Jazz
The week on disc (87)
In case you missed the last one… Ben Kono, Crossing (19/8) Chris Parrello, Things I Wonder (Popopomo) Robert Piket, Sides, Colors (Thirteenth Note) Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore, Three Kinds of Happiness (Not Two) Billy Fox’s Blackbirds & Bullets, Dulces (Clean Feed) Ken Filiano’s Quantum Entanglements, Dreams from a Clown Car (Clean Feed)
Bern Nix in Philly
A short preview in the new Philadelphia Weekly.
The week on disc (86)
In case you missed the last one… Marty Ehrlich, Fables (Tzadik) Donny McCaslin, Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf) Dymaxion Quartet, Sympathetic Vibrations (ind.) Jin Hi Kim & Gerry Hemingway, Pulses (Auricle) Tigran, A Fable (Verve/Universal) Robert Hurst, Unrehurst, Volume 2 (Bebob)
Randy Sandke and the critics, continued
Soon after my first post on Randy Sandke’s book Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet, Ethan Iverson posted a far more detailed two-part critique (here and here) at Do the Math. As always with Ethan, it’s a must-read. He’s also announced that he’ll be publishing a guest post by Sandke in reply. At the risk of spending too
On Shauli Einav
This review appears in the February 2011 issue of All About Jazz-New York. [Note: As of the March 2011 issue, AAJ-NY will be known as The New York City Jazz Record. Details here.] — Shauli Einav, Opus One (Plus Loin) By David R. Adler It’s clear that Israeli-born saxophonist Shauli Einav is capable of “blowing his face off,” as pianist
On Scott Colley
This review appears in the February 2011 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Scott Colley, Empire (CAM Jazz) By David R. Adler The title Empire could lead one to think that bassist Scott Colley’s seventh album is an artistic comment on foreign policy. In fact, Empire is a now-vanished town in Kansas where Colley’s great-great-grandfather, Joseph J. Colby, settled
New York @ Night: February 2011
From the February 2011 issue of All About Jazz-New York: — Sullivan Hall was one of five venues to host Winter Jazzfest 2011, but the bookings in that room, handled by the presenting organization Revive Da Live, skewed decidedly toward a jazz/hip-hop hybrid aesthetic. That certainly didn’t mean swing was unwelcome. So on the festival’s second night (Jan. 8th), Orrin
Six Picks: February 2011
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, February 2011: Jane Ira Bloom, Wingwalker (Outline) Joel Harrison, String Choir (Sunnyside) Jonathan Kreisberg, Shadowless (New For Now) Frank Portolese, Plectrum Jazz Guitar Solos (ind.) Noah Preminger, Before the Rain (Palmetto) Ben Wolfe Quintet, Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)