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A short preview in the new Philadelphia Weekly.

In case you missed the last one… Marty Ehrlich, Fables (Tzadik) Donny McCaslin, Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf) Dymaxion Quartet, Sympathetic Vibrations (ind.) Jin Hi Kim & Gerry Hemingway, Pulses (Auricle) Tigran, A Fable (Verve/Universal) Robert Hurst, Unrehurst, Volume 2 (Bebob)

Soon after my first post on Randy Sandke’s book Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet, Ethan Iverson posted a far more detailed two-part critique (here and here) at Do the Math. As always with Ethan, it’s a must-read. He’s also announced that he’ll be publishing a guest post by Sandke in reply. At the risk of spending too

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This review appears in the February 2011 issue of All About Jazz-New York. [Note: As of the March 2011 issue, AAJ-NY will be known as The New York City Jazz Record. Details here.] — Shauli Einav, Opus One (Plus Loin) By David R. Adler It’s clear that Israeli-born saxophonist Shauli Einav is capable of “blowing his face off,” as pianist

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This review appears in the February 2011 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Scott Colley, Empire (CAM Jazz) By David R. Adler The title Empire could lead one to think that bassist Scott Colley’s seventh album is an artistic comment on foreign policy. In fact, Empire is a now-vanished town in Kansas where Colley’s great-great-grandfather, Joseph J. Colby, settled

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This is why Egyptians have taken to the streets to demand Mubarak’s ouster – exactly this sort of thuggery, for decades, but always away from the cameras. Until now.

From the February 2011 issue of All About Jazz-New York: — Sullivan Hall was one of five venues to host Winter Jazzfest 2011, but the bookings in that room, handled by the presenting organization Revive Da Live, skewed decidedly toward a jazz/hip-hop hybrid aesthetic. That certainly didn’t mean swing was unwelcome. So on the festival’s second night (Jan. 8th), Orrin

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