| BRIAN ALLEN WITH TONY MALABY AND TOM RAINEY (Wednesday) Mr. Allen, an adventurous trombonist, has a new album called “Synapse” (Braintone) featuring the tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby and the drummer Tom Rainey. Their mode of expression is ruggedly free-form, but with a high degree of collective sensitivity. At 10 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177, barbesbrooklyn.com; cover, $8. (Chinen) |
| BRIAN ALLEN SYNAPSE TRIO PREVIEW FROM NEW YORK TIMES SEPTEMBER 2006 |