Andrew D’Angelo’s DNA Orchestra, Barrage & Luis Nubiola

The size of a group means nothing. There's as much fantastic music created by a trio as there is by a big band. This episode of OMJ attempts to prove that with sparkling new music from trios (Jason Robinson, Bruno Raberg & Bob Weiner -a definite must on my faves of 2020 list, Cuban/Polish saxophonist Luis Nubiola, and Rez Abbasi doing Django) to larger groups like Samuel Blaser live at Cornelia Street Café, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Stirrup and Norway's Barrage, to snarly big bands like that of alto saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo's DNA Orchestra. There's plenty more examples, plus a revisit from a seminal album that called for change back in 1994: guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson's Change: A Suite for Nelson Mandela. That message then is as relevant today, and I'm playin' the whole thing.

Playlist

• Stirrup + 6 "Insen for Yonsei" from The Avondale Addition (Cuneiform) 00:00
• Host speaks 07:31
• Andrew D'Angelo's DNA Orchestra "Big Butt" from DNA Orchestra (Self-released) 10:08
• Andrew D'Angelo's DNA Orchestra "Mee Nem Sa" from DNA Orchestra (Self-released) 17:20
• Pauli Lyytinen's Magnetia Orkestri "Polynesian Prayer" from Hypnosis (Eclipse Music) 30:01
• Host speaks 35:14
• Barrage "Moriarty" from The Was and Is to Come (Self-released) 35:53
• Barrage "The Was" from The Was and Is to Come (Self-released) 42:09
• Host speaks 50:35
• Henry Threadgill "In Touch" from Too Much Sugar for a Dime (Axiom) 51:45
• Christophe Monniot "Aunt Hagar Blues" from Une Nouvelle Terre (Le Triton) 1:00:28
• Host speaks 1:06:56
• Michael Gregory Jackson "Change" from Change: A Suite for Nelson Mandela (Golden) 1:08:20
• Mircea Tiberian Trio "Raphäel" from Raphäel (Self-released) 1:28:17
• Host speaks 1:33:04
• Samuel Blaser Quartet "Pascalio" from Live at Cornelia Street Café (Blaser Music) 1:34:14
• Stanley Jason Zappa "Muster Point IV" from Muster Point (We Jazz) 1:44:28
• Host speaks 1:51:18
• Dan Rosenboom Quartet "Momentum" from Points on an Infinite Line (Orenda) 1:52:46
• Lisa Ullen,
• Joe Williamson &
• Erik Carlsson "Jello" from Slow Dance (Self-released) 2:00:26
• Host speaks 2:06:15
• Jason Robinson, Bruno Räberg & Bob Weiner "Remembering Brother Lateef" from The Urgency Of Now (Creative Nation) 2:08:05
• Jason Robinson, Bruno Räberg & Bob Weiner "The Urgency of Now" from The Urgency Of Now (Creative Nation) 2:19:22
• Rez Abbasi "Anniversary Song" from Django-Shift (Whirlwind) 2:25:50
• Host speaks 2:33:10
• Thumbscrew "Composition #35" from The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform) 2:34:33
• Stirrup + 6 "Floating Melody" from The Avondale Addition (Cuneiform) 2:42:10
• Host speaks 2:50:37
• Luis Nubiola "The B&W Pathfinders" from Ten Plagues (Self-released) 2:52:01