Chances Are
Martial Solal Sets the Standard
BARRY HARRIS
May 6-11
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, 212-255-4037
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Harris's masterly, unsentimental caress of the keyboard allows him to mine his music for romance while exploring all the knottiest harmonic byways of modern jazz or bop. His trio plays Parker, Powell, and Monk, as well as standards and a few tunes that only he seems to know, and makes it seem so easy you won't want to leave.
BILL CHARLAP
May 7-10
Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, 212-581-3080
The trio (Peter Washington, Kenny Washington) plus Frank Wess and Phil Woods: This is an encore engagement by the group that turned out to be the highlight of last summer's shaky JVC Festival. An inherently modest player who has no need to show off technique, Charlap is consequently a masterly accompanist, and with Wess and Woods mixing it up, the room turns into a revival tent where jazz and nothing but jazz is spoken.
'SHADES OF DJANGO'
Sundays beginning May 11
Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue, 212-255-3626
Not an hour goes by that someone somewhere isn't mounting a tribute to Django, but no one cries, "Hold, enough!"—so give the Gypsy his due, especially when interpreted by a guitarist as steeped in the idiom as Frank Vignola. You can preview Vignola's prowess on Mark O'Connor's recent In Full Swing, and this open-ended engagement promises a weekly toe-tapping rapture.
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