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My trip to San Francisco last Fall was a bust. Checked out a reputed club on Fillmore and Graham Nash was playing. Graham Nash? That's what I thought, too. Caught a good R&B band in a bar and a Flamenco player in a café in North Beach. "Viva Manitas de Plata" I shouted just to show how hip I am. The guitarist acknowledged me by playing a couple of his tracks I recognized. But, JAZZ . . couldn't find squat. In New York sometime earlier as a birthday present to my daughter where she and I saw Renee Rosnes at Small's with Chris Potter on tenor and enjoyed it. But, there was hardly anybody there. I live in a city of 4m w/o a jazz program on the radio. WTF? Seattle, maybe? Suggestions, please. Got an itch. Will travel. Thanks
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I listen to good to great live jazz in San Francisco almost every week now. Bird and Beckett books on Chenery St, SF is the place to be on weekends. Tweaker
I'm making a note of that for the next time I visit. Thank you.
jazznearyou.com
I have a cousin, David Ross, who is an avant garde Jazz guitarist. After studying at Berklee he spent the last decade in NYC. For family reasons he moved to Aberdeen. He applied for a job with the local school system. During the interview he was told there was a vibrant Jazz community in the city. He says he was astounded of the number of gigs available.
I Googled Jazz in Aberdeen, and I was quite surprised by the number of venues listed.
Jazz may have subsided in some areas, but if Jazz is available in America's heartland - it's doing all right.
DaveT
The Nation's capital of late has rebounded from the grand days of the 60s. As the city has rejuvenated itself so has its Jazz scene. The Bohemian Caverns, venue, of the reknown Ramsey Lewis Trio recording "In Crowd," has been restored. The club and the music have returned to their former glory.With the revival of so many Washington's night spot areas and the creation of new areas - Jazz has made a significant come back. Jazz clubs abound: Barracks Row; U Street; Adams Morgan; H Street; Brookland; Columbia Heights; Connecticut Avenue; and Georgetown. There are many other places across the metro area: in the city and the surrounding suburbs where Jazz is alive.
The DCJazzmail.com mail distribution can keep you connected. There is a lot more Jazz in the area, now, than I can ever recall. Jazz is alive, but you have to pick and choose from mainstream Jazz to so called smooth. There's something for everyone in all price ranges.There is music to be had in the towns between Baltimore and D.C., as well as Annapolis, Maryland. The mid-Atlantic region has Jazz for you.
DaveT
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In light of the new policies, might be the next great Jazz scene. Great tradition to draw off there.
Berlin in particular is very active of late, but a high-level scene in Paris as well.
Dave
Perhaps you know someone connected to the Jazz scene in Paris a long time ago... If so, please put me in touch.
In the late spring of 1964 I went to a Jazz Bar in Paris, Le Caméléon, with a friend. There was a fabuluous American trumpet player there, but we never found out his name. That's what I would like to know.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
That's a tough one without more information.
Did anyone ring in the new year w/ a Jazz performance or concert?
Well... not this year but I saw Lionel Hampton and Toots Thielman at the Louvre of all places... maybe 1982?? It was an incredible show but the French were driving me nuts.. they barely clap and are way too cool to show appreciation. My French date told me that one can always tell who the Americans are- they are the only ones standing up and clapping. Bully for the Americans!
There should be a plethora of Jazz clubs in the greater NYC area(s).
And indeed there is...I live in Brooklyn and there are so many 'new' jazz clubs now in the area that I very often hear of from friends that I never heard of or have been to...
Best season for Jazz is early Spring to early summer when many 'Jazz Festivals' take place. Late Spring/early summer there are many outdoor 'free' jazz concerts in Parks around the City.
Jazz lives in NYC!!!
Check out the DAKOTA jazz club in Minneapolis. The Bad Plus just played there three nights. I have seen Jacqui Naylor, Patricia Barber, Holly Cole, Joe Lovano, etc.
Wynton Marsalis's JLCO just played in Orchestra Hall.
Like most cities you need to look a little harder to find jazz. We do have a fine jazz station in Minneapolis that posts gigs around the Twin Cities. KBEM 88.5 FM and they stream the last two weeks of their programs 24/7.
Later, Buster.
Depends exactly what you're into but as far as travel I'd say New York is it.My suggestion would be to watch some live video from Smalls and get a sense of the different stuff to find what you're into. Ari Hoenig, David Berkman, Grant Stewart, Tivon Pennicott, Stacy Dillard, Adam Kolker, Lucas Pino, Joel Frahm, Glenn Zakeski, etc all play there with relative frequency. That's a pretty wide range though, you'll have to see what you're into. The Jazz Gallery is quite consistent with the quality of their booking. Perhaps you'd like Smoke, but that's pretty straight ahead.
If you're more into Maria Neckham I'd recommend Korzo in Brooklyn on Tuesdays or Seeds. Another place there is the Fifth Estate, also Tuesdays, Seamus Blake, Ben Monder are often playing.
If you want a "happening" crowd I guess go to the Vanguard on a weekend, but all the music there is good.
Dave
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Oh, man, thank you guys for your response. Mr. Smith . . Korzo and Seeds are on my list. Chick Corea was appearing downtown somewhere on a visit, but, damn, admission was $60. I think it was his birthday or something and was sold out, besides. I've seen a video online made during this very time, I believe, featuring tunes from his "Three Quartets" album with Brecker, Gomez and Gadd. Terrific album, too.
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I would never recommend against seeing Chick but there is a lot of other stuff to see besides the biggest names. Feel free to get in touch if you make it and I can try to make some recommendations.
Dave
I actually heard Chick Corea and his Akoustic Band live at the Blue Note, sitting less than 10 feet away from them. But their sound setup seems to have been designed for a much, much larger space. It was like sitting inside a jet engine.
David, curious I am. What do you do in the industry? I take it you do mean the "music" industry. Thanks.
And, thanks to you, too, Musetap, for the link. Remember The Jazz Workshop? Sugar Hill? Both/And on Divisadero? Keystone Korner? I used to live in the City as you might imagine.
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He's a trumpet player/composer - a very good one. Check out his music at link.
I know and have no doubt it would be enlightening.
Yeah, Yoshi's SF has failed as a jazz club. No surprise there.
Between their well established Oakland joint and the equally
well established SF Jazz Fest (now basically the Jazz Center)
it was only a matter of time.
BUT (and it's a BIG BUT) the SF Jazz Center is doing some cool stuff.
There is NO jazz only club here that can provide that and stay solvent.
Even the Jazz Center knows that.
You're willing to travel? Go to the Big Apple. A Berkeley friend is
there right now with her son, specifically to listen to jazz.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Yoshi's is a very historical Jazz place. It deserves to be protected as a historical landmark, IMO.
Try Baltimore MD.
Good music in CT
I will agree w/ GEO-
CT has a real hot-bed of Jazz activity!
Thanks, fellas. I'm told by a chum there are some good stages in Brooklyn. I'll need him to show me around, tho. He knows I'm fond of a Maria Neckam album ("Deeper") and says she lives and appears around there. That was a while back, tho. What up, T? Travis lives an hour or so from me.
The best cities are still the big three, AFAIK: New Orleans, Chicago, NYC.
Second,
New Orleans, all year round.
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"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
This place is moribund regarding jazz postings.
A musician friend moved to Seattle from NYC. His reports about the jazz scene are not good.
As you can see from perusing the NYC Jazz Bible, lottsa clubs have folded in NYC. Nevertheless, you can find damn good live jazz somewhere in NYC 7 days a week 52 weeks outta the year. Just takes patience checking out all the links for clubs/concert venues.
You may also have to do some Googling and listening to get acquainted with some names you haven't heard much about. This town is overflowing with excellent jazz musicians. They keep coming year after year regardless of the state of the gig scene.
I've seen/heard quite a few great players at clubs and have been one of 15 people in the audience (decades ago I was one of 10 people at the Vanguard for Bill Evans). OTOH I went to hear a night of killer Brooklyn based musicians (including inmate David Smith's group) at Smalls a while back and there was a line a block long waiting to get in. Its a mixed bag as far as audience size goes.
Hey, Rick -- many of us look to YOU for the interesting jazz postings.
GEO tries more than I do. But by and large posts about jazz get little traction here. Not that its a huge groundswell, but for some reason there seems to be at least a little more interest in jazz on Vinyl - though the rap there is almost exclusively about old music, at least partly due to the paucity of newly recorded jazz releases on LP.In the past I posted some long lists of rec's, as did GEO. Very few replies.
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When you, GEO, David Smith, and other jazz mavens post, I greatly appreciate it, I guess I need to reply "thanks" more often. I don't have any real training in jazz, nor am I familiar with too many of the players other than the obvious big names. But I've always been a big fan of many of them, including John Lewis and the MJQ, for example. So it's good to hear about who's new and interesting.
Seattle beats Hell out of Houston.
At least they heard Joey D recently.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
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I think this alto player is pretty special.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
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Rick W's post earlier reminded me that my wife and I caught Meredith Monk quite by accident at a club downtown on a visit. I hadn't had her first album but about a month so it was a nice surprise. Time to leave I asked the bartender where I could hail a cab and a guy spun around and said, "Where ya'll from, Houston?" Lucky guess but I bought him a drink anyway. Still have that album now that I think about it. Guess I'll venture to listen to it. Can't remember the name of the club but the listening room was upstairs. This was sometime in the 80's I'm thinking.
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They have a NEW Jazz center. So, they MUST have Jazz available, year round, I would think. I went there recently, to their Jazz center, my first time. Great performance, great acoustics of their new center, so check it out. Cost way more than I expected, so I will go yearly, maybe once. That is the music business, nowadays, evidently.
My take on it is that jazz has gone underground (again.) Mainstream jazz clubs are now often found in high value real estate areas, and they have to present a more adult and sophisticated version of pop music (often with a strong jazz influence) in order to survive. And the underground in many cities (due to rising real estate values) in under attack. Considering what rents are now like in San Francisco, it doesn't surprise me you didn't find much. Here in New Orleans, the creative music scene of the nineties and oughts (so much centered around the emerging Frenchmen Street area) has become ossified as clubs in the area professionalized and then targeted the tourist/party market. Now pretty much all you can hear is neo-trad and cabaret singers unless you really know where to look. Chicago is my favorite jazz city because of the depth of the talent and the commitment of the musicians to their art and communities, but there aren't really that many gigs there considering the size and wealth of the city. The Chicago Jazz Festival and associated events over the Labor Day weekend is a great way to be introduced to the many streams of the music that operate in the city today. New York still is the jazz center of the country, but the official jazz clubs left seem to be operating on fumes, memory, and Japanese tourists. There are still plenty of alternative spaces (but fewer in over-priced Manhattan.) And like Chicago (and unlike New Orleans, unfortunately) there is fairly strong support from public and civic organizations for music that exists outside of the commercial market structure.
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