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)
In the new Philadelphia Weekly: Composer Portrait: Fieldwork Fri.-Sat., Mar. 11-13, 8pm. $12 ($30 three-night pass). Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St. 215.922.1695 www.arsnovaworkshop.org Somehow the most skewed, abstract rhythms become magnetically appealing when pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshawn Sorey gather as the experimental collective Fieldwork. In a rare three-night showcase, these formidable musicians