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Enjoy the #1 monthly Jazz Magazine that is absolutely FREE! Features of the May issue is a Feature on trumpet great, Jon Faddis, who will be performing at the Blue Note later on in the month. Other interviews include two members of The Brooklyn Jazz Underground, Alexis Cuadrato and Anne Mette Iversen; and sax great Michael Pedicin. There's a cool article on the The Jazz Foundation of America about their upcoming fundraiser, "A Great Night in Harlem. We also have an excerpt from our most recent issue of Jazz Improv Magazine that has a cover feature on Frank Sinatra and the Capital Years. The Venue Spotlight in May features Roth's Westside Steakhouse.
Performance reviews include: Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin
Jazz Orchestra, Michel Legrand, Alvin Queen Quintet, and Bobby Sanabria & the MSM Afro-Cuban
Jazz Band. CD reviews include Duke Ellington Legacy, Kenny Forsh,
Taeko Fukao, Billie Holiday, Stanley
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There's also a Calendar of Events in the Tri-State area along with information on festivals in the TriState area. Legendary jazz critic, Ira Gitler, continues to amuse with his monthly column Apple Chorus.
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Wes Montgomery
The Tenth Man: The Life, The Music
and The Genius
The year 1965 was turning into a busy one for Wes Montgomery! Around this time, he was playing with the Wynton Kelly trio, who Montgomery had worked with on the Full House album, and musical magic happened. A stint at the Half Note club in New York, a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival and a cross-country tour would keep these musicians busy for two months and this partnership yielded some albums that were destined to become classics. Despite the musical success that Montgomery was experiencing, the life of a musician can be fraught with potential problems. The increasing workload that Montgomery endured during this period, with heavy amounts of touring and recording, was, no doubt wearing him down. It is no secret that he had a fear of flying and, while plenty of people would take a plane from city to city and have time to recuperate before performing, Montgomery preferred to drive. One can only imagine the toll that driving from gig to gig on a weekly or nightly basis can do to a person over a long period of time. Click here to read more
Ira Gitler
Italian Summer
Two summers ago I wrote in these pages about my travels in Europe (Italy and France) and in addition to reporting on the music I heard (and sometimes the food I consumed) I took some space to touch on a topic that has been bothering me as long as I've been observing its continuing trend.
I’m referring to more and more “jazz” festivals and less and less jazz at these gatherings—even while they are still prominently displaying the word jazz.
Now I’m in favor of everyone playing what they choose to play and let the chips fall where they may. It is just that along with the various mutations of rock and pop, world music, etc., there is a lot of what is being sold as jazz that should be called “improvised music” - because it has none of the feel-good quality or nose-opening rhythms that are the long-time verities of jazz. Click here to read more
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Maria Schneider
Interview
JI: Can you talk a little bit about the kind of processes you went through and creating the music on your new recording?
MS: Well, you know the music was written over a period of time. They are all commissions except for one. And, so it wasn’t conceived—actually none of my records have really been conceived—totally as a record. You know, what I do is I take commissions and when I start to see that there might be something that could fit together then maybe I try to fill it out with one piece that might connect it or something. But, generally, I kind of hope that because I’ve written the music in the same period of time that it’s going to have some connecting element to it. I think this music is pretty disparate. It’s like, there’s the thing with the Peruvian influence, then there are some things that really have much more influence by the landscape of my home town.
JI: Gil Evans used sit there for hours, just working on one chord and twisting his fingers as well.
MS: Yeah me too. I’d see that with Gil too. Locking the door, he would be playing a cluster in his underwear. He’d be just sitting there for twenty minutes hitting that little cluster and then he would turn around and hand it to me and say, “Okay it’s done.” It’s like he had to be sure. I know that. And you know that attention to detail is what makes his music. Nothing extra. You take such care, never just slopping stuff down on the page. Click here to read more
Wayne Escoffery & Carolyn Leonhart
Interview
JI: Talk about the relevance of developing a healthy curiosity about ideas and people, in and out of music, to bolster your artistry.
CL: I tend to find a lot of inspiration for my music from non – musical elements. I think if you are lucky enough to find a “voice”, or a specific creative outlet in which you can express yourself, and you have confidence in the process and you trust yourself, then inspiration will come from everywhere. People, books, and especially the visual arts tend to be deep inspirational sources for me when writing music. If I am lucky enough to have the creative part of my brain open, then I am inspired from practically everything I see and hear around me.
WE: I think that’s the whole point of artistry. You are not a real artist if you’re not curious and open-minded. A true artist has an urgent desire to grow and evolve, and a healthy curiosity about people and ideas is a necessary symptom of that desire. Click here to read more
Photo Credits: Photos of Ernie Watts and Sonny Rollins and cover, by Eric Nemeyer.
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