Jazz

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, August 2010: Jamie Begian Big Band, Big Fat Grin (Innova) Willie Jones III, The Next Phase (WJ3) Jacám Manricks, Trigonometry (Posi-Tone) Bernardo Sassetti Trio, Motion (Clean Feed) Roland Vazquez Band, The Visitor (ind.) Sean Wayland, The Show Must Go On (Seed)

In case you missed the last one… Mike Mainieri, Crescent (NYC) Sun Ra, College Tour Vol. I: The Complete Nothing Is… (ESP-Disk) Andy Jaffe, An Imperfect Storm (Big Round) Jacob Duncan/John Goldsby/Jason Tiemann, The Innkeeper’s Gun (Bass Lion) Stephen Haynes, Parrhesia (Engine) Paul Carr, Straight Ahead Soul (ind.)

Blogging these days is slow for many reasons, one being that I’ve accepted a position as adjunct lecturer in jazz history at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College. My course begins August 30, and I’ve been hard at work preparing. Very hard at work. One consequence is the growing stack of new and unlistened-to CD releases near my

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Yes, it is. So it’s good to see the fringe lefties at Socialist Worker retract and apologize for publishing an interview with a Nazi sympathizer. The fact that they felt no need to vet Gilad Atzmon beforehand speaks volumes, however. “Critics of Israel,” no matter how virulent, have come to be given the benefit of the doubt on the radical

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In case you missed the last one… Barry Harris, Live in Rennes (Plus Loin) Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey, Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed) Azar Lawrence, Mystic Journey (Further More) Odean Pope, Odean’s List (In and Out) Peter Evans Quartet, Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed) José James & Jef Neve, For All We Know (Impulse!)

Missed him last night in New York, but … in the new Philadelphia Weekly: Nels Cline Singers Wed., July 7, 8pm. $15 ($12 advance). With Richard Crandell, Good for Cows. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684 www.arsnovaworkshop.org Long before he became Wilco’s lead guitarist in 2004, Nels Cline was already a leading West Coast avant-gardist, making dissonant garage-jazz with

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My review of The Imagine Project, in Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer.

This review appears in the July 2010 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Yotam, Resonance (Jazz Legacy) By David R. Adler Israeli-born guitarist Yotam Silberstein has dropped his surname for performance purposes — he’s simply “Yotam” now. But the crisp and determined quality of his playing remains intact on Resonance, his third disc as a leader. All three outings

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