Jazz Articles about Brandon Seabrook

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Radio & Podcasts

Brandon Seabrook, Ahmad Jamal, and Ben Wendel

by Jerome Wilson
March 4, 2026

This episode runs the gamut from the subtle joys of Ahmad Jamal and Blood, Sweat and Tears to the intriguing weirdness of Brandon Seabrook and Ben Wendel.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 0:00 Ralph Alessi “Gobble Goblins" from Baida (ECM) 00:54 Jen Siukola “I Kissed You Goodbye" from Lighthouse Reverie (Self--Produced) 4:56 Host Speaks 12:51 Ahmad Jamal “Feeling Good" from ...

Album Review

Brandon Seabrook: Hellbent Daydream

Read "Hellbent Daydream" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 23, 2026

Avevamo lasciato Brandon Seabrook alle prese con le chitarre vintage nel notevole Object of Unknown Function, lo ritroviamo in quartetto (tre cordofoni, un pianoforte/sintetizzatore, l'assenza vistosa di batteria e strumento a fiato) nell'altrettanto notevole Hellbent Daydream, sempre per Pyroclastic Records. Nuovo quartetto dunque quello di Seabrook ma medesima tensione verso un mondo musicale spiazzante, distorto, sovversivo dove i sogni del titolo possono trasformarsi in allucinazioni sotto forma di innocui valzerini come in “Name Dropping is the Lowest Form of Conversation" ...

Album Review

Brandon Seabrook: Hellbent Daydream

Read "Hellbent Daydream" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 20, 2026

Brandon Seabrook's Hellbent Daydream arrives as a bold, surreal dispatch from the mind of one of New York's most restlessly inventive guitarists and banjoists. Long known for fusing punk rock energy, jazz improvisation, pop sensibilities and metal intensity, Seabrook assembles a striking drummer-less quartet here: Elias Stemeseder on piano and synthesizers, Henry Fraser on bass and Erica Dicker on violin. The result is a recording that thrives on contradiction, delivering 43 minutes of music that feels simultaneously manic and meditative, ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Seabrook, Lockheart, Eckemoff, Fernando & More

by Bob Osborne
January 22, 2026

Tradition meets experimentation in this fascinating collection of new releases. Beginning with the eclectic endeavours of Brandon Seabrook, via a mix of latin jazz, European exploration , free improvisation from the UK, a musical statement about the climate crisis, and closing with Thelonious Monk in concert in 1965.Playlist Brandon Seabrook “Name Dropping is the Lowest Form of Conversation (Waltz)" from Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic Records) 00:00 Mark Lockheart's Shapeshifter “Come On Over" from Shapeshifter (Edition Records) 05:18 Yelena Eckemoff ...

Album Review

Ye Olde 2: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time

Read "Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 9, 2025

Ten years after the first Ye Olde (Yestereve Records, 2015) was framed around a fantasy quest into a riotous Brooklyn guitar summit, trombonist extraordinaire Jacob Garchik returns with Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time, a 48-minute sci-fi prog jazz odyssey stretching from the heat death of the universe to the resurrection of consciousness itself. The original crew--Mary Halvorson, Brandon Seabrook, and Jonathan Goldberger on guitars, Vinnie Sperrazza on drums--anchors six of the eight tracks plus the ...

Album Review

Three-Layer Cake: Sounds The Color Of Grounds

Read "Sounds The Color Of Grounds" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 29, 2025

The trio of Mike Watt, Brandon Seabrook and Mike Pride began as a pandemic-era experiment, exchanging music files remotely to create Stove Top (RareNoise, 2021). Now, as Three-Layer Cake, they return with Sounds The Color Of Grounds, a record that reveals a fully realized and cohesive jazz-punk--or perhaps punk-jazz--ensemble. Watt, etched into punk rock's Mt. Rushmore, co-founded the Minutemen with D. Boon in 1980, and later formed fIREHOSE in 1986 following Boon's tragic death. Never confined by genre, ...

Album Review

Brandon Seabrook: Object of Unknown Function

Read "Object of Unknown Function" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 7, 2025

Object of Unknown Function giunge a dieci anni di distanza da Sylphid Vitalizer, il precedente album solo di Brandon Seabrook, chitarrista e banjoista che alla sua apparizione una ventina di anni fa portò un discreto scompiglio nel mondo della sei corde e in quello del cordofono di origini africane, con un approccio che coniugava punk metal, free jazz, derive rock e altro ancora. Accanto alle note introduttive dello stesso Seabrook il libretto riporta per ogni brano gli strumenti ...