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Max Johnson

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Described as “an intrepid composer, architect of sound and beast of the bass...” (Brad Cohan, NYC Jazz Record) composer-bassist Max Johnson creates complex worlds of sound, challenging his listeners to engage deeply and be rewarded with an experience always crafted with love, care, and clarity. With nine albums and over two thousand concerts internationally with artists like Anthony Braxton, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, John Zorn, and Mivos Quartet, Johnson brings a wild energy and excitement. Johnson currently teaches music theory at Brooklyn College and is the father to a beautiful chihuahua named Gabby. Celebrated as “one of the more versatile figures… a leader with a strong, woody tone” (Peter Margasak, The Chicago Reader), Johnson is equally adept as a composer, improviser, and interpreter

Album

Tubes

Label: Unbroken Sounds
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dust; Strangled Duck; Grizzly Bear; Four Portraits; Blue Monk; Tubes & Keys; Helicopter Exit.

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Article: Album Review

Sam Newsome: Tubes

Read "Tubes" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Tubes, a riotous investigation into the sonic by outlaw soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and provocateur bassist Max Johnson, burps to life with “Dust" and proceeds assuredly down its own peculiar byways and highways. It is a real treat. The track closes with Newsome's prepared horn pondering like a bluesman on his lone, lonely harp. It is ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ohad Talmor, Myra Melford, Roy Nathanson & I.P.A.

Read "Ohad Talmor, Myra Melford, Roy Nathanson & I.P.A." reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Load 'em up and play 'em. That's kind of how it's going these days, with so many interesting new recordings making their way to the show. Ohad Talmor's Ornette Coleman-inspired Back To The Land is already showing up on best-of-lists. He came across some unreleased rehearsal recordings by Ornette & Lee Konitz in Konitz's apartment after ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Clara Lai Trio, Sam Weinberg and Interstellar Nao

Read "Clara Lai Trio, Sam Weinberg and Interstellar Nao" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


A healthy dose of edgy new releases in this episode, featuring Spanish pianist Clara Lai and trio, saxophonist Sam Weinberg and trio, Bobo Stenson and several from the European hotbed of avant-garde--Netherlands (saxophonist Frans Vermeerssen, Cocktail Party Attack, saxophonist Bo Van De Graaf, & Mixing Memory and Desire), plus a freewheeling session from Mexico City featuring ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet, Illegal Crowns, and Iyer / Aftab / Ismaily

Read "Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet, Illegal Crowns, and Iyer / Aftab / Ismaily" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Debuting this episode are new albums from bassist Michael Formanek and his Elusion Quartet (Tony Malaby, Kris Davis & Ches Smith), Illegal Crowns (Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum, Benoit Delbecq & Tomas Fujiwara, and the trio of {m: Vijay Iyer}}, Arooj Aftab & Shahzad Ismaily with their Love In Exile. I expect to see all of ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Alex Norris, Sheila Jordan and More

Read "Alex Norris, Sheila Jordan and More" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This eclectic episode features celebrated jazz musicians such as Stan Getz and Sheila Jordan as well as lesser-known but equally strong players such as Alex Norris and Adam Larson. Playlist The Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

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Article: Album Review

Max Johnson Trio: Orbit of Sound

Read "Orbit of Sound" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Whereas Sketches (Fresh Sounds Records, 2022) could be considered a more traditional big bop trio recording with pianist/vibraphonist Karl Berger and drummer Billy MIntz, Orbit of Sound, NY bassist Max Johnson's second heady release of 2022 finds him in the instigative company of the ever undefinable Anna Webber on tenor saxophone and flute and drummer Michael ...

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Article: Album Review

Karl Berger, Max Johnson, Billy Mintz: Sketches

Read "Sketches" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


An exquisitely palatable sense of dance permeates the gregarious music bassist Max Johnson brings to the fore on Sketches, the second of two heady 2022 releases. Whereas the first, Orbit of Sound (Unbroken Sounds), teams him up with the rule-elusive sax and flute of Anna Weber and drummer Michael Sarin, Sketches presents a slightly more straight ...

Album

Orbit of Sound

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Quick One; Over/Under; Too Much Tuna; The Professor; Shepherd's Morning.


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