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Ronstadt Sings The Standards	It can be argued that Linda Ronstadt’s best work was the music she made beginning in 1983 with arranger Nelson Riddle. The 1970s’ rock princess wrapped her big, soaring voice around a collection of impeccably chosen standards, showcasing her talents in ways that “When Will I Be Loved” and “Tumbling Dice,” as good as they were, never could. Ronstadt, 56, recently...
Concert Review by Donna Kimura

Nancy Kelly And Her Trio	"THIS PERFORMANCE WAS QUITE LITERALLY A CLINIC IN THE ART OF ENTERTAINING AND SINGING" - A Musician -------------------------------------------------------------- Nancy Kelly-Vocals Chris Colangelo-Bass Tim Pleasant-Drums Dino Losito-Keyboard ------------------------------------------------------------- "Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." - Sir Thomas Beecham -------------------------------------------------------------- Nancy Kelly held the...
Concert Review by John Gilbert

Crossing Thresholds	A trio of musicians, Matthew Shipp on piano, Rob Brown on alto sax, flute, and clarinet, and Warren Smith on drums, excited the air on a stagnantly humid summer night at the Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro, Vermont. The group played two sets. Although the ornamentation in each was different, particularly with the change in reeds, both manifested serious dedication...
Concert Review by Lyn Horton

Bang On A Can Brings a New Music Twist to MASS MoCA	The performance put on at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts by the group Bang on a Can manifested the pure meaning of the word synergy. This word came into use particularly during the period in the 60’s and 70’s when the design world of Bucky Fuller was in Biblical vogue. A word stemming from biology, “synergy”, in...
Concert Review by Lyn Horton

Composition is Improvisation is Composition is Improvisation	The sometimes dialectical and sometimes no so dialectical relationship between composition and improvisation has long been an issue of much thought for aficionados and performers of jazz. And yet while watching Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang perform their June 21 summer solstice concert I was struck by just how irrelevant the two made the issue seem. Drake and Zerang...
Concert Review by Micah Holmquist

Pete Cosey's Children of Agharta	The Miles-ophiles that dug the Prince of Darkness’ electric period will surely recall the name of Pete Cosey, who was one of the guitarists that was a regular in Miles Davis’ mid-70s bands (circa the albums Agharta, Get Up With It and Pangea). Where he’s been since I don’t know, except that he once “subbed” for Bill Frisell...
Concert Review by Mark Keresman

Dave Weckl Show in Indianapolis	Dave Weckl put on a great show at a local club called "The Jazz Kitchen". It seats around 140 people, and is a club type atmosphere. We ordered dinner and ate during the show which was fun. Weckl's drum set is most impressive...it seemed to be designed to have many of the same drums on both sides of him to give...
Concert Review by J. Beck

Roberta Flack at the Bluenote	The prestigious Bluenote jazz club welcomes R&B legend Roberta Flack for a rare appearance from June 11-16th 2002. Singer/pianist Roberta Flack knows how to raise the roof and tear down the walls with her infectious and deeply emotional brand of R&B. Over the course of her three-decade career, Flack has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all...
Concert Review by Beatrice Richardson

Lee Konitz Trio Live in NYC	Alto saxophonist/composer Lee Konitz (born 1927) has been and continues to be one of THE Grand Daddies of Modern Jazz. When Ornette Coleman was still playing R&B sax in Texas, Konitz was pushing the outer limits with Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh, recording what was likely the FIRST completely free group improvisation (1949, if memory serves) – while...
Concert Review by Mark Keresman

Master bassoonist Paul Hanson joins Bizar Bazaar	Bizar Bazaar is the appropriately titled name of a group of Bay Area musicians getting together every Tuesday night at the Boom Boom Room. Musically, it's an open market of improvising and jamming on a variety of styles from jazz/funk to dance hall classics that are infused with the energy of rock and roll. The local ingredients...
Concert Review by Cory Ferber

Vancouver International Jazz Festival	Vancouver International Jazz Festival. The very words stir something in the soul and excite the senses for what is to come in those most special 10 days of the year: All the unheard sounds to fall in love with and familiar ones to revel in, running into friends old and new, racing from one incredible gig to the next,...
Viewpoint by Josephine Ochej

Les Is (Much) More -- Happy Birthday!!!	Salute To An American Icon time!!! This one, though, is still with us: Les Paul, the Godfather of the Electric Guitar. Without going too much into a big history lesson: Les Paul, aside from being one of the best electric guitarists EVER, regardless of genre, was one of the first – if not THE first – people to...
Concert Review by Mark Keresman

What We Cannot Ignore	On Friday night at the Meetinghouse in Amherst, every seat was filled by those who came to hear Sunny Murray at the helm playing the drums, Alan Silva on bass, Louis Belogenis on tenor, and Sabir Mateen on reeds with second set guest, Raphé Malik on trumpet. I went to this concert with a totally open mind: interested in listening...
Concert Review by Lyn Horton

A Blue Note Welcome	"Please welcome," said saxophonist James Carter with his jazz poster-boy looks, immaculate gray suit and rapper’s diamond ring, "in his debut on this stage…." Could that be true of the former enfant terrible of the Seventies loft scene, co-founder one of jazz’s most universally acclaimed and innovative ensembles, the World Saxophone Quartet, and the man Gary Giddins and the...
Concert Review by Bill Smith

The Four Freshmen	Butler University is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1948, the university lay witness to a harmonic rendezvous--a renaissance of harmonies untold to the human ear. What was to become of four freshmen who never stuck around long enough to become sophomores? They became, “THE FOUR FRESHMEN,” and sent the nation into a harmonic rhapsody--trembling with the new vocal sonorities...
Viewpoint by Richard V. Duffy

Sax Phonically Speaking - James Carter and The Organ Trio	Jazz Live! From the Blue Note, Thursday night was both an epiphany and a delight with James Cater and The Organ Trio featuring: Gerard Gibbs (Hammond B-3), and Leonard King (drums) with special guest David Murray. The Bluenote is unquestionally one of the finest jazz clubs in the country, as you walk through the door, it immediately hits you...
Concert Review by Beatrice Richardson

Josh Roseman Unit freaks out Northern California!	Josh Roseman Unit (JRU) spread their freaky vibes across Northern California, spawning gushing reviews across many local Bay Area mailing lists. While most had never heard the band, they went on to proclaim the show ranked among their musical highlights for the first half of the year. A JRU show is fresh and exciting as they surf...
Concert Review by Cory Ferber

Vision Festival: Treasuring The Past While Looking To The Future	The annual Vision Festival is one of NYC’s premier events for avant-garde/cutting edge jazz and improvised music. Held in a variety of rented venues, it provides a showcase for a dizzying array of improvising musicians, drawing upon performers from local, national and international orbits, often juxtaposing or featuring collaborations between the younger upstarts, established performers and the Grand...
Concert Review by Mark Keresman

A Double Feature: Kenny Barron with Trio Da Paz & Friends / Regina Carter Quintet	Arriving for the late show, I was excited at the thought of hearing both Kenny Barron and Regina Carter on the same bill. Although they have performed and recorded together, no musical dialogue was heard between the two on this particular night. Instead they were both featured in their own high-powered ensembles. Kenny Barron instigated the festivities. ...
Concert Review by Bryan Zoran

Bizar Bazaar electrify the Boom Boom Room	Bizar Bazaar is a super group of Bay Area musicians joining forces for a month long project reinterpreting funk/jazz/soul dance hall classics. Every Tuesday night, they come together at the historical Boom Boom Room, San Francisco’s blossoming home base for the area's funk, jazz, and jam scene. Event creator and guitar wizard Michael Bizar (AJ Croce, Wayside,...
Concert Review by Cory Ferber

Billy Bang: CD Release Show at CB's Gallery	(It may seem odd to many jazz fans that the performance celebrating the release of an album by a somewhat avant-garde fellow would be held at New York City’s most legendary rock & roll club, but there you have it. But not really all that odd, when one considers a good-sized chunk of the current audience at many...
Concert Review by Mark Keresman

Daryl Stuermer heats up Milwaukee	A capacity crowd turned out on a stormy night to see Daryl Stuermer as he debuted a selection of new songs with his band. He explained that he had a streak where he wrote eight songs in three weeks. The results were heard right from the start of the tight show. Retrofit is a funky groove where the band...
Concert Review by Michael Bettine

Dave Douglas at the HotHouse!	Critics and fans of mainstream jazz and more experimental improvised music rarely agree on much but both laud trumpeter Dave Douglas. In the nine years since his first release as a leader, Parallel Worlds on the Italian Soul Note label, the 39-year old Douglas has come to be widely regarded as one of the most gifted and accomplished musicians...
Concert Review by Micah Holmquist

Spring Issues in a New View	The third of the 2002 revival of Eremite Records’ Meetinghouse Concerts featured Joe McPhee on saxophones and Paul Hession on drums. The miracle of spring opens the doors for enlivening insights and feelings that lay deep inside me waiting to come out while the clouds and low pressure still hover. Last night’s concert opened those doors. It presented to...
Concert Review by Lyn Horton

Vital Information in Milwaukee	Touring in support of their new CD release, Show Em Where You Live, Vital Information tore it up in Milwaukee. Opening with the jazz/funk of Mr. T.C., the band set the tone for the evening. Featuring the “B3” organ sound of Tom Coster, the nimble guitar of Frank Gambale, the solid groove of bassist Baron Browne, and the driving...
Concert Review by Michael Bettine

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