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Stephan Crump Quartet: Live at the C-Note
by David Adler
Stephan Crump Quartet The C-Note New York City April 2000 Stephan Crump’s 1997 debut, Poems and Other Things (available at www.cdbaby.com), revealed a storyteller’s sensibility and, as the title suggests, a poet’s penchant for conjuring images and moods. The Brooklyn-based bassist chose for his ensemble Chris Cheek on ...
Jazz Composers Collective at the Jazz Standard
by David Adler
Jazz Composers Collective Jazz Standard New York City April 2000 The Jazz Composers Collective hasn’t had a strong presence in New York’s major jazz clubs. But that began to change in late March with a three-night JCC showcase at the Jazz Standard. The Herbie Nichols Project did its ...
Jacky Terrasson Trio
by David Adler
Live at Smoke April 2000 Photo by Jimmy Katz Critics used to complain that Jacky Terrasson relied excessively on chops, which was nonsense — the young pianist always displayed a profound awareness of musical texture, even when unleashing furious flurries of notes. At any rate, those complaints certainly don’t ...
Jacky Terrasson & Stefon Harris D.D. Jackson & Bluiett Duets on the Hudson
by David Adler
Kaplan Penthouse New York March 2001 Jacky Terrasson and Stefon Harris began their duo set at the Kaplan Penthouse by tossing snippets of sound back and forth like tennis pros. Their atonal, clipped and playful lines slowly assumed a recognizable form, and before you knew it they were off on ...
Terence Blanchard Sextet
by David Adler
Terence Blanchard Village Vanguard May 2000 Terence Blanchard’s first appearance at the Vanguard in five years combined the no-nonsense tightness of a working band with the looseness of an inspired blowing session. Blanchard’s sextet is certainly one of today’s best straight-ahead bands, giving Roy Hargrove’s, and for that matter Wynton Marsalis’s, a ...
Reid Anderson Quintet
by David Adler
Live at the C-Note, New York, NY Z Reid Anderson is one of the best composers and bandleaders in New York. The young bassist is part of a close-knit group of players that includes Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ethan Iverson, and Mark Turner. With two superb quartet albums to his credit, 1998’s Dirty Show Tunes and ...
Jazz Composers Collective featuring Lee Konitz
by David Adler
"Intuitive Jazz: The Lennie Tristano Legacy" Tribeca Performing Arts Center The “Lost Jazz Shrines" concert series, hosted by the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in downtown Manhattan, is now in its third year. The lost “shrine" being honored in this year’s series is the Half Note, and on the docket for May were ...
Jazz Composers Collective Concert Series
by David Adler
New School Jazz Performance Space Ellery Eskelin Group/Ron Horton Big Band The 1999-2000 Jazz Composers Collective Concert Series drew to a spirited close on a very rainy night in May. It had been a good year indeed, with performances by Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel, Dave Binney, the Herbie Nichols Project, the ...
Ted Nash & Odeon and Ethan Iverson Trio
by David Adler
Jazz Composers Collective Concert Series New York, NY The ninth annual Jazz Composers Collective Concert Series drew to a close with a typically diverse double bill. Ted Nash’s Odeon, which just released its Arabesque debut, Sidewalk Meeting, started off the evening with its unorthodox melange of New Orleans jazz and European classical ...
December 2003
by David Adler
Quote of the month: “Beauty without reasons, and without the anxiety over the lack of reasons: that may be what life was like before we started making it up. Sometimes, when I look at [Merce] Cunningham’s stage, I think I’m seeing the world on the seventh day, with everything new and just itself — before the ...
