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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 ...
Ralph Lalama at The Turning Point Cafe
by David A. Orthmann
Ralph Lalama The Turning Point Café Piermont, NY May 18, 2009 On Mondays, tenor saxophonist Ralph Lalama plays in the reed section and is one of the featured soloists of the venerable Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He recently took a night off to lead a quartet at The Turning Point Café, ...
John Richmond at Cecil's Jazz Club
by David A. Orthmann
John Richmond Cecil's Jazz Club West Orange, NJ April 17, 2009 John Richmond's recent two night stand at Cecil's Jazz Club is the latest chapter in his evolving relationship with Bob DeVos. The saxophonist and guitarist have appeared together on a couple of occasions over the past year at ...
Scott Reeves at Cecil's Jazz Club
by David A. Orthmann
Scott Reeves Cecil's Jazz Club West Orange, NJ April 24, 2009 Scott Reeves's Shape Shifter (Miles High Records) is one of the year's pleasant surprises. Recorded live at Cecil's Jazz Club in March of 2008, the disc succeeds on a number of levels. Reeves's compositions are varied and substantial, ...
Walt Weiskopf at The Turning Point Cafe
by David A. Orthmann
Walt Weiskopf The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, NY March 30, 2009 Forty-five minutes prior to starting time at The Turning Point Cafe, Walt Weiskopf's tenor saxophone stood alone like a statute atop a table right next to the bandstand. Weiskopf is best known for ten recordings as a leader ...
Jason Brown
by David A. Orthmann
Six years ago I started writing the “Rhythm In Every Guise" column as a reaction to an imbalance that had crept into my record reviews. In many instances I was writing lots about the drummer at the expense of everyone else on the recording. The column became a means of paying tribute to venerable drum set ...
Eliot Zigmund
by David A. Orthmann
Recently I've been listening to Breeze, drummer Eliot Zigmund's 2008 release on the SteepleChase label. In part my interest in the recording stems from catching a couple of Zigmund's sideman gigs at The Turning Point Café in Piermont, NY. On those occasions I couldn't get a handle on all of the things that felt right about ...
Vitaly Golovnev: to whom it may concern
by David A. Orthmann
Unlike young musicians who are anxious to show off their catholic tastes, the focal point of trumpeter Vitaly Golovnev's debut recording as a leader falls into the comparatively narrow bop-to-hard bop continuum. Because these tightly entwined styles were firmly entrenched over a half-century ago, and then diluted or abandoned altogether in favor of other developments, their ...
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