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Jammin' at Whitley Bay (July 9, 2010)
Jazz musicians know that great truth: if you stay up late, you can always sleep tomorrow. Although the players at a jazz party might seem to have an exhausting schedule, many of them are fueled by the encounters with their peers and heroes—thus, an after-hours jam session often happens. I was lucky enough to be awake ...
"It's Glory": The Ear Inn (September 5, 2010)
Last Sunday I made my way down to The Ear Inn with great eagerness. Jon-Erik Kellso and Neal Miner were going to be there along with two players making their debuts at 326 Spring Street: altoist Dmitry Baevsky, whom I'd admired on a duet gig with Ehud Asherie at Smalls, and the remarkable guitarist Ray Macchiarola. ...
Good Old New York: Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (August 30,2010)
n any Monday or Tuesday night, those who love jazz and pop — to listen and dance to—should make their way to Club Cache, in the basement of the Hotel Edison (221 West 46th Street), to catch Vince Gordano and the Nighthawks, playing from 8-11 PM. I did just that last Monday. The Nighthawks were Mike ...
Good Old New York: Bob Wilber at Birdland (September 1, 2010)
One of the more reassuring aspects of the New York jazz scene is that a few steady gigs remain—the Sunday and Monday night hoedowns at Arthur's Tavern on Grove Street; the EarRegulars at The Ear Inn on Sundays; Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (now on Monday and Tuesday) downstairs in the Hotel Edison. And this year ...
Wow! More Savory Snippets
Last Tuesday night at the Jazz Museum in Harlem, Loren Schoenberg played us Teddy Wilson, Bob Zurke, Benny Goodman, and Count Basie recordings we had never heard before (and he's going to keep it up for three more Tuesday evenings in a row). And today he and Michael Cogswell, director of the Louis Armstrong Archive at ...
Jottings of a Jazzman
The best biographical or autobiographical writings make a person the reader has never encountered come to life on the page. JOTTINGS OF A JAZZMAN: SELECTED WRITINGS OF LEN BARNARD, edited by his niece Loretta Barnard, has just that magic. When I was a few pages into it, I felt as if I had met and heard ...
Ehud and Harry's Party (September 2, 2010)
Those names refer to the splendid young pianist Ehud Asherie, the inimitable tenor saxophonist Harry Allen. They were celebrating in a cozy corner of the Hotel Kitano's bar last Thursday—celebrating the release of their new quartet CD, MODERN LIFE, for the Posi-Tone label. At the Kitano, they were joined by master timekeepers Chuck Riggs, drums; Clovis ...
Ted Brown and Joel Press Live (June 30, 2010)
The great encounters between jazz musicians playing the same instrument are rarely “cutting contests" as seen in the movies. More often, they are thoughtful, musing conversations. The dialogues that took place between tenor saxophonists Ted Brown and Joel Press in an informal session at Sofia's in New York City on June 30, 2010, resonate. It didn't ...
Even More Savory: "Never Before Heard Clips"
I find the media coverage of the discovery of the Bill Savory jazz collection simply amazing—and am both grateful and astonished. It would appear that the world has gone jazz crazy now, at least for a minute. Here's the latest story from NEWSWEEK, complete with music from Mildred Bailey, Jack Teagarden, Bobby Hackett, Vernon Brown, George ...
Standard Time: Neal Miner and Friends
Neal Miner is not only a fine bassist and composer; he's also a remarkable jazz videographer who gets splendid results without a truckload of equipment. His YouTube channel is “gutstringrecords," and I've taken two of his recent videos to share (and applaud) here. The first is a nimble, sustained reading of the Schertzinger-Mercer I REMEMBER YOU ...
