{"id":249,"date":"2009-09-17T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2009\/09\/todays_the_day_nyc_goes_beyond\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:40","slug":"todays_the_day_nyc_goes_beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/09\/todays_the_day_nyc_goes_beyond.html","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s the day NYC goes beyond jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On September 17,New York kicks off a fall season more highly charged with new creative energies than any in memory.\u00c2\u00a0An\u00c2\u00a0army of mostly young, skilled, ambitious and devoted musicians is making itself heard in the East Village, Soho, Brooklyn, on the Lower West Side and in the clubs &#8212; while benevolence is cast by the first ever performance &#8212; at last &#8212; of Ornette Coleman at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Sept. 26.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>Today &#8212; tonight! &#8212; at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestonenyc.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">the Stone<\/a>, pianist Connie Crother&#8217;s curation of 24 little-if-not-unknown artists begins with guitarist Andy Fife (coming in from Sweden) and Ms.Crothers (best known as a long-ago student of Lennie Tristano, currently spearheading a proposal to establish affordable housing for musicians) improvising freely with clarinetist Bill Payne at 10. At\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roulette.org\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Roulette<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0with rhythmist Adam Rudolph premieres three works, including a concerto for chamber orchestra by Yusef Lateef, At McCarren Hall in Greenpoint, the two-weekend long\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlanguages.org\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">New Languages<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0festival kicks off with\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlanguages.org\/argue\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Darcy James Argue&#8217;s Secret Society<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0big band, which plays tomorrow &#8212; Sept. 18 &#8212; at Manhattan&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jazzgallery.org\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Jazz Gallery<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0where on the\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic; \">next<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0night (Sept. 19) cornetist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylorhobynum.com\/sms.html\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Taylor Ho Bynum&#8217;s SpiderMonkey Strings<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0octet performs. The multifarious Bynum is in Brooklyn at New Languages <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">next<\/span> weekend &#8212; Sept. 25 &#8212; co-leading \u00c2\u00a0the 10 piece Positive Catastrophe ensemble, which has a new cd out (as does SpiderMonkey Strings) with Peruvian Abraham Gomez-Delgado.\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The number and quality of players assembled to perform in all these formats &#8212; as well as the September 20th afternoon-long free \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzpolice.com\/content\/view\/8548\/117\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">&#8220;In Gardens&#8221; concerts<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0at community gardens on the Lower East Side and in Brooklyn (produced by the folks who bring us the Vision Festival) and specific gigs elsewhere would seem enough to change (at least influence) the musical world. Also &#8212; in the clubs right now:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0virtuoso bassist\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iridiumjazzclub.com\/talent.php?talent=666\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Christian McBride<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is introducing his big band at Iridium,<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0enspirited Cameroonian bassist-vocalist-songwriter\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonatology.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Richard Bona<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0leads an international ensemble at the Jazz Standard,<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0tenor sax monster\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiartists.com\/jcarter\/index.html\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">James Carter<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is at Birdland (to be followed by tenor sax master\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelovano.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Joe Lovano<\/a>),<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0tenor sax quester\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravicoltrane.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Ravi Coltrane<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is at the Village Vanguard and then drummer\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/billyhartmusic.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Billy Hart<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0with Bad Plus pianist<a href=\"http:\/\/thebadplus.typepad.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">\u00c2\u00a0Ethan Iverson<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flytrio.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">Fly<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0tenor saxophone survivor Mark Turner<\/li>\n<li>Bassist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnhebert.com\/\">John H\u00c3\u00a9bert<\/a> leads his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/php\/article.php?id=33226\">Byzantine Monkey<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corneliastreetcafe.com\/index_performances.asp\">Cornelia Street Cafe<\/a>, Sept. 25 and 26 &#8212;<\/li>\n<li>AH! the 26th! When Ornette performs at the House that Wynton built, with his two basses and drums (by son Denardo) the same evening Barbra Streisand does a free one-nighter at the Vanguard (?!?!) and Ms. Crothers plays with her quartet and quintet at the Stone. All the stars are aligned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Then there&#8217;s October 1 &#8211; 16: Evan Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, in 28 concerts, different collaborators from across the musical spectrum for each one.\u00c2\u00a0With such as Ornette and Evan and Crothers &amp; Co, Argue and Bynum and the rest (I haven&#8217;t mentioned half of them) waving the flag for deeply, determinedly individualistic and humanely sociable improvised music and all these others upholding that same initiative each in their own way, New York will take a bold step to reform its culture, to embrace greater freedom from constraining conventions, more faith in the imagination, better energy for collaboration and a vision of true jazz as exciting and essential beyond the term &#8220;jazz&#8221; that gets reduced to clich\u00c3\u00a9s.\u00c2\u00a0An autumn of musical renewal?\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 17,New York kicks off a fall season more highly charged with new creative energies than any in memory.\u00c2\u00a0An\u00c2\u00a0army of mostly young, skilled, ambitious and devoted musicians is making itself heard in the East Village, Soho, Brooklyn, on the Lower West Side and in the clubs &#8212; 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