Nashville Scene – June ‘08 

Music

PAT COIL SEXTET Pianist Pat Coil has the kind of resume (Woody Herman and Vince Gill, Carmen McCrae and Trisha Yearwood, Natalie Cole and Travis Tritt) that can only belong to a member of that rare subspecies—the top-notch jazzer living in the country music capital. (Actually, there are more of them than you realize, though, like the Dalai Lama at an NRA convention, they don’t get the respect they deserve.) Coil’s latest, Bird House, holds its own with anything on the national jazz scene, largely because of his emphasis on composition and arrangement. Highlights include the Crescent City grease-fest “Way Down,” the Latin-tinged “Think Again” and the hard-boppin’ title track. This show also features a harbinger of summer, a Jim White sighting—now a jazz prof at University of Northern Colorado, the uberdrummer still spends the off-season in Music City. 7 p.m. at F. Scott’s —JACK SILVERMAN