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The Ken Watters Group - Live at The Funky Butt
by Glenn Astarita
The Funky Butt New Orleans, LA On January 13th 2001, Alabama-based jazz trumpeter Ken Watters took his quartet to New Orleans’ much beloved and altogether historic establishment known as “The Funky Butt” which is located on “Rampart Street” in Congo Square. And while they rolled into town for their inaugural outing in the “Big ...
John Hollenbeck: Quartet Lucy CD Release Gig Tonic, December 5, 2001
by A. Henkin
The fall of 2001 has seen the release of three new albums by local drummer and percussionist John Hollenbeck. A variation of the Quartet Lucy, spearheaded by Hollenbeck and Theo Bleckmann on vocals, played a short set to an enthusiastic Tonic audience celebrating the CD release.Hollenbeck's albums are very different from those put out by ...
Art Davis and the Circle of Five
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Audrey Henkin Five Knitting Factory Main Space, March 28, 2002 Art Davis (ab), James Carter (reeds), Dick Griffin (trom), Dave Burrell (ap ep), Cecil Brooks III (drm), Candido (cong) September 11, devastating in its effect on New York and the world, had many smaller and less significant ramifications. While it was hard ...
James Hurt and Marc Cary at The Jazz Gallery, 3/14/02
by AAJ Staff
It’s clichéd to say, perhaps, but after hearing this show one could simply not avoid the conclusion that this duo concert (at The Jazz Gallery) was an inevitable “meeting of the minds.” There was of course the auspice of this prior to even hearing them play together- however even the facts could not have predicted the ...
Cape May (New Jersey) Jazz Festival
by Sandy Ingham
A Tribute to the Music of Miles Davis April 19-21, 2002 He always preached looking ahead, not back, and Miles Davis practiced that approach to his musical life, constantly evolving, from bebop pioneer to cool-school founder to modal to genre blender to fusion and beyond, seldom revisiting the many milestones of his ...
David Sanchez
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Anthony Gallo As a jazz fan, I can certainly admit that artists can be hit-or-miss. We have all been to see magnificent artists perform magnificently and at other times been devastatingly disappointed. And sometimes, we are fortunate enough to go see a show with extraordinary expectations and have the artist surpass those ...
Jazz: Barbados Style
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on Behalf of Dave Stephens and Susan Randles What could be more pleasant in early January than enjoying the best in the world of jazz in a tropical paradise of lush landscapes and friendly people. Paint It Jazz 2000, the 7th annual Barbados Jazz Festival, was the most ambitious to date with a vast array ...
Great Northeast Blues Festival
by Ed Kopp
James Cotton and Elvin Bishop heated up a cool, cloudy night in downtown Syracuse, N.Y., during the final two performances of the Great Northeast Blues Festival on Saturday, August 14, 1999.Performing on a stage set up in the middle of Erie Blvd. in Syracuse's Clinton Square, Cotton and Bishop played to a subdued but varied ...
Sonny Rollins in D.C.
by Bob Jacobson
Sonny Rollins at the Carter Barron Amphitheater in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. August 28, 1999. The band: Stephen Scott on piano; Bob Cranshaw on electric bass; Perry Wilson on drums; Victor See Yuen on percussion; Clifton Anderson on trombone.Well, they came out swingin'. Despite the four thousand seat venue, the band played like it ...
Free Jazz in New York
by Joel Roberts
There are two kinds of free jazz: one was pioneered by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane and dispenses with traditional rhythmic and harmonic structures in favor of swirling, adventurous explorations of sound and spontaneity; the other is the kind that doesn't cost any money. This month there is an almost overwhelming assortment ...
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