One Weekend, Two Jazz Festivals

Plus current album favorites from Mabe Fratti, Actress, Armand Hammer and a post-hardcore classic by Slint

Last weekend, I visited two jazz festivals. On Friday, I took a train to Hamburg for Überjazz, a forward-thinking indoor event over two evenings. 21 acts played overlapping sets in three rooms of a 19th century engine works called Kampnagel: the main concert hall, a mid-size stage, and a club stage that had been taken over by Munich-based experimental l…