Jazz
New York @ Night: April 2010
In the new All About Jazz-New York: — One of saxophonist Myron Walden’s four new albums this year is called To Feel, and indeed, if a single quality stands out in Walden’s music, it is deep and palpable feeling, a big emotional sweep carried off with great finesse by his quintet In This World. In their second set at Jazz
Six Picks: April 2010
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, April 2010: Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh, Radif Suite (Pi) Tom Harrell, Roman Nights (HighNote) Ryan Keberle, Heavy Dreaming (Alternate Side) Sam Newsome, Blue Soliloquy: Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone (ind.) Thomas Savy, French Suite (Plus Loin) Samuel Torres, Yaoundé (Blue Conga)
On Christian Scott
In the new Philadelphia Weekly: Christian ScottWed., Mar. 31, 7pm. $15 ($13 advance). World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400 www.worldcafelive.com Following in the footsteps of New Orleans trumpet mentors Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard, Christian Scott is nonetheless after something of his own. His new Yesterday You Said Tomorrow includes a cover of Thom Yorke’s “The Eraser” among a
On Bill Dixon
I have a piece on Bill Dixon’s Tapestries for Small Orchestra in the new issue of the Mexican journal La Tempestad (page 24). I can’t vouch for how it reads in Spanish. The headline means “An Approaching Ship.” The subhead reads: “Each recording of Dixon’s is an event for music in general and jazz in particular: we speak of a
Allison Miller/Chris Potter in Philly
In the new Philadelphia Weekly: Allison Miller QuartetFri., Mar. 26, 8pm. $12. Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302 www.arsnovaworkshop.org Just after Thanksgiving ’09, drummer Allison Miller played Philly in a trio with saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and organist Erik Deutsch. Her new Boom Tic Boom is a different animal, with fellow Ani DiFranco sideperson Todd Sickafoose on bass and
The week on disc (68)
In case you missed the last one… Jason Adasiewicz, Varmint (Cuneiform, 2009) Swallow/Talmor/Nussbaum, Playing In Traffic (Auand) Tin Hat, Foreign Legion (BAG) David Binney, Aliso (Criss Cross) Vinson Valega Group, Biophilia (Consilience) Sheryl Bailey, A New Promise (MCG Jazz)
Sirkis on Atzmon
Anil Prasad has an interview up with drummer Asaf Sirkis, whose recent recordings The Song Within and The Monk I can vouch for as unique and well worth hearing. Sirkis also happens to be a musical associate of Gilad Atzmon, a saxophonist and political blowhard with a straightforwardly antisemitic paper trail that has come up frequently on this blog. In
On Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu
My preview of the upcoming Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu duo concert (Mar. 24), in this week’s Time Out New York.