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Published: Sep 18, 2007

Heartache and joy are never far apart in folkie Anaïs Mitchell's thoughts. The past and the present, too, are entwined on The Brightness (Righteous Babe), the girly voiced guitarist's third album. Whether she's contemplating the marriage of Persephone and Hades or imagining Anaïs Nin's kiss, lamenting Bethlehem's strife or eulogizing lovers lost in the flood, Mitchell revels in the complications.

—M.J. Fine

Wed., Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., $11-$26, with Matt Duke and Eric Hutchinson, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com.

You're tired of settling. You're determined to move on. But who knows if you will? Hearts are notorious traitors, and yours needs reinforcement. So tuck Kim Richey's twangy rocker "Not a Love Like This" in your bra. Fed up and fantastically catchy, it just about orders you to sing along the second time around.

—M.J. Fine

Fri., Sept. 21, 7 p.m., $21-$35, with Peter Bradley Adams, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com.

Gilchrist's first two recordings focused on his carnival-Monk compositions, dominated as they were by his skewed funk horn lines. But on 3 (Hyena), the Baltimore pianist strips down to a trio, spotlighting his jazz-solos-over-hip-hop-backbeat concept's strengths (Gilchrist's nonstop, free-barrelhouse soloing, evidencing the controlled bluster that must have attracted similarly hard-charging saxophonist David Murray to hire him on) and weaknesses (the limited contributions of his rhythm section).

—Shaun Brady

Fri., Sept. 21, 8 and 10 p.m., $12, Chris' Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131,www.chrisjazzcafe.com.

The obvious question would be "from between what?" but the answer seems obvious from this triad's interactions. Something wholly other seems to arise from the chemistry between the saxophones of Jack Wright and Michel Doneda and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, so that the actual communication seems to be occurring somewhere between individual conceptions and collective improvisation to create such a severely controlled and intense result.

—Shaun Brady

Sun., Sept. 23, 8 p.m., $10, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., www.arsnovaworkshop.com.

There's a song for nearly every flavor of love on Ingrid Michaelson's Girls and Boys (Cabin 24), from first love to tentative love to obsessive love to unconditional love — even maternal love. Along the way, there's a little bit of you-left-me and a whole lot of I-left-you. Musically, Michaelson shows equal love for guitar and piano. Best are the jumpy ballad "Breakable" and the doormat lullaby "Corner of Your Heart."

—M.J. Fine

Fri., Sept. 21, 10:30 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0978, www.tinangel.com.

 

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