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Fifty-Second Street West (Cafe Borrone, Oct. 15, 2010)
Because of the wonderful photographs that Charles Peterson and others took, some of my readers will be able to visualize the bandstand at Jimmy Ryan's sixty-five years ago—crowded with hot musicians jamming on, say, BUGLE CALL RAG, with every luminary in New York City eagerly improvising at the peak of their powers. Now imagine that scene ...
Marty Grosz's Bass Motives at Chautauqua (Sept. 18, 2010)
My flippant title is not completely irrelevant. For starters, at jazz clubs and parties and festivals, there are performances ranging from humdrum to spectacular. And—not very often—there are performances that viewers and listeners know they won't ever forget. I take great pride in presenting one such episode: around four minutes long, quietly rocking rather than explosive, ...
Kenny Davern: Just Four Bars
Readers accustomed to novels may find most jazz biographies only intermittently satisfying. Lives, of course, cannot be arranged into dramatic arcs worthy of Trollope or Faulkner—but, just the same, the chronicle of the life and music of your favorite musician often has all its drama in the beginning: attempts to find a personal style, to become ...
Andy Schumm Leads the Way at Chautauqua (Sept. 18, 2010)
If you've been reading this blog even casually, the name Andy Schumm—the hot cornet / piano man from Milwaukee—will not be new to you. And he continues to offer surprises: his fine, ringing lead; his well-chosen tempos; his deep immersion in the repertoire; the ease with which he melds the heroic choruses of the recordings we've ...
Dan Block / Duke Ellington at Chautauqua 2010
The multi-talented reed wizard Dan Block thinks as deeply as he plays. Dan's evocation of the musical world of Duke Ellington (and Billy Strayhorn) is more than a trip through familiar Ellingtonia; rather, Dan seeks to inhabit that singular world and at the same time make it his own (as he's done brilliantly on his new ...
Harry Allen and Ehud Asherie at Chautauqua 2010
This very inspired duo—Harry on tenor, Ehud on piano—took the stage early on at Jazz at Chautauqua and left a deep impression. Although their play looks casual, they reach memorable heights — whether they are handling the twists and turns of PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ like a pair of gliding skiers, or turning SOME OTHER SPRING ...
Deep Songs at the Ear (Sept. 26, 2010)
It was another elevating night at The Ear Inn (326 Spring Street). Nothing could spoil the collective merriment—not the fact that the subways were perversely unpredictable, not the untrained owner with the overeager dog who knocked over a beer and nearly ruined one of Jon-Erik Kellso's antique mutes, never meant for a lager-bath. No, when Jon-Erik, ...
Hail, King Louis: Bob Barnard, John Sheridan, Arnie Kinsella at Chautauqua 2010
Both of Louis Armstrong's birthdays—July and August—had passed by the time that Jazz at Chautauqua started its informal Thursday night sessions this September 2010. But celebrating Louis Armstrong's music needs no occasion besides itself, and always refreshes the most tired soul. A beautifully empathic trio gathered for four Louis-associated numbers, and did the great man honor. ...
A Tribute to the McCoy Brothers (October 3, 2010)
In the Thirties, one of the great folk-blues-hot jazz bands was the Harlem Hamfats, who recorded a great many rocking sides for Decca's “race records" line. The band was sparked by the string playing of “Kansas Joe" (guitar) and “Papa Charlie" McCoy (mandolin) — who are buried in unmarked graves. Arlo Leach has organized a daylong ...
Andy Schumm and His Bixologists at Whitley Bay (July 10, 2010)
Andy Schumm is a generous person and musician, and when given a block of time, congenial musical friends, and a receptive audience, he doesn't spare himself. What follows is the first set of a Bix Beiderbecke-themed morning concert at the 2010 Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival, recorded on July 10, 2010. Andy played cornet and piano; ...
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