JVC Jazz Festival NYC 2005

Other Steve · January-15th-2005, 10:59 AM

I'll open this thread by noting that the Festival Productions website confirms the dates of June 13-25 for the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City, and that the ECM Records website indicates those perennial favorites Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette are scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall on June 22. The likelihood of those two independent citings being linked is about 99.99999999999999999%, I'd think.

More details as they can be prised out of various sources, or when the official schedule is announced, whichever comes first.

Pete C · January-15th-2005, 01:55 PM

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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette are scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall on June 22.

They actually fare pretty well in Carnegie's acoustics. Larger groups tend to sound dismal there.

Other Steve · January-15th-2005, 02:28 PM

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They actually fare pretty well in Carnegie's acoustics. Larger groups tend to sound dismal there.

Agreed on both counts. Carnegie's Isaac Stern Auditorium is one of the finest places on earth to hear orchestras, but really not so good for big bands or amplified rock-type groups (I'm thinking of an especially muddy Emmylou Harris show last year). But the one time I heard Jarrett's trio there, it was impressive.

And any way you look it at, it's far, far better than Avery Fisher Hall.

Other Steve · April-1st-2005, 02:23 PM

The JVC schedule is announced on April 12, but in the mean time, as has been reported on the Vision Festival 2005 thread, the dates at Carnegie Hall are now public knowledge:

Wayne Shorter Quartet + Dave Holland Quintet
Friday, June 17 at 8pm

Rosemary Clooney: An All-Star Remembrance of America's Girl Singer
Monday, June 20 at 8pm
(participants TBA)

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette
Wednesday, June 22 at 8pm

Trio! Stanley Clarke, Bela Fleck and Jean-Luc Ponty
Thursday, June 23 at 8pm

Dave Brubeck Quartet + John Pizzarelli Quartet & Friends
Friday, June 24 at 8pm

A Salute to "Salsa Meets Jazz" with Eddie Palmieri + Ray Barretto
Saturday, June 25 at 8pm
(performers include Randy Brecker and Ronnie Cuber)

Other Steve · April-13th-2005, 10:56 PM

The complete JVC New York schedule, announced yesterday, is right here.

Of potential interest: An all-star Jaco Pastorious tribute curated in part by biographer Bill Milkowski, at the Beacon Theater June 22 (a bill shared with a new Steps Ahead lineup with Mike Stern and Richard Bona).

Curious: The Trio! date at Carnegie mentioned above is a double bill with the Motian/Lovano/Frisell trio.

And: Interesting, progressive jazz is relegated to a single evening at... cue irony here... the Knitting Factory on June 25. Bandleaders include Ben Allison, Time [sic] Berne, Marty Ehrlich, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Dafnis Prieto, among others.

Uli · April-14th-2005, 09:56 AM

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And: Interesting, progressive jazz is relegated to a single evening at... cue irony here... the Knitting Factory on June 25. Bandleaders include Ben Allison, Time [sic] Berne, Marty Ehrlich, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Dafnis Prieto, among others.

huh?

Other Steve · April-14th-2005, 02:52 PM

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huh?

I could have been more precise by saying "most of" the progressive jazz acts are being lumped together on that one night at the Knit; I should give Shorter and Holland more credit than that. Was that your question, Uli, or am I missing something?

Uli · April-14th-2005, 03:17 PM

Kinda. Of course there is also Geri Allen, Don Byron, James Carter, Maria Schneider, Eddie Palmeri, Randy Weston.

Other Steve · April-14th-2005, 03:43 PM

Substitute the word "downtown" for "progressive," then. Mainly, I was just alluding to the fact that the Knitting Factory, former home of the festival-in-opposition, is now part of the JVC megillah.

Pete C · April-16th-2005, 10:12 AM

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I was just alluding to the fact that the Knitting Factory, former home of the festival-in-opposition, is now part of the JVC megillah.

With a few exceptions, the current KF has little to do with the KF of yore. Like him or not, Dorf is gone, and he had a different focus. It's interesting that the Knit, which now has almost no jazz in its regular programming, is part of this. Did anybody attend that mini-festival they did in January, when all the booking people were in town for a conference?

Also, I believe the Knit under Dorf already formed an alliance with Wein at one point. Didn't they program a series at Symphony Space that included Masada? I think it was a great failure and some of the shows had to be canceled due to low ticket sales. I had my own taste of the uptown/downtown divide in 1982 when I produced a benefit show at Symphony Space for the arts magazine I published. The program consisted mostly of downtown acts. It was an extravaganza, but we couldn't draw beyond our break-even audience of 300. I suspect if it were held downtown we'd have had at least 200 more in the audience.

Gary Sisco · April-17th-2005, 07:47 AM

The Knit's exodus from jazz was well underway before Dorf bailed out. And, yes, there was cooperation in the final Dorf years between he and Wein, during festival time.

The funniest thing to me is how far behind the pack the jazz establishment can be. They're finally getting around to acknowledging a scene that's long since dissolved or mutated and moved on to other things and other places.

Just more jazz ancestor worship. Things have to be of the past for the Official Jazz World to recognize them at all. Likely one day when the Parkers et al are tired and Vision is long a memory, they'll organize a tribute concert series for the festival they loved to pretend never was when it was.

The Official Jazz World is always (minimally) a decade behind the rest of it, and often more than that.