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Nathan Hubbard

Pathika

By David Borgo

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Mumbai; Mombasa; Aqaba; Limassol; Lisboa; Dubrovnik; Azrou; The Bath.

David Borgo: Pathika

by Dan McClenaghan
July 25, 2023

San Diego's David Borgo, a top-tier jazz saxophonist and an ethnomusicologist with a professorship day job at the University of California at San Diego, says, “Ethnomusicology is like the anthropology of music." He puts this concept into practice with his teaching for the “Semester At Sea." This educational cruise program takes students to various ...

Zoh Amba, Janel Leppin, & Roberto Ottaviano and Alexander Hawkins

by Maurice Hogue
September 26, 2022

Free jazz saxophonist Zoh Amba has had much attention focused on her in a fairly short time, and a new album with drummer Francisco Mela will keep those spotlights firmly in place. There's also a track from her debut, Oh Sun!. Cellist Janel Leppin leads a great band on her new Ensemble Volcanic Ash, while Chicago ...

Idris Ackamoor, Jasper Hoiby, Die Hochstapler & Monder/Malaby/Rainey

by Maurice Hogue
September 12, 2022

A band that has endured since the 70s when they were one of the first American bands to tour Africa, Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, have just re-released some of that early music, and we dig into that, plus new music from Germany's Die Hochstapler, Toronto's Luis Deniz, bassist Nicolas Ojeda from Buenos Aires & Jasper ...

Furiously Dreaming

By Nathan Hubbard

Label: Orenda Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: CD 1: Crows On The Roof; Mirror Forgot; sleep:dream:silence; And We All Fall Down. CD 2: Furiously Dreaming; Other Ideas; The Owl of Brittany Road (specter of the late late night); Skeleton Key Theme.

Peter Kuhn Trio: The Other Shore

by John Sharpe
September 26, 2016

Returning to the music after some 35 years off the scene, reedman Peter Kuhn helms a live date which catches him in consort with two like-minded and accomplished free spirits in bassist Kyle Motl and drummer Nathan Hubbard. Interest in Kuhn has spiked following the reissue of his debut Livin' Right, as part of the splendid ...

Three New Releases from Peter Kuhn

by Dave Wayne
August 4, 2016

Clarinetist Peter Kuhn came up in the 1970s. In those days, one could count the number of modern jazz clarinet specialists on one hand: John Carter, Perry Robinson, Theo Jorgensmann, Alvin Batiste and—if you include the bass clarinet—Michel Pilz. So, one hand and a finger. Still associated with Benny Goodman, Dixieland and Swing, the clarinet was ...

Nathan Hubbard / Skeleton Key Orchestra: Furiously Dreaming

by Dave Wayne
July 1, 2016

Sprawling. Massive. Unapologetically ambitious. All over the musical map. But, somehow, not excessive. Furiously Dreaming is a two-CD set by percussionist / composer / musical visionary Nathan Hubbard and his 50-member (for this recording) Skeleton Key Orchestra. The leader or co-leader of a dozen or so different small ensembles playing everything from modern jazz to contemporary ...

Peter Kuhn Is Back With A New Trio Recording And His Archive Recordings Reissue

May 25, 2016

Livin' Right is a product of the amazing NYC loft scene of the 1970s, where players from around the world gathered in a rare period of community, harmony, and creativity, a time when a relative unknown from California could meet and play with the great musicians on this disc. William Parker was already a phenomenon at ...