2019 new releasesJanuary 15, 2020January 15, 2020 2019 NPR Jazz Critics Poll Happy new year and best wishes to everyone for a beautiful 2020! I have been decidedly inactive on this site for some time now, but I thought I would dropContinue reading2019 NPR Jazz Critics Poll
2019 new releasesMarch 10, 2019 David Torn, Daniel Herskedal, and Greg Chudzik David Torn – Sun of Goldfinger (ECM Records) Included in the artwork for guitarist, composer, and producer David Torn’s new release Sun of Goldfinger is the anonymous maxim, “long roadContinue readingDavid Torn, Daniel Herskedal, and Greg Chudzik
2019 Live Music LouisvilleMarch 7, 2019 Live Music in Louisville, 03/09/19 – Tyshawn Sorey world premier performed by Louisville Orchestra A very unique opportunity has presented itself to music fans in the Louisville, Ky area: experience a top-shelf, world premier performance of one of the most important living composers…right downContinue readingLive Music in Louisville, 03/09/19 – Tyshawn Sorey world premier performed by Louisville Orchestra
2019 new releasesMarch 3, 2019 Anna Webber, Cyrille Aimée, Chris Potter, Julian Lage, and Marilyn Mazur Anna Webber – Clockwise (Pi Recordings) Taking influence from percussion pieces by Xenakis, Feldman, Varése, Stockhausen, Babbitt, and Cage – the Big-6 of 20th century composition, maybe – composer andContinue readingAnna Webber, Cyrille Aimée, Chris Potter, Julian Lage, and Marilyn Mazur
2019 new releasesFebruary 24, 2019February 26, 2019 RaaDie, TGB, Ralph Alessi, Bagland, and Wing Walker Orchestra RaaDie – Vast Potential (Traumton Records) For over a decade, Austrian musicians Lorenz Raab and Christof Dienz have been making music as a trumpet / zither duo, but have onlyContinue readingRaaDie, TGB, Ralph Alessi, Bagland, and Wing Walker Orchestra
2019 new releasesFebruary 10, 2019 Allison Miller, Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux, Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord, Christoph Irniger, and Miho Hazama Allison Miller – Glitter Wolf (Royal Potato Family) Accomplished drummer/composer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom project returns with the follow up to 2016’s first-rate Otis Was A Polar Bear withContinue readingAllison Miller, Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux, Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord, Christoph Irniger, and Miho Hazama
2019 new releasesFebruary 3, 2019February 3, 2019 Hifiklub, Alister Spence and Satoko Fujii’s Orchestra Kobe, Lansing McLoskey and The Crossing, Yonathan Avishai, and Gerald Cleaver, Nels Cline, and Larry Ochs Hifiklub – E Lisboa (Shhpuma Records) Having already shown proficiency in collaboration with high profile acts likes Lee Ranaldo, Christian Fennesz, and Mike Watt, French ensemble Hifiklub turn their sightsContinue readingHifiklub, Alister Spence and Satoko Fujii’s Orchestra Kobe, Lansing McLoskey and The Crossing, Yonathan Avishai, and Gerald Cleaver, Nels Cline, and Larry Ochs
2019 new releasesJanuary 27, 2019January 28, 2019 Human Feel, Eric Dolphy, Layale Chaker & Sarafand, Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, & Bobby Previte, and Greg Ward Human Feel – Gold (Intakt Records) When you perform with a group of musicians for three decades certain modes of non-verbal communication tend to develop so that picking things upContinue readingHuman Feel, Eric Dolphy, Layale Chaker & Sarafand, Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, & Bobby Previte, and Greg Ward
2019 new releasesJanuary 21, 2019 Fredrik Nordström, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Mick Rossi’s Anti-Matter, Rudy Royston, and Christopher Trapani Fredrik Nordström – Needs (Clean Feed Records) Although Swedish saxophonist Fredrik Nordström has gathered a “double quartet” in the Coleman sense of instrumentation (two times sax, trumpet/trombone, bass, and drums,Continue readingFredrik Nordström, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Mick Rossi’s Anti-Matter, Rudy Royston, and Christopher Trapani
2019 new releasesJanuary 6, 2019January 6, 2019 Drone Trio, Du Yun & International Contemporary Ensemble, Timespine, Flavio Zanuttini Opacipapa, and Claudio Scolari, Daniele Cavalca, and Simone Scolari Drone Trio – Lantskap Logic (Clean Feed Records) When one considers a trio of pipe organ, electric guitar, and saxophone, the initial expectation is not likely, “a minimal, dark-ambient masterpiece!”Continue readingDrone Trio, Du Yun & International Contemporary Ensemble, Timespine, Flavio Zanuttini Opacipapa, and Claudio Scolari, Daniele Cavalca, and Simone Scolari