Category: AJBlogs

Rafal Sarnecki, Climbing Trees (Outside In Music)
Mikkel Ploug/Mark Turner, Faroe (Sunnyside)
Mark Turner/Ethan Iverson, Temporary Kings (ECM)
Hans Teuber & Jeff Johnson, Deuce (Origin)

Jazz fusion from Slovakia on a sort of hammered dulcimer? Yes.

Here’s an action list from the museum in Rio de Janeiro.

The jazz saxophonist’s creativity is unmatched – and here’s the music to prove it.

On its Facebook page, Rio de Janeiro’s Museu Nacional do Brazil has posted an “action list” of ways in which concerned museum lovers can participate in what the devastated institution optimistically calls “the reconstruction of the museum.”

Several days ago, I went to the New York Botanical Garden to see its summer exhibition, Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai‘i. It included several paintings I knew nothing about. And, as I soon discovered, from talking with friends and posts on Facebook and Instagram, neither did many other art-lovers.

When Paul Taylor died of renal failure on Wednesday, August 29th, and I was coping with that news, I started to think not just of the 140 dances he made during his remarkable career, but of his connection to the great figures of 20th-century dance whose pantheon he joins.

Jazz-World fusions abound, but in general, the musicians that create this music play instruments that have already been integrated into the jazz “sound.” What is less common is to find musicians who play what Howard Mandel would dub “instruments rare to jazz.”

WARNING: The video below (posted yesterday on Twitter) of the fire-ravaged interior of what was once the National Museum of Brazil (now largely reduced to rubble) may induce nausea and is not for the faint-of-heart.