Charlie Haden and Hank Jones A serene valedictory air hangs over ''Come Sunday'' (Emarcy), a collaboration between Charlie Haden, one of jazz's great bassists, and Hank Jones, one of its finest pianists. Recorded in February 2010 -- just three months before Jones died, at 91 -- the album opens meaningfully with the gospel standard ''Take My Hand,...
KAREN ELSON ''The Ghost Who Walks'' (Third Man/XL) Karen Elson's debut album, ''The Ghost Who Walks,'' has too clear a back story to claim down-home authenticity. Ms. Elson is the redheaded English supermodel who's married to Jack White of the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather. He produced the album and played drums. And it's easy...
One of the fondest notions in jazz is that time is irrelevant. Everyone's trying to get over the fixities of the clock to find the magic chutes of improvisational freedom, where you can ''slip into the breaks,'' as Ralph Ellison wrote in ''Invisible Man,'' ''and look around.'' Time produces age, and it can seem, sometimes, as if older musicians...