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Mark Helias

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Bassist/Composer Mark Helias has been making innovative music since beginning his career in the mid seventies. He has enjoyed long musical associations with Edward Blackwell, Anthony Davis, Dewey Redman, Ray Anderson, Don Cherry and Gerry Hemingway.

Eight albums of his music have been released since 1984, including Split Image, The Current Set (1987), Desert Blue (1989) and Attack The Future, (1992) Loopin' the Cool (1995), Fictionary (1998), Come Ahead Back (1998) and New School (2001) Verbs of Will (2003).

Mr. Helias had a seventeen year association with the great drummer Edward Blackwell, with whom he recorded two CDs

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Gordon Grdina's The Marrow with Fathieh Honari

Label: Attaboygirl Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Not of Them; Raqib; Rags e Parvaneh; Break The Branch; Qalander.

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Truth Seeker

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Truth Seeker; Devotion; Mystical Vibration; Spiritual Growth; Ubiquitous Light; Life's Meaning; Intuition.

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Article: Interview

Quinsin Nachoff: The Science of the Sublime

Read "Quinsin Nachoff: The Science of the Sublime" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


New York-based tenor saxophonist and composer Quinsin Nachoff creates at the intersection of jazz and classical music--and his work history demonstrates he is equally at home in both worlds. From saxophone concertos, chamber music and string quartet to his stellar group Flux--featuring David Binney, Matt Mitchell, Kenny Wollesen and Nate Wood--Nachoff is obliterating genre ...

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Stars and Constellations

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Stars and Constellations: Scorpio; Pendulum; Stars and Constellations: Sagittarius.

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Article: Album Review

Matthew Shipp & Mark Helias: The New Syntax

Read "The New Syntax" reviewed by John Sharpe


Pianist Matthew Shipp particularly favors the duo format. Among a discography of more than 300 entries are winning combinations with partners as varied as trumpeter Nate Wooley, violist Mat Maneri, and saxophonists Darius Jones, Rob Brown and Evan Parker. But he retains a special fondness for the bass/piano twosome, accounting for multiple meetings with longtime comrade ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dan Rosenboom, Randy Weston, Paul Butterfield and More

Read "Dan Rosenboom, Randy Weston, Paul Butterfield and More" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show features lively and subdued modern jazz from a wide variety of musicians including Dan Rosenboom, Randy Weston, Cathy Segal-Garcia, and Paul Butterfield. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project “Catamaran" ...

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Article: Interview

Catching Up With Matthew Shipp

Read "Catching Up With Matthew Shipp" reviewed by Mark Corroto


As Matthew Shipp enters his sixth decade he has nothing left to prove to the jazz cognoscenti. He has for 40-plus years worked at crafting an instantly recognizable language at the piano. When he moved to Manhattan's Lower East Side in the '80s, he immersed himself in the same do-it -yourself culture that produced the post-punk ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Wadada Leo Smith, Aruan Ortiz & Neill Duncan

Read "Wadada Leo Smith, Aruan Ortiz & Neill Duncan" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


I know that the official International Jazz Day is April 30th, but around the One Man's Jazz HQ, pretty much every show features international artists. This episode is no exception with music from artists representing 14 different countries over the 23 tracks. Heading the list is the unstoppable Wadada Leo Smith with a new band called ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

We Sick, Soojung Lee, Jane Ira Bloom & Novembre

Read "We Sick, Soojung Lee, Jane Ira Bloom & Novembre" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


The release of We Sick is not until the end of April, but definitely watch for this fiery work of improvisation and passion. Not long after George Floyd's murder, pianist deVon Russell Gray, saxophonist Nathan Hanson & drummer Davu Seru recorded We Sick in an abandoned church across from the Minnesota state capitol which was surrounded ...


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