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Michael Jefry Stevens: "Songbook"
by David Adler
Michael Jefry Stevens Cornelia Street Cafe New York City April 2000 Michael Jefry Stevens, a Brooklyn-based pianist with a taste for the avant-garde, has been pursuing a secret career as a jazz songwriter. That’s right: this Mark Whitecage-mentored purveyor of free improv has been building a stash of ...
Pat Metheny Trio at The Capitol Theatre in Cleveland
by C. Andrew Hovan
Pat Metheny Trio The Capitol Theatre Columbus, OH April 2000Much like a modern-day Ellington, guitarist and composer Pat Metheny has kept his working group together for many decades now and utilizes it as a workshop for developing his compositions, always tailoring his work, like the maestro, for the persons involved. Pushing ...
Stephan Crump Quartet: Live at the C-Note
by David Adler
Stephan Crump Quartet The C-Note New York City April 2000 Stephan Crump’s 1997 debut, Poems and Other Things (available at www.cdbaby.com), revealed a storyteller’s sensibility and, as the title suggests, a poet’s penchant for conjuring images and moods. The Brooklyn-based bassist chose for his ensemble Chris Cheek on ...
The Real Swing: Count Basie Orchestra
by R.J. DeLuke
ount Basie Orchestra Fonda-Fultonville H.S. Fonda, NY Swing music experienced a bit of a renaissance over the last couple years, a craze that spawned a group of new young sings groups -- energetic and somewhat fun, but marginally talented and extremely unauthentic. But the real thing came to Fonda-Fultonville High ...
Jazz Composers Collective at the Jazz Standard
by David Adler
Jazz Composers Collective Jazz Standard New York City April 2000 The Jazz Composers Collective hasn’t had a strong presence in New York’s major jazz clubs. But that began to change in late March with a three-night JCC showcase at the Jazz Standard. The Herbie Nichols Project did its ...
Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd: Live at the Bird of Paradise (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
by C. Andrew Hovan
Coming together in one of those “once in a lifetime" sort of ways, a recent two-night stand by the reunited Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet was not only remarkable in terms of the musicians involved but also notable due to the venue chosen for the occasion. Anyone familiar with the jazz lineage of Detroit and the suburbs ...
Jacky Terrasson Trio
by David Adler
Live at Smoke April 2000 Photo by Jimmy Katz Critics used to complain that Jacky Terrasson relied excessively on chops, which was nonsense — the young pianist always displayed a profound awareness of musical texture, even when unleashing furious flurries of notes. At any rate, those complaints certainly don’t ...
Danilo Perez: The Motherland Project
by David Adler
Village Vanguard, NYC March 2001 Danilo Perez’s Motherland was named the top jazz album of 2000 by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times. A sprawling, highly ambitious piece of work, the disc took musical influences from Perez’s native Panama and wove them into a pan-African, pan-Latin, pan-jazz manifesto that leapt out ...
Dianne Reeves
by AAJ Staff
Southern Theater Columbus, Ohio March 15, 2001 The ostensible objective of Dianne Reeves' appearance at the Southern Theater--and of her current tour--is the promotion of her new album, The Calling.The CD pays tribute to the voice that led Reeves to pursue her own career and which never failed to ...
Jacky Terrasson & Stefon Harris D.D. Jackson & Bluiett Duets on the Hudson
by David Adler
Kaplan Penthouse New York March 2001 Jacky Terrasson and Stefon Harris began their duo set at the Kaplan Penthouse by tossing snippets of sound back and forth like tennis pros. Their atonal, clipped and playful lines slowly assumed a recognizable form, and before you knew it they were off on ...
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