Jazz
Jazz and the young
Better late than never, I’m linking to Patrick J’s two responses to Terry Teachout’s dire forecast in The Wall Street Journal on the health of the jazz audience. I’ll just recap and elaborate what I wrote in Patrick’s comments section: Big duh, Mr. Teachout. We all know the jazz audience will never rival the arena rock audience. As John Seabrook’s
The week on disc (48)
In case you missed the last one… Dave Holland/Chris Potter/Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Eric Harland, The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF Records) Baptiste Trotignon, Share (Sunnyside) Christian McBride and Inside Straight, Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue) Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, The Moment’s Energy (ECM) Laurent Coq, Eight Fragments of Summer (88 Trees) Opsvik & Jennings, A Dream I
On Tony Malaby (and Paul Dunmall)
This tandem review appears in the August 2009 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Tony Malaby, Paloma Recio (New World)Paul Dunmall Sun Quartet, Ancient and Future Airs (Clean Feed) David R. Adler Paloma Recio (“loud dove”), the debut of saxophonist Tony Malaby’s quartet of the same name, is marked through and through by the ghostly sonorities and harmonic wiles
New York @ Night: August 2009
This month in All About Jazz-New York: reviews of Frank Kimbrough’s trio at Birdland and Peter Bernstein’s first-ever solo guitar gig, at Smalls.
On J.D. Allen
My preview of J.D. Allen’s trio at the Village Vanguard (Aug. 11-16), in the current Time Out New York.
On Eric Revis
This review appears in the August 2009 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Eric RevisLaughter’s Necklace of Tears (11:11) David R. Adler Best known for his decade-plus with the Branford Marsalis Quartet, bassist Eric Revis has also thrived in trio settings with Avram Fefer, Peter Brötzmann and most recently Kurt Rosenwinkel, playing everything from pure straightahead to absolutely free.
Six Picks: August 2009
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, August 2009: Fred Anderson, Staying in the Game (Engine) Ralph Bowen, Dedicated (Posi-Tone) James Falzone’s Klang, Tea Music (Allos Documents) Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings, Renegades (Delmark) Edward Simon Trio, Poesía (Cam Jazz) Jack Wilkins, Until It’s Time (MaxJazz)
Trios & Solos
~ Wanted to remark on two exciting new trio records featuring John Patitucci on bass and Brian Blade on drums — both of which, oddly enough, include versions of (or homages to) Coltrane’s “Giant Steps.” The first is Poesía by pianist Edward Simon (Cam Jazz); the second is Patitucci’s own Remembrance (Concord, out on Aug. 4), featuring Joe Lovano on