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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 alto saxophonist Rick Countryman hitting it with some of the fine Mexican free jazz players.. Playlist Michael Formanek's Elusion Quartet “Entropy" from ...

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Album Review

Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere

Read "Sphere" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Bobo Stenson first rose to recognition as a sideman and in-house pianist in the late '60s with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, vibraphonist Gary Burton, and saxophonist Charles Lloyd, among many others. But it was in 1971, alongside drummer Jon Christensen, that he established his subtle, humorous shadings and folkish, earthy style with Underwear (ECM). Yet Stenson's intimate articulations are, for the most part, about as familiar to the less-than-fixated jazz world at large as one of those comets or asteroids blaze ...

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Building a Jazz Library

ECM Records Touchstones: Part 3

Read "ECM Records Touchstones: Part 3" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This third edition of “ECM Touchstones" explores more of the label's early recordings, repackaged and offered up as a way to present music that had perhaps slipped through time's cracks, into the hard-to-find category. Of these, four were re-released in 2019, one in 2008—24 to 47 years after their original releases. The music on these albums is stylistically diverse and uniformly excellent. All of it has stood the test of ...

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Album Review

Okay Temiz: Okay Temiz’s Oriental Wind Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982

Read "Okay Temiz’s Oriental Wind Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982" reviewed by Matthew Hutchison


The six-plus decade resume of Okay Temiz is a landscape snapshot of someone who made the most of their professional opportunities from different angles. A sliver of the performance side has brought him partnerships with American jazz giants Don Cherry, Dexter Gordon, Art Taylor and Clark Terry, along with an array of established European and South African peers. Another angle of his creative side stems from Temiz's creation of his percussion instruments to incorporate in a standard kit, including his ...

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In Pictures

Bobo Stenson Trio at Jazzontheroad Festival 2022

Read "Bobo Stenson Trio  at Jazzontheroad Festival 2022" reviewed by Danilo Codazzi


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Album Review

Bobo Stenson Trio: War Orphans

Read "War Orphans" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Manfred Eicher started ECM Records in 1969. Fifty years later, in 2019, with over 1500 releases to its name, the label continues to offer up compelling and unclassifiable music. And since the catalog is deep, and early-in-the-effort recordings have become harder to find, ECM periodically re-releases some of these gems, tagging them Touchstones. Early 2019--the half-century mark for ECM--finds a batch of twenty-five ECM Touchstone releases hitting the airwaves, music from pianist, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, pianist Paul ...

Album Review

Bobo Stenson: Contra la indecision

Read "Contra la indecision" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Con Bobo Stenson siamo di fronte a uno dei volti caratteristici scaturiti dalla scena musicale del Nord Europa: quello segnato dalla raffinatezza timbrica, dallo scandaglio armonico, dalla ricerca melodica ricca di sfumature e digressioni che per certi versi fa riferimento a Bill Evans, ma ne anestetizza la forza dinamica, la nettezza tagliente, i bagliori di fulmine. Allo stesso modo le matrici possono essere quelle di Paul Bley e Keith Jarrett. Ma nei confronti del primo manca la consapevole sfrontatezza trasgressiva; ...


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