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Caramoor Jazz Festival
by David Adler
On the second Saturday of this year's Caramoor Jazz Festival (an hour north of the Apple), Sheila Jordan sang “Autumn in New York". That's how it felt, though it was early August. Enjoying the cool breeze, and Jordan's outsized personality, was one of Caramoor's main highlights. Pianist Steve Kuhn, with Cameron Brown on bass and Billy ...
Horace Silver: Rockin
by David Adler
Inspired by a dream and conceived as a stage musical that ran for three nights in Hollywood in 1991, the jazz suite Rockin’ with Rachmaninoff has finally reached listeners in CD form. For various reasons, piano great Horace Silver kept these twelve tracks on the shelf for over a decade. They find “the hard bop grandpop” ...
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins: Which Way Is East
by David Adler
“We got to keep workin’ on this music.” Four months before his death, drum shaman Billy Higgins spoke those words to Charles Lloyd. The two were in the midst of some of their final conversations, both verbal and musical. Higgins had been in and out of hospitals, battling liver failure, and he and Lloyd knew their ...
Sticks and Stones: Shed Grace
by David Adler
The leaderless, Chicago-born Sticks and Stones trio issued its self-titled debut in 2002 on the 482 Music label. Shed Grace, the group’s Thrill Jockey follow-up, is another fine set—driven by free invention, filtered through democratic exchange. Together, alto saxophonist Matana Roberts, bassist Josh Abrams and drummer Chad Taylor speak the language of free jazz but contend ...
Bill Charlap Trio
by David Adler
Bill Charlap Written In The Stars Blue Note 2000The Village Vanguard, New York After years of sideman work and releases on independent labels, pianist Bill Charlap has “made it," issuing his Blue Note Records debut, Written In the Stars, and playing a ...
Lucerne Piano Festival
by David Adler
Lucerne, Switzerland Concert Hall, Cultural and Congress Center November 20-25, 2001 Lucerne is a musical city. Its annual music festival occurs in three acts and covers the better part of the year. First there’s Ostern (Easter), then Sommer (summer), and finally, in the fall, Piano. European classical music dominates the ...
Brad Mehldau Trio at the Village Vanguard
by David Adler
Brad Mehldau Trio at the Village Vanguard New York City Sunday, November 28, 1999Apparently the Thanksgiving holiday did nothing to diminish the turnout for pianist Brad Mehldau's latest six-night stint at the Village Vanguard. I'm here on Sunday - usually slower than other nights, but not tonight. Both sets are sold out and lines are ...
Jazz Composers Collective Concert Series
by David Adler
Herbie Nichols Project/Ted Nash Double Quartet New School Jazz Performance Space, New York City November 18, 1999The house is packed here at downtown Manhattan's New School Jazz Performance Space. Approximately two hundred people have gathered to hear the Herbie Nichols Project and the Ted Nash Double Quartet, two bands from the roster of the Jazz ...
Ethan Iverson/Mark Turner Duo
by David Adler
Cornelia Street Café Contemporary Classical Series The telepathic rapport of tenor saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel was recently the subject of a big story in Downbeat magazine. But in this installment of Cornelia Street Café’s Contemporary Classical Series, Turner’s equally incredible bond with pianist Ethan Iverson was on display. Although ...
Jason Moran Trio
by David Adler
The Jazz Standard Jason Moran’s 1999 debut album, Soundtrack to Human Motion (Blue Note), may have secured him rave reviews and a reputation as one of the most original musicians around, but the 25-year-old piano sensation shows no signs at all of resting on those laurels. His second album, Facing Left (Blue Note), is quite different ...
