Jazz

That’s the theme of our Jazz Journalists Association panel discussion this coming Wednesday, September 15, 6-8 p.m. at the New School Performance Space in Manhattan. Panelists include me, Kurt Gottschalk, Sheila Anderson and moderator/co-panelist Howard Mandel. Full details here! [Update: An after-the-fact report from the panel. We’re holding a second round on October 14th! Details to come.]

This review appears in the September 2010 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Danilo Pérez, Providencia (Mack Avenue) By David R. Adler With Providencia, Danilo Pérez’s first outing on Mack Avenue, the pianist adds at least two new colors to his compositional palette. One is the trenchant alto saxophone of Rudresh Mahanthappa, fulfilling melodic and solo roles on the

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My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, September 2010: Harris Eisenstadt, Woodblock Prints (NoBusiness) Owen Howard, Drum Lore (BJU) Vijay Iyer, Solo (ACT) Kneebody, You Can Have Your Moment (Winter & Winter) Louis Sclavis/Craig Taborn/Tom Rainey, Eldorado Trio (Clean Feed) Suresh Singaratnam, Lost in New York (ind.)

I have a brief news-oriented piece on Fred Hersch in the September 2010 JazzTimes. It struck me long after submitting the story that the word “gay” does not appear in it, despite the fact that Fred has been out for well over a decade. At first I thought I should have corrected this, but ultimately I’m glad that it didn’t

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In case you missed the last one… Joel Yennior Trio, Big City Circus (Brass Wheel) Sándor Szabó & Kevin Kastning, Returning (Greydisc) The Wee Trio, Capitol Diner Vol. 2: Animal Style (Bionic) Rafi Malkiel, Water (Tzadik) Sandro Albert Quartet, Vertical (Daywood Drive) Juan García-Herreros (a.k.a. Snow Owl), Art of Contrabass Guitar (Inner Circle)

In case you missed the last one… Alex Brown, Pianist (Sunnyside) Michael Dease, Grace (Jazz Legacy) Nick Rosen, Into the Sky (Porter) Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity (ESP-Disk) Stephen Gauci/Kris Davis/Michael Bisio, Three (Clean Feed) Julian Argüelles Trio, Ground Rush (Clean Feed)

My review of Guillermo Klein’s brilliant new album Domador de Huellas, in this week’s Time Out New York. Klein and his group Base de Nave are at the Village Vanguard August 17-22.

Below, from the August 2010 issue of All About Jazz-New York. (Check the new AAJ-NY website, the result of its split from AllAboutJazz.com.) — There was one sure way for tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger to heighten the freewheeling melodic onslaught of his quintet gig at Smalls (July 1st): add alto saxophonist Loren Stillman to the frontline. Ornette Coleman’s music was

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