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Noteworthy Performances
Stanley Clarke
www.BlueNote.net
Blue Note: March 20-25
Carmen Lundy, www.JazzStandard.com
Jazz Standard: March 8-11
The innovative and influential upright and electric bassist
moved to New York in 1971 after graduating Philadelphia
Musical Academy and began performing and recording with a
host of leading jazz artists including Horace Silver, Art Blakey,
Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, Thad Jones and
Mel Lewis, Gil Evans and others. He achieved siificant notoriety
with the fusion band Return To Forever and Chick Corea. His
own 1976 solo album School Days is one of the most influential
bass recordings. Clarke has since composed musical scores
for TV and Hollywood films.
Vocalist, composer Carmen Lundy has performed and recorded
with many leading artists including Kenny Barron, Bruce Hornsby,
Mulgrew Miller, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kip Hanrahan, Roy Hargrove,
Jimmy Cobb, Ron Carter, Marian McPartland and others. She has
penned more than 60 songs, has received accolades from leading
media outlets and has just released her twelfth album as a leader.
Ms. Lundy is a Miami native, who relocated to NY in 1978 after
earning a music degree at the University of Miami. Her music has
been featured on such TV shows as “Mad Men”, “The L Word”,
“Boardwalk Empire” and others. She is lso a painter in oils on canvas, and her works have
been exhibited in New York.
David Murray
The Iridium, www.TheIridium.com
March 7-8
Carl Allen
/ Rodney
Whitaker, www.JALC.org/dccc
Dizzy’s
Club:
5/24-5/29
Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola: March 20-25
Hailing from Milwaukee, New York-based drummer, educator
Carl Allen, has appeared on over 150 albums. A 1983 Jazz
Studies graduate of William Patterson College in New Jersey,
Allen has performed with Freddie Hubbard, Michael Brecker,
Randy Brecker, Benny Golson, Jennifer Holliday, J.J. Johnson,
Rickie Lee Jones, Sammy Davis Jr., Branford Marsalis, Kenny
Garrett, Lena Horne, Ruth Brown, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and many others. Allen also co-founded Big Apple Productions in 1988 with saxophonist Vincent Herring, produced recordings for several Japanese labels. He leads the Allen-Whitaker Project with bassist
Rodney Whitaker with whom he serves on the jazz faculty at Julliard.
Pamela Luss
Metropolitan Room, Saturday, March 3rd • 7pm
Saturday, March 31st • 7pm
Vocalist Pamela Luss and tenor saxophonist Houston Person
appear together in a monthly series at The Metropolitan
Room, accompanied by Brandon McCune, piano, Sean
Harkness, guitar; John Burr, bass; Dwayne Broadnax on
drums for an evening of Great American Standards. Ms.
Luss' four albums Sweet and Saxy (2009) which also features Mr. Person, Magnet
(2008), Your Eyes (2007), There's Something About You I Don't Know (2006) have
garnered ample press. She has performed at leading venues throughout NY including Dizzy's Club, The Iridium, Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall and others.
David Murray is continuing his return to frequently performing in
New York. On March 7 & 8, his 17-piece David Murray Blues Big
Band with James Blood Ulmer will make its U.S. debut at The
Iridium. The performances will feature songs originally recorded by
Ulmer and newly arranged by Murray. For the last decade, beginning with the Grammy-nominated Memphis Blood: The Sun
Sessions, Ulmer has developed a particular approach to blues interpretation and composition he calls
Harmolodic Blues. He garnered particular acclaim for the 2007 release Bad Blood in the City: The Piety
Street Sessions. That album is the source of most of the David Murray Blues Big Band’s reperoire,
which also includes new arrangements of David Murray’s “Stressology,” and Kanye West’s “Love
Lockdown.”
Nick Moran
La Lanterna Café, http://lalanternacaffe.com
No Time Like Now CD Release Party
Bar Next Door, 3/9, 7:30, 9:30, 11:30
With every well-placed note and every incisive solo on Nick
Moran's new album No Time Like Now, the guitarist brings
an urgent creative agenda to the table. Featuring organist
Brad Whiteley and drummer Chris Benham, both rising
players on the New York scene, No Time Like Now is a
potent trio session that focuses on Moran's stirring compositions and arrangements, venturesome material that
consistently moves beyond organ combo conventions. Fronted by Moran's searing guitar, this
is a trio that can lock into a ferocious groove, but as demonstrated on the elegiac title track of
No Time Like Now, it's equally capable of ravishing, aching poignancy.
Antonio Ciacca
Bar On 5th, Setai Hotel, 5th Ave & 36th Street
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Celebrating his birthday during the month of March,
pianist Ciacca will be featured throughout the month at
his home-base at Bar On 5th where he is Artist-InResidence. Ciacca has recorded as a leader for the
Motema label. He has appeared as a sideman for an
array of noteworthy jazz artists including Art Farmer, James Moody, Lee Konitz,
Johnny Griffin, Mark Murphy, Steve Grossman and others. Mr. Ciacca has cited
Grossman as one of his mentors, since he made the acquaintance of the tenor
saxophonist in Ciacca’s native Italy.
Herbie Hancock
Jazz At Lincoln Center: March 15, (www.JALC.org)
NJ Performing Arts Center: March 23, (www.NJPAC.org)
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Originally from Chicago, Hancock joined the Donald
Byrd Pepper Adams Quintet in the early 1960s, and by
1963 was the pianist in Miles Davis’ second great quartet through 1968. Simultaneously, Hancock recorded a
string of acclaimed albums for Blue Note. His 1974
album Headhunters on Columbia provided a breakthrough to a wider audience. He has performed and or recorded with a who’s who of
jazz and pop stars, and his identifiable voice on piano has graced hundreds of recordings. Mr. Hancock, is a living legend for whom the term truly applies.
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