David Haney's Jazz Stories

The Cutting Room Presents: David Haney's Jazz Stories with Bernard Purdie

Tue, April 12, 2016

The Cutting Room

44 E 32nd St, New York, NY 10010

www.thecuttingroomnyc.com

Bernard Purdie, drums
David Haney, piano and narration
Adam Lane, bass
Nadya Kadrevis, clarinet
Jeremy Shaskus, sax

Jazz Stories, combines the swinging exciting music with legend Bernard Purdie and company plus some great stories told by David Haney.  Haney talked to each of these artists and had them to recount the following stories for Cadence Magazine: Sonny Rollins, The Bridge Story;  John McLaughlin's story about recording with Miles Davis; Gunter Hampel remembers Thelonious Monk; Steve Swallow recalls his trip to Jamaica with Herbie Nichols. Bernard Purdie explains the Purdie Shuffle.

"Haney and Purdie fit together like interlocking parts of a jigsaw puzzle... These two makes a really strong and fascinating team." Cadence Magazine

"I’m very happy to have worked with Dave Haney. That’s number one. Dave did a thing for me. He actually brought me back to creativity. Just doing things wild – I mean all of the unexpected stuff that you can possibly think of. And it got me thinking: wow, I haven’t done this in 30-35 years! Interview with Bernard Purdie, Oregon Music News

"Haney tells these tales with the dramatic flair of a Garrison Keillor."   Cadence Magazine

"Mr. Haney is a pianist drawn to experimental settings, and he creates a promising one here." The New York Times

The spirit of the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus....

The spirit of the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus looms large over these recordings, no small feat for a scrappy band of musicians trying to record large scale music in a difficult economic environment. The powerful and well integrated group consists of Lane on bass, Avram Fefer on alto saxophone, David Bindman and Matt Bauder on tenor saxophone, Igal Foni on drums, Reut Regev and Tim Vaughn on trombone and Taylor Ho Bynun on trumpet.

It's a compact and powerful unit that attacks the music with great verve, getting a wide variety of musical color in their palette. The artistic analogy comes through nicely in the opener, “Imaginary Portrait" where lush horns open over bass and drums, before strong trumpet comes to the fore over propulsive riffing. Bass and trumpet have their own section, exploring the dynamics of the music. “Marshal" slows things down with a spare and longing feel to the music. Lane's elastic bass centers the ebb and flow of the subtle atmosphere.
Complete on >> http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=72766

Bassist, Adam Lane is featured in this trio with Reut Reger - trombone and IgaL Foni - drums. The show was filmed on March 21, 2010 @ Goodbye Blue Monday. This is the first piece the group performed. Hope you like it.