MUSIC
MONDAY, JUNE 18
8:00 PM

JD Allen Trio:  Love Stone
Nublu
151 Avenue C, East Village, Manhattan

$15 advance; $20 door
http://lpr.com/lpr_events/jd-allen-trio-nublu-june-18th-2018/

JD Allen is a very fine sax player, In The Tradition but not afraid to go a little Outside.  His best album is his next-to-the-last one, Americana:  Musings on Jazz and Blues -- one of the very best jazz albums of the last few years, really.  Now he and his ace trio are releasing a ballads album called Love Stone, around which this show is built -- and expectations (at least of your compiler, who loves tenor sax ballads albums) are high.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Some might say I'm too apt to recommend German beer halls.  But come on:  beer!  sausage!  What could be better?  Zum Schneider.