dev
January ’10 jazz doings
Been running around for a few days at a mini-conference of the Jazz Journalists Association, held more or less in conjunction with this year’s APAP event. Howard Mandel has some of the rundown. And here are reax to the sprawling Winter Jazzfest from Nate Chinen, Ben Ratliff, Jim Macnie and bassist Ben Allison. My main focus was Mike Reed’s compelling
Shipp fallout
A bit of commentary, from Tad Hendrickson, Peter Hum and Chris Rich, sparked (at least in part) by my Matthew Shipp feature in JazzTimes. It’s funny that a few commenters in this AAJ thread suggest I might have “cherry picked” Shipp’s quotes or pulled them out of context. The quotes are of course verbatim and fully contextual. Apart from that,
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