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Article: Live From New York

April 2003

by David Adler
April 2, 2003

Dave Douglas’s 40th Birthday Celebration — A special week-long event at the Jazz Standard, featuring just about every formation the trumpeter/composer has documented over the last decade. The week opened with a Tiny Bell Trio/Four In One double bill. Guitarist Brad Shepik and drummer Jim Black joined Douglas for a riotous set that ...

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Article: New York Beat

Jazz Elder Statesmen

by Nick Catalano
April 2, 2003

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 ...

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Article: Interview

Rashied Ali

by Hank Shteamer
March 31, 2003

Rashied Ali is a survivor. Best known for replacing Elvin Jones as John Coltrane's drummer of choice in the mid-sixties, Ali has sustained himself as a working, thriving musician right through to the present day. Since his stint with Trane, Ali has founded a label, Survival Records, and a club, Ali's Alley; led countless groups in ...

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Article: Interview

Meet Roy Haynes

by AAJ Staff
March 19, 2003

Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie have many things in common--one of which is Roy Haynes. The drummer has played with these and other jazz giants during his 77 years as a percussive powerhouse. He turns 78 on March 13th, and the jazz world celebrates at New York City's Blue Note for a ...

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Article: Megaphone

Different Generations, Same Realizations

by Ben Allison
March 14, 2003

In the summer of 1992, I was reading a biography about Alban Berg that described his and Arnold Schoenberg's frustration over the lack of adequate performance opportunities for their music and the gap that seemed to exist between them and the public. This situation inspired Schoenberg to look for alternatives to the usual channels that composers ...

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Article: Profile

Drummer Han Bennink

by A. Henkin
March 13, 2003

Do not take Han Bennink lightly. While his exuberance is refreshing and entertaining, above all he is a passionate and committed musician with an international resume spanning five decades. The son of a concert percussionist, Dutchman Bennink has been around the drums since birth. Bennink recounts, “I was a lonely child and went with ...

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Article: Profile

Marian McPartland: Queen of Piano Jazz

by Celeste Sunderland
March 13, 2003

Marian McPartland's bracelet keeps rattling. I can't hear it from my perch behind the soundboard but Shari Hutchinson the producer of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz is picking it up on the recording. “It's supposed to stay up above my watch. It keeps working its way down," McPartland explains from the other side of ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Criss Cross Records

by David Adler
March 13, 2003

It's mid-December at Systems Two Studios in Brooklyn. Gerry Teekens, founder and head of the Netherlands-based Criss Cross label, is wrapping up one of his semi-annual trips to the States, producing nine recording sessions in less than two weeks ("Criss Cross" is not a reference to the Monk tune, but rather to transoceanic travel). Today's agenda ...

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Article: Interview

A Conversation Between William Hooker & Ras Moshe

by A. Henkin
March 11, 2003

William Hooker is a spirit drummer who has shared his energy with musicians from Billy Bang, David Murray and David S. Ware to DJ Spooky and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo. He has been given the opportunity to hone the minds and souls of children by teaching social studies and literacy with components of ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2003

by David Adler
March 3, 2003

Before I present my NYC live jazz highlights for February 2003, a note to readers: Thanks to a slew of overlapping professional and personal commitments, I’ll be shortening the column somewhat in the coming months. Rest assured, this will be temporary. NY@Night is not going away! I anticipate a return to normal ...