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January 28th: Wayne Shorter's "Soothsayer"

12/6/2020

 
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Thursday, January 28th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance featuring The Chris Madsen Sextet performing Wayne Shorter's "Soothsayer", released in 1965.

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"Part of an explosion of solo albums Wayne Shorter recorded just after he joined Miles Davis' band, The Soothsayer wasn't released until the late '70s.  Shorter has been called Davis' "idea man," and the creativity and thoughtfulness that earned him that moniker are quite evident here. The album's five originals and one arrangement (of Sibelius' Valse Triste) show a multi-layered complexity that seems effortless even as it weaves together contributions from a very strong, stylistic sextet." -Stacia Proefrock

PERFORMANCES BY:
Tom McCarthy - Guitar
Scott Burns - Sax
Paul Mutzabaugh - Keys
Larry Kohut - Bass
Jon Deitemyer - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

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December 28th: Kenny Burrell's "Blue Lights Vol 1+2"

11/9/2020

 
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Monday, December 28th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is excited to present a livestream performance featuring the Tom McCarthy Quintet performing Kenny Burrell's "Blue Lights Volume 1 & 2", released in 1958. The night will also feature live painting from visual artist Danielle Harth!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"Guitarist Kenny Burrell leads a strong jam session that features the talented but very underrated trumpeter Louis Smith (who sounds a bit like Lee Morgan), the similar but contrasting tenors of Junior Cook and Tina Brooks, pianist Duke Jordan, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Art Blakey. Jordan's tongue-in-cheek "Scotch Blues" is a high point."

PERFORMANCES BY:
Tom McCarthy - Guitar
Scott Burns - Sax
Paul Mutzabaugh - Keys
Larry Kohut - Bass
Jon Deitemyer - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

December 21st: Chet Baker's "The Touch of Your Lips"

11/8/2020

 
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Monday, December 21st at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance featuring The Andrew Distrel Trio performing Chet Baker's "The Touch of Your Lips", released in 1979! 

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
The Touch of Your Lips was recorded in 1979 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label. This was the perfect setting during his later years. Chet Baker sounds very relaxed and comfortable while accompanied by the duo of guitarist Doug Raney and bassist Niels Pedersen, taking some consistently lyrical solos on the six standards. -Scott Yanow

PERFORMANCES BY:
Andrew Distel - Trumpet/Vocals
Andy Brown - Guitar
Christian Dillingham - Bass

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

December 20th: Jimmy Guiffre's "The Easy Way"

9/11/2020

 
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Sunday, December 20th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance featuring The Geof Bradfield Trio performing Jimmy Guiffre's "The Easy Way", released in 1958! The evening will also feature live art by Karen Parisian.

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
Jimmy Giuffre's small-group recordings of the late '50s and early '60s are renowned for his lyrical tone and intimate chamber jazz settings. Joined frequently by collaborator Jim Hall on guitar and bassist Ray Brown, Giuffre primarily sticks to clarinet in his interpretations of the standards "Mack the Knife" and "Come Rain or Come Shine." Switching to tenor sax, Giuffre negotiates Jim Hall's tricky "Careful," though it is Hall's bluesy solo that is the highlight of this track. Giuffre's "Ray's Time" is a blues dedicated to Brown, featuring his driving bass underneath the leader's smoky tenor sax. Giuffre's effort on baritone sax, "Time Enough," makes it obvious that this isn't his primary instrument; his sound is much harsher and less melodic than either clarinet or tenor sax. -Ken Dryden

PERFORMANCES BY:
Geof Bradfield - Reeds
Mike Allemana - Guitar
Dennis Carroll - Bass​

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

December 10th: Joe Henderson's "FOUR!"

9/10/2020

 
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Thursday, December 10th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance featuring the Jon Deitemyer Quartet performing Joe Henderson's "FOUR!", released in 1968. The night will also feature live art by Arthur Wright!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"This live session from 1968 features the great tenor Joe Henderson playing for the first and possibly only time with the Wynton Kelly Trio. Henderson, pianist Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb really stretch out on six standards... Henderson really pushes the rhythm section (which, although they had not played with the tenor previously, had been together for a decade) and he is certainly inspired by their presence. This is a frequently exciting performance by some of the modern bop greats of the era." -Scott Yanow

PERFORMANCES BY:
Jon Deitemyer - Drums
Dustin Laurenzi - Sax
Tom Vaitsas - Piano
Katie Ernst - Bass

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

December 6th: Dave Brubeck's "Time Out"

9/9/2020

 
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Sunday, December 6th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to bring back the Richard Johnson Quartet for a livestream performance of Dave Brubeck’s "Time Out", released in 1958. The night will also feature live art by Lewis Achenbach.

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
“Dave Brubeck's defining masterpiece, ‘Time Out’ is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time…It doesn't just sound sophisticated -- it really is sophisticated music, which lends itself to cerebral appreciation, yet never stops swinging. Countless other musicians built on its pioneering experiments, yet it's amazingly accessible for all its advanced thinking, a rare feat in any art form.” ~Steve Huey

PERFORMANCES BY:
​Richard Johnson - Piano
Sharel Cassity - Sax
Jeremy Boettcher - Bass
Charles Heath - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

December 2nd: Hall & Carter's "Alone Together"

9/8/2020

 
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Wednesday, December 2nd at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance featuring the Tonchev/Crawford Duo performing Jim Hall & Ron Carter's "Alone Together", released in 1972.

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"Long considered a classic and a revelation to listeners who had taken guitarist Jim Hall for granted, this set of duets with bassist Ron Carter (reissued on CD) has near-telepathic communication between the two musicians and quiet music full of inner tension and fire. Hall and Carter brought in an original apiece and also collaborated on six standards, including "St. Thomas," "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise," "Autumn Leaves," and "Alone Together." Introspective and thought-provoking music."
~Scott Yanow

PERFORMANCES BY:
Harry Tonchev - Guitar
Andy Crawford - Bass ​

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

November 18th: Abbey Lincoln's "You Gotta Pay The Band"

9/7/2020

 
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Wednesday, November 18th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance featuring the Alyssa Allgood Quintet performs Abbey Lincoln's "You Gotta Pay The Band", released in 1991.

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"Stan Getz is featured on one of his final recordings on this excellent Abbey Lincoln CD; Getz's cool tenor fits in very well with Lincoln's voice, making one wish that they had met up previously. With pianist Hank Jones, bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Mark Johnson, and (on two songs) Maxine Roach's viola completing the group, it is not surprising that Lincoln sounds typically inspired. Actually, her version of "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" is a bit of a misfire with its dated lyrics (which should have been modified and altered to fit a female). However, "Bird Alone," Freddie Hubbard's "Up Jumped Spring" (given lyrics by Lincoln), and five of her originals more than compensate. Recommended." -Scott Yanow

PERFORMANCES BY:
Alyssa Allgood - Vocals
Lenard Simpson - Saxophone
Pete Benson - Piano 
John Tate - Bass 
Neil Hemphill - Drums ​

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

November 11th: JJ Johnson's "The Eminent JJ Johnson Vol.1"

9/6/2020

 
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Wednesday, November 11th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance with the Nick Roach Group performing J.J. Johnson's "The Eminent JJ Johnson Vol.1", released in 1953. The night will also feature live art by Arthur Wright! 

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"The set consists of six master takes and three alternates—standards except for Johnson’s original, “Turnpike”, and pianist John Lewis’ contribution, “Sketch 1”. All the songs follow a straight-ahead arrangement: head on, solos, head off. Typical of early-fifties jazz recordings, play times hover in the slightly over three minute to under five minute range. These brief times preclude the all-star line up of Johnson, Brownie and Jimmy Heath from really stretching out. The musicians’ short solos tantalize the ears and leave one craving extra choruses of high-octane improv." -All About Jazz

PERFORMANCES BY:
Nick Roach - Trombone
Andy Schlinder - Tenor/Bari
Jon Rarick - Trumpet
Reggie Thomas - Piano
Evan Levine - Bass
Jonathon Wenzel - Drums
Michael McSweeney - Percussion

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

November 4th: JJ Johnson's "J Is For Jazz"

9/5/2020

 
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Wednesday, November 4th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance with the Andrew Meyer Quintet, performing J.J. Johnson's "J Is For Jazz", released in 1956. The night will also feature live art by Laura Shueren!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"JJ. Johnson's great 1956-1957 quintet played modem jazz with authority, imagination, taste and feeling. Its leader was the trombonist of the era, much emulated and admired by his peers. The Belgian-born Jaspar, who had recently won the International Jazz Critics' New Star Award on tenor, proved an ideal foil and a capable modern-mainstream tenor sax and flutist, contributing impressively on both instruments. Flanagan, a superbly swinging pianist, also made an indelible mark on the group, which was graced initially with another bop piano great, Hank Jones, while Little and Elvin Jones' support throughout is admirable. It was an exhilarating band that fully displayed Johnson's well-rounded musicianship." -Jazz Profiles

PERFORMANCES BY:
Andrew Meyer - Trombone
Alex Beltran - Tenor 
Kevin Fort - Piano
John Sutton - Bass  
Alvin Cobb Jr. - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

October 21st: Frank Rosolino's "Free For All"

9/4/2020

 
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Wednesday, October 21st at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance with the Luke Malewicz Quintet performing Frank Rosolino's "Free For All", released in 1958!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
“The fine bop trombonist Frank Rosolino teams up with tenor saxophonist Harold Land and a West Coast rhythm section (pianist Victor Feldman, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Stan Levey) for a set of standards and melodic group originals. Originally cut for Specialty, the formerly rare session has its strong moments although it is not really all that essential but fans of Rosolino and Land will want to get it.”
-Scott Yanow

PERFORMANCES BY:
Luke Malewicz - Trombone
Rich Moore - Tenor Saxophone
Kevin Fort - Piano
Matt Ulery - Bass
Jon Deitemyer - Drums ​

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

October 19th: John Scott's "I'm Drifting Apart"

9/3/2020

 
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Monday, October 19th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present a livestream performance with the McCullough/Shultz Quintet performing John Scott's "I'm Drifting Apart", released in 1987. The night will also feature live painting from visual artist John Ross Wilson.

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"John "Dok" Scott (1939-2020) was a trumpet player, composer, and endodontist who performed in Boston, Chicago, and Champaign-Urbana, IL between 1960 and 1999....In his early college years at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, John was privileged to have briefly played with pianist Herbie Hancock's small group. He collaborated with Hancock on at least three compositions, two of which were subsequently recorded by Hancock on the Blue Note label."

PERFORMANCES BY:
Ryan Shultz - Bass Trumpet
Chad McCullough - Trumpet
Paul Mutzabaugh - Piano
Larry Kohut - Bass
Eric Montzka - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

October 14th: Pat Martino's "Interchange"

9/2/2020

 
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Wednesday, October 14th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective presents the Paul Mutzabaugh Quartet performing Pat Martino's "Interchange", released in 1994. The livestream performance will also feature live painting from visual artist Arthur Wright.

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"The set here is a mixture of ballads and a few mid-tempo hard bop/post-bop numbers. While the temperature is not nearly as hot as his earlier work, the overall results prove to be more seasoned and mature sounding than anything he has ever recorded before. This recording was the first of many during the '90s, thanks to an entirely new generation discovering the genius of Pat Martino." -Wiki

PERFORMANCES BY:
Paul Mutzabaugh - Piano
Neal Alger - Guitar
Larry Kohut - Bass
Greg Artry - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

September 23rd: Larry Young's "Into Something"

9/1/2020

 
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Wednesday, September 23rd at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present the Neal Alger Quartet for a livestream performance of Larry Young's "Into Something", released in 1965. The night will also feature live painting from visual artist Abena Motaboli!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"The wonderful Into Something album was Larry Young's debut as a leader on Blue Note Records, recorded 12 November 1964. Tenor sax man, Sam Rivers, adds his distinctive voice to the Young-Green-Jones trio. The quartet performs four Young originals plus one original by Green. Other than the blues "Backup," the music is fairly complex, grooving in its own fashion and showing that Young was absorbing Coltrane's modal excursions. Stand outs include Young's relaxed groove "Tyrone", Green's Spanish-tinged "Plaza de Toros", Young's gentle "Paris Eyes", and the blues "Backup". Two versions of Young's "Ritha" are included; one with and one without sax."
~Neal Alger

PERFORMANCES BY:
Neal Alger - Guitar
Scott Burns - Sax
Karl Montzka - B3 Organ
George Fludas - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
youtube.com/fultonstreetcollective

August 19th: Frank Rosolino Quintet

6/27/2020

 
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Wednesday, August 19th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present the Andrew Meyer Quintet performing the "Frank Rosolino Quintet", recorded in 1957. The night will also feature live painting from visual artist John Ross Wilson! 

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"This session for the short-lived Mode label remains the zenith of Frank Rosolino's recorded output. Paired with a stellar support unit featuring pianist Vince Guaraldi, tenorist Richie Kamuca, bassist Monty Budwig, and drummer Stan Levey, the trombonist not only delivers some of the most dazzling solos of his career, but also proves himself a gifted composer, contributing a handful of original tunes that fit comfortably alongside standards like Gershwin's "How Long Has This Been Going On?" Largely eschewing more uptempo fare, Rosolino instead favors a simmering, soulful bop approach that champions feeling as much as technique. This is music with genuine emotional heft and intellectual edge."
- Jason Ankeny

PERFORMANCES BY:
Andrew Meyer - Trombone
Dan Burke - Tenor
Kevin Fort - Piano
John Sutton - Bass
Alvin Cobb Jr. - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
https://www.facebook.com/events/630614970893915/

August 12th: Clifford Brown & Max Roach

6/26/2020

 
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Wednesday, August 12th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to welcome Nickolas Kaplan Quintet for a livestream performance of the 1954 release, “Clifford Brown & Max Roach”. The night will also feature an installation and live painting from visual artist Kristin Wenc!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
'Clifford Brown and Max Roach' was the first recording of a quintet that changed jazz. It was tragically short lived; Clifford Brown and pianist Richie Powell (Bud's brother) were to die in the same car crash within two years of the album's release, an event that affected Max Roach for years to come. The music is based in bop but has outgrown its origins to such an extent that it is clearly one of the first great examples of hard bop. Clifford Brown is superb on trumpet, building clear, precise melody lines with such authority and control for a mere 24 year old....Harold Land, much overlooked, plays fluid, sinuous saxophone and shares real understanding with Clifford Brown in the many unison passages before breaking out into inventive and innovative solos. Richie Powell and George Morrow on piano and bass add to the modern, open approach inspired by Max Roach's fine drumming. Before forming this quintet with Clifford Brown, Max Roach had already established a lasting place in the history of the development of jazz...He transformed jazz drumming, pioneering an open style with emphasis away from heavy use of bass drum towards more subtle development of cross rhythms on ride cymbal, high hat and snare rim. His prodigious technique virtually defined modern jazz drumming."
-100 Greatest Jazz Albums

PERFORMANCES BY:
Nickolas Kaplan - Trumpet
Rajiv Halim - Tenor Sax
Julius Tucker - Piano
John Sutton - Bass
Ethan Kogan - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3616581491703815/

August 5th: Wayne Shorter’s “Schizophrenia”

6/25/2020

 
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Wednesday, August 5th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to welcome the Andy Baker Sextet for a livestream performance of Wayne Shorter's 1967 release, “Schizophrenia”. The night will also include an installation and live painting from visual artist Micah Rademacher!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"Wayne Shorter was at the peak of his creative powers when he recorded Schizophrenia in the spring of 1967. ...Shorter found a band that was capable of conveying his musical "schizophrenia," which means that this is a band that can play straight just as well as they can stretch the limits of jazz... And "unpredictable" is the operative phrase for this set of edgy post-bop. Shorter's compositions (as well as James Spaulding's lone contribution, "Kryptonite") have strong themes, but they lead into uncharted territory, constantly challenging the musicians and the listener. This music exists at the border between post-bop and free jazz -- it's grounded in post-bop, but it knows what is happening across the border. " - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

PERFORMANCES BY:
Geof Bradfield - Tenor Alto
Greg Ward - Alto/Flute
Andy Baker - Trombone
Reggie Thomas - Piano
Clark Sommers - Bass
Dana Hall - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
https://www.facebook.com/events/364853001164582/

August 3rd: Jeremy Kahn’s “Most of a Nickel”

6/24/2020

 
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Monday, August 3rd at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to welcome Jeremy Kahn for a livestream performance of his 2005 release “Most of a Nickel”. The online performance will also feature an installation and live painting from visual artist Alex Puryear!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"Music from Jeremy Kahn's CD "Most Of A Nickel." Recorded in 2005 but only performed once in public, presents Kahn's reworking of music from "The Threepenny Opera" by Kurt Weill (including 'Mack The Knife'). "
~kahnman.com

PERFORMANCES BY:
Jeremy Kahn - Piano
Jim Gailloreto - Sax/Alto Flute
Larry Kohut - Bass
Eric Montzka - Drums

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1189203651431785/

July 29th: Weather Report's "Heavy Weather"

6/23/2020

 
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Wednesday July 29th at 8pm:
The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present Tim Seiser Sextet performing Weather Report's "Heavy Weather", released in 1977. The evening will also feature live art by visual artist Arthur Wright!

ALBUM BACKGROUND:
"Weather Report's biggest-selling album is that ideal thing, a popular and artistic success -- and for the same reasons. For one thing, Joe Zawinul revealed an unexpectedly potent commercial streak for the first time since his Cannonball Adderley days, contributing what has become a perennial hit, "Birdland.".. the full emergence of Jaco Pastorius as a co-leader; his dancing, staccato bass lifting itself out of the bass range as a third melodic voice, completely dominating his own ingenious "Teen Town" ...By now, Zawinul has become WR's de facto commander in the studio; his colorful synthesizers dictate the textures, his conceptions are carefully planned, with little of the freewheeling improvisation of only five years before. Wayne Shorter's saxophones are now reticent, if always eloquent, beams of light in Zawinul's general scheme while Alex Acuña shifts ably over to the drums and Manolo Badrena handles the percussion. Released just as the jazz-rock movement began to run out of steam, this landmark album proved that there was plenty of creative life left in the idiom."
~Richard S. Ginell

PERFORMANCES BY:
Tim Seisser - Electric Bass

Corbin Andrick - Sax
Paul Mutzabaugh - Keys
Andrew Lawrence - Keys
Reuben Garza - Drums
Jonathon Marks - Percussion

LIVESTREAM ACCESS:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3072926379453465/
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