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The week on disc (46)
In case you missed the last one… Josh Berman, Old Idea (Delmark) Sam Yahel, Hometown (Posi-Tone) Henning Sieverts Symmetry, Blackbird (Pirouet) Pascal Niggenkemper Trio, Pasàpas (Konnex) Mika Pohjola, Still Alive (Blue Music Group) Andrew Green, Narrow Margin (Microphonic)
Amy Goodman, hack
Protests are heating up again in Iran, so comment on the following is timely. In June 2007 I remarked on Amy Goodman’s fawning interview with left extremist John Pilger, a declared supporter of the Iraqi insurgency, an admirer of Hezbollah and apologist for Palestinian suicide bombers, and a Balkan genocide revisionist to boot. (Pilger considers himself part of the “peace
Philadelphia haps cont’d.
In the current Philadelphia Weekly: Edgar Bateman-Julian Pressley DuoFri., July 10, 9pm. $10. With Yolanda Wisher & Mark Palacio. Moonstone Arts Center, 110 S. 13th St. 215.735.9600 www.moonstoneartscenter.org Philly has its historic jazz titans, but let’s not forget workhorses like drummer Edgar Bateman and saxophonist Julian Pressley, who still exert a subterranean influence, setting an example for every questing young
New York @ Night: July 2009
This month in All About Jazz-New York: reviews of Bill Mobley and the Smoke Big Band, and Jane Ira Bloom at the Tea Lounge (as part of June’s Bloom Festival).
Doobie break
Let me preface the video below by saying I’m not a real singer, but I don’t let that stop me from investigating songs like the Doobie Brothers’ “What a Fool Believes,” which Jane Krakowski tried to sing in a Michael McDonald voice the other night on “30 Rock.” (McDonald actually co-wrote it with Kenny Loggins.) It made me want to
On Nathan Eklund
This review appears in the July 2009 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Nathan EklundTrip to the Casbah (Jazz Excursion) David R. Adler Trumpeter Nathan Eklund’s first two CDs as a leader, The View from Afar and The Crooked Line, both featured pianist Joe Elefante as the harmonic anchor. Eklund’s newest, Trip to the Casbah, finds guitarist John Hart
On John O’Gallagher
This review appears in the July 2009 issue of All About Jazz-New York. [Correction: This review will appear in the September issue.] — John O’Gallagher TrioDirty Hands (Clean Feed) David R. Adler Saxophonist John O’Gallagher and bassist Masa Kamaguchi have a history. They documented their intense, ruminative interplay on O’Gallagher’s two-volume CIMP session of 2004, Rules of Invisibility, featuring Jay
Six Picks: July 2009
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, July 2009: Kevin Hays Trio, You’ve Got a Friend (Jazz Eyes) Ron Horton, It’s a Gadget World… (ABEAT) Tony Malaby, Paloma Recio (New World) Tim Posgate Hornband, Banjo Hockey (Black Hen) Alan Sondheim & Myk Freedman, Julu Twine (Porter) E.J. Strickland, In This Day (Strick Muzik)