Music

I have a brief news-oriented piece on Fred Hersch in the September 2010 JazzTimes. It struck me long after submitting the story that the word “gay” does not appear in it, despite the fact that Fred has been out for well over a decade. At first I thought I should have corrected this, but ultimately I’m glad that it didn’t

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In case you missed the last one… Joel Yennior Trio, Big City Circus (Brass Wheel) Sándor Szabó & Kevin Kastning, Returning (Greydisc) The Wee Trio, Capitol Diner Vol. 2: Animal Style (Bionic) Rafi Malkiel, Water (Tzadik) Sandro Albert Quartet, Vertical (Daywood Drive) Juan García-Herreros (a.k.a. Snow Owl), Art of Contrabass Guitar (Inner Circle)

In case you missed the last one… Alex Brown, Pianist (Sunnyside) Michael Dease, Grace (Jazz Legacy) Nick Rosen, Into the Sky (Porter) Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity (ESP-Disk) Stephen Gauci/Kris Davis/Michael Bisio, Three (Clean Feed) Julian Argüelles Trio, Ground Rush (Clean Feed)

My review of Guillermo Klein’s brilliant new album Domador de Huellas, in this week’s Time Out New York. Klein and his group Base de Nave are at the Village Vanguard August 17-22.

Below, from the August 2010 issue of All About Jazz-New York. (Check the new AAJ-NY website, the result of its split from AllAboutJazz.com.) — There was one sure way for tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger to heighten the freewheeling melodic onslaught of his quintet gig at Smalls (July 1st): add alto saxophonist Loren Stillman to the frontline. Ornette Coleman’s music was

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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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