Mr. Henderson's rearrangement of Ellington's "Harlem" was by far the most thoroughly conceived piece: rapidly changing, through composed (as Ellington's original was), with the jazz rhythm section playing in a style hardly at all resembling jazz; the jazz horn soloists remained offstage.
(Jack Anderson) Armitage Gone! Dance and Dance Grand Moultrie (Friday and Saturday) Karole Armitage is working with the jazz pianist Vijay Iyer for this premiere, "UnEasy," which is part of a double bill with the choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie.
GoGo Penguin have just signed to Blue Note records but are uncomfortable with the "jazz" tag, largely because little of their work is actually improvised: their metrical piano themes and fluttering drum and bass rhythms sound as if they've been carefully plotted on graph paper.
Magle's first CD, Sangen er et eventyr – Sange over H.C. Andersens eventyr (The song is a fairytale – Songs based on fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen), of 1994 was recorded with the jazz double bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, the jazz-pianist Niels Lan Doky, the percussionist Alex Riel, Trio Rococo, and vocalist Thomas Eje.
It was with the group Indo-Jazz Fusions that the career of the pioneer and visionary John Mayer, who has died aged 73 following a road accident, really came to a head.
Within months, he was working with the jazz élite.
Soon he was playing with the jazz trumpeter Blue Mitchell and became part of New York's Latin-music scene.
The drummer Greg Saunier, from Deerhoof, is collaborating with the jazz saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo at the Blue Note, June 10 , 12 30in the morning, as part of the Blue Note festival.
And this Neo-Classical music, though French to its core, is suffused with the jazz that thrilled Milhaud during outings to Harlem nightclubs on a visit to New York.
As a teenager he continuously badgered jazz musicians who lived nearby, like Coleman Hawkins, to critique his playing, and even before high school graduation was jamming with the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.
