David Adler
The week on disc (61)
In case you missed the last one… Tony Malaby’s Apparitions, Voladores (Clean Feed) Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Abyss (ObliqSound) Håkon Kornstad, Dwell Time (Jazzland) Marc Copland, Alone (Pirouet) Rob Garcia 4, Perennial (BJU) Erica Lindsay & Sumi Tonooka, Initiation (Artists Recording Collective)
Julian Lage, with a vengeance
Almost a year ago I posted on the remarkable young guitarist Julian Lage, noting his leaps-and-bounds improvement since working with Gary Burton as a teen. Well, Lage is at the Blue Note through Saturday with violinist Mark O’Connor and bassist John Patitucci, playing unamplified guitar in a string band that combines the best of O’Connor’s “Hot Swing” group and his
Philadelphia haps, cont’d.
Oops, this is late. In the current Philadelphia Weekly: Ben O’Neill & Tony Miceli Fri., Jan. 8, 9pm. $10 ($8 advance). With Alfie Pollitt. Moonstone Arts Center, 110 S. 13th St. 215.735.9600 www.moonstoneartscenter.org The Lucky Old Souls concert series strides into 2010 with a promising duo set by guitarist Ben O’Neill and vibraphonist Tony Miceli, plus solo piano from Alfie
“The real war dead”
Anjem Choudary, a UK-based Islamist agitator, is spearheading a protest march at Wootton Bassett, “where townspeople have lined the sidewalks since April 2007 to mourn the passing cortèges of British military casualties….” This counter-mourning demonstration will be, in Choudary’s words, …”not in memory of the occupying and merciless British military, but rather the real war dead who have been shunned
Chicago jazz on disc
The following review appears in the January 2010 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Chicago Underground Duo, Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey)Rob Mazurek Quintet, Sound Is (Delmark)Chad Taylor, Circle Down (482 Music)By David R. Adler No account of American jazz in the ’00s would be complete without a thorough look at the Chicago scene. The year 2009 was a good
Judeosphere is back
After a two-year hiatus. Always a must-read on the myopia and frequent lunacy of activist anti-Zionism.
New year, same bloodbath
NYT: A suicide bomber rammed a pickup truck loaded with explosives into a playground crowded with families and children watching a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan Friday. […] All of the victims were civilians, one local official said. Over 20 suicide bombings by Pakistani Taliban since October 2009; over 500 people slaughtered. Who can seriously claim that these murderers are