Music

In case you missed the last one… Bobo Stenson Trio, Cantando (ECM) Catherine Russell, Sentimental Streak (World Village) Mark O’Leary & Han Bennink, Television (Ayler) Aaron Weinsten & John Pizzarelli, Blue Too (Arbors) The Stance Brothers, Kind Soul (ObliqSound) Michael Jefry Stevens Quartet, For the Children (Cadence)

In case you missed the last one… Sumi Tonooka Trio, Long Ago Today (Arc) Donny McCaslin, Recommended Tools (Greenleaf) Ted Nash, The Mancini Project (Palmetto) Pandelis Karayorgis, Betwixt (Hatology) Blink., The Epidemic of Ideas (Thirsty Ear) Mark Weinstein, Straight No Chaser (Jazzheads)

New in Philadelphia Weekly: a preview of Todd Sickafoose’s Sept. 4 show at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and a review of Appearing Nightly by the Carla Bley Big Band.

W. Kim Heron, the moderator of our Coltrane panel in Detroit, has a nice piece in the Metro Times about the Detroit-Philly connection.

I returned yesterday from the Detroit International Jazz Festival, billed this year as a “Detroit-Philly Summit,” with artist-in-residence Christian McBride (Philly bassist extraordinaire). My business there was to speak about John Coltrane with fellow panelists Ashley Kahn, Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson and local Detroit legend Faruq Z. Bey. It was a great time, though I was boxed into a pretty

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My review of Kabir Sehgal’s Jazzocracy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology (Better World Books) is now online in the Autumn 2008 edition of Democratiya.

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, September 2008: Brinsk, A Hamster Speaks (Nowt) Eric Hofbauer & the Infrared Band, Myth Understanding (Creative Nation) Ahmad Jamal, It’s Magic (Birdology) Rosa Passos, Romance (Telarc) Martial Solal Trio, Longitude (Cam Jazz) Torben Waldorff, Afterburn (ArtistShare)

I haven’t been in the habit of linking to the short previews and CD capsule reviews of mine that appear regularly in Philadelphia Weekly. Putting up links to these short, ephemeral pieces of writing has always struck me as just too cumbersome on a weekly basis. But I’ve changed my mind. Although I’m preparing to exit Philly, I’m pleased to

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