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Kali Z. Fasteau/Kidd Jordan/Newman Taylor Baker - Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival (Flying Note)
13 October 2008Fasteau will be playing this Tuesday, October 14 at 10 PM at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC with Clif Jackson (bass), Ron McBee (percussion, berimbau), and guests. This is part of the monthly ESP-Disk series at BPC.
Jamie Davis - Vibe Over Perfection (Unity Music)
27 September 2008For male vocalists in pop music, it’s the tenors who get all the glory, but in jazz and much soul it’s the baritones, and when I saw this San Francisco-based veteran compared to JOE WILLIAMS and LOU RAWLS, I was eager to check him out.
Elliot Levin Trio - Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) – Tuesday, July 15, 2008
16 July 2008Levin, a grizzled veteran by now, has come to a distinctive style that, while certainly inspired by his predecessors’ work, is never obviously derivative of anyone in particular. Nor does it stand in one place; Levin is just as likely to play a melodic phrase as to unleash flying flurries of evolving patterns arpeggiated and/or scalar or soar into the altissimo register of his tenor in ecstatic exultation.
Marshall Allen and Weasel Walter - The Art Alliance (Philadelphia, PA) - May 6, 2008
18 May 2008Each performance ranged from quiet, reflective and almost meditative to short, fast bursts of dissonant noise.
Universal Is Shameless
21 July 2007How did Universal Music Group celebrate the 40th anniversary of the July 17, 1967 death of John Coltrane? By continuing to milk his catalog for all it’s worth.
Vision Festival 12 schedule
16 June 2007Every year, this artist-curated avant-garde jazz festival offers the greatest concentration of outstanding performances in New York.
Tony Scott - Fingerpoppin': Complete Sessions 1954-55 (Fresh Sounds); Tony Scott & the Three Dicks: The Complete Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson Quartet Featuring Dick Katz, Dick Garcia and Dick Hyman (Lonehill Jazz)
5 April 2007Jazz/world music clarinetist/saxophonist TONY SCOTT died on March 28, and as so often happens, that prompted me to see what of his I had to listen to. It turned out that I had very little of his early recorded output, so I bought two recent compilations of his ‘50s material to do some belated catching up.
Weather Report - Forecast: Tomorrow (Columbia Legacy)
16 December 2006If you’re holiday shopping for a box set to give to a jazz fan, consider this exemplary new compilation. Weather Report was one of the most influential electric jazz bands, setting fusion trends and then moving beyond them to set new ones.
Odyssey the Band - Back in Time (Pi)
24 April 2006It’s always a welcome event when JAMES “BLOOD” ULMER’s genre-twisting harmolodic trio reunites for a rare recording session.
Lou Rawls - The Best of: The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions (Capitol Jazz/EMI)
17 April 2006This can’t really be called a “Best Of” without including any of LOU RAWLS’s hits, nor can all of the tracks here be termed either jazz or blues. None of this matters, though, because there are three things that matter more…
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of January 4
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Belle & Sebastian – The BBC Sessions double CD (Matador)
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Subhumans Canada – Death Was Too Kind (Alternative Tentacles)
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Darker My Love -_2_ (Dangerbird)
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Love – Love Story DVD (Sudden Death CAN)
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Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe (New West)
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Iggy & the Stooges – Escaped Maniacs (Charly/MVDvisual)
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Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Ronboy/Yep Roc/Redeye)
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T.S.O.L. – The Early Years Live; From the Vaults of Flipside & the Targetvideo77, 1983 (TargetVideo77/Flipside/MVDVisual)
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Magnetic Morning – A.M. (Friend or Faux)
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American Music Club – Atwater afternoon (American Music Club)