[Dixielandjazz] [Tradjazz] New York City - The Jazz Capitol of the World

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Come on, Steve, "Louis Armstrong" and "CareFusion" in  the same sentence?  
I say LOUIE will be turning in his grave.   And I can't recall anyone ever 
claiming that New York City  newspaper writers know anything.
 
George
 
Steve, I'll be seeing you at the Tri-State Jazz  Society Annual Jam Session 
on June 20.
 
 
In a message dated 6/11/2010 10:45:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

It seems  New York City is still the Jazz Capital of the world. Lots  
going on,  mostly modern jazz,
however, see the concert the Times recommends at the  end of the  
article. If you are in the area
and not afraid, or too  tired to go out and seek live OKOM, that  
concert and venue are a  must.

Cheers,
Steve  Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband

On the Horns of  Abundance: Jazz Festivals Resound

NY TIMES - By Ben Ratliff - June 11,  2010


An extraordinary amount of jazz hits New York over the next  two weeks:  
four festivals, about 150 sets, and much of it  extracurricular to the  
usual riches at the clubs. It’s a time of  marathons and breadth and  
goes in heavy for the new: not just youth,  but also new aesthetic  
combinations, new attitudes toward repertory,  new influences and  
paradigms, new clubs and theaters. Unlike some  past jazz festival  
seasons, with more brand-polishing and  sentimental favorites, this one  
— in the aggregate — can really show  you where both the music and the  
culture of jazz in New York have  gotten to.

The news releases plonked into e-mailboxes throughout the  spring.  
First to announce a schedule was the old-school jazz  promoter George  
Wein. After the exit of JVC as his regular sponsor,  he returns this  
year with the first annual CareFusion Jazz Festival,  named after the  
medical technology company that is writing its  checks. It’s a mixture:  
typical JVC-esque big-hall bookings (Herbie  Hancock, Keith Jarrett,  
João Gilberto); carefully chosen smaller  shows with some of the best  
younger bandleaders, including Ambrose  Akinmusire and Darcy James  
Argue; and a few gigs for early and  swing-era jazz fans.

Next, the 15th Vision Festival, an event planned  and run community- 
style, with minimum sponsorship and maximum input from  musicians, by  
Patricia Parker; it’s built around the lineage of free  improvisation  
and jazz’s nonmainstream. This year’s festival is half  again as big as  
last year’s. It contains an evening devoted to the  Chicago pianist  
Muhal Richard Abrams and his circle and gigs by the  local scene’s  
veterans, including the saxophonists Charles Gayle and  David S. Ware,  
as well as the improvising singer Fay Victor, the  scholarly and  
freewheeling Chicago-based quintet People, Places  & Things and the  
rock band Akron/Family. The shows spread  through the Lower East Side:  
clubs, cultural centers, even the  playground of the Campos Plaza  
housing development on East 13th  Street.

Then came news of the first Undead Jazzfest, two nights of  hear-a- 
thons in clubs on a stretch of Bleecker and Sullivan Streets,  this  
Saturday and Sunday. It occupies, roughly, the middle path  between  
Vision Festival and CareFusion: heavy on neither free  improvisation  
nor the mainstream-jazz continuum.

It’s the  sound of the adventurous present, including the drummer and  
composer  John Hollenbeck, the saxophonist Steve Coleman, and Fight the  
Big  Bull, a roustabout little big band from Richmond, Va. It’s  
produced  by Brice Rosenbloom and Adam Schatz, who are doing much to  
expand,  diversify and generally excite the New York jazz audience  
through  their annual Winter Jazzfest.

Finally, No. 4: “Tri-Centric Modeling,” a  startling mini-festival of  
the arch-conceputalist Anthony Braxton’s  music, with some of the more  
imposing musicians who have played in  his circle over the last 30 years.

Here are shows recommended by the  jazz writers of The New York Times.

Edited by Barbone, leaving out  concerts by Herbie Hancock, Wayne  
Shorter, Joe Lovano Anthony  Braxton, McCoy Tyner and  similar leading  
modernists. I would  think folks near Queens County in NYC would want  
to go to the  Armstrong House/Museum to see some OKOM



AN EVENING IN LOUIS  ARMSTRONG’S GARDEN (June 19) Truth in advertising:  
This concert,  part of CareFusion, unfolds at the actual former home of  
Louis  Armstrong, now a functioning museum. The talent includes an   
Armstrong torchbearer (the tuba player David Ostwald) and a few   
inheritors (like the trumpeter Randy Sandke and the guitarist Howard   
Alden), among others. Louis Armstrong House Museum, Corona, Queens.   
(Chinen)



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