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Jazz Treats for the Holidays: Miles Davis-Gil Evans and Stacey Kent
by Nick Catalano
It's that time of year and Gotham has a storehouse of goodies for visitors desiring some good jazz to relieve the pressure of holiday shopping. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola continues its prescient Monday night series featuring young musicians. Among the most exciting performances in the series is that of the Manhattan School of Music Concert Jazz Band ...
Brazilian-Americans vs. Brazilians
by Nick Catalano
It has been over 40 years since Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Egberto Gismonti, Gilberto Gil and other leaders of the Bossa Nova movement exported their tropicalismo sound to our shores with enormous success. Soon after this contagious samba sound mesmerized Americans many Brazilian musicians emigrated to the U.S. in search of recording contracts, solid club ...
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola: Women In Jazz
by Nick Catalano
The autumn jazz season has begun in New York and the energy at Lincoln Center continues to accelerate. This week I visited Dizzy's to catch the 3rd annual Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival and found the club bulging with SRO crowds. Renee Rosnes (the new Mrs. Bill Charlap) debuted a new quartet and the group ...
Moments with Max
by Nick Catalano
The passing of Max Roach will initiate countless reminiscences, retrospectives, and reassessments. With his appearances alongside Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie on “Ko-Ko"--the seminal early bebop release--"The Birth of The Cool" with Miles Davis, and on countless recordings with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and other bop pioneers, Max set a new standard for percussion even before ...
Wynton Marsalis on Satellite Radio
by Nick Catalano
As the evolution in technology accelerates exponentially these days, it becomes difficult to decide which gadgets are necessary for meaningful aesthetic participation and which are simply an attempt by corporate America to filch more money from our dwindling resources. I recently purchased a car and it came with a 3-month trial subscription to XM ...
European Connections: Dizzy in Greece
by Nick Catalano
Often, in my past columns there have been many essays and references to jazz musicians, recordings and scenes outside the United States. I have written a great deal in an attempt to address the mystery of the enormous popularity of the music across the seas versus its ironic unpopularity in many places in America. ...
What's Going On In Cuba?
by Nick Catalano
As most jazzophiles know, in 1947 Dizzy Gillespie decided to go to Cuba. Having presided over the bebop revolution with Charlie Parker, Dizzy was leading his own big band and searching for new jazz pathways. He had long recognized that while jazz had originated in America, the richness of its African polyrhythms had been principally transplanted ...
Carol Fredette and the N.Y. Jazz Nonet at The Garage; New Releases from Michel Camilo and Dimitri Vassilakis
by Nick Catalano
The Garage is an indoor/outdoor/restaurant/jazz room in Greenwich Village that captures some of the spirit of old 52nd Street clubs. Located at 99 7th Avenue South near Christopher, this boîte offers food and drink at sensible prices, important music, and the informal atmosphere that is so necessary for musicians and vocalists to perform to their potential, ...
JALC Concert; New Releases by Stanley Clarke and Kendra Shank
by Nick Catalano
JALC Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis The Songs We Love Jazz at Lincoln Center, Rose Room New York City, New York March 29-31, 2007 One of the most intriguing jazz concerts in memory occurred at Jazz at Lincoln Center this past weekend. The Jazz at Lincoln Center ...
Jazz International
by Nick Catalano
Many times in this column I have reported on the developments of jazz outside the United States. Here in New York for years, there have been countless appearances by musicians from virtually every country imaginable. This month I review international jazzers as a reminder to readers that the most recent music coming from foreign lands is ...
