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New York's Fat Cat Jazz Club
by AAJ Staff
Shooting pool is fun. Some might consider it strange to pair a jazz club with a poolhall. But that's what happened at the Fat Cat in Greenwich Village, close to world famous Christopher Sheridan Square.Manager Mitch Borden has built a club with its own personality in the middle of a recession, and is once ...
August 2004
by AAJ Staff
Tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery rushed in from an outerborough gig to lead his quintet in a CD release event at Smoke (July 8th), and had to contend with the hassle of a self-serve sound system. As a result, the first of three sets was not what it might have been, but players like trumpeter Eddie Henderson, ...
July 2004
by AAJ Staff
In a rare New York appearance at Iridium, the folk-jazz chamber quartet Oregon played to a fairly small audience (June 6th) but seemed to have a grand time. Gone are the beards, the long hair, the mutton chops. Reedist Paul McCandless, who used to look like a Jethro Tull member, now looks more like a soccer ...
June 2004
by AAJ Staff
Clark Terry may need two people to help him to the bandstand, but once he gets there, watch out. Leading his solid quintet at the Village Vanguard (May 6), the octogenarian finally reached his seat, crossed his left leg over his right and started to play the hottest fluegelhorn this world has known. Hearing such sound, ...
May 2004
by AAJ Staff
For a guitarist who keeps a fairly low profile, Rory Stuart drew a truly impressive crowd at Cornelia Street Café (April 10th). Stuart, who has taught at the New School since 1992, displayed a rare purity of tone and a smart compositional sense during an engaging and often heated set -- the heat coming mainly from ...
March 2004
by AAJ Staff
In addition to several CD release concert events - including guitarist Dom Minasi's Time Will Tell (CDM), an already highly regarded turnabout project of strings (cellist Tomas Ulrich and bassist Ken Filiano) and drums at Tonic, and bassist Cameron Brown's Hear and Now group (featuring the ever musical vocalist Sheila Jordan) which celebrated the official release ...
April 2004
by AAJ Staff
The Free Zone, curated by guitarist and man-about-town Ty Cumbie, transpires every Thursday night on the bottom floor of the Jazz on the Park youth hostel. The evenings usually revolve around a single artist who plays the first set, then joins in an impromptu collaboration with a handful of select guests. Free Zone #27 (March 11th) ...
February 2004
by AAJ Staff
The first month of the New Year certainly got off with a bang, as New York jazz fans brought in 2004 running from one jazz event to the next. There was as close a reunion of Herbie Hancock’s ‘70s sextet Mwandishi as has been in some time in NYC, though unfortunately they all weren’t at the ...
January 2004
by AAJ Staff
Hours before December became official, pianist Dave Burrell performed a single set at Joe’s Pub with his latest project, the Full Blown Trio. The improvisational super-group, featuring William Parker (bass) and drummer/ percussionist Andrew Cyrille, was in midst of a week-long tour that would culminate a few days later in their highly anticipated debut recording (to ...
December 2003
by David Adler
Quote of the month: “Beauty without reasons, and without the anxiety over the lack of reasons: that may be what life was like before we started making it up. Sometimes, when I look at [Merce] Cunningham’s stage, I think I’m seeing the world on the seventh day, with everything new and just itself — before the ...
