Jazz Quanta March — Five Pianos

Jazz Quanta March — Five Pianos: Marc Copland, Bill Stewart, Julian Shore, Bob Wijnen, Pablo Held

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Published: March 3, 2016

Pianist Marc Copland composes with a certain use of darkness, an updated musical version of Caravaggio's use of chiaroscuro in painting. Copland is aided in his alchemic light-shifting by his regular bassist Drew Gress and drummer Joey Baron. Joining the trio is trumpeter Ralph Alessi, who is given plenty of room to investigate some brass dynamics. On "Sun at the Zenith" Alessi's horn sounds like the cross between a flute and trombone, it is eerie. He shifts faintly to Miles Davis on Duke Ellington's "Mystery Song," enweaving elements of "Freddie Freeloader" and "So What." The lengthy, three-part suite "Air We've Never Breathed" shows Copland's evolution between light and dark matters. It is soundtrack music, the soundtrack of restfulness and thoughtfulness, lying somewhere between being and being content. Effortlessly ambient without the pretentious trappings of new age, Copland's Zenith is a quiet wayside where to count the time in quarter-tones to ten.

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Athenaeum Jazz sets fall season

Acclaimed musicians Dave Douglas, Fred Hersch & Larry Goldings will perform with their respective bands at annual La Jolla concert series

Athenaeum Jazz at TSRI

When: Sept. 25 (Larry Goldings/Peter Bernstein/Bill Stewart); Oct. 9 (Dave Douglas Quintet); Nov. 11 (Fred Hersch Trio)

Where: The Scripps Research Institute Auditorium (formerly the Neurosciences Institute Auditorium), 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla


By George Varga 4:49 P.M. - AUG. 26, 2013

Athenaeum Jazz at TSRI, the concert series known until last fall as Athenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences Institute, will return to the same coastal La Jolla venue this fall for its 17th season. Under any name, its lineup should please discerning fans of music that showcases instrumental skill and improvisational dexterity.

The season opens with a Sept. 25 performance by the trio of organist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Bill Stewart. Goldings rose to prominence playing in the band of former James Brown saxophonist Maceo Parker and is a longtime member of singer-songwriter James Taylor's band. He also has numerous jazz credits, including as a member of Trio Beyond, which teams him with drum legend Jack DeJohnette and top guitarist John Scofield.

The series continues with trumpet star Dave Douglas and his quintet, which features fast-rising Australian bass star Linda Oh and drummer Rudy Royston, along with pianist Bobby Avey and award-winning tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon, who recorded his first album with Stan getz's former rhythm section and also plays in the genre-leaping band Mostly Other People Do The Killing. Douglas has been honored as the Jazz Artist of the Year and Trumpet Player of the Year by both JazzTimes and DownBeat magazines.

The series concludes with a Nov. 11 concert by veteran pianist Fred Hersch and his trio, which features bassist John Hébert and drummer Eric McPherson. Hersch, who is on the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music, has made more than three dozen albums as a leader or co-leader and has privately taught such top pianists as Brad Mehldau and Ethan Iverson.

For the past 20 years he has also devoted himself to working as a spokesman and raising funds for AIDS-related organizations. He has had the H.I.V. virus since the early 1990s and, in 2008, was struck by AIDS-related dementia and a near-complete loss of motor function in his hands. Almost miraculously, he made a full recovery by 1010 and has made six albums in the past three years alone.
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Eddie Gomez, David Kikoski, Bill Stewart on Nardis

Eddie Gomez (Bass),
David Kikoski (Piano),
Bill Stewart performing "Nardis" at Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival on 7/2007