THE INDEPENDENT JOURNAL OF CREATIVE IMPROVISED MUSIC In This Issue Carmen Bradford Jay Clayton Bruce Ditmas George Gruntz John McLaughlin Dennis Mackrel Pete LaRoca Buster Williams art pepper on vinyl Cafe society book review Volume 39 Number 2 April may june 2013 MAKAYA MCCRAVEN DRUMS ANDREW TOOMBS PIANO TIM SEISSER BASS “a fresh take on the age-old piano trio, catapulted by McCraven’s propulsive percussion into an orbit that few first-time groups ever achieve.”– Neil Tesser AARON KOPPEL GUITAR MATT NELSON PIANO, RHODES, HAMMOND B-3 GRAHAM CZACH BASS ROBERT TUCKER DRUMS HHHH “There’s always a twist when the forward-thinking guitarist Aaron Koppel is in the picture... The band knows how and where to take chances.” – Jon Ross, Downbeat Available at : CDBaby, iTunes, Amazon ChicagoJazz.com & everywhere www.chicagosessions.com 2013 RELEASES ON SLAM "DAY FOR NIGHT AT JACK STraW" David Haney piano, Julian Priester trombone, Buell Neidlinger bass. Marc Smason trombone, shofar, Doug Haning contra alto clarinet, Dan Blunck tenor sax and flute, Frank Clayton bass, Juan Pablo Carletti drums. "JUST FLUX" “FREE-DOT”, the duo of Antonio Cotardo flutes, voice, bells, piano and Paolo Pacciolla drums, berimbao, mbira, voice, Jew’s harp, household percussion, piano. "RENEGADE" Esmond Selwyn guitar, Paul Sawtell keyboards, Bill Coleman bass, Tony Richards drums DOUBLE CD SLAMCD 291 www.slamproductions.net [email protected] Bernard “Pretty” Purdie And the beat goes on…Share a musical experience with me…. I am available for: Private Lessons-Master Classes-Clinics-Concerts & Recordings www.bernardpurdie.com [email protected] 8 | CADENCE MAGAZINE | APRIL MAY JUNE 2013 Celebrating 40 Years 1972 – 2012 We give jazz a boost in the Garden State! 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The New Jersey Jazz Society is a 501(c)(3) registered Charitable Organization. ® tour updates & info: facebook.com/PeaceEnsemble June 12...La Sala Rosa; Montreal, Canada June 13...Vision Festival 18, NYC June 15...Panel on FA exchange VF, NYC June 18...Shadow Box Theater, Columbus Ohio June 19...Constellation Chicago, IL June 20...Chapel Performance Space, Seattle* June 21...Vancouver Int’l Jazz Festival, Canada* June 22...Ottawa Jazz Festival, Canada* *on these dates the tour continues as a quartet without Louis Sclavis The French American Peace Ensemble has been made possible through the French-American Jazz Exchange, a joint program of FACE ("French American Cultural Exchange") and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, with generous funding from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs de Musique ("SACEM"), Florence Gould Foundation, and Institut Français. June 12 - 16, 2013 Milford Graves — a Lifetime of Achievement Roulette 509 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY Wednesday 12/6 — Milford Graves A Lifetime of Achievement Milford Graves’ Afro-Cuban Roots ∆ D Virelles ∆ R Diaz ∆ D Douglas ∆ R Filiu M Graves ∆ DD Jackson ∆ Kidd Jordan Milford Graves ∆ C Gayle ∆ W Parker ∆ R Rudd ∆ A Baraka Thursday 6/13 Maria Mitchell ∆ Terry Jenoure Akhenaten’s Visions ∆ R Cambell ∆ B Carrot ∆ JK Hwang ∆ M Wimberly U_L Project ∆ R Brown ∆ J McPhee ∆ M Masaoka ∆ M Helias ∆ Q Naqvi Roscoe Mitchell ∆ Henry Grimes ∆ Tani Tabal Friday 6/14 — The French-American Connection S Dalachinsky ∆ D Petit Bern Nix ∆ F Grillot ∆ M Lavelle ∆ R Sylvester The East-West Collective ∆ D Petit ∆ S Kassap ∆ M Masaoka ∆ L Ochs French-American Peace Ens. ∆ K Jordan ∆ W Parker ∆ H Drake ∆ F Tusques ∆ L Sclavis Saturday 6/15 coT.I.M.E. - the Future of Jazz (student perform) Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook-up ∆ A Hopkins ∆ B Settles ∆ J Finlayson ∆ M Halvorson K Davis ∆ E Revis ∆ A Cyrille S Simmons ∆ D Burrell Reggie Workman WORKz ∆ M Crispell ∆ O Pope ∆ T Modak Sunday 6/16 M Parker ∆ H Drake ∆ JW Brown Hamiett Bluiett Group Arc Trio ∆ M Pavone ∆ C Taborn ∆ G Cleaver Marshall Allen ∆ C McBride ∆ L Smith ∆ H Cooper ® www.artsforart.org SAMUEL BLASERYAMAHA TROMBONES NEW ALBUM on Hat Hut Records hatOLOGY 718 AS THE SEA MANAGEMENT: Izumi Productions www.samuelblaser.com [email protected] Cadence Magazine is celebrating it’s 39th birthday with four days of mind expanding music. Festival Schedule: Thursday, April 11,2013, Shapeshifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (646) 820-9452 David Arner Trio with Jay Rosen and Michael Bisio – Tomas Ulrich’s Cargo Cult – Adam Lane Full Throttle Orchestra –Primitive Arkestra Group with Steve Swell and David Haney Friday, April 12, 2013, Chris’ Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (215) 568-3131 Blaise Siwula with Dom Minasi and Toshi Makihara – David Arner Trio with Jay Rosen and Michael Bisio Primitive Arkestra Group with David Haney Saturday, April 13,2013, I-Beam, 168 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Dom Minasi (guitar) Trio with Ken Filiano (bass) and Jay Rosen (drums) – Blaise Siwula Group (reeds) Harvey Valdes (guitar), Gian Luigi, Diana (live electronics) – Blue Spirit Band with Adam Lane (bass) Primitive Arkestra Group with Steve Swell and David Haney Sunday, April 14, 2013, ABC NO RIO, 156 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002 Attention Screen: Liam Sillery--Trumpet Bob Reina--Piano Chris Jones--Bass Mark Flynn—Drums. Jack DeSalvo cello, mandola and guitar, Matt Lavelle on trumpet, flugelhorn and alto clarinet andT om Cabrera on frame drums and percussion. Blaise Siwula (reeds) and David Haney(piano). Open Session APRIL 11, 2013, LIVE STREAMING OF FESTIVAL AT SHAPESHIFTER LAB: http://live.shapeshifterlab.com “…The Nude Paper Sermon … is both of its time and still amazingly fresh. There are portions that sound like György Ligeti’s music for 2001: A Space Odyssey. And there are moments that sound like free jazz. And there are moments that sound like nothing else I’ve ever heard.” --Willliam Gibson, Signal to Noise Eric Salzman The Nude Paper Sermon & Wiretap LAB 7092 “…a brilliant amalgam of jazz, pop, blues and classical forms, cleverly developed and timed to make the satiric points stand out in the most vivid musical and theatrical terms.” –Peter G. 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Tiina Kiik, Whole Note Ken Aldcroft’s Convergence Ensemble Sneaky Pete - Slugs’ (TRP-015) Convergence is neither a jazz crew playing tunes nor a free-improv unit, slipping from one to another both within and between songs. Lawrence