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Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp, Cyro Baptista: Triacontagon

Read "Triacontagon" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 10, 2026

To better appreciate Triacontagon, it helps to wind the clock back to Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman's recordings from the mid-to-late 1990s. Consider Man of the Forest (GM Recordings, 1994), Brazilian Watercolour (Leo Records, 1999) and Aquarela do Brazil (Atração Fonográfica, 1999). Each featured fellow São Paulo native, percussionist Cyro Baptista. Perelman, who began his musical life playing guitar, eventually gravitated toward the tenor saxophone and the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Albert Ayler. Two of those early recordings ...

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Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue 6: Core of Existence

Read "Duologue 6: Core of Existence" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
August 10, 2026

Innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman is a consummate improviser whose spontaneity flourishes in the company of like-minded artists. His Duologues series is a set of duets, each with a stalwart of the creative music scene. Duologues 6: Core of Existence matches Perelman with intrepid bassist Damon Smith, who has a stellar resume in his own right. The 10 collaborative tracks that ensue from this meeting have an incandescent glow and a perfectly balanced ambiance. The album opens with “One" ...

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Ivo Perelman: Synesthesia

Read "Synesthesia" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
August 3, 2026

Like past gatherings of tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman, pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker, and drummer Bobby Kapp, inscribed to memory on the highly touted Ineffable Joy (ESP, 2019) and Heptagon (Leo Records, 2017), Synesthesia erupts into consciousness with a punch and flurry. Feverish by design, “First Color Heard" stays true to its title and to the heart of each participant. Rambling, rumbling, reaching for the stars, Perelman exhorts his fellow travelers, and “First Color Heard" fills the airspace ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp, Cyro Baptista, Steve Reich and more

by Lawrence Peryer
June 4, 2026

This episode of Rotations moves across a wide stretch of creative music. It includes the interlocking bronze tones of Balinese gamelan, the fierce freedom of Ivo Perelman's latest trio, Steve Reich's hypnotic percussion cycles and the ambient sorrow of Stars of the Lid.Playlist Gamelan Yowana Sari “aERIFoRm kITE" from Gamelan Yowana Sari (Cantaloupe Music) 00:00 punktò “sholo" from sholo--Single (antibody) 12:54 Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp & Cyro Baptista “Dionysus in the Amazon" from Triacontagon (Defkaz Records) 15:03 Web ...

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Ivo Perelman: Trifecta

Read "Trifecta" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 3, 2026

Nella mastodontica discografia (quasi duecento album incisi, la maggior parte dei quali per l'etichetta londinese Leo Records) di Ivo Perelman, storico sassofonista di origine brasiliana, mancava un triplo CD dedicato all'arte del duo sax-chitarra. Ecco quindi Trifecta dialogo a rete libera con tre dei massimi chitarristi della scena contemporanea quali Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Joe Morris. Un confronto con lo strumento praticato fin da giovanissima età e poi abbandonato per la difficoltà nel trovare una voce personale, qualità che riconosce ...

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Perelman / Ribot / Sharp / Morris: Trifecta

Read "Trifecta" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 19, 2026

With a discography approaching 200 releases, it might be tempting to imagine saxophonist Ivo Perelman as a kind of jazz gunfighter, in the lineage of Charlie Parker or Coleman Hawkins, stepping into one cutting contest after another. But that image misses the mark. Perelman's recordings are rarely about competition. Instead, they are grounded in creation, collaboration and deep musical partnership. The closest he comes to that rough-and-tumble spirit is in his long-running exchanges with pianist Matthew Shipp, where the intensity ...

Album Review

Ivo Perelman and Wadada Leo Smith: Duologues 5

Read "Duologues 5" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 9, 2026

Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman thrives in the company of like-minded artists. The number of superb duo releases in his prolific body of work is proof of that. On the fifth volume of the Duologues series, he has found a uniquely synergistic match in the trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith. Smith, a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), much like Perelman, is an ingenious improviser. The pair crafts seven provocative pieces that together make ...