Jazz Notes: Goings on in the jazz world

Today is June 1st.

Composer and bandleader Nelson Riddle was born this day in Oradell, N.J., in 1921. He had a knack for arranging songs and led backup orchestras for some of America's finest singers, including Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Linda Ronstadt. Sinatra's success in the late 1950s was due in large measure to Riddle's fine arrangements of several standards albums. Nelson Riddle died in October 1985.

On this night in 2001... Jazz at Lincoln Center's Duets on the Hudson concert series at the Kaplan Penthouse featured saxophonist James Carter and pianist Cyrus Chestnut plus pianist Farid Barron and baritone sax veteran Joe Temperley.

Looking at today's hip happenings...

On the New York jazz scene... pianist Marian McPartland is at Birdland tonight. The Jason Moran-Sam Rivers quartet is at Iridium this week. The Tom Harrell quintet is at the Village Vanguard. Steps Ahead and Bill Evans and the Soul Insiders are at the Blue Note this week. Ray Bryant is at the Jazz Standard through Sunday. Dena DeRose is at Smoke tonight. Singer Michael Camacho is at Shelly's N.Y. tonight with Frank Wess, Randy Johnston, Bill Moring and Marcello Pelliteri.

Pianist Orrin Evans' quintet featuring bassist Eric Revis, drummer Gene Jackson, and saxophonists Sam Newsome and Ralph Bowen is at The Jazz Gallery tonight. Jazz at Lincoln Center's Six Strings Session concert tonight features guitarists Russell Malone and Ron Affif with their ensembles.

In and around Boston... Roy Hargrove is at Scullers in Boston tonight. The George Levas group is at Ryles in Cambridge.

Two unique voices... Dr. John and Jimmy Scott... are at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art tonight in North Adams.

El Eco is at Chan's in Woonsocket, R.I.,tonight with special guest Claudio Roditi.

Steve Turre is at Zanzibar Blue in Philadelphia tonight.

Kenny Garrett is at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., through Sunday.

Nancy Wilson and Ramsey Lewis are in concert tonight in Columbia, Md.

Guitarist John McLean's quartet is at the Bird of Paradise in Ann Arbor, Mich., tonight.

Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is at the Cincinnati Symphony Music Hall in Ohio tonight and Sunday.

On the Chicago area jazz scene... WesBound Trane is at Erik & Me. Sheila Jordan is at the Green Mill. The Terrell Stafford quintet is at the Jazz Showcase for two more nights. Bopology is at Joe's BeBop Café and Jazz tonight. Rankinfyle is at Philander's in Oak Park. The Gephart-Long quartet is at Pops for Champagne.

In New Orleans... trumpeter Jeremy Davenport is at the Ritz Carlton's French Quarter Bar tonight. Adonis Rose and Devin Phillips lead the bands at the Funky Butt. Brian O'Neill and Topsy Chapman are at Satchmo's jazz room at Harrah's. Ronald Markham and Tony Dagradi are at Le Salon at Windsor Court. Uptown Okra with John Boutte is at the Old Point.

Lionel Ferbos leads the band at the Palm Court. John Brunious leads the band at Preservation Hall. The Michael Pellera trio is at Snug Harbor. Hurley Blanchard, Kiki Bonilla and Humphrey Davis are at the Storyville District Jazz Parlor. Juanita Brooks is at Sweet Lorraine. Tonight's Louis Armstrong Foundation Band features Kermit Ruffins, Trombone Shorty, Greg Stafford and Kid Merv at Tipitina's. Tommy Yetta's New Orleans Band is at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park this afternoon.

Brian Auger's Oblivion Express is at the Blue Note in Las Vegas tonight.

On the California jazz scene... the Ahmad Jamal trio is at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles through Sunday. The Curtis Stigers quartet is scheduled at the Catalina in North Hollywood through Sunday. The Estrada Brothers Latin jazz band is at Steamers Jazz Café in Fullerton tonight. Dee Dee Bridgewater is at Yoshi's in Oakland. Charlie McCarthy is at Jazz At Pearl's and Sam Harris is at the Plush Room in San Francisco.

KCSM's Jazz On The Hill Festival in San Mateo features Mark Levine and The Latin Tinge, the Howard Wiley quintet with Jules Broussard, the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, Kitty Margolis, the Sylvia Cuenca band with Eddie Henderson, Mad and Eddie Duran, the Upsurge jazz poetry ensemble, Wayne Wallace and Rhythm and Rhyme, and Brenda Boykin. Eddie Palmieri headlines Sunday's finale.

Pat Metheny Group is in Vienna, Austria tonight as it opens the June leg of an extensive European tour that ends July 3 in Vienne, France. The band hits Korea and Japan in September.