavrieli, Pablo Menares, Allan Mednard; • Nate Sparks Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 Tobias Meinhart Quartet with Yago Vasquez, Harish Raghavan, Jesse Simpson • Ken Fowser Quintet; Michael Arenella Dreamland Orchestra Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm • Denise Thimes with Adaron “Pops” Jackson, Jamal Nichols, Charles Heath, • Dida Pelled Quartet; Noah Jackson and Full Circle; Ray Gallon Alexa Tarantino, Marquis Hill Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 Fat Cat 6, 10 pm 1:30 am $10 • Nate Sparks Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $5 êMothers of the Movements—We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite: Marc Cary • Raphael D’lugoff Trio +1; Groover Trio; Ned Goold Jam with Terri Lyne Carrington, , Sameer Gupta, Edmar Colón and guests Fat Cat 7, 9 pm 12:30 am $10 Harlem Stage Gatehouse 7:30 pm $20 • Carol Sudhalter Jam Session Flushing Town Hall 7 pm $10 • Quentin Tolimieri solo; Jason Mears, Matteo Liberatore, Quentin Tolimieri, Carlo Costa êMara Rosenbloom solo; Mara Rosenbloom Flyways with Anaïs Maviel, Adam Lane Ibeam Brooklyn 8:30 pm $15 Happylucky no.1 8, 9 pm $15 • Melba Joyce Quartet with John di Martino, Dezron Douglas, George Gray êSinne Eeg/Kevin Hays Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 • James Francies and Friends with Burniss Travis, Mike Mitchell and guest • Nerissa Campbell Quartet with Can Olgun, Desmond White, Allen Mednard Nicholas Payton Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 êRon McClure Trio with Mike Eckroth, Pete Zimmer êSexmob: Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen and guest Mezzrow 8 pm $20 John Medeski Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 • James Cage with Reggie Young, TW Sample, Eric Dupont, Abel Morales • Louise Rogers Trio Kismat 7 pm Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 • Russ Kassoff/Jay Anderson Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 9, 10:15 pm $3.50 • Gina Leishman’s Geography The Owl Music Parlor 7:30 pm $10 êJulian Lage Trio with Jorge Roeder, Eric Doob • Carol Sudhalter Trio with Patrick Poladian, Kevin Hailey Le Poisson Rouge 7:30 pm $25 Saint Peter’s Church 1 pm $10 • Peter Zak Trio with Ed Howard, Billy Drummond • St.Amour Trio Shrine 7 pm Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Takeshi Otani Band; Andrew Schiller • Jams Rich Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 Silvana 6, 7 pm • Nursery Song Swing: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra • Yotam Silberstein Quartet with Nitai Hershkovits, Kendrick Scott; Rose Theater 8 pm $35-125 Simona Premazzi Quintet with Mike Rodriguez, Mark Shim, Joe Martin, Kush Abadey; • Jocelyn Shannon Quartet Silvana 6 pm Jovan Alexandre Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 • Greg Glassman Quartet with Stacy Dillard, Jeremy Manasia, Joseph Lepore; êThe Actual Trio: John Schott, Dan Seamans, John Hanes Steve Slagle A.M. Quartet with Keith Brown, Gerald Cannon, Jason Tiemann; The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 Corey Wallace DUBtet Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 • Michael Coleman; Dina Maccabee; Evan Francis Group êChico Freeman Plus-tet with Theo Hill, Kenny Davis, Rudy Royston Threes Brewing 8 pm $10 Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 êFred Hersch Trio with Drew Gress, Billy Hart êWhat Comes Before: Ben Goldberg, John Schott, Michael Sarin Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 êFred Hersch Trio with Drew Gress, Billy Hart Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Thursday, March 8 • eMPathia: Paul Ricci/Mafalda Minnozzi Zinc Bar 7 pm • Nicole Zuraitis 55Bar 7 pm êValery Ponomarev Big Band Zinc Bar 8, 10 pm $20 • Vaughn Stoffey Trio with Cole Davis, Alex Ritz; Jon Irabagon Trio with Bob Sabin, Tony Moreno Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 Saturday, March 10 • Laila Biali Birdland 6 pm $30 êCyrus Chestnut Quartet with Steve Nelson, Buster Williams, Lenny White • Chris Flory with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 • Rebirth Brass Band Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $35 • Telavana with Itai Kriss Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 • George Young Band Cleopatra’s Needle 7 pm • Nadav Remez Trio with Gary Versace, Colin Stranahan • David Bertrand Quartet with Rafal Sarnecki, Richard Mikel, Carter Bales Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 Club Bonafide 7:30 pm $10 êCyrus Chestnut Quartet with Steve Nelson, Buster Williams, Lenny White • Emi Makabe Trio with Vitor Gonçalves, Thomas Morgan; Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 Thomas Morgan/Margit Nejlima Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 • Rebirth Brass Band Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $35 • Stephanie Chou Trio with Andy Lin, Kenny Wollesen êLady Got Chops Fest: Monette Sudler’s Ladies Night Out with Lynne Riley, David Rubenstein Atrium 7:30 pm Noriko Kamo, Kim Clarke, Lucianna Padmore • Samba Jazz and the Music of Jobim: Romero Lubambo, Billy Drewes, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2 pm Hans Glawischnig, Maucha Adnet, Helio Alves, Duduka Da Fonseca • Alicia Olatuja Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 8 pm $30 Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 • The Seeing With Photography Collective and Daniel Kelly Trio with Jennifer Vincent, • Nate Sparks Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 Bram Kincheloe Brooklyn Conservatory of Music 8 pm $15 • Dan Aran Band; Eli “Paperboy” Reed • Alan Rosenthal Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10 pm • Jazzmensoul; Steve Fidyk Parlour Project • Marcus Persiani; Greg Glassman Quintet; Avi Rothbard Club Bonafide 8, 10, 11:30 pm $15-20 Fat Cat 7, 10 pm 1:30 am $10 • María Grand Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning 8 pm $10

THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | MARCH 2018 35 Sunday, March 11 • Andromeda Turre Band with Roxy Coss • Kathleen Landis, Boots Maleson, Dan White Warwick Hotel 6 pm Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 9, 10:15 pm $3.50 • Jim Campilongo Trio with Chris Morrissey, Josh Dion êKen Peplowski Trio with Ehud Asherie, Kevin Dorn 55Bar 6 pm Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Mauricio Zottarelli’s Upside Down Looking Up with Gustavo Assis Brasil, Wednesday, March 14 • Jazmyn: Jim Farley, Inez Wilson, Derrick James, Jim Cammack, Arti Dixson Oriente Lopez, Itaiguara Brandão Blue Note 11:30 am 1:30 pm $39.50 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Rebirth Brass Band Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $35 • George Burton’s Brew Trio Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 êTo Bird with Strings: Paquito D’Rivera • Klazz-Ma-Tazz: Benjamin Sutin, Elijah Shiffer, Alec Goldfarb, Robbie Lee, Mat Muntz • Julphan Tilapornputt Trio with Kengchakaj Kengkarnka, Trevor Brown Rose Theater 8 pm $40-130 Cornelia Street Underground 8 pm $10 Bar Next Door 6:30 pm • Hadrien Feraud Band; Spirit Fingers: Greg Spero, Dario Chiazzolino, Hadrien Feraud, • Samba Jazz and the Music of Jobim: Romero Lubambo, Billy Drewes, • Kurt Elling Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 Mike Mitchell ShapeShifter Lab 8:15, 9:30 pm $10 Hans Glawischnig, Maucha Adnet, Helio Alves, Duduka Da Fonseca êMcCoy Tyner Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 • Josiah Boornazian Shrine 6 pm Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 • Jeff Davis Dragon Father Trio with Ben Monder, Eivind Opsvik; Aaron Irwin Sextet with • Shun Ino Silvana 6 pm • Sean Ali/Ayako Kanda; Dogwood: Nico Soffiato/Zach Swanson Peter Hess, Matthew McDonald, Chris Commer, Terry McManus, Gary Wang êMike Clark Trio with , Andy McKee; Donald Edwards Quintet with Downtown Music Gallery 6, 7 pm Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 Morgan Guerin, Tom Guarna, Davis Whitfield, Ben Wolfe • Terry Waldo’s Gotham City Band; Diallo House; Brandon Lewis/Renee Cruz Jam • Mark Sherman Quartet with Bruce Barth, David Wong, Carl Allen Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 Fat Cat 6, 8:30 pm 1 am $10 Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 êHarold Mabern 82nd Birthday Celebration with Eric Alexander, John Webber, êSteven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra with Charlie Burnham, Curtis Fowlkes, • The Ladybugs Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $5 Joe Farnsworth Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 Doug Wieselman, Peter Apfelbaum, Erik Lawrence, Matt Munisteri, Ben Allison, • Raphael D’lugoff Trio +1; Harold Mabern Trio; Ned Goold Jam êTim Berne, Hank Roberts, David Torn, Ben Perowsky Ben Perowsky Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 Fat Cat 7, 9 pm 12:30 am $10 The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 • Matt Wolfe/Rick Strong Kismat 12 pm êMyk Friedman Quartet; Steve Swell Trio with William Parker, Michael T.A. Thompson êBill Frisell Trio with Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston • La Tanya Hall Las Tapas 5 pm Happylucky no.1 8, 9 pm $15 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Chris Flory Trio with Larry Ham, Lee Hudson • The Jazz Poems of Grace Schulman: Gene Marlow and The Heritage Ensemble with êToshiko Akiyoshi Trio with Yasushi Nakamura, Tim Horner Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Michael Hashim, Frank Wagner, Bobby Sanabria Zinc Bar 7, 8:30 pm $25 • Christopher McBride and the C-Note with Jonathan Edwards, Curtis Nowosad Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 • Owen Broder’s The American Roots Project with Sara Caswell, Scott Wendholt, • Aakash Mittal’s Awaz Trio with Miles Okazaki, Rajna Swaminathan Nick Finzer, Frank Kimbrough, Jay Anderson, Matt Wilson, James Shipp, Wendy Gilles, National Sawdust 7:30 pm $29 Melissa Stylianou, Michael Mayo Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 • Roz Corral Trio with Saul Rubin, Paul Gill • Steve Feifke Trio with Raviv Markovitz, Charles Goold North Square Lounge 12:30, 2 pm Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Lady Got Chops Fest: Annette St John Trio with Ester Blue, Kim Clarke êAlvin Curran Park Avenue Armory 7, 9 pm $45 Russian Samovar 3 pm • Jason Prover Sneak Thievery Orchestra • Caroline Davis solo St. John Lutheran Church 3:30 pm Radegast Hall 9 pm êCatherine Russell Saint Peter’s Church 5 pm • Aaron Burnett and the Big Machine with Carlos Homs, Nick Jozwiak, Kush Abadey • Sofia Paola/Alper Tuzcu ShapeShifter Lab 7 pm $8 Roulette 8 pm $20 • Andrew Kushnir Trio Shrine 6 pm • Barbara Rosene with Conal Fowkes, Murray Wall • Brian Kastan Silvana 6 pm Saint Peter’s Church 1 pm $10 • Ai Murakami Trio with Zaid Nasser, Sacha Perry; Chris Byars Septet with Zaid Nasser, • Gil Schwartz Duo Silvana 6 pm John Mosca, Stefano Doglioni, Pasquale Grasso, Ari Roland, Phil Stewart; • Michael Feinberg Quintet with Darren Barrett, Noah Preminger, Billy Test, Ian Froman; Ralph Lalama and Bop-Juice with Alec Safy, Clifford Barbaro; Robert Edwards Dan Aran Trio with Adam Birnbaum, Luke Sellick Smalls 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 êChico Freeman Plus-tet with Theo Hill, Kenny Davis, Rudy Royston • Moodswing Orchestra Analog: Charlie Burnham, Ed Pastorini, Oren Bloedow, Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 Ben Perowsky and guest Jennifer Charles • Phillip Golub/Raf Vertessen Spectrum 7 pm The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 • A Time Like This—Music for Change: Rhiannon Giddens, Toshi Reagon, Young Paris, êBill Frisell Trio with Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston Carrie Compere, Ro James Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall 3 pm $10-55 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 êJohn Zorn with Christian McBride, Marc Ribot, Mary Halvorson, Jim Staley, Ikue Mori, êIngrid Jensen Quartet with Gary Versace, Ed Howard, Colin Stranahan Kenny Wollesen, Ches Smith and guests Zinc Bar 7, 8:30 pm $25 Village Vanguard 3 pm $35 êFred Hersch Trio with Drew Gress, Billy Hart Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Thursday, March 15 • David Leon Trio with Sam Weber, Stephen Boegehold; Justin Lees Trio with Monday, March 12 Scott Ritchie, Phil Stewart Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 êCynthia Sayer’s Hot Jazz Banjo Show with Dennis Lichtman, Jared Engle, Dennis Eagle • Zach Brock, Chris Tarry, Joel Rosenblatt Birdland 6 pm $30 55Bar 7 pm • Kurt Elling Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • ’s Qantar Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 êRoy Haynes 93rd Birthday Celebration • Cole Davis Trio with Jasper Dutz, Vaughn Stoffey; Les Grant Trio with John Chin, Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 Evan Gregor Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 • Tyler Blanton’s Hornē Electric Band BRIC House Artist Studio 6:30 pm êMcCoy Tyner Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 • George Stella Band Cleopatra’s Needle 7 pm • Eric Plaks, Aron Namenwirth, John Loggia; Stephen Gauci, Sandy Ewen, Adam Lane; • The Mateadors: Elsa Nilsson, Jeff McLaughlin, Amanda Ruzza, Lautaro Burgos Michael Lytle, Matthew Ostrowski, Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic; Caroline Davis, Club Bonafide 9:30 pm $10 Caleb Curtis, Charlotte Greve, Oscar Noriega; Eli Wallace, Ben Cohen, Dave Miller; • Nick Sanders Trio with Henry Fraser, Devin Gray; Julian Shore Quartet with Will Greene, Elias Stemeseder, Raf Vertessen Yotam Silberstein, Edward Perez, Colin Stranahan Bushwick Public House 7 pm $10 Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 • Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra with guest Lew Tabackin • BIGYUKI David Rubenstein Atrium 7:30 pm Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Takeshi Asai solo The DiMenna Center 8 pm $22-36 • Goold Quartet; Billy Kaye Jam Fat Cat 9 pm 12:30 am $10 êFreddy Cole Quintet with Elias Bailey, Jay Sawyer, Randy Napoleon, Harry Allen • Mike Eckroth/Scott Colley Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $45 • Aaron Comess Rockwood Music Hall Stage 1 10 pm • The Ladybugs Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 • Jim Campilongo Trio with Chris Morrissey, Josh Dion and guest Nels Cline • Arthur Vint and Associates; Mark Whitfield Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 10 pm The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10 pm • Fostina Dixon and Winds of Change with Edsel Gomez, , • John Colianni Quartet with Matt Chertkoff, Boots Maleson, Steve Johns Ronnie Burrage The Schomburg Center 7 pm $35 Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 • Juanma Trujillo Group Shrine 6 pm • Jasper Dutz Kettles with Anthony Pearlman, Nick Dunston, Connor Parks and guest • Brian Kastan Silvana 6 pm The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Michael Sarian and The Big Chabones êJimmy Greene’s Love In Action with Renee Rosnes, John Patitucci, Otis Brown III, Sir D’s 8, 9:30 pm Rogério Boccato Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Jeremy Udden Sound Pairings Threes Brewing 8 pm $15 • Edin Ladin Trio with Ari Roland, Allan Mednard êStrings Attached: Jack Wilkins, Vic Juris, Ron Affif, Mark Whitfield and guest Saul Rubin Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Zinc Bar 8, 10 pm $25 êArturo O’Farrill Quintet Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Lady Got Chops Fest: Ghanniyya Green MIST 8 pm Tuesday, March 13 • Jennifer Wharton Silvana 6 pm • Christopher McBride and The Whole Proof with JS Williams, Jonathan Thomas, • Stan Killian Sextet with Paul Brandenburg, Rob Susman, Jon Heagle, Dan Asher, Noah Jackson, Cedric Easton; Asaf Yuria Quintet with Josh Evans, David Bryant, Shareef Taher 55Bar 7 pm Ben Meigners, Mark Whitfield, Jr. Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 • Elysse with Ed Pastorini Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 êAlexis Cole with Eric Alexander, David Berkman, Dmitri Kolesnik, Joe Spinelli • Alan Kwan Trio with Patrick Lui, Evan Gregor; Hashem Assadullahi Trio with Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $15 Leonard Thompson, Matt Wilson Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 • Earth Tongues: Joe Moffett, Dan Peck, Carlo Costa • Jane Bunnett and Maqueque with Yissy Garcia, Melvis Santa, Dánae Olano, Spectrum 7 pm Magdelys Savigne, Celia Jiménez Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 êDavid Tronzo, John Medeski, Ben Perowsky êMcCoy Tyner Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 • Stan Chovnick and Friends with Linda Presgrave, Dimitri Moderbacher, Seiji Ochiai êBill Frisell Trio with Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston Club Bonafide 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Cesar Garabini/Olli Soikkeli Cornelia Street Underground 8 pm $10 • Christian Howes and Friends Williamsburg Music Center 9, 10:30 pm $10 • Akira Tana and Otonowa with Art Hirahara, Masaru Koga, Noriyuki Ken Okada Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 • The Ladybugs Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $5 Friday, March 16 • Dom Salvador Quartet The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30 pm • Saul Rubin Zebtet; Peter Brainin Latin Jazz Workshop • Joe Giglio Trio with Thomson Kneeland, Eric Peters Fat Cat 7, 9 pm $10 Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 • Theo Croker Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 êWarren Vaché with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams • Adam Kolker, Steve Cardenas, Billy Mintz; James Carney, Dezron Douglas, The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 Allan Mednard and guest Korzo 9, 10:30 pm • Kurt Elling Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • Glenn Zaleski solo Mezzrow 8 pm $20 êRoy Haynes 93rd Birthday Celebration • Syndee Winters and Suite Assembly with Michael Eckroth, Taylor Jones, Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 Mary Ann McSweeney, Bendji Allonce • Dona Carter Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 • Ralph Alessi’s This Against That with Andy Milne, Drew Gress, Mark Ferber • Mike Longo NY State of the Art Jazz Ensemble Cornelia Street Underground 8:30, 10 pm $10 New York City Baha’i Center 8, 9:30 pm $15 ê¡VAYA! 63: Eddie Palmieri David Rubenstein Atrium 7:30 pm êJin Hi Kim, Elliott Sharp, William Parker, Hamid Drake êFreddy Cole Quintet with Elias Bailey, Jay Sawyer, Randy Napoleon, Harry Allen Roulette 8 pm $20 Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $45 • Will Schmid Group with David Acevedo, Conner Duke, Sean Kim, Jesse Thorson • The Ladybugs Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 ShapeShifter Lab 7 pm $8 • Ken Fowser Quintet; Lezlie Harrison • Oscar Feldman and Friends Shrine 7 pm The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm • Josiah Boornazian Silvana 6 pm • Camile Gainer Jones Fat Cat 10:30 pm $10 • Group Smalls 10:30 pm $20 • Nilson Matta’s Brazilian and Jazz Journey Band with Helen Sung, John Snauwaert, • Camp Songs: Uri Caine, Drew Gress, Ben Perowsky Marcello Pellitteri Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 êMiles Okazaki’s Trickster with Matt Mitchell, Anthony Tidd, Sean Rickman êBill Frisell Trio with Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 êJimmy Greene’s Love In Action with Renee Rosnes, John Patitucci, Otis Brown III, Rogério Boccato Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30

36 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD Saturday, March 17 êRoy Haynes 93rd Birthday Celebration • Brubeck Brothers Quintet: Dan and Chris Brubeck, Mike DeMicco, Chuck Lamb Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 and guest Carl Allen Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 êWarren Vaché with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams • Julie Eigenberg with Ray Gallon, Alex Blake, Tommy Campbell Ben Paterson Duo; George Braith; Billy Kaye Jam City Winery 12:30 pm $20 • The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 Fat Cat 6, 9 pm 12:30 am $10 • Tyler Blanton’s Hornē Electric Band • Jartse Tuominen Group with Steve Bernai, Brannen Temple Club Bonafide 7:30 pm $12 • Dan Cray Trio with Joe Martin, Mark Ferber Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 Mezzrow 8 pm $20 êJerome Sabbagh Trio with Joe Martin, Billy Drummond • Michael Blanco Quartet with John Ellis, Mike Moreno, Billy Drummond Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 • Adam Kolker’s Expanded Trio Sir D’s 8, 9:30 pm • Kurt Elling Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 êFreddy Cole Quintet with Elias Bailey, Jay Sawyer, Randy Napoleon, Harry Allen • Jeremy Udden Sound Pairings Threes Brewing 8 pm $15 êRoy Haynes 93rd Birthday Celebration Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 êStrings Attached: Jack Wilkins, Vic Juris, Ron Affif, Mark Whitfield and guests Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $45 êNick Fraser/Ingrid Laubrock Downtown Music Gallery 6 pm , David F. Gibson Zinc Bar 8, 10 pm $25 • Lady Got Chops Fest: Annette Aguilar and Stringbeans • solo The Drawing Room 7 pm $20 Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2 pm • Terry Waldo’s Gotham City Band; Ark Ovrutski; Brandon Lewis/Renee Cruz Jam • Rudi Mwongozi Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm Fat Cat 6, 8:30 pm 1 am $10 • Mat Maneri’s Dust with Lucian Ban, John Hébert, Randy Peterson êBilly Martin’s Stridulations For The Good Luck Feast with Chris McIntyre, Tuesday, March 20 Cornelia Street Underground 8:30, 10 pm $10 Chris DiMeglio, Hugo Moreno, Jen Baker êFreddy Cole Quintet with Elias Bailey, Jay Sawyer, Randy Napoleon, Harry Allen Issue Project Room 1 pm $25 • Nicola Caminiti Trio with Cole Davis, JK Kim; Nick Brust Trio with Ben Eunson, Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $45 • Samurai Mama Big Band The Jazz Gallery 5 pm $15 Matt Clohesy Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 • The Ladybugs Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $20 • Intergenerational Jazz Jam Session: Jazz Power Quartet with Lakecia Benjamin, • Danny Fox Trio Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 • Neal Caine Quintet; Professor Cunningham and His Old School Eli Yamin, Endea Owens, Eli Fountain and Zah! Jazz Youth Jazz Museum in Harlem 2 pm $10 • Steve Smith Trio with Tony Monaco, Vinny Valentino The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • West Side Story Reimagined: Bobby Sanabria MultiVerse Big Band êJimmy Greene’s Love In Action with Renee Rosnes, John Patitucci, Otis Brown III, Hostos Center 7:30 pm $25-35 Rogério Boccato Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Keyon Harrold BRIC House Stoop 7 pm • Nilson Matta’s Brazilian and Jazz Journey Band with Helen Sung, John Snauwaert, êLage Lund/Sullivan Fortner Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Café Carlyle 8:45 pm $70-160 Marcello Pellitteri Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 êSteve Cromity Quintet with Richard Clements, Gene Ghee, Lonnie Plaxico, • Steve Sandberg Quartet with Joe Deninzon, Michael O’Brien, Tiago Michelin; êKris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 Dwayne “Cook” Broadnax Milk River Café 6 pm $10 Tomoko Omura Roots Quintet with Jeff Miles, Glenn Zaleski, Desmond White, • Eyal Vilner Big Band with Charenée Wade • Christopher McBride and the C-Note with Jonathan Edwards, Curtis Nowosad Jay Sawyer Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 JCC of Manhattan 8:30 pm • Brubeck Brothers Quintet: Dan and Chris Brubeck, Mike DeMicco, Chuck Lamb • Kathleen Landis, Boots Maleson, Dan White • Sarah James Trio with John di Martino, Yoshi Waki North Square Lounge 12:30, 2 pm and guest Carl Allen Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 9, 10:15 pm $3.50 Dida Pelled Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $5 êKen Peplowski Trio with Ehud Asherie, Kevin Dorn • Will Mason Electroacoustic Quintet with Matt Mitchell, Miles Okazaki, Greg Chudzik, • Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Charlotte Mundy Roulette 8 pm $20 • Pedro Giraudo and Friends The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30 pm • Oscar Feldman Quintet with Leo Genovese, John Benitez, Antonio Sanchez, • Lady Got Chops Fest: Stephanie Jeannot Trio with Danny Dalelio, Kim Clarke • Saul Rubin Zebtet; Cocomama Fat Cat 7, 9 pm $10 Guillermo Klein Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 Russian Samovar 3 pm êThe Music of : Brandee Younger êTo Bird with Strings: Paquito D’Rivera • Melissa Styliano Saint Peter’s Church 5 pm Jazz Museum in Harlem 7 pm $10 Rose Theater 8 pm $40-130 • Dogwood: Nico Soffiato/Zach Swanson Scholes Street Studio 8 pm $10 • Camille Bertault with Dan Tepfer, Alex Claffy, Ofry Nehemya • Rico Jones Quartet Shrine 6 pm Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 • Lady Got Chops Fest: Endea Owens • Ai Murakami Trio with Zaid Nasser, Sacha Perry; Charles Owens Quartet with Sistas’ Place 9, 10:30 pm $20 Dave Kikoski, Alexander Claffy, Jason Brown; Hillel Salem • Juilliard Jazz Ensembles Juilliard School Paul Hall 7:30 pm $20 • Francesco Ciniglio’s Create with Adam O’Farrill, Francesco Geminiani, Smalls 4:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 êTony Malaby, Kris Davis, Nick Fraser; Mike Pride Trio with Jon Irabagon, Kasperi Sarikoski, Addison Frei; Matt Haviland Quintet with Mark Gross, êHarold Mabern 82nd Birthday Celebration with Eric Alexander, John Webber, Drew Gress Korzo 9, 10:30 pm John di Martino, Ugonna Okegwo, Johnathan Blake; Donald Edwards Quintet with Joe Farnsworth Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 • George Burton, Pablo Menares, Jeremy “Bean” Clemons Morgan Guerin, Tom Guarna, Davis Whitfield, Ben Wolfe; Philip Harper Quintet êBill Frisell Trio with Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Smalls 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Joshua Walker; Rosemary Minkler Williamsburg Music Center 9, 10:30 pm $10 • Syndee Winters and Suite Assembly with Michael Eckroth, Taylor Jones, êHarold Mabern 82nd Birthday Celebration with Eric Alexander, John Webber, Mary Ann McSweeney, Bendji Allonce Joe Farnsworth Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 • Ben Perowsky Quartet with Chris Speed, Ben Monder, Scott Colley The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 Monday, March 19 • Glenn Crytzer Trio Radegast Hall 8 pm êBill Frisell Trio with Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston êBilly Mintz Quartet with Tony Malaby, Roberta Piket, Hilliard Greene; Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 êMike Stern 55Bar 10 pm Billy Carrión, Jr. Trio with Roberta Piket, Kyle Duupstadt • Corey Wilcox Williamsburg Music Center 9, 10:30 pm $10 • Kate McGarry Quartet with Keith Ganz, Sean Smith, Clarence Penn ShapeShifter Lab 7, 8:15 pm $10 Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 • Sagi Kaufman Trio with Yoav Eshed, Simon Wilson; Nora McCarthy Trio with • Takeshi Otani Band Shrine 6 pm Sunday, March 18 Marvin Sewell, Donald Nicks Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 êAbraham Burton Quartet Smalls 10:30 pm $20 êDaniel Carter, Eric Plaks, Adam Lane, Tcheser Holmes; Stephen Gauci, Sandy Ewen, êBill Frisell Quartet with Eyvind Kang, Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston • Chad Lefkowitz-Brown Quartet with Steven Feifke, Raviv Markovitz, Allan Mednard Adam Lane; Welf Dorr Quartet; Nick Fraser Quartet with Kenny Warren, Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Birdland 6 pm $30 Brandon Lopez; Drew Wesely, Ben Rolston, Colin Hinton; Stelios Mihas, • Andromeda Turre Band with Roxy Coss • Peter and Will Anderson Band Blue Note 11:30 am 1:30 pm $39.50 Zach Swanson, Michael Sutton Bushwick Public House 7 pm $10 Warwick Hotel 6 pm

THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | MARCH 2018 37 Wednesday, March 21 • Dida Pelled Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 • Steve Smith Trio with Tony Monaco, Vinny Valentino • Freddy DeBoe Band; Ian Hendrickson-Smith Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 êMike Stern 55Bar 10 pm The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10 pm • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, • NanJo Lee Trio with Matt Clohesy, Adam Arruda • Molly Pope Greenwich House Music School 8 pm $15 Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin Bar Next Door 6:30 pm • Aziza Miller and Prime Time with Sly Scott, Robert E. Daniels, Damon Duewhite, Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75 • Steve Smith Trio with Tony Monaco, Vinny Valentino Roland Guerrero Iridium 8:30 pm $25 • John Pizzarelli Café Carlyle 8:45 pm $90-180 Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • Katsuko Tanaka Trio with Lonnie Plaxico, Willie Jones III • Marcus MacLaurine Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm • John Pizzarelli Café Carlyle 8:45 pm $70-160 Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 • SlideAttack Jazz Quintet: Howard Levy, Alan Goidel, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Michael Goetz, • Ross Kratter Jazz Orchestra Club Bonafide 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Morgan Guerin Quintet with Lex Korten, Nick Dunston, JK Kim, Alyssa McDoom Chuck Zeuren; Ben “The Sax Guy” Birthday Bash êDuchess: Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, Melissa Stylianou, Michael Cabe, Matt Aronoff, The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 Club Bonafide 8, 10 pm $15 Jared Schonig Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 • Billy Childs Quartet with Dayna Stephens, Hans Glawischnig, Ari Hoenig • Tarek Yamani David Rubenstein Atrium 7:30 pm • Dida Pelled Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $5 Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • David Peña Dorantes, Adam Ben Ezra, Tim Ries • Raphael D’lugoff Trio +1; Don Hahn/Mike Camacho Band; Ned Goold Jam êMark Elf/Gerald Cannon Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 Fat Cat 7, 9 pm 12:30 am $10 • Akie Bermiss Quartet with Dan Asher, Andrew “Diz” Gillespie, Stacy Dillard • Dida Pelled Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 • Mayu Saeki Quartet with Tadataka Unno, Corcoran Holt, John Davis Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Ken Fowser Quintet; Chris Norton The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 • Hot Club of Flatbush Radegast Hall 9 pm • Lena Burke with guest Malena Burke; Xiomara Laugart • Camille Bertault with Dan Tepfer, Alex Claffy, Ofry Nehemya • Omar Sosa’s Transparent Water with Seckou Keita, Gustavo Ovalles Hostos Center 7:30 pm $25 Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 Roulette 8 pm $20 • The Astral Pines: Shawn Russell, Keegan Arnold, Liam Stride, Kellen Radulski, êLakecia Benjamin’s Rise Up Joe’s Pub 9:30 pm $20 • Emilio Teubal Trio with Federico Diaz, Ivan Barenboim; Ryan Gleason and guest Henry Raker • Hector Martignon Trio with Samuel Torres, Gabriel Vivas Chuño: Franco Pinna/Sofia Tosello Ibeam Brooklyn 8:30 pm $15 Mezzrow 8 pm $20 ShapeShifter Lab 8:15 pm $15 • Andy Ezrin Trio with David Finck, Adam Nussbaum • Kristina Koller with Fima Chupakhin, Chris Talio, Darrian Douglas • Nick Grinder Group Silvana 6 pm Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 • Loren Stillman Quintet with Nate Radley, Gary Versace, Rob Jost, Jared Schonig; • Shai Maestro The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 • Gordon’s Grand Street Stompers Radegast Hall 9 pm Andrew Gould Quintet with Scott Wendholt, Steven Feifke, Marco Panascia, • Billy Childs Quartet with Dayna Stephens, Hans Glawischnig, Ari Hoenig • John Colianni Big Band Saint Peter’s Church 1 pm $10 Chris Smith Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Azonic; Brown Angel; Marc Edwards/Mick Barr; Kevin Hufnagel • Ulysses Owens Three with Joel Ross, Phil Norris • Sean Smith/David Hazeltine Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 9, 10:15 pm $3.50 Saint Vitus Bar 8 pm $12 Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $15 • Sullivan Fortner Trio Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Will Bernard Quartet with Brian Charette, Kenny Brooks, Donald Edwards; • Brackish: Joe Moffett, Flin Van Hemmen, Lester St. Louis, Eli Wallace; Jessica Pavone • Whitney Marchelle with Adi Meyerson, Bernard Linette, Sweet Lee Odom Harold Mabern Trio with Joe Farnsworth St. Lydia’s 8 pm $10 Ruumy’s Tavern 9 pm Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 • Eyal Vilner Big Band with Shenel Johns • Music Now! Unit: Ras Moshe Burnett, Kyoko Kitamura, Ken Filiano, Anders Nilsson, êBill Frisell Quartet with Eyvind Kang, Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston Swing 46 8:30 pm Andrew Drury; Dan Kurfirst, Leonid Galaganov, Alex Marcelo, Avram Fefer, Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 êPRISM Quartet with guests David Liebman, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Tim Ries, On Ka’a Davis; Music Now! Re:Collective: Ras Moshe Burnett, Jason Hwang, Miguel Zenón Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia 7 pm $23 Larry Roland, Charles Downs, John Pietaro, Dave Ross; • Linda Presgrave Quartet with Stan Chovnick, Dimitri Moderbacher, Seiji Ochiai Matt Lavelle 12 Houses Orchestra with Charles Waters, Alex Hamburger, Thursday, March 22 Tomi Jazz 9 pm $10 Ras Moshe Burnett, Linda Sikhakhane, Stephanie Griffin, Nicole Davis, Anders Nilsson, • Highlights in Jazz—The Millennials Meet The Masters: Peter and Will Anderson, Francois Grillot, Chris Forbes, Jack DeSalvo • Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Dominick Farinacci, Jimmy Cobb, Buster Williams, Steve Turre, Scholes Street Studio 7 pm $20 Aaron Davis Hall 7:30 pm and guest Tribeca Performing Arts Center 8 pm $50 • Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra with Aaron Irwin, Anton Denner, , Quinsin Nachoff, • Paul Jubong Lee Trio with Daniel Durst, Diego Maldonado; Hendrik Meurkens Trio with êBill Frisell Quartet with Eyvind Kang, Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston Carl Maraghi, Brian Pareschi, Phil Dizack, Rich Johnson, Marty Bound, Misha Tsiganov, Chris Berger Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Matthew McDonald, Nick Grinder, Jacob Garchik, Jennifer Wharton, Jeff Miles, • Corcoran Holt Birdland 6 pm $30 • Danae Greenfield; Daniele Germani Randy Ingram, Pedro Giraudo, Jeff Davis • Steve Smith Trio with Tony Monaco, Vinny Valentino Williamsburg Music Center 9, 10:30 pm $10 ShapeShifter Lab 7 pm $10 Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • Gerry Gibbs and Thrasher People with Alex Collins, Buster Williams; êMatthew Whitaker Trio Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $25 Adam Birnbaum Quartet with Rich Perry, David Wong, Billy Drummond; • James Rouse BRIC House Artist Studio 6:30 pm Friday, March 23 Corey Wallace DUBtet Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 • John Pizzarelli Café Carlyle 8:45 pm $70-160 • Quartet with Stephen Scott, Curtis Lundy, Winard Harper • Jesse Crawford Duo Cleopatra’s Needle 7 pm • Craig Handy with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 • Moth to Flame: Tyson Harvey, Ivo Lorenz, Steve Golub, John Krtil, Andy Weintraub The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 • Lady Got Chops Fest: Barbara King Quartet Club Bonafide 7:30, 9:30 pm $12 • The Swing Collective: Melissa Aldana, Etienne Charles, Elio Villafranca, The Sound Bite 7, 9 pm $15 êJen Shyu’s Nine Doors; Jen Shyu/Ben Monder Yasushi Nakamura, Ulysses Owens, Jr. êBill Frisell Quartet with Eyvind Kang, Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 The Appel Room 7, 9:30 pm $60-85 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • David Peña Dorantes, Adam Ben Ezra, Tim Ries êUri Gurvich Trio with Peter Slavov, Francisco Mela êBruce Barth Trio with Ugonna Okegwo, Adam Cruz Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 Zinc Bar 7, 8:30 pm $25

38 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD Saturday, March 24 • Juilliard Jazz—Mary Lou Williams Ensemble: Jonah Moss, JarienJames Jamanila, • Judy Carmichael Quartet with guest Harry Allen Abdias Armenteros, Jacob Melsha, Felix Moseholm, Taurien Reddick Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 • Craig Handy with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams Blue Note 11:30 am 1:30 pm $39.50 • Caili O’Doherty Lil Hardin Armstrong Project The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 • Tierra Mestiza: Angelica Sanchez/Omar Tamez; Trumpets and Basses: Danny Gouker, Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $5 êThe Swing Collective: Melissa Aldana, Etienne Charles, Elio Villafranca, Jake Henry, Kenny Warren, Adam Hopkins, Will McEvoy, Zach Swanson • Gerardo Contino The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30 pm Yasushi Nakamura, Ulysses Owens, Jr. Brooklyn Conservatory of Music 8 pm $10-15 • Rubin Zebtet; Itai Kriss and Gato Gordo; John Benitez’ Latin Bop The Appel Room 7, 9:30 pm $60-85 • AKDuo: Tomoya Aomori, Julia Kang, Hyungjin Choi, Kuriko Tsugawa Fat Cat 7, 9 pm 12:30 am $10 • Jostein Gulbrandsen Trio with Mike McGuirk, Mark Ferber Cornelia Street Underground 6 pm $10 êRavi Coltrane Trio with Dezron Douglas, Allan Mednard Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 • Miho Hazama and m_unit Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Steve Smith Trio with Tony Monaco, Vinny Valentino • Ross Hammond/Andrew Drury Downtown Music Gallery 6 pm êMike Pride Trio with Jon Irabagon, Drew Gress; Nick Sanders Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • Terry Waldo’s Gotham City Band; Brandon Lewis/Renee Cruz Jam Korzo 9, 10:30 pm • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, Fat Cat 6 pm 1 am $10 • From Brooklyn to Paname: Ayo Lycée Francais de New York 7 pm Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin • Billy Childs Quartet with Dayna Stephens, Hans Glawischnig, Ari Hoenig • Lauren Kinhan/Andy Ezrin Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75 Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Syndee Winters and Suite Assembly with Michael Eckroth, Taylor Jones, • Lady Got Chops Fest: Annette Montague Quintet • Tad Shull Trio with Rob Schneiderman, Neal Miner Mary Ann McSweeney, Bendji Allonce Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2 pm Mezzrow 8 pm $20 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 • John Pizzarelli Café Carlyle 8:45, 10:45 pm $90-180 • Christopher McBride and the C-Note with Jonathan Edwards, Curtis Nowosad • Jay D’Amico Trio New York City Baha’i Center 8, 9:30 pm $15 • Phil Briggs Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 • Aron Namenwirth Quartet with Yutaka Takahashi, Eric Duane Plaks, Jon Panikkar • Karl Latham, Mark Egan, Vic Juris; Dahka Band • Roz Corral Trio with Billy Test, Gary Wang Pete’s Candy Store 11:15 pm Club Bonafide 8, 10 pm $20 North Square Lounge 12:30, 2 pm • The Westerlies: Riley Mulherkar, Zubin Hensler, Andy Clausen, Willem de Koch; • Sebastian Noelle’s Shelter with Marc Mommaas, Matt Mitchell, Thomson Kneeland, • Steph Walker Trio Russian Samovar 3 pm Attacca Quartet Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 7 pm $15 Dan Weiss Cornelia Street Underground 8:30, 10 pm $10 êCatherine Russell Saint Peter’s Church 5 pm • Aaron Parks and Little Big with Greg Tuohey, DJ Ginyard, Tommy Crane • Maurício de Souza Trio with Bob Rodriguez, Charlie Dougherty • Ai Murakami Trio with Zaid Nasser, Sacha Perry; Spike Wilner Group; ShapeShifter Lab 8 pm $10 The DiMenna Center 8 pm $20 Bruce Harris Quintet with Grant Stewart, Ehud Asherie, David Wong, Aaron Kimmel; • Dana Reason/Andrew Drury Duo; Ricardo Arias, Ben Manley, Michael Schumacher, • David Peña Dorantes, Adam Ben Ezra, Tim Ries Robert Edwards Smalls 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 Sean Meehan Soup & Sound 7 pm $20 Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $45 • Bobby Watson Quartet with Stephen Scott, Curtis Lundy, Winard Harper • Motoko Honda/Theresa Wong The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 • Dida Pelled Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $20 Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 êAndrew Cyrille Quartet with Bill Frisell, Richard Teitelbaum, Ben Street • Pete Malinverni Trio with Tony Hewitt; Steven Feifke Big Band êBill Frisell Quartet with Eyvind Kang, Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Andromeda Turre Band with Roxy Coss êValerie Capers Trio with John Robinson, Doug Richardson and guest Alan Givens • Lady Got Chops Fest: Cheryl Pyle and Musique Libre Femmes Warwick Hotel 6 pm Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 Wayward Social 7 pm • Gregoire Maret Quartet with Shedrick Mitchel, DJ Ginyard, Nathaniel Townsley • Melanie Scholtz; Rachel Therrien Williamsburg Music Center 9, 10:30 pm $10 The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 Wednesday, March 28 • Caroline Davis Quintet with Noah Preminger, Julian Shore, Tamir Shmerling, Jay Sawyer Jazz Standard 12 pm $10 Monday, March 26 êMike Stern 55Bar 10 pm • Billy Childs Quartet with Dayna Stephens, Hans Glawischnig, Ari Hoenig • Sagi Kaufman Trio with Yoav Eshed, Vinnie Sperazza Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 êMike Stern 55Bar 10 pm Bar Next Door 6:30 pm • Sean Smith/David Hazeltine Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 9, 10:15 pm $3.50 • Omer Avital’s Qantar Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 êThe Tristano Project: Greg Osby, Jaleel Shaw, Melissa Aldana, Vinny Valentino, • Sullivan Fortner Trio Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Cole Davis Trio with Jasper Dutz, Vaughn Stoffey; E.J. Decker Trio with Joe Giglio, Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, Billy Drummond êClaudia Quintet: John Hollenbeck, Matt Moran, Red Wierenga, Chris Speed, Marshall Rosenberg Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 Drew Gress Miller Theatre 8 pm $20-35 • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, • Huntertones Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 11:30 pm $10 Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin êWho is Mary Lou Williams?: Catherine Russell and LaFrae Sci Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75 Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75 Rose Theater 1, 3 pm $10-25 • Aron Namenwirth, Yutaka Takahashi, Eric Plaks, Sean Conly, Jon Panikkar; êSquirrel Nut Zippers City Winery 8 pm $40-55 • Earth Music Now!: Ras Moshe Burnett, Lisette Santiago, Lee Odom, Melanie Dyer, Stephen Gauci, Sandy Ewen, Adam Lane, Kevin Shea; Keisuke Matsuno, Songyi Jeon, • Nitzan Gavrieli Trio with Rick Rosato, Francisco Mela; Johannes Felscher Quartet with Judith Insell, Fay Victor, Larry Roland; Lindsey Wilson’s Human Hearts Trio with Dayeon Seok; Hans Tammen, David Rothenberg, Nicola Hein; Bonnie Kane, Lucas Pino, Peter Kronreif Cornelia Street Underground 8, 9:30 pm $10 Ed Keller, Michael Trotman, Reggie Sylvester; Music Now! Re:Cousins: Sandra Sprecher, Dave Miller; Brian Drye Duo • Judy Carmichael Quartet with guest Harry Allen Ras Moshe Burnett, Adam Power, Eriq Robinson, Sean Conly, Dave Miller Bushwick Public House 7 pm $10 Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 Scholes Street Studio 7 pm $20 • Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra • Caili O’Doherty Lil Hardin Armstrong Project • Lady Got Chops Fest: Pamela Hamilton Quartet Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $5 Sistas’ Place 9, 10:30 pm $20 • Pascal Le Boeuf’s Ritual Being with Remy Le Boeuf, Anna Webber, Martin Nevin, • Stafford Hunter Quintet with Camille Thurman, Willerm Delisfort, Paul Beaudry, • Nick Masters Quartet with Danny Raycraft, Leo Yucht, Adam Olszewski; Jochen Rueckert, Kevin Rogers, Otis Harriel, Taija Warbelow, Doug Machiz Darrell Green and guest Shenel Johns Gerry Gibbs and Thrasher People with Alex Collins, Buster Williams; The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 Emerald Restaurant 8 pm Adam Birnbaum Quartet with Rich Perry, David Wong, Billy Drummond; êHarvey Diamond/ Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Raphael D’lugoff Trio +1; Ned Goold Jam Brooklyn Circle: Stacy Dillard, Diallo House Ismail Lawal êJohn Abercrombie—Timeless, A Tribute To His Life And Music: Joey Baron, Fat Cat 7 pm 12:30 am $10 Smalls 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 Randy Brecker, Nels Cline, , Jack DeJohnette, Eliane Elias, , êMatt Mitchell Trio with Kim Cass, Kate Gentile • Bobby Watson Quartet with Stephen Scott, Curtis Lundy, Winard Harper Mark Feldman, Bill Frisell, Drew Gress, Marc Johnson, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Happylucky no.1 8, 9 pm $15 Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $40 Thomas Morgan, Adam Nussbaum, , Ralph Towner and guests êNoah Preminger/Frank Carlberg Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 • Pascal’s Triangle: Pascal Le Boeuf, Pablo Menares, Allan Mednard; Roulette 8 pm $45 êRavi Coltrane Trio with Dezron Douglas, Allan Mednard and guest Tomoki Sanders Cisum Percussion: Nicholas Hall, Luz Carime Santa-Coloma, Sarah Bennett, • Bob Bennett Big Band Sir D’s 8, 9:30 pm Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 Noah Hadland Spectrum 8:30 pm • Corcoran Holt Quintet with Stacy Dillard, Josh Evans, Benito Gonzalez, êBria Skonberg with Mathis Picard, Lily Maase, Corcoran Holt, Darrian Douglas, • Pepe Habichuela with Josemi Carmona, Kiki Morente, Javier Colina, Bandolero; McClenty Hunter Smalls 10:30 pm $20 Evan Arntzen Joe’s Pub 9:30 pm $15 Alba Herediaand guests Arturo O’Farrill, Adam O’Farrill êStrings Attached: Jack Wilkins, Vic Juris, Ron Affif, Mark Whitfield and guest êOrrin Evans Trio with Luques Curtis, Gene Jackson Town Hall 8 pm $45-75 Jorge Chicoy Zinc Bar 8, 10 pm $25 Mezzrow 8 pm $20 êBill Frisell Quartet with Eyvind Kang, Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston • Emanuele Tozzi Quartet with Andrea Veneziani, Yorgos Maniatis, Nicoletta Manzini Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $10 • Lisanne Tremblay and Codeswitch Tuesday, March 27 • The Stone Commissions: Pamelia Stickney Williamsburg Music Center 10, 11:30 pm $10 National Sawdust 7 pm $25 • For Lew: Bill Warfield Big Band Zinc Bar 7, 8:30 pm $20 • Manhattan School of Music Jazz Arts Vocal Combo • Sameer Gupta/Ross Hammond Rubin Museum 6 pm 55Bar 7 pm • Ravi Campbell Silvana 8 pm • Jonah Udall, Gregg Belisle, Asher Kurtz; Erez Barnoy Trio • Travis Shook Quartet with Jennifer Vincent, Kebbi Williams, Timothy Angulo; Sunday, March 25 Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 Le Boeuf Brothers: Remy and Pascal Le Boeuf, Dayna Stephens, Martin Nevin, êThe Tristano Project: Greg Osby, Jaleel Shaw, Melissa Aldana, Vinny Valentino, Jochen Rueckert; Aaron Seeber Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, Billy Drummond • Theresa Wong solo The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 êAndrew Cyrille Quartet with Bill Frisell, Richard Teitelbaum, Ben Street Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75 • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin • Ethan Iverson/Jacob Sacks Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall 8 pm $35 Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75

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THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | MARCH 2018 39 Thursday, March 29 êDan Nimmer Trio with David Wong, Peter Van Nostrand Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Elijah Shiffer Trio with Joanna Sternberg, Vincente Hansen; Daan Kleijn Trio with • Marshall McDonald Quartet with Mike Eckroth, James Cammack, Vince Ector REGULAR ENGAGEMENTS Luke Selleck, Jimmy Macbride Bar Next Door 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 Minton’s 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • JayCee Driesen Birdland 6 pm $30 • DCNN: Ben Cohen, Daniel Carter, Eli Wallace, Dan Kurfurst MONDAY êThe Tristano Project: Greg Osby, Jaleel Shaw, Melissa Aldana, Vinny Valentino, Pete’s Candy Store 9 pm • Richard Clements/Murray Wall Band Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, Billy Drummond • Michael Whalen/Bob Magnuson ShapeShifter Lab 7 pm $15 • David Acevedo’s Eyehear with Joseph Freund, Sean Kim, Conner Duke, Daniel Mesko 11th Street Bar 8 pm Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • Grove Street Stompers Arthur’s Tavern 7 pm • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, ShapeShifter Lab 8:15 pm $10 • Earl Rose Bemelmans Bar 5:30, 9 pm Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin • Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker Quartet with Ugonna Okegwo, ; • Woody Allen and The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75 Black Art Jazz Collective: Wayne Escoffery, Jeremy Pelt, James Burton III, Victor Gould, Café Carlyle 8:45 pm$120-215 Nick Masters Duo Cleopatra’s Needle 7 pm Vicente Archer, Johnathan Blake Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 • Jon Weiss Duo Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm • • Svetlana & The Delancey 5 Freddy’s Backroom 8:30 pm • Samuel Torres Quartet Club Bonafide 7:30 pm $15 êTia Fuller Quartet with Shamie Royston, Mimi Jones, Tyson Jackson Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $38 • Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks êDIVA Jazz Orchestra 25th Anniversary Celebration: Sherrie Maricle, Tomoko Ohno, Iguana 8 pm Noriko Ueda, Alexa Tarantino, Mercedes Beckman, Janelle Reichman, Cynthia Mullis, • Lady Got Chops Fest: Marilyn Kleinberg Quartet • Iris Ornig Jam Session Jazz at Kitano 8 pm Leigh Pilzer, Liesl Whitaker, Jami Dauber, Rachel Therrien, Barbara Laronga, The Sound Bite 7, 9 pm $15 • Mingus Big Band Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 Jennifer Krupa, Hailey Brinnel, Leslie Havens and guest Ingrid Jensen • Dana Reason and The MIVOS Quartet • Glenn Crytzer Orchestra Kola House 7 pm Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 Spectrum 9 pm • JFA Jam Session Local 802 7 pm • Mercedes Roffé, Adria Otte, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Rachel Devorah, Theresa Wong • Melvin Vines 9 pm • Caili O’Doherty Lil Hardin Armstrong Project • Jazz Jam Session Radegast Hall 8 pm Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 SULA: Michael Mayo, Caili O’Doherty, Tamir Shmerling, Diego Joaquin Ramirez, • Quartet and Smoke Jam Session êStafford Hunter and Continuum with Willerm Delisfort, Alex Claffy, Vince Ector; • Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm Binky Griptite Orchestra The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10 pm Wayne Tucker, Asaf Yuria Tribeca Performing Arts Center 7:30 pm $30 • Swingadelic Swing 46 8:30 pm • Eva Salinas/Peter Stan Greenwich House Music School 8 pm $15 êAndrew Cyrille Quartet with Bill Frisell, Richard Teitelbaum, Ben Street • Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $30 • Scott Morgan Quintet Birthday Bash with Gary Versace, Nadje Noordhuis, Matt Aronoff, Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Mark Ferber Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $18 TUESDAY • Jihye Lee Orchestra The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $15 • Nick West’s Westet Analogue 7 pm êRavi Coltrane Trio with Dezron Douglas, Allan Mednard Saturday, March 31 • Richard Wyands 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $30 • Yuichi Hirakawa Trio Arthur’s Tavern 7 pm • Janice Friedman/Marco Panascia Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Grant Stewart with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams • Art Hirahara Trio Arturo’s 8 pm • Whitney Marchelle with Duane Eubanks, Arco Sandoval, Eric Lemon, Bernard Linnette The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 • Joel Forrester solo The Astor Room 6 pm Pelham Fritz Recreation Center 6:30 pm • Jim Campilongo Trio Bar Lunàtico 8:30, 10 pm $10 • Jerome Harris/Dave Baron Barawine 6 pm • Arun Luthra Trio with Evan Gregor, Kenny Grohowski • Marc Devine Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm • Paul Shapiro Russ & Daughters Café 8 pm • Battle Of The Horns Farafina Jazz Café and Lounge 8 pm • Paul Francis Silvana 6 pm Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 ê • Diego Voglino Jam Session Halyard’s 10 pm • Christian Finger Trio with Vadim Neselovskyi, Adam Armstrong The Tristano Project: Greg Osby, Jaleel Shaw, Melissa Aldana, Vinny Valentino, • Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks Sir D’s 8 pm Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, Billy Drummond Iguana 8 pm • Mathis Picard Sextet with Giveton Gelin, Corey Wilcox, Ruben Fox, Marty Jaffe; Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 • Mona’s Hot Four Mona’s 11 pm Carlos Abadie Quintet Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm $20 • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, • John Cooksey Paris Blues 9 pm Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin • Mike LeDonne Quartet; Emmet Cohen Band • George Colligan Trio with Buster Wiliams, Lenny White Smoke 7, 9, 10:30, 11:30 pm Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $15 Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75 Carol Sudhalter Quartet Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm • George Gee Orchestra Swing 46 8:30 pm • Kanoko Nishi-Smith, John McCowen, Theresa Wong, Christian Kobe • • Tardo Hammer/John Webber 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 • Mike Armando Trio with Andrew Golba, Greg Bonasera; Charlie Rhyner/Imraan Khan Quintet with Dan Schnapp, Mike Roninson • Alexis Parsons/Freddie Bryant Symphony Space Bar Thalia 9 pm WEDNESDAY êAndrew Cyrille Quartet with Bill Frisell, Richard Teitelbaum, Ben Street Club Bonafide 8, 10 pm $15 Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 • Matt Aronoff Quintet with Jason Rigby, Fabian Almazan, Henry Cole • Bill Wurtzel/Jay Leonhart American Folk Art Museum 2 pm Cornelia Street Underground 8:30, 10 pm $10 • Monika Oliveira Analogue 7 pm êDIVA Jazz Orchestra 25th Anniversary Celebration: Sherrie Maricle, Tomoko Ohno, • Eve Silber Arthur’s Tavern 7 pm • Jonathan Kreisberg Trio Bar Next Door 8:30, 10:30 pm $12 Friday, March 30 Noriko Ueda, Alexa Tarantino, Mercedes Beckman, Janelle Reichman, Cynthia Mullis, • David Ostwald’s Centennial Band Leigh Pilzer, Liesl Whitaker, Jami Dauber, Rachel Therrien, Barbara Laronga, Birdland 5:30 pm $20 • Kendra Shank, John Stowell, Dean Johnson Jennifer Krupa, Hailey Brinnel, Leslie Havens and guest Camille Thurman • Les Kurtz Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 7 pm 55Bar 6, 7:45 pm Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 • Pasquale Grasso; Django Jam Session • Caili O’Doherty Lil Hardin Armstrong Project The Django 8:30, 11 pm • Grant Stewart with Tardo Hammer, John Webber, Steve Williams • Mark Kross and Louise Rogers WaHi Jazz Jam The 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm $20 Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $20 Dida Pelled; King Solomon Hicks The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm Le Chéile 8 pm • Michael Valeanu Trio with Rick Rosato, Dani Dor • • Les Goodson Band Paris Blues 9 pm Bar Next Door 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $12 • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Stretch Music Festival • Lezlie Harrison; Mel Davis B3 Trio and Organ Jam êThe Tristano Project: Greg Osby, Jaleel Shaw, Melissa Aldana, Vinny Valentino, Harlem Stage Gatehouse 7 pm $25 Smoke 7, 9, 10:30, 11:30 pm Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, Billy Drummond êMartin Wind Sextet with Anat Cohen, Ingrid Jensen, Scott Robinson, Gary Versace, • Stan Rubin Orchestra Swing 46 8:30 pm Birdland 8:30, 11 pm $40 Duduka Da Fonseca Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 • Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall with Gil Goldstein, David Mansfield, Armand Hirsch, • Immanuel Wilkins Quartet with Micah Thomas, Daryl Johns, Kweku Sumbry THURSDAY The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 Jeff Carney, Louis Cato, Madison McFerrin • Tardo Hammer/John Webber 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 8, 10 pm Blue Note 8, 10:30 pm $75 • Laurin Talese with Toru Dodo, Jonathan Michel, Anwar Marshall • Ray Blue Organ Quartet American Legion Post 398 7 pm • Walter Williams/Gitesha Trio Cleopatra’s Needle 8 pm Jazz Standard 12 pm $10 • Eri Yamamoto Trio Arthur’s Tavern 7 pm • Jason Rigby Detroit-Cleveland Trio with Cameron Brown, Gerald Cleaver êRavi Coltrane Trio with Dezron Douglas, Allan Mednard • John McNeil/Mike Fahie The Douglass 9 pm Cornelia Street Underground 8:30, 10 pm $10 Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 pm $35 • Steve Wirts Han Dynasty 6 pm • Les Goodson Band Paris Blues 9 pm êDIVA Jazz Orchestra 25th Anniversary Celebration: Sherrie Maricle, Tomoko Ohno, • Women’s Raga Massive Joe’s Pub 7 pm $20 êDan Nimmer Trio with David Wong, Peter Van Nostrand • Gene Bertoncini Ryan’s Daughter 8:30, 10:30 pm Noriko Ueda, Alexa Tarantino, Mercedes Beckman, Janelle Reichman, Cynthia Mullis, • Rob Duguay Low Key Trio Turnmill NYC 11 pm Leigh Pilzer, Liesl Whitaker, Jami Dauber, Rachel Therrien, Barbara Laronga, Mezzrow 8 pm $20 • Shevelovin’ Quartet Silvana 6 pm Jennifer Krupa, Hailey Brinnel, Leslie Havens and guest Camille Thurman FRIDAY Dizzy’s Club 7:30, 9:30 pm $40 • Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker Quartet with Ugonna Okegwo, Victor Lewis; • Caili O’Doherty Lil Hardin Armstrong Project Black Art Jazz Collective: Wayne Escoffery, Jeremy Pelt, James Burton III, Victor Gould, • Eri Yamamoto Trio Arthur’s Tavern 7 pm Vicente Archer, Johnathan Blake; Philip Harper Quintet • The Crooked Trio Barbès 5 pm Dizzy’s Club 11:15 pm $10 • Birdland Big Band Birdland 5:15 pm $25 • Ken Fowser Quintet; Itai Kriss and Telavana with Elena Nayiri Smalls 7:30, 10:30 pm 1 am $20 êTia Fuller Quartet with Shamie Royston, Mimi Jones, Tyson Jackson • Shirley House The Heath 12 am The Django at Roxy Hotel 7:30, 10:30 pm • Nico Soffiato Nha Minh 7 pm • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Stretch Music Festival Smoke 7, 9, 10:30 pm $38 • Melvin Vines Paris Blues 9 pm Harlem Stage Gatehouse 7 pm $25 • Lady Got Chops Fest: Taeko Fukao • Gerry Eastman Quartet Williamsburg Music Center 10 pm êMartin Wind Sextet with Anat Cohen, Ingrid Jensen, Scott Robinson, Gary Versace, The Sound Bite 7, 9 pm $15 Duduka Da Fonseca Jazz at Kitano 8, 10 pm $34 • John McCowen/Theresa Wong and guest RED SCARF: Li Xing, Deng Boyu, Lao Dan SATURDAY êStephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe The Stone at The New School 8:30 pm $20 êAndrew Cyrille Quartet with Bill Frisell, Richard Teitelbaum, Ben Street • Eri Yamamoto Trio Arthur’s Tavern 7 pm The Jazz Gallery 7:30, 9:30 pm $25 • Bill Saxton and the Harlem Bebop Band êRavi Coltrane Trio with Dezron Douglas, Allan Mednard and guest Brandee Younger Village Vanguard 8:30, 10:30 pm $35 Bill’s Place 8, 10 pm $20 Jazz Standard 7:30, 9:30 pm $35 • Marco Bolfelli Williamsburg Music Center 10, 11:30 pm $10 • Gabrielle Stravelli Brazen Tavern 12 pm • Joel Forrester Café Loup 12:30 pm • Stan Rubin Orchestra Carnegie Club 8:30, 10:30 pm • Assaf Kehati Duo Il Gattopardo 11:30 am Bassist/Composer • Melvin Vines Paris Blues 9 pm martiN WiND • Johnny O’Neal Smoke 11:45 pm 12:45 am releases milestoNe SUNDAY reCorDiNg With • Sam Martinelli Trio Analogue 6:30 pm • Creole Cooking Jazz Band; Stew Cutler and Friends light BlUe Arthur’s Tavern 7, 10 pm availaBle marCh 2, 2018 • Jerome Harris/Dave Baron Barawine 6 pm oN laika reCorDs, • Peter Mazza Trio Bar Next Door 8, 10 pm $12 CD BaBy aND itUNes • Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Birdland 9, 11 pm $30 release CeleBratioNs: • Renaud Penant Trio Bistro Jules 7:30 pm Migration • Glenn Crytzer Trio Blacktail 8 pm • Marc Devine/Hide Tanaka Café Loup 6:30 pm the kitaNo hotel • Keith Ingham Cleopatra’s Needle 4 pm marCh 30 & 31 • Trampelman Dominie’s Astoria 9 pm 66 park aveNUe, NeW york City • The EarRegulars The Ear Inn 8 pm William Hooker aNat CoheN (ClariNet), iNgriD • Joel Forrester solo Grace Gospel Church 11 am JeNseN (trUmpet), sCott roBiNsoN (teNor sax), gary versaCe (piaNo) • Grassroots Jazz Effort Grassroots Tavern 9 pm aND DUDUka DaFoNseCa (DrUms) • Bassey & The Heathens The Heath 12 am • Tony Middleton Trio Jazz at Kitano 12 pm $40 Roulette Jazz ForUm • Avalon Jazz Band Minton’s 12 pm • Melvin Vines Paris Blues 9 pm april 1 • Marjorie Eliot/Rudell Drears/Sedric Choukroun 1 DixoN laNe, tarrytoWN, Ny Parlor Entertainment 4 pm Thursday, April 5, 2018, 8PM maUCha aDNet (voCals), iNgriD • Koran Agan Radegast Hall 1:30 pm JeNseN (trUmpet), sCott roBiNsoN (teNor sax), gary versaCe (piaNo) • Lu Reid Jam Session Shrine 4 pm aND DUDUka Da FoNseCa (DrUms) • Annette St. John; Wilerm Delisfort Quartet 509 Atlantic Avenue Smoke 11:30 am 11:45 pm • Stan Killian Trio Thaimee 3 pm martiNWiND.Com • Sean Smith and guest Walker’s 8 pm roulette.com laika-reCorDs.Com

40 MARCH 2018 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD CLUB DIRECTORY

• 11th Street Bar 510 E. 11th Street • The Flatiron Room 37 W. 26th Street • The Owl Music Parlor 497 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn (212-982-3929) Subway: L to 1st Avenue www.11thstbar.com (212-725-3860) Subway: N, R to 28th Street www.theflatironroom.com (718-774-0042) Subway: 2, to to Sterling Street www.theowl.nyc • 440Gallery 440 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn • Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing • Paris Blues Harlem 2021 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Boulevard (718-499-3844) Subway: F, G to Seventh Avenue www.440gallery.com (718-463-7700) Subway: 7 to Main Street www.flushingtownhall.org (212-222-9878) Subway: 2, 3 to 125th Street www.parisbluesharlem.com • 55Bar 55 Christopher Street (212-929-9883) • Freddy’s Backroom 627 5th Avenue, Brooklyn • Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue Subway: 1 to Christopher Street www.55bar.com (718-768-0131) Subway: R to Prospect Avenue www.freddysbar.com (212-616-3930) Subway: 6 to 68th Street www.armoryonpark.org • 75 Club at Bogardus Mansion 75 Murray Street • Ginny’s Supper Club at Red Rooster Harlem 310 Malcolm X Boulevard • Parlor Entertainment 555 Edgecombe Ave. #3F (212-268-1746) Subway: 1, 2, 3 to Chambers Street (212-792-9001) Subway: 2, 3 to 125th Street www.ginnyssupperclub.com (212-781-6595) Subway: C to 155th Street www.bogardusmansion.com • Grace Gospel Church 589 East 164th Street • Pelham Fritz Recreation Center 18 Mt Morris Park West • 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street (718-328-0166) Subway: 2, 5 to Prospect Avenue (212-860-1380) Subway: 2, 3 to 125th Street (212-415-5500) Subway: 6 to 96th Street www.92y.org • Grassroots Tavern 20 Saint Marks Place • The Penrose 1590 2nd Avenue • Aaron Davis Hall 133rd Street and Convent Avenue (212-475 9443) Subway: 6 to Astor Place, N,R to 8th Street (212-203-2751) Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th Street www.penrosebar.com (212-650-7100) Subway: 1 to 137th Street-City College www.adhatccny.org • Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street • Pete’s Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street • American Folk Art Museum 65th Street at Columbis Avenue (212-242-4770) Subway: 1 to Christopher Street www.greenwichhouse.org (718-302-3770) Subway: L to Lorimer Street (212-595-9533) Subway: 1 to 66th Street www.folkartmuseum.org • Groove Bar & Grill 125 MacDougal Street • Radegast Hall 113 N. 3rd Street • American Legion Post 398 248 W. 132nd Street (212-254-9393) Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, V to W. 4th Street (718-963-3973) Subway: L to Bedford Avenue www.radegasthall.com (212-283-9701) Subway: 2, 3 to 135th Street www.legion.org www.clubgroovenyc.com • Rockwood Music Hall 196 Allen Street (212-477-4155) • An Beal Bocht Café 445 W. 238th Street • H0l0 1090 Wyckoff Avenue Subway: L to Halsey Street www.h0l0.nyc Subway: F, V to Second Avenue www.rockwoodmusichall.com Subway: 1 to 238th Street www.LindasJazzNights.com • Halyard’s 406 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn • Rose Theater Broadway at 60th Street, 5th floor • Analogue 19 West 8th Street (212-432-0200) (718-532-8787) Subway: R to 9th Street www.barhalyards.com (212-258-9800) Subway: 1, 2, 3, 9, A, C, E, B, D, F to Columbus Circle Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, M to W. 4th Street www.analoguenyc.com • Han Dynasty 215 W. 85th Street www.jalc.org • The Appel Room Broadway at 60th Street, 5th floor (212-858-9060) Subway: 1 to 86th Street www.handynasty.net • Roulette 509 Atlantic Avenue (212-258-9800) Subway: 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, B, D, F to Columbus Circle • Happylucky no.1 734 Nostrand Avenue (917-267-0363) Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic Avenue www.roulette.org www.jazz.org (347-295-0961) Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Franklin Avenue • Rubin Museum 150 W. 17th Street • Arthur’s Tavern 57 Grove Street (212-675-6879) • Hari NYC 140 W 30th Street, 3rd floor Subway: 1 to 28th Street (212-620-5000) Subway: A, C, E to 14th Street www.rmanyc.org Subway: 1 to Christopher Street www.arthurstavernnyc.com • Harlem Stage Gatehouse 150 Convent Avenue at W. 135th Street • Russ & Daughters Café 127 Orchard Street • Arturo’s 106 W. Houston Street (at Thompson Street) (212-650-7100) Subway: 1 to 137th Street www.harlemstage.org (212-475-4881) Subway: F to Delancey Street (212-677-3820) Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, M to W. 4th Street • The Heath at McKittrick Hotel 530 W. 27th Street www.russanddaughterscafe.com • The Astor Room 34-12 36th Street, Queens (212-904-1883) Subway: C, E to 23rd Street www.mckittrickhotel.com • Russian Samovar 256 W. 52nd Street (718-255-1947) Subway: M, R to Steinway Street www.astorroom.com • Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th Street (212-757-0168) Subway: C, E to 50th Street www.russiansamovar.com • BB King’s Blues Bar 237 W. 42nd Street (212-414-5994) Subway: A, C, E to 14th Street www.highlineballroom.com • Ruumy’s Tavern 310 W. 53rd Street (212-997-2144) Subway: 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd Street/Times Square • Hostos Center 450 Grand Concourse (917-409-3661) Subway: C, E, F to 50th Street www.ruumystavern.com www.bbkingblues.com (718-518-6700) Subway: 2, 4, 5 to 149th Street www.hostos.cuny.edu • Ryan’s Daughter 350 E. 85th Street • Bar Lunàtico 486 Halsey Street • Ibeam Brooklyn 168 7th Street between Second and Third Avenues (212-628-2613) Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th Street www.ryansdaughternyc.com (917-495-9473) Subway: C to Kingston-Throop Avenues Subway: F to 4th Avenue www.ibeambrooklyn.com • St. John Lutheran Church 81 Christopher Street • Bar Next Door 129 MacDougal Street (212-529-5945) • Iguana 240 West 54th Street (212-765-5454) (212-242-5737) Subway: 1 to Christopher Street www.stjohnsnyc.org Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, M to W. 4th Street www.lalanternacaffe.com Subway: B, D, E, N, Q, R to Seventh Avenue www.iguananyc.com • St. Lydia’s 304 Bond Street, Brooklyn • Barawine 200 Lenox Avenue at W. 120th Street • Il Gattopardo 13-15 W. 54th Street (646-580-1247) Subway: F, G to Carroll Street www.stlydias.org (646-756-4154) Subway: 2, 3 to 116th Street (212-246-0412) Subway: E, M to Fifth Avenue/53rd Street • Saint Peter’s Church 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street • Barbès 376 9th Street at 6th Avenue, Brooklyn (718-965-9177) www.ilgattopardonyc.com (212-935-2200) Subway: 6 to 51st Street www.saintpeters.org Subway: F to 7th Avenue www.barbesbrooklyn.com • Iridium 1650 Broadway at 51st Street (212-582-2121) • Saint Vitus Bar 1120 Manhattan Avenue • Bemelmans Bar 35 E. 76th Street (212-744-1600) Subway: 1,2 to 50th Street www.theiridium.com Subway: G to Greenpoint Avenue www.saintvitusbar.com Subway: 6 to 77th Street www.thecarlyle.com • Issue Project Room 22 Boerum Place • Scholes Street Studio 375 Lorimer Street • Bill’s Place 148 W. 133rd Street (between Lenox and 7th Avenues) (718-330-0313) Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall (718-964-8763) Subway: L to Lorimer Street; G to Broadway (212-281-0777) Subway: 2, 3 to 135th Street www.issueprojectroom.org www.scholesstreetstudio.com • Birdland 315 W. 44th Street (212-581-3080) • Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Queens • The Schomburg Center 515 Macolm X Boulevard Subway: A, C, E, to 42nd Street www.birdlandjazz.com (718-658-7400 ext. 152) Subway: E to Jamaica Center www.jcal.org (212-491-2200) Subway: 2, 3 to 135th Street • Bistro Jules 60 St Marks Place • Jazz at Kitano 66 Park Avenue at 38th Street (212-885-7000) www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg (212-477-5560) Subway: 6 to Astor Place www.julesbistro.com Subway: 4, 5, 6, 7, S to Grand Central www.kitano.com • ShapeShifter Lab 18 Whitwell Place • Blacktail 2nd floor, Pier A Harbor House, 22 Battery Place • The Jazz Gallery 1160 Broadway, 5th floor (212-242-1063) (646-820-9452) Subway: R to Union Street www.shapeshifterlab.com (212-785-0153) Subway: 4, 5 to Bowling Green www.blacktailnyc.com Subway: N, R to 28th Street www.jazzgallery.org • Shrine 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard (212-690-7807) • Blue Note 131 W. 3rd Street at 6th Avenue (212-475-8592) • Jazz Museum in Harlem 58 W. 129th Street between Madison and Lenox Subway: B, 2, 3 to 135th Street www.shrinenyc.com Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, M to W. 4th Street www.bluenotejazz.com Avenues (212-348-8300) Subway: 6 to 125th Street • Silberman Auditorium at Hunter College Harlem • Brazen Tavern 356 W. 44th Street www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street Subway: 6 to 116th Street; 4, 5 to 125th Street (646-678-5989) Subway: A, C, E to 4nd Street-Port Authority • Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th between Park and Lexington Avenue • Silvana 300 West 116th Street www.thebrazentavern.com (212-576-2232) Subway: 6 to 28th Street www.jazzstandard.net (646-692-4935) Subway: B, C, to 116th Street www.silvana-nyc.com • BRIC House Artist Studio, Ballroom, Media House and Stoop • JCC of Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street • Sir D’s 837 Union Street, Brooklyn 647 Fulton Strreet (718-683-5600) Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins Street (646-505-5708) Subway: 1, 2, 3 to 72nd Street www.jccmanhattan.org (718-789-2762) Subway: M, R to Union Street www.bricartsmedia.org • Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street • Sistas’ Place 456 Nostrand Avenue at Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn • Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2900 Campus Road (212-539-8770) Subway: N, R to 8th Street-NYU; 6 to Astor Place (718-398-1766) Subway: A to Nostrand Avenue www.sistasplace.org Subway: 5 to Flatbush Avenue/Brooklyn College www.brooklyncenter.com www.publictheater.org/Joes-Pub-at-The-Public • Smalls 183 W 10th Street at Seventh Avenue (212-252-5091) • Brooklyn Conservatory of Music 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn • Juilliard School Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Paul Hall 155 W. 65th Street Subway: 1 to Christopher Street www.smallsjazzclub.com Subway: F to Seventh Avenue, N, R to Union Street www.bkcm.org (212-769-7406) Subway: 1 to 66th Street www.juilliard.edu • Smoke 2751 Broadway between 105th and 106th Streets • Bushwick Public House 1288 Myrtle Avenue • Kismat 603 Fort Washington Avenue (212-864-6662) Subway: 1 to 103rd Street www.smokejazz.com (917-966-8500) Subway: G to Myrtle - Willoughby Avenue then B54 (212-795-8633) Subway: 1 to 191st Street www.kismatny.com • The Sound Bite 737 9th Avenue www.bushwickpublichouse.com • Knickerbocker Bar & Grill 33 University Place at 9th Street (917-409-5868) Subway: C, E to 50th Street • Café Carlyle 35 E. 76th Street (212-744-1600) (212-228-8490) Subway: N, R to 8th Street www.thesoundbiterestaurant.com Subway: 6 to 77th Street www.thecarlyle.com www.knickerbockerbarandgrill.com • Soup & Sound 292 Lefferts Avenue between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues • Café Loup 105 W. 13th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues • Kola House 408 W. 15th Street Subway: 2 to Sterling Street (212-255-4746) Subway: F to 14th Street www.cafeloupnyc.com (646-869-8873) Subway: A, C, E, L to 14th Street www.kolahouse.com • Spectrum 70 Flushing Avenue • Caffe Vivaldi 32 Jones Street Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, Q, V • Korzo 667 5th Avenue Brooklyn (718-285-9425) Subway: R to Prospect Avenue Subway: B, D, Q to DeKalb Avenue www.spectrumnyc.com to W. 4th Street-Washington Square www.caffevivaldi.com www.facebook.com/konceptions • Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall 881 Seventh Avenue • Carnegie Club 156 W. 56th Street • Las Tapas 808 W. 187th Street (212-247-7800) Subway: N, Q, R, W to 57th- Seventh Avenue (212-957-9676) Subway: N, Q, R, W to 57th-Seventh Avenue (646-590-0142) Subway: 1 to 191st Street www.lastapasny.business.site www.carnegiehall.org • The Cave at St. George’s 209 E. 16th Street • Le Chéile 839 W. 181st Street • The Stone at The New School 55 West 13th Street (646-723-4178) Subway: L to Third Avenue www.calvarystgeorges.org (212-740-3111) Subway: A to 181st Street www.lecheilenyc.com (212-229-5600) Subway: F, V to 14th Street www.thestonenyc.com • City Winery 155 Varick Street • Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street • Swing 46 349 W. 46th Street (646-322-4051) (212-608-0555) Subway: 1 to Houston Street www.citywinery.com (212-228-4854) Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, V to W. 4th Street Subway: A, C, E to 42nd Street www.swing46.com • Cleopatra’s Needle 2485 Broadway (212-769-6969) www.lepoissonrouge.com • Symphony Space Bar Thalia, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Subway: 1, 2, 3 to 96th Street www.cleopatrasneedleny.com • Lehman Center 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx Peter Jay Sharpe Theatre 2537 Broadway at 95th Street • Club Bonafide 212 E. 52nd Street (646-918-6189) Subway: 6 to 51st Street; (718-960-8833) Subway: 4, D to Bedford Park Boulevard (212-864-5400) Subway: 1, 2, 3 to 96th Street www.symphonyspace.org E, V to 53rd Street www.clubbonafide.com www.lehmancenter.org • Teatro Latea 107 Suffolk Street • Cornelia Street Underground 29 Cornelia Street (212-989-9319) • Local 802 322 W. 48th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues (212-529-1948) Subway: F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street www.teatrolatea.org Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, M to W. 4th Street www.corneliastreetcafé.com (212-245-4802) Subway: C to 50th Street www.jazzfoundation.org • Terraza 7 40-19 Gleane Street • The Cutting Room 44 E. 32nd Street • Lycée Francais de New York 505 E. 75th Street (718-803-9602) Subway: 7 to 82nd Street www.terrazacafe.com (212-691-1900) Subway: 6 to 33rd Street www.thecuttingroomnyc.com (212-439-3820) Subway: 6 to 77th Street • Thaimee at McCarren 160 N. 12th Street • David Rubenstein Atrium Broadway at 60th Street (212-258-9800) • Manhattan School of Music Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Miller Recital Hall, (718-218-7500) Subway: G to Nassau Avenue; L to Bedford Avenue Subway: 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, B, D, F to Columbus Circle Ades Performance Space, Carla Bossi-Comelli Studio www.thaimeeatmccarren.com www.atrium.lincolncenter.org Broadway and 122nd Street • Threes Brewing 333 Douglass Street • The DiMenna Center 450 W. 37th Street (212-749-2802 ext. 4428) Subway: 1 to 116th Street (718-522-2110) Subway: R to Union Street www.threesbrewing.com (212-594-6100) Subway: A, C, E to 34th Street/Penn Station www.msmnyc.edu • Tomi Jazz 239 E. 53rd Street www.dimennacenter.org • Manna House 338 E. 106th Street between First and Second Avenues (646-497-1254) Subway: 6 to 51st Street www.tomijazz.com • Dizzy’s Club Broadway at 60th Street, 5th Floor (212-258-9800) (212-722-8223) Subway: 6 to 103rd Street • Town Hall 123 W. 43rd Street Subway: 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, B, D, F to Columbus Circle www.jazz.org • Metro Baptist Church 410 W. 40th Street (between Ninth and Tenth Avenues) (212-997-1003) Subway: 7, B, D, F, M to 42nd Street-Bryant Park • The Django at The Roxy Hotel 2 Sixth Avenue (212-519-6600) (212-765-8446) Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, S, V to 42nd Street www.the-townhall-nyc.org Subway: A, C, E to Canal Street; 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THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | MARCH 2018 41 (INTERVIEW CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6) a few times. I’ve been friends with [saxophonist] Tree Roots Series with unreleased recordings from that Melissa [Aldana]… Yeah, I know all of them. I worked scene.” TNYCJR: When this article is published in March you with [drummer] Allison Miller before. I went to Berklee The second CD to appear in the Roots Series is the will have completed a tour with Marcello Gonçalves in College of Music with Noriko [Ueda], the bass player, Vinny Golia Wind Quintet’s Live at the Century City Italy and… so I know her for a long time. Yeah, I know everybody Playhouse, Los Angeles 1979, a striking foray into in the band for a long time. chamber music with Golia’s extensive woodwinds and AC: …and we’ll be post-Grammys, so we’ll know if we complex compositions joined by Bradford, Carter and won, since we’ve been nominated for two albums. TNYCJR: I spoke to Terri Lyne Carrington a while back trombonist Glenn Ferris. It’s amazing. Hopefully we’ll get the Tentet album to and I think she said something similar to you when she It was a significant moment early in Golia’s career. be nominated next year. And we’ll have some shows was getting a lot of attention for an all-woman project. He recalls, “before the gig we couldn’t all rehearse coming up with the Tentet. Oh! And I have a duo album It just happened to be a group of amazing artists and together, I did one rehearsal in the afternoon with John coming out with Fred Hersch and hopefully it will be she didn’t really put the emphasis on the fact that it and Glenn and then one with Bobby. I was a bit nervous ready for our dates in March on the West Coast. was an all-women band. She said the point was not to because this was a new setting for me, but I love make a women’s band but just to make a band. chamber music settings... Bertrand came to LA a couple TNYCJR: That’s a lot of ongoing projects. Looking at of times, saw Bob and I play, so we talked a lot about your website, I see you’re almost booked solid through AC: Yeah. I mean, we will get to a point where it’s not the musicians and the fact that many of us on the entire July. How are you able to work with all of these projects going to matter. You know, when it’s an all-guys band West Coast have been often overlooked when it comes and keep a schedule like that? Is there time to get the nobody asks, “why decide to put all guys in the band?” to playing festivals and such. I mentioned the wind music organized and rehearse? [laughs] But when it’s all girls they ask, “why did you quartet, so he asked if he could hear it and he liked it. decide to put all girls?” Well, I like the way they all Checked with me about everything, very easy to work AC: Not always. Sometimes things happen last minute. play and I want to play with them. You know, when it with. I do have to say that I did not listen to any of the Sometimes there is time. If there’s an ongoing project comes time to make music you think about personalities music until I got the CDs. I am delighted that a label then we end up building over an existing repertoire and musical fit and sometimes people are aware of it, has taken an interest in the scene out here. It’s still very and it’s easier to just add things as we go. Sometimes but you don’t necessarily think about gender or race or vibrant, fertile in fact. The history out here is amazing I’ve done stuff where you start with the same repertoire age. It’s not the first thing that comes to my mind when and growing. That quartet was a big step for me, and every day or two of a tour you add a song and you I want to put a band together. I think about what the thinking about how to compose for more delicate work on it and then you add another song and then by music wants. The music just wants to be played the situations. John, Bobby and Glenn are masters of the end of the tour you have new repertoire. And I love best way it can be played and you have to find the nuance so I was learning quite a bit from them just by experimenting with things live because sometimes you people that are going to make…you know, I want to listening. John, Bobby and Horace Tapscott were like rehearse a song and you think, “that’s the way I want play with people that help me feel that I can be me and beacons of light showing us a pathway to what our to play it” and then something is missing when it let me be free. When you can find that, the rest doesn’t music could become if we stayed on it.” comes to playing it live. You want to know what excites matter. v For Gastaut to record a band, “they have to be the music, what makes it go in a certain trajectory. We singular, to touch my soul, to give me goosebumps! need the live shows in order to let the music be what For more information, visit anatcohen.com. Cohen is at When I listened for the first time to Sens Radiants [the it wants to be. I want people to keep coming out and 92nd Street Y Mar. 2nd as part of the Woman to Woman second album by Lazro, Duboc and Lasserre], I had supporting live music. There are some things that band and Jazz at Kitano Mar. 30th-31st with Martin Wind. tears in my eyes, so I had no doubt.” cannot be worked out unless we try them on people, See Calendar. While the music on Dark Tree is mostly improvised, unless we play for people, unless we feel how people there’s no house style: one unifying feature might be react to it and feel what it does. The music is a dialogue Recommended Listening: the presence of Duboc on five of the nine CDs, but the with the artist and the audience so just keep coming • Five Play—…Plus (Arbors, 2004) three trios of which he’s a member inhabit very out to support live music. • Waverly 7—Yo! Bobby (Anzic, 2006) different ‘zones’ of free improvisation. Duboc feels • Anat Cohen—Clarinetwork: Live at the Village that, “Bertrand is like me, he thinks that music is a TNYCJR: I’m sure this is the process with Hersch. Vanguard (Anzic, 2009) story of relationship, between human beings and the • Anat Cohen—Claroscuro (Anzic, 2011) world. My dear wife thinks that ‘music is the way to AC: Absolutely! With Fred it’s very unknown because • 3 Cohens—Tightrope (Anzic, 2013) make love with the world.’ I agree.” the music is really open. Even though we could play a • Anat Cohen Tentet—Happy Song (Anzic, 2016) The trio Tournesol with guitarist Julien Desprez standard, we could play a song, it can come out and percussionist Julien Loutelier often focuses on differently every time and that’s part of the reason sustained sounds, sometimes abrasive, sometimes I like to play in duos. It makes the music much more with isolated bass rumbles and slow percussion, the flexible and elastic as opposed to…I mean it can (LABEL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11) result an intense and unpredictable meditation on time become flexible with a quartet as well, but there’s stretching toward the horizon. The trio En Corps (with something about only two people making a decision at To find more than door money for the band he’d just two CDs, the first eponymous, the second Generation, the same time. It’s enough if one wants to go a certain invented, Gastaut said, “I like the idea of this trio, you see review on pg. 15) with pianist Eve Risser and way and the other just lets it be, then the music just like it too, let’s do a recording session and I’ll start a drummer Edward Perraud is a radical extension of the goes there. There’s much more back and forth when label to release it!” piano trio in which it is reimagined as a kind of there’s a few more people involved. The group’s first meeting resulted in Pourtant les percussion orchestra, an astonishing dance of mutating cimes des arbres, the first Dark Tree release and one that particles. TNYCJR: Also coming up in March is the Woman to would distinguish any label associated with improvised For Risser, “In this trio each player can play bass, Woman All-Star Band performance at 92nd Street Y. music, from its striking Rorschach blot cover with its percussion, highs, so it makes a non-soloistic jazz colored spheres (Marie Gastaut does all the Dark Tree piano trio. It’s very magical when we don’t even AC: Oh! Amazing. I love this band so much. I think we design work), the epigram from the traveller-poet recognize who does what, even while playing have a new name for the band. It’s called Artemis, but Basho and, most of all, the music, work of elemental ourselves. At the same time, each member likes to that will have to be confirmed with our musical power in which Lazro’s baritone summons up granite navigate between these beautiful possibilities and the director [pianist] Renee Rosnes. We did a tour this past blocks of sound amid Duboc’s bowed and plucked proper role of being a bass, a piano or drums in a jazz summer for three weeks. It was just such an incredible foundations and the rattle and hum of Lasserre’s snare piano trio. This movement in the instruments’ timbres experience. Amazing musicianship, great spirit, great and cymbals. and registers gives us joyfulness and warm interaction.” souls, just powerful people, happen to be women, but Since then the team of Bertrand, Marie and her For Duboc, “Each trio has its own music, its that’s really not the main point. It’s just a great way to husband Emmanuel have presented 90 concerts in the texture. It depends on our stories, about what is make music with sensitive musicians and it was just jazz@home series (jazzathome.fr) and Dark Tree has possible together. The choice is maybe to be where we such a joyful, positive experience that we decided to become a significant label. The name, taken from a have to be, to be at the right place in the right moment. try and do it again. composition by Horace Tapscott, commemorates But, for me, the most important thing is to share the Gastaut hearing the California pianist at a 1995 concert: present, to share the air! They all are fantastic TNYCJR: How much have you worked with those “I didn’t know anything about him at that time, but musicians, there is never fighting, just love. We trust individual artists separate from this band? Tapscott blew my mind, I’d seen the light! At the same each other and this is the deal, the beginning. This is time, I discovered the music of Bobby Bradford and maybe the identity of the label and maybe the reason AC: I’ve toured with Renee in the past, we went to John Carter. That’s how I started being interested in for the high quality.” v Japan together. I worked with [trumpeter] Ingrid the L.A. avant garde jazz scene. So now, you can Jensen; I played with [vocalist] Cécile McLorin Salvant imagine how happy I am to be able to put out the Dark For more information, visit darktree-records.com

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