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David "Fathead" Newman: Life
by Erik R. Quick
Even the most intrepid and adventuresome listener, seeking revolution at the turn of every phrase, may eventually return to the familiar. A new release by saxophonist David “Fathead Newman is to be anticipated and celebrated for the sheer exuberance in the joy of playing beautifully. His tone, nurtured for fifty years and throughout forty albums as ...
Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller at the Kennedy Center
by Erik R. Quick
Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller Jazz in Our Time Series The Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage Washington D. C. March 7, 2007The Washington, DC metropolitan area is a curious town for the avid jazz listener. Only one club attracts nationally known musicians on a nightly basis, and ...
A Mystical Sangam: Charles Lloyd at the Library of Congress, Nov. 8, 2006
by Erik R. Quick
Although his emergence over forty years ago with Chico Hamilton's “chamber jazz organization and his appearance with Cannonball Adderley's group in 1964 provided a firm foundation within the jazz tradition, Charles Lloyd has surpassed conventional boundaries and expected means of musical expression. Indeed, when French pianist Michel Petrucciani coaxed Lloyd from his contemplative retirement in the ...
An Exhausting Broztmann and Bennink
by Erik R. Quick
Peter Brötzmann and Han Bennink An Die Musik Baltimore, MD October 7, 2006 Few, if any, would claim that Peter Brötzmann is a tune meister. He has been referred to by some as a “sonic terrorist", while others describe his performances as “aural punishment". One story, perhaps fictional but ...
Butch Warren
by Erik R. Quick
A couple of years ago, advertisements appeared in the local free DC weekly for informal Wednesday evening jam sessions featuring Butch Warren at Twins Lounge. I recall eagerly calling the club to ask whether this was the former bassist who had extensively recorded on many a classic Blue Note album. Although the club didn't offer confirmation, ...
An Evening with Ralph Towner
by Erik R. Quick
Ralph Towner An Die Musik Baltimore, MD June 23, 2006 There is often a predisposition, for whatever reason, to categorize and compartmentalize both the manner of existence and the means of expression. Our food, friends, neighborhoods, automobiles and clothes are all neatly isolated and segregated into predisposed sections meant ...
Enrico Rava in Baltimore
by Erik R. Quick
Enrico Rava and Dado Maroni An Die Musik Baltimore, MD April 1, 2006 Enrico Rava and Dado Maroni, fresh from a series of sold out concerts at the Italian jazz festival at Birland in New York, recently played to an intimate crowd at Baltimore's “An Die Musik . The venue ...
Myra Melford and Leroy Jenkins: Equal Interest for All
by Erik R. Quick
In July of 1997, I won two tickets to a concert which was part of a three week “Jazz Arts Festival". This event was part of a small concert series, within the larger festival, and was entitled “Space Lives!". It was meant to commemorate the twentieth anniversary, and to celebrate the memory of, “D.C. Space", a ...
Wadada Leo Smith: An Exciting Half of the Golden Quartet
by Erik R. Quick
I can't help but wonder how potential concert consumers choose whether or not to attend an artistic event. Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith presented the latest edition of his Golden Quartet on a recent Thursday evening at the prestigious Merkin Concert Hall of the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center in Manhattan. On the following Saturday, the New York ...
Sonny Fortune and Rashied Ali: An Evening of Thanksgiving
by Erik R. Quick
Sonny Fortune and Rashied Ali An Die Musik Baltimore, MD November 19, 2005 The small sign on the column of the entrance announced the performance of “Sonny Fortune and Rashied Ali; SOLD OUT . Some anxious audience members gathered at the bottom of the old stone stairs to the ...
