Music
Blind Boys/Dirty Dozen
My review of the Blind Boys of Alabama and Dirty Dozen Brass Band, a Sunday night double bill at the Kimmel Center, in today’s Inquirer.
The week on disc (9)
In case you missed the last one… Carla Bley, The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (Watt/ECM) Asaf Sirkis & the Inner Noise, The Song Within (SAM)Loren Stillman, Blind Date (Pirouet) Dena DeRose, Live at Jazz Standard, Volume One (MaxJazz) Tardo Hammer, Look Stop & Listen: The Music of Tadd Dameron (Sharp Nine)Alan Pasqua, The Antisocial Club (Cryptogramophone)
The JJA Top Tens
The Jazz Journalists Association presents its members’ annual Top Ten CD lists, including mine. I’ll be publishing more year-in-review comments on this blog in the coming days.
On Sex Mob
My review of Sex Mob’s Dec. 4 show at Johnny Brenda’s — part of an Ars Nova Workshop triple bill — in today’s Inquirer.
On the radio
I’ll be a guest panelist on J. Michael Harrison’s The Bridge, WRTI 90.1 FM Philadelphia, on Friday, December 7 at 10pm EST. We’ll be spinning recent tracks and talking about why we like ’em. I believe you can stream the program live, info here.
Six Picks: December 2007
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, December 2007: Harry Allen, Hits By Brits (Challenge) Martin Bejerano, Evolution/Revolution (Reservoir) Michael Blake Sextet, Amor de Cosmos (Songlines) Peter Evans, The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12) His Name Is Alive, Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown (High Two)Henning Sieverts, Symmetry (Pirouet)
The conquering Kirov
At long last, the concert I’d been waiting for since I heard the Philadelphia Orchestra play The Rite of Spring in September. Valery Gergiev (pictured left) conducted the Kirov Orchestra last night at the Kimmel Center in Philly, in a special one-off Stravinsky program. First they played the complete Firebird, then the Rite. I’d been looking forward to the Rite
On Tiger Okoshi
My review of Tiger Okoshi’s absolutely gorgeous Saturday show at the Kimmel Center, in today’s Inquirer. There’s much more I could say about Okoshi and his band, but I’m putting this blog in park for about a week’s time. Back soon.