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Ginger Baker Bill Mchenry OCTOBER 2013 - ISSUE 138 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC JAZZ SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM Space SUN In RA Time MARIAN IN MEMORIAM 1918-2013 MCPARTLAND GINGER ••••BILL MARCUS BETHLEHEM EVENT BAKER MCHENRY BELGRAVE RECORDS CALENDAR “BEST JAZZ CLUBS OF THE YEAR 2012” SMOKE JAZZ & SUPPER CLUB • HARLEM, NEW YORK FEATURED ARTISTS / 7:00, 9:00 & 10:30pm SPECIAL EVENTS / 7:00, 9:00 & 10:30pm RESIDENCIES / 7:00, 9:00 & 10:30pm Fri & Sat, Oct 4 & 5 MIKE LEDONNE’S GROOVER QUARTET Sundays, Oct 6 & 13 JIMMY GREENE QUARTET MEETS THE GUITARISTS SaRon Crenshaw Band CD Release Preview Tue, Oct 1 Sundays, Oct 20 & 27 Jimmy Greene (tenor saxophone) ● Renee Rosnes (piano) Vivian Sessoms Ben Wolfe (bass, fri) ● John Patitucci (bass, sat) Bob Devos w/Eric Alexander & Carl Allen Jeff “Tain” Watts (drums) Tue, Oct 8 Mondays, Oct 7 & 21 Fri & Sat, Oct 11 & 12 Dave Stryker w/Vincent Herring & Joe Farnsworth Jason Marshall Big Band MONK BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Tue, Oct 15 Mondays, Oct 14 & 28 featuring Orrin Evans Paul Bollenback w/Eric Alexander & Joe Farnsworth Captain Black Big Band Eddie Henderson (trumpet) ● Tim Warfield (tenor saxophone) Thursdays, Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 Orrin Evans (piano) ● Ben Wolfe (bass) ● Donald Edwards (drums) Tue, Oct 22 Ed Cherry w/Eric Alexander & Joe Farnsworth Gregory Generet Fri & Sat, Oct 18 & 19 Tue, Oct 29 MYRON WALDEN MOMENTUM Peter Bernstein w/Eric Alexander & Joe Farnsworth LATE NIGHT RESIDENCIES / 11:30 - Darren Barrett (trumpet) ● Myron Walden (tenor saxophone) Eden Ladin (piano) ● Yasushi Nakamura (bass) ● Mark Whitfield, Jr. (drums) Mon The Smoke Jam Session Fri & Sat, Oct 25 & 26 ONE NIGHT ONLY / 7:00, 9:00 & 10:30pm Tue Milton Suggs Quartet Wed, Oct 2 “EDDIE WHO?” SEAMUS BLAKE Lauren Sevian’s “LSQ” Quartet Wed Brianna Thomas Quartet QUARTET PLAYS EDDIE HARRIS Wed, Oct 9 Seamus Blake (tenor saxophone) ● Brian Charette (keyboards) Thr Nickel and Dime OPS Gerald Cannon (bass) ● Joe Farnsworth (drums) Noah Jackson & Full Circle Wed, Oct 16 Fri Patience Higgins Quartet Fleurine JAZZ BRUNCH / 11:30am, 1:00 & 2:30pm Sat Johnny O’Neal & Friends Wed, Oct 23 Sundays The Baylor Project Sun Roxy Coss Quartet Vocal Jazz Brunch Wed, Oct 30 Annette St. John and Trio Tommy Campbell’s Vocal-Eyes 212-864-6662 • 2751 Broadway NYC (Between 105th & 106th streets) • www.smokejazz.com SMOKE Jazz is generally accepted as being born in some elemental form in New Orleans, bubbling up from the ethnic and cultural stew that was that city in the late 1800s New York@Night and beyond. But clearly jazz didn’t stay still, either in its development or its 4 location. It proliferated all over the world...and even beyond. Sun Ra (On The Interview: Ginger Baker Cover) showed that the influence of the music spread all the way through the galaxy to his home planet of Saturn (Birmingham, Alabama for the more prosaic). by Anders Griffen 6 Next year would have been the pianist/composer/bandleader’s 100th birthday Artist Feature: Bill McHenry and Jazz at Lincoln Center is starting the party early with an evening featuring by Sam Spokony Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra this month. 7 A little more earthbound, drummer Ginger Baker (Interview) was an On The Cover: Sun Ra accomplished jazz drummer in his native London, England before ‘detouring’ into 9 by Russ Musto rock during the ‘60s. He revisits his first love at Iridium this month with his Jazz Confusion Band. Saxophonist Bill McHenry (Artist Feature) got his jazz grounding Encore: Lest We Forget: in the blueberry state of Maine but has been a key member of the NYC scene for 10 Marcus Belgrave Julius Watkins the past two decades. He brings his quartet to the Village Vanguard for a week this month. And England is again represented by an In Memorial Spread on the late by Terrell Holmes by Ken Waxman pianist/NPR radio host Marian McPartland, who died in late August. We have Megaphone VOXNews two spokesmen for the Detroit jazz realm in trumpeter Marcus Belgrave (Encore), 11 by Warren I. Smith by Katie Bull who receives the award of recognition from the Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) and performs for two nights at Jazz Standard, and the late French horn Label Spotlight: Listen Up!: player Julius Watkins (Lest We Forget), born 92 years ago this month. And to demonstrate the current state of local and international jazz, we have 12 Bethlehem Records Peter Brendler & Hashem Assadullahi festival reports from the US (Detroit Jazz Festival), Germany (A L’ARME!) and by George Kanzler Canada (Guelph Jazz Festival) and our CD Reviews encompass the traditions of Cuba, Russia, Spain, Brazil, Iceland, Morocco, Czech Republic, the UK, Denmark, 13 Festival Reports: A L’ARME! • Detroit • Guelph Belgium and dozens of other countries. It’s a big world and we’ll see you out there... 14 In Memoriam: Marian McPartland (1918-2013) Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor Andrey Henkin, Editorial Director CD Reviews: The Claudia Quintet, Kenny Barron, Joe Fiedler, On The cover: Sun Ra - One World Family, Berkeley-11-1974 (Michael Wilderman/ 16 Gregory Porter, John Coltrane, Mike McGinnis, Tim Berne and more wildermanphoto.com) Event Calendar Corrections: In last month’s Festival Reports, technically it is the 59th anniversary of 42 the first Newport Jazz Festival rather than the 59th edition; no festivals were held in 1961 or 1972-80. In last month’s CD Reviews, Laszlo Gardony was the arranger of 49 Club Directory “You Are The Sunshine of My Life” on Yoron Israel’s album. Submit Letters to the Editor by emailing [email protected] Miscellany: In Memoriam • Birthdays • On This Day US Subscription rates: 12 issues, $30 (International: 12 issues, $40) 51 For subscription assistance, send check, cash or money order to the address below or email [email protected]. The New York City Jazz Record www.nycjazzrecord.com / twitter: @nycjazzrecord Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene To Contact: Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin The New York City Jazz Record Staff Writers 116 Pinehurst Avenue, Ste. J41 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Fred Bouchard, Stuart Broomer, Katie Bull, New York, NY 10033 Tom Conrad, Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Brad Farberman, Sean Fitzell, Kurt Gottschalk, United States Tom Greenland, Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman, Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, Wilbur MacKenzie, Marc Medwin, Sharon Mizrahi, Russ Musto, Sean J. O’Connell, Laurence Donohue-Greene: Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Jeff Stockton, Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Contributing Writers Adam Everett, Anders Griffen, George Kanzler, Suzanne Lorge, General Inquiries: [email protected] Robert Milburn, JD Parran & Warren Smith, Philip Smith, Sam Spokony Advertising: [email protected] Contributing Photographers Editorial: [email protected] Jim Anness, Scott Friedlander, Peter Gannushkin, Sasa Huzjak Calendar: [email protected] Marek Lazarski, Susan O’Connor, Jack Vartoogian, Michael Wilderman All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | October 2013 3 NEW YORK @ NIGHT Sex Mob closed a three-night run at ShapeShifter Lab Seven-string guitarist Charlie Hunter has been (Sep. 14th) by inviting the enigmatic singer Shilpa Ray jamming with drummer Scott Amendola since the to open, singing heart-wrenching songs lost somewhere heyday of the Bay Area’s acid jazz scene, so their recent in the smoke between Billie Holiday and Deborah duo gig (Sep. 5th) at The Cutting Room was just the Harry and accompanying herself on harmonium. Sex continuation of a two-decade-long musical Mob played a fired up and unscripted set starting with conversation. After running down a couple of the “You Only Live Twice”, Bernstein sticking almost trickier heads during soundcheck, they opened the exclusively to the slide trumpet throughout the set, show with a slow shuffling blues, chuckling together, with Briggan Krauss pinching, squeaking and growing quiet, then bringing it on with a preaching bellowing along on alto and baritone saxophones. solo by Hunter, ending loud and proud to whooping They touched repeatedly on “Won’t Get Fooled Again”, applause. This set the tone for the session, a sequence Tony Scherr covering the guitar part on upright bass of earthy grooves grounded in Amendola’s nuanced and reducing the familiar power chords to a snail’s pocket-playing and Hunter’s muffled thumb-bass, pace as Bernstein occupied Kenny Wollesen’s gongs. overlaid with soulful Curtis Mayfield-style chordal They cycled further and further from The Who rock passages and vibrant leads. The repertoire featured anthem, enough so that it might not have been there many originals from Amendola’s upcoming release anymore, abetted for a spell by Peter Apfelbaum on Pucker, including “Leave On” (for Levon Helm) and tenor saxophone. Bernstein was clearly there to have “Scott’s Tune” (written by Amendola’s grandfather), fun, calling tunes in mid-air and reveling in his band along with John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy”, the Stylistics’ finding their way from A to B. The whole thing seemed “People Make the World Go Round”, gospel standard a joyful, hour-long intro to Sly Stone’s “Stand” once “You Gotta Move” and Billy Strayhorn’s “Rain Check”. that theme blared through in triumphant unison. They The pair was refreshingly casual onstage, obviously reverted back to Nancy Sinatra and then again to The having a good time and calling tunes on the fly. Who, then some quick jazzy fills like they couldn’t Brainstorming for a third song to play, Hunter rejected help themselves. It was a spirited round of riffs, themes Amendola’s first suggestion: “It’s gotta be a different and tropes, after which a spent and wobbly Bernstein key than the one we just did!” As seasoned jamsters, explained there was “No Fellini and nothing we played they paced themselves well, lowering the dynamic the last two days.
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