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Benny Powell Memorial Service Info
On Monday, July 12, New York's jazz community will gather at Saint Peter's Church on Lexington Avenue to celebrate the life of the late trombonist Benny Powell. Saint Peter's is known as the “Jazz Church," having a dedicated jazz ministry and a long tradition of hosting memorial services for the city's departed musical greats. Info from ...
Tuesday Morning Listen: Manu Katche, Third Round
In Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, Times critic Ben Ratliff writes, “the sound of so many jazz gigs I've heard in the past fifteen years...is usually the sound of albums like Coltrane's Sound or Coltrane Plays the Blues, the quartet just before or in the first stages of a modal-jazz style, just tightening, still before ...
R.I.P. Benny Powell
Amid the bounty of great music in New York over the last two weeks, jazz has suffered three big losses: Bill Dixon (84-years-old, June 16), Fred Anderson (81-years-old, June 24), and now Benny Powell (80-years-old), whose death was announced on Saturday. I never heard Bill Dixon or Fred Anderson play, but I knew Powell's music well. ...
All-Night Session: Abrams, Moran, City Winery Jam
Other cities may have more tightly knit jazz communities (Peter Margasak and Andrey Henkin have made pitches for the vitality of Chicago), but none come close to approaching the size and diversity of the New York scene. On any given night, there are around two dozen jazz shows in the city, and it's not uncommon that ...
Postmortem: Undead Jazzfest
The Undead Jazzfest is safely back in its grave. The CareFusion and Vision festivals are in full-swing, and Undead co-organizer Adam Schatz is skipping town for a cross-country tour with his “zombie jazz" band Father Figures. (Catch their album release show on June 30th at 45 Bleecker.) So it's a little late for a full review, ...
Tuesday Morning Listen: Jason Moran, "Ten"
Jason Moran has always been a bit of aesthete, from his art-film soundtrack covers to the stylish Danish chair in which he “exclusively performs." His music, however, has rarely felt too precious. His piano attack is informed but primal; and his improvisations can feel almost violent--disembowelments as much as deconstructions. Ten, Moran's new album (out today ...
Gigging: John Ellis's "The Ice Siren"
Melding jazz with other idioms is a risky endeavor, one that often ends in a depletion of the music's greatest virtues. Much of the jazz-fusion of the 1970s synthesized the worst of jazz and the worst of rock into a watered-down sound. This can be pleasant enough, but how many of the genre's albums have the ...
'Tis the Season: My NYMag Jazz Fest Picks
June is jazz season in New York. Last weekend's Undead Jazzfest made nearly literal the figurative term “jazz marathon." It was sweaty, exhausting, and often exhilarating. Rushing to five gigs at three venues in less than five hours gave me the improvised music spectator's equivalent of runner's high. (Ratliff had an excellent breakdown at the Times. ...
Pow!: Undead Jazzfest
I started Inverted Garden to join a conversation that I heard increasing in volume and seriousness: namely, how to “revive" jazz. For the last 40 years, the imminent death of jazz has been oft foretold, and while much of the doomsaying has been nothing more than Chicken Little-ism, it does seem true that the jazz audience ...
Gigging: Tony Malaby's Tamarindo at Jazz Gallery
It's an oft-repeated trope that you can tell the best ethnic restaurants by the make-up of their clientele. Walk into a Chinese restaurant on Canal St. and see tables full of the coach-bus-to-Broadway crowd, and you can safely turn around and walk out. Hop to the place next-door and do a double-take to make sure you're ...
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