David R. Adler
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04/25/12 Features
Eddie Gomez: "I Love It All"
The supremely versatile and lyrical bassist on Evans, Corea, solo work and more
01/12/12 News
NEA Jazz Masters Concert 2012
A parade of jazz giants salutes the newest recipients of jazz's highest honor
12/19/11 Features
Michael Feinstein: Don't Call Him Cabaret
The keeper of the Great American Songbook—and one of jazz's most important allies
10/10/11 Features
Nicholas Payton: Where Raw Talent Meets Controversy
The wild world of jazz’s most provocative trumpeter
08/09/11 Features
Craig Taborn: Alone, at Last
On Avenging Angel, acclaimed sideman Craig Taborn makes an imposing solo piano statement
06/13/11 Features
Donny McCaslin: Big Love
Kind, dependable and diligent, Donny McCaslin is also a supremely gifted technician and an endlessly curious improviser—a certified player's player. But for the 44-year-old family man, chops aren't the point. McCaslin is trying to move people.
May 2011 Features
String Kings: Guitar Exhibit at Met in NYC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates the artisans of the archtop guitar
April 2011 Overdue Ovation
Kermit Driscoll: A Resolution Realized
Bassist talks with David R. Adler about latest album and what he's had to overcome in recent years
March 2011 Features
Henry Threadgill: Be Ever Out
Stunning recent recordings and two weighty box sets help tell the story of Henry Threadgill, an unstoppable American original.
June 2010 Features
David S. Ware: After the Storm
Still coping with the aftermath of a kidney transplant, David S. Ware forges ahead with solo saxophone, a new trio and a return to the Vision Festival this summer
03/08/10 Features
Pat Metheny: Welcome to the Machine
Combining a yen for solo projects and a career-long immersion in music technology, Pat Metheny explores another frontier: “orchestrionics”
January/February 2010 Features
Matthew Shipp: Song of Himself
As his 50th birthday approaches, Matthew Shipp upholds the avant-garde ideal with a new solo piano album and a creative temperament as restless as ever
May 2009 Features
John Hollenbeck: Big Apple to Brotherly Love
Gongs ring out, loud and long, followed by the boom of timpani and the sparse rattle of percussion. Then, from the rear of Philadelphia’s Painted Bride Art Center, out of view, several horns begin an achingly dissonant rubato theme. Soon the players emerge...
April 2009 Features
Tarbaby: Back to Basics
I don’t want to hug the tar baby …” With these words, sampled and spliced into a hip-hop montage, Tar Baby’s eponymous debut begins. The voice belongs to the late Tony Snow, press secretary for the Bush White House, who used the term from the Br’er Rabbit...
02/02/09 Concerts
Keith Jarrett Solo at Carnegie Hall
“This recording studio has more people in it than any other studio I’ve been in,” said Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, in his first New York solo engagement since September 2005. The pianist was feeling talkative, although the lighthearted quips came later...
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ReportAbout David R. Adler
David R. Adler writes on music, politics and culture from his home in New York. His work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, JazzTimes, DownBeat, Jazziz, Slate, Time Out New York, The New York Times, Forward, The New Republic Online and many other outlets. David is also a "New York @ Night" columnist and regular contributor to The New York City Jazz Record (formerly All About Jazz-New York). His blog Lerterland can be found at blog.adlermusic.com.