{"id":300,"date":"2010-02-27T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/02\/piano_love_nyc_edition\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:21","slug":"piano_love_nyc_edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/02\/piano_love_nyc_edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Piano love, NYC edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under-sung, mid-career jazz pianists of innovative distinction in New York City &#8212; the topic of my <a href=\"http:\/\/cityarts.info\/2010\/02\/23\/i-love-a-piano-new-york-edition\/\">new column<\/a> in&nbsp;<i>City Arts &#8211; New York&#8217;s Review of Culture <\/i>&#8212; considerations prompted by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heroes-Villains-Essays-Movies-Culture\/dp\/B00375LKH2\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">&nbsp;David Hajdu<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/magazine\/31Hersch-t.html?scp=1&amp;sq=Fred%20Hersch&amp;st=cse\">NYT magazine feature<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredhersch.com\">Fred Hersch<\/a>. Who&#8217;d I leave out?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nHere I&#8217;ve looked back at the magnificant piano legacy of Manhattan + boroughs, and noted that <b>Matt Shipp, Geri Allen, Armen Donelian, Connie Crothers, Frank Kimbrough<\/b> and <b>Arturo O&#8217;Farrill<\/b> are well worth hearing (as well as Hersch and others mentioned in Hajdu&#8217;s piece: <b>Vijay Iyer, Jason Moran, Brad Meldau, Robert Glasper, Ethan Iverson<\/b>).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And I refer without much detail to <b>Craig Taborn, Marc Cary, Cyrus Chestnut, Steve Colson, Bill Charlap, Jason Lindner, John Blum<\/b>. But I didn&#8217;t mention some worthy players who I&#8217;ve written press bios or liner notes for, or just didn&#8217;t fit in that column &#8212; so here with full disclosure I can sincerely recommend the music of &#8212;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Billy Lester<\/b>, a fascinating improviser among those partaking of the Lennie Tristano and Sal Mosca lineage &#8212; performing tomorrow Sun Feb 28 in alto saxophonist Gary Levy&#8217;s quartet at 5C (Ave. C and 5th St., East Village) &#8212; 8 to 11 pm, $10;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Daniel Kelly<\/b>, classically-trained and jazz-inspired (but not limited by either), who performs an improvised piano suite at the Stone, (Ave. C and 2nd St) 8 p.m., March 15 (also $10);<\/li>\n<li><b>Eli Yamin<\/b>, notoriously upbeat and a recent workshop leader on &#8220;The Blues is the Roots and Everything Else is the Roots,&#8221; presents &#8220;jazz and blues for kids,&#8221; a benefit for the Bank Street Family Center, with vocalist Meryl Zimmerman, March 6 at Tabas auditorium, Bank St. College, 610 W. 112th St., $5 kids and $10 adults, 10:45 -11:30 pm it says in the email I got but you&#8217;d better check by calling 212-875-4412;<\/li>\n<li><b>Michael Wolff<\/b>, a genuine hipster, with his trio at the Knickerbocker Bar &amp; Grill, 33 University Place, on March 5 and 6, 12 and 13, 19th and 20, starting at 9:45&nbsp;pm<\/li>\n<li><b>Jonathan Baptiste<\/b>, young N&#8217;Orleansian verging on huge discovery, at the Blue Note on 3rd St. near 6th Ave., March 9 &#8211; 14 (hmmm seems to be booked on the 10th at NJPAC, too, how&#8217;s that gonna work?)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A<b>ntonio Ciacca<\/b>, director of jazz programming at Jazz at Lincoln Center, premieres his new cd <i>Lagos Blues<\/i> with a quintet featuring saxophonist Grant Stewart and vibist Joe Locke at Dizzy&#8217;s Club Coca-Cola in Jazz at Lincoln Center facilities, Columbus Circle, 7:30 and 9:30, March 15<\/li>\n<li><b>Andrew Bemkey<\/b>, in Billy Bang&#8217;s quartet at Sista&#8217;s Place, 456 Nostrand Ave at Jefferson, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, April 24 (details tba)<\/li>\n<li><b>Elio Villafranca<\/b> (on tour of Italy w\/Francesco Mela and Cuban Safari this month, next in NYC with Pleneros de la 21 at the American Museum of Natural History, March 20 and 21, &nbsp;11:30 am to 12:30 pm.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>And I know there are many more. What is it about pianos? Soooo many keys. . .&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/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> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under-sung, mid-career jazz pianists of innovative distinction in New York City &#8212; the topic of my new column in&nbsp;City Arts &#8211; New York&#8217;s Review of Culture &#8212; considerations prompted by&nbsp;David Hajdu&#8216;s NYT magazine feature on Fred Hersch. Who&#8217;d I leave out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[719,717,713,659,714,715,720,718,716,712],"class_list":{"0":"post-300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-andrew-bemkey","8":"tag-antonio-ciacca","9":"tag-billy-lester","10":"tag-city-arts-new-yorks-review-of-culture","11":"tag-daniel-kelly","12":"tag-eli-yamin","13":"tag-elio-villafranca","14":"tag-jonathan-baptiste","15":"tag-michael-wolff","16":"tag-piano-jazz","17":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-4Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":250,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/09\/city_arts_my_jazz-in-the-city.html","url_meta":{"origin":300,"position":0},"title":"City Arts, my jazz-in-the-City column","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"September 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to City Arts, which bucks a trend by evolving from being a monthly section in NYPress and other Manhattan neighborhood free papers to becoming New York's Review of Culture,\u00c2\u00a0a new twice-monthly stand-alone print edition and website. 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