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Steps Ahead, Live at the Blue Note
by David Adler
It appears that Steps Ahead is back, and possibly better than ever. The lineup is simply a dream: founder Mike Mainieri on vibes, Bob Berg on tenor and soprano saxophones, Joey Calderazzo on piano, Scott Colley on bass, and Jeff “Tain" Watts on drums. The new, improved Steps Ahead begins its first February 23 set with ...
Roy Hargrove Quintet: Live at the Village Vanguard
by David Adler
To commemorate its 65th year in existence, the Village Vanguard chose a major draw ' a young trumpeter who, along with Wynton Marsalis, has done much to rekindle popular interest in jazz over the last ten years. Roy Hargrove and his band are the “men at work" who graced the cover of the May 1999 Downbeat. ...
Ethan Iverson: Solo Piano
by David Adler
Ethan Iverson Weill Hall New York City In the third installment of this year’s Abby Whiteside Foundation piano recital series at Weill Hall, Ethan Iverson premiered a suite of original jazz “etudes," written with a view toward “expanding the range of the improvising pianist." Piano etudes, in classical literature, are intended as ...
Dave Douglas New Quintet
by David Adler
Village Vanguard New York City Take Dave Douglas's Magic Triangle and Leap of Faith quartet, swap Ben Perowsky for Clarence Penn on drums, keep Chris Potter on tenor and James Genus on bass, and add Uri Caine on Fender Rhodes. What have we got? The new Dave Douglas Quintet, which the chameleonic trumpeter/composer featured ...
The Jazz Composers Collective Festival
by David Adler
Jazz Standard New York City Six nights, ten bands. Following up on last year’s three-night stint at the Jazz Standard, the Jazz Composers Collective took up residence at the East Side club for an entire Tuesday-Sunday run in early February. The bands were both familiar and new: on Tuesday the Herbie Nichols Project and ...
Jason Lindner Ensemble
by David Adler
The Jazz Gallery Packing his 11-piece ensemble into the loft-like space of New York’s Jazz Gallery, Jason Lindner displayed his extraordinary gifts as a composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. With white-painted brick walls and somewhat narrow wood floors, the Gallery has acoustics that verge on brash, but Lindner turned them to his advantage with his mastery ...
Celebrating the Music of Weather Report
by David Adler
Music of Weather Report The Iridium New York City April 2000 It certainly can’t be said about every fusion group, but a lot of Weather Report’s music is timeless and deserves to be celebrated. So Telarc recently released Celebrating the Music of Weather Report, a star-studded tribute to ...
Jazz Composers Collective Concert Series
by David Adler
Frank Kimbrough & Noumena Rick Margitza Quintet New York City April 2000 A lot can happen when a bandleader makes seemingly minor changes in standard jazz instrumentation. Frank Kimbrough’s Noumena, for instance, omits the bass. Saxophonist Scott Robinson occasionally puts down his tenor to play bass saxophone — an elephantine ...
Michael Jefry Stevens: "Songbook"
by David Adler
Michael Jefry Stevens Cornelia Street Cafe New York City April 2000 Michael Jefry Stevens, a Brooklyn-based pianist with a taste for the avant-garde, has been pursuing a secret career as a jazz songwriter. That’s right: this Mark Whitecage-mentored purveyor of free improv has been building a stash of ...
Danilo Perez: The Motherland Project
by David Adler
Village Vanguard, NYC March 2001 Danilo Perez’s Motherland was named the top jazz album of 2000 by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times. A sprawling, highly ambitious piece of work, the disc took musical influences from Perez’s native Panama and wove them into a pan-African, pan-Latin, pan-jazz manifesto that leapt out ...
