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Chick Corea: Rendezvous in New York
by AAJ Staff
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York (10-DVD box set) Image Entertainment ID1796IEDVD 2005 For three consecutive weeks, Chick Corea celebrated his 60th birthday. Nine different ensembles of his choosing held sway at New York's Blue Note two nights each week. Perhaps better to having been there, this ten-DVD/559-minute package not ...
Adam Lane 3: Zero Degree Music
by Clifford Allen
Reedman-composer Vinny Golia has found a home in playing scenarios of all stripes (orchestra, solo, and duets with collaborators from seemingly all walks of the improvisational spectrum), but the small-group format of the power trio is a favorite. Apparently the first in a two-volume set, Zero Degree Music, under the leadership of bassist-composer Adam Lane (who ...
December 2005
by AAJ Staff
Muhal Richard Abrams closed the AACM's 40th anniversary season with solo piano and large ensemble sets at the Community Church of New York (Nov. 11th). His solo piece, “Life One Prelude , was approximately 45 minutes of high abstraction. Sparse atonal clusters grew into enveloping waves of sound as Abrams roamed the keyboard, often with crossed ...
John Di Martino: So In Love
by Russ Musto
The versatile pianist John DiMartino has made a name for himself as a sideman in Latin jazz bands and as an accompanist for vocalists, but has yet to be justly acknowledged for his abilities as the leader of a straight-ahead instrumental jazz group. On his second “Romantic Jazz Trio" date for the Japanese Venus label, Di ...
Harris Eisenstadt: The Soul and Gone
by AAJ Staff
By Chris DiGirolamo Jazz is a conversation between musicians, and when it comes down to it, the style has an inherent structure. Musicians should have something to say, and drummer/composer/leader Harris Eisenstadt does, without a doubt. The Soul and Gone is indubitably about compositional expression. With the dynamics of a five o'clock traffic ...
Kenny Barron Trio: The Perfect Set: Live at Bradley's II
by Tom Greenland
In the Middle East, “tarab," a state of musical and spiritual ecstasy, is produced and maintained when a creative feedback loop is established between performers and listeners. The transformation is dependent not only on the skilled artisans, but on the environment created by the musically initiated audience. In jazz, people and place are equally important: Bradley's, ...
Shirley Horn: But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn
by Andrew Rowan
Dear Shirley Horn was laid to rest on November 3, 2005. A distinctive, emotional singer as well as brilliant pianist, Horn crafted an instantly recognizable style and a body of work that was often moving beyond words. While she's hailed far and wide as one of the finest ballads singers ever, this accolade ...
The Kenny Davern Quartet: In Concert at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, 2004
by Florence Wetzel
Now in his 70s, Kenny Davern is a modern master of the clarinet, and his playing is an example of the effortlessness that comes only from decades of effort. This release finds him in the good company of guitarist James Chirillo, bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Tony DeNicola on eight classic songs that radiate the pure, ...
George Colligan: Past-Present-Future; Realization
by David Adler
With a string of recordings for Fresh Sound and Steeplechase, George Colligan established himself as one of the strongest new pianists in jazz. His first Criss Cross outing, Ultimatum (2002), focused exclusively on original material. George Colligan Past-Present-Future Criss Cross 2005 On the followup, Past-Present-Future, only the title ...
A Few Magical Days in the Life of a Jazz Writer
by Nick Catalano
I'm working on a new book, some contents of which involve my music writing during the past twenty years or so. Readers often ask me to describe the day to day activity of a music journalist here in Gotham and several chapters in this forthcoming book address these requests. What follows is a sampling of typical ...
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