Jazz

In case you missed the last one… Jeremy Udden’s Plainville, If the Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside) Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran, Cuban Rhapsody (Alma) Lefteris Kordis/Alec Spiegelman/Thor Thorvaldsson, Bebop Trio (Creative Nation) Anthony Branker & Ascent, Dance Music (Origin) Volker Goetze Orchestra, NY 10027 (G*) Bryan Carter, Enchantment (Imaginate)

On Sunday, June 5, I took part in the inaugural Bring Your Own Vinyl (BYOV), a new monthly listening session and hang at Barbès. Here’s the rundown of what we heard!

My feature on saxophonist Donny McCaslin, in the June 2011 issue of JazzTimes.

In case you missed the last one… Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation) Louie Belogenis Trio, Tiresias (Porter) Tom Harrell, The Time of the Sun (HighNote) Diego Barber, The Choice (Sunnyside) JD Allen Trio, Victory! (Sunnyside) Itai Kriss, The Shark (ind.)

The list is up. Great event yesterday! Congrats to all.

Below are some brief comments about this coming Monday, as cross-posted at the Ars Nova Workshop blog: AACM | David R. Adler on Mike Reed and Jeff Parker It’s safe to say that Muhal Richard Abrams, Phil Cohran and other AACM founders weren’t just out for themselves when they launched the organization in the mid-’60s. Rather, they sought to create a

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Back to Philly again on Monday, June 13th! I’ll conduct a live interview with guitarist Jeff Parker and drummer Mike Reed, just after their duo set as part of Ars Nova Workshop‘s AACM festival. Great lineup.

In the June 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record: — From the first seconds of their show at Issue Project Room (May 5th), Starlicker sent pounding asymmetric rhythms and deft unison passages flooding into the boomy loft-like space in Gowanus. The trio’s members — cornetist Rob Mazurek, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, drummer John Herndon (of Tortoise) — hail from

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