New York Winter Jazz Fest: The Will Calhoun Quartet with Donald Harrison at Zinc Bar on January 7, 2012

Will Calhoun

The New York Winter Jazz Fest presents The Will Calhoun Quartet with special guest Donald Harrison at Zinc Bar, 82 West Third Street between Thompson and Sullivan in New York on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 9:45pm.

Drummer Will Calhoun has won two GRAMMY awards with the band Living Colour. His latest creation, Native Lands, on Half Note Records, moves into new areas and can be described as “Jazz meets World,” coupled with trance-inducing urban music. This dual disc (CD/DVD) combines Calhoun’s experiences as he marries his far-reaching interests in a genre-bending collection that taps key expressionists from various backgrounds.

Special guest alto saxophonist Donald Harrison exhibits a deep respect for the entire jazz tradition.

Donald Harrison

But his style also reflects African, Latin and modern influences, the avant-garde, and his own personal experiences. Harrison has been awarded the Arts Council of New Orleans Community Arts Award for his exceptional contributions to the arts community in New Orleans. Jazziz magazine also named him “Person of the Year” because of his longstanding commitment to arts education, and he was named the “Ambassador of Music” by the Big Easy Music Awards.

Bassist Burniss Earl Travis honed his skills with a local orchestra before entering the Houston jazz scene, and his career quickly took off from there. Now based in Brooklyn, New York, the 23-year-old Travis is busily exploring new musical territory.

Hailed by DownBeat magazine as one of the most “multidimensional keyboard players on the scene today” whose music reveals those multiple dimensions in sensual living color, Marc Cary’s continual search for his musical identity has brought him to all four corners of the earth, quenching his thirst to bring forth indigenous music in all its primal forms.

9:45 PM
Zinc Bar New York
82 West Third Street
Between Thompson and Sullivan
Greenwich Village
212-477-ZINC
www.winterjazzfest.com

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Lia Chang Multimedia: Stanley Jordan’s ‘Stepping Out’ From Latest CD ‘State of Nature’ Receives Grammy-award Nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York on September 28, 2008. (Photo by Lia Chang)

Kudos to Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan who marks his triumphant return to the commercial music industry with his first Grammy-award nod in 23 years, for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on CBS on February 8, 2009.

Since the 90′s, Mr. Jordan has been living in self-imposed exile in Sedona, taking a break from the commercial music industry, but has reemerged with a new direction in life and music.

I saw the jazz virtuoso in performance this Fall with members of the Stanley Jordan Trio, bassist Charnette Moffett and drummer Kenwood Denard at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York. Stanley’s fluid and melodic use of tapping, “touches and taps” on the guitar’s board instead of conventional strumming and picking, is truly something to experience live. They played tracks from his latest CD, ‘State of Nature’ (Mack Avenue Records, April 2008), his first release in more than a decade. The track ‘Stepping Out’ from ‘State of Nature’ has been nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan, bassist Charnette Moffett and drummer Kenwood Denard of the Stanley Jordan Trio at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York on September 28, 2008. (Photo by Lia Chang)

Mr. Jordan first came to prominence with the release of his 1985 debut album ‘Magic Touch’, which also received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Album. This revolutionary project helped to re-launch the legendary Blue Note Records into a contemporary entity in jazz and beyond.

“I’m extremely honored to be nominated for a Grammy once again. The two main ideas that consumed my thoughts when I was recording ‘State Of Nature’ were that human beings need to get back to nature, which extends to the environment as well as our bodies, and that we need to evolve intellectually, spiritually, and politically. It is extremely fulfilling to know that my music is being heard and has the potential to enrich the lives of others.”

www.stanleyjordan.com