June 20, 2022 Issue

The only piece in this week's issue that appeals to me is Steve Futterman’s delightful “Goings On About Town” note on jazz pianist Alan Broadbent:

The pianist Alan Broadbent is likely known to a wider audience as the astute arranger who helped finesse popular recordings by Natalie Cole and Diana Krall. But he was also the not-so-secret weapon behind Charlie Haden’s “Quartet West,” providing both bopping and rhapsodic keyboard work and offering such romantic, noir-inspired originals as “Hello My Lovely” and “Lady in the Lake.” A trio that joins him with the bassist Don Falzone and the hypersensitive drummer Billy Mintz is a textbook vehicle for Broadbent to display his multifarious gifts as an improviser.

Postscript: Please, no more blurry photos by Ioulex. Looking at them is like looking through a lens smeared with butter. Seek clarity and sharpness, e.g., that extraordinary black-and-white image of the horse by Vanessa Winship, illustrating André Alexis’s short story “Houyhnhnn.”

Photo by Vanessa Winship