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Alex Chilowicz at William Paterson University
by David A. Orthmann
Alex Chilowicz William Paterson University Wayne, NJ December 9, 2009 Saxophonist Alex Chilowicz is a 22-year-old senior in the Jazz Studies program at William Paterson University. To fulfill an honors thesis requirement, Chilowicz embarked on an unusually ambitious project--the performance of Eddie Sauter's Focus. A seven-part composition for string ...
David A. Orthmann's Top Releases of 2009
by David A. Orthmann
It's impossible to do justice to all of the fine new music issued in 2009. So I've listed ten of the discs that had the greatest impact on me. Each one includes the name of the drummer who was essential in making the music special. Joe Locke and David Hazeltine Mutual ...
Duane Eubanks at The Turning Point Cafe
by David A. Orthmann
Duane Eubanks The Turning Point Café Piermont, NY November 7, 2009 In the middle of Duane Eubanks's trumpet solo on “Recorda Me," the set's second selection, the music suddenly moved beyond an aggregation of interesting individual performances. It was the first of many transcendent moments in which the band jelled ...
Dave Stryker at The Turning Point Cafe
by David A. Orthmann
Dave Stryker The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, NY October 24, 2009 “That's what we like about jazz. It's never the same way once," quipped Dave Stryker near the end of an exhilarating seventy-five minute set. Forsaking the familiarity of his working bands for a fling with the Turning Point ...
Neal Miner: Happy Hour
by David A. Orthmann
A thirty-two measure intro to “Bye, Bye, Baby" typifies the traits which animate Happy Hour, bassist Neal Miner's recent release on his Gut String Records imprint. After drummer Joe Strasser's snapping fingers establish a firm, uncluttered pulse, pianist Michael Kanan and Miner play a single chorus of eight-, four-, two- and one-bar exchanges. Their flawless execution ...
Mike DiRubbo: Repercussion
by David A. Orthmann
Over the past several years Mike DiRubbo has made engaging discs for the Criss Cross and Cellar Live labels. On Keep Steppin' (2001), Human Spirit (2003), and New York Accent (2006), the young alto and soprano saxophonist distinguished himself in bands comprised of some of the cream of New York City's straight-ahead players--Jim Rotondi, Joe Farnsworth, ...
Nick Hempton Band: Nick Hempton Band
by David A. Orthmann
After a few years of knocking about in New York City's jazz underground, the Nick Hempton Band is getting a toehold in venues like Smalls, Zinc Bar, and Fat Cat. Hempton's satirical account of the rigors of a “combined eight hours of work in a single month" is posted on the band's website in an entry ...
New Tricks at Cecil's Jazz Club
by David A. Orthmann
New Tricks Cecil's Jazz Club West Orange, New Jersey July 17, 2009 Over the past few years, the northern New Jersey-based band New Tricks has painstakingly developed a distinctive sound during weekly sessions in the basement studio of saxophonist Mike Lee. It is almost bad form to single out contributions ...
Joe Locke / David Hazeltine: Mutual Admiration Society 2
by David A. Orthmann
In the last year of the twentieth century, Sharp Nine Records released Mutual Admiration Society, a quartet date co-led by vibraphonist Joe Locke and pianist David Hazeltine, which also included bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Billy Drummond. A brainchild of Sharp Nine honcho Marc Edelman, the collaboration between these two longtime friends was based on a ...
Alvin Queen at The Turning Point Cafe
by David A. Orthmann
Alvin Queen The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, NY June 22, 2009 A couple of minutes into Shirley Scott's “There's Blues Everywhere," Alvin Queen's medium tempo shuffle beat had a galvanizing effect on his band as well as the normally decorous audience at The Turning Point Cafe. Throughout the fifty minute ...
