PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Pushing Back: Jazz Notes Against the Current

The young pianist Aaron Diehl is putting his talent against the odds. What hes up to with his trio, which played at Smalls on Tuesday night, isnt new in the temporal sense or new in the art-movement sense, which is to say it isnt confrontational or puzzling. It was a set that sounded as if it had arrived in a time capsule from before the 1960s game changers of jazz piano, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner, and thats strange coming from a musician in his mid-20s. It was clean, delicate, highly arra...

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