Live at the Jazz Standard Edmar Castañeda World Ensemble (Arpa y Voz) by George Kanzler Usually expect hyperbole with the term “world ensemble”. However, Edmar Castañeda, who plays the llanera, a 31-string Colombian-Venezuelan harp, assembled musicians for this live recording from seven countries ranging over four continents. And this isn’t any usual configuration; joining him in the frontline are Grégoire Maret (harmonica), Marshall Gilkes (trombone), Itai Kriss (flute), Shlomi Cohen (soprano saxophone) and Pablo Vergara (electric and acoustic piano). The rhythm section is German-Colombian drummer Rodrigo Villalon and American percussionist David Silliman, sometimes joined by pandeiro (Brazilian tambourine) player Sergio Krakowski. The leader also provides basslines and is occasionally joined by Tamer Pinarbasi, from Turkey, on the multi-stringed kanun. The program here—five Castañeda originals plus the late Puerto Rican composer José Ramirez’ “Carrao Carrao”, featuring the one vocal by Andrea Vergara— is expansive, four tracks over 11 minutes long, and rhythmically and structurally wide-ranging. There are descarga-like rounds of traded solos from all the wind instruments plus harp and piano and tracks often feature multiple strains or sections. The most versatile FREE PERFORMING ARTS IN ALL 5 BOROUGHS MAY – SEPTEMBER The season will feature more jazz performances than ever before, including opening night on June 4 in Central Park, featuring living legends McCoy Tyner, Roy Haynes, and Ron Carter. Season highlights include Kamasi Washington and Henry Butler in Central Park, Terence Blanchard in Clove Lakes Park, Dianne Reeves in Queensbridge Park, a tribute to Dave Valentin in Crotona Park, and a screening of What Happened, Miss Simone? in Von King Park. And, of course, our annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, which assembles some of the most important legends of jazz alongside the next generation of innovators, will feature Jack DeJohnette, Donny McCaslin, Randy Weston, and Cory Henry. Join us as we celebrate jazz all summer long! Visit www.SummerStage.org for the full 2016 schedule. @SummerStage @SummerStageNYC @SummerStage and tricky is “Double Portion”, with sections alternating fast, slow and swaggering rhythms, trombone both plunger-muted and open and harp sweeping and jaunty to lush and dreamy. “Entre Cuerdas” piles on false climaxes with drum breaks and repeating riff cycles and “Quatro de Colores” features such pairings as harp and harmonica, electric piano and flute and trombone and soprano. The only ballad— other pieces display a variety of AfroLatin rhythms and time signatures—is “Jesus de Nazareth”, a feature for sumptuous, sweeping harp, a final flute lead-solo adding to the atmosphere. Finale “Zamir Blues” has an infectious, chattering dance rhythm, Casteñada’s most swinging solos and a montuno-driven climax. For more information, visit edmarcastaneda.com. This project is at Jazz Standard Jul. 26th-27th. See Calendar. Enrapture Ken Peplowski (Capri) by Alex Henderson Tenor saxophonist/clarinetist Ken Peplowski has sometimes unfairly been characterized as strictly a Swing-oriented player but if he was a ‘30s loyalist, he wouldn’t be acknowledging everyone from Herbie Nichols to John Lennon on Enrapture. Whether on tenor or clarinet, Peplowski is in fine form on this date. Peplowski offers surprises with his choice of material. Contrasting Fats Waller’s “Willow Tree”, Harry Warren’s “An Affair to Remember” and Duke Ellington’s lesser-known “The Flaming Sword” are Peter Erskine’s “Twelve”, Nichols’ title tune and John Lennon-Yoko Ono’s “Oh, My Love”. Nichols, sorely neglected by the industry in his day but seeing new adherents in the past decades, fits perfectly with the swing-to-bop outlook Peplowski brings to the table. Pianist Ehud Asherie, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson all deserve credit for appreciating Peplowski’s sense of adventure. Musicians hired as sidemen for a Peplowski date know they are probably going to have to do some homework when it comes to learning the material. The threesome rise to the occasion on tunes as disparate as Barry Manilow’s “When October Goes” and Noel Coward’s “I’ll Follow My Secret Heart”. A highlight is Peplowski’s lyrical performance of Bernard Herrmann’s “Vertigo Scene D’Amour” from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1958 thriller Vertigo, working especially well in this small-group setting. For more information, visit caprirecords.com. Peplowski is at 92nd Street Y’s Jazz in July Jul. 20th and 28th and Jazz at Kitano Jul. 22nd-23rd. See Calendar. Flawless Dust Garrison Fewell/Gianni Mimmo (Long Song) by Ken Waxman Best known as a teacher and author of guitar instruction manuals, a busman’s holiday for guitarist Garrison Fewell, who died a year ago this month at 61, involved challenging sessions with players ranging from pianist George Cables and bassist Cecil McBee to saxophonist John Tchicai. Like author/activist W.E.B. Du Bois, who became more radical as he aged, Fewell seemed headed on the same path. Flawless Dust consists of nine knotty and reductionist tracks improvised alongside Italian soprano saxophonist Gianni Mimmo, whose concepts widen the hairline fissure where jazz and experimental music meet. Fewell was open to many modes of expression. There are no ‘songs’, per se, among these tracks ranging from barely one minute to almost 14. Mimmo, who previously matched wits with the likes of cellist Daniel Levin and electronics maven Lawrence Casserley, challenges the guitarist by unexpectedly dribbling delicate pastoral timbres or spraying clotted textures all over the shorter pieces. In response, Fewell uses pinched strings or ringing strums to pour figurative cold water on the saxophonist’s excesses while outlining reciprocal harmonies. The two ascend and descend with mountainclimber-like resolution from the centerpiece “A Floating Caravan”, the lengthiest duet, which organically redefines intense blending, spidery string crawls and angled reed exhalations, giving way to buttressed blowing and echoing strokes, only to climax with a dual unbroken line both soothing and substantial. A departure from his larger ensemble and more mainstream efforts, Flawless Dust shows that Fewell could hold his own in the most demanding situations and that Mimmo was an enabling collaborator. For more information, visit longsongrecords.com Hosted by trombonist/composer CRAIG HARRIS, a major figure in jazz for over thirty years. Rendall Memorial Presbyterian Church 59 W. 137 th Street (between Lenox and Fifth Aves.) 1 st set 12 – 12:45pm ~ 2 nd set 1 – 1:45pm Admission is just $15! (discount for students, seniors and groups) Call 212-662-7779 or purchase at the door harlemjazzboxx.com or welcometoharlem.com TOUR COMPANIES ARE WELCOME July 5 th July 12 th July 19 th July 26 th Antoine Roney Jaleel Shaw Lonnie Plaxico Linda Oh 30 JULY 2016 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD 05-18-16A_NYCJazzAd.indd 1 5/18/16 4:53 PM
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