[Tradjazz] Ear Inn Sunday, etc.
Claudia
msclc at comcast.net
Thu Dec 27 11:52:08 EST 2007
Hi Bruce, Jon, Steve, etc
We want to thank you all for the help on our 4-day trip to NYC. We did as
much as we could in that time. A real highlight was Jon at the Ear
Inn........we highly recommend it. The music was fantastic and the people
were cool (especially the OKOMers) We ate there and the food was very good.
This is not a very big place so get there early..........you'll love it.
Another club that we sort of stumbled onto was Swing 46 on 46th Street. It
is a supper club and I believe they have a live band every night playing
swing music. The food was very good and the music was great. If you're
into swing dancing or just watching the swing dancers this is the place to
go.
We, also, went to a play... did some shopping and had a wonderful time.
Sure wish that we didn't have to work for a living.......so much to do and
see.
Happy new year to you all and thanks again for your help.
Claudia Clay
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> 1. thanks to OKOMmers for coming out to 'ear us at the Ear Inn!
> (Jon-Erik Kellso)
> 2. Re: thanks to OKOMmers for coming out to 'ear us at the Ear
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> 3. Re: thanks to Jon & Matt (and of course, Al) (Bruce McNichols)
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> From: "Jon-Erik Kellso" <jonnygig at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Tradjazz] thanks to OKOMmers for coming out to 'ear us at
> the Ear Inn!
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> Hi there--
>
> Hope your holidaze were the merriest yet.
>
> Thanks to you OKOM-ers who came out to hear us at the Ear Inn Sunday
> night.
> Meant a lot to have educated ears such as yours at the Ear--that was a fun
> night!
>
> I'll paste in some info below about this steady Sunday night gig for those
> of you who are interested--
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Just thought I'd share the news of a relatively new (since this past
> summer)
> steady gig I have Sunday nights in NYC, 8-11 pm
> at the Ear Inn, 326 Spring St.
> way west between Washington and Greenwich streets, Soho area on the isle
> of
> Manhattan.
> Very cool old joint, goes back to 1817, interesting history.
> Guitarist Matt Munisteri and I are regulars,
> we call the quartet the EarRegulars,
> and we have misc. bass and reeds-or-whatever players with us
> (Scott Robinson, Evan Christopher, Howard Alden, James Chirillo, Chris
> Flory, Greg Cohen, Joel Forbes and Frank Tate have been among the
> EarRegulars).
>
> Below is an amusing blog/review someone wrote about last Sunday, pretty
> nice.
> He got some stuff wrong, of course,
> such as --it's not the only place that has hot jazz weekly in NYC,
> Arthur's Tavern still has the Sunday and Monday bands, and Charley O's has
> the Stan Rubin All-Stars on Mondays., etc.....
> Not sure what song he was trying to refer to, either, heh heh...I know we
> played Willie the Weeper that night, and I do not think we played Farewell
> Blues or Weary Blues that night...whatever!
> And Dan Block was on with us all night on reeds,
> and Harry Allen sat in with us for much of the night--it was a blast!
> Hope you are able to swing by and have a taste with us there some time!
> It's
> a fun hang.
>
> have a great '08,
> Jon
>
> Jon-Erik Kellso
> www.kellsojazz.com
> www.myspace.com/jonerikkellso
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The Ear-Regulars Live 12/23/07: Marquee-Caliber Jazz at a Ghetto
> Price<http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/the-ear-regulars-live-122307-marquee-caliber-jazz-at-a-ghetto-price/>
> http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/
>
> December 24, 2007 ?
> <http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/the-ear-regulars-live-122307-marquee-caliber-jazz-at-a-ghetto-price/#respond>
>
> One of the most exciting developments in the New York music scene in
> recent
> months is this weekly Sunday 8 PM hot jazz session at the Ear Inn run by
> trumpeter Jon Kellso and guitarist Matt Munisteri. This is the best deal
> in
> town for marquee-caliber jazz: for the price of a drink and a fiver or two
> for Philip the bucket, you can see an ever-rotating cast of star
> international players join the two anchors here and push it as far as
> it'll
> go. That was Kellso and Munisteri's plan from the start, and it was
> definitely working tonight. The material is traditional jazz (mostly
> oldtime
> stuff from the 30s or earlier) but the agenda, as Munisteri put it, is to
> see "see how far outside we can take it." By outside, he didn't mean
> obscure
> it or make it deliberately inaccessible. On the contrary, this crew does
> what all great jazz cats do at the top of their game, hitting a lot of
> peaks, taking the songs to the limit and sometimes beyond.
>
> The interplay and chemistry between the players is remarkable. They sank
> their teeth into the old 30s hit Farewell to the Blues, upright bassist
> Danton Boller taking a solo, and Munisteri didn't hang him out to dry.
> When
> Boller slowed down his run, giving the notes room to breathe, Munisteri
> picked up the rhythm, comping and punctuating it and it was clear that
> everybody here is on the same page. Everything sounds better when the band
> is a team and the song is the manager, and this crew knows that.
> Kellso is a bluesman, straight up, no chaser, tonight alternating between
> gregarious dixieland licks, admirably minimal straight-up blues and a
> coyly
> magisterial Prez solo which Boller followed. The likelihood of hearing a
> Lester Young-inflected horn line played on the bass is pretty rare, but
> the
> guy did it. And later in the set he followed another Kellso solo, this
> time
> a boisterous, bouncy dixieland one, without straying from the genre. The
> band was joined this time around by a reed player doubling on clarinet and
> sax, often working in tandem with Kellso, holding down the melody while
> Munisteri or Boller were wailing away.
> Munisteri is a great listener and expects the crowd to do the same: he
> doesn't play very loud, but he doesn't have to. At one point, he took a
> solo
> that was .... so amazingly authentic and soulful. Munisteri has blazing
> speed and a fondness for whipping chords around, but he's just as likely
> to
> mold the melody gently and sparsely....
>
> Considering how good the crowd was here tonight in a rainstorm two days
> before Xmas, with Varick Street closed by police barricades at Charlton
> Street due to debris from the latest Trump monstrosity falling from
> several
> stories above, it would make sense to get here early to assure yourself a
> seat.
>
> This series started early last summer and it's picked up enough momentum
> to
> the point where it could explode. On one level, that would be fantastic,
> considering how good the music is and that the players deserve a bigger
> space. On another level, it's perfect just the way it is. In the meantime,
> the Ear Inn ? which has admirably designated itself a cellphone-free zone
> ?
> is the perfect spot, an oasis of decency, good food and fairly reasonably
> priced drink way over on the west side, a mere couple of minutes walk from
> the train. Where they put butcher paper on the tables and supply crayons
> for
> your personal use.
>
> Believe it or not, this is the only weekly hot jazz blowing session in New
> York at this time. In a city ? or what's left of it - that has
> springboarded
> the careers of so many thousands of great jazz players, it's about time we
> had one. Bigtime props to Kellso and Munisteri for getting it going.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:55:57 +0000
> From: dakuehns at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: [Tradjazz] thanks to OKOMmers for coming out to 'ear us
> at the Ear Inn!
> To: tradjazz at list.okom.com
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>
> Jon,
> Not only was it fun night, it was one of those special nights of jazz
> that'll not be forgotten. I and Don Greenfield have a lot of listening
> under out collective belts, and we were blown away by you guys. I was once
> talking to Herb Gardner trying to put into words something like what
> happened on Sunday and he said, "You mean when the instruments disappear."
> I think that says it.
> Al Kuehn
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jon-Erik Kellso" <jonnygig at gmail.com>
>> Hi there--
>>
>> Hope your holidaze were the merriest yet.
>>
>> Thanks to you OKOM-ers who came out to hear us at the Ear Inn Sunday
>> night.
>> Meant a lot to have educated ears such as yours at the Ear--that was a
>> fun
>> night!
>>
>> I'll paste in some info below about this steady Sunday night gig for
>> those
>> of you who are interested--
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Just thought I'd share the news of a relatively new (since this past
>> summer)
>> steady gig I have Sunday nights in NYC, 8-11 pm
>> at the Ear Inn, 326 Spring St.
>> way west between Washington and Greenwich streets, Soho area on the isle
>> of
>> Manhattan.
>> Very cool old joint, goes back to 1817, interesting history.
>> Guitarist Matt Munisteri and I are regulars,
>> we call the quartet the EarRegulars,
>> and we have misc. bass and reeds-or-whatever players with us
>> (Scott Robinson, Evan Christopher, Howard Alden, James Chirillo, Chris
>> Flory, Greg Cohen, Joel Forbes and Frank Tate have been among the
>> EarRegulars).
>>
>> Below is an amusing blog/review someone wrote about last Sunday, pretty
>> nice.
>> He got some stuff wrong, of course,
>> such as --it's not the only place that has hot jazz weekly in NYC,
>> Arthur's Tavern still has the Sunday and Monday bands, and Charley O's
>> has
>> the Stan Rubin All-Stars on Mondays., etc.....
>> Not sure what song he was trying to refer to, either, heh heh...I know we
>> played Willie the Weeper that night, and I do not think we played
>> Farewell
>> Blues or Weary Blues that night...whatever!
>> And Dan Block was on with us all night on reeds,
>> and Harry Allen sat in with us for much of the night--it was a blast!
>> Hope you are able to swing by and have a taste with us there some time!
>> It's
>> a fun hang.
>>
>> have a great '08,
>> Jon
>>
>> Jon-Erik Kellso
>> www.kellsojazz.com
>> www.myspace.com/jonerikkellso
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> The Ear-Regulars Live 12/23/07: Marquee-Caliber Jazz at a Ghetto
>> Price<http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/the-ear-regulars-live-122307-
>> marquee-caliber-jazz-at-a-ghetto-price/>
>> http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/
>>
>> December 24, 2007 ·
>> <http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/the-ear-regulars-live-122307-marqu
>> ee-caliber-jazz-at-a-ghetto-price/#respond>
>>
>> One of the most exciting developments in the New York music scene in
>> recent
>> months is this weekly Sunday 8 PM hot jazz session at the Ear Inn run by
>> trumpeter Jon Kellso and guitarist Matt Munisteri. This is the best deal
>> in
>> town for marquee-caliber jazz: for the price of a drink and a fiver or
>> two
>> for Philip the bucket, you can see an ever-rotating cast of star
>> international players join the two anchors here and push it as far as
>> it'll
>> go. That was Kellso and Munisteri's plan from the start, and it was
>> definitely working tonight. The material is traditional jazz (mostly
>> oldtime
>> stuff from the 30s or earlier) but the agenda, as Munisteri put it, is to
>> see "see how far outside we can take it." By outside, he didn't mean
>> obscure
>> it or make it deliberately inaccessible. On the contrary, this crew does
>> what all great jazz cats do at the top of their game, hitting a lot of
>> peaks, taking the songs to the limit and sometimes beyond.
>>
>> The interplay and chemistry between the players is remarkable. They sank
>> their teeth into the old 30s hit Farewell to the Blues, upright bassist
>> Danton Boller taking a solo, and Munisteri didn't hang him out to dry.
>> When
>> Boller slowed down his run, giving the notes room to breathe, Munisteri
>> picked up the rhythm, comping and punctuating it and it was clear that
>> everybody here is on the same page. Everything sounds better when the
>> band
>> is a team and the song is the manager, and this crew knows that.
>> Kellso is a bluesman, straight up, no chaser, tonight alternating between
>> gregarious dixieland licks, admirably minimal straight-up blues and a
>> coyly
>> magisterial Prez solo which Boller followed. The likelihood of hearing a
>> Lester Young-inflected horn line played on the bass is pretty rare, but
>> the
>> guy did it. And later in the set he followed another Kellso solo, this
>> time
>> a boisterous, bouncy dixieland one, without straying from the genre. The
>> band was joined this time around by a reed player doubling on clarinet
>> and
>> sax, often working in tandem with Kellso, holding down the melody while
>> Munisteri or Boller were wailing away.
>> Munisteri is a great listener and expects the crowd to do the same: he
>> doesn't play very loud, but he doesn't have to. At one point, he took a
>> solo
>> that was .... so amazingly authentic and soulful. Munisteri has blazing
>> speed and a fondness for whipping chords around, but he's just as likely
>> to
>> mold the melody gently and sparsely....
>>
>> Considering how good the crowd was here tonight in a rainstorm two days
>> before Xmas, with Varick Street closed by police barricades at Charlton
>> Street due to debris from the latest Trump monstrosity falling from
>> several
>> stories above, it would make sense to get here early to assure yourself a
>> seat.
>>
>> This series started early last summer and it's picked up enough momentum
>> to
>> the point where it could explode. On one level, that would be fantastic,
>> considering how good the music is and that the players deserve a bigger
>> space. On another level, it's perfect just the way it is. In the
>> meantime,
>> the Ear Inn - which has admirably designated itself a cellphone-free
>> zone -
>> is the perfect spot, an oasis of decency, good food and fairly reasonably
>> priced drink way over on the west side, a mere couple of minutes walk
>> from
>> the train. Where they put butcher paper on the tables and supply crayons
>> for
>> your personal use.
>>
>> Believe it or not, this is the only weekly hot jazz blowing session in
>> New
>> York at this time. In a city - or what's left of it - that has
>> springboarded
>> the careers of so many thousands of great jazz players, it's about time
>> we
>> had one. Bigtime props to Kellso and Munisteri for getting it going.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Tradjazz mailing list
>> Tradjazz at list.okom.com
>> http://list.okom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tradjazz
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:56:50 -0500
> From: "Bruce McNichols" <muskrat at bestweb.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tradjazz] thanks to Jon & Matt (and of course, Al)
> To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
> Message-ID: <04be01c84898$b6e7c2d0$c501b3d8 at brucew37ypg8j3>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
>
> Bravo to the Blog writer, to Jon and Matt and to Al for posting this.
>
> To all of you, or should I say "us," who haven't been there yet, this is a
> wake-up call. Let's all head down there this and every Sunday. Of course
> we
> want to support a good music gig, but also, WE WANT TO ENJOY THE SOUNDS.
>
> Hope to see you all there.
>
> McN
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dakuehns at comcast.net>
> To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tradjazz] thanks to OKOMmers for coming out to 'ear us at
> theEar Inn!
>
>
>> Jon,
>> Not only was it fun night, it was one of those special nights of jazz
>> that'll not be forgotten. I and Don Greenfield have a lot of listening
>> under out collective belts, and we were blown away by you guys. I was
>> once
>> talking to Herb Gardner trying to put into words something like what
>> happened on Sunday and he said, "You mean when the instruments
>> disappear."
>> I think that says it.
>> Al Kuehn
>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: "Jon-Erik Kellso" <jonnygig at gmail.com>
>>> Hi there--
>>>
>>> Hope your holidaze were the merriest yet.
>>>
>>> Thanks to you OKOM-ers who came out to hear us at the Ear Inn Sunday
>>> night.
>>> Meant a lot to have educated ears such as yours at the Ear--that was a
>>> fun
>>> night!
>>>
>>> I'll paste in some info below about this steady Sunday night gig for
>>> those
>>> of you who are interested--
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> Just thought I'd share the news of a relatively new (since this past
>>> summer)
>>> steady gig I have Sunday nights in NYC, 8-11 pm
>>> at the Ear Inn, 326 Spring St.
>>> way west between Washington and Greenwich streets, Soho area on the isle
>>> of
>>> Manhattan.
>>> Very cool old joint, goes back to 1817, interesting history.
>>> Guitarist Matt Munisteri and I are regulars,
>>> we call the quartet the EarRegulars,
>>> and we have misc. bass and reeds-or-whatever players with us
>>> (Scott Robinson, Evan Christopher, Howard Alden, James Chirillo, Chris
>>> Flory, Greg Cohen, Joel Forbes and Frank Tate have been among the
>>> EarRegulars).
>>>
>>> Below is an amusing blog/review someone wrote about last Sunday, pretty
>>> nice.
>>> He got some stuff wrong, of course,
>>> such as --it's not the only place that has hot jazz weekly in NYC,
>>> Arthur's Tavern still has the Sunday and Monday bands, and Charley O's
>>> has
>>> the Stan Rubin All-Stars on Mondays., etc.....
>>> Not sure what song he was trying to refer to, either, heh heh...I know
>>> we
>>> played Willie the Weeper that night, and I do not think we played
>>> Farewell
>>> Blues or Weary Blues that night...whatever!
>>> And Dan Block was on with us all night on reeds,
>>> and Harry Allen sat in with us for much of the night--it was a blast!
>>> Hope you are able to swing by and have a taste with us there some time!
>>> It's
>>> a fun hang.
>>>
>>> have a great '08,
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> Jon-Erik Kellso
>>> www.kellsojazz.com
>>> www.myspace.com/jonerikkellso
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> The Ear-Regulars Live 12/23/07: Marquee-Caliber Jazz at a Ghetto
>>> Price<http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/the-ear-regulars-live-122307-
>>> marquee-caliber-jazz-at-a-ghetto-price/>
>>> http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> December 24, 2007 ?
>>> <http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/the-ear-regulars-live-122307-marqu
>>> ee-caliber-jazz-at-a-ghetto-price/#respond>
>>>
>>> One of the most exciting developments in the New York music scene in
>>> recent
>>> months is this weekly Sunday 8 PM hot jazz session at the Ear Inn run by
>>> trumpeter Jon Kellso and guitarist Matt Munisteri. This is the best deal
>>> in
>>> town for marquee-caliber jazz: for the price of a drink and a fiver or
>>> two
>>> for Philip the bucket, you can see an ever-rotating cast of star
>>> international players join the two anchors here and push it as far as
>>> it'll
>>> go. That was Kellso and Munisteri's plan from the start, and it was
>>> definitely working tonight. The material is traditional jazz (mostly
>>> oldtime
>>> stuff from the 30s or earlier) but the agenda, as Munisteri put it, is
>>> to
>>> see "see how far outside we can take it." By outside, he didn't mean
>>> obscure
>>> it or make it deliberately inaccessible. On the contrary, this crew does
>>> what all great jazz cats do at the top of their game, hitting a lot of
>>> peaks, taking the songs to the limit and sometimes beyond.
>>>
>>> The interplay and chemistry between the players is remarkable. They sank
>>> their teeth into the old 30s hit Farewell to the Blues, upright bassist
>>> Danton Boller taking a solo, and Munisteri didn't hang him out to dry.
>>> When
>>> Boller slowed down his run, giving the notes room to breathe, Munisteri
>>> picked up the rhythm, comping and punctuating it and it was clear that
>>> everybody here is on the same page. Everything sounds better when the
>>> band
>>> is a team and the song is the manager, and this crew knows that.
>>> Kellso is a bluesman, straight up, no chaser, tonight alternating
>>> between
>>> gregarious dixieland licks, admirably minimal straight-up blues and a
>>> coyly
>>> magisterial Prez solo which Boller followed. The likelihood of hearing a
>>> Lester Young-inflected horn line played on the bass is pretty rare, but
>>> the
>>> guy did it. And later in the set he followed another Kellso solo, this
>>> time
>>> a boisterous, bouncy dixieland one, without straying from the genre. The
>>> band was joined this time around by a reed player doubling on clarinet
>>> and
>>> sax, often working in tandem with Kellso, holding down the melody while
>>> Munisteri or Boller were wailing away.
>>> Munisteri is a great listener and expects the crowd to do the same: he
>>> doesn't play very loud, but he doesn't have to. At one point, he took a
>>> solo
>>> that was .... so amazingly authentic and soulful. Munisteri has blazing
>>> speed and a fondness for whipping chords around, but he's just as likely
>>> to
>>> mold the melody gently and sparsely....
>>>
>>> Considering how good the crowd was here tonight in a rainstorm two days
>>> before Xmas, with Varick Street closed by police barricades at Charlton
>>> Street due to debris from the latest Trump monstrosity falling from
>>> several
>>> stories above, it would make sense to get here early to assure yourself
>>> a
>>> seat.
>>>
>>> This series started early last summer and it's picked up enough momentum
>>> to
>>> the point where it could explode. On one level, that would be fantastic,
>>> considering how good the music is and that the players deserve a bigger
>>> space. On another level, it's perfect just the way it is. In the
>>> meantime,
>>> the Ear Inn - which has admirably designated itself a cellphone-free
>>> zone -
>>> is the perfect spot, an oasis of decency, good food and fairly
>>> reasonably
>>> priced drink way over on the west side, a mere couple of minutes walk
>>> from
>>> the train. Where they put butcher paper on the tables and supply crayons
>>> for
>>> your personal use.
>>>
>>> Believe it or not, this is the only weekly hot jazz blowing session in
>>> New
>>> York at this time. In a city - or what's left of it - that has
>>> springboarded
>>> the careers of so many thousands of great jazz players, it's about time
>>> we
>>> had one. Bigtime props to Kellso and Munisteri for getting it going.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Tradjazz mailing list
>>> Tradjazz at list.okom.com
>>> http://list.okom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tradjazz
>>
>>
>>
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