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Stephanie Nakasian & Hod O'Brien: Visitors from Virginia
by Nick Catalano
Many years ago one of my writer friends put me on to a jazz singer who, he said, was terrific. I went to Zinno's (now defunct) in the Village and immediately saw that my friend certainly knew his singers. Stephanie Nakasian was raised in Bronxville N.Y. studying piano and violin while singing in church choirs and ...
Barbara Carroll: Vintage Wine
by Nick Catalano
There are evenings in a reviewer's life when the mind is replenished, the soul is uplifted and the blood sings. You've just witnessed an ingenious performance and can't wait to get home and write about it, even though you feel you cannot possibly capture the spirit of the evening with your feeble prose. Such an event ...
Hermeto Pascoal
by Nick Catalano
In the past few months I've been quite busy writing program notes and preview pieces for the gala opening of the new home for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Opening night (see related article ) was October 18th and the early reaction to the new facility, its ambience and its acoustics is a cavalcade of praise and ...
Gotham's Big Bash: The New Opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center
by Nick Catalano
Perhaps the greatest gala in jazz history will occur this month with the opening of the new home for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Located in the new Time-Warner building in Columbus Circle (site of the old New York coliseum), the new jazz world capitol contains the first-ever facility specifically designed for the acoustics of jazz. The ...
Jazz in China: Part 1
by Nick Catalano
Some of us are lucky enough to receive interesting travel assignments and hopscotch thither and yond visiting exciting places, sampling exotic foods and exploring strange realities. I've been one of those fortunate folks who, because of my many careers, get to go abroad quite often. And when I'm away I naturally investigate what's happening in Jazz ...
Brazil, Brazil
by Nick Catalano
For many decades now the music of modern Brazil has flowed to our shores bringing rhythmic richness and exotic sounds. It seems like yesterday that Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd and Astrud Gilberto introduced Americans to the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (and the lyrics of Gene Lees) but that happened almost 40 years ago. Many thought ...
Summer Festivals 2004
by Nick Catalano
Last week, as a guest on a talk show, I addressed the importance of understanding and appreciating the international scope that jazz has attained. It is fair to say that much of the best in jazz composition, recording and performance comes into the music from foreign shores and the dismissal of these contributions as “impure” is ...
Spring CD Sampler
by Nick Catalano
Each month it seems to get worse... The piles of new CD’s on my shelf grow bigger and bigger and, each month it becomes more and more impossible to make a dent in the pile for even cursory listening not to mention writing reviews. I hesitate to complain because jazz fans everywhere keep reminding me how ...
Small Labels, Big Talent and Dedicated Producers
by Nick Catalano
Mark Feldman is a practicing physician in Kingston N.Y. but several times a month he trots down to recording studios in Gotham to don his other hat- Jazz CD producer. For many years Dr. Feldman and his gifted wife Kayla have painstakingly chosen talent, hired engineers, analyzed master recordings marketed product and in many other capacities ...
A Texan, A Painter and a Dropout
by Nick Catalano
Since its opening a few years back, Feinstein’s has paraded the best known pop singers in the business into its posh surroundings and charged its patrons a hefty penny to rub elbows with the likes of Rosemary Clooney, John Pizzerelli, Michael Feinstein, Keely Smith, Jim Webb, etc. Recently, the producers have veered away from the household ...
