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John Richmond at The Turning Point Cafe
by David A. Orthmann
John Richmond The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, NY July 14, 2008 A few months ago I started reviewing sets performed at The Turning Point Cafe, a small, intimate club which features jazz on Monday nights. The common denominator of the shows is tenor and soprano saxophonist John Richmond, ...
Pete Zimmer: Chillin' Live @ Jazz Factory
by David A. Orthmann
In an era when serving a lengthy apprenticeship in a working band is no longer an option, young players who shun fashionable pop-influenced sounds in favor of traditional jazz styles must be very resourceful. Thirty-year-old drummer/composer/bandleader Pete Zimmer balances a desire to extend the modern straight-ahead mainstream into the twenty-first century and the ability to support ...
David Schnitter at The Turning Point Cafe
by David A. Orthmann
David Schnitter The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, New York June 2, 2008 David Schnitter ended a bracing, sixty-minute set at The Turning Point Cafe with a quote from “Auld Lang Syne." This brief digression was a jocular reminder that, for a jazz musician, “times gone by" aren't as important ...
Louis Hayes at Showplace Studios
by David A. Orthmann
Housed in the rear of a nondescript building on a busy northern New Jersey thoroughfare, Showplace Studios is a no frills workspace nearly devoid of worldly distractions. The Showplace consists of an office, a small lounge, a control room, and studio. Regardless of where you are in the compact area, everything is just a few steps ...
Bob DeVos at The Turning Point Cafe, Piermont, NY
by David A. Orthmann
Bob DeVos The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, New York May 12, 2008 There's never been a better time to catch jazz/blues master Bob DeVos in live performance. Having played scores of gigs since 2005, DeVos's working trio, consisting of his guitar, organist Dan Kostelnik, and drummer Steve Johns, is ...
Pete Malinverni: Invisible Cities
by David A. Orthmann
Pete Malinverni's Invisible Cities:, inspired by the imaginative flights of Italo Calvino's novel of the same name, exists on its own terms and doesn't readily fit into any established jazz style or sensibility. The pianist effectively juxtaposes six of his compositions and four well-known, urban-themed songs. His ballad-oriented tunes, “New Orleans--Cities & Desire," “Salem--Hester Prynne," and ...
Bobby Porcelli Quintet at The Turning Point Cafe, NY
by David A. Orthmann
Bobby Porcelli Quintet The Turning Point Café Piermont, New York April 14, 2008 Every jazz fan knows the pitfalls of attending a casual club gig. The leader confers with the band and calls a string of too familiar tunes. A musician looks--and plays--as if he or she would prefer ...
Saxophonist/Flutist Roxy Coss at William Paterson U., New Jersey
by David A. Orthmann
Roxy Coss William Paterson University Wayne, New Jersey April 7, 2008 “I wanted to show you all of the different music I like," said Roxy Coss, after remarking that she doesn't talk very much on stage. The absence of between-songs patter didn't matter because Coss's talents as an instrumentalist (tenor ...
Grant Stewart: Young at Heart
by David A. Orthmann
Since moving from Toronto to New York at age 19, Grant Stewart has spent 15 years dutifully toiling in the city's jazz underground. Only over the past few years have we begun to hear some worthy examples of the tenor saxophonist's labor--a release under his name for Criss Cross, a pair on the same label by ...
Nick Scheuble Quartet at the Cornerstone, Metuchen, NJ
by David A. Orthmann
Nick Scheuble Quartet The Cornerstone Cafe & Bistro Metuchen, NJ December 28, 2007 Jazz is an art form that thrives in less than ideal circumstances. A few hours prior to the evening's first set, pianist and singer Champian Fulton canceled because of illness. Nick Scheuble's last engagement with her substitute, ...
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