Jazz Improv NY

V01N05

Bill Charlap

CONTENTS

RECORDINGS & PERFORMANCES

4 New & Upcoming CD & DVD Recordings

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

18 Calendar of Events

24 Announcements - Upcoming Events; Regular Engagements; Additional Night Club and Venue Schedules

27 Jazz Festival Calendar

COLUMNS

2 Apple Chorus, by Ira Gitler

6 Jazz Club Close-Up: The Kitano

26 PHOTO GALLERY: Jazz & Creative Music

All-Star Benefit for the Artists of New Orleans, Photos by Ken Weiss

LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

8 Lynne Arriale (Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola)

Keith Jarrett (Carnegie Hall)

John Coltrane’s 79th Birthday Celebration (Birdland)

Moutin Reunion Quartet (Jazz Standard)

Omar Sosa (Blue Note, Tokyo)

Pharaoh Sanders (Iridium)

Gloria Lynne (Tribeca Peformaing Arts Center)

Stryker/Slagle Band (Jazz Standard)

Joanne Brackeen (Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola)

Oliver Lake/John Hicks Big Band (The Jazz Gallery)

Bertha Hope (Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola)

INTERVIEWS & SKETCHES

28 Bill Charlap

31 Sandy Stewart

32 Steve Coleman

33 Nnenna Freelon

34 Joe Magnarelli by Mark Sherman

35 Hendrik Meurkens

38 Carli Muñoz

CD & DVD REVIEWS

39 Clarice Tubman Atnimara

Gene Bertoncini

Melody Breyer-Grell

James Carter

Bill Frisell

Dexter Gordon

Bill Holman

Matt Lavelle

Danny Mixon

Carli Muñoz

Jody Sandhaus

Dave Schnitter

James Gordon Williams

Gerald Wilson

Peter Bernstein

47 Classified Ads - The Jazz Billboard