Music
BYOV #3
The next BYOV (Bring Your Own Vinyl) session takes place on Sunday, August 14 at Barbès, 3pm. Go here for a report on last month’s proceedings. I can’t make this one, but curator Bret will be featuring a selection of mine in absentia. The themes for August: a) Favorite duo performances. Two musicians, one stage. No holds barred. Well, no
On Eric Harland, Owen Howard
This review appears in the August 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record. — Eric Harland, Voyager: Live By Night (Space Time/Sunnyside) Owen Howard, Drum Lore (BJU) By David R. Adler There’s no one way for a drummer-bandleader to approach a recording project, and these two highly dissimilar outings make it plain. Eric Harland, one of today’s most celebrated
On Aaron Goldberg/Guillermo Klein
This review appears in the August 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record. — Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein Bienestan (Sunnyside) By David R. Adler As pianists, Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein couldn’t be less alike. Goldberg is a leading virtuoso soloist of our day. Klein’s chops are far more modest, and his main artistic canvas is his extraordinary
New York @ Night: August 2011
In the August 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record: — To this point, guitarist Rez Abbasi has focused overwhelmingly on original material, and although his work could be said to sit within the modernist mainstream of jazz, he’s spent little time in public playing standard tunes. That changed when he appeared in a trio setting with bassist Johannes
Six Picks: August 2011
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, August 2011: Gary Burton New Quartet, Common Ground (Mack Avenue) Norman David and The Eleventet, At This Time (CoolCraft) Anne Mette Iversen Quartet, Milo Songs (BJU) Nicole Mitchell, Awakening (Delmark) Edward Simon/Stephen Keogh/Philip Donkin, Danny Boy (ind.) Turtleboy, Smart Matter (Songlines)
The week on disc (94)
In case you missed the last one… David S. Ware/Cooper-Moore/William Parker/Muhammad Ali, Planetary Unknown (Aum Fidelity) Alex Sipiagin, Destinations Unkown (Criss Cross) Sylvie Courvoisier-Mark Feldman Quartet, Hôtel Du Nord (Intakt) Rick Stone Trio, Fractals (JazzAnd) Daniel Jamieson’s Danjam Orchestra, Sudden Appearance (OA2) Larry Goldings, In My Room (BFM Jazz)
On Pedro Giraudo
This review appears in the July 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record. — Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra Córdoba (Zoho) By David R. Adler If one sound in bassist Pedro Giraudo’s music stands out the most, it is that of Tony De Vivo’s cajón. Somehow this box percussion instrument cuts through the rambunctious reeds and brass of Giraudo’s 12-piece
On Ralph Alessi
This review appears in the July 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record. — Ralph Alessi & This Against That Wiry Strong (Clean Feed) By David R. Adler There’s a good deal of continuity between Wiry Strong, the latest release from trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s This Against That, and previous efforts such as Look, a 2007 outing with the same