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Autumn Potpourri
by Nick Catalano
Gotham lays claim to dozens of top notch Brazilian musicians who have transplanted themselves and staked out permanent jazz roots here. The music that results is a mélange of sounds resulting from combining their South American traditions with newly acquired New York inspirations. Many of these artists are constantly busy recording and gigging with fellow latinos ...
European Jazz Diary, Part 5 & Fall Openings 2005
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Before I forget, I need to modify references to Jazz activities in Finland. Several readers, after viewing last month's installment, reminded me that there are some 34 jazz festivals each year in Finland--remarkable for a country with a population the size of ...
European Jazz Diary, Part 4
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 During the initial Lionel Hampton tour of Europe in 1953, it was in Stockholm that a contingent of beboppers which Hamp had included in his tour at the behest of European producers and critics, began a secret rebellion. At the ...
European Jazz Diary, Part 3
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Surely, Amsterdam is one of the leading jazz capitols of Europe. Upon arriving at Schipol airport (my favorite in Europe) and boarding the most convenient airport-to-downtown system on the planet, I checked into the Bema hotel across from the celebrated ...
European Jazz Diary, Part 2
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 A few years ago I was in France at the Vienne Jazz Festival near Lyon. After sojourning with other American jazz writers, sampling some spectacular provincal cooking along with fabulous vintages of Cote du Rhone and watching Tony Bennett, Diana ...
European Jazz Diary, Part 1
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 This will be the first installment of a retrospection of jazz performances in Europe during the last half century or so. There are two reasons that occasion these writings. Initially, I'm going to several cities in Europe to research the ...
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola: Hangout for Late Night Jazz Aficionados
by Nick Catalano
Following upon a sensational opening just a few short months ago, the new venues for Jazz at Lincoln Center are beginning to develop interesting personalities with Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola leading the pack as a favorite with out-of-towners and local aspiring musicians. The club has adopted a wise philosophy that utilizes a mixture of star headliners who ...
Pat Metheny Group 2005
by Nick Catalano
I was in south Florida last week and decided to catch the beginning of Pat Metheny's new tour, a multi-city affair in support of his new CD The Way Up. The CD, which is No. 2 on Billboard magazine's contemporary jazz chart, is a single 68-minute opus reprising Metheny's jazz-rock-pop-folk-fusion musical evolution. At the concert, held ...
The Train Theory: The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in Performance
by Nick Catalano
In the most intriguing performance to date, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis presented a series of compositions focusing on trains. “Full Steam Ahead" (on Feb. 25th) was an attempt to demonstrate the influence of “locomotive onomatopoeia" (as Albert Murray phrases it in the program notes) on the percussive emphasis in ...
Marlena Shaw at Jazz Au Bar
by Nick Catalano
Of all the references that reviewers use to describe jazz performances perhaps the most common is the term “swing." We are all familiar with it and yet it is one of the most difficult expressions to define precisely. Its essence involves subtle and artistic variations of established rhythms but the many techniques involved in this subtlety ...
