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Contemporary Jazz, Slightly Offstream
by Roy Strassman
Michael Wolff & Impure Thoughts Jazz Alley Seattle, WA November 7, 2000Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts blew into town accompanying the incoming weather front with a hard-driving rainstorm of its ownone of trance-like percussion and bass grooves and heavy winds blowin' in over the reeds and piano strings. The light voter ...
Contemporary Afro-Cuban JazzIrakere
by Roy Strassman
Irakere Jazz Alley Seattle, WA October 31, 2000 Last night Irakere, the cutting-edge Havana based group which pioneered both the fusion of classical Cuban music and jazz and the melding of the culture's traditional instruments with electric ones, opened for a week's stint at Seattle's Jazz Alley. Absent their ...
Pat Martino Trio at Jazz Alley
by Roy Strassman
Pat Martino Trio Jazz Alley Seattle, WA October 31, 2000Amidst good tidings, packed house and festive d'cor, replete with onstage Christmas tree, the Three Jazzmen journeyed to the West, Seattle's Jazz Alley, thereby annunciating the holy rebirth of jazz guitar-organ funk. The jazzmen in question are none other ...
Heirs Swing Jazz In Louis Armstrong's Shadow
by Daniel Kassell
Since July 4th, 2000, Louis Armstrong's (LA) celebrated birthday, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO) led by the New Orleans trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (WM) has demonstrated American music's roots and it will continue until August 4th 2001 (the more recently discovered baptismal birth date).HEIRS TO THE THRONE Masters Play Armstrong", December 7th, 2000 at New ...
Chick Corea Trio Musical Palette Delights Holiday Audiences
by Paula Edelstein
Catalina’s Bar & Grill Los Angeles, CA December 17, 2000 The holiday season is tinged with varied emotions best expressed in music. Wonder, awe, gaiety and warmth all emanated from the standing room only audience at Catalina’s Bar & Grill in Los Angeles, California on December 17th, 2000 for The ...
Andy Fusco Sextet
by David A. Orthmann
The concert featuring the Andy Fusco Sextet at Kean University’s (Union, NJ) Wilkins Theatre might have just as easily been billed as the Criss Cross Jazz All Stars. Four members of the band, Fusco on alto saxophone, tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf, pianist Joel Weiskopf, and drummer Billy Drummond, have all recorded under their own names for ...
Lou Donaldson Quartet
by C. Andrew Hovan
Night Town Cleveland Heights, Ohio November 18, 2001 There was literally just enough time to unload the bags from the car and into the house and then get back on the road. Friday night I had been in Columbus to catch the Herbie Nichols Project and visit some friends the ...
The Herbie Nichols Project
by C. Andrew Hovan
Wexner Center For The Arts Columbus, Ohio November 16, 2001 Part of a brief fall tour that brought them through the Southern part of Ohio, it was a rare treat to hear the likes of The Herbie Nichols Project on the campus of Ohio State University. The intimate and acoustically ...
Lucerne Piano Festival
by David Adler
Lucerne, Switzerland Concert Hall, Cultural and Congress Center November 20-25, 2001 Lucerne is a musical city. Its annual music festival occurs in three acts and covers the better part of the year. First there’s Ostern (Easter), then Sommer (summer), and finally, in the fall, Piano. European classical music dominates the ...
Torben Waldorff Quintet
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Anthony Gallo When I read the advertisement for this show in the Boston Phoenix, I knew this show was going to be to hard to pass up. The person, whoever he was, charged with writing a little blurb about what the show would be like, compared Torben Woldorff's Quartet to Miles Second ...

