Tag: Music
Six Picks: January 2012
Happy New Year! To start us off, my monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, January 2012: Dan Blake, The Aquarian Suite (BJU) Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12) Emmet Cohen, In the Element (Bada Beep) Dave Douglas & So Percussion, Bad Mango (Greenleaf) Adam Rudolph’s Go:Organic Orchestra, The Sound of a
Nicholas Payton and “jazz”
Inevitably, a firestorm erupted on Twitter and Facebook after trumpeter Nicholas Payton published this post, titled “On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore.” And then this follow-up, “An Open Letter To My Dissenters.” In the second post Payton writes, “‘Jazz’ is an oppressive colonialist slave term and I want no parts [sic] of it.” This sounds similar to Fred Ho’s assessment:
Six Picks: December 2011
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, December 2011: Rez Abbasi’s Invocation, Suno Suno (Enja) Greg Burk Trio, The Path Here (482 Music) Michael Cain, Solo (Native Drum) Kevin Hays, Variations (Pirouet) Dan Tepfer, Goldberg Variations/Variations (Sunnyside) Anthony Wilson, Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Goat Hill)
On Donny McCaslin, Nicholas Payton
I’ve just gotten around to posting PDFs of my JazzTimes features on Donny McCaslin and Nicholas Payton. In other news, looking forward to end of semester, when I hope to start posting more often on this blog.
Six Picks: November 2011
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, November 2011: The Claudia Quintet + 1, What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform) Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi) Joel Frahm Quartet, Live at Smalls (Smalls Live) Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays & Patrick Zimmerli, Modern Music (Nonesuch) Ted Rosenthal Trio, Out of This World (Playscape) Tony Malaby’s Novela (Clean Feed)
Six Picks: October 2011
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, October 2011: Uri Caine Trio, Siren (Winter & Winter) Harris Eisenstadt, September Trio (Clean Feed) Greenleaf Portable Series, Vol. 2: Orange Afternoons (Greenleaf) Clay Jenkins Quartet, Good Signs (Jazz Compass) Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari, Tree of Life (Half Note) Tyshawn Sorey, Oblique – I (Pi)
On Eric Harland, Owen Howard
This review appears in the August 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record. — Eric Harland, Voyager: Live By Night (Space Time/Sunnyside) Owen Howard, Drum Lore (BJU) By David R. Adler There’s no one way for a drummer-bandleader to approach a recording project, and these two highly dissimilar outings make it plain. Eric Harland, one of today’s most celebrated
On Aaron Goldberg/Guillermo Klein
This review appears in the August 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record. — Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein Bienestan (Sunnyside) By David R. Adler As pianists, Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein couldn’t be less alike. Goldberg is a leading virtuoso soloist of our day. Klein’s chops are far more modest, and his main artistic canvas is his extraordinary