Can't believe i missed this thread, seeing as im playing jazz myself..
I went to NYC for a week last summer (kind of a big deal for me, since i'm a euro guy). It may have cost me pretty much all my poker roll but it was worth it.
I was there during the CareFusion Jazz Festival and went to a jazz concert almost every evening. Saw Rosenwinkel at the Village Vanguard, Pat Martino at Iridium and Anat Cohen with the excellent, lesser known guitarist Gilad Hekselman at Jazz Standard but clearly the highlight was seeing Herbie Hancock's 70th birthday concert at Carnegie Hall, with a line-up to make any Jazz fan drool :
Besides being hosted by Bill Cosby, the first set included:
India.Arie(voc), Terence Blanchard and Wallace Roney (tp), Ron Carter and Dave Holland (b), Wayne Shorter and Joe Lovano (sax), Lionel Loueke (g) ,Vinnie Colauita and Jack DeJohnette (dr)
2nd set was him playing his current "imagine" project along with Kristina Train (voc), Vinnie Colaiuta, Greg Phillinganes (keyboards) and Tal Wilkenfield (b) plus special guests Derek Trucks(g) and Susan Tedeschi(voc).
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything from the first set, but i figure i'd contribute to this thread with some videos from the second set , sound quality is unfortunately only so-so , but imo not so bad as to take the pleasure out of listening. So enjoy (hopefully):
Herbie Hancock:
Times they are a changing / Change gonna come
Herbie rocking the key-tar on Chamaeleon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24aoEZknqo
All the performers
(Blanchard, Philinganes, Lovano, Holland, Shorter, DeJohnette, Trucks, Loueke, Wilkenfeld, Arie,Tedeschi, Train, Colauita)
Pat Martino Trio (w Tony Monaco on B3 and Jason Brown on drums):
Sunny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m05Rj6oxwVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-HRvQwpKM
Anat Cohen (w Gilad Hekselman):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KYkLs8hyT4
Special treat from the "tribute to Herbie" jam session (really bad quality tho):
That's Chris Potter on piano and Rosenwinkel on the drums with Jeff "Tain" Watts scatting..
Man, i miss that city...