Jazz News: alldaywes with BTTRFLY Quintet at Telluride; Jazz Aspen studies Afro-Caribbean; Eddie Palmieri services this week
This is Jazz News, a look at what’s news in jazz, music, and the arts.
We begin with an interview clip from the Telluride Jazz Festival, where the jazzmobile and a team from KUVO were chasing down artists and great sets of music. Monday night Jazz Odyssey host alldaywes sat down with trumpeter Eric Benny Bloom and saxophonist Dominic Lalli to kibbitz about the origins of the name BTTRFLY Quintet (pronounced “butterfly”).
Eric Benny Bloom: You know, it's a cute little name.
Dominic Lalli: Butterfly, like (the) Herbie (Hancock song). (Also) Butterfly, you know, the “spreading our wings” thing.
EBB: And really, you know what? The metamorphosis. If I recall correctly, like coming out of the pandemic and trying to take a situation that was ugly. Like a caterpillar.
DL: Don't hate on caterpillars.
EBB: I know that's a good point. Caterpillars, you can't. And then “quintet” cause there's five of us. You know, we don't love the name. We'll see what the future (holds). We love the music. We love the friendship. We love the opportunities we get to play around the country. But we, you know, who knows? We'll see. Names are not forever. Who cares? Names don't matter.
alldaywes: Yeah, the music is the universal language. That's the language that matters.
EBB: Music is what matters, so we're just going to take it where it is and project a little further.
alldaywes hosts the Monday night Jazz Odyssey at 10 p.m. on KUVO.
Jazz band performance at Telluride Jazz Festival. Photo credit: Jazz Aspen Snowmass
The summer workshop for Jazz Aspen Snowmass is underway, led by faculty from the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Last summer, Frost professor and Trinidadian Etienne Charles used the platform to advance Afro-Caribbean music, often left out of modern music education. Director Charles Bergeron says the Afro-Caribbean sound is as important as swing and be-bop to the study of the evolution of jazz. (But Bergeron is from New Orleans, another great Caribbean location.)
Jazz Aspen Snowmass CEO (and soon-to-be-inducted Colorado Music Hall of Fame member) Jim Horowitz suggested adding a Latin jazz session to the JAS Academy. Now they’re eating Caribbean, getting instruction from the likes of Cuban funksters Cimafunk, and Jamaican jazz pioneer Monty Alexander.
(SOURCE: Frost School summer programs expand musical boundaries)
The arrangements for Eddie Palmieri’s memorial have been announced, including a public visitation on Tuesday in mid-town Manhattan, and a private funeral on Wednesday morning, August 13 (9 a.m. MT), which will be livestreamed to the public. LINK BELOW
(SOURCE: Eddie Palmieri Obituary)
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