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European Jazz Diary, Part 1
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 This will be the first installment of a retrospection of jazz performances in Europe during the last half century or so. There are two reasons that occasion these writings. Initially, I'm going to several cities in Europe to research the ...
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola: Hangout for Late Night Jazz Aficionados
by Nick Catalano
Following upon a sensational opening just a few short months ago, the new venues for Jazz at Lincoln Center are beginning to develop interesting personalities with Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola leading the pack as a favorite with out-of-towners and local aspiring musicians. The club has adopted a wise philosophy that utilizes a mixture of star headliners who ...
Pat Metheny Group 2005
by Nick Catalano
I was in south Florida last week and decided to catch the beginning of Pat Metheny's new tour, a multi-city affair in support of his new CD The Way Up. The CD, which is No. 2 on Billboard magazine's contemporary jazz chart, is a single 68-minute opus reprising Metheny's jazz-rock-pop-folk-fusion musical evolution. At the concert, held ...
The Train Theory: The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in Performance
by Nick Catalano
In the most intriguing performance to date, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis presented a series of compositions focusing on trains. “Full Steam Ahead" (on Feb. 25th) was an attempt to demonstrate the influence of “locomotive onomatopoeia" (as Albert Murray phrases it in the program notes) on the percussive emphasis in ...
Marlena Shaw at Jazz Au Bar
by Nick Catalano
Of all the references that reviewers use to describe jazz performances perhaps the most common is the term “swing." We are all familiar with it and yet it is one of the most difficult expressions to define precisely. Its essence involves subtle and artistic variations of established rhythms but the many techniques involved in this subtlety ...
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 ...
Autumn CD Releases From Telarc, Koch and Adventure Music
by Nick Catalano
Each year the autumnal solstice arrives faster and faster and each year we look ruefully back at the restful summer days and mourn their quicker-than-ever passing. Actually, not quite everyone has rested; in the recording studios activity hums along and more and more artists, producers, and technicians are at it day and night. The result is ...
