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The week on disc (57)
In case you missed the last one… Keyon Harrold, Introducing Keyon Harrold (Criss Cross) Dan Tepfer, Twelve Free Improvisations in Twelve Keys (ind.) Chad Taylor, Circle Down (482 Music) Fra Fra Sound, Dya So (Pramisi Records) Davy Mooney, Astoriano (LateSet) Sharel Cassity, Relentless (Jazz Legacy)
The decade (shudder)
At this point people are thinking not only about their jazz picks of the year, but their picks of the decade, 2000-2009. That’s running through my mind as I listen to Mika Pohjola’s gorgeous new solo piano recording Great Tunes By My Friends, which highlights the music of Guillermo Klein, Ben Monder, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Cheek, Fernando Huergo, Reid Anderson
Vijay Iyer PS
Just wanted to correct the record after my preview in last week’s Time Out New York and note that Vijay Iyer’s drummer last week was Justin Brown, who’s been subbing for Marcus Gilmore on a regular basis and doing a great job. A player as rhythmically advanced as Iyer can’t hire just any drummer and expect it to work. Then
Music Creative
Philadelphia’s Doug Hirlinger has come up with something new and novel: A new online monthly music series featuring a different collective of composers and musicians every month and new compositions written or arranged for the occasion. The compositions will be rehearsed and recorded in a single session and posted on musiccreative.org. I’ll be drawing from a large pool of talented
Fort Hood
David Frum, one of America’s last sane conservatives, links to famous photographs that remind us of the sacrifice of Muslims who died as members of the U.S. military. And yet just yesterday, the very day of the Fort Hood massacre, GOP House members gave their imprimatur to a fanatical far-right rally, at which people held up posters of President Obama
Rage in Peace
Steven Wells of Philadelphia Weekly died not long ago, as I mentioned. Here’s a very fitting — that is, surpassingly weird — video tribute. Steven Wells Tribute Film from Roger Sargent on Vimeo.
On Vijay Iyer
My preview of the Vijay Iyer Trio at Jazz Standard, in this week’s Time Out New York.
Philadelphia haps, cont’d.
In the current Philadelphia Weekly: Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory OrchestraFri., Nov. 6, 8pm. $12. With DJ hi-res. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684 www.arsnovaworkshop.org The term is archaic, but “territory bands” used to tour circumscribed areas of the U.S., covering popular hits and riling up dance crowds. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein (of Sex Mob fame) nods to that storied past