My review of vocalist Melissa Walker with Christian McBride’s trio, in today’s Inquirer. This was the final big engagement at Zanzibar Blue, one of Philly’s top clubs.
I have to add a word about Ari Hoenig’s unbelievably tight group “Punk Bop,” which played Chris’s Jazz Cafe the same night. Hoenig on drums, Joel Frahm on tenor, Gilad Hekselman on guitar and Orlando Le Fleming on bass. Playing music from Hoenig’s Inversations CD, among other things, they reached the highest levels of metric complexity, stirring in heaps of blues and soul as well.
Frahm is at Sweet Rhythm in New York this week, celebrating the release of his new disc We Used to Dance (Anzic), with an imposing band: Kenny Barron on piano, Rufus Reid on bass and Victor Lewis on drums.
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