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OF HOT HOUSE P31 March 2019 www.hothousejazz.com Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Page 17 Blue Note Page 10 Rene Rosnes Joey Morant Ambrose Akinmusire Lynne Arriale Village Vanguard Page 10 Zinc Bar Page 19 Where To Go & Who To See Since 1982 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 2 2 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 3 3 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 4 4 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 5 5 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 6 6 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 7 7 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 8 8 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 1:58 PM Page 9 9 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 10 WINNING SPINS By George Kanzler N TWO RECENT RELEASES, TRUM- tet tracks with pianist Ted Firth and peters from different generations offer bassist Cameron Brown; the foursome is radicallyI contrasting approaches to jazz. expanded on three tunes by John Simon on Joey Morant is a few decades older than tenor and Max Schweiger on baritone sax. 36-year-old Ambrose Akinmusire, so he This configuration brings out Joey's most honed his art in the years when jazz, R&B hard-bop-centered playing and writing, and soul were prominent in pop music. with his "437 Race Street" a particularly Ambrose came of age in the 21st century, fine contribution to the genre. with rap and hip-hop dominating pop The leader picks up the flugelhorn in an music culture. Joey belongs to a long tradi- impressively lyrical duet with pianist tion of jazz musicians—specifically trum- Terence Conley. With a piano trio he takes peters—as entertainers, and like his fore- on the old chestnut "Annie Laurie" and bearers Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, sings "Hey There," a song popularized by Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry, he sings Rosemary Clooney in the 1950s. Overall, as well as plays. Ambrose has a different this CD offers further evidence that jazz is agenda: He is a musical agent provocateur, alive, well and thriving in regions beyond an activist with a barely disguised Black the Big Apple, West Coast and big metrop- Lives Matter subtext. olises. Forever Sanctified (Blujazz) presents a Origami Harvest (Blue Note) is the lat- personal, full-length self-portrait of Joey est release from Ambrose Akinmusire. Morant as a jazz artist. On past albums he The trumpeter burst on the scene more has paid tribute to Louis Armstrong, but than a decade ago displaying a virtuosic here he keeps the tributes to a minimum. command of his instrument along with a One instance is his celebration of Lee determinedly personal, individual sound Morgan in a sparkling take on the classic and approach. That approach includes jazz standard "The Sidewinder." Joey has embracing other forms of music and artists lot in common with Lee, sharing a pen- from outside the jazz world, so much so chant for expressive trumpet gestures like that this album features rapping, narra- slides, glisses and slurs, plus a vibrato-rich tion and the addition of strings from the tone. Mivos Quartet. The record spotlights a shifting cast of It's hard to say exactly who to credit or musicians in varied configurations; besides blame for the smutty, misogynistic ideas, the trumpeter, the only constant on since lyricists are listed for the three Forever Sanctified is Joey's 17-year-old tracks featuring the rapper. But Kool could son, Amadeus, on drums. Two of the com- be mixing in some of his own words, which bos on the album feature the B-3 organ, have been cited as offensive on his record- reflecting a reality for jazz musicians who ings as a leader. have found that when playing in regional Ambrose is more an auteur here than a clubs an organ is both more portable and trumpet player, his writing for the strings more expansive sounding than a piano. predominating along with his words, Four of the CD's dozen tracks showcase a which include a litany of names of African quartet with Mike LeDonne on B-3 and Americans killed by police on "Free, White Mark Whitfield on guitar joining Joey and and 21." The most intriguing piece, the 10- Amadeus. They perform four of Joey's orig- minute "The Lingering Velocity of the inals, two of which include vocals and/or Dead's Ambitions" would have been narration by the composer. Joey also plays labeled "third stream" in the mid-20th cen- congas, some trombone and, on tury. It is colloquy for string quartet, trum- "Charleston She-Crab Soup," he overdubs pet and, peripherally, drums, with an horns on the theme. The tune is a booga- impressive array of timbres and tones sug- loo-inflected nod to a regional culinary gesting everything from a horror movie favorite from Joey, who hails from soundtrack to an avant-garde concerto. Charleston, South Carolina. Two other tracks feature veteran B-3 “Hot Lips” Joey Morant & Catfish master Gene Ludwig in a trio setting: a Stew play a “New Orleans Jazz Brunch” vocal version of "Long Ago and Far Away," at the Blue Note March 3; Ambrose and Joey's tune "My Mother's Eyes," on Akinmusire leads a quintet with tenor which he tosses in quotes from "The saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist William Tell Overture" (aka The Lone Sullivan Fortner, bassist Harish Ranger theme) during the coda. Raghavan and drummer Justin Brown, The album also includes a pair of quar- at the Village Vanguard March 5-10. 10 Akinmusire cover photo by Christie Hemm Klok, Arriale by Andrew Lepley, Rosnes by Daniel-Azoulay. 199568_HH_March_0 2/22/19 10:57 AM Page 11 Sign-up for our E-ALERT at www.hothousejazz.com and be the 1st to know when the latest Hot House is available on line PUBLISHER/MANAGING EDITOR: For advertising requests and listing Gwen Kelley (formerly Calvier) information contact Gwen Kelley [email protected] 203-434-4646/[email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elzy Kolb Hot House Jazz Magazine is published monthly and all [email protected] copyrights are the property of Gwen Kelley. All rights PRODUCTION & ART DIRECTOR: reserved. No material may be reproduced without written Karen Pica [email protected] permission of the President. Domestic subscriptions CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: areavailable for $37 annually (sent first class). 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