{"id":5125,"date":"2013-09-30T23:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T06:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2013-09-30T23:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T06:33:54","slug":"colligan-and-shaw-play-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/09\/colligan-and-shaw-play-shorter\/","title":{"rendered":"Colligan And Shaw Play Shorter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we have added pianist George Colligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stimulating Jazztruth<\/em> to the Rifftides<\/em> blogroll (the blogroll is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcway down in the right column), the staff found a way to introduce Colligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \"Colligan-George-smiling\"<\/a>playing to readers who may not be familiar with his vigor and inventiveness. He and alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw performed a tribute to Wayne Shorter a couple of years ago at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival. It\"jaleel_shaw_01\"<\/a> was a prescient booking by the Tel Avivians—two steadily rising younger artists playing music by one of the idiom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most honored veteran composers. Colligan (pictured left), a former New Yorker, has established himself as a major presence in Portland, Oregon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thriving music community. Shaw (pictured right) grew up in Philadelphia and makes his headquarters in New York. <\/p>\n

With Boris Kozlov on bass and Donald Edwards on drums, we hear and see a quartet of musicians attracting increasing recognition. One of the tunes they thoroughly explored in Tel Aviv was Shorter’s 1965 composition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Speak No Evil.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

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