Think the Cactus Cafe for jazz. One World Theatre is bringing in, it makes you wonder how Hartt Stearns' nascent nonprofit arts organization can afford acts like McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock without a university endowment. During the second of two sets, the answer Saturday night was 90 minutes of, if not jazz immortality, then at least local lore. Both shined on their individual solos, but as a trio, there was obviously none of the telepathy that develops from musicians playing together for any decent length of time. Abbey Lincoln, Jon Hendricks, John Zorn's Masada.
Jazz dreams hard in Austin.
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