Jazz Standard Presents The Pat Martino Organ Trio
For The First Time On Our Stage
Best Jazz Club 2008 (New York Magazine)
JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz
clubs, presents another month of great jazz in July. From July 21–24, we proudly
present the great guitarist Pat Martino and his organ quartet in their Jazz
Standard debut. Acclaimed vocalist Rene Marie will hold forth from July 7–10,
followed by veteran saxophonist Houston Person and his quartet from July
14–17. We close the month with the warm sounds of the Freddy Cole Quartet
featuring saxophonist Harry Allen from July 28-31. Our popular "Mingus Mondays"
residency continues this month with performances by the Mingus Orchestra
(7/11, 7/25) and the Grammy Award–winning Mingus Big Band (7/18). Below is
a complete schedule of July performances at Jazz Standard, along with information
on the musicians. For everything else, visit
www.jazzstandard.com.
ALL SHOW TIMES: 7:30 & 9:30PM + 11:30PM ON FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS
Jazz Standard is located at 116 E. 27th Street (between Lexington
and Park)
Train 6 to E. 28th Street
NEVER A MINIMUM
Student Discounts (restrictions apply)
Enjoy "NYC's Best Barbecue" (Time Out New York) from BLUE SMOKE
and an extensive wine, beer and cocktail list
For reservations call Jazz Standard at 212.576.2232 or visit www.ticketweb.com
Artists and schedules are subject to change
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JULY 2011 SCHEDULE
6/30 – 7/3 Gerald Clayton Trio
Gerald Clayton – piano
Joe Sanders – bass
Justin Brown – drums
A rising star of post–bop piano and an impressive composer, 26–year–old Gerald Clayton
made a thrilling debut with his 2009 album two–shade (Decca/Emarcy). He later
earned two Grammy Award nominations, for his original song "Battle Circle" as Best
Instrumental Composition; and for the Clayton Brothers' New Song and Dance
as Best Jazz Instrumental Album. Gerald Clayton's second Decca/Emarcy CD, bond
— the paris sessions, is a perfectly–balanced blend of inventive originals
("Snake Bite," "Sun Glimpse") and classics from the Great American Songbook ("If
I Were A Bell," "All The Things You Are"). "For the best young jazz musicians…the
music's long history isn't a stumbling block to expression," wrote critic Richard
Scheinin in a Mercury News review of a 2010 performance by the Gerald Clayton
Trio. "It's just a reality, a source of connections…Stealthily, a groove emerged,
a through–line, pulsing out of that big, heady mix of information: three dimensions
had been focused down to one."
Music Charge: $25/$30 Friday & Saturday
7/4 Jazz Standard Closed For Holiday
7/5 Dario Boente & Proyecto Sur
The term "crossover artist" can mean many things. In the case of Argentine pianist
and composer Dario Boente, it means a musician whose career has taken him from Berklee
in Boston to the tango clubs of Buenos Aires to the "rave" scenes of London and
Ibiza. Since relocating to New York in 1999, Dario has released four CDs – including
his latest, Sur – featuring such well–known players as drummer Antonio Sanchez,
guitarist Ronny Jordan, and saxophonist Miguel Zenon. "Proyecto Sur" is Boente's
acoustic project, with a repertoire of original compositions and Jazz and Argentine
standards strongly influenced by Brazilian, Jazz and Argentine music. "Dario's performances
are full of lyricism, rich harmonies, impeccable technique, rhythm and Jazz vocabulary,
all wrap up with exquisite romanticism." (The Village Voice)
Music Charge: $20
7/6 Osmany Paredes Quartet
Osmany Paredes – piano
Yunior Terry – bass
Ludwig Alfonso – drums
Yusnier Sanchez – congas
Osmany Paredes' stunning debut at our "New Dimensions in Latin Jazz" series in 2007
established the young Cuban pianist/composer as one of the leading participants
in New York's new wave of Afro–Cuban jazz. Osmany's lyrical compositions and virtuoso
technique draw on the training in Afro–Cuban rhythms that began in childhood with
his percussionist father, as well as his rigorous classical studies at Havana's
National School of Music and the practical experience as the pianist with the quintessentially
Cuban charanga group of Enrique Jorrin (Ruben Gonzales, later the pianist
of Buena Vista Social Club, played for years with the Jorrin group). Osmany's most
recent release is Ciclos (Cycles), an exquisite solo piano album recorded
at the New Orleans studio of Grammy Award–winning producer John Fischbach. "Steeped
in the European classical tradition, enamored of jazz, and fully conversant with
Cuban popular music dating back to the 1920s, Osmany Paredes is a thrilling player
who combines percussive attack with a vivid harmonic imagination." (Andrew Gilbert,
The Boston Globe)
Music Charge: $20
7/7 – 7/10 Rene Marie
Rene Marie – vocals
Kevin Bales – piano
Rodney Jordan – bass
Quentin Baxter – drums
Rene Marie has been a perennially popular attraction on our stage for years: In
2010, the Denver–based vocalist played two rapturously received engagements, in
February and September, and now she's back again. Similarly, Rene plans to release
two new albums (through Motema Music) in 2011. The first, Voice of My Beautiful
Country, released back in March, is an ambitious celebration of Americana which
glorifies the cultural diversity of the United States through Marie's beautiful
and emotionally charged interpretations of nationally loved anthems, from Motown
and Tin Pan Alley classics to "America the Beautiful." The second CD, Black Lace
Freudian Slip, will hit the streets in October 2011. It's an all–original set
that captures this much–loved singer's most personal recording and writing statements
to date.
Music Charge: $30
7/11 Mingus Orchestra
Our acclaimed "Mingus Monday" series continues tonight the return of the Mingus
Orchestra. This singular aggregation will bring its singular blend of jazz and
"non–jazz" instruments (oboe, French horn) to bear on some of the most classically–influenced
compositions by legendary jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922–1979).
Music Charge: $25
7/12 TBA
7/13 Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran
Jane Bunnett – soprano saxophone, flute
Hilario Duran – piano
Two countries, two cultures, two master musicians: Together, Hilario Duran and Jane
Bunnett created one spectacular album with Cuban Rhapsody, released 6/7/2011.
Both are virtuoso players, arrangers, composers, and bandleaders whose shared musical
history and close personal friendship now spans 21 years. The album is best described
as an exploration of Cuban classical music – a style little known in North America
and Europe, but brought to vivid life here thanks to Hilario's dazzlingly accomplished
pianism and Jane's gorgeously melodic playing on soprano saxophone and flute. The
repertoire of Cuban Rhapsody can perhaps be viewed as the Cuban equivalent
of the Great American Songbook, both timeless and resoundingly relevant. Album producer
Peter Cardinalli calls Cuban Rhapsody "full of passion and melody – and that's
the essence of Cuban music."
Music Charge: $20
7/14 – 7/17 Houston Person Quartet
Houston Person – tenor saxophone
Richard Wyands – piano
Ray Drummond – bass
Chip White – drums
With his rich tone and masterful control, Houston Person is a true living legend
of the tenor sax. He's appeared on our stage many times: with vocalist Ernestine
Anderson, paying tribute to the late Johnny Griffin with the "Big Soul Band," but
perhaps most expressively with the top–shelf quartet of that will accompany him
for this return engagement. Now in his seventh decade of jazz, Houston Person has
seen and played it all from hard bop to organ groups, from lush "with strings" ballad
albums to funky fusion experiments. "An unfailingly warm and gallant tenor saxophonist."
(Nate Chinen, The New York Times)
Music Charge: $25/$30 Friday & Saturday
7/18 Mingus Big Band
The Grammy Award–winning Mingus Big Band is back and blazing at Jazz Standard! "Genius.
How else to explain all this huge sonic crazy quilt that is Charles Mingus' art,
and why it could, and still does, touch a lot of listeners?" (Gene Santoro, Myself
When I Am Real: The Life And Music Of Charles Mingus, Oxford University Press)
Music Charge: $25
7/19 – 7/20 Animation featuring Bob Belden & Tim Hagans
Bob Belden – saxophones
Tim Hagans – trumpet
Jordan Gheen – keyboards
Jacob Smith – electric bass
Matt Young – drums
Animation might be the best, most creative mélange of rock & jazz you've never
heard of. For more than a decade, listeners have been left slack–jawed by the startling
freshness and flat–out nerve that characterize Animation's unclassifiable blend
of jazz improvisation, hip-hop, drum 'n' bass, and more. In 2006, composer/saxophonist
Bob Belden led Animation in a live "re–imagining" of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew.
These transformations form the core of Animation's latest album, Asiento
(RareNoiseRecords), and the group's live sets invariably include soaring, startling
versions of "Miles Runs The Voodoo Down" and "Spanish Key," among other classic
cuts. Did we mention that the musicians' collective credits range from Joe Zawinul
and Jack DeJohnette to Joni Mitchell and Medeski Martin & Wood?
Music Charge: $25
7/21 – 7/24 Pat Martino Quartet (7:30 & 9:30 Only)
Pat Martino – guitar
John David Simon – tenor saxophone
Lucas Brown – Hammond B3 organ
Shawn Hill – drums
Jazz Standard is honored to present the great Pat Martino and his organ trio in
their debut appearance on our stage. With this fine group, the Philadelphia–born
guitarist updates and personalizes the style of the organ bands in which he played
during the Sixties and Seventies, including those of Charles Earland, Brother Jack
McDuff, and Don Patterson. Pat made his Prestige Records debut as a leader at age
20; in 2006, he released the critically acclaimed Blue Note CD Remember: A Tribute
to Wes Montgomery. About a performance at Yoshi's in San Francisco, Don Heckman
wrote for The Los Angeles Times: "For the guitarists in the crowd
(with veterans John Pisano and Lee Ritenour showing up to check out the action),
the set was a stunning display of expertise by one of the instrument's finest technicians."
Music Charge: $30
7/25 Mingus Orchestra
"Most people are forced to do things they don't want to for most of the time, and
so they get to the point where they feel they no longer have any choices about anything
important – including who they are. We create our own slavery. But I'm going to
keep on getting through, and finding out the kind of man I am, through my music.
That's the one place I can be free." (Charles Mingus, from a conversation with critic/author
Nat Hentoff, December 2008.)
Music Charge: $25
7/26 Rob Duguay's Songevity featuring Abraham Burton, Noah Preminger &
Yvonne Simone
Abraham Burton – tenor saxophone
Noah Preminger – tenor saxophone
Yvonne Simone – vocals
Justin Kauflin – piano
Rob Duguay – bass
Nadav Snir–Zelniker – drums
Countless Jazz Standard patrons have been greeted nightly by our skilled and friendly
maitre'd, Rob Duguay – but do they know that Rob is also an in–demand bassist, inventive
composer, and first–rate bandleader? Tonight, Jazz Standard is proud to present
Rob Duguay's Songevity in its first appearance on our stage. Beginning in his student
days at the University of Vermont, Rob has played with Clark Terry, Paquito D'Rivera
and Arturo O'Farrill, among others. Rob later spent significant periods of musical
development in Paris and pre–Katrina New Orleans before arriving in the NYC area
in 2007. He's gigged extensively with both his Low Key Trio and the Rob Duguay Quartet,
but Songevity is his most expansive and unique experiment to date – don't miss it!
Music Charge: $20
7/27 John Beasley Quintet
Antonio Hart – saxophones
Rashawn Ross – trumpet
John Beasley – piano
James Genus – bass
Jeff "Tain" Watts – drums
With a music career spanning three decades, John Beasley's live and studio credits
reads like a virtual Who's Who of Jazz: Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Thad Jones,
Hubert Laws, Dianne Reeves, James Moody, and more. He has served as music director
for Steely Dan and Queen Latifah; played on the soundtracks of Wall-E,
Shawshank Redemption, and Finding Nemo; and composed for TV series "Star
Trek," "Cheers," and "Fame." His ninth solo release Positootly! earned a
Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. The music of John Beasley,
declared The Los Angeles Times, "reflects a variety of generational influences,
incorporating the emphatic chordal clusters of Herbie Hancock, the rhythmic quirkiness
of Monk and the lush intelligence of Art Tatum into a highly refined personal voice."
Music Charge: $20
7/28 – 7/31 Freddy Cole Quartet plus Special Guest Harry Allen
Freddy Cole – piano, vocals
Harry Allen – tenor saxophone
Randy Napoleon – guitar
Elias Bailey – bass
Curtis Boyd – drums
Jon Hendricks calls him "a real Prince of Song, upholding a noble tradition as only
he can." Abbey Lincoln declared that he "bears a standard and is an inspiration
to those of us who love the music." Now in the sixth decade of his performing career
and "back home" at Jazz Standard, Lionel Frederick "Freddy" Cole is a nonpareil
vocal interpreter of The Great American Songbook and a superbly swinging pianist.
Freddy's special guest for this Jazz Standard engagement will be the masterful tenor
saxophonist Harry Allen, whose discography as both leader and sideman includes the
2008 release Stompin' The Blues (with Joe Cohn) and the 2009 release New
York State of Mind. "Harry's playing," says John Pizzarelli, "is nothing less
than perfect!"
Music Charge: $25/$30 Friday & Saturday
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