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Hank Roberts

Born: March 24, 1954

Even in a parallel universe where jazz cellists are as common as tenor madmen and trumpet-blowing boppers, Hank Roberts would be utterly unique. Over his nearly four-decade career, Roberts has forged a compelling original voice on the cello, encompassing abstract improvisation and soulful folk melodies, intricate new-music compositions and vigorous rock songs. Roberts’ latest CD, Everything Is Alive, features three long-time compatriots: guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Jerome Harris, and drummer Kenny Wollesen. The 2012 Winter & Winter release continues the cellist’s relationship with producer Stefan Winter, which stretches back through the bulk of Robert’s discography

Gordon Grdina's The Marrow with Fathieh Honari

By Gordon Grdina's The Marrow

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

DAY

Label: Greenleaf Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Morning; Five-Thirty Strut; Thank You For this Day; Limeni Village; Look To The Hills; The Mokes; Five-Thirty Strut; Missing You; Keep It Moving; It's Time To Sleep; A.M. Hours.

Break the Branch

April 27, 2024

Album: Gordon Grdina's The Marrow with Fathieh Honari
By Gordon Grdina's The Marrow
Label: Attaboygirl Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 8:03

Christy Doran: in The Corner Of The Eye

by Ian Patterson
January 15, 2024

For forty years, Irish-born, Lucerne-based guitarist Christy Doran has recorded prolifically for numerous labels. Inevitably perhaps, many of his earlier works are out of print, so it's cause for celebration that this release brings together the very best of Phoenix (hat Art, 1990) and What a Band (hat Art, 1992), two long-neglected yet essential Doran recordings. ...

Schoenberg on the Beach

By Jeff Lederer

Label: Little (i) Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: On the Beach; Blummengruss; Beneath the Shelter; The Pale Flowers of Moonlight; Heiter; I Gaze Upon; Moondrunk; Summer Evening; Summer's Weariness.

Jeff Lederer with Mary LaRose: Schoenberg on the Beach

by Jerome Wilson
December 30, 2023

Saxophonist Jeff Lederer has used several unexpected inspirations for musical projects over the years, such as Shaker hymns and the writings of Herman Melville. Schoenberg on the Beach may be the most audacious thing he has ever done. It blends the compositions of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and the sounds of Coney Island together into ...

Phil Haynes: Drummer, Bandleader, Composer & Educator

by Doug Hall
December 15, 2023

Veteran drummer/composer Phillip Haynes is featured on more than 85 releases from numerous American and European record labels. His collaborations include many of the seminal musicians of this generation: saxophonists Anthony Braxton, Ellery Eskelin and Dave Liebman; trumpeters Thomas Heberer, Herb Robertson and Paul Smoker; bassists Mark Dresser, Ken Filiano and Drew Gress; keyboard artists David ...

Kate Gentile's New Opus, Music For Hi-Fi Bugs, David S. Ware

by David Brown
November 9, 2023

This week, an ambitious electro-acoustic release from drummer/composer Kate Gentile; big band works from Benny Carter, Pete Rugolo, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and Gard Nelssen; Ellingtonia from the '60s new thing, and finally a birthday remembrance of David S. Ware. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of ...

August 2023

by Pat Youngspiel
July 31, 2023

PJEV-Kit Downes-Hayden Chisholm Medna Roso Red Hook 2023 With the third release on his Red Hook label it is becoming increasingly clear that producer Sun Chung isn't trying to box his label's musical output into any specific jazz styling or avant-garde field of experimentation, but rather that music can and should ...