New York City Jazz Scene, Part II

[jazzy mary]

Since the first part had over 1,000 posts, I'd thought I'd start part II. Later, I'll post about seeing the Mingus Dynasty at the Brooklym Academy of Music and then hearing Robert Glasper at Smalls. Since we're on the the topic, I just quickly want to say that Damion Reid is one very, very bad mother-f***er!!! I haven't seen a drummer with his chops, sense of dynamics, creativity and sensitivity to the music in a long while! I can't wait to hear him again!

More later...but I just had to get that out, I'm so excited about hearing this extraordinary drummer. Gary, I did mention you to him, he totally remembered you very fondly and specifically asked that I say "hi" to you from him.

[clinthopson]

And to kick off Mary's new theread: Here my kid's upcoming appearances:

Please join the JC Hopkins Biggish Band this Tuesday at NYC Knitting Factory. Special guest Amy Allison http://www.amyallisonmusic.com/ will sit in with the band:

Tuesday, May 10th
Knitting Factory
Tap Bar
74 Leonard Street
NYC, NY 10013
8pm / $10
http://www.knittingfactory.com

Dance Alert:
The Biggish Band has been invited to perform at Club 412 on Saturday, May 28th:

Saturday, May 28th
Club 412
412 Eighth Ave @ 31st
NYC (near Penn Station)
8pm - 12midnight
http://www.youshouldbedancing.net/Club412/

JC Hopkins and his Biggish Band perform original songs based in bop and swing. The band features Queen Esther on vocals, in front of a band of New York's finest instrumentalists.

Biggish Band Players:
JC Hopkins - vocals, piano, songs
Queen Esther - vocals
Lewis "Flip" Barnes - trumpet, vocals
Chuck MacKinnon - trumpet
Mark MacGowan - trumpet
Vincent Chancey - French horn
J Walter Hawkes - trombone
Cleave Guyton - alto sax
Virginia Mayhew - tenor sax
Claire Daly - baritone sax
Liberty Ellman - guitar
Warren Smith - vibraphone
Hilliard Greene - bass
Sunny Jain - drums

Upcoming Shows:
At the Knitting Factory / Tap Bar:
June 14th
July 12th
August 9th
At the Slipper Room:
June 30th

[jazzy mary]

Hey Pete, how was the second set of the Mingus Dynasty??

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by jazzy mary

Hey Pete, how was the second set of the Mingus Dynasty??

Excellent. Orrin Evans really got to show his stuff.

[jazzy mary]

What did they play, how long was it?

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by jazzy mary

What did they play, how long was it?

They played for another hour.

I can't remember what they opened the set with, but they played

Sue's Changes
Invisible Lady (an obscure ballad I was unfamiliar with. Herwig mentioned that Elvis Costello recorded it with one of the bands, and Conrad took a beautiful solo).
A tune from Mingus Dynasty--I think it was New Now, Know How--with Earl McIntyre guesting on bass trombone
& they ended with Boogie Stop Shuffle as a head-only outro.

The trumpeter, Kenny Rampton, was new to me. Good player with a sound that fits the music well. Seamus Blake is an excellent player, but too perfect for my taste. Jaleel Shaw is rougher around the edges, but more interesting, IMO.

[Valerie]

Originally Posted by Pete C

Seamus Blake is an excellent player, but too perfect for my taste. Jaleel Shaw is rougher around the edges, but more interesting, IMO.

Jaleel is the man! I just loves me some Jaleel! He has the capacity to play with enormous sweetness and sensitivity and at the same time exhibiting lots of strength. just my two cents.

[iris]

hey jcers - just letting you know about a group that i am performing with on Wednesday. You must check out Joe's compositions if you haven't yet. They are absolutely stunning! - julie


Vipassana
by Joseph C. Phillips Jr.
performed by Numinous+

Wednesday May 11th
8:00 PM
Renee Weiler Concert Hall
at the Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street
in Greenwich Village, New York City

(Take 1 or 9 Train to Christopher Street; walk south on 7th Avenue about 1 block.
Make a right onto Barrow Street; school is mid-block on the right)
(212) 242-4770.
Admission is $15 at the door. $12 by RSVP by Tuesday May 10th at joephillips@numinousmusic.com.

The composition is a new 4-movement, 70 minute work entitled, Vipassana. In the Pali language of the early Buddhist texts, vipassana means "to see things as they really are" or insight. Vipassana will be conducted by Mr. Phillips and performed by an expanded Numinous ensemble of 25 musicians. Normally Numinous is a 14 person chamber group (string quartet, woodwinds, brass, percussion) and features music that combines modern 'classical' music and 'jazz' improvisational elements.

Partly inspired by some of the nature photographs from Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth from Above series and the poetry (in the final movement) of Denise Levertov, Vipassana is an experience of expressive beauty and emotional depth that hopes to represent those moments of clarity and calmness which reveal "the inner nature of all beings and things."

Featuring these wonderful musicians:
Ben Kono-flute, alto flute, piccolo, clarinet, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone,
oboe, English horn
Dan Willis-flute, piccolo, clarinet, tenor saxophone, English Horn, oboe
Ed Xiques-flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Charles Porter-trumpet, flügelhorn
Deborah Weisz-trombone
Tom Beckham-vibraphone, percussion
Don McCarthy-vibraphone, percussion
Rachel Eckroth-piano
Kris Davis-piano
Andrew Green-electric guitar
Sebastian Noelle-electric guitar
John Hadfield-percussion
Gil Alexander-percussion
Charenee Wade, Julie Hardy, Amy Cervini, Ellen Martin, Kate McGarry-voices
David Grunberg, Mitsuko Suzuki-violins
Tanya Kalmanovitch, Corrina Lynch-violas
Jody Redhage, Gil Selinger-violoncellos
Alexis Cuadrado-bass
Joseph C. Phillips Jr.-conductor, composer

NUMINOUS
The Music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr.
www.numinousmusic.com
joephillips@numinousmusic.com

Check out Numinous on WNYC's New Sounds: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/episodes/01202004

[hearsay]

Originally Posted by jazzy mary

Since we're on the the topic, I just quickly want to say that Damion Reid is one very, very bad mother-f***er!!! I haven't seen a drummer with his chops, sense of dynamics, creativity and sensitivity to the music in a long while! I can't wait to hear him again!

I concur. And since we're still on the topic I'll reiterate (for the new thread
) you can hear Damion again, in a completely different context with Ergo at the Knitting Factory Tap Bar on June 6th.

[Pete C]

Jazz Standard, tonight & tomorrow. I might try to make the early show tomorrow:

TUE - WED MAY 10 -11
Billy Bang's Aftermath Band with Special Guests
Butch Morris (May 10) and Sonny Fortune (May 11)
Billy Bang – violin [Sergeant E5]
John Hicks – piano
Ted Daniel – trumpet [Specialist 4th Class]
James Spaulding – alto saxophone, flute
Curtis Lundy – bass
Michael Carvin – drums [Specialist 4th Class]
Ron Brown – percussion [Specialist 4th Class]
Nhan Thanh Ngo – dan tranh
Co Boi Nguyen – voice

Jazz Standard and Justin Time Records celebrate the release of Vietnam: Reflections—the new album by violinist and composer Billy Bang, and the successor to his revelatory 2001 release Viet Nam: The Aftermath. Both works are rooted in Bang’s experiences as a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and both draw upon harmonic elements of jazz, blues, and Vietnamese folk music. “To write eloquently of my trials and tribulations, of growing from a boy of nineteen and becoming a man, a soldier in that God-forsaken war, has been a supreme challenge...I can honestly say that I’ve recovered the innocence of my spirit and soul again.” (Billy Bang)

Tickets: $20 plus tax

[Other Steve]

Not a concert, but a film screening of potential interest, on Wednesday, May 25 at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, 6:30 and 8:45pm, $10, students $7, children $5. (I might try to make the early show, but it'll be cutting it close since I have tickets to an 8pm concert nearby...)

CECIL TAYLOR: ALL THE NOTES
Series: Special Event: Cecil Taylor
Director: Chris Felver, Country: USA, Release: 2005, Runtime: 72 min Cecil Taylor is one of the most original, exciting and influential figures in modern jazz. In fact, he seems almost too big to be pegged to any one genre, so bountiful are his compositions and his playing — almost any given Taylor piece seems to contain the entire history of music.

Bay Area filmmaker Chris Felver, who has been photographing and filming poets, artists and musicians for years, has made a wonderfully free and intimate portrait of Taylor at work and at play, sharing his passion for the music of others and exploring the ingredients of his own artistic vision. We are proud to be presenting the New York premiere of Felver’s film.

Director Chris Felver and some special guests will be present to introduce the film and take questions after the screening.

[saltwatersnow]

Saturday may 14th
2pm to 4 pm
bowery poetry club
308 bowery nyc

Greetings mag presents:
Poetry and music reversal


Sunday may 15th
8pm
At abc no rio
156 rivington st. nyc

1. john clair - tenor sax /jason brown- drums /
jed shahar- alto & bar. sax /
andrew sosis- elec., psaltery

2. Adam Kriney ensemble

[jazzy mary]

What's up, fellow NYC Jcers? I gotta go hear Dennis this time around. Is anyone else going? Any dinner plans etc.? I don't want to go all by myself.

[Gary Sisco]

Hey, JM -- I got an email from Damion Reid saying you'd passed my greetings along. Thanks! Small world!

[jazzy mary]

Hey Gary, look at one of my lasts posts on "NYC Jazz Scene", that's where I mentioned how I told Damion hi for you. Tell me what he said about me! (in a pm if you wish) because I htought he was an incredible musician!

[kh1958]

Originally Posted by Pete C

TInvisible Lady (an obscure ballad I was unfamiliar with. Herwig mentioned that Elvis Costello recorded it with one of the bands, and Conrad took a beautiful solo).
IMO.

Invisible Lady is on Tonight at Noon, a feature for Jimmy Knepper, recorded by the band with Roland Kirk in 1962.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by kh1958

Invisible Lady is on Tonight at Noon, a feature for Jimmy Knepper, recorded by the band with Roland Kirk in 1962.

Thanks, then I do have it, on the CD of "Oh Yeah."

[Gary Sisco]

Hi, Mary -- Cool. I'd missed your post because I only very randomly drop in on this thread, since it is a kind of torture, knowing what all is going on and not being able to check it out. :-)

Damion said he'd met you and that you'd extended my greetings, and also that he'd found you a very friendly and supportive of the music kind of gal.

I agree with you about his being a great up-and-coming drummer, who will likely now start getting more, very deserved attention, with Robert Glasper having been signed to Blue Note. He says they are recording Glasper's first BN date this weekend, in fact.

I look forward to hearing it, very much. Signing Glasper raised up the current BN a couple of notches in my estimation.

People who haven't heard it ought to do themselves a real favor and pick up Glasper's *Mood* (Fresh Sounds New Talent).

Mary -- Damion and I met through Brett, when they came through here to play, but then we followed through on it because we dug each other. We bonded pretty well when he and a friend came up here to Vermont, to hang out at our place for three or four days. We had a lot of fun, and he got to do some major relaxing, as this is a low pressure zone in which to hang. He's also one of only a very few of the cats whose really been interested in the rural aspects of our life, here, as opposed to the musical and more cosmo aspects of hanging out with us around the house for conversation and partying and such. He dug the horses, and the land, and the building of the barn, and all of that. Hung out in a cold barn freezin' his ass while I did my horsework and such. We had a great time and will again, I'm sure. Thanks for saying hi. It caused another eruption of e-communications. I'm glad you'll be following his career.

[mtaylorjazz]

Glad to see Damion getting talked about so much lately. I really dig playing with him and just hanging around with him too (what little of that I get to do these days!).

Since this is the Jazz in NY thread and I don't want to be OT:

VISION CLUB
Clemente Soto Velez LES Gallery
107 Suffolk St. at Rivington
$10 per set, $15 both sets

May 21 9:30pm (really 10PM)
Lifetime Visions Orchestra
Joseph Jarman, woodwinds, Chris Chalfant, vocals, piano Thomas Buckner, vocals, Cale Brandley, woodwinds, Michel Gentile, flute, Mark Taylor, french horn, Aaron Johnson, trombone, Michael Braudy, violin, George Kormendi, guitar, Ken FIliaino, bass, Rob Garcia, drums, Ken Yamazaki, percussion

11pm
Joseph Jarman & Patricia Nicholson Duo

[Gary Sisco]

Cool that you know Damion, Mark. What gigs have you made together? I wasn't aware of that connection until reading your post.

[mtaylorjazz]

Hey Gary,

Damion's made a bunch of my gigs here. Especially at Barbes. I have to confess that I don't get out to hear him as much as I should with other people but I always enjoy being around him. As usual, I find a great drummer that I love to play with and who seems to enjoy playing my music and they up and get all famous on me!

Heh.


http://www.mark-taylor.biz

[Gary Sisco]

Good one, Mark. :-)

[Lore]

Looks like the end is near for the series at CB's downstairs lounge:

deepop presents: FREESTYLE JAZZ
Post Bop, Extraterrestial Swing & Hybrid Blues
CBGB'S LOUNGE 313 BOWERY 212-677-0455 www.cbgb.com
All shows $10 for entire evening Students w/picture I.D. $5 Musicians that have played series $3

SUNDAY MAY 22
7pm - OKIOK: Kyoko Kitamura, Khabu Young, Mike McGinnis
8pm - Chris Lightcap Quartet featuring: Bill McHenry, Craig Taborn, Jeff Lederer, Rodney Green (2 sets)

SUNDAY MAY 29
7pm - May Halvorsen & Jessica Pavone
8pm - Bruce Eisenbeil, Brian Osborne, Scott Robinson & Katsu Itakura
9pm - DARCY JAMES ARGUE'S SECRET SOCIETY featuring: Erica von Kleist, Peter Van Huffel, Joel Frahm, Sam Sadigursky, Ed Renz, Ingrid Jensen, Dave Rezek, John Chudoba, Tom Goehring, Dave Smith, Marshall Gilkes, Mike Fahie, Mark Patterson, Max Siegel, Sebastian Noelle, Mike Holober, Fraser Hollins, Jon Wikan

WEDNESDAY JUNE 1
8pm - Curtis Hasselbring, Mary Halvorsen, Mat Maneri, Satoshi TakeishiÂ*
9pm - David Crowell, Simon Lott, Mike Chiavaro, Grey McMurray, Ed Rosenberg
10pm - Eastern Seaboard w/ Brent Bagwell, Seth Nanaa & Jordan SchranzÂ*

SUNDAY JUNE 5
7pm: Joe Giardullo, Dee Pop, Reuben Radding
8pm - Trevor Watts & Jamie* Harris Duo
9pm: Steve Lehman, Eric McPherson, Matt Brewer

WEDNESDAY JUNE 8
7pm - Eyal Maoz String Band w/Dana Leong, Shanir Blumenkranz, Alan Grubner, Mathias, Kunzil
8pm - Ayelet Rose Group
9pm - Rebecca Schmoyer Group
10pm - Ben Gerstein Collective: Ben Gerstein, Jacob Sacks, Jacob Garchik, David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Thomas Morgan, Dan Weiss

SUNDAY JUNE 12
7pm - Henry Warner Trio
8pm - Briggan Krauss
9pm - Dennis Gonzalez + Ze Eduardo Unit (Ze Eduardo - bass / Jesus Santandreu - tenor / Bruno Pedroso - drums / Dennis Gonzalez - trumpet)

WEDNESDAY JUNE 15
9pm - Industrial Jazz Group (L.A.)
9pm - Solar
10pm - Ronnie Burrage Trio feat: Salim Washington,Â* Ed Schuller, Rob Shepps
11pm - Gold Sparkle Trio

SUNDAY JUNE 19
7:00pm Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Brian Chase, Matt Welch, Jason Cady
8pm: Noisetet
9pm - Billy Bang

WEDNESDAY JUNE 22
Hanuman Sextet
tba

SUNDAY JUNE 26
7pm - Andrew Lamb,Tom Abbs, Warren Smith
8pm - David Aaron's Short Memory
9pm - William Hooker, Dave Soldier, Sabir Mateen

Wednesday June 29
8pm -Joe Giardullo, Ken Filiano, Dee Pop
9pm - James Finn, Dominac Duval, Warren Smith
10pm - Ehran Elisha Group

SUNDAY JULY 3
closed

WEDNESDAY JULY 6
MOSTLY OTHERS DO THE KILLING
FREEDOMLAND
BILLY MINTZ TWO BASS BAND

SUNDAY JULY 10
7pm - tba
8pm - Tyshawn Sorey New Quartet: Liberty Ellman, Jacam Manricks, Carlo DeRosa
9pm - Tyshawn Sorey's Obliquity: Russ Lossing, Loren Stillman, Carlo DeRosa

WEDNESDAY JULY 13
Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Steve Swell, Hill Greene,Â* Klaus Kugel

SUNDAY JULY 17
Hanuman Sextet
Other Dimensions in Music (2 sets)

WEDNESDAY JULY20
Andy Laster

SUNDAY JULY 24
Hanuman Sextet

WEDNESDAY JULY 27
tba

SUNDAY JULY 31 - Series Ending Show w/
Dee Pop, Susan Alcorn, Daniel Carter & many more

[jazzy mary]

at the VV. I'm taking my daughter, Liz, with me. Can't wait!

[iris]

Hello Everyone -

Just wanted to invite y'all to my gig at Sweet Rhythm on May 31 sets 8 and 10. I recently released my debut cd "A Moment's Glance" on Fresh Sound New Talent and received a positive review in Jazz Times (which Other Steve so nicely posted last week).

Joel Frahm will be my special guest along with Randy Ingram, piano; Matt Clohesy, bass (can also be heard with Geoff Keezer and Ingrid Jensen); and Danny Fischer, drums. Pete C and Jazzy Mary came out last month to check out my gig at the Jazz Standard and gave me some wonderful comments (which i have kept in mind for my this performnance). Thanks guys!

Hope to meet some more of folks in the NY Scene on the 31st.

Sweet Rhythm
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
sets 8:00 & 10:00 pm
88 Seventh Avenue South, New York, NY 10014
212-255-3626
cover: $15


Best, Julie

[robin bell]

Originally Posted by jazzy mary

at the VV. I'm taking my daughter, Liz, with me. Can't wait!

hey jm, what did you and liz think about Billy Drummond? still want to hear about glasper gig( when you get a chance) thanks

[jazzy mary]

Sorry, I'm late with everything as work, home etc. has been so busy. I wasn't thrilled w/ Billy--neither was Liz. He's ok. Some nice cymbal work--but nothing breathtaking. Bobby was uneffingbelievable, as you can always assume. Really, he's just so amazing---a weird cat, but amazing! Dwayne's playing was fantastic!! I am so happy to say that his playing has come back Full force! He played some wonderful, wonderful, interesting, musically complex, deep solos and his keeping the thing going was great!! Mike LeDonne was wonderful too. His wife and baby were there too. We went first set Sunday night and the place was jammed. At one point our Mr. Crouch came in, as he usually does on Sundays.

Mr. Burno was a sweetheart, per usual, to put Liz and I on the guest list--he's very sweet to Liz and is genuinely interested in her music. She would like to start playing vibes, but she is already tackling 4 instruments and where am I gona put a vibraphone? ALthough I would love to play too.

We talked to D for awhile and I gave him the Stevie Wonder box set "At the End of the Century" (He didn't have it!!!) which I had gotten for him off my BMG record club for cheaper than we could find it elsewhere. As a "bonus" cd I gave him a surprise (He didn't know what I had picked out) and that was a Mitsuko Uchida cd of Schubert compositions.

Sorry, Robin, I'll have to tackle Glasper's gig later. But, I've already mentioned Damion Reid's drummin--the revelation of the night for me!

[Valerie]

Originally Posted by jazzy mary

Sorry, I'm late with everything as work, home etc. has been so busy. I wasn't thrilled w/ Billy--neither was Liz. He's ok. Some nice cymbal work--but nothing breathtaking. Bobby was uneffingbelievable, as you can always assume. Really, he's just so amazing---a weird cat, but amazing! Dwayne's playing was fantastic!! I am so happy to say that his playing has come back Full force! He played some wonderful, wonderful, interesting, musically complex, deep solos and his keeping the thing going was great!! Mike LeDonne was wonderful too. His wife and baby were there too. We went first set Sunday night and the place was jammed. At one point our Mr. Crouch came in, as he usually does on Sundays.

Mr. Burno was a sweetheart, per usual, to put Liz and I on the guest list--he's very sweet to Liz and is genuinely interested in her music. She would like to start playing vibes, but she is already tackling 4 instruments and where am I gona put a vibraphone? ALthough I would love to play too.

We talked to D for awhile and I gave him the Stevie Wonder box set "At the End of the Century" (He didn't have it!!!) which I had gotten for him off my BMG record club for cheaper than we could find it elsewhere. As a "bonus" cd I gave him a surprise (He didn't know what I had picked out) and that was a Mitsuko Uchida cd of Schubert compositions.

Sorry, Robin, I'll have to tackle Glasper's gig later. But, I've already mentioned Damion Reid's drummin--the revelation of the night for me!

so glad you and liz had such a great evening. very happy to hear the good stuff about dwayne too. i'm hoping to catch bobby (and hopefully dwayne) here in l.a. at the end of june. will catch you, jm, even before that!!

[jazzy mary]

Oh, I hope so Val. and I can't wait for our rendezvous!

[robin bell]

Originally Posted by Valerie

so glad you and liz had such a great evening. very happy to hear the good stuff about dwayne too. i'm hoping to catch bobby (and hopefully dwayne) here in l.a. at the end of june. will catch you, jm, even before that!!

jm, thanks for the review. and yeah, glad to hear you were treated well!!