Artist: Nick Dunston
Title: Atlantic Extraction: Live at Threes
Label: Out of Your Head Records
Release Date: 7/24/20
Personnel: Nick Dunston – double bass, compositions; Louna Dekker-Vargas – flute, alto flute, piccolo; Ledah Finck – violin, viola; Tal Yahalom – guitar; Stephen Boegehold – drum set
Impression: As evidenced by the overabundance of inspired ideas/execution/processes on this modestly recorded live date, there is no doubt that Dunston will continue to flourish as a major force in the direction of new music. Additionally, for every sale of this album OOYH Records will donate $1 to the Third Wave Fund, an organization chosen by Dunston.
More Info: Nick Dunston website and Out of Your Heads Records
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Artist: Steph Richards
Title: Supersense
Label: Northern Spy Recs
Release Date: 10/23/20
Personnel: Steph Richards – trumpet, flugelhorn, resonating drums/water; Jason Moran – piano; Stomu Takeishi – bass; Kenny Wollesen – drums, Wollesonics; Andrew Munsey – track 7, Wollesonics; Sean Raspet – scent design
Impression: In the midst of this recording of consummate masters tasked with, among other assignments, interpreting/responding to an array of scents, we are submerged in a truly distinctive environment…one that I anticipate experiencing in full when scratch-and-sniff swatches are mailed out with physical copies of the release in December.
More Info: Steph Richards website and Northern Spy Recs
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Artist: WHO Trio
Title: STRELL The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
Label: Clean Feed Records
Release Date: 09/04/20
Personnel: Michel Wintsch – piano; Gerry Hemingway – drums, voice; Bänz Oester – bass
Impression: No one has bested Duke Ellington’s mastery of all things musical and no group of musicians in recent memory has done greater justice to the Ellington / Strayhorn’s songbook as a pan-genre blueprint than WHO Trio.
More Info: Gerry Hemingway website and Clean Feed Records
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Buy Here: Bandcamp and Clean Feed Records Store