On the Cover: DIZZY GILLESPIE

By Marcia Hillman; photos by Alan Nahigian

The bent trumpet, the beret, the horn-rimmed glasses and ballooning cheeks when he played - these alone are enough to identify trumpeter, bandleader, singer and composer "Dizzy" Gillespie. Dizzy Gillespie Tributes are at Blue Note Oct. 21st-26th with the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars with Slide Hampton and James Moody, Dizzy's Club Oct. 21st with Charli Persip's Supersound and NYC Baha'i Center Oct. 21st with Mike Longo's NY State of the Art Jazz Ensemble and guests Jimmy Owens and Annie Ross.

Interview: BENNY POWELL

By Andrew Velez; photo by Jack Vartoogian

Master trombonist, composer, occasional vocalist and actor, NEA Jazz Master Benny Powell is being saluted at this year's All Nite Soul at Saint Peter's Church along with his fellow honoree, pianist Jane Jarvis. A working musician since his early teens in New Orleans and a veteran sideman at hundreds of recording sessions with the likes of everyone from Count Basie and Frank Sinatra to Screamin' Jay Hawkins, at 78 Powell is energetic, quick to laugh and looking ahead to what he wants to accomplish next. Powell is honored at All Night Soul at Saint Peter's Oct 12th.

Artist Feature: JASON MORAN

By Martin Longley; photo by Scott Friedlander

Pianist Jason Moran usually plays well within the jazz tradition, but often adopts a sideways slant, open to electronic interference or maybe an askew cover version of a pop or rap tune. ...He's now becoming increasingly concerned with the world of multimedia presentation, the latest example of which is "In My Mind: Monk At Town Hall, 1959", inspired by the pianist who revealed Moran's route to complete enjoyment on his chosen instrument, back when he was only 13 years old. Moran plays Monk Oct. 2nd at Harlem Stage and is at Village Vanguard Oct. 28th-31st with Jenny Scheinman.

Record Label Spotlight: JAZZWERKSTATT

By Andrey Henkin

Last month an ambitious new jazz festival, A European Jazz Jamboree, took over several venues in Berlin, with a wide-ranging program that according to its organizers, "has an art concept of itself - it shows the whole range of the European jazz scene from free jazz to traditional modern jazz and a jazz between new music and improvised jazz." Grand to be sure, but certainly the group that organized the events is up to such a challenge. A European Jazz Jamboree, to be an annual event in the German capital each September, is the brainchild of the new record label Jazzwerkstatt, which, in its two years of operation, has already established itself as a worthy heir to such other German labels as FMP, Calig, Horzu and early ECM.

Club Profile: DROM

By Elliott Simon

While Times Square is the crossroads of the world, our city's crossroads for world music is Drom, located in the East Village. A visit to Drom is an integrative experience presented through the multicultural lens of their globally astute staff. It combines music, food, drink and a sophisticated yet comfortably spacious setting for an unmatched evening. Performers this month include Frank London and Red Baraat Festival (part of the Droma Gypsy Fest), Masayo Ishigure/Kato, Margot Leverett and The Klezmer Mountain Boys, Jayme Stone/Mansa Sissoko, Pavel Rivera, Hungry March Band, Titubanda, David Rogers' Imaginary Homeland and Famoro Dioubate's Kakande.

Encore: STEVE GROSSMAN

By Laurel Gross

Saxophonist Steve Grossman hasn't been a regular on the New York scene for many years but a crash-course sampling of the many sessions he has recorded - with the likes of Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Barry Harris and Michel Petrucciani for starters as well as under his name as a soloist and with his own groups - shows how much excellent playing he has under his belt. Grossman is at The Kitano Oct. 31st with Al Foster.

Lest We Forget: JIMMY KNEPPER

By Donald Elfman

Jimmy Knepper was a smart, talented and productive jazz trombonist who worked as a soloist in many of the noted big bands, but is best known for his work and often tense relationship with Charles Mingus.

Megaphone: Battle of the Bands

By John Clayton

If true battles were fought the way some people imagine the Clayton-Hamilton and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are to duke it out this month (more on the "other" Duke in a moment), we might just be a world with fewer global conflicts. The Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra led by John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton battles the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis in Big Band Bash Oct. 23rd-25th.

Special Feature: CREATIVE MUSIC STUDIO

By Matthew Miller

The title of Robert Sweet's 1996 retrospective of Creative Music Studio (CMS) pretty much sums up the foundation's philosophy past, present and future. Music Universe, Music Mind cuts to the heart of what pianist, vibraphonist, composer Karl Berger, his wife, singer Ingrid Sertso, and Ornette Coleman had in mind when they moved their fledgling non-profit, Creative Music Foundation, from a shared office in Greenwich Village to a barn in Woodstock. This wasn't just another artist-run organization and their approach reflected that... A celebration of the Creative Music Studio is at Symphony Space Oct. 24th with John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Bill Laswell, Ingrid Sertso, Karl Berger, Graham Haynes and Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra.

CD Reviews

(this month's performance venues in parentheses):

1. Maybe Monday- Unsquare Intakt (The Stone)
2. Pauline Oliveros/Miya Masaoka- Koto Accordion Deep Listening (The Stone)
3. Dee Cassella- I'm Here Now (with Dena DeRose Quintet) s/r (Metropolitan Room)
4. John Zorn/George Lewis/Bill Frisell- News for Lulu hatOLOGY (The Stone; Symphone Space)
5. Lester Young- Classic Lester Young With Count Basie (1936-1940) Columbia/Okeh/Vocalion - Mosaic) (Blue Note)
6. Steve Lantner- What Can You Throw hatOLOGY
7. Jim Hobbs/Joe Morris/Luther Gray- The Story of Mankind Not Two (The Stone)
8. Ben Webster- Dig Ben (boxed set) Storyville
9. Neon- Here to There Basho
10. Trio Viriditas- Live at Vision Festival VI Clean Feed
11. The Wee Trio- Capitol Diner, Vol. 1 Bionic (Cornelia Street Cafe)
12. Martin Wind- Salt 'N Pepper! Windmusic (The Kitano; Jazz Standard; Metropolitan Room)
13. Enrico Pieranunzi/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron- As Never Before (featuring Kenny Wheeler) CAMJazz (Birdland)
14. Enrico Pieranunzi/Marc Johnson- Yellow & Blue Suites Challenge (Birdland)
15. Anthony Braxton/Milford Graves/William Parker- Beyond Quantum Tzadik (Symphony Space)
16. Anthony Braxton- Performance (Quartet) 1979 hatOLOGY (Symphony Space)
17. Anthony Braxton- 12 +1tet (Victoriaville) 2007 Victo (Symphony Space)
18. Anthony Braxton- Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 Victo (Symphony Space)
19. Anthony Braxton- Solo Willisau Intakt (Symphony Space)
20. Lou Donaldson- Here 'Tis Blue Note (Birdland)
21. David Haney/Andrew Cyrille- Clandestine CIMP (ABC No Rio; Rubin Museum; Saint Peter's)
22. David Haney/Andrew Cyrille/Dominic Duval- Conspiracy A Go Go CIMP (ABC No Rio; Rubin Museum; Saint Peter's)
23. New Jazz Composers Octet- The Turning Gate Motema
24. Denman Maroney/Ned Rothenberg/Reuben Radding/Michael Sarin- Gaga Nuscope (The Stone)
25. Jeremiah Cymerman- In Memory of the Labyrinth System Tzadik (The Stone)
26. John Butcher- The Geometry of Sentiment Emanem
27. Andy Haas- The Ruins of America Resonant (ABC No Rio; Otto's Shrunken Head)
28. Bohuslan Big Band- Swallow Songs Vara Konserthus (Birdland)
29. Andrea Fascetti- Dedicated to Steve Philology (Birdland)
30. Judi Silvano- Cleome: Live Takes JSL (Cornelia Street Cafe; Enzo's Jazz)
31. Kenny Burrell- 75th Birthday Bash Live! Blue Note
32. Shirley Horn- Live at the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey Jazz Festival-Concord
33. David Sanchez- Cultural Survival Concord Picante (Jazz Standard)
34. Kenny Garrett- Sketches of MD: Live at The Iridium Mack Avenue (Iridium)
35. Jason Rigby- The Sage Fresh Sound-New Talent (Cornelia Street Cafe)
36. Joe Temperley- The Sinatra Songbook Hep Jazz (Rose Hall)
37. Dale Fielder- Plays the Music of Pepper Adams Clarion Jazz
38. George Haslam- Papermoon Slam
39. Denis DiBlasio- Where the Jade Buddha Lives Art of Life
40. Conrad Herwig/Ed Xiques/Jay Brandford- Jam Session Vol. 26 SteepleChase
41. Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody With Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra- Eponymous Pacific Jazz-Blue Note (Dizzy's Club; Blue Note; NYC Baha'I Center)
42. George Colligan- Runaway Sunnyside (Smoke)
43. Nicole Mitchell- Xenogenesis Suite (A Tribute to Octavia Butler) Firehouse 12 (The Kitchen)
44. Oliver Lake- Makin' It Passin' Thru (Rubin Museum; Community Church of New York)
45. Daryl Sherman- New O'Leans Audiophile (Enzo's Jazz; Bargemusic)
46. Andrew Hill- Change Blue Note (Peter Jay Sharp Theater)
47. Red Garland- Soul Junction (RVG) Prestige-Concord
48. Horace Silver- Further Explorations (RVG) Blue Note
49. Freddie Redd- Shades of Redd Blue Note
50. Stein Brothers- Quixotic Jazzed Media (Smalls)
51. Eri Yamamoto- Redwoods AUM Fidelity (Arthur's Tavern)
52. Michael Bates- Clockwise Green Leaf (Brooklyn Lyceum)
53. Francois Theberge- Soliloque (with Lee Konitz) Effendi (Rose Hall; Jazz Gallery)
54. Revolutionary Snake Ensemble- Forked Tongue Cuneiform (Barbes; Brooklyn Botanic Garden)
55. Scott Dubois- Banshees Sunnyside
56. Costel Nitescu- Forever Swing Grappelli Forever Le Chant du Monde
57. Jonathan Russell- Puttin' on The Ritz s/r
58. Skye Steele- Late Bloomer s/r (Tea Lounge)
59. Aaron Weinstein/John Pizzarelli- Blue Too Arbors
60. Wayne Horvitz- A Walk in the Dark s/r (The Stone)
61. Sherrie Maricle/The DIVA Jazz Orchestra- Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center (with Carmen Bradford) Diva Jazz (Prince George Ballroom)
62. Five Play- What The World Needs Now Arbors
63. Dave Holland- Pass It On Dare2-Emarcy (Birdland)
64. Sadao Watanabe- Basie's At Night M&M Music/Victor - Koch

...and Plenty More!

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