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)
In the August 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record: — To this point, guitarist Rez Abbasi has focused overwhelmingly on original material, and although his work could be said to sit within the modernist mainstream of jazz, he’s spent little time in public playing standard tunes. That changed when he appeared in a trio setting with bassist Johannes
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, October 2010: Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Natural Selection (Sunnyside) Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Llyria (ECM) Kirk Knuffke, Chew Your Food (NoBusiness) Metropole Orkest/John Scofield/Vince Mendoza, 54 (Emarcy) Florian Ross, Mechanism (Pirouet) David S. Ware, Onecept (Aum Fidelity)