{"id":3838,"date":"2018-07-18T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2018-07-18T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:58:50","slug":"nelson-brill-reviews-jazz-pianists-from-the-newport-jazz-festival-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/nelson-brill-reviews-jazz-pianists-from-the-newport-jazz-festival-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Brill Reviews Jazz Pianists from the Newport Jazz Festival and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real music lovers can find the melody in everything. From the park to the concert hall, our friend Nelson Brill is always on the hunt for great sound. In this blog, Brill looks back on past performances at the Newport Jazz Festival, as he anticipates this year\u2019s upcoming lineup.<\/em><\/p>\n

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JAZZ PIANISTS FRISKY AND WISE \u2013 FROM NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL AND BEYOND<\/span><\/p>\n

By Nelson Brill<\/span><\/p>\n

JUNE, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pianists have always been front and center at the Newport Jazz Festival (\u201cNewport\u201d) since it was founded in 1954 by the incomparable jazz impresario, George Wein. This year\u2019s edition of Newport (sponsored by Natixis) runs from August 3-5 (see www.newportjazz.org for full schedule) and judging by past years, this year\u2019s edition promises more keyboard verve and magic.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Last year, Newport was teeming with forward-thinking pianists. In a dazzling solo concert, pianist David Torkanowsky dug deep into a Hoagy Carmichael number that sashayed with smart New Orleans\u2019 inspired rhythms. Under one of Newport\u2019s larger tents, a global street party was led by pianist Danilo Perez and his Group.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Twin-engine percussionists Adam Cruz and Roman Diaz propelled the party with Yoruba chants and resonant conga hits. Perez cascaded sprightly on his keyboard and trumpeter Avishai Cohen and saxophonist Chris Potter lent powerful solos, all building to a cacophonous eruption of soaring colors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrea Canter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another highlight from Newport 2017 was the appearance of pianist Vijay Iyer on several stages. He first led his Sextet in exploring originals from their 2017 recording, Far From Over [ECM; www.ecmrecords.com], a richly textured recording that pulls the listener into Iyer\u2019s challenging pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span>Iyer is keen to explore contrasts in dynamics, instrumental colors and unpredictable meter shifts in his music. Far From Over opens with his composition, \u201cPoles,\u201d drawing on lightness (the softness of Iyer\u2019s keyboard touches and Graham Haynes\u2019 floating flugelhorn solo) and angular fury (Steve Lehman\u2019s spilling alto sax solo). The locomotive \u201cDown To The Wire\u201d also contains shifting contrasts: an opening Iyer solo combines sweet flashes of concise phrasing followed by a \u00a0torrent of notes, brimming with concussive bass chords. Iyer and his talented Sextet range from light punches of funk, (such as on the slinky beauty of \u201cNope\u201d) to the R & B of the propulsive \u201cWake\u201d \u2013 knotty and unpredictable and then smooth as silk in the soulful foundation laid down by bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Tyshawn Sorey (with his blade-like hits on his closed hi-hat).<\/span>
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\n<\/span>At one point in the Sextet\u2019s Newport 2017 performance, Iyer soloed in a tranquil moment (with a twinkling flourish of light notes) while tenor saxophonist Mark Shim spun nimble runs shifting in and out of Iyer\u2019s soft piano colors. Iyer and Shim\u2019s beautiful duet reminded of Iyer\u2019s recent recording where he teams up with another intrepid partner, the fearless trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, on their glowing 2016 recording, A Cosmic Rhythm With Every Stoke [ECM].<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The intimate meeting between these two consummate artists will challenge your ears with its music that verges on silence \u2013 slow and viscid \u2013 contrasted with its leaps of searing power. The excellent sonics of Cosmic Rhythm ensnare beautifully the full harmonic body of Iyer\u2019s piano as well as the metallic blaze and bite of Smith\u2019s expressive trumpet.<\/span>
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Cal Alumni Assoc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to Iyer\u2019s vital partnership with Wadada Leo Smith, Iyer also clearly shares a special telepathic partnership with his intrepid drummer, Tyshawn Sorey, a member of Iyer\u2019s Sextet and an accomplished composer in his own right. For instance, take a listen to Sorey\u2019s original compositions on his recording \u00a0Alloy [Pi Recordings] joined by pianist Cory Smythe and bassist Christopher Tordini.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Sorey\u2019s music stretches the sounds of the jazz trio into new territory with its mixture of driving \u00a0forces (the heady \u201cTemplate\u201d) and slow, repeating meanders as in Sorey\u2019s \u201cA Love Song\u201d \u2013 highlighted by Smythe\u2019s gorgeous piano that glows with harmonic richness and repeating, fragile patterns.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>I was looking for the chance to hear Sorey again at his drum kit and such a joyous treat presented itself on May 4th, as Sorey joined with Iyer and bassist Nick Dunston for an intimate concert at the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA. (www.regattabarjazz.com). Although Sorey employed only a single large cymbal, a snare drum, a hi-hat and a bass drum for this concert, he created an astounding variety of sounds from his minimalist kit: the lightest of brush scamper to the most startling blasts of percussive force.<\/span>
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Jazz De Gama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\n<\/span>The music moved uninterrupted through a series of musical chapters created by Iyer\u2019s rich piano lines and melodies woven from classical references; rock anthems; pixelated one-note hits and Monk-like quips. The young Dunston interwove his gracious bass within Iyer\u2019s storylines with a preference for letting his notes hang in the air (for their maximum harmonic richness) or utilizing \u00a0languid slides that slipped and fell as they may. For his part, Sorey kept all of this drama ignited with fluid snare runs; glows from a single drumstick hitting the bull\u2019s-eye of his cymbal or attacking his bass drum with startling concussive effect. As all this trio chemistry and drama unfolded, its evolving beauty was captured in excellent coherent and textured sound by sound engineer Dean DeMatteo at this spirited Regattabar show.<\/span>
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Geri Allen: allaboutjazz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\n<\/span>Returning to Newport 2017, Iyer was also seen at his keyboard performing in a moving tribute to the singular pianist and composer, Geri Allen, who tragically passed on a few weeks before Newport 2017 (where she was scheduled to appear with drummer Teri Lyne Carrington and bassist\/vocalist Esperanza Spalding). Carrington and Spalding organized this Tribute to Allen and were joined by Iyer for a joyful collective romp on \u201cGeri\u2019s Song\u201d- a Calypso inspired number that fired up Iyer, Spalding and Carrington in joyful, grooving celebration of Allen.<\/span>
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Esperanza Spaulding: New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\n<\/span>Also taking a turn at the keyboard in this Geri Allen Tribute at Newport was another of my favorite young pianists, Christian Sands, who took flight with his usual exuberance and velvety tumble.<\/span>
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Sands has always been one to watch, whether in his piano seat in bassist Christian McBride\u2019s band or now as a band leader in his own right, as on his new recording, Reach [Mack Avenue Records; www.mackavenuerecords.com].<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Reach is a recording with a big boned and sparkling sonic presence, offering an upfront perspective to all the action. Take a listen to the opener \u201cArmando\u2019s Song\u201d, one of the disc\u2019s highlights, and if your audio system is up to the task, you will follow each of Yasushi Nakamura\u2019s pungent bass pumps and toe-tap to the throttle of drummer Marcus Baylor\u2019s snare\/cymbal combinations. (Baylor emerges on this recording with bright and gutsy presence throughout, another young talent on the drums. Also check out his superb 2017 audiophile gem of a recording with his partner in The Baylor Project, the glorious singer Jean Baylor, on their Grammy nominated The Journey [CD Baby].<\/span>
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Marcus Baylor: Jeff Forman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\n<\/span>Taking inspiration from Chick Corea\u2019s \u201cArmando\u2019s Rhumba\u201d (a version of which appears on Corea\u2019s 2003 audiophile gem, Rendezvous In New York [Hybrid SACD; Stretch Records] with Corea joined by the brilliant Bobby McFerrin in a brilliant chase of piano and vocals), Sands makes Corea\u2019s song his own by twisting it into a rollicking jam of flowing runs and surging piano note flourishes.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>On another highlight from Reach, the blues surge of \u201cSong of the Rainbow People,\u201d Sand captures the majesty of this cut in glorious fashion, utilizing deep chords and rolling them into thunderous lyrical waves. Sands is also joined by saxophonist Marcus Stickland for a boiling \u201cPointing West\u201d (all curvaceous in its bebop heat) and by guitarist Gilad Hekselman (for a softly grooving \u201cReaching For The Sun\u201dwith Hekselman\u2019s guitar notes trim and flowing next to Baylor\u2019s light wood rims).<\/span>
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New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Things then get intensely funky when Sands and Hekselman join Baylor and Christian McBride for a hard-hitting \u201cUse Me\u201d featuring a blast of guitar sear from Hekselman\u2019s solo and a funky hoe-down between McBride and Sands in which Sands lays down a clutch of low-end hurls and stride piano next to McBride\u2019s feisty bowing.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Reach ends with a soft caress on Sand\u2019s version of the classic, \u201cSomewhere Out There\u201d. In this intimate moment, Sands twists and turns upwards on his keyboard to an optimistic place with a final flutter up his colorful and expressive range, beckoning sunshine and striving on.<\/span>
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London Jazz News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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If you would like to read more reviews like this one, visit Nelson\u2019s blog at\u00a0<\/span>www.bostonconcertreviews.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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