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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
The week on disc (6)
In case you missed the last one… Ryan Cohan, One Sky (Motema): Chicago pianist with expanded ensemble, long-form sensibility, lyrical mainstream jazz with an edge (Bob Sheppard on tenor, James Cammack of Ahmad Jamal fame on bass, etc.). Jason Kao Hwang & Sang Won Park, Local Lingo (Euonymous): Sparse, evocative work for violin and kayagum/ajeng (East Asian instruments). Jason will
The brink
When you see the Turkish flag being marched through the streets you know that reason may have a hard time prevailing. Outrage over recent PKK attacks among the nationalist populace explains much about the Turkish government’s heated rhetoric. Now the gov’t is trying to tamp down that sentiment, in some weirdly Orwellian ways: The Turkish broadcast authority today halted all
The PKK’s Hezbollah moment
The photo at left shows a Turkish military convoy heading toward Silopi in southeast Turkey, which is precisely where I crossed the border to Iraqi Kurdistan last year. I may well have been on this very road. The PKK seems to have borrowed straight from the Hezbollah playbook in staging its Sunday attack and taking Turkish soldiers as hostages, a
Live highlights
Just a quick note on recent shows I’ve caught while not on assignment: —John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet, with Gary Versace subbing on keyboard bass for the group’s regular bassist, Drew Gress. This was in the same room Kidd Jordan played three nights later. Great post on the Claudia by Darcy here. —Ensemble Noamnesia, led by bass clarinetist Gene Coleman, playing