Music

My profile [pdf] of Tar Baby (Orrin Evans/Eric Revis/Stacey Dillard/Nasheet Waits) is in the April 2009 issue of Jazz Times. The magazine has just relaunched its website. Huge improvement. My contributor’s page is here.

This month in All About Jazz-New York, reviews of the Helen Sung/Ron Carter duo and Steve Coleman and Five Elements.

This review appears in the March 2009 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Louis Moholo-Moholo, Sibanye (We Are One): Duets with Marilyn Crispell (Intakt)Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton, Phases of the Night (Intakt)John Geggie, Geggie Project (Actuelle) David R. Adler Put a pin anywhere in the lengthy discography of pianist Marilyn Crispell and you’ll stumble on a new facet, an

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My preview of the SFJazz Collective (Allen Room, March 6 & 7), in the current Time Out New York.

My preview of the Psychotic Quartet (Dan Blacksberg/Katt Hernandez/Evan Lipson/Michael Evans) at Gojjo this Sunday, March 8, in the current Philadelphia Weekly. PW has spruced up its website — have a look around. Katt is taking part in John Hollenbeck’s Painted Bride residency, “Big Ears” — I’ll be in Philly this Friday for the wrap-up concert, working on a story

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My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, March 2009: Nels Cline, Coward (Cryptogramophone) Charles Evans, The King of All Instruments (Hot Cup) Tom Harrell, Prana Dance (HighNote) Jeremy Manasia, After Dark (Posi-Tone) Jason Rigby, The Sage (Fresh Sound New Talent) David S. Ware, Shakti (Aum Fidelity)

My preview of Syrian vocalist Gaida (tonight, Barbès), in the current Time Out New York.

My previews of the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble and Bang on a Can/Glenn Kotche, in the current Philadelphia Weekly.