ALL ABOUT JAZZ-NEW YORK NEWS
February 27, 2010

Dear jazz community at large,

AllAboutJazz-New York's March 2010 issue (no. 95) is now available
at your favorite New York City jazz clubs and record stores.

On the Cover: LARRY CORYELL
Interview: LEW TABACKIN
Artist Feature: ADAM RUDOLPH
Label Spotlight: NUSCOPE
Club Profile: A LOOK TO THE NEW DECADE PART III
Encore: HADLEY CALIMAN
Lest We Forget: LENNY BREAU
Megaphone: DARCY JAMES ARGUE
Special Feature: NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 40TH ANNIVERSARY
CD Reviews
And plenty more!

On the Cover: LARRY CORYELL

By Tom Greenland; photo by Alan Nahigian

At 22, Coryell was a big fish in the Seattle jazz pond, dreaming of deeper waters, so he packed his Gibson Super 400 and two amps into a partially-paid-for blue Volkswagon Beetle and drove out to New York City, arriving in September 1965, where he checked out musicians like Grant Green and Charles Lloyd, experimented with LSD, consorted with rock-blues guitarists Robbie Robertson and Michael Bloomfield, sat in at Monday night Village Vanguard jam sessions hosted by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, babysat for neighbor Joanne Brackeen and played with avant-jazzers like Bob Moses and Jim Pepper. Coryell's Bombay Jazz project is at Skirball Center Mar. 19th as part of the World Music Institute Concert Series.

Interview: LEW TABACKIN

By Ken Dryden; Photo by Dirk Stockmans/coloursofjazz.com

Lew Tabackin needs no introduction to serious jazz fans. The tenor saxophonist and flutist worked with Maynard Ferguson, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, Donald Byrd, Elvin Jones and The Tonight Show Band, was a star soloist with the Danish Radio Orchestra in the late '60s and joined alto saxist Phil Woods for a one-shot small group album. But Tabackin made his mark in the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Jazz Orchestra for several decades until it disbanded in 2003. Tabackin has also made around 20 albums of his own since the mid '70s. Tabackin is honored at Tribeca Performing Arts Center Mar. 11th as part of Highlights in Jazz. He is also at Rosy O'Grady's Mar. 22nd.

Artist Feature: ADAM RUDOLPH

By Rex Butters; photo courtesy of Adam Rudolph

Watching Adam Rudolph conduct the Go: Organic Orchestra is witnessing the embodiment of music. Rudolph takes on the role of sound sculptor, leading the specially-trained musicians through channels of sound as they occur to him in the course of performance, mixing and editing with hand signals, facial expressions and bodily torque. The only constant in the swirling world of change that characterizes the project is the near ecstatic Rudolph, shaping and molding the music as it appears, in the form of an improvised dance. Rudolph's Go: Organic Orchestra is at Roulette Mar. 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th.

Record Label Spotlight: NUSCOPE

By Marc Medwin

Over the past 11 years, the Dallas Texas-based label has carved a niche, releasing 22 discs of music whose diverse sound worlds defy simple categorization and blur boundaries with each note and gesture. If labels are to be used, contemporary classical and jazz are often referenced, but they do not tell anything approaching the entire story. Artists performing this month include Harris Eisenstadt at Issue Project Room Mar. 12th with Jeremiah Cymerman and The Stone Mar. 24th with Vinny Golia; Mat Maneri at The Local 269 Mar. 8th and 15th and Denman Maroney at Roulette Mar. 11th.

Club Profile: A LOOK TO THE NEW DECADE PART III

By Matthew Miller

Though opinions and attitudes vary, surprising commonalties can be found among musicians based in New York's outer boroughs. In interviews with musicians, owners and promoters based in Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx, themes of insularity and lack of opportunity recur and often clash with equally prevalent praises about tight communities, low rents and quiet nights. Next Month: Jazz in Brooklyn

Encore: HADLEY CALIMAN

By Tom Conrad

If you have followed jazz long enough, you probably know the name Hadley Caliman. He was around in the '60s and '70s, on albums by people like Gerald Wilson, Don Ellis, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson. He made four records of his own for Mainstream and Catalyst, collectors' items now.

Lest We Forget: LENNY BREAU

By Donald Elfman

Guitarist Lenny Breau is still something of a legend. He was able to blend, somehow almost seamlessly, jazz, classical, flamenco and country music using finger techniques rare to jazz.

Megaphone: Either/Or (No More)

By Darcy James Argue

Since I am a 'jazz composer' by training and self-identification, it seems like I'm always being asked to play this game: improvisation or composition? I am not alone in this - every composer who allows the element of indeterminacy to inflect their music has to grapple with the tension between these two forces. But ever since I reluctantly left behind my former life as a jazz pianist in order to concentrate on composing for my own big band, I find I've become (perhaps unsurprisingly) a lot more reflective about the role improvisation plays in shaping my music. Argue's Secret Society is at Jazz Standard Mar. 23rd.

Special Feature: NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 40TH ANNIVERSARY

By Marcia Hillman

New England Conservatory (NEC) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of being America's first fully-accredited Jazz Studies Program at a music conservatory. The merriment kicked off in NEC's home of Boston with a week of events in October 2009, culminating in a performance by the Wayne Shorter Quartet accompanied by the school's Philharmonia, a merger between jazz and classical music - two forms that cohabit at NEC. The party continues this month with eight days of concerts at various New York City venues, the proceeds of which will go to support jazz scholarships at NEC. Anniversary events take place at various venues throughout the city Mar. 20th-27th.

CD Reviews

(this month's performance venues in parentheses):

1. Andrea Centazzo -- Guitars Incus (Issue Project Room)
2. John Ellis -- Puppet Mischief Obliqsound (Jazz Gallery; Bar Next Door)
3. Marilyn Lerner/Ken Filiano/Lou Grassi -- Arms Spread Wide NoBusiness (Douglass Street Music Collective)
4. Marilyn Lerner/Matt Brubeck/Nick Fraser -- Ugly Beauties Actuelle
5. Bill Mays -- Solo! s/r (Kitano)
6. Bill Mays -- Mays at the Movies SteepleChase (Kitano)
7. Mostly Other People Do The Killing -- Forty Fort Hot Cup
8. Jon Lundbom -- Accomplish Jazz Hot Cup (Goodbye Blue Monday)
9. Kenny Burrell -- Prime: Live at the Downtown Room HighNote
10. Ab Baars/Ig Henneman/Misha Mengelberg -- Sliptong Wig
11. Wolter Wierbos -- Deining DolFijn
12. Michiel Braam -- Non-Functionals! BBB
13. Bill Ware -- Played Right Pony Japan-Zoom (Puppet's)
14. Kirk Knuffke -- Amnesia Brown Clean Feed (Nublu; Cornelia Street Cafe; The Local 269; The Stone)
15. Alan Bern/Michael Rodach/Paul Brody -- Triophilia Jazzwerkstatt
16. Nice Guy Trio -- Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio Porto Franco
17. Will Holshouser -- Palace Ghosts and Drunken Hymns Clean Feed (Dizzy's Club)
18. Vinny Golia/Bertram Turetzky -- The San Diego Session Kadima Collective (The Stone; Issue Project Room)
19. Vinny Golia/Peter Kowald -- Mythology Kadima Collective (The Stone; Issue Project Room)
20. Vinny Golia/Brad Dutz -- Duets s/r (The Stone; Issue Project Room)
21. Vinny Golia/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter -- Grosses Messer ugEXPLODE (The Stone; Issue Project Room)
22. Kurt Rosenwinkel -- Reflections Word of Mouth (Jazz Standard)
23. Dan Weiss -- Timshel Sunnyside (I-Beam; Jazz Gallery)
24. EA Silence -- Cono di Ombra e Luce Amirani
25. Patrick Bebelaar/Joe Fonda/Mike Rabinowitz -- The Four O'Clock Session DML
26. Katherine Young -- Further Secret Origins Porter (Issue Project Room)
27. Daniel Smith -- Blue Bassoon Summit (Puppet's)
28. Houston Person -- Mellow HighNote (Jazz Standard; Dizzy's Club)
29. Modern Jazz Quartet -- 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival Knitting Factory-Douglas (Dizzy's Club)
30. Peter Zak -- Blues on the Corner: The Music of McCoy Tyner SteepleChase (Cornelia Street Cafe; Fat Cat)
31. Antonio Ciacca -- Lagos Blues (with Steve Grossman) Motema (Dizzy's Club)
32. Brenda Earle -- Songs for a New Day AllSheNeeds Music (Kitano)
33. Allison Miller -- Boom Tic Boom Foxhaven (Cornelia Street Cafe)
34. ROVA/Nels Cline Singers -- The Celestial Septet New World (The Stone)
35. Jones Jones -- We All Feel The Same Way SoLyd (The Stone)
36. David Berger -- Sing Me A Love Song (Harry Warren's Undiscovered Standards) Such Sweet Thunder (Dizzy's Club)
37. Ralph Towner/Paolo Fresu -- Chiaroscuro ECM (Italian Academy at Columbia University)
38. William Parker/Giorgio Dini -- Temporary Silta (14th Street Y; The Stone)
39. John Blum -- In The Shade of Sun Ecstatic Peace!
40. Ergo -- Multitude, Solitude Cuneiform (McCarren Hall)
41. Orrin Evans -- Faith in Action Posi-Tone (Jazz Standard; Village Vanguard; Zinc Bar)
42. The Necks -- Silverwater ReR
43. Joe Locke -- For The Love of You (feat. Kenny Washington) E1 Entertainment (Dizzy's Club; Kitano)
44. Weasel Walter/Henry Kaiser/Damon Smith -- Plane Crash ugEXPLODE (The Stone; Goodbye Blue Monday; Death by Audio; Issue Project Room)
45. Alberto Pinton/Jonas Kulhammar/Torbjorn Zetterberg/Kjell Nordeson -- Chant Clean Feed (The Stone; Douglass Street Music Collective)
46. Ralph Lalama -- The Audience Mighty Quinn (Smalls; Village Vanguard)
47. Eric Alexander -- Mode for Mabes (with Harold Mabern) Delmark
48. Eric Alexander -- Revival of the Fittest HighNote
49. John Scofield -- Shinola Enja (Birdland)
50. Jorge Lima Barreto/Carlos Zingaro -- Kits 2 Numerica
51. Borah Bergman/Stefano Pastor -- Live at Tortona Mutable
52. Minamo -- Kuroi Kawa - Black River Tzadik (The Stone)
53. Medeski Martin and Wood -- Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set Indirecto (Rose Live Music; BB King's)
54. Jeb Patton -- New Strides MAXJAZZ (Smalls; Jazz Standard; Iridium)
55. Ben Monder/Bill McHenry -- Bloom Blue Music Group (Cornelia Street Cafe)
56. Andrew Green -- Narrow Margin Microphonic (Brooklyn Lyceum)
57. Komeda Project -- Requiem WM (Cornelia Street Cafe)
58. John Zorn -- Femina Tzadik

...and Plenty More!

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