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Double Header: Ravi Coltrane and Roy Haynes Quartets at Ted Mann on March 6th

Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor

Monday, 03 March 2008

Ravi Coltrane

Jazz legends, their legacies and their protégés will be well represented when two of the most energetic jazz ensembles share the bill as part of the Northrop Jazz Series on March 6th at Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis. The Ravi Coltrane Quartet, featuring Louis Perdamo, Drew Gress and E.J. Strickland, will offer the sounds of modern jazz in the context of an ensemble of young lions. The second set features the tireless percussion of 82-year-old Roy Haynes as he leads his young cohorts (Martin Bejerano on piano, David Wong on bass, and fast-rising star Jaleel Shaw on alto sax) through swinging covers of the bop masters as well as original compositions from band members.

The Ravi Coltrane Quartet

As the son of John and Alice Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane has managed to fight off comparisons to his father even while exploring John Coltrane’s music and making a career playing the same instrument. Now past 40, the younger Coltrane has become a major force on tenor and soprano sax as a performer, an acclaimed bandleader and composer, and founder of an independent record label, RKM. His resume includes work with Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, Rashied Ali, Wallace Roney, Geri Allen, Kenny Barron, Cindy Blackman, Joe Lovano, Joanne Brackeen, and particularly Steve Coleman. His latest release as leader is the acclaimed 2005 CD, In Flux, on Savoy Jazz.

Coltrane has enjoyed the collaboration of long-standing partners in his quartet. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, pianist/composer/arranger Luis Perdomo moved to New York with a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music, later studying with the late Sir Roland Hanna at Queens College. His work has included appearances with John Patitucci, Ray Barretto, David Sanchez, Claudia Acuña, Dave Samuels and the Caribbean Jazz Project, Jane Bunnett, John Benítez, Alice Coltrane, and Miguel Zenón, as well as Ravi Coltrane, and leading his own ensembles. Bassist/composer Drew Gress has become a fixture on the modern jazz scene. His early career was centered in the Washington, DC area, where he played with Marc Copeland and later Gary Peacock. After settling in New York, Gress began long-standing collaborations with Dave Douglas and Tim Berne, and leads his own acclaimed ensembles including Seven Black Butterflies (coming to the Walker Art Center on March 28th). Young drum sensation E.J. Strickland has performed and recorded with many stellar artists including Russell Malone, Lizz Wright, Vincent Herring, Myron Walden, Freddie Hubbard, and the New Jazz Composer's Octet, as well as numerous collaborations with twin brother and tenor sax star Marcus Strickland. The Miami native’s early mentors included Joe Chambers, Carl Allen, Ralph Peterson, Lewis Nash, and Jimmy Cobb.

Roy Haynes’ Fountain of Youth

If there is an “Energizer Bunny” of jazz, it has to be drummer extraordinaire Roy Haynes. At an age when even jazz musicians tend to slow down and take it easy, 82-year-old Haynes has done the opposite, revving up his engines with his latest “Fountain of Youth” quartet—so aptly named for its leader, issuing volcanic recordings and traveling cross-country to share the beat. One of the most dynamic timekeepers in the business, Haynes’ career mirrors the history of modern jazz as one of the last of the great innovators of the 1940s who is still pushing the genre forward in the 21st century. Few—if any-- working musicians in 2008 include the bands of Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie on their resumes; but many of today’s top 20-something rising stars are graduates of the “Academy of Roy Haynes.” After releasing Whereas, Live at the Artists Quarter in 2006, Haynes released the retrospective Life in Time in 2007.

And the Fountain of Youth? Hot young alto saxman Jaleel Shaw has performed with such star acts as Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Arturo Sandoval, Nicholas Payton, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, and the Count Basie Orchestra; currently is a member of the Charles Mingus Big Band and Jeremy Pelt Quartet; and tours with Judy Niemack and Melvin Sparks as well as Haynes. Shaw will be hanging around the Twin Cities for a weekend gig at the Artists Quarter, March 7-8. Elegantly assertive pianist Martin Bejerano is building a solid career backing some of modern jazz’s elders and young masters. In addition to his work with Roy Haynes, Bejerano has worked with Russell Malone, James Moody, Ira Sullivan, Marcus Printup, and Marcus Strickland. Newest member of the FOY quartet, Juilliard grad bassist David Wong has performed with the Eric Reed, the Wynton Marsalis Quartet, Heath Brothers Quarter and the Illinois Jacquet Big Band, and currently tours with Pete Zimmer and Sachal Vasandani, in addition to Roy Haynes.

This double bill at 7:30 pm on March 6th is part of the Northrop Jazz season; single tickets are available from the University of Minnesota Ticket Office ($45/$35) at 612-624-2345. Ted Mann Concert Hall is located at 2106 South Fourth Street on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus.

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