My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, June 2014: Jeff Denson & Joshua White, I’ll Fly Away (pfMENTUM) John Ellis & Andy Bragen, MOBRO (Parade Light) Orrin Evans’ Captain Black Big Band, Mother’s Touch (Posi-Tone) Ideal Bread, Beating the Teens: Songs of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform) Anne Mette Iversen’s Double Life, So Many Roads
From the March 2012 issue of The New York City Jazz Record: — When bassist Ben Allison dedicated his Zankel Hall concert (Feb. 3) to New York City as a whole, he was glancing back at all the chameleonic work he’s done in town: music that has involved top jazz improvisers as well as figures like Joey Arias, the performance