AUGUST 2015—ISSUE 160 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC JAZZ SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM ORNETTE COLEMAN MEMORIAMIN MAHANTHAPPARUDRESH CALLING BIRD CÉCILE CHARNETT MCLORIN FRANKLIN MULGREW MOFFETT SALVANT KIERMYER MILLER Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The New York City Jazz Record 116 Pinehurst Avenue, Ste. J41 AUGUST 2015—ISSUE 160 New York, NY 10033 United States New York@Night 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: [email protected] Interview : Charnett Moffett by alex henderson Andrey Henkin: 6 [email protected] General Inquiries: Artist Feature : Cecile McLorin Salvant 7 by russ musto [email protected] Advertising: On The Cover : Rudresh Mahanthappa 8 by terrell holmes [email protected] Editorial: [email protected] Encore : Franklin Kiermyer 10 by james pietaro Calendar: [email protected] Lest We Forget : Mulgrew Miller 10 by ken dryden VOXNews: [email protected] Letters to the Editor: LAbel Spotlight : Xanadu 11 by donald elfman [email protected] VOXNEWS 11 by katie bull US Subscription rates: 12 issues, $35 International Subscription rates: 12 issues, $45 For subscription assistance, send check, cash or money order to the address above In Memoriam 12 by andrey henkin or email [email protected] Festival Report Staff Writers 13 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Fred Bouchard, Stuart Broomer, In Memoriam : Ornette Coleman 14 Katie Bull, Thomas Conrad, Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Brad Farberman, Sean Fitzell, CD Reviews 16 Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman, Miscellany Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, 32 Suzanne Lorge, Marc Medwin, Robert Milburn, Russ Musto, Event Calendar 34 Sean J. O’Connell, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman It’s a sad fact that jazz has already lost generation upon generation of its innovators (to provide perspective, Charlie Parker began recording just before the death of Jelly Roll Morton Contributing Writers and himself died the same year the Adderley brothers first came to New York). We are reminded Mathieu Bélanger, George Kanzler, of the passing of greatness with the death of Ornette Coleman. To honor the seminal alto Mark Keresman, Ken Micallef, John Pietaro saxophonist, we devote two pages to remembrances from his Harmolodic family. Contributing Photographers Sara Anke, Mark Fitton, Pierre Langlois, But yesterday’s young lions are today’s elder statesmen. For our steamy August issue, our feature subjects will one day take their places in the jazz pantheon. Alto saxophonist Rudresh Alan Nahigian, Deirdre Rose, Trevor Jude Smith, Mahanthappa (On The Cover) is one of the most exciting players in jazz today and appropriately Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen, Jack Vartoogian celebrates his Charlie Parker tribute disc Bird Calls at the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. Bassist Charnett Moffett (Interview), son of Ornette drummer Charles Moffett, who plays Iridium this month, has been a presence since the mid ‘70s and even worked with his dad’s former boss. And vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant (Artist Feature), who won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010 and hasn’t looked back, is at Jazz Standard for a week. nycjazzrecord.com While we lament the cold ashes of the past, we are warmed by the fire of the future. On The Cover: Rudresh Mahanthappa (© Jack Vartoogian/FrontRowPhotos) In Correction: In last month’s NY@Night, “Kush” played by Nasheet Waits was his original. In the obituaries, the label that released Jerome Cooper’s first record is Kharma. And in In Print, Tangent only had three jazz releases as part of a larger catalogue. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission strictly prohibited. All material copyrights property of the authors. 2 AUGUST 2015 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD WWW.BLUENOTEJAZZ.COM AUGUST 2015 BOB JAMES ROY HAYNES TUCK & PATTI AUGUST 4-9 AUGUST 11-12 AUGUST 13-16 THE LATIN SIDE OF HORACE SILVER: NEW KENNY WERNER QUINTET CONRAD HERWIG KAMASI WASHINGTON FT. 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This was evident at release on Pi Recordings (and fifth for the label with this Iridium (Jul. 10th) when 93-year-old vocalist John group), he capitalizes on that, crafting four set-length Hendricks sang his classic vocalese compositions with concertos for his hard-working ensemble. Playing the youthful gusto and abandon. After the backing quintet first set of the first night of a week-long run at the played Duke Ellington’s “Perdido”, Hendricks, in a Village Vanguard (Jul. 14th), the band kicked in with a shiny golden suit and Captain’s cap, came on with quick count-off as tight as one of James Brown’s groups, vocalists Janis Siegel (of The Manhattan Transfer) and or as tight as the Arditti Quartet. They played deeply Kevin Burke to perform two [Dave] Lambert, [Jon] together, not in the sense of landing on easy, countable Hendricks and [Annie] Ross (LH&R) numbers, “It’s beats but in moving with uniformity. They were tight in Sand, Man!” and “Come On Home” (the latter based a way that was like they’d been given very precise on Horace Silver’s record). This was followed by three instructions for building a bird’s nest. The leader Thelonious Monk tunes: “In Walked Bud”, with fine opened, as usual, on flute but after a lovely duet between scatting all around; “Reflections”, a ballad feature for guitarist Liberty Ellman and cellist Christopher Hendricks, whose emotional delivery prevailed over Hoffman switched to the alto saxophone. Like the star wobbling long tones; and “Hackensack”, on which he coming out after the band has warmed up the room, took a rambunctious, idea-packed scat solo. The Threadgill’s saxophone owned the stage. There have puckish nonagenarian took a break offstage while been constants in his four-decade career but none so Burke and Siegel covered Tom Jobim’s “If You Never strong as that sound. The third piece—or movement, Come to Me”, followed by Siegel’s rendition of Lee maybe—was slow and dark, save for Elliot Humberto Morgan’s “Sidewinder”, during which she nailed the Kavee’s quick drumming.