On Jazz Rehab

Making their way south from Burlington, Vermont, Jazz Rehab offers detox and therapy in the form of sharp-witted electro-acoustic jazz. These young lads — saxophonist Andy Allen, guitarist Matt Jalbert, keyboardist Peter Krag, bassist Ian Kovac, drummer Peter Negroponte — have a way of sanding their pointy edges with an unlikely sort of melodic sheen, balancing compositional smarts with improvised mischief of high intangibility. Look for their forthcoming debut Have You Hugged Your Children Today? Sharing the bill, two off-the-wall duos: Philly wild-man percussionist Toshi Makihara with trumpeter Todd Margasak, plus Bowerbird’s Dustin Hurt playing trumpet with Sci Fi co-curator Jon Barrios on strings, in a project called Bebop Battles, Pt. 2. — David R. Adler