{"id":6039,"date":"2014-09-13T00:26:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2014-09-13T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T17:00:05","slug":"three-listening-tips-and-a-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/09\/three-listening-tips-and-a-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Listening Tips And A View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;wYWxo88Vzu1jpr9Z28eIwV3ORzVulWvV&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 1.<\/strong> Jim Wilke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Jazz Northwest<\/em> program on Sunday will broadcast the tribute given pianist and composer George Cables at this summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Centrum Jazz Port Townsend festival on Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Olympic Peninsula. Mr. Wilke recorded the concert in July. For years, as performer and teacher, Cables has been an integral part of the festival and its jazz workshops. From Mr. Wilke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three pianists, Geoffrey Keezer, Benny Green and Dawn Clement take solo turns playing compositions by George Cables, and guitarist Anthony Wilson also contributes a piece associated with George Cables.  The program ends with the master pianist playing one of his own compositions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cables-Friends-at-PT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cables-Friends-at-PT.jpg\" alt=\"Cables &amp; Friends at PT\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cables-Friends-at-PT.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cables-Friends-at-PT-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>L to R, Green, Clement, Keezer, Cables, Wilson<\/strong> <\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>George Cables honed his craft as a sideman before beginning his own career as a leader and soloist.  Among the many influential leaders he played with are Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and, perhaps most notably, Dexter Gordon and Art Pepper.  He has recorded on dozens of albums and CDs, the most recent being his own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Icons-Influences-George-Cables\/dp\/B00GS08XGE\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Icons and Influences<\/em><\/a> (HighNote).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Jazz Northwest will air at 2:00 PM PDT on Sunday on KPLU, 88.5 FM, and stream on the internet at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kplu.org\"target=\"_blank\">KPLU.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To whet your appetite, here is Cables in concert last fall with bassist Abraham Laboriel and drummer Dennis Mackrel, playing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Should Care.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DyLiuXUld0M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p><strong>Tip 2.<\/strong> Later on Sunday, WBGO-FM in Newark, New Jersey will broadcast the last of Bill Kirchner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contributions to its Jazz <em>From The Archives<\/em> programs. The station is dropping the long-running series at year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end. Here is some of Mr. Kirchner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s preview of the show. <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided to focus on my proudest achievement in 45 years as a professional jazz musician: the music of my own Nonet, which was a working, touring,\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8 NYC-based band between 1980 and 2001. The Nonet recorded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzsuite.com\/kirchdiscog.html\"target=\"_blank\">five albums<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cone of them a 2-CD set. The band included some of NYC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finest jazz musicians and, I daresay, developed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirchner-facing-right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirchner-facing-right.jpg\" alt=\"Kirchner facing right\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirchner-facing-right.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirchner-facing-right-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Kirchner-facing-right-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>a unique identity. All of the three reed players \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doubled\u00e2\u20ac\u009d extensively on woodwinds, the two trumpeters doubled on flugelhorns, and the bass trombone provided a rich \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bottom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; all this combined with a versatile rhythm section. As critic Larry Kart put it: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A musical coat of many colors, Kirchner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nonet sounds at times as though it were twice its actual size.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThe program will air this Sunday, September 14, from 11 p.m. to midnight, EDT on 88.3 FM in the Newark-New York City area. WBGO also broadcasts on the Internet at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbgo.org\"target=\"_blank\">wbgo.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 3.<\/strong> This is one to put on your calendar for next Friday, and Fridays<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jason-Crane1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jason-Crane1.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Crane\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jason-Crane1.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jason-Crane1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> thereafter, from 9 to 11 am EDT. Jason Crane (pictured), whose program <em>The Jazz Session<\/em> has been an internet pleasure for several years, now does a radio version of the show. It will be on the Pennsylvania State University radio station known as The Lion. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at 90.7 FM for those who listen in the State College, PA, area. Others may hear it on the web at <a href=\"http:\/\/thelion.fm\"target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thelion.fm<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>View.<\/strong> After living in major metropolitan areas most of my adult life, I must confess to now and then missing their excitement, variety, hustle and surprises. For the most part, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve liked everywhere we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been, even Cleveland in the early 1960s. We left before the Cuyahoga River caught fire. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t overly bothered by the Los Angeles Traffic, New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grumpiness, the New Orleans humidity or San Francisco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s August fog. All of those places had plenty of compensations. Occasionally, I wonder what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing in the agricultural hinterlands of the Pacific Northwest. <\/p>\n<p>Then my friend Vig takes me for a ride. Vig is my bicycle, full name Vigorelli Bianchi. We come to the top of a rise, I look off toward the foothills of the Cascades, and I stop wondering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bike-valley-view1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bike-valley-view1.jpg\" alt=\"Bike &amp; valley view\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bike-valley-view1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bike-valley-view1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;wYWxo88Vzu1jpr9Z28eIwV3ORzVulWvV&#8221;] Tip 1. Jim Wilke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jazz Northwest program on Sunday will broadcast the tribute given pianist and composer George Cables at this summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Centrum Jazz Port Townsend festival on Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Olympic Peninsula. Mr. Wilke recorded the concert in July. For years, as performer and teacher, Cables has been an integral part of the festival [&hellip;]<\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}