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Highlights in Jazz
by Nick Catalano
A while back at “Highlights in Jazz" the longest running jazz subscription series in Gotham, producer Jack Kleinsinger presented composer/musician/writer David Amram. At seventy, Amram is still producing, composing and playing marvelous musics that run the gamut from classical to folk to chamber to jazz and beyond that. A truly astounding eclectic, Amram has “hung out" ...
February Cornucopia
by Nick Catalano
It may be cold in the Big Apple but a great deal of steaming Jazz activity is on tap as the concert scene is in full bloom, the club scene is teeming with delicious music and important CD releases are pouring out. From February 19 to the 21st, Jazz at Lincoln Center will celebrate the music ...
Jazz in the New Year
by Nick Catalano
One of the most enduring and pleasant series that Gotham has enjoyed in recent years is Walker’s “Sundays with Peter Leitch and special guests.” Walker’s is one of the city’s ancient pubs down in Tribeca (16 N. Moore at Varick) and has a special atmosphere that can cheer you up and feed you well of a ...
Holiday Jazz in Gotham
by Nick Catalano
It’s that time of year again and The Apple will be serving up generous portions of interesting music for the hordes of tourists who choose to combine serious listening with their busy shopping and sightseeing schedules. For the ever increasing numbers of jazz fans who e-mail inquiries to this column I have included a sampling of ...
Racism in Jazz: Writing and Reporting
by Nick Catalano
For obvious reasons, writing about racism is a painful experience. Jazz is a complex art form and I have always felt that the primary responsibilities of a critic/writer are to educate the public by reporting on performances, recordings and artists, to promulgate an objective critical response to the musical evolution and to guard against the errors, ...
Rosa Passos: Brazilian Guitarist, Composer, Vocalist
by Nick Catalano
It has been forty years since the extraordinary samba jazz of Brazil was first introduced to mass audiences in the United States. Great composer/instrumentalists like Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, and Milton Nascimento have given way to another generation of spectacular talents like Ivan Lins, Dori Caymmi, Ary Barroso and Elis Regina. Leading American performers from ...
A Harpist and a Harpy
by Nick Catalano
A few years ago, amid the reams of jazz press releases and publicity blurbs that I receive each month, I noticed a piece about South American Roberto Perera who was recording a group which featured his own playing of the Paraguyan harp. Immediately, I sought to discern the principal differences between this instrument and the traditional ...
Jazz Elder Statesmen
by Nick Catalano
This month we’re listening to recordings made by two jazzers who’ve been at it since the 1940’s. Everyone knows that jazz recordings account for less than 2% of the American market and anyone who can keep selling CD’s these days must be special. Dave Brubeck is eighty-two. His post-war recordings identified an era in jazz. The ...
Jazz in Florida, Part II
by Nick Catalano
One of the interesting tour challenges for small jazz groups involves creating increased musical dimensions for some of the large concert halls around the country. Often, headliners will invest in charts of their music that have been arranged for big bands and even symphony orchestras. Boca Raton’s Florida Atlantic University auditorium boasts a seating capacity of ...
Jazz in Florida
by Nick Catalano
On occasion my “New York Beat” column reaches outside Gotham to inspect jazz activities in various places. Last year, while in Paris, I wrote a two-part series on the music scene in the City of Light. Presently, I’m in Florida doing radio interviews and working on another jazz book. I’ve made dozen of such trips here ...
