Ideas can come at any time, and the drummer’s new After an Outdoor Bath was germinated in a post-soak glow. With vibraphone, sax, and trumpet lifting the melody together, it’s a nü-bop nugget, exactly what you’d hope for from this marked experimentalist whose impressive new Canada Day explores the swinging side of things—in an airy, poetic, and nuanced sort of way.
Sat., Oct. 24, 9 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m., 2009
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