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Tin Hat Trio: The Rodeo Eroded
by Celeste Sunderland
The Tin Hat Trio held two people captive one recent evening on New York State's Taconic Parkway. An orange crescent moon in the western sky followed the rental car, while the chug of a dobro and the sad lament of violin mingled with accordion drifted around the air-conditioned interior. The road was long, but the evergreens ...
Metta Quintet: Going to Meet the Man
by Celeste Sunderland
Drummer H. Benjamin Schuman is the founder and director of JazzReach, a Brooklyn based not-for-profit organization that takes its educational jazz programs on the road to expose students to the often hidden away piece of American culture known as “jazz."“Jazz has the ability to enrich and elevate them in ways that a lot of ...
John Abercrombie: Cat 'n' Mouse
by Celeste Sunderland
Contradiction has its claws wrapped around John Abercrombie's latest recording Cat 'n' Mouse. Somber, weeping melodies offset rolling, jubilant solos. Wild improvisation fades into shifting, dark-ening sonic landscapes. Delicate brushes on drums churn into steady rock beats. The fifth track “Third Stream Samba" doesn't venture anywhere near Brazil. Even the title of the album, naming the ...
Wayne Shorter: Footprints Live!
by Celeste Sunderland
Could saxophonist Wayne Shorter have known that the songs he wrote and recorded back in the '60s would be fresher than ever over 30 years later? Of course not, but he cranks them out on his new disc Footprints Live! with confident, fresh, Scope-tinged breath. Perhaps the jazz icon didn't realize how timeless his tunes would ...
