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They opened as a tenor sax and percussion pair, with an immediate level of aggression and emotion. The shuffling dancing National Sawdust crowd from the start of the night had been replaced three hours later with a largely seated audience ready to receive some avant-garde wisdom. As Amba silently took to the stage in a duo with drummer Chris Corsano, all the talking was done by the introducing radio DJs – “Get ready, it will make a difference to your life.
The approach to stagecraft of Zoh Amba was a world away from Amed and Gonzalez.
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Amed hints at a varied musical hinterland beyond jazz, so it was interesting that she was one of a number of artists on the evening building directly on Wayne Shorter’s work, here with a series of lyrics set to Virgo.
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The group often felt most alive when playing not as a singer plus backing trio, but instead as a subset of their number: a piano and vocal duet, or Amed accompanied by piano and drums together, or indeed the back line left to play instrumentally where they were freer to improvise and combine.
Throughout her set Amed explored the limits of her vocal range, and it is clear she feels this music deeply. Gonzalez promised to keep things “nice and cool and sexy” and proceeded to flirt with the crowd to make sure of it, but it was his high-energy and effortless percussion duo who stole the show.Ī few doors down at Loove Labs, Roxana Amed was spinning a storyteller’s set of original compositions, rearrangements of traditional Argentine Zamba and Chacarera, and light scat singing. As the group moved through takes, different viewpoints of Havana and insists into Gonzalez’s classical training, they hit their stride when focusing on crunchy claves, and fast-paced dual bass and piano lines. With Gonzalez sitting behind a grand piano and accompanied by an electric bassist, drummer and percussionist, this was certainly rhythm heavy. In my book, the most important hallmark of the Winter Jazzfest marathon nights is the depth and diversity of genre in the musical programme, and this year did not disappoint.ĭayramir Gonzalez is a Cuban pianist building cultural bridges with the US with his music and his charm, and he brought this to National Sawdust with a quartet combining heavy rhythms and playful sensibilities. The Saturday night Brooklyn Marathon came with all its delicious hallmarks: a matrix schedule of gigs and venues to carefully plot a path through, the mild panic when moving between gigs that the next location might be full, the brisk shock of the icy sub-zero walk between locations, and the surprise at seeing artists you hadn’t intended to as venue schedules inevitably slipped and the best laid plans of mice and men are eaten by the rats.
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However, in 2023 the Winter Jazzfest is here, a weeklong cross-city event which peaks with two ‘Marathon’ nights, where a wristband will grant you free access to a number of different venues throughout the night. After a glorious 2020 festival, NYC had two fallow years in 20, the winter virus surges at this time of year aligning too closely with the winter jazz schedules. Like a birthday, Winter Jazzfest is a happy milestone which is infrequent enough that, when it happens, you notice afresh the previous years of absence. Yet the marking of annual milestones has the ability to remind us that we haven’t left COVID as far behind us as we may have thought. In many aspects of our lives, the pandemic can look like a diminishing dot in the rear-view mirror.
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