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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/arts/music/nyc-winter-jazzfest-lineup.html?_r=0 By NATE CHINENNOV. 2, 2016 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page Share Tweet Pin Email More Save Photo Andrew Cyrille, who will be an artist in residence at the 2017 NYC Winter JazzFest.CreditLaurel Golio for The New York Times The NYC Winter Jazzfest has announced its 2017 edition, which will take place Jan. 5 through Jan. 10, with about 140 groups drawing on a range of styles across 13 different stages. As always, the centerpiece will be a smorgasbord-like Winter Jazzfest Marathon, on Jan. 6 and Jan. 7.

Lineup announced today: - 2017 Artist LINEUP - Amina Claudine Myers Andrew Cyrille (Artist-in-residence) Battle Trance Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan Duo Brooklyn Raga Massive Craig Harris’ Breathe Darcy James Argue's Secret Society Dave Douglas High Risk with Shigeto David Murray Big Band Daymé Arocena Donny McCaslin Group Earth Wind and Brown, featuring Butcher Brown and NIGEL Hall Edmar Castaneda World Ensemble Harold López-Nussa Jakob Bro / Thomas Morgan / Joey Baron Jason Moran & The Bandwagon Plays Monk Justin Brown NYEUSI Kandace Springs Killiam Shakespeare Kneebody Kris Davis’ Duopoly Madison McFerrin Marc Ribot & The Young Philadelphians Mary Halvorson Octet Michael Leonhart Orchestra Nate Smith +kinfolk Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble Nik Bärtsch Mobile Peter Bernstein's Monk Trio Pharoah Sanders Quartet Quantic Live Ravi Coltrane / David Virelles Duo Russell Gunn's Ethnomusicology Sam Amidon Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformations Suite Shabaka & The Ancestors Spanish Harlem Orchestra Steven Bernstein's Universal Melody Brass Band Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science The Chico Freeman Plus+tet Tomasz Stanko NY Quartet (w/David Virelles, Reuben Rogers, Gerald Cleaver) Tomeka Reid Uri Caine Trio Vinicius Cantuaria Quintet William Parker / Cooper Moore / Hamid Drake / Rob Brown Quartet

Tyrone Washington, Natural Essence ( Blue Note)

I liked him with Miles Davis years ago; mostly I didn't pay attention until at the 2015 New Orleans Jazz Fest, I heard the super-cool sequence of Vieux Farka Toure followed by Cassandra Wilson followed by Kenny Garrett--his set was really fantastic.

Jimmy Neeley Trio (Tru Sound/Prestige)

The Soul Note material is five albums by two different groups. Gentleman's Agreement and Hand to Hand are by a quintet with Jimmy Knepper and George Adams in the front line, a unique pairing that I really enjoy, Hugh Lawson on piano (very good and not much recorded) and Dannie Richmond on drums. Two excellent albums in my opinion. The other three albums are by the Adams/Pullen quartet. Don't Lose Control is a fine studio album), and then there are the two Village Vanguard live recordings. I haven't listened to the latter two in a while, but my recollection is that the recording engineer botched the session and failed to capture the group well enough, though the performance is quite good. So basically it's three recommended albums, and two with reservations about the sound but not the performance quality. Or you can get the two Blue Notes (Breakthrough and Song Everlasting) or any of the Timeless recordings with Pullen (Decisions, City Gates, Earth Beams, Life Line, or Melodic Excursions) (except I don't care for the one with John Scofield). It's all of comparable quality. For other Adams without Pullen, also good are Old Feeling (Blue Note) and Paradise Space Shuttle (Timeless).

Freddie Redd, The Connection (Blue Note mono W. 63rd), Ben Allison, Quiet Revolution, and Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Trans Whistle (Prestige). The Freddie Redd Connection is in terrible appearing condition, and was found misfiled n a MJQ LP cover, with no matching cover. Somehow, it still sounds pretty good, if noisy, played loud.

November 10, 2016: Helen Sung Quartet, South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas November 10, 2016: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth November 19, 2016: Terence Blanchard, Carver Center, San Antonio November 22, 2016: Sean Jones and One O'Clock Lab Band, Winspear, Denton November 26, 2016: Bnois King, Texas Musicians Museum, Irving December 3, 2016: R.L. Boyce and Lightnin' Malcolm, Antone's, Austin December 10, 2016: Tim Warfield's All-Star Jazzy Christmas, Starlight Club, Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas December 16, 2016: Stanley Clarke, One World Theater, Austin January 7, 2017: Ran Blake, Live Oak Friends Meeting House, Houston January 21, 2017: Eddie Turner, Luckenbach Blues Festival, Fredericksburg February 3, 2017: Dejohnette Coltrane Garrison, McCullough Theater, Austin February 17, 2017: Al Di Meola, One World Theater, Austin February 18, 2017: Al Di Meola, Majestic Theater, Dallas February 18, 2017: Joey Alexander, McAllister Auditorium, San Antonio College February 23, 2017: MVP Jazz Quartet (Bobby Watson, Donald Brown, Marvin Smitty Smith, Ray Drummond), Starlight Club, Walton Center, Fayetteville Arkansas February 24, 2017: Joshua Redman, Cullen Theater, Houston February 25, 2017: MVP Jazz Quartet (Bobby Watson, Donald Brown, Marvin Smitty Smith, Ray Drummond), South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas February 25, 2017: Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Laurie Auditorium, Trinity University, San Antonio March 11, 2017: Marquis Hill Blacktet, Cullen Theater, Houston April 18, 2017: Cyrus Chestnut, Bates Recital Hall, Austin April 20, 2017: Terence Blanchard, South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas April 21, 2017: Terence Blanchard, University of Texas at Dallas April 22, 2017: Terence Blanchard, Cullen Theater, Houston April 28, 2017: Ravi Coltrane, UNT Recital Hall, Denton May 5, 2017: Vijay Iyer, Cullen Theater, Houston May 5, 2017: Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Octet, Carver Center, San Antonio

Leon Spencer died in 2012. http://www.jazzwax.com/2012/03/leon-spencer-jr-1945-2012.html

Freddie Hubbard, The Night of the Cookers, volume 2 (Blue Note), and Gerry Mulligan Plays Mulligan (Prestige)

Ben Allison, Quiet Revolution (Newvelle), and Duke Ellington, Yale Concert (Fantasy)

The Best of Cannonball Adderley (Capitol)

Last Saturday, I traveled to New York City to attend a seminar Tuesday to Thursday. So I had five consecutive evenings to hear live music. On Saturday, to the Appel Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center, for Elio Villafranca's Letters to Mother Africa. The venue is, to say the least, quite beautiful, with the stage backed by a giant wall of glass overlooking a spectacular vista of the city from a sixth floor location. I was unfamiliar with the leader, a Cuban pianist; I attended because he had Billy Harper and David Murray on tenor saxophones. Also Dezron Douglas on bass, Lewis Nash on drums, and Abdou Mdoup on percussion. The repertoire was a mixture of originals (from the leader) and African tinged classic jazz compositions (including from Billy Harper, Randy Weston, Louis Armstrong (King of the Zulus), Duke Ellington (Afrique), and Freddie Hubbard). It proved to be a thrilling concert. Billy Harper was featured a lot and sounded fantastic. Sunday night, to the Village Vanguard for Tom Harrell's Something Gold, Something Blue. This was the same group as on his new High Note recording (Charles Altura guitar, Ugonna Okegwo on bass, E.J. Strickland on drums), substituting Dave Douglas on trumpet live for Ambrose Akinmusire on the recording. The album has a number of striking compositions, coupled with its unusual two trumpet front line, and the two sets I heard included most of them. Another fine evening of music. On Monday night, early on to the Zinc Bar to hear some Brazilian music--a Brazilian singer, Sarah Cabrall, performing with piano and percussion. She sang well, performing songs by Djavan, Jobim, Joao Bosco and others. Next, to the 55 Bar to hear Mike Stern. Apparently Mike Stern is just recently returning to performance after suffering a broken shoulder, the group this night was a quartet, with Bob Francescini on tenor sax, and the amazing Kim Thompson on drums. Mike Stern and Kim Thompson are truly an electrifying combination. I do recollect the days when I was ambivalent in regard to Mike Stern--long ago hearing him with Miles Davis and another time with Micheal Brecker. But after hearing him multiple times in the tiny 55 Bar, I realized the very first time there that Miles Davis as usual knew what he was doing. This evening was really great. Tuesday, I ventured uptown to 129th Street to the Jazz Museum of Harlem. I thought I was attending a duo concert of (another Cuban) pianist David Virelles and percussionist Ramon Diaz, but it turned out to be an interview/lecture on Afro Cuban influences in jazz, with a couple of musical performance interludes. It was interesting but the performance part was the highlight, and I wanted more of that. Next, back to the 55 Bar for Leni Stern. I like her spiky guitar playing, and her combination of jazz and African music, featuring the wonderful Mamadou Ba on bass guitar. Her vocals are perhaps a bit of an acquired taste. Another excellent evening of music. Wednesday, my last night, I ventured uptown again, this time to Smoke, for my first visit there. The club reminds me a bit of Sweet Basil, only with a lot better food. This was for Ben Allison's Easy Way Trio (Ted Nash on tenor saxophone and Steve Cardenas on guitar). Some quiet music after two nights on the louder end of the spectrum. This group is patterned after Jimmy Giuffre trios and performs mostly compositions by Jim Hall and Jimmy Giuffre. It was a slow night at Smoke, so I was able to stay and hear three sets of this pleasing music. The group has a new release (Quiet Revolution), but only on vinyl and generally available from a label that has a very pricy subscription plan, so I was happy to be able to buy one at the club.

In person, I really liked Matt Garrison's playing. Some reservations about Ravi Coltrane still, but this is definitely the best playing from him that I have heard. Their live version of the Two Jimmys, much longer than on the record, was quite stirring.

I've seen Woody Witt before, but not in Dallas, in New York at Smalls. I do recollect sharing a table once with someone who was a big Woody Witt fan. I was more in the nature of, he's okay, when I saw him.

All jazz concerts in Houston on the list are in 2017. January 7, 2017: Ran Blake, Live Oak Friends Meeting House, Houston February 24, 2017: Joshua Redman, Cullen Theater, Houston March 11, 2017: Marquis Hill Blacktet, Cullen Theater, Houston April 22, 2017: Terence Blanchard, Cullen Theater, Houston May 5, 2017: Vijay Iyer, Cullen Theater, Houston I haven't been there but there is a jazz club in Houston open two nights a week (Friday and Saturday) called Cezanne. http://www.cezannejazz.com/

A quite worthwhile release. Wild Music!

Volume 13 (from the 2016 calendar) is out on a separate CD. The sound is exceptionally vivid. Really great sounding actually.

Lucky Thompson, Body and Soul (Nessa), Archie Shepp, Jazz a Confronto (Horo), and George Lewis and His New Orleans Stompers, volume 2 (Blue Note ten inch).

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You appear to be correct--I pulled the Buck Clayton out and it sounds the same to me.

This new release, on Dot Time, is rather fine, with Joe Bushkin on piano, Buck Clayton on trumpet, Milt Hinton on bass and Jo Jones on drums. The fidelity is excellent, recorded by classical violinist David Sarser, who brought his Ampex reel-to-reel to The Embers on 54th Street in 1952. Elegant performances of various standards; you are there.

His Columbia album with Herb Ellis, Guitar/Guitar, is a really good one.

Ahmad Jamal, Extensions (Argo/Cadet)