Who mentioned jazz is simply carried out after the solar goes down? For a while now, the Jazz Basis of America (JFA) has offered a few of the music’s most influential jazz artists throughout their Thursday afternoon sequence “Stay from Harlem — JFA Presents” on the Nationwide Jazz Museum in Harlem (58 West 129th Road).
On September 25, JFA presents the Concord Bartz Expertise. The Harlem native brings a wealth of music to the stage along with her vocal stylings that embody straight-ahead jazz, blues, and a style of R&B. When not touring the nation, she has turn out to be considerably of a welcomed-regular on the Harlem scene and within the tri-state space. One among her foremost influences is her father, multi-Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Grasp Gary Bartz, who launched her to all kinds of music at an early age. She stays impressed by the magic of Harlem and her excursions all over the world. Showtime is 2–3 p.m., and the occasion is free and open to the general public.
Later within the night, at 7 p.m., the Nationwide Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) presents its Showcase Collection, that includes vocalist and composer Candice Hoyes and her quintet as they discover the pressing want of compassion and communal love by way of songs of liberation, protest, and rebirth. Having recorded with composer and pianist Philip Glass and Wynton Marsalis, her repertoire is a combustion of songs hardly ever travelled by her friends, infused with unique materials. This occasion can also be free however please RSVP.
On October 2, the afternoon sequence brings Stay from Harlem — JFA Presents: Spaceman Patterson and the Celestials. Guitarist and composer Patterson is an unsung hero — an artist who needs to be seen by the lots. His repertoire is boundless, extra colourful than a rainbow after the storm.
His music expertise was ignited by assorted fuses, like enjoying the high-octane group the Jamaica Boys (from Jamaica, Queens). A few of these native visionaries included Marcus Miller, Lenny White, Mark Stevens, and Bernard Wright. Though Spaceman is a local of New Brunswick, NJ., he was adopted by the Queens cats, making him one of many pioneers of that early Queens sound that gravitated all over the world. He has enhanced the recordings of Miles Davis, James Blood Ulmer, Sly & Robbie (Jamaican reggae legends), Hamiet Bluiett, Frank Ocean (R&B singer songwriter), Roberta Flack, Robert Glasper, LL Cool J, Nancy Wilson, Sly Stone, Dave Saborn, Alicia Keys, Solar Ra, the Isley Brothers, La India, Bootsie Collins, James Brown, and Michael Henderson.
He;s produced tasks for Melvin Van Peebles, Monifah, and Invoice Cosby, and his tv credit cowl the Cosby Present and its spinoff, “A Completely different World.” He was the bandleader and music line director for the TV sequence “New York Undercover.”
“I initially got here to New York for 2 weeks, to work with Hamiet Bluiett in Charles Mingus’ Band and it lasted for 3 years,” mentioned Spaceman. “A lot occurred throughout that interval — it was wonderful. My first recording date came about at Sam River’s Studio Rivbea with musicians Hamiet, Olu Dara, and Juney Sales space.”
Spaceman left his research behind at Berklee School of Music to tour with famend organist Larry Younger. This affiliation led to his enjoying with James Blood Ulmer and assembly Ornette Coleman, who gave the guitarist perception into his idea of harmolodic music. The illustrious composer of movie, classical music, dance, and jazz Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson gave him the basics of movie scoring. Early on, as Miles moved to fusion and know-how, Herbie Hancock knowledgeable the younger Spaceman that know-how was going to be the brand new factor. He additionally knowledgeable me that Hancock appeared on Stevie Surprise’s album “Songs within the Key of Life,” (Tamia 1977) and he might be heard on the track “AS” in that hard-hittin’ Fender Rhodes piano solo.
For this afternoon gig, Spaceman’s Celestials will embrace his working band with deep ties: drummer Victor Jones, bassist Barry “Son John” Johnson, saxophonist Jay Rodriguez, and percussionist Chuggy Carter. “We now have an understanding of one another’s sensibilities, and we maintain transferring ahead like Miles — he was at all times about change,” Spaceman mentioned. “I used to be so honored to have labored with him.”
Spaceman’s quickly to be launched album (three-volume set) is entitled “Welcome to My World.” A brief listing of all-star visitor artists contains Wallace Roney, Gary Bartz, Will Calhoun, Alex Blake, and Don Bradon.
“We will likely be enjoying music from the brand new album,” mentioned the guitarist. “I’m a scholar of the music and constantly rising, so it is going to be a mixture of all I’ve skilled over time, so it is perhaps something. I’ve at all times been looking out to seek out the key to connect with folks. That’s so vital — we play to have a great time, pat your foot, or take you on a journey in that artistic spiral.”
This will likely be Spaceman’s maiden voyage to NJMH and he’s very enthusiastic about his upcoming efficiency. “I’m grateful to JFA for creating this venue for musicians to precise themselves, in addition to serving to these in want,” he mentioned.
All three occasions at NJMH are free and open to the general public.
It’s solely becoming that somebody of Kenny Kirkland’s piano virtuosity be celebrated in honor of would have been his seventieth birthday at Dizzy’s jazz membership by trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Etienne Charles and the Creole Orchestra on September 25–28.
Kirkland performed a job in influencing the sound of jazz by way of his prolonged collaborations with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Sting, and his personal creative recordings. Charles and the Creole Orchestra will mix these classics with recent preparations and a giant style of his Caribbean roots, impressed by rhythmic power, producing a night of memorable tribute and a spirited get together.
In Kirkland’s transient life, dying on the age of 43 (1998), he was an instrumental pressure within the jazz neighborhood, significantly throughout his work with the Marsalis brothers, showing on a few of their memorable albums that included Branford’s quartet on the “Mo’ Higher Blues” soundtrack for Spike Lee’s movie (Sony Music, 1990) and “Requiem,” Kirkland’s final recording earlier than his transition in November 1998; it was devoted to his reminiscence. The album included band members Eric Revis and Jeff “Tain ” Watts.” Kirkland additionally appeared on Wynton’s Grammy-winning album “Scorching Home Flowers” (Columbia, 1984).
Kirkland recorded and toured with Sting, enjoying alongside Branford, which took them exterior the jazz realm. He later grew to become the pianist underneath Branford’s function as bandleader for NBC TV’s “The Tonight Present with David Letterman.” For a few years, Kirkland labored alongside drummer Watts within the Marsalis brothers’ bands and recording collectively on varied tasks. Watts carried out on Kirkland’s self-titled debut album (GRP, 1991). The album featured critically acclaimed the Gonzalez brothers, Branford, Christian McBride, Steve Berrios, Charnett Moffett, Don Alias, and Rodrick Ward.
For ticket information, go to the jazz.org. Two exhibits are scheduled for every night time.
