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On Bill Dixon
I have a piece on Bill Dixon’s Tapestries for Small Orchestra in the new issue of the Mexican journal La Tempestad (page 24). I can’t vouch for how it reads in Spanish. The headline means “An Approaching Ship.” The subhead reads: “Each recording of Dixon’s is an event for music in general and jazz in particular: we speak of a
Allison Miller/Chris Potter in Philly
In the new Philadelphia Weekly: Allison Miller QuartetFri., Mar. 26, 8pm. $12. Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302 www.arsnovaworkshop.org Just after Thanksgiving ’09, drummer Allison Miller played Philly in a trio with saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and organist Erik Deutsch. Her new Boom Tic Boom is a different animal, with fellow Ani DiFranco sideperson Todd Sickafoose on bass and
The week on disc (68)
In case you missed the last one… Jason Adasiewicz, Varmint (Cuneiform, 2009) Swallow/Talmor/Nussbaum, Playing In Traffic (Auand) Tin Hat, Foreign Legion (BAG) David Binney, Aliso (Criss Cross) Vinson Valega Group, Biophilia (Consilience) Sheryl Bailey, A New Promise (MCG Jazz)
Sirkis on Atzmon
Anil Prasad has an interview up with drummer Asaf Sirkis, whose recent recordings The Song Within and The Monk I can vouch for as unique and well worth hearing. Sirkis also happens to be a musical associate of Gilad Atzmon, a saxophonist and political blowhard with a straightforwardly antisemitic paper trail that has come up frequently on this blog. In
On Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu
My preview of the upcoming Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu duo concert (Mar. 24), in this week’s Time Out New York.
On Danilo Perez
In the new Philadelphia Weekly: Danilo PerezFri., Mar. 19, 8pm. With Somi. $26-$64. Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad St. 215.731.3333 www.kimmelcenter.org Pianist Danilo Perez has blazed a trail from his native Panama to the U.S. and beyond, amassing a lofty body of work with Wayne Shorter’s quartet, Jack DeJohnette, Roy Haynes and many others, to say nothing of his myriad
Greenwald on Goldberg
There’s something a little disgusting about Glenn Greenwald, in this post, taking a cheap shot at Jeffrey Goldberg, portraying Goldberg as some sort of bloodthirsty oppressor of Palestinians, when Goldberg’s position on Middle East peace is in fact more admirable than most. Goldberg, today: I’m for the creation of a Palestinian state on one hundred percent of the West Bank
On Christian Scott
Patrick notes the mounting buzz over trumpeter Christian Scott and his forthcoming Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. I’m still getting to know the record, didn’t flip over it at first listen, but it’s clearly the work of someone with high skill and strong vision — exactly the sort of hip, relevant, advanced, forward-thinking music that Stuart Nicholson believes to exist only