Jazz Articles about Ivo Perelman

About Ivo Perelman

Radio & Podcasts

This edition of the show includes music from the massive new box set from Ivo Perelman—a suite of 12 recordings of saxophone duets Reed Rapture In Brooklyn—which I will be featuring over the next 12 weeks—I'm kicking off with Ivo's partnership with Joe Lovano. In addition a selection of music from across Joe's career plus new music from Tyshawn Sorey, Oscar Lavën, Dan Weiss, Timo Vollbrecht and Dan McCarthy.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Ivo Perelman & Joe Lovano “Thirteen" ...

Liner Notes

Reed Rapture In Brooklyn: A Box Set Of Woodwind Duets With Ivo Perelman

by Hrayr Attarian
November 20, 2022

One of the 20th century's musical geniuses, saxophonist Charlie Parker said “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." This statement on unbridled creativity applies perfectly to saxophonist Ivo Perelman's oeuvre. Perelman, however, is not just a saxophonist. Although the tenor is one of his favorite tools of expression, he is an ...

Album Review

Chad Fowler: Alien Skin

Read "Alien Skin" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 20, 2022

Just from the paperwork alone, it was duly expected that Alien Skin would be unruly, raw, and cathartic. That is just the nature of the beast. That is just the way the big man planned it. But even with all that said, no one (including the players) saw Alien Skin coming down the runway. A bayou bebop rave-up of the highest order, the album's madcap namesake rips the veil, drops the mic, and makes subversive a badge of ...

Album Review

Ivo Perelman: Fruition

Read "Fruition" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 12, 2022

To say that saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp have seamless synergy is an understatement. After a dozen and a half improvised duet albums the two men form a single creative entity, one that is multifaceted, dynamic and crackles with spontaneity. Fruition, their eighteenth, is a stimulating set of eleven interlinked tracks which has a melancholic undercurrent and a fluid poetry. Opening with a bluesy tenor break, “Nine," which also starts off the recording, transforms into an ...

Album Review

Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Fruition

Read "Fruition" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 10, 2022

After 26 years years of recording in duo together, is it possible now to decode the music of Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp? The word “decode" is used here because their efforts, nearly all freely improvised, are a musical language the two musicians have created themselves. Like the Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron duos, their sound together is instantly recognizable. In contrast though, where Lacy and Waldron often began with the familiar music of Thelonious Monk, the Brazilian-born Perelman and the American ...

Album Review

Chad Fowler: Alien Skin

Read "Alien Skin" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 9, 2022

Freely improvised music, saxophonist Paul Flaherty dubbed it “the hated music." Experiencing Alien Skin brings to mind another quote, this one from a shampoo commercial from the late 1980s: “Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." A beautiful alchemy is this session captured in the fall of 2021. It contains a three-horn front line of Chad Fowler, Ivo Perelman and Zoh Amba, plus pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker, and drummer Steve Hirsh. I reference alchemy because the quintet ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ivo And Matthew, Thumbscrew, Gentiane MG And More

by Bob Osborne
October 13, 2022

On this show a selection of excellent new releases from Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Thumbscrew, Gentiane MG, Owen Broder, Anat Cohen, Michael Sarian, William Parker, and, Justin Purtill featuring Leo Genovese and Sean Conly. Also a dip in the archive for some music from John Surman.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp “Nine" from Fruition (ESP) 00:49 Thumbscrew “Survival Fetish" from Multicolored Midnight (Cuneiform) 05:48 Gentiane MG “Flowers Laugh Without Uttering a Sound" from Walls ...