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Connie Crothers, Jazz Pianist, Composer and Instructor, Dies at 75 – The New York Times

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Connie Crothers, Jazz Pianist, Composer and Instructor, Dies at 75
By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLOAUG. 21, 2016

Connie Crothers in June at the Vision Festival at Judson Hall.
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Connie Crothers (http://www.conniecrothers.net/) , a jazz pianist who carried the mantle of her famous mentor, Lennie Tristano, but built her own identity as an inventive composer, improviser and instructor, died on Aug. 13 in Manhattan. She was 75.
The cause was lung cancer, said Carol Tristano, Lennie Tristano’s daughter and a drummer who often performed with Ms. Crothers.
From Tristano, Ms. Crothers adopted a densely layered pianism and a faith in free improvisation. Like him, she refused to align fully with either jazz’s avant-garde or its traditionalists, insisting that structure and spontaneity could go hand in hand.

In all her work, from billowysolo piano (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LHdi_eqSM) to sharp ensemble playing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uryamU8PPbw) , melody was her main concern.

“My approach is not based on putting melodic material into chord changes. I feel that’s false,” she said in an interview with Chris Becker for his book “Freedom of Expression: Interviews With Women in Jazz” (2015).
“The melody gives the whole thing to you,” she added. “And when you release your improvisation after that point, you can bring in anything.”

By the time she first heard a recording of Tristano’s music, Ms. Crothers had already grown frustrated with her music education at the University of California, Berkeley, finding it limiting. She later wrote that hearing his piece “Requiem” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYEl4EaCPJs) caused “an instantaneous personal revolution.”

She left school and moved to New York in 1962, seeking his guidance. An influential but reclusive pianist and theorist, Tristano by this time had a stable of acolytes; Ms. Crothers would become his closest confidante.
She took lessons from Tristano for 10 years before beginning to perform private concerts at his home. In 1973 he presented her in a solo show at Carnegie Hall. It was her first public concert.
The next year she recorded “Perception” (http://www.allmusic.com/album/perception-mw0000647272) for the Danish label SteepleChase, the first of more than two dozen albums under her name. Tristano offered an effusive endorsement in the record’s liner notes: “Connie Crothers is the most original musician it has ever been my privilege to work with.”

Constance Rhea Crothers was born on May 2, 1941, in Palo Alto, Calif. She studied classical piano from age 9, and started composing almost immediately.
“Even as a child, I realized that I did not want to spend my life performing other people’s music,” she told Mr. Becker.

After moving to New York, she eventually settled in Jamaica, Queens, where she set up a home studio and began hosting jam sessions. She developed a wide network of students and collaborators, and later became a regular performer at venues like the Stone in the East Village and at the Vision Festival (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/arts/music/review-the-vision-festival-gives-experimental-jazz-a-big-hug.html) , an annual celebration of experimental improvised music.

“She supported so many people by going to their gigs, encouraging them, connecting musicians to other musicians, advocating for musicians,” the vocalist Andrea Wolper said in an email.
No immediate family members survive.

When Tristano died in 1978, Ms. Crothers helped organize a tribute concert, then was one of the founders of the nonprofit Lennie Tristano Jazz Foundation, which has released a series of his recordings.
In 1982 Ms. Crothers and the drummer Max Roach (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJMsXQE9tbA) recorded a duo album, “Swish.” To release it, they founded New Artists Records (http://newartistsrecords.com/) , which is still active today and continues to be run by the artists who record for it.

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August 22, 2016 / No Comments / More

Connie Crothers, Jazz Pianist, Composer and Instructor, Dies at 75 – The New York Times

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Connie Crothers, Jazz Pianist, Composer and Instructor, Dies at 75
By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLOAUG. 21, 2016

In all her work, from billowysolo piano (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LHdi_eqSM) to sharp ensemble playing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uryamU8PPbw) , melody was her main concern.

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Louis Stewart (1944-2016), Weekend Wax Bits – JazzWax

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In this week’s Wall Street Journal, I interview golf legend Arnold Palmer (go here (http://www.wsj.com/articles/golf-legend-arnold-palmer-stays-on-course-1471360850) ), who talks about the two most important lessons he learned on the golf course growing up and how the the Arnold Palmer beverage came to be and what he adds to the tea-lemonade mixture today.

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Also in the WSJ, my chat with author Tama Janowitz on the Rolling Stones’ Get Off of My Cloud (go here (http://www.wsj.com/articles/tama-janowitz-on-andy-warhol-and-the-rolling-stones-1471361014?tesla=y) ) and how she came to hear it on New Year’s Eve in 1986 in the back of a Rolls Royce.
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 Louis Stewart (1944-2016), a lyrical Irish jazz guitarist who began his career in the 1960s and recorded his first leadership album in 1976 before touring with George Shearing in the 1970s, died on Aug. 20. He was 72. Stewart could play swing and bop, and he spent the balance of his career touring in Europe. He often was paired with touring American musicians (including Benny Goodman), and he recorded quite a few leadership albums, many of which are out of print. Here are three examples of Stewart’s grace and time:
With Benny Goodman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDGH2ZEmAdg) in Italy…

Benny Goodman featuring Louis Stewart “Rose Room”&”Honeysuckle Rose” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDGH2ZEmAdg)

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Louis Stewart/Peter Ind – Baubles, Bangles and Beads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3ytqF901w)

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Here’s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0Hsv92CKM) Stewart three years ago playing But Beautiful with pianist Jim Doherty at a party…

Louis Stewart and Jim Doherty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0Hsv92CKM)

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 Billy Byers. Following my post (http://www.jazzwax.com/2016/08/billy-byers-byers-guide.html) last week on arranger Billy Byers, I received quite a few emails praising Byers’s gifts as a trombonist and orchestrator. This one is from Brett Gold…
“I appreciated your post on Billy Byers. You may be interested in a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglHn-wU2EM) of arranger David Berger (http://www.davidbergerjazz.com/) discussing arrangers’ writing habits. The first person he discusses is Byers”…

David Berger – Jazz Composing & Arranging Habits (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglHn-wU2EM)

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 Chubby Jackson. Following my post on bassist, songwriter and bandleader Chubby Jackson, I received three related links from Geri Reichgut…
Here’s clip #1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQAezj4Hmb4&feature=youtu.be) , featuring drummer Duffy Jackson, Chubby’s son, with Lionel Hampton and his orchestra at Disneyland in 1984…

DRUM BATTLE: Lionel Hampton – Duffy Jackson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQAezj4Hmb4)

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Go here (http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1067969252) for an article on Chubby and Duffy.
And go here (http://www.jazzwax.com/2014/02/duffy-jackson-big-band-drummer-1.html) for my post on Duffy Jackson from 2014.
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 JazzWax milestone noted. Fradley Garner, the international editor of Jersey Jazz, the monthly journal of the New Jersey Jazz Society wrote a swell piece marking JazzWax’s ninth anniversary. If you’re curious about the publication edited by Tony Mottola, son of Tony Mottola Sr (http://www.jazzwax.com/2013/02/tony-mottola-tender-touch-.html) ., the great jazz and pop guitarist, subscribe by joining the New Jersey Jazz Society here (http://www.njjs.org/) . Free journal covers and part-samples can be downloaded ther as well. The monthly journal covers jazz in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. [To enlarge the image above, click and then adjust by holding down your control button and tapping the + or – sign on your keyboard]
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 Franco Cerri. Jimi Mentis sent along two video clips of Italian jazz guitarist Franco Cerri (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Cerri) . In the first (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3CU_16jRs) , from 1967, Cerri accompanies Mina, the Italian pop singer…

Mina e Franco Cerri – CORCOVADO (1967) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3CU_16jRs)

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In the second, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WC58uA0tjE) from 2015, the Frank Cerri Quartet plays Take the A Train. The band featured Franco Cerri (g), Alessandro Usai (g), Alberto Gurrisi (org) and Roberto Paglieri (d)…

Franco Cerri Quartet – Take the A Train – Live @ Blue Note Milano (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WC58uA0tjE)

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 Tokyo jazz. Jimi Mentis also sent along this article (http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/tokyo-jazz-joints-visual-chronicle/) on the jazz bars in Tokyo and their vinyl-loving proprietors.
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 Album of note. Bummed out when the Beatles broke up in 1970? Not Seth Swirsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Swirsky) , a renaissance mensch. Seth is a pop music songwriter (including the Grammy-nominated Tell It To My Heart), an author, a recording artist, a filmmaker, a political writer and a noted baseball memorabilia collector. But best of all, he’s a recording artist. On his new album, Circles and Squares, Seth has captured the spirit and textured sound of the Fab Four in their late period. Seth plays virtually all of the instruments (go here (https://www.amazon.com/Circles-Squares-Seth-Swirsky/dp/B01JDDVHY2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471650113&sr=8-1&keywords=seth+swirsky) ). Here’s Far Away:
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Books of note.
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Softly, With Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music, by Edward Berger (Temple University Press). You know Joe Wilder’s trumpet from his many recordings but you probably aren’t familiar with the personality that went along with those high notes or how he climbed through the ranks of great players. In his new biography of the trumpeter, Ed Berger weaves together Wilder’s career with extensive interviews that not only shed light on the life of an ambitious jazz musician but also exposes the hardships that African-American musicians faced. Each page offers insights and revelations, but ultimately, what you learn is that Wilder, in addition to being an extraordinary big-band and small-group trumpeter was a wise and gentle soul. Written free of the faux drama injected into some jazz biographies, the book is rich with judicious quotes from Wilder and it breaks new ground. Go here
(https://www.amazon.com/Softly-Feeling-Breaking-Barriers-American/dp/1439911274/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471650215&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=ed+berger+%2B+joe+wilder) .
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Altamont: the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day, Joel Selvin (Dey St.). Inviting the Hells Angels to keep order at the Altamont Raceway free concert in December 1969 was probably the dumbest and smartest thing the Rolling Stones had ever done. Billed as the West Coast Woodstock when the concert was held, Altamont was a tragedy waiting to happen. Poorly planned and lacking the proper barriers and stage design that had kept hundreds of thousands of fans from rushing the stage at Woodstock four months earlier, Altamont exposed the era’s biggest rock bands to risks of physical harm. The Stones’ move to hire the Hells Angels was a reckless move because the motorcycle gang in San Francisco was a notoriously thuggish group with a seething contempt for the counterculture, viewing concertgoers as little more than pampered, drug-addled suburban runaways. But without the Hells Angels present in the front rows, performers might well have been
victims of a horrible stampede or worse. In Joel Selvin’s book, we learn the full story behind the concert and the deadly events that would unfairly tar the Rolling Stones for years as a careless self-absorbed rock band that went out of its way to court violence as part of its shows. Go here (https://www.amazon.com/Altamont-Rolling-Stones-Angels-Darkest/dp/0062444255/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471650680&sr=8-1&keywords=joel+selvin) .
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Jazz: The Iconic Images of Ted Williams (ACC Art Books). Ted Williams was among a handful of African-American photographers who documented post-war jazz musicians, from the 1940s through the 1970s. Williams wasn’t the most flashy or dramatic photographer in the jazz space. Many of his images seem to have been taken on the fly without much advance thought to narrative or results. But what does come through is the humanity and social scene surrounding the musicians in bars, on stage and on the streets. This 352-page book documents Williams and his jazz images splendidly, and unlike the works of many photographers who were shooting for gloss and style, Williams had his eye on substance. His love for the artist’s struggle is evident in every frame. Go here (https://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Iconic-Images-Ted-Williams/dp/1851498273/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1471651067&sr=8-2-spell&keywords=ted+william+%2B+photographer) (coming in October).
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What the heck. Here’s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaNYWkQYYA) a 1944 jitterbug short called Groovie Movie. The narrator is Pete Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Smith_(film_producer)) , and the title may be one of the first uses of the word “groovy”…

Groovie Movie (1944). Funny jitterbug instructional video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaNYWkQYYA)

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Oddball album cover of the week.
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I’m not quite sure what exactly is vulgar about the British loo pictured on the cover of this U.K. album. Unless, of course, the word “vulgar” wound up in the wrong spot. Try this: “Vulgar Songs for Bathrooms.”

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References

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDGH2ZEmAdg
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3ytqF901w
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0Hsv92CKM
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglHn-wU2EM
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQAezj4Hmb4
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3CU_16jRs
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WC58uA0tjE
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaNYWkQYYA

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Louis Stewart (1944-2016), Weekend Wax Bits – JazzWax

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Benny Goodman featuring Louis Stewart “Rose Room”&”Honeysuckle Rose” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDGH2ZEmAdg)

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Here’s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3ytqF901w) Stewart playing with bassist Peter Ind…

Louis Stewart/Peter Ind – Baubles, Bangles and Beads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3ytqF901w)

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Here’s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0Hsv92CKM) Stewart three years ago playing But Beautiful with pianist Jim Doherty at a party…

Louis Stewart and Jim Doherty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0Hsv92CKM)

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David Berger – Jazz Composing & Arranging Habits (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglHn-wU2EM)

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DRUM BATTLE: Lionel Hampton – Duffy Jackson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQAezj4Hmb4)

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Mina e Franco Cerri – CORCOVADO (1967) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3CU_16jRs)

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Franco Cerri Quartet – Take the A Train – Live @ Blue Note Milano (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WC58uA0tjE)

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Groovie Movie (1944). Funny jitterbug instructional video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaNYWkQYYA)

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Yard Sale Find

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Clock made from old phonograph turntable.

And it works.

Too bad the record wasn’t Dave Brubeck’s “Time Out” or Coltrane Time that would be extra cool.

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Yard Sale Find

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Clock made from old phonograph turntable.

And it works.

Too bad the record wasn’t Dave Brubeck’s “Time Out” or Coltrane Time that would be extra cool.

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Bob Kindred RIP

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With great sadness I have to tell you that my former husband, tenor saxophonist Bob Kindred, passed away on Monday.

“Like listening to the history of the tenor saxophone  refracted through a human prism.” – Chuck Berg, Jazz Times

When I heard the news, there were two things from our early days together that I had to listen to:  The beautiful Johnny Mercer/Barry Manalow tune “When October Goes” which I orchestrated for his first album and from “Bending Towards the Light . . . A Jazz Nativity,” our baby, that beautiful “Silent Night” starting the show in the darkness.

“He can make the saxophone whisper and cry.” – Patriot News, Harrisburg, Pa.

“He expresses a kind beauty and depth rarely heard . . . his tone is simply awesome.” – NY Daily News
“He plays with dancing grace.” – John Wilson NY Times

“Clearly an original . . . enormous tone and lightning speed which he uses judiciously. He goes deep into chords to find beautiful sequences of notes and he invests each one with passion.” – Jazz Times

“I wish I could play Mozart like Bob Kindred plays jazz” Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman

We will all miss his beauty.

Anne Phillips

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Bob Kindred RIP

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With great sadness I have to tell you that my former husband, tenor saxophonist Bob Kindred, passed away on Monday.

“Like listening to the history of the tenor saxophone  refracted through a human prism.” – Chuck Berg, Jazz Times

“He can make the saxophone whisper and cry.” – Patriot News, Harrisburg, Pa.

“He expresses a kind beauty and depth rarely heard . . . his tone is simply awesome.” – NY Daily News
“He plays with dancing grace.” – John Wilson NY Times

“I wish I could play Mozart like Bob Kindred plays jazz” Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman

We will all miss his beauty.

Anne Phillips

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Bob Kindred RIP

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With great sadness I have to tell you that my former husband, tenor saxophonist Bob Kindred, passed away on Monday.

“Like listening to the history of the tenor saxophone  refracted through a human prism.” – Chuck Berg, Jazz Times

“He can make the saxophone whisper and cry.” – Patriot News, Harrisburg, Pa.

“He expresses a kind beauty and depth rarely heard . . . his tone is simply awesome.” – NY Daily News
“He plays with dancing grace.” – John Wilson NY Times

“I wish I could play Mozart like Bob Kindred plays jazz” Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman

We will all miss his beauty.

Anne Phillips

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Lee Morgan documentary to premiere in Venice – JAZZIZ Magazine

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Lee Morgan documentary to premiere in Venice

Swedish director Kasper Collin’s I Called Him Morgan (http://www.sphinxproductions.com/films/i-called-him-morgan) has been selected to be screened in the main program of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, which will take place in Italy from August 31 to September 10.
Collins scripted, directed and produced the feature documentary about the celebrated trumpeter Lee Morgan, who was shot and killed by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at Slug’s Saloon in New York City’s East Village on February 19, 1972. In a press release, Collins stated that his film is a love story and “a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.”

I Called Him Morgan (http://www.sphinxproductions.com/films/i-called-him-morgan) , which took the director seven years to make, will feature Morgan’s music and interview excerpts. Following its Venice premiere, the film will travel to a number of other festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada.
Collins previously

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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Has Free Shows for Many Tastes – The New York Times

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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Has Free Shows for Many Tastes
By NATE CHINEN (http://www.nytimes.com/by/nate-chinen) AUG. 18, 2016

Jason Moran will play at Tompkins Square Park as part of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival.
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The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival is one of the more generous rites of summer in the city: a weekend’s worth of free performances, uptown and downtown, with a lineup that cuts across age and style. Named after a peerless alto saxophonist and bebop lodestar, the festival usually spotlights one of his former contemporaries. This year, it’s the magisterial pianist Randy Weston, who recently turned 90; he is to perform on Saturday, Aug. 27, with his African Rhythms Sextet at Marcus Garvey Park.

Appearing on the same bill are the singer Jazzmeia Horn, winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/jazzmeia-horn-wins-thelonious-monk-institute-international-jazz-competition/) , and the gospel-raised organist Cory Henry, with his band the Funk Apostles.

Sunday’s program, at Tompkins Square Park in the East Village, will feature a special triumvirate of Jack DeJohnette on drums, Dave Holland on bass and Jason Moran on piano; the singer Allan Harris; the alto saxophonist Grace Kelly; and the Donny McCaslin Quartet, recently acclaimed for its work with David Bowie (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/arts/music/review-donny-mccaslins-quartet-fresh-off-the-release-of-bowies-blackstar.html) . Jason Lindner, the keyboardist in Mr. McCaslin’s band, will also headline a Friday night show at Marcus Garvey Park, with the group

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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Has Free Shows for Many Tastes – The New York Times

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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Has Free Shows for Many Tastes
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New Miles Davis Boxed Set Features His Quintet at Its Peak – The New York Times

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New Miles Davis Boxed Set Features His Quintet at Its Peak
By NATE CHINEN (http://www.nytimes.com/by/nate-chinen) AUG. 18, 2016

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The Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s has long been praised as one of the most advanced small groups in jazz history, and anyone seeking to test the claim can choose from an abundance of evidence: studio albums, concert and club recordings, multi-disc collections. This fall will bring a new addition: “Freedom Jazz Dance — The Bootleg Series Vol. 5,” a three-CD boxed set.

Due out on Columbia/Legacy on Oct. 21, it features studio recordings made from 1966 to 1968 — during the creative peak of the band, which featured Davis on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums. Along with master takes of familiar tracks like “Footprints (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0xkMxT6KGo) ,” the set will include more than two hours of previously unreleased material — including the full session reels for the 1967 album “Miles Smiles.”

The behind-the-scenes totality of this approach, which includes studio dialogue and false starts along with finished and alternate takes, will be of principal interest to connoisseurs. In some instances, the newly issued material captures a decisive moment of creation.

“Nefertiti (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzib_oUoyrw&list=PLdhGk7gKuZxbOipdilbqLR0ck2GseBAEg) ,” a Shorter composition, is a choice example: Released as the title track of a Davis album from 1968, it’s famous for not including a single solo, functioning instead as a kind of flowing drum concerto for Mr. Williams. On the session reel for the track you hear Davis halt the band and suggest this approach, to the giddy delight of the players.

Among the other highlights of the set — produced by Steve Berkowitz, Michael Cuscuna and Richard Seidel — are the complete session reels for “Water Babies” and “Fall,” and a curio titled “Blues in F (My Ding),” a home recording of Davis on piano, illustrating an idea for Mr. Shorter.
Columbia/Legacy has released four other Miles Davis boxed sets under the “Bootleg Series” brand, starting with “Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1,” which was widely and justly acclaimed (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/arts/music/miles-davis-reissue-live-in-europe-1967.html) . The most recent, last year, was “Miles Davis at Newport 1955-75: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4.”

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New Miles Davis Boxed Set Features His Quintet at Its Peak – The New York Times

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New Miles Davis Boxed Set Features His Quintet at Its Peak
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Japanese Audiophiles Are Going to Extremes: WSJ

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Japanese Audiophiles Are Going to Extremes
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Japanese audiophiles are spending thousands of dollars on high-end stereo systems.
Some are even installing private utility poles for a personal source of electricity, all in a quest for aural perfection.
Photo: Juro Osawa/The Wall Street Journal

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Jazz Articles: 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival – By Ed Berger — Jazz Articles

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08/15/16
2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
Christian McBride, George Coleman, Michele Rosewoman and more
By Ed Berger (http://jazztimes.com/contributors/243-ed-berger)

The 7th Montclair Jazz Festival took place once again in Nishuane Park in Montclair, New Jersey on Saturday, August 13. The sweltering weather did not seem to dampen the spirits of the large crowd of jazz lovers, many of whom braved the nearly 100-degree heat from noon to almost 9 p.m. They were rewarded by a varied program of top performers—all for free! And unlike many events that bill themselves as jazz festivals, Montclair’s really is. Produced by the indefatigable Melissa Walker and her Jazz House Kids organization, with assistance from her husband and Festival Artistic Director (and bassist non-pareil) Christian McBride, the Festival also has an educational mission and the earlier sets highlighted some of the greatly talented student ensembles demonstrating their skills in a wide range of jazz styles. Younger kids had their own Family Jazz Discovery Zone tent where a series of events ranging from jazz story time to hands-on workshops introduced a future generation of
musicians and fans to the music. It proved once again that, if exposed to jazz, youngsters find it irresistible.
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From left: Emcees S. Epatha Merkerson and Gary Walker, with Artistic Director Christian McBride at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Michele Rosewoman performs at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Michele Rosewoman performs with New Yor-Uba at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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2016 Montclair Jazz Festival Producer and Founder Melissa Walker
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JazzTimes’ Lee Mergner at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Louis Prima Jr. performs with Jazz House Kids’ Dynasty Big Band directed by Mike Lee at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Jazz House Big Band performs at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival, directed by Julius Tolentino
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Bernard Purdie at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Gary and Melissa Walker at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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From left: Yotem Silberstein performs with George Coleman and George Coleman Jr. at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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George Coleman at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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George Coleman and George Coleman Jr. perform at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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The George Coleman Band performs at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Mike LeDonne performs at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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George Coleman Jr. performs at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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A Christian McBride Situation performs at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Antoinette Henry performs at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Rachel Z and Christian McBride perform at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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Family Jazz Discovery Zone at the 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival
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By mid-afternoon, the pros took over the main stage, beginning with the Jazz House Faculty Collective—an all-star group that can teach and play. Pianist-vocalist Michele Rosewoman followed with her Latin jazz ensemble New Yor-Uba, featuring such luminaries as Alex Norris (trumpet), Bruce Williams (alto sax), Stacy Dillard (tenor sax), Chris Washburne (trombone), Yunior Terry (bass), Nina Rodriguez (vocals), and a powerful percussion section consisting of Robby Ameen, Roman Diaz, Mauricio Herrera and Rafael Monteagudo. Two excellent Jazz House Kids big bands followed: the Dynasty Big Band (directed by Mike Lee), and the award-winning Jazz House Kids Big Band (directed by Julius Tolentino). Both ensembles ably backed special guest vocalist Louis Prima Jr., who captured much of the indomitable spirit of his father, the legendary trumpeter-singer. A soulful set by the venerable George Coleman and his highly compatible group followed, with the leader (and NEA Jazz Master) on tenor
sax, Yotam Silberstein on guitar, Mike LeDonne on piano, Yunior Terry on bass and George Coleman Jr. on drums. A Christian McBride Situation probed some of the fertile common ground between jazz and contemporary pop/soul music. The leader, who at age 22 recorded in a trio with bass icons Ray Brown and Milt Hinton, firmly anchored a different but equally infectious music with his electric bass. He was joined by his eclectic and committed ensemble: Rachel Z (keyboard), Adam Rogers (guitar), Antoinette Henry (vocals), DJ Logic (turntable) and the legendary Bernard Purdie (drums).
The only disappointment of the festival was the need to cut it short due to electrical storms in the area, so the final highly-anticipated set by Dee Dee Bridgewater never took place. Nonetheless, what did take place was nothing short of uplifting—especially the young talent so abundantly displayed at what has become a major cultural event.
Photographer Ed Berger braved the heat to capture the annual festival.
For more information, visit the official festival website (http://www.montclairjazzfestival.org/) .

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Jazz Articles: 2016 Montclair Jazz Festival – By Ed Berger — Jazz Articles

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Hearing Music in Photos of Jazz Giants – The New York Times

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Hearing Music in Photos of Jazz Giants
By John Leland date published Aug. 16, 2016 date updated
Aug. 16, 2016

A good jazz photograph tells its story musically as much as visually. More than images of rock, classical or hip-hop musicians, jazz images, like those of Ted Williams, who studied saxophone and clarinet before picking up the camera after World War II, seem to capture the intangible essence of a thought being transformed into sound.
Maybe it’s the way the photos’ lithe rhythms of light and dark riff on the rhythms in the music. Or maybe it’s the way photography by its nature encapsulates the never-to-be-repeated instant, which is the building block of jazz improvisation.
Photo

Dizzy Gillespie performing onstage.
Credit
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Or maybe it’s just the cool suits.
Whatever. Charlie Parker’s photograph erupts from the frame with the kinetic restlessness of his blowing; Dizzy Gillespie’s disarming studiousness over the chessboard hums like his geometric solos. Count Basie is all smoke and rhythm, and Billie Holiday doesn’t need sound to sing the blues. The camera says it all for her. Listen to Williams’s portrait of Paul Desmond (reserved, measured) beside his volcanic shot of John Coltrane. Hear the difference? You can almost fill in the sounds of the bass and drums, the temperature in the room, the suspended breath of the audience, wondering what will come next. In the photographs, of course, it never does. Like good jazz, they leave you with endless possibility waiting to happen. It’s a promise and a reward at once.
(Someday, maybe someone will think to replace the American flag with an old Blue Note album cover, and then the national anthem will really swing. Maybe.)
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Duke Ellington onstage with his orchestra.
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Ted Williams/Iconic Images
Williams, who died in 2009, was born in Texas in 1925, and he worked steadily from the late 1940s to the late 1970s, shooting the jazz world for Time, Newsweek, Playboy, Downbeat and others. When he died he left behind tens of thousands of images, mostly uncataloged and unpublished, a record of a life spent listening through his camera. The images here come from a new book, published by ACC Editions (http://www.accdistribution.com/us/store/pv/9781851498277/jazz/ted-williams) , called simply “Jazz: The Iconic Images of Ted Williams (http://www.iconicimages.net/) .”
It’s a long period of time. The country was changing, the music was changing. The civil rights movement surged and peaked. The audience, by the end, was mostly elsewhere. In these photographs, though, the music plays on, never dated, always right on time.

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Hearing Music in Photos of Jazz Giants
By John Leland date published Aug. 16, 2016 date updated
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Bobby Hutcherson, Vibraphonist With Coloristic Range of Sound, Dies at 75 – The New York Times

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Bobby Hutcherson, Vibraphonist With Coloristic Range of Sound, Dies at 75
By NATE CHINEN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/nate_chinen/index.html) AUG. 16, 2016

The Bobby Hutcherson Quartet performing at a club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York, in 2006.
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Bobby Hutcherson, one of the most admired and accomplished vibraphonists in jazz, died Monday at his home in Montara, Calif. He was 75.

He died after a long battle with emphysema, said Marshall Lamm, a spokesman for Mr. Hutcherson’s family.

Mr. Hutcherson’s career took flight in the early 1960s, as jazz was slipping free of the complex harmonic and rhythmic designs of bebop. He was fluent in that language, but he was also one of the first to adapt his instrument to a freer postbop language, often playing chords with a pair of mallets in each hand.

He released more than 40 albums and appeared on many more, including some regarded as classics, like “Out to Lunch,” by the alto saxophonist, flutist and bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy, and “Mode for Joe,” by the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson.

Both of those albums were a byproduct of Mr. Hutcherson’s close affiliation with Blue Note Records, from 1963 to 1977. He was part of a wave of young artists who defined the label’s forays into experimentalism, including the pianist Andrew Hill and the alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. But he also worked with hard-bop stalwarts like the tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, and he later delved into jazz-funk and Afro-Latin grooves.

Mr. Hutcherson had a clear, ringing sound, but his style was luminescent and coolly fluid; more than Milt Jackson or Lionel Hampton (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/nyregion/lionel-hampton-who-put-swing-in-the-vibraphone-is-dead-at-94.html) , his major predecessors on the vibraphone, he made an art out of resonating overtones and chiming decay.

This coloristic range of sound, which he often used in the service of emotional expression, was one reason for the deep influence he left on stylistic inheritors like Joe Locke, Warren Wolf, Chris Dingman and Stefon Harris, who recently assessed him as “by far the most harmonically advanced person to ever play the vibraphone.”

Robert Hutcherson was born in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 1941. His father, Eli, was a brick mason, and his mother, Esther, was a hairdresser.

Growing up in a black community in Pasadena, Mr. Hutcherson was drawn to jazz partly by way of his older siblings: His brother, Teddy, had gone to high school with Mr. Gordon, and his sister, Peggy, was a singer who worked with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra. (She later toured and recorded with Ray Charles as a Raelette.)

Mr. Hutcherson, who took piano lessons as a child, often described his transition to vibraphone as the result of an epiphany: Walking past a record store one day, he heard a recording of Milt Jackson and was hooked. A friend at school, the bassist Herbie Lewis, further encouraged his interest in the vibraphone, so Mr. Hutcherson saved up and bought one. He was promptly booked for a concert with Mr. Lewis’s band.

“Well, I hit the first note,” he recalled of that performance in a 2014 interview (http://jazztimes.com/articles/129436-bobby-hutcherson-the-jazztimes-interview) with JazzTimes. He added, “But from the second note on, it was complete chaos. You never heard people boo and laugh like that. I was completely humiliated. But my mom was just smiling, and my father was saying, ‘See, I told you he should have been a bricklayer.’ ”

Mr. Hutcherson persevered, eventually working with musicians like Mr. Dolphy, whom he had first met when Mr. Dolphy was his sister’s boyfriend, and the tenor saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd. In 1962 he joined a band led by a pair of Count Basie sidemen, the tenor saxophonist Billy Mitchell and the trombonist Al Grey, which brought him to New York City for a debut engagement at Birdland.

The group broke up not long afterward, but Mr. Hutcherson stayed in New York, driving a taxicab for a living, his vibraphone stashed in the trunk. He was living in the Bronx and married to his high school sweetheart, the former Beth Buford, with whom he had a son, Barry — the inspiration for his best-known tune, the lilting modernist waltz “Little B’s Poem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwH17DJ-J3c) .”

Mr. Hutcherson caught a break when Mr. Lewis, his childhood friend, came to town and introduced him to the trombonist Grachan Moncur III, who in turn introduced him to Jackie McLean. “One Step Beyond,” an album by Mr. McLean released on Blue Note in 1963, featured Mr. Hutcherson’s vibraphone as the only chordal instrument. From that point on, he was busy.

The first album he released as a leader was “Dialogue” (1965), featuring Mr. Hill, the trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and the saxophonist and flutist Sam Rivers. Among his notable subsequent albums was “Stick-Up!” (1966), with partners including Mr. Henderson and the pianist McCoy Tyner, with whom he would forge a close alliance.

After being arrested for marijuana possession in Central Park in 1967, Mr. Hutcherson lost his cabaret card, required of any musician working in New York clubs. He returned to California and struck a rapport with the tenor saxophonist Harold Land. Among the recordings they made together was “Ummh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6ZAdUuSlM) ,” a funk shuffle that became a crossover hit in 1970. (It was later sampled by the rapper Ice Cube.)

In the early ’70s Mr. Hutcherson bought an acre of land along the coast in Montara, Calif., where he built a house. He lived there with his wife, the former Rosemary Zuniga, whom he married in 1972. She survives him, along with their son, Teddy Hutcherson, a marketing production manager for SFJazz, as does his older son, Barry Hutcherson, a jazz drummer.

After his tenure on Blue Note, Mr. Hutcherson released albums on Columbia, Landmark and other labels, working with Mr. Tyner, the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and — on screen, in the 1986 Bertrand Tavernier film “Round Midnight (http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE0D91530F933A0575AC0A960948260) ” — with Mr. Gordon and the pianist Herbie Hancock. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Hutcherson toured with the first edition of the SFJazz Collective, an ensemble devoted equally to jazz repertory and the creation of new music. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2010.

After releasing a series of albums on the European label Kind of Blue, he returned to Blue Note in 2014 to release a soul-jazz effort, “Enjoy the View,” with collaborators including the alto saxophonist David Sanborn.

Speaking in recent years, Mr. Hutcherson was fond of citing a bit of insight from an old friend. “Eric Dolphy said music is like the wind,” he told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2012. “You don’t know where it came from, and you don’t know where it went. You can’t control it. All you can do is get inside the sphere of it and be swept away.”

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