3) Other things I've been enjoying lately:
-Henry Threadgill's Zooid, This Brings Us To Vol 1 LP
-Andrew Cedermark's Moon Deluxe LP
-Art Ensemble of Chicago (Fanfare For The Warriors)
-Toro Y Moi's Daytrotter session
-Ben Allison's Think Free LP, and the trio series he's been leading at Kush for the last few weeks
-Chris Potter's Ultrahang LP
-George Lewis's Homage To Charles Parker LP
-Ricardo Villalobos, Alcachofa LP
-Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz LP
-Work
-The City of New York
-Sleep, When I Can Get It
Exciting weekend ahead. Bad news first: I'm fighting off some kinda nasty bronchitis and I have to work almost the entirety of Saturday. Good news abounds though. First and foremost, this year's Winter Jazzfest falls on Jan 08th and 09th and the lineup looks pretty exciting, lots of musicians I've heard, heard of, or probably should hear. I'm sad that I will be working through Ben Allison's set at Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday, but I should be getting off in time to see Vijay Iyer, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, and hopefully a few others whose names are less familiar. There's actually a NYTimes article that has some good samples of a few of the acts from the festival, worth checking out even if you can't make it to the gigs. (Dig that "Galang" cover by Vijay Iyer).
So why not check out some of the Winter Jazzfest's Friday night events if I'm working through part of the Saturday lineup? Well, it's possible I may try to sneak in a Ben Allison set tonight at the Bronx Museum of the Arts at 8 PM, but the main event for the night will likely be a stop by the Knitting Factory to check out Starscream and Anamanaguchi alongside openers The Crayons and Radiates. Don't know the latter two bands, but thanks to Asif/Drew (and also EardrumNYC, who list this as a "featured show"), I've seen Starscream live once before and heard enough Anamanguchi to know that this will be some of the cream of the 8bit crop.
