Sound Bites: January 10, 2010
Short takes on recent CD releases by Wayne Escoffery (Uptown), Von Freeman (Vonski Speaks), Komeda Project (Requiem), Donny McCaslin (Declaration) and James Weidman (Three Worlds).
Returning to Monterey after a 13-year absence, Maria Schneider is looking back in more ways than one. Monterey was the scene of Schneider’s first major commission, so for this late set at Dizzy’s Den, Schneider and her 18-piece band revisit that earlier work, “Scenes from Childhood.”