Jazz
The week on disc (36)
In case you missed the last one… Andy Scherrer Special Sextet with Bill Carrothers, Wrong Is Right (TCB) — Killing three-tenor band led by the Swiss saxophonist, playing Ornette, Trane and Carrothers tunes, band originals, two of the tenors doubling skillfully on bass clarinet. Louis Moholo-Moholo, Sibanye (We Are One): Duets with Marilyn Crispell (Intakt) — I’m reviewing this and
Six Picks: February 2009
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, February 2009: Lotte Anker/Craig Taborn/Gerald Cleaver, Live at the Loft (ILK) Ravi Coltrane, Blending Times (Savoy) The Flatlands Collective, Maatjes (Clean Feed) Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition, Apti (Innova) Jen Shyu, Jade Tongue (ind.) Tar Baby (Imani)
The week on disc (35)
In case you missed the last one… Gary Morgan & PanAmericana!, Felicidade (CAP) Michael Jefry Stevens Trio, For Andrew (Konnex) Greg Reitan, Some Other Time (Sunnyside) Jerome Sabbagh, One Two Three (BEE Jazz) Enrico Rava, New York Days (ECM) Pete Sommer, Crossroads (Capri)
Six Picks: January 2009
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, January 2009: Interplay, Apology to the Atonists/Tritone Suite (Porter) Jim McAuley, The Ultimate Frog (Drip Audio) Tony Malaby, Cello Trio (Songlines) Chico Pinheiro & Anthony Wilson, Nova (Goat Hill) Ben Schachter, Omnibus (ind.) Mark Sherman Quartet, Live at the Bird’s Eye (Miles High)
“Is Jazz Dead?” — a book review
The following review is slated for publication in the March 2006 issue of Jazz Notes, the quarterly publication of the Jazz Journalists Association, edited by yours truly. —Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address)By Stuart NicholsonRoutledge, New York/London, 2005; 270 pp; $19.95 paperback Review by David R. Adler With the title of this book, Stuart Nicholson