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Shawn Lovato

Born: February 13, 1985

Shawn Lovato is a New York-based bassist and composer whose work spans the many traditions, approaches, and styles of creative contemporary music. Growing up on the outskirts of New York City, Lovato has roots in its local underground music of hip hop, metal, and punk rock. These early fringe sensibilities are evident in his commitment to jazz, contemporary concert and improvised music, bringing him from CBGB to The Stone to Lincoln Center. As a bold voice in New York’s improvisation and jazz communities, Lovato collaborates with some of the most dynamic musicians in the scene, working with material spanning from free-improvisation to the American Songbook

Microcosms

Label: ears&eyes Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Microcosms (opening); Modular Ascension (for alto saxophone); Serenity Amid Absurdity (for violin and guitar); Splitting Hairs Part I (for drums); Splitting Hairs Part II (for piano and percussion); Splitting Atoms Part I (for ensemble); Splitting Atoms Part II (for bass); Microcosms (closing).

William Parker, Clemens Kuratle, Ernesto Jodos & Apophenia

by Maurice Hogue
September 19, 2022

There is plenty of new releases in this edition of One Man's Jazz, headed by a retrospective of earlier works of William Parker and a who's-who of guests (Universal Tonality). Also tracking back in time are releases from drummer Idris Muhammad and with his own retrospective of his ECM releases, guitarist Steve Tibbetts. From Europe come ...

Shawn Lovato: Microcosms

by Troy Dostert
September 9, 2022

Bassist Shawn Lovato's debut album, Cycles of Animation (Skirl, 2017), possessed a conceptual sophistication that went far beyond an imaginative slice of creative jazz. The same is evident on Microcosms, an album that involves giving his terrific ensemble the chance to develop minute gestures into larger, more determinate shapes. The constant ebb and flow that results ...

New Sounds From Around The World

by Bob Osborne
September 1, 2022

On this show all new releases from Clifford Korman, Ernesto Jodos, Matias Formica, Rocío Giménez López, & Matthew Golombisky, Xiomara Torres, Shawn Lovato, Julia Hülsmann Quartet, and, Jessica Pavone, Lukas Koenig, & Matt Mottel.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Cliff Korman Trio “Gaudaloupe" from Brasilified (Tiger Turn) 00:52 Ernesto Jodos “Creo, Miente, Nunca" from Dónde el ...

Gunter Baby Sommer, Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe & Linda Sikhakhane

by Maurice Hogue
July 13, 2022

This edition of OMJ is all over the place when it comes to new recordings—drummers Gunter Baby Sommer (with Lucaciu 3), Pierre Favre (with Samuel Blaser) and Tyshawn Sorey; saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane from South Africa and Germany's Charlotte Greve (with the Lisbeth Quartet), pianist Russ Lossing, Austria's AHL-6, and Belgian guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and his ...

Stephen Gauci / Santiago Leibson / Shawn Lovato / Colin Hinton: Live at Scholes Street Studio

by John Sharpe
January 7, 2021

When tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci was offered a set at Brooklyn's Scholes Street Studio performance space in December 2019 he leapt at the chance. At short notice he pulled together three former duet partners in the classic jazz quartet formation, though they had never previously performed as a single unit. So this is both the group's ...

Live at Scholes Street Studio

Label: Gaucimusic
Released: 2020
Track listing: Improvisation 1; Improvisation 2.

Simulacra

By Colin Hinton

Label: Panoramic
Released: 2020
Track listing: Obversify; Synesthopy (intro); Synesthopy; What Was; Breath; Slab Warmth.

Vijay Anderson, Francois Houle & Susan Alcorn

by Maurice Hogue
December 2, 2020

One could almost make the case that this episode is a reverse sandwich, with the filling on the outside, considering the first tracks from a sizzling hot Vijay Anderson Trio and the windup tune from pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and her fine band of Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Mark Feldman and Ryan Sawyer. You could ...