Trumpeter Marvin Stamm has put up a video page on his web site. It has clips from a concert by his quartet with pianist Bill Mays, bassist Rufus Reid (see the current DVD in Doug’s Picks in the right column) and drummer Ed Soph. Guitarist John Abercrombie is guest soloist on one of the seven pieces and in the ensemble on others. Except for a couple of fades to black, the videos are complete performances by a solid group that deserves wider exposure.
The Stamm quartet rarely plays in New York. It has two appearances there this month, January 10 at the Kitano Hotel at Park Avenue and 38th Street and January 12 at the Sheraton Hotel during the annual conference of the International Association of Jazz Educators. If I could be at the IAJE this year, these would be musts.