In case you missed the last one… Bill Frisell, Sign of Life (Savoy Jazz) Sunna Gunnlaugs, The Dream (ind.) Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi) Avram Fefer/Eric Revis/Chad Taylor, Eliyahu (NotTwo) Rodrigo Amado, Searching for Adam (NotTwo) Walt Weiskopf Quartet, Live (Capri)
My Overdue Ovation column on bassist Kermit Driscoll, in the April 2011 issue of JazzTimes.
This review appears in the February 2011 issue of All About Jazz-New York. — Scott Colley, Empire (CAM Jazz) By David R. Adler The title Empire could lead one to think that bassist Scott Colley’s seventh album is an artistic comment on foreign policy. In fact, Empire is a now-vanished town in Kansas where Colley’s great-great-grandfather, Joseph J. Colby, settled