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Bobby Watson Kirk Knuffke Guillermo Gregorio Horace Silver Coltrane AUGUST 2019—ISSUE 208 YOUR FREE GuiDe TO THE NYC JaZZ SCENE NYCJaZZRECORD.COM RAVICOLTRANE next trane comin’ bobby kirk GuiLLERMo horace watson knuffke GREGorio siLver Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The New York City Jazz Record 66 Mt. Airy Road East AUGUST 2019—ISSUE 208 Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 United States Phone/Fax: 212-568-9628 new york@niGht 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: interview : bobby watson 6 by ken dryden [email protected] Andrey Henkin: artist feature : kirk knuffke 7 by john sharpe [email protected] General Inquiries: on the cover : ravi coLtrane 8 by russ musto [email protected] Advertising: encore : GuiLLERMo GREGORIO 10 by steven loewy [email protected] Calendar: Lest we forGet : horace siLver 10 by scott yanow [email protected] VOXNews: LabeL spotLiGht : aLeGre recorDs 11 by jim motavalli [email protected] VOXNEWS by suzanne lorge 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 obituaries 12 by andrey henkin money order to the address above or email [email protected] festivaL report 13 Staff Writers Duck Baker, Stuart Broomer, Robert Bush, Kevin Canfield, cD reviews 14 Marco Cangiano, Thomas Conrad, Pierre Crépon, Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Phil Freeman, Miscellany Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, 31 George Grella, Tyran Grillo, Alex Henderson, Robert Iannapollo, event caLenDar Mark Keresman, Marilyn Lester, 32 Suzanne Lorge, Marc Medwin, Jim Motavalli, Russ Musto, John Pietaro, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Anna Steegmann, Scott Yanow Contributing Writers Brian Charette, George Kanzler, Improvisation is the magic of jazz. It takes instrumental ability, blues foundation and classic Steven Loewy, Francesco Martinelli, rigor, identity of the individual and strength of the group and binds all these aspects together Franz Matzner, Annie Murnighan into something that Eric Dolphy described as, once played, having gone into the air, is never Contributing Photographers to be heard again yet existing for time immemorial in our collective memory. Richard Conde, Enid Farber, Scott Friedlander, Peter Gannushkin, All the musicians featured in this sweltering August issue found themselves as players in Wojciech Lyko, John Rogers, improvisation and continue that process with every note they play. Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane Sherry Rubel, Mike Shur, Nada Zgank (On The Cover) is a scion of one of the greatest improvising families but is far from just “And Son”. This month he is at SummerStage’s Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and The Stone at The New School. Saxophonist Bobby Watson (Interview) realized at a young age his predilection for Fact-checker Nate Dorward improvising would lead to a jazz career. He is part of a celebration for Charlie Parker this month at Smoke. Cornet player Kirk Knuffke (Artist Feature) continues the tradition, and pushes it forward. Hear him this month at The Stone at The New School and InterContinental New York Barclay. And clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio (Encore) and pianist Horace Silver (Lest We nycjazzrecord.com Forget) offer the myriad possibilities of where composition and improvisation intersect. On The Cover: Ravi Coltrane (© 2019 Enid Farber Fotography) Corrections: In last month’s NY@Night, Swaminathan Selvaganesh is the son of V. Selvaganesh who was in Remember Shakti and Brooklyn Raga Massive is a leaderless collective. In the Vision Festival review, Unruly Manifesto is solely James Brandon Lewis’ album. In the CD Reviews, the name of the band is 2000, the album title Plant. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. 2 AUGUST 2019 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD AVISHAI COHEN TRIO BEN WILLIAMS WITH SHAI MAESTRO & & FRIENDS NICHOLAS MARK GUILIANA 'GENTLY DISTURBED' SUMMER RESIDENCY PAYTON AUGUST 1 - 4 AUGUST 5,12,19 AUGUST 6 - 11 DIZZY GILLESPIE ALL-STAR BIG BAND EDDIE PALMIERI CIMAFUNK AUGUST 13 - 18 AUGUST 20 - 25 AUGUST 26-27 SPECIAL SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH $39.50 INCLUDES BRUNCH, MUSIC & COCKTAIL @bluenotenyc l3l WEST 3RD STREET NEW YORK CITY • 2l2.475.8592 • WWW.BLUENOTEJAZZ.COM TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY 8PM & l0:30PM • FRIDAY & SATURDAY LATE NIGHTS: l2:30AM TELECHARGE.COM WWW.BLUENOTEJAZZ.COM TERMS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS APPLY new york @ niGht The inaugural Downtown Jazz Festival, organized by The mahogany-lined walls of recent Bushwick the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL), addition The Sultan Room invited guests into its highly certainly didn’t lack for ambition. The event, which aestheticized ‘70s-lounge setting to witness the NOH honored local hero Milford Graves, brought a star- Band: alto saxophonist Tim Berne, guitarist David filled lineup to the Queens neighborhood just north of Torn and drummer Dave King (Jul. 2nd). Clearly JFK Airport. In addition to the honoree, Don Byron, well-suited to one another, the musicians’ individual Pheeroan akLaff, Camille Thurman and others talents fell naturally into place within the sonic world performed during the three-day event. They all had a they created. King was robust, jittery and assured, hard act to follow with the opening salvo of pianist helping ground the trio through sudden and dramatic Jason Moran and drummer Tyshawn Sorey (Jul. 12th). dynamic shifts while Torn acted as an alchemist, The pair are known separately as two of today’s most creating swirling vortices of sound with looping, cerebral players and composers so it was with great feedback and sustain, the perfect palette over which anticipation that the audience settled into JCAL’s black Berne traced rich, curious melodies. During the quieter box theater for their first official performance (after moments, the nuances of each player’s technique came a 2016 reception appearance for a John Rogers into focus—crisp, precise fluttering rhythms; photography exhibition at The Jazz Gallery). To use the multifaceted horn tone; curious, alien looped guitar. word transcendent would give the wrong impression; The textural interplay between the full tones of guitar that term implies something greater than the physical and saxophone (at times breathy, other times wailing) entity and experience. The 50-minute free improvisation was particularly intriguing, the pair blending into a beheld actually made one keenly aware of the intensely kind of whirling drone. Torn’s electronic work was physical act of music-making, as the boundary between engaging as he occasionally slipped in vaguely bluesy AVISHAI COHEN pianist and drummer and piano and drums blurred, lines amid the bleeping, glittering and whirring of his ARVOLES particularly during a segment where Moran set up a hefty rig. King was similarly exploratory yet tonally SSC 4619 - IN STORES AND STREAMING NOW Minimalist foray of repeated two-finger rolls from the calculated, alternating among different sticks, brushes lowest part of the instrument’s register. A strong and mallets—even his bare hands—to acclimate to the improvised set will have a couple of “how did we get music’s shifting air and curious wanderings of Berne’s here?” moments; Moran and Sorey somehow managed heady melodic work. The hour-long first set to keep this sense of wonder as a constant state, going demonstrated collaborative spirit in a unique setting. by in a flash yet also feeling infinite. —Andrey Henkin —Annie Murnighan M O C . C Y N S R E G O R R N E H D O J N / A L S D R E E I G R F O R T T N O H C O S J © © Jason Moran/Tyshawn Sorey @ Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning NOH Band @ The Sultan Room While jazz is usually associated with the elegant and Jamie Saft kicked off his new monthly series “Spheres” classy, often the environs where it can be found are at Nublu 151 (Jul. 8th), the first installment featuring anything but. So The 75 Club in the basement of the his keyboards, plus guitarist Chuck Hammer, bassist historic Bogardus Mansion, with its tasty cocktails and Brad Jones and drummer Bobby Previte. Each possesses warm brick, is a welcome, relatively new addition to a distinct style, which resulted in a freewheeling the city’s venue pool, especially in lower Manhattan, soundscape, though occasionally lacking in cohesion. where jazz clubs are to be found few and far between. While the introduction was lush and pristine, the But charm will only get you a first date, as it were; sound soon mutated into something looser and more k you need personality too. That comes in the form of the chaotic. Previte’s rhythms were marked by a consistent a a l r e club’s bookings, such as a solo Andy Bey residency on focus on rapid cymbal strikes, accented with blunt T s a Thursdays and, last month, the Trombone Festival snare hits and thunderous fills. Saft’s technique was e r d n (Jul. 5th-6th). The name says it all: a three-trombone both dramatic and abstract; if at times his fingers A y b frontline anchored by a fine rhythm section of Noriko fluttered across the keys in a glissando, his solos were o t o Kamo (piano), Tyler Mitchell (bass) and Victor Lewis jagged and playful. Hammer’s blues and rock h p (drums). And what a frontline: Dick Griffin, Frank influences remained clear as he employed a whammy Lacy and Craig Harris, a trio of the finest players and pedal and crunchy overdrive to contrast Saft’s conceptualists the instrument and jazz as a whole has glimmering tone on keys and organ. Jones held down Appearing at the BLUE NOTE to offer. Griffin was ostensibly the leader as it was his tight grooves, providing an anchoring presence. About August 1, 2, 3 & 4 (shows at 8 PM & 10:30 PM) compositions featured during the opening set of the halfway through the set, the group orchestrated a full weekend alongside jazz standards.
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