To the accompaniment of a chamber section that sounded like it was sliding off the Titanic, a cool-blue guitarist with a Barney Kessel lilt, a grooving walking bassist, a thundering drummer, a squawking trumpeter with a silvery piercing clarity, two piquant vocalists and an old friend conducting their non-Arkestra while maintaining duties on multiple instruments, … Continue reading Live Review: Marshall Allen And The New Dawn, Philadelphia, PA, April 9, 2025