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The week on disc (7)
In case you missed the last one… Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (ECM): You could get a contact high from this thing. Pure Mwandishi-era magic, easily one of the top reissues of 2007. Sam Newsome, Monk Abstractions (self-released): Solo soprano sax musings, in the tradition of the late Steve Lacy. Sam has an illuminating essay about the project
Those crazy Leonharts
Went to hear my dear friend Jamie Leonhart at Joe’s Pub last month; happy to learn that there’s video of “Satisfy Your Soul,” my second-favorite tune from her forthcoming Sunnyside debut, The Truth About Suffering. And here’s something really cracked from the mind of husband Michael Leonhart, the man at the piano who wrote Jamie’s marvelous arrangements.
The writers’ strike
Darcy has some apt comments…
Goings on
Forgive the light posting — wife and I took a little road trip to Columbus, Ohio to visit some friends and we’re prepping for a week in Paris later this month. I’m busy editing copy for the winter edition of Jazz Notes, writing a story on this initiative for NewMusicBox.org and juggling assorted other duties. World events haven’t let up,
Six Picks: November 2007
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, November 2007: Hubert Dupont, Spider’s Dance (Ultrabolic) Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters (Verve) Steve Lehman, On Meaning (Pi)Evan Parker/John Edwards/Chris Corsano, A Glancing Blow (Clean Feed) Rufus Reid Quintet, Live at the Kennedy Center (Motema) John Surman, The Spaces In Between (ECM)
New in Jazz Times
My tandem review of Chris Potter’s new discs, Song for Anyone and Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard (Sunnyside), in the November issue of Jazz Times. I also have a short feature [pdf] on drummer David King and his Minneapolis trio Happy Apple.
On Charles Lloyd
My review of Charles Lloyd’s Saturday show at Montgomery County Community College, in today’s Inquirer.
TNR’s “Scott Thomas” affair
Seemed like this had gone away, but here’s the latest. I can’t make heads or tails of it, but it doesn’t look as good for TNR. *Update: TNR sets the record straight — while stonewalling on a FOIA request from the magazine, the Army went ahead and leaked documents to the Drudge Report, wrongly insinuating that Beauchamp had recanted. Drudge