Thursday, April 14 2011
Pitom: Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes
By the end of Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes you should be exhausted by the experience, but you mostly feel rejuvenated, aware that something meaningful has happened.
Wednesday, August 25 2010
Archie Shepp: The New York Contemporary Five
Archie Shepp's free-jazz all-star band was unstoppable... until they stopped themselves.
Thursday, August 13 2009
Rashanim: Healing Music for Unrighteous Times
Rashanim's work is quite clearly grounded in tradition (both religious and musical), but their invocation of other places and times are very rooted in a modern sensibility: it’s definitely jazz and it is certainly imbued with a distinctively Jewish sensibility. Above all, it rocks.

































