Music
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)
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.
On Danilo Perez
In the new Philadelphia Weekly: Danilo PerezFri., Mar. 19, 8pm. With Somi. $26-$64. Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad St. 215.731.3333 www.kimmelcenter.org Pianist Danilo Perez has blazed a trail from his native Panama to the U.S. and beyond, amassing a lofty body of work with Wayne Shorter’s quartet, Jack DeJohnette, Roy Haynes and many others, to say nothing of his myriad
On Christian Scott
Patrick notes the mounting buzz over trumpeter Christian Scott and his forthcoming Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. I’m still getting to know the record, didn’t flip over it at first listen, but it’s clearly the work of someone with high skill and strong vision — exactly the sort of hip, relevant, advanced, forward-thinking music that Stuart Nicholson believes to exist only
“Using the jazz”
Pitchfork has an interview with She & Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward), whose music I don’t know very well. But this passage caught my attention: ZD: For “In the Sun”, I originally composed it with a classic jazz chord progression — with a little chromatic step — and it was slower. But we got in the studio and Matt