In the current Philadelphia Weekly:
Wed., Aug. 26, 8-11pm. $12. Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St. 215.568.3131 www.chrisjazzcafe.com
Noah Jarrett happens to be the son of legendary pianist Keith Jarrett, but in Brooklyn he’s one of the cats, a compelling bassist and composer in the trenches, steering through the labyrinth of modern jazz on terms of his own devising. [Oops, mixed metaphor.] He can be heard with young peers in groups like Fat Little Bastard, Brooklyn Qawwali Party, Barky, The In-Betweens and this week’s featured sextet, Knu Gmoon, which plays Chris’s a night before hitting Nublu in New York. Their self-titled debut is a dense, insistent, tonality-stretching affair with Jarrett, guitarist Mike Gamble, saxophonists Tony Barba and Loren Stillman, drummer-tabla man Rohin Khemani and percussionist Rich Stein. — David R. Adler
Ralph Bowen
Fri., Aug. 28, 8pm. $10. Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus, 847 N. 3rd St. 215.922.1035 www.ortliebsjazzhaus.com
Scarily proficient on soprano, alto and tenor saxes, Ralph Bowen is an unassuming jazz master whose teaching commitments at Rutgers and Princeton tend to keep him pretty local. He came up in the ’80s with the “young lion” supergroup Out of the Blue and has made important music in recent years with pianist Orrin Evans, the Ralph Peterson Fo’tet and others. His latest, Dedicated, is a pungent all-star date with Adam Rogers (Chris Potter Underground), John Patitucci (Wayne Shorter Quartet) and Antonio Sanchez (Pat Metheny Group). Dipping into a batch of new originals this week, he’ll join forces with pianist Jason Shattil, bassist Kenny Davis and drummer Rudy Royston. — David R. Adler
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