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Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Meets Hawk! (RCA) The 3 Sounds, Out of This World (Blue Note)

Friday is an absurdly loaded day. I count 12 concerts I'm interested in hearing on Friday. That is going to be a busy day and obviously there will be lots of conflicts.

Roll call. Who will be present on Friday? I will. BFrank? Anyone else?

Sitar Recital – Soulful Strings Saturday, April 18, 2020 4:00:00 PM Venue: Allen Library Civic Auditorium, 300 N. Allen Drive, Allen TX 75013 Admission: ICMC Members: Free General: $30 Student: $20 Abhisek Mallick Sitar Subrata Bhattacharya Tabla Abhisek Mallick stepped into the domain of sitar when he was seven. Under the strict tutelage of his guru, Pandit Shyamal Chattopadhyay, who is the disciple of the Late Ustad Md. Dabir Khan (the Last descendant of Mian Tansen) as well as the legendary maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. He has also been fortunate enough to have received taalim from the doyen of Vishnupur Gharana, Pt. Manilal Nag. He gave his first public performance at the young age of eight and has been a regular artiste of All India Radio since he was ten. Abhisek has proved his musical acumen by receiving the prestigious “President’s Award” from the Government of India, after achieving the first position in All India Radio (Hindustani Classical Instrumental) Music Competition in Sitar in 2003. The Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Govt. of India, has conferred upon him the senior National Scholarship for 2003, in the field of Hindustani Classical Music (Instrumental). His musical career is etched with numerous other awards – the “ ITC Sangeet Research Academy Award”2003, “Rajya Sangeet AcademyAward”, “Pandit Ravi Kichloo Award”, “Saltlake Cultural Association Award” , being some of them. His musical recitals have been widely acclaimed by critics and he has bagged numerous press reviews from notable dailies and magazines. Abhisek is an A-Grade artist of All India Radio, Doordarshan and other media channels. He has been touring extensively across the globe on account of his concerts, which include Chhandayan All night Concert 2010, New York City, Academy of Performing Arts, 2010, Rutgers University, Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Bishwa Banga Sammelan 2010/2018, Atlantic City, Salt Lake Music Festival,2011, and Uttarpara Sangeet Chakra in the years 2009/2011/2014/2019 among others. He has collaborated with world-renowned jazz and classical guitarist Fareed Haque at Boston Guitar Fest 2010, Utah Arts Festival 2010 and Marquette Waterfront Festival 2011. Abhisek has also composed music for and performed live at Farley P. Richmond’s theatrical production of “Mrichhakatikam” at South Asian Theatre Festival 2010, New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Abhisek is a regular member of the world famous fusion band Rhythmscape by Pt. Bickram Ghosh and has collaborated with him in playing a number of scores in Tollywood and Bollywood productions and albums, notable among which are the movie JAAL (which got the Oscar long list nomination), “The Vayuputras”,--- the Original Sound Track of “Immortals of Meluha”, “MAYA”. He has been a featured artiste in Pt Subhen Chatterjee’s world music project “Bandish Fusion”. He had the rare opportunity to perform with Ustad Fazal Quereshi on the 99th Birth Anniversary of Ustad Allah Rakha Khan Saheb. He added another significant feather to his cap by performing as well as conducting workshop at Cape Town Jazz Fest 2019, one of the biggest Jazz Festivals in the world, as part of Bickram Ghosh Quartet. He has been invited to perform in Zee Saregamapa as a Guest Artist on special occasions. Subrata Bhattacharya is one of the leading tabla players in India today. He has received his taalim under Shri Tamal Krishna Chatterjee, Shri Nripen Karmakar and Shri Tapan Kr. Banerjee before he was finally accepted as a pupil of tabla maestro Pt. Shankar Ghosh, all of whom honed his talent to the level of refinement now witnessed by audiences everywhere. He has since proved himself a worthy exponent of the Farukhabad Gharana. Recognition of his talent has come in the form of such awards as the Sangeet Prabhankar and the Gold Medal and the Saangeet Praveen from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahadad, and Sangeet Bhushan from the Bhatkhande College, Lucknow. Renowned artists whom he has accompanied in the past few years are Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Dr.N.Rajam, Pt. Buddhaditya Mukherjee, Ud Shahid Parvez Khan, Ud Ali Ahmed Hussain, Chitraveena Ravikiran, Pt. Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Pt. Samaresh Chaudhury, etc. He is a visiting professor at the University of Urbana Champaign,IL. The next milestone of his creativity and innovation is "Naad- The Everlasting Sound", a group he has formed to experiment with fusion music. It seems the next inevitable step in Subrata's career as a mingling and merging of eastern, middle eastern and western styles of music is the trend among makers and lovers of music these days. He is been a part of the Chicago based Indo -Jazz band Flat Earth Ensemble since its inception.

This past weekend: Lee Morgan, The Sixth Sense (Blue Note) Jimmy Hamilton, It's About Time (Prestige Swingville) Hampton Hawes, All Night Session, volume 1 (Contemporary) Sam "the Man" Taylor Plays the Bad and the Beautiful (Prestige Moodsville) Paul Horn and Carlos Lyra, The Sound of Ipanema (Columbia)(

MAR06 The Mimi Fox Beatles Project Fri. Mar 6, 2020 at 8:00pm CST The Guitar Sanctuary is proud to present a special evening of Virtuoso Guitar with the Mimi Fox Beatles Project on Friday March 6th at 8pm (doors open at 7) with special guest (TBA) at The Sanctuary Music & Events Center.

Harriett Tubman is fantastic.

Le Poisson Rouge. The only time I've been there it was grotesquely overloud and standing only. Didn't like the place.

2020 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival line-up is out. April 23: Arturo Sandoval, Uncle Nef, Great Gambian Griots: Jali Bakary Konteh and Pa Bobo Jobarteh, Marlon Jordan, Alexi Marti April 24: Terri Lynne Carrington and Social Science, Jason Marsalis, Great Gambian Griots: Jali Bakary Konteh and Pa Bobo Jobarteh, Doreen, Jamil Sharif Tribute to Jabbo Smith, Les Filles De Illighadad of Niger April 25: Antonio Sanchez and Migration, Trumpet Mafia, Tuba Skinny, Sasha Masakowski, David Sanborn with Randy Brecker, Charlie Musselwhite, Louis Ford April 26: Nicholas Payton, Wycliffe Gordan, Buddy Guy April 30: John Scofield and Dave Holland, Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher, Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Leyla McCalla May 1: Brubeck Brothers, Herlin Riley, Charlie Gabriel May 2: The Cookers, Count Basie Orchestra, Leroy Jones, Chris Thomas King, Blodie's Jazz Jam May 3: Chick Corea, Terrence Blanchard, Amina Figarova, Mr. Sipp

It was in 1984, I think, on two consecutive nights--Terrence Blanchard as musical director, with Jean Toussaint, Donald Harrison, Mullgrew Miller, and Lonnie Plaxico. Marchel Ivery sitting in on tenor at the end of the second set (with Donald Harrison and jean Toussaint looking taken aback that Marchel got more applause than they did).

I'm just going to see what you get for free.

Just added this App to my iPhone; thanks for the alert.

He doesn't seem to have a website or even a facebook page but he is going strong at age 80 now. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/arts/music/andrew-cyrille-new-vanguard.html

I saw him once years ago at the original Knitting Factory (a real dump of a club), in a quartet setting. Friday looks like the most potentially conflict ridden day for me.

Awesome!

I did attend the Manhattan marathon and it was a real shot of musical adrenaline.

The Big Ears website now shows the line-up day by day. For Anthony Braxton fanatics, he is performing on three consecutive days (Friday/Saturday/Sunday).

Friday and Saturday nights, I attended the Winter Jazzfest Marathons. Sunday night, Globalfest at the Copacabana. Friday Marathon: Jure Pukl at the Dance. Mostly I liked sidemen Joel Ross on vibes and Charles Altura on guitar. Switching to Subculture for the rest of the evening (a terrific venue with great sound): Mathew Whitacre: A young (blind) man who effortlessly switches between an acoustic piano, in an engaging piano trio style, to driving B3 organ soul jazz trio, then to Herbie Hancock style funk on electric keyboards. Connie Han Trio: Another young pianist with some impressive acoustic piano skills. Also plays the Fender Rhodes, and surprisingly i liked those tunes the best. The Yes Trio (Ali Jackson, Aaron Goldberg, Omar Avital): Some more mature musicians, and a quite fine piano trio, playing some nice original material. Jazz Gallery All Stars: A high point of the evening; a really smoking set of mostly originals, with Miguel Zenon (alto), Gerald Clayton (piano), Joel Ross and Charles Altura reappear, Matt Brewer on bass, Kendrick Scott on drums [and the tenor sax player I recently saw with Tyshawn Sorey but I forget his name]. Michael Olatuja's Lagos Pepper Soup. A new musician to me; this Nigerian bassist was fantastic, and this set of Afro-beat and Afro/jazz fusion was extremely dynamic. Favorite set of the night. Saturday Marathon: Starting the evening at Webster Hall... Brandee Younger's Soul Awakening: I absolutely loved this band and set. Brandee Younger on harp, Chelsea Baratz on tenor sax, Ravi Coltrane on tenor sax. Anne Drummond on flute, Dezron Douglas on bass and Allan Mednard on drums. Next up Makaya McCraven, playing Gil Scot Heron Reimagined. With Irvin Pierce and Greg Ward on saxophones, Marquis Hill on trumpet, Junius Paul on bass, Brandee Younger returns on harp, and Joel Ross makes another appearance on vibes. Honestly, this set was thrilling. Between the Brandee Younger set and this set, I couldn't hope for any more in live music. Nonetheless, I continued to the Zurcher Gallery, to hear the duo of Alan Braufman and Cooper Moore. In a completely different way, this set was also rather wonderful. Alan Braufman is impressive on alto. Back to Subculture: Rene Marie: She sings well, and her trio led by John Chinn sounds nice. Not really my cup of tea. Closing out the evening with another new to me musician, bassist/composer Gregg August, leading a rather excellent ten piece band, that included some burning tenor sax from J.D. Allen, John Ellis on soprano, Marcus Rojas on tuba, Luis Perdomo on piano, Frank Lacy on trombone, Donald Edwards on drums. Sunday night: I decided to attend an industry presented world music festival called Globalfest in order to hear a set by Senegal's Cheikh Lo. I did and he sounded great. I also heard the West African group, Les Amazones d'Afrique, featuring three female vocalists, with guitar, drums and turntables. Otherwise this small festival seemed like a mess, overcrowded and 3 standing venues only.

The live music I saw in the 1980s was so fantastic--Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Horace Silver, Ahmad Jamal, Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Charles Moffett, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, George Coleman, Miles Davis, James Blood Ulmer, Dizzy Gillespie, Sun Ra, Benny Carter, Mose Allison, David Newman, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Oregon, John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, Ralph Towner, Cedar Walton, Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, etc. And I missed so many that were active. I also saw Wynton and Branford various times, but they were mostly at best of moderate interest. A mere footnote to the era, in my memory.

As promised, today we will do our best to answer some of this year’s most frequently asked questions: When does Big Ears officially begin? Official Big Ears festival activities will begin around 5pm EST on Thursday, March 26, with the first concerts starting around 6:00 or 6:30pm. What are the festival’s hours each day? Thursday: 5pm until around 12 midnight, perhaps a bit later. Friday and Saturday: There will be talks, films and other programs starting as early as 10am. Concerts will begin at 12 noon or slightly later and continue until past midnight each day. Sunday: There will be talks, films and other programs starting as early as 10am. Concerts will begin at 12 noon and will end around 10pm. When will the daily concert lineups for the festival be announced? On Tuesday, January 14, we will announce the artists / programs for each day of the festival, with the understanding that there are still a handful of surprises to come that will be added to the program. The specific venues and performance times will be announced in mid-late February. Are some artists playing more than once during the festival? Yes. Patti Smith, John Paul Jones, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Andrew Cyrille, Marc Ribot, Peter Brötzmann, Jason Moran, Myra Melford, The Necks, Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Ensemble Dal Niente with Ken Vandermark, Sarah Davachi and others are presenting different performances spanning two or more days of the festival. Has there been a decision as to whether to sell single day passes this year? Yes, we are going to release a limited number of General Admission passes for each day of the festival, although – due to overall festival sales – the quantities for each day will be more limited than in previous years. Also, we will not be offering a Premier or Sonic Explorer option for the single day passes. Details about General Admission single day passes – including their on sale date - will be announced in our newsletter shortly after the January 14 daily lineups are announced. What is still to be announced for the 2020 festival? A series of conversations, discussions and panels with artists and writers; the Big Ears Film program; details and some unannounced programs by artists already announced for the festival; some new artists who may be added to program; workshops, installations, and more.

Andrew Cyrille Quartet Fri, Jan 17 | 7:30 pm McCullough Theatre Renowned avant-garde jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille, whose associations have ranged from a long, vintage collaboration with pianist Cecil Taylor to performing with legendary musicians including Rahshan Roland Kirk and Freddie Hubbard, brings his quartet to the McCullough Theatre stage. Members of this all-star quartet include guitar luminary Bill Frisell, one of the most sought-after guitar voices in contemporary music; highly in-demand bassist Ben Street; and renowned Cuban-born keyboardist David Virelles.

I really like this recording. Even better were the two sets of the duo (plus three additional Cuban percussionists) I heard at New Orleans Jazz Fest in 2019.

King Curtis and Champion Jack Dupree, Blues at Montreux (Atlantic) Jeff Beck, Live at Ronnie Scott's Mongo Santamaria at Montreux (Atlantic)

Shorty Rogers and His Giants, Martians Come Back! (Atlantic) Wild Bill Davis at Birdland (Epic)