In his third and final dispatch from the Amazonas Green Festival in Manaus, Brazil, NYC writer Ted Panken places the focus on American musician Ed Sarath, who "divides his time between teaching, scholarship, performing, composing, recording, speaking, and spearheading leadership initiatives.., " according to his official biography: One of the many pleasures of the 2023…
Tenderlonious - You Know I Care (22a Music. Album review by AJ Dehany) You Know I Care is a purist jazz quartet album that encourages you to engage with questions of what tradition and modernism mean when modernism has become tradition. It’s a bold statement of intent from the wickedly talented Tenderlonious aka Ed Cawthorne…
Tara Minton plus Nick Willsher(606 Club. 23 August 2023. Live review by Sebastian Scotney) Tara Minton with Lorenzo Morabito (L) and Jonah Evans (R). Photo Sam Brown It’s just a hunch. No more than the slight inkling of a possibility. But on the evidence of the two new numbers in Tara Minton’s first set at…
Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo - 'El Arte Del Bolero, Vol.2'(Miel Music. Album review by Sebastian Scotney) There’s that famous scene in the 1999 Wim Wenders film “Buena Vista Social Club”: Ry Cooder and his son Joachim dismount from their motor bike and sidecar and amble into a backstreet studio in Havana. Ry, on voiceover,…
In this second of his three reports from the 2023 Amazonas Green Jazz Festival in Manaus in Brazil, US writer Ted Panken tells the story of the Amazonas Band - an ensemble which has been at the heart of the festival since its first edition in 2006 - and its inspiring founder/leader Rui Carvalho,Dave Liebman…