Village Vanguard
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Ethan Iverson and Ben Street, from the best seat in the house School is in session at the venerable Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village this week, as pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Ben Street and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath merrily romp and ruminate their collective way through a master class in unhackneyed jazz repertoire. By now,
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A week and a bit after I went to hear Paul Motian and Bill Frisell play at the Village Vanguard with saxophonists Tony Malaby and Mark Turner (reported here), I returned for the last night of the next week's run (Sunday, Sept. 5), during which saxophonist Joe Lovano returned to his place at the center
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Paul Motian has been playing at the Village Vanguard for half a century now, his earliest engagements of note in a legendary trio with pianist Bill Evans and bassist Scott LaFaro. Quietly revolutionary, that group broke with the age-old model of the piano trio as a vehicle for a leader with support, proposing instead a
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