The Cornelia Street Café music venue is a bit like a railroad dining car, long and narrow, walls lined with mirrors substituting for windows. Though steadfastly situated at 29 Cornelia Street in the West Village, this evening the basement room was lurching and the glasses were rattling from the railings of the Jon Irabagon Trio as they marked the release of their new CD, Foxy. On tenor sax: Jon Irabagon, winner of the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, backed by Peter Brendler on bass and illustrious drummer Barry Altschul, who is also credited as “Special Guest” on Foxy. Since the Monk competition Irabagon has garnered much attention and a loyal following to which he has fed an eclectic diet of performances and CD releases in styles that are a discursion through the landscape of modern jazz and more: avant bebop (Mostly Other People Do The Killing), experimental (I Don’t Hear Nothing But The Blues), music of the 80s (Starship’s Journey), tribute to Sonny Rollins, avant country (Bryan and the Haggards), etc...MORE...
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