A newcomer, Stephen Gosling, the group's pianist, brings his own nerve and effortless virtuosity to the mix.
Da Capo has an unusually close connection with Ms. Tower: she was the group's pianist for its first 15 seasons.
It comes from all three members of the group — the pianist Steve Kuhn, the bassist Steve Swallow and the drummer Joey Baron — but especially from Mr. Kuhn, who at 74 is one of jazz's most careful rhapsodists.
But in this group, with pianist John Taylor (pictured) and saxophonist and bass clarinettist Julian Siegel, Torto sings music a little closer to earth than Wheeler's poignant dream-walks – the hits of Paul McCartney, which Taylor has imaginatively arranged.
At the CD release party at Steinway Hall in Manhattan, Michael Boriskin, the group's pianist and the artistic and executive director of Copland House in Cortlandt, spoke to some 80 invited guests.
In June 1956, at the height of the Brown-Roach quintet's success, Brown was killed in an automobile accident, along with Richie Powell, the group's pianist, and Powell's wife.
Appearing with a capable but subordinate group — the pianist Doug Johnson, the bassist Evan Gregor, the drummer Jordan Perlson and, intermittently, the trumpeter Jason Palmer — she mounted a charm offensive, making sure to note where her albums could be purchased.
The responsive group, including pianist Sam Beste and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner (whose Hello Skinny band had played a contrasting opening set of Portico Quartet-like music), mixed grooving synth harmonies, electronic percussion and dark melodies.
(Carnegie Hall. 212-247-7800. Mat 4 at 2). "FREE FOR ALL AT TOWN HALL": TASHI This almost legendary group — the pianist Peter Serkin, the violinist Ida Kavafian, the clarinettist Richard Stoltzman, and the cellist Fred Sherry — was the unofficial chamber ensemble of the Me Decade, the first to play in informal dress and in alternative venues.
Later, at Cafe OTO, the American jazz visionary Wadada Leo Smith launched the first of three nights devoted to his civil-rights epic Ten Freedom Summers, with his fine American group including pianist Anthony Davis and bassist John Lindberg, and Britain's Ligeti Quartet.
