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The week on disc (62)
In case you missed the last one… Matt Slocum, Portraits (Chandra) Stéphane Spira & Giovanni Mirabassi, Spirabassi (BEE Jazz) Myra Melford’s Be Bread, The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12) Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Forty Fort (Hot Cup!) Sam Sadigursky, Miniatures: Words Project III (New Amsterdam) Rodrigo Amado/Miguel Mira/Gabriel Ferrandini, Motion Trio (European Echoes)
“Work the Wound”
I watched Stew’s “Passing Strange” last night on the DVR, and while there were some aspects of it I resisted, the more that I think back on it, the more enthralled I become. I need to watch it again. This song, “Work the Wound,” comes toward the end of the show and nearly turned me to a puddle. Here’s a
Haiti relief
I have no words to describe the gravity of the situation in post-earthquake Haiti, where the populace is suffering, the institutions of government have literally collapsed and a large number of UN staff in the country are either dead or missing. Wyclef Jean has a relief effort underway: “Either you can use your cell phone to text ‘Yele’ to 501501,
Philadelphia haps, cont’d.
In the current Philadelphia Weekly: Marc-André HamelinWed., Jan. 13, 8pm. $27. Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad St. 215.731.3333 www.kimmelcenter.org Montreal-born, Boston-based Marc-André Hamelin may be a classical piano giant sitting astride the globe, with over 35 CDs and endless awards to his credit. But he studied at Temple, so Philadelphia can claim a piece of him. And the Kimmel is
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)