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Project O: Now as Then
by David Adler
Leaderless dates aren't an everyday occurrence in jazz, nor are organ trio sessions featuring trumpet rather than, say, guitar. This particular collaboration, Project O, features Ingrid Jensen on trumpet, Gary Versace on organ and Jon Wikan on drums. The three principals have found a supportive home for their labor of love on Montreal's Justin Time label, ...
November 2003
by David Adler
Remember Shakti — Easily one of the most moving and memorable performances of the year. At the Town Hall, a rock-star reception greeted not only the great John McLaughlin, but also his fellow members of Remember Shakti — Zakir Hussain on tabla, U. Shrinivas on electric mandolin and V. Selvaganesh on kanjira (Indian tambourine), ghatam (clay ...
October 2003
by David Adler
Circumstances conspired to keep me away from the month-long 50th birthday celebration of September’s AAJ-NY cover icon, John Zorn, at Tonic. I was counting on catching Derek Bailey’s performance with Zorn and Ikue Mori toward the end of the month, only to find out that Bailey, afflicted with bronchitis, bailed. All the same, happy birthday, Mr. ...
Will Power in 'Flow'
by David Adler
JazzTimes magazine received some angry mail last year after a cover feature on Q-Tip, formerly of the rap group A Tribe Called Quest. One respondent referred to the hip-hop icon as “some damn rapper.” It’s funny how some parade their ignorance, quick to condemn artists they’ve hardly even heard of. How sad, in this case, that ...
September 2003
by David Adler
Blackout! — The massive power failure that darkened cities from New York to Michigan on August 14 took a healthy chunk out of the month’s jazz calendar. As part of Tonic’s FONT series (Festival of New Trumpets, co-curated by Dave Douglass and Roy Campbell, Jr.), Bill Dixon was to have played a solo concert, marking his ...
August 2003
by David Adler
David S. Ware/Henry Grimes — Much has already been said and written about the return of veteran bassist Henry Grimes, found living in poverty in California after a three-decade disappearance. Grimes returned to a New York stage for the first time at the Vision Festival in May, but it was at Iridium, during a three-night double ...
July 2003
by David Adler
Schedule overload and a poorly timed bout of illness forced me to miss Carla Bley’s big band fun at Iridium, as well as tenorist Bill McHenry’s Village Vanguard debut, playing trio alongside Charlie Haden and Paul Motian (and on a different night, fronting his sextet with Motian, Ethan Iverson, Duane Eubanks, Reid Anderson, and Ben Monder). ...
June 2003
by David Adler
Vision Festival — Pressing family matters kept me away throughout Memorial Day weekend, including the widely heralded return of Henry Grimes. But the annual festival got off to a strong start with the pulsating abstractions of Joe and Mat Maneri with drummer Randy Peterson, and live improv dancing by Christine Coppola. DJ Spooky and the deep-voiced ...
Bob Moses: Love Animal
by David Adler
Bob Moses recorded his debut album, Love Animal, in 1967-68 at the age of 19. But he never released it, he tells us in his informative and often amusing liner notes, "for reasons I don't remember." After all these years, the master drummer/percussionist has decided to unveil his earliest work as a leader on Amulet Records, ...
Lewis Porter: Second Voyage
by David Adler
Lewis Porter has a well-earned reputation as one of jazz's most meticulous and thoughtful scholars. He is the founder and director of the Masters Program in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers University, not to mention the author of John Coltrane: His Life and Music (Michigan, 1998), which many consider the definitive Coltrane biography. But part ...
