Music

Ropeadope Records, founded in 1999, has essentially reinvented itself as Ropeadope Digital, an online venture. My story is in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer.

My profile of “the great restructural master” Anthony Braxton appears in the May 2007 issue of Jazz Times. PDF downloadable here.

I wanted to express belated excitement about one of my last evenings hearing music in New York (although that sounds so final — I plan to be back in NYC regularly). This was March 23, a night that began brilliantly uptown at the Thalia at Symphony Space, where clarinetist Andy Biskin played music from his CD Early American: The Melodies

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My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, April 2007: Ralph Alessi, Look (Between the Lines/Challenge) Bobby Broom, Song and Dance (Origin) Anat Fort, A Long Story (ECM) Alvin Fielder Trio, A Measure of Vision (Clean Feed) Russ Lossing/Mat Maneri/Mark Dresser, Metal Rat (Clean Feed) Kendrick Scott, The Source (World Culture)

Go here to read my Philadelphia Inquirer piece on guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau.

A small handful of my CD reviews are now online at Jazz Times: Loren Stillman’s Trio Alto Volume One (SteepleChase); a compilation from the Brooklyn Jazz Underground; Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan’s The Wind (ECM); and Russell Gunn Plays Miles (HighNote).

I have a short feature on guitarist Pat Martino in the current edition of the Philadelphia Weekly.

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, March 2007: Don Aliquo, Jazz Folk (Young Warrior Records) Richie Barshay, Homework (AYVA Music) Steve Kuhn, Live at Birdland (Blue Note) Wolfgang Muthspiel & Brian Blade, Friendly Travelers (Material) Dave Stryker & Steve Slagle, Latest Outlook (Zoho) Gebhard Ullmann/Chris Dahlgren/Art Lande, Die Blaue Nixe (Challenge)