Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"
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Saturday May 03, 2008 at 11:00 AM |
I'm fully aware that I am a week late on this news but I wanted to wait for the weekend to give it the most time on the front page. Indaban JD Allen got an amazing review in last Sunday's NYTimes for his new album, "I am, I am." The album is available Here and the full review article is here (the writer goes on to review 3 other new releases). But here is JD's review, in full:
“I Am I Am” (Sunnyside), the new trio album by the youngish tenor
saxophonist J. D. Allen, is redolent of serious jazz from the
mid-1960s. But it’s not sentimental or glib; it’s dry, focused and
compressed. More than half its tracks are under four minutes, and if
you’ve listened to much serious jazz lately, that alone is a reason to
be curious. In his mid-30s, Mr. Allen sounds as if he’s been through
jazz pedagogy, but he’s not of it; the
record is alive with the rhythmic slang and vernacular of the
bandstand. (Gregg August is the bassist and Rudy Royston is the
drummer.) Some of these tunes are based on small motifs, expanded in
the style of Sonny Rollins; others are harmonic-motion exercises, expanded in the style of John Coltrane.
Balanced somewhere between études and collective workouts, all the
tracks contain nuggets of song, and Mr. Allen’s even, balanced sound
works through them with remarkable care, never revealing too much or
stiffing you on a good melody.
Let me be the first, and certainly not the last, to say Congrats, JD. You've made all of Indaba proud to count you among our members. You couldn't ask for a better review than that! My hope is that one day I won't even post about positive Times reviews of Indaba members because they'll be so many, but for now, this is certainly exciting.
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Saturday May 03, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Gratulation !
I like the Music of JD Allen and from time to time i listen to his very fine Indaba page demos.
Saturday May 03, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Really exciting JD - great to see this kind of recognition! Everyone here at Indaba are certainly big fans.
Saturday May 03, 2008 at 01:02 PM
I just read this nice review on JD's latest record called I AM I AM. Congrats on your well deserved attention!
Monday May 05, 2008 at 02:23 AM
Congrats!
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