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Playing Favorites Cathi Walkup, vocals David Uldolf, piano Brad Buethe, guitar Dmitry Matheny, flugelhorn John Wiitala, bass Jim Zimmerman, drums Wednesday, 7/16 Jazz de Opus, 8:30 p.m. 33 NW 2nd Avenue, Portland, OR (503) 222-6077 Thursday, 7/17 The Salem Art Festival and Fair, 6:30-8:30 p.m. The Bush House Museum (503) 581-2228 7/18 The Salem Art Festival and Fair, 1:30-2:30 Bush's Pasture Park - Free |
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In the midst of all the way life usta be and ain't anymore, there is
something on the horizon that may be of interest to anyone who cares
about what the 1960s and 70s Whole Earth Catalog might have evolved
into after all these years, some Burning Man and a little Jazz for your ears... This too
I'll write longer on later, but if you're in New York, check out who's playin' where when.
If you're not in New York, check out the Cathi Walkup tour schedule, and her latest CD, "Playing Favorites". Cathi is an extraordinary (girl singer) musician; one of the best living Jazz artists you would ever hope to hear, and with a band to match. And speaking of Jazz, we received a new CD by Ken Filiano, a bass player. The CD is "subvenire" and a well orchestrated album. I was so impressed with just two hearings, 58 minutes each, that some kind of a spell was broken, and I stopped listening/watching TV news programs. This chap was bringing "news" that is far more interesting than the media fare, and caused me to be hungry for more. During the binge I dusted off an old Impulse recording of Charlie Mingus playing piano, and then I heard/watched the Dexter Gordon 'Round Midnight video, and then I watched/heard the PBS - Ken Burns History of Jazz (all 10 broadcasts). Until I heard Ken's record, I'd never heard of him, although he's been around; before returning to NY in the early '90s he was a "fixture" (as they say) on the west coast avant garde scene, and is associated with all sorts of people. Any of these names ring a bell? Rob Blakeslee, Vinny Golia, Richard Grossman, Roswell Rudd, or maybe Paul Smoker? Ed. note city says, Roswell Rudd!! Yes. I heard him in the late 1960s in L.A., and the cats he was playing with were exploring an edge of Jazz just beyond where Charles Lloyd took it to - take all of 1940s and 50s Jazz and where it went with those who invented bebop, and Charles Lloyd, and in the first two albums of The Jazz Crusaders, THAT Jazz maxed just then and right there. There are dozens of other Jazz history stories that include the Bill Graham's San Francisco concert scene, the Beatles and Luis Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Miles having learned the magic of home electronics, but never mind... I said all that to say Ken Filiano's "subvenire" is a bridge from where Charles Lloyd left it, through Roswell Rudd, and somehow, hello, "Modern Jazz" without a quartet. Ken's is a solo (bass) album, and a most pleasurable Jazz listen, particularly for anyone who wants to know what been happening in Jazz over the past 30-some years... OR as his proud mum might say, it is very beautiful and listenable. That too. I've heard the album another dozen times since I wrote what I wrote (above), and it came out early this year on Nine Winds.   |
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Ken Filiano celebrating the release of his solo bass CD, "subvenire" (NineWinds Records) Wednesday, June 11, 9 pm (2 sets) Barbes: 376 9th St. @ 6th Ave., Brooklyn (Park Slope) Cover charge: $8 Solo bass; plus trio set with special guests Michael Attias (alto sx) & Tomas Ulrich (cello) "It's about time for this guy to start appearing on favorites lists and getting the recognition he deserves." (DJ Johnson, Cosmik.com) Critics have called Ken, a "creative virtuoso," "master of technique" . . . the sort of artist "who can play anything in any context and make it work, simply because he puts the music first and leaves peripheral considerations behind." About "subvenire" "Ken is masterful on double bass, performing solo on 'subvenire'. . . [he] became obsessed with the bass at an early age and has since used it as the backbone of his creative genius." (O²Ûªs Place Jazz Newsletter) "Mixing emotions from the heavyhearted to the blithe and power waves of energy against toe tapping harmony. . .Like Jaco Pastorious did once with his extroverted electric bass, Filiano accomplishes in a more intimate acoustic setting." (All About Jazz) "There is strength of vision in subvenire, an album that invites us to get up close and personal with a musician that should grab the spotlight more often." (All Music Guide) |
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