Music

In case you missed the last one… Mark O’Leary, Ellipses (FMR) Michael Bates, Clockwise (Greenleaf) Joe Lovano, Symphonica (Blue Note) Michael Felberbaum, Sweetsalt (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006) Richard Boulger, Blues Twilight (B-1) Dave Holland Sextet, Pass It On (Dare 2/EmArcy)

I’m fiddling around with this new scanner and finally able to get these two things online: first a festival brochure piece [pdf] on Guillermo Klein and Los Guachos; and second, a travel column [also pdf] for Jazziz magazine on Philadelphia jazz.

As a New Yorker, I’ve witnessed some pretty moving examples of public-spirited jazz, including the 9/11 memorial concert at Town Hall in November 2001. The sight of Dianne Reeves — not just a fine singer but an imposing musician — taking wing with an inspired rendition of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” has never left me. At the October 1

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My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, October 2008: Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble, Proverbs for Sam (Boxholder) Lisle Ellis, Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Henceforth) Lee Konitz & Minsarah, Deep Lee (Enja) Rudresh Mahanthappa, Kinsmen (Pi) Michael Moore & Fred Hersch, This We Know (Palmetto) Adam Niewood, Epic Journey, Vols. I

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In this week’s Philadelphia Weekly: a preview of Vocal Tracts, a night of experimental voice-oriented music; and a review of Charlie Haden’s Rambling Boy. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that from here forward, I’d be posting these PW items on a weekly basis. Well, funny story. Two days before my move back to New York, news came from

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My review of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette at the Kimmel Center, in today’s Inquirer. Posting will be slow to nonexistent this week. I move back to New York on Wednesday.

In this week’s Philadelphia Weekly: my review of Lafayette Gilchrist’s Soul Progressin’ (Hyena), and gig previews of Weasel Walter and Marc Ribot.