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Art and political ethics: an aside
Randy Cohen, “The Ethicist” columnist for the New York Times, asks in a blog post, “Can you Hate the Artist but Love the Art?” As his main case study he cites the recently deceased Budd Schulberg, legendary screenwriter and namer of names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The HUAC testimony of Schulberg, Elia Kazan and others is too complex
The week on disc (48)
In case you missed the last one… Dave Holland/Chris Potter/Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Eric Harland, The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF Records) Baptiste Trotignon, Share (Sunnyside) Christian McBride and Inside Straight, Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue) Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, The Moment’s Energy (ECM) Laurent Coq, Eight Fragments of Summer (88 Trees) Opsvik & Jennings, A Dream I
On Tony Malaby (and Paul Dunmall)
This tandem review appears in the August 2009 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Tony Malaby, Paloma Recio (New World)Paul Dunmall Sun Quartet, Ancient and Future Airs (Clean Feed) David R. Adler Paloma Recio (“loud dove”), the debut of saxophonist Tony Malaby’s quartet of the same name, is marked through and through by the ghostly sonorities and harmonic wiles
New York @ Night: August 2009
This month in All About Jazz-New York: reviews of Frank Kimbrough’s trio at Birdland and Peter Bernstein’s first-ever solo guitar gig, at Smalls.
On J.D. Allen
My preview of J.D. Allen’s trio at the Village Vanguard (Aug. 11-16), in the current Time Out New York.
On Eric Revis
This review appears in the August 2009 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Eric RevisLaughter’s Necklace of Tears (11:11) David R. Adler Best known for his decade-plus with the Branford Marsalis Quartet, bassist Eric Revis has also thrived in trio settings with Avram Fefer, Peter Brötzmann and most recently Kurt Rosenwinkel, playing everything from pure straightahead to absolutely free.
Six Picks: August 2009
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, August 2009: Fred Anderson, Staying in the Game (Engine) Ralph Bowen, Dedicated (Posi-Tone) James Falzone’s Klang, Tea Music (Allos Documents) Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings, Renegades (Delmark) Edward Simon Trio, Poesía (Cam Jazz) Jack Wilkins, Until It’s Time (MaxJazz)
Profiles in integrity
A friend just sent me this authoritative denunciation of Farrakhanism and black antisemitism from 1992. It’s by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. You may have heard of him.