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Cape May Spring Jazz Festival
by Sandy Ingham
It was fitting, if probably unintentional, that the 21st edition of the Cape May Jazz Festival April 16-18 was billed “Exceptional Pianists." 2004 is, after all, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Count Basie, the Kid from Red Bank, N.J., whose considerable talents as a pianist were overshadowed by his role as leader of one ...
Pierre Hurel Trio at the Regattabar, April 8, 2004
by Virginia A. Schaefer
Pianist and composer Pierre Hurel has performed and taught in the Boston area since graduating in 1988 from Berklee College, where he’d arrived four years earlier from his native France. Last week, I heard him play with his trio to a full house at the Regattabar in Cambridge. Hurel’s compositions and playing show the influence of ...
Saxophonist Paul Carr: DC's Mister PC
by Matt Merewitz
Paul Carr is a saxophone and flautist deeply rooted in the hard-bop and blues tradition of jazz. He has a guttural “Texas Tenor” sound which stems from his childhood years growing up in Houston, Texas. While he has a stunning jazz improvisatory vocabulary, his ability to move an audience is his greatest asset. Arriving in the ...
Peakin' at the Beacon 2004: The Triumphant Return of The Allman Brothers Band
by Doug Collette
The Allman Brothers Band long ago became comfortable playing the friendly confines of the Beacon Theatre on Broadway. But in this case familiarity with its intimate atmosphere has bred a daring on ample display during this year’s run. There was nary of whit of complacency evident in the band despite the string of successes achieved in ...
The Josh Abrams Quartet at the Chicago Cultural Center
by Jeff Stockton
In performance over the course of an hour at the Chicago Cultural Center on April 8, celebrating the release of their recent CD Cipher (Delmark), the Josh Abrams Quartet explored the presence and absence of sound through subtle implications, the nuances of individual instruments, original voicings, and group interplay. Taking the stage with the same softshoe ...
Keith Jarrett: Setting a New Standard for Standards
by Victor L. Schermer
Keith Jarrett, piano; Gary Peacock, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums Mellon Jazz FestivalVerizon Hall | Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia, PAApril 7, 2004, 8PMThere is little new that anyone can say about Keith Jarrett- and his remarkable, multi-faceted output of music- but some observations are perhaps worth repeating and/or ...
Lorraine Feather with Shelly Berg at Danny's Skylight Room
by Ken Dryden
One of the highlights of my last trip to New York (in June 2003) was the evening my wife Nancy and I spent enjoying a set by singer/lyricist Lorraine Feather at Danny's Skylight Room. She has a terrific voice and also a way of keeping a crowd's attention with her spoken introductions explaining the background of ...
Koto's Song: A Review of the Murasaki Ensemble
by Norman Weinstein
My wife and I are sitting in Yoshi’s, the Bay area’s premier jazz club, seeing an array of instruments looking wildly out of place on any jazz club’s stage. Our vision sweeps across three Japanese kotos, a traditional form of zither, several Middle-Eastern drums, an array of wooden and metal flutes, and a classical guitar. Only ...
Chris Botti Cools Connecticut
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter Chris Botti, hot off of Sting's sold-out North American “Sacred Love" tour, slid into New Haven, headlining his own contemporary jazz jam. April 2, 2004 - Lyman Hall at Southern Connecticut State University is where the cool combustion took place. (He even looks like Sting.)Promoting his most recent Columbia label release, A Thousand Kisses ...
John Geggie, 'No Boundaries' Series with Mike Murley and Jim Doxas
by John Kelman
Ottawa, Canada April 4, 2004 First the bad news. Veteran Ottawa bassist/composer/educator John Geggie, whose ongoing series of musical collaborations called “No Boundaries” has been deservingly successful for its sense of daring and invention, had planned a series of duets with Swedish bass legend Anders Jormin. Unfortunately, at the last minute, Jormin had to ...
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