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Jazz In Brooklyn
by Nick Catalano
There used to be a sign at the exit of the Verrazano Bridge that read “Welcome to Brooklyn--The fourth largest city in America." Actually, if each borough in Gotham were a standalone city, Brooklyn, with the present population of 2.5 million would now be the third largest city in the country. Most visitors to New York ...
The Florida Jazz Doctor: South Florida Jazz 2008
by Nick Catalano
A few weeks ago I traveled to Florida to set up radio-TV appearances and signings for my latest book New York Nights. While there I had the opportunity to attend a performance in the South Florida Jazz series--an outgrowth of older area societies such as Gold Coast Jazz. The present series utilizes the Miniaci Performing Arts ...
David Finck: Music Spoken Here
by Nick Catalano
In my 20 years of music journalism I have covered many genres: opera, cabaret, jazz, pop, chamber music, symphonic concerts and recitals. Never in my outings have I encountered a musician who has greater generic scope than bassist extraordinaire David Finck. He is totally at home in every setting imaginable. He has been coveted by every ...
Jazz and The New York Times
by Nick Catalano
As most readers know, some of the great newspapers in America have undergone serious corporate challenges in the past few years. The family ownership of the L.A. Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal has always been recognized as the principal reason for the high standard of journalism that such papers have. New bottom-line ...
Jazz: The State of the Art - A New York Perspective. Part 1
by Nick Catalano
A much heralded new book has arrived in the last mail drop of 2007. Its title Modernism: The Lure of Heresy From Baudelaire To Beckett And Beyond is a good indication of the scope which writer Peter Gay (National Book Award winner and author of some twenty-five books; Professor Emeritus at Yale) has undertaken. He includes ...
Jazz Treats for the Holidays: Miles Davis-Gil Evans and Stacey Kent
by Nick Catalano
It's that time of year and Gotham has a storehouse of goodies for visitors desiring some good jazz to relieve the pressure of holiday shopping. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola continues its prescient Monday night series featuring young musicians. Among the most exciting performances in the series is that of the Manhattan School of Music Concert Jazz Band ...
Brazilian-Americans vs. Brazilians
by Nick Catalano
It has been over 40 years since Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Egberto Gismonti, Gilberto Gil and other leaders of the Bossa Nova movement exported their tropicalismo sound to our shores with enormous success. Soon after this contagious samba sound mesmerized Americans many Brazilian musicians emigrated to the U.S. in search of recording contracts, solid club ...
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola: Women In Jazz
by Nick Catalano
The autumn jazz season has begun in New York and the energy at Lincoln Center continues to accelerate. This week I visited Dizzy's to catch the 3rd annual Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival and found the club bulging with SRO crowds. Renee Rosnes (the new Mrs. Bill Charlap) debuted a new quartet and the group ...
Moments with Max
by Nick Catalano
The passing of Max Roach will initiate countless reminiscences, retrospectives, and reassessments. With his appearances alongside Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie on “Ko-Ko"--the seminal early bebop release--"The Birth of The Cool" with Miles Davis, and on countless recordings with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and other bop pioneers, Max set a new standard for percussion even before ...
Wynton Marsalis on Satellite Radio
by Nick Catalano
As the evolution in technology accelerates exponentially these days, it becomes difficult to decide which gadgets are necessary for meaningful aesthetic participation and which are simply an attempt by corporate America to filch more money from our dwindling resources. I recently purchased a car and it came with a 3-month trial subscription to XM ...
