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June 2005
by AAJ Staff
Randy Weston launched Year Two of the Lost Jazz Shrines series, this year a tribute to the Village Gate, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (May 6th). He began with an unaccompanied Ellington mélange, summoning luxurious tones from the grand piano. Weston's Duke is always refreshing: “C Jam Blues was dark and brooding; “Mood Indigo was ...
May 2005
by AAJ Staff
Rome Neal's portrayal of Thelonious Monk in the one-man play Monk (Abingdon Theater, through May 8th) is deeply human, steering clear of idolatry and caricature. Jason Zinoman of The Times called it “a pleasant evening... not an emotional ride and one wonders what play he was watching. Laurence Holder's script deals forthrightly with Monk's mental illness ...
April 2005
by AAJ Staff
Over the course of six nights, the “JazzItaliano in New York" festival brought seldom-seen faces to a number of New York bandstands. At Smoke (Mar. 4th), alto and soprano saxophonist Rosario Giuliani teamed with pianist Pietro Lussu, bassist Gianluca Renzi and drummer Marcello Di Leonardo and made a huge sound, playing music from 2002's Mr. Dodo ...
March 2005
by AAJ Staff
Boston tenor titan Jerry Bergonzi drew a standing-room-only crowd to Smith's (Feb. 4th), one of New York's newer jazz rooms. This unit, with bassist Bruce Gertz and drummer Bob Kaufman, known as “KGB", recently made two beautiful discs, The Line Between and Dreaming Out Loud. At Smith's the trio was joined by pianist Gabriel Guerrero, from ...
February 2005
by AAJ Staff
To a sold-out house at the 55 Bar (Jan. 7th), tenorist Chris Potter showcased his new band Underground, featuring Craig Taborn on Rhodes, Nate Smith on drums and, in a rare sideman role, Wayne Krantz on guitar. In this room, where Krantz is a weekly draw, Potter's music seemed decidedly Krantzian - raw and groove-oriented, harmonically ...
January 2005
by AAJ Staff
The Lower East Side's Issue Project Room hosted Elliott Sharp's premier solo acoustic guitar performance project of Thelonious Monk compositions on Dec. 10th. One of few guitar players devoted to helping free the instrument from respective genre-related gimmicks and listener expectations, Sharp slyly presented Monk themes by either taking the liberty to venture from any semblance ...
December 2004
by AAJ Staff
It was hard to find an empty seat on closing night of the fifth annual Django Reinhardt Festival at Birdland (Nov. 14th). The week had seen guest appearances by Harry Allen, Paquito D'Rivera, James Carter, Gil Goldstein and Joel Frahm. But on Sunday Dave Samuels (vibes) and Peter Beets (piano) of Holland joined the drummerless house ...
November 2004
by AAJ Staff
If “tromboning" wasn't a word before, it is now that Ray Anderson used it during his first solo trombone concert in 20 years (Oct. 7th), which kicked off AAJ-NY's monthly “1s and 2s" series at Cornelia Street Café. New words are needed to describe Anderson's feats of breathing and tone production, his tenacious control of tempos, ...
October 2004
by AAJ Staff
“Blind to our faults, we're subject to love's compounded assaults!/Each failed union engraved on our mind, defines the future lovers we find/and duplicity severs the ties that bind... “ This is from the preamble to Geof Loomis' Boperetta, playing the first Tuesday of every month at the Nuyorican Poets Café. Involving seven actor/singers ...
September 2004
by AAJ Staff
After three years (on and off) of obscure gigs in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Big Band (BBB), co-led by alto saxophonist Craig Bailey and tenor man Tim Armacost, had its long-awaited Manhattan debut at Sweet Rhythm (Aug. 2nd). The band struck a balance between tight and loose, beginning with an off-the-cuff “Take the Coltrane" and ending with ...
