Jazz Improv NY

V01N11

Jackie McLean

CONTENTS

CLUBS, CONCERTS, EVENTS

14 Directory of Clubs, Venues, Music and Record Stores, Schools & Universities

18 Calendar of Events

26 Announcements - Upcoming Events; Regular Engagements; Add’l Club and Venue Schedule

31 Noteworthy Performances for April

10 Festival Calendar

11 Jazz Brunch

COLUMNS

2 Apple Chorus, by Ira Gitler

30 Jazz Club Close-Up: Cajun by Eric Frazier

LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

4 Jazz For Art Sake (Montclair Museum); Bob Kindred

(Café Loup); Harold Mabern 70th Birthday

Celebration (The Kitano); Ray Mantilla (The Kitano);

Grachan Moncur (Iridium); Eric Reed, Junior

Mance (Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz

Series at Tribeca Performing Arts); Mala Waldron

(Jazz Standard)

PHOTOGRAPHS

13 PHOTO GALLERY: Toots Thielemans at Carnegie Hall, March 16, 2006

FEATURE

Celebrating The Life & Music of Jackie McLean

34 Dolly McLean, Interview by Bill Donaldson

40 Talking About Jackie Mac - Don Braden, Wayne Escoffery, Steve Lehman, Dave Liebman, Don Sickler, Rob Silverman, Sue Terry, Dave Glasser share their ideas about the generosity, creativity and influence of Jackie McLean

44 Jackie McLean - Recordings, Books, Websites

INTERVIEWS & SKETCHES

45 Don Braden

48 Ben Riley

50 Dafnis Prieto

51 Stanley Kay (an excerpt from the interview that appears as part of the 100-page feature (with 16-page color PHOTO GALLERY) on Buddy Rich, entitled “Way Beyond Drums” in the current edition of Jazz Improv ® Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3 (currently available on newsstands and by subscription - see page 33)

CD & DVD REVIEWS

52 Anthony Branker

Will Calhoun

Michael Camacho

Derrick Gardner

Milt Jackson

Richard Malavet

Brad Mehldau

Ben Monder

Ed Neumeister

Deanna Reuben

Jaleel Shaw

Peter Sprague

Richie Vitale

Bill Warfield

Larry Willis

Anthony Wonsey

DVD: Keith Jarrett—The Art of Improvisation.

63 The Jazz Billboard