JAZZ STANDARD Swings Into Fall With More Superb Jazz In September Best Jazz Club 2008 (New York Magazine)
(New York City, NY) JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nations premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in September. Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz play the music of Aretha Franklin with Project A from 9/1 9/3. Multi-talented Richard Bona will lead his group from 9/17 9/20, and drummer Matt Wilson will direct the Matt Wilson Quartet on 9/22 9/23. The bop pianist Barry Harris and his trio will hold forth from 9/24 9/27, and on 9/29 9/30 the venerable bassist Cecil McBee plays his first New York City engagement as a leader in 30 years with Noah Preminger (tenor saxophone), George Cables (piano), and Victor Lewis (drums). Jazz Standards Mingus Mondays residency continues with performances by the Mingus Big Band (9/14), Mingus Orchestra (9/21), and Mingus Dynasty (9/28) . The complete September schedule appears below; for everything else, visit www.jazzstandard.com.
ALL SHOW TIMES: 7:30 & 9:30PM + 11:30PM ON FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS
Jazz Standard is located at 116 East 27th Street (between Lexington and Park) Train 6 to East 28th Street
NEVER A MINIMUM
Student Discounts (restrictions apply)
Enjoy NYCs Best Barbecue (Time Out New York) from BLUE SMOKE and an extensive wine, beer and cocktail list
For reservations call Jazz Standard at 212.576.2232 or visit ticketweb.com
Artists and schedules are subject to change
SEPTEMBER 2009 SCHEDULE
9/1 9/3 JOEL FRAHM & BRUCE KATZ: PROJECT A
Joel Frahm tenor saxophone
Jay Collins baritone saxophone
Reggie Pittman trumpet
Chris Vitarello guitar
Bruce Katz piano, Hammond B-3 Organ, Wurlitzer
Marty Ballou acoustic bass
Jerry Jemmott electric bass
Lorne Entress drums
Ralph Rosen drums
Project A is the new Anzic Records release from Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz and A is for Aretha! Project A gives the royal treatment to some of the soul queens lesser known gems, from her gospel roots (What A Friend We Have In Jesus) to the top of the pops (Dont Play That Song, Rock Steady). Hammond B3 player and pianist Katz (Gregg Allman Band) and saxophonist Joel Frahm (Jane Monheit, Brad Mehldau) will bring their potent little big band to Jazz Standard for three gala nights, its all-star personnel including Aretha/King Curtis bassist Jerry Jemmott, tenor man Jay Collins, and two dynamic drummers Lorne Entress and Ralph Rosen. Music Charge: $25
9/49/6 DR. LONNIE SMITH TRIO
Dr. Lonnie Smith Hammond B-3 Organ
tba guitar
Bill Stewart drums
A living master of the Hammond B-3 organ, Dr. Lonnie Smith amassed a discography of more than 70 albums from his Blue Note late-Sixties classics to his acclaimed Palmetto Records release Rise Up! (A deep-in-the-groove session with enough funk to keep the party rolling into the wee hours, wrote John Barron for AllAboutJazz.com) Not to be confused with fellow jazz man Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Smith first rose to prominence as a stellar sideman with George Benson and Lou Donaldson before launching his solo career in the mid-Sixties with funk-influenced Blue Note titles like Think (1968) and Drives (1970). The Doctor is in at Jazz Standard, so make your appointment now! Music Charge: $30
9/7 JAZZ STANDARD CLOSED FOR LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
9/8 YARON HERMAN TRIO
Yaron Herman - piano
Matt Brewer - bass
Gerald Cleaver drums
Yaron Herman, Matt Brewer, and Gerald Cleaver form the quintessential modern piano trio, one capable of capturing the full spectrum of musical emotion from raging energy to moody lyricism. Yarons forthcoming Sunnyside CD Muse is a notable new effort by this internationally acclaimed artist who, at the age of 28, has played more than 100 concerts in 30 different countries around the world. He already possesses not just a mature voice, but one that marries a firm grasp of the tradition with a youthful mindset that will appeal to both traditionalists and those with a more modernistic bent. (John Kelman, AllAboutJazz.com) Music Charge: $20
9/9 JOHN ESCREET PROJECT
Dave Binney alto saxophone
Ambrose Akinmusire trumpet
John Escreet piano
Zack Lober bass
Nasheet Waits drums
In the three short years since his arrival from the UK, John Escreet has made a significant impact on the heady and competitive New York scene. His 2009 CD Consequences received a fistful of positive reviews, with special praise for the ambitious 30-minute suite that serves as the albums title track. Escreet not only shows he already has his own unique voice as a pianistcomposer but as an arranger he has drawn the best out of his band, made up of some of New Yorks most exciting younger improvisers, wrote Selwyn Harris in Jazzwise Review. On this haunting, tense thematic piece, Escreet convincingly draws from abstract contemporary classical music, the maverick lyricism of Paul Bley and Andrew Hill, the rhythmic verve of Herbie Hancock through to the percussive splash-and-burn aesthetics of Cecil Taylor. Music Charge: $20
9/109/13 ELDAR DJANGIROV TRIO
Eldar Djangirov piano
Jose Armando Gola bass
Ludwig Afonso drums
Virtue, the fourth Sony Masterworks album by Eldar Djangirov, affirms this virtuoso pianists position at the forefront of contemporary jazz. Original compositions predominate on the successor to his 2008 Grammy-nominated album re-imagination; the new CD also features guest appearances from trumpeter Nicholas Payton and saxophonists Joshua Redman and Felipe Lamoglia. If whove seen Eldar perform on Conan OBrian, Jimmy Kimmel Live, or CBS Sunday Morning, then youre already anticipating this extended Jazz Standard engagement by a special musician and his kinetic trio. Music Charge: $25 / $30 Friday & Saturday.
9/14 MINGUS BIG BAND
Wayne Escoffery, Seamus Blake tenor saxophone
tba alto saxophone, flute
Lauren Sevian baritone saxophone
Conrad Herwig, Earl McIntyre, tba trombones
Avishai Cohen, Kenny Rampton, Alex Sipiagin trumpets
Helen Sung piano
Hans Glawischnig bass
Donald Edwards drums
The year 1959 marked a turning point in the career of Charles Mingus. The great bassist and composer released the fiery Blues And Roots on Atlantic just prior to signing a prestigious contract with Columbia Records, then the home of Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, and Thelonious Monk. In short order, Mingus released on the new label two of his most fully realized albums, Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty. Tonight, the Mingus Big Band carries on in the explosive, soul-searching tradition of its namesake. Music Charge: $25
9/15 AYELET ROSE GOTTLIEB SEXTET
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb vocals
Loren Stillman saxophones
Avishai Cohen trumpet
Anat Fort piano
Gary Wang bass
Roland Schneider drums
With her third full-length album, Upto Here | From Here, Israeli-born vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb pulls the art of jazz singing out of its safety zone and infuses it with new possibilities, exploring the human voice in a way that few contemporary singers can or will. And she does so with the nonchalant panache and authority of an artist who has been making records for decades, not a mere handful of years. Upto Here | From Here is due out August 11 on the artists own Arogole Records imprint, distributed through ObliqSound. “Unlike so many singers around her, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb explores the textures and styles that her voice can produce, says Andrey Henkin of All About Jazz in the CDs liner notes. She is an instrumentalist on par with any other and a fully integrated member of her band." Music Charge: $20
9/16 BENNY REID
Benny Reid alto saxophone
Richard Padron guitars
Pablo Vergara piano, keyboards
Dan Loomis bass
Kenny Grohowski drums
Jazz Standard and Concord Records join together to celebrate the release of Escaping Shadows, the exciting new album by Benny Reid and the successor to his acclaimed 2007 debut Findings. This soulful and inventive recording connects the parallel worlds of contemporary and straight-ahead jazz, and reflects many months of rehearsals and roadwork by the working band that Benny will lead on our stage. At 26 years of age, Reid is a comer, a smart young jazz figure with that most valuable of artistic qualities: vision. (William Pearl, Barnes&Noble.com) Music Charge: $20
9/179/20 RICHARD BONA GROUP
Richard Bona bass, vocal
Jean-Christophe Maillard guitar
Etienne Stadwijk keyboards
Obed Calvaire drums
Writing in The New York Times, Jon Pareles praised the diverse talents of Richard Bona, a fretless-bass virtuoso who has performed with Joe Zawinul, Joni Mitchell and Harry Belafonte. While he knows his way around jazz-funk fusion, hes also a singer with the kind of gentle, imploring tenor thats prized in West Africa. Richard began playing professionally at age eleven in his native Cameroon; today, his glorious music belongs to the whole world. Stay tuned for The Ten Shades Of Blues, the new Richard Bona album due out October 19 on Wrasse Records! Music Charge: $25 / $30 Friday & Saturday.
9/21 MINGUS DYNASTY
Seamus Blake - tenor saxophone
tba alto saxophone
Kenny Rampton trumpet
tba trombone
David Kikoski piano
Hans Glawischnig bass
Donald Edwards drums
No group better captures the restless spirit and open-ended sound of classic Mingus than the seven-piece Mingus Dynasty. Jimmy Knepper, Dannie Richmond, Joe Farrell, Jack Walrath, George Adams these are just a few of the outstanding musicians to have passed through the ranks of the original Mingus legacy band. Music Charge: $25
9/22 9/23 MATT WILSON QUARTET
Andrew D'Angelo alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Jeff Lederer tenor & soprano saxophone, clarinet
Chris Lightcap bass
Matt Wilson drums
In 1996, I started the Matt Wilson Quartet, and my dream to have a working jazz band has been realized, says the MWQs drummer and leader. This Matt Wilson Quartet is dedicated to bringing the music to the people. We perform music that is not afraid to challenge and entertain. We have fun and so will you! This Jazz Standard run celebrates the Palmetto Records release of Thats Gonna Leave a Mark, Matts eighth album as a leader and his first in the five years since Humidity in 2003. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings declared: As a body of work, Wilsons Palmetto discs are among the most exciting in recent jazz; conscious of history, exploratory, funny and mournful by turns, they keep the listener guessing and, better still, thirsty for more. Music Charge: $20
9/249/27 BARRY HARRIS TRIO
Barry Harris piano
Ray Drummond bass
Leroy Williams drums
Barry Harris, who will turn 80 in December, is our foremost exponent of the classic style of jazz developed by his friends and colleagues Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Coleman Hawkins, and Bud Powell (who would have turned 85 on September 27th). As a lecturer and educator, Dr. Harris has transmitted a lifetime of cultural knowledge to eager audiences in Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan; here in New York, he has run his own jazz workshop for musicians and singers for more than 25 years. At a Barry Harris gig, the distant past is inescapable, wrote Ben Ratliff in The New York Times. He prides himself on understanding and teaching bebop as it was played by Charlie Parker and Bud Powell; that was the music, as heard at dance halls in the 1940s in his native Detroit, that changed his life. He often talks about it, and not as an academic matter; hes remembering falling in love. Music Charge: $25 / $30 Friday & Saturday
9/28 MINGUS BIG BAND
Wayne Escoffery, Seamus Blake tenor saxophone
Craig Handy, Vincent Herring alto saxophone, flute
Lauren Sevian baritone saxophone
Conrad Herwig, Earl McIntyre, tba trombones
Kenny Rampton, Alex Sipiagin, Earl Gardner trumpets
David Kikoski piano
tba bass
Donald Edwards drums
This is a knockout band, full of players who combine ensemble spirit and instrumental mastery with the quirky roughness and individualistic timbres needed for Mingus turbulent scores. It is thrilling to hear such big music in a small room: the audience immerses itself in this complex, highly emotional music to a degree that is impossible in a concert hall or festival stadium. (John Walters, The Guardian) Music Charge: $25
9/299/30 TRANSCEND THE CECIL MCBEE BAND
Noah Preminger tenor saxophone
George Cables piano
Cecil McBee bass
Victor Lewis drums
A meeting of the minds, a unification of the generations, under the leadership of Cecil McBee (in his first New York City engagement as a leader in 30 years!). The Grammy Award-winning bassist has recorded seven albums as a leader but is most revered for his work on classic albums by Jackie McLean (Action), Andrew Hill (Compulsion!), and Alice Coltrane (Journey in Satchidanda). Drummer Victor Lewis made his recording debut on trumpeter Woody Shaws The Moontrane and went on to record with Joe Farrell, Earl Klugh, Hubert Laws, Carla Bley and David Sanborn. In 1980 Lewis joined the Stan Getz group where he remained until Getzs death in 1991; he then became a mainstay of the Kenny Barron Quintet. George Cables had worked with Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, and Bobby Hutcherson by 1977, when he joined the legendary Dexter Gordon for a crucial two-year stint. George has released more than 25 albums under his own name, beginning with Why Not in 1975. The playing and group concepts of tenorist Noah Preminger are influenced by everything from classic to contemporary jazz, from hard rock to ambient music. He plays with not just chops and composure, but already a distinct voice. His approach privileges mood and reflectiveness, favoring weaving lines that can be complex but are also concise, without a trace of over-playing or bravado. (Siddhartha Mitter, The Boston Globe) Music Charge: $25
(New York City, NY) JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nations premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in September. Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz play the music of Aretha Franklin with Project A from 9/1 9/3. Multi-talented Richard Bona will lead his group from 9/17 9/20, and drummer Matt Wilson will direct the Matt Wilson Quartet on 9/22 9/23. The bop pianist Barry Harris and his trio will hold forth from 9/24 9/27, and on 9/29 9/30 the venerable bassist Cecil McBee plays his first New York City engagement as a leader in 30 years with Noah Preminger (tenor saxophone), George Cables (piano), and Victor Lewis (drums). Jazz Standards Mingus Mondays residency continues with performances by the Mingus Big Band (9/14), Mingus Orchestra (9/21), and Mingus Dynasty (9/28) . The complete September schedule appears below; for everything else, visit www.jazzstandard.com.
ALL SHOW TIMES: 7:30 & 9:30PM + 11:30PM ON FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS
Jazz Standard is located at 116 East 27th Street (between Lexington and Park) Train 6 to East 28th Street
NEVER A MINIMUM
Student Discounts (restrictions apply)
Enjoy NYCs Best Barbecue (Time Out New York) from BLUE SMOKE and an extensive wine, beer and cocktail list
For reservations call Jazz Standard at 212.576.2232 or visit ticketweb.com
Artists and schedules are subject to change
SEPTEMBER 2009 SCHEDULE
9/1 9/3 JOEL FRAHM & BRUCE KATZ: PROJECT A
Joel Frahm tenor saxophone
Jay Collins baritone saxophone
Reggie Pittman trumpet
Chris Vitarello guitar
Bruce Katz piano, Hammond B-3 Organ, Wurlitzer
Marty Ballou acoustic bass
Jerry Jemmott electric bass
Lorne Entress drums
Ralph Rosen drums
Project A is the new Anzic Records release from Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz and A is for Aretha! Project A gives the royal treatment to some of the soul queens lesser known gems, from her gospel roots (What A Friend We Have In Jesus) to the top of the pops (Dont Play That Song, Rock Steady). Hammond B3 player and pianist Katz (Gregg Allman Band) and saxophonist Joel Frahm (Jane Monheit, Brad Mehldau) will bring their potent little big band to Jazz Standard for three gala nights, its all-star personnel including Aretha/King Curtis bassist Jerry Jemmott, tenor man Jay Collins, and two dynamic drummers Lorne Entress and Ralph Rosen. Music Charge: $25
9/49/6 DR. LONNIE SMITH TRIO
Dr. Lonnie Smith Hammond B-3 Organ
tba guitar
Bill Stewart drums
A living master of the Hammond B-3 organ, Dr. Lonnie Smith amassed a discography of more than 70 albums from his Blue Note late-Sixties classics to his acclaimed Palmetto Records release Rise Up! (A deep-in-the-groove session with enough funk to keep the party rolling into the wee hours, wrote John Barron for AllAboutJazz.com) Not to be confused with fellow jazz man Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Smith first rose to prominence as a stellar sideman with George Benson and Lou Donaldson before launching his solo career in the mid-Sixties with funk-influenced Blue Note titles like Think (1968) and Drives (1970). The Doctor is in at Jazz Standard, so make your appointment now! Music Charge: $30
9/7 JAZZ STANDARD CLOSED FOR LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
9/8 YARON HERMAN TRIO
Yaron Herman - piano
Matt Brewer - bass
Gerald Cleaver drums
Yaron Herman, Matt Brewer, and Gerald Cleaver form the quintessential modern piano trio, one capable of capturing the full spectrum of musical emotion from raging energy to moody lyricism. Yarons forthcoming Sunnyside CD Muse is a notable new effort by this internationally acclaimed artist who, at the age of 28, has played more than 100 concerts in 30 different countries around the world. He already possesses not just a mature voice, but one that marries a firm grasp of the tradition with a youthful mindset that will appeal to both traditionalists and those with a more modernistic bent. (John Kelman, AllAboutJazz.com) Music Charge: $20
9/9 JOHN ESCREET PROJECT
Dave Binney alto saxophone
Ambrose Akinmusire trumpet
John Escreet piano
Zack Lober bass
Nasheet Waits drums
In the three short years since his arrival from the UK, John Escreet has made a significant impact on the heady and competitive New York scene. His 2009 CD Consequences received a fistful of positive reviews, with special praise for the ambitious 30-minute suite that serves as the albums title track. Escreet not only shows he already has his own unique voice as a pianistcomposer but as an arranger he has drawn the best out of his band, made up of some of New Yorks most exciting younger improvisers, wrote Selwyn Harris in Jazzwise Review. On this haunting, tense thematic piece, Escreet convincingly draws from abstract contemporary classical music, the maverick lyricism of Paul Bley and Andrew Hill, the rhythmic verve of Herbie Hancock through to the percussive splash-and-burn aesthetics of Cecil Taylor. Music Charge: $20
9/109/13 ELDAR DJANGIROV TRIO
Eldar Djangirov piano
Jose Armando Gola bass
Ludwig Afonso drums
Virtue, the fourth Sony Masterworks album by Eldar Djangirov, affirms this virtuoso pianists position at the forefront of contemporary jazz. Original compositions predominate on the successor to his 2008 Grammy-nominated album re-imagination; the new CD also features guest appearances from trumpeter Nicholas Payton and saxophonists Joshua Redman and Felipe Lamoglia. If whove seen Eldar perform on Conan OBrian, Jimmy Kimmel Live, or CBS Sunday Morning, then youre already anticipating this extended Jazz Standard engagement by a special musician and his kinetic trio. Music Charge: $25 / $30 Friday & Saturday.
9/14 MINGUS BIG BAND
Wayne Escoffery, Seamus Blake tenor saxophone
tba alto saxophone, flute
Lauren Sevian baritone saxophone
Conrad Herwig, Earl McIntyre, tba trombones
Avishai Cohen, Kenny Rampton, Alex Sipiagin trumpets
Helen Sung piano
Hans Glawischnig bass
Donald Edwards drums
The year 1959 marked a turning point in the career of Charles Mingus. The great bassist and composer released the fiery Blues And Roots on Atlantic just prior to signing a prestigious contract with Columbia Records, then the home of Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, and Thelonious Monk. In short order, Mingus released on the new label two of his most fully realized albums, Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty. Tonight, the Mingus Big Band carries on in the explosive, soul-searching tradition of its namesake. Music Charge: $25
9/15 AYELET ROSE GOTTLIEB SEXTET
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb vocals
Loren Stillman saxophones
Avishai Cohen trumpet
Anat Fort piano
Gary Wang bass
Roland Schneider drums
With her third full-length album, Upto Here | From Here, Israeli-born vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb pulls the art of jazz singing out of its safety zone and infuses it with new possibilities, exploring the human voice in a way that few contemporary singers can or will. And she does so with the nonchalant panache and authority of an artist who has been making records for decades, not a mere handful of years. Upto Here | From Here is due out August 11 on the artists own Arogole Records imprint, distributed through ObliqSound. “Unlike so many singers around her, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb explores the textures and styles that her voice can produce, says Andrey Henkin of All About Jazz in the CDs liner notes. She is an instrumentalist on par with any other and a fully integrated member of her band." Music Charge: $20
9/16 BENNY REID
Benny Reid alto saxophone
Richard Padron guitars
Pablo Vergara piano, keyboards
Dan Loomis bass
Kenny Grohowski drums
Jazz Standard and Concord Records join together to celebrate the release of Escaping Shadows, the exciting new album by Benny Reid and the successor to his acclaimed 2007 debut Findings. This soulful and inventive recording connects the parallel worlds of contemporary and straight-ahead jazz, and reflects many months of rehearsals and roadwork by the working band that Benny will lead on our stage. At 26 years of age, Reid is a comer, a smart young jazz figure with that most valuable of artistic qualities: vision. (William Pearl, Barnes&Noble.com) Music Charge: $20
9/179/20 RICHARD BONA GROUP
Richard Bona bass, vocal
Jean-Christophe Maillard guitar
Etienne Stadwijk keyboards
Obed Calvaire drums
Writing in The New York Times, Jon Pareles praised the diverse talents of Richard Bona, a fretless-bass virtuoso who has performed with Joe Zawinul, Joni Mitchell and Harry Belafonte. While he knows his way around jazz-funk fusion, hes also a singer with the kind of gentle, imploring tenor thats prized in West Africa. Richard began playing professionally at age eleven in his native Cameroon; today, his glorious music belongs to the whole world. Stay tuned for The Ten Shades Of Blues, the new Richard Bona album due out October 19 on Wrasse Records! Music Charge: $25 / $30 Friday & Saturday.
9/21 MINGUS DYNASTY
Seamus Blake - tenor saxophone
tba alto saxophone
Kenny Rampton trumpet
tba trombone
David Kikoski piano
Hans Glawischnig bass
Donald Edwards drums
No group better captures the restless spirit and open-ended sound of classic Mingus than the seven-piece Mingus Dynasty. Jimmy Knepper, Dannie Richmond, Joe Farrell, Jack Walrath, George Adams these are just a few of the outstanding musicians to have passed through the ranks of the original Mingus legacy band. Music Charge: $25
9/22 9/23 MATT WILSON QUARTET
Andrew D'Angelo alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Jeff Lederer tenor & soprano saxophone, clarinet
Chris Lightcap bass
Matt Wilson drums
In 1996, I started the Matt Wilson Quartet, and my dream to have a working jazz band has been realized, says the MWQs drummer and leader. This Matt Wilson Quartet is dedicated to bringing the music to the people. We perform music that is not afraid to challenge and entertain. We have fun and so will you! This Jazz Standard run celebrates the Palmetto Records release of Thats Gonna Leave a Mark, Matts eighth album as a leader and his first in the five years since Humidity in 2003. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings declared: As a body of work, Wilsons Palmetto discs are among the most exciting in recent jazz; conscious of history, exploratory, funny and mournful by turns, they keep the listener guessing and, better still, thirsty for more. Music Charge: $20
9/249/27 BARRY HARRIS TRIO
Barry Harris piano
Ray Drummond bass
Leroy Williams drums
Barry Harris, who will turn 80 in December, is our foremost exponent of the classic style of jazz developed by his friends and colleagues Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Coleman Hawkins, and Bud Powell (who would have turned 85 on September 27th). As a lecturer and educator, Dr. Harris has transmitted a lifetime of cultural knowledge to eager audiences in Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan; here in New York, he has run his own jazz workshop for musicians and singers for more than 25 years. At a Barry Harris gig, the distant past is inescapable, wrote Ben Ratliff in The New York Times. He prides himself on understanding and teaching bebop as it was played by Charlie Parker and Bud Powell; that was the music, as heard at dance halls in the 1940s in his native Detroit, that changed his life. He often talks about it, and not as an academic matter; hes remembering falling in love. Music Charge: $25 / $30 Friday & Saturday
9/28 MINGUS BIG BAND
Wayne Escoffery, Seamus Blake tenor saxophone
Craig Handy, Vincent Herring alto saxophone, flute
Lauren Sevian baritone saxophone
Conrad Herwig, Earl McIntyre, tba trombones
Kenny Rampton, Alex Sipiagin, Earl Gardner trumpets
David Kikoski piano
tba bass
Donald Edwards drums
This is a knockout band, full of players who combine ensemble spirit and instrumental mastery with the quirky roughness and individualistic timbres needed for Mingus turbulent scores. It is thrilling to hear such big music in a small room: the audience immerses itself in this complex, highly emotional music to a degree that is impossible in a concert hall or festival stadium. (John Walters, The Guardian) Music Charge: $25
9/299/30 TRANSCEND THE CECIL MCBEE BAND
Noah Preminger tenor saxophone
George Cables piano
Cecil McBee bass
Victor Lewis drums
A meeting of the minds, a unification of the generations, under the leadership of Cecil McBee (in his first New York City engagement as a leader in 30 years!). The Grammy Award-winning bassist has recorded seven albums as a leader but is most revered for his work on classic albums by Jackie McLean (Action), Andrew Hill (Compulsion!), and Alice Coltrane (Journey in Satchidanda). Drummer Victor Lewis made his recording debut on trumpeter Woody Shaws The Moontrane and went on to record with Joe Farrell, Earl Klugh, Hubert Laws, Carla Bley and David Sanborn. In 1980 Lewis joined the Stan Getz group where he remained until Getzs death in 1991; he then became a mainstay of the Kenny Barron Quintet. George Cables had worked with Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, and Bobby Hutcherson by 1977, when he joined the legendary Dexter Gordon for a crucial two-year stint. George has released more than 25 albums under his own name, beginning with Why Not in 1975. The playing and group concepts of tenorist Noah Preminger are influenced by everything from classic to contemporary jazz, from hard rock to ambient music. He plays with not just chops and composure, but already a distinct voice. His approach privileges mood and reflectiveness, favoring weaving lines that can be complex but are also concise, without a trace of over-playing or bravado. (Siddhartha Mitter, The Boston Globe) Music Charge: $25
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