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Kaisa's Machine, Wayne Shorter, and Michael Bisio

by Jerome Wilson
May 7, 2025

This program features a wide variety of modern jazz musicians. The acts featured include Kaisa's Machine, Wayne Shorter, Owen Broder, Joe Fielder, and Michael Bisio. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 The Stryker/Slagle Band “Convergence" from Keeper (Panorama) 00:53 Christina Dahl Trio “Forever" from Now is Now (Storyville) 7:02 Lucas Pino “Moonstone" from Covers (Outside In) 10:50 Host Speaks ...

Album Review

Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts

Read "Moving Parts" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
April 19, 2025

On the third release with her trusted ensemble, Kaisa's Machine, rising star Kaisa Mäensivu displays a mature compositional voice, creating seven beguiling tracks that make excellent use of her superb colleagues. The Finnish bassist has for some years split her time between Helsinki and New York City, and the album's concept is loosely centered on the challenges and opportunities of bilocation--but the music itself is remarkably cohesive and taut, with a group dynamic that indeed reflects machine-like precision, even if ...

Album Review

Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts

Read "Moving Parts" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 18, 2025

Let us play an enormously simple game: Name three bands or three albums of any musical conglomerate --jazz, hop, bop, rock, neo-ethical bluegrass--whose legendary sobriquet was the absolute definition of the sound, soul, and propriety of the band. The peanut gallery erupts--Led Zeppelin, Live at the Vanguard Flatt and Scruggs, A Love Supreme Add Finnish-born bassist/composer turned fiery New York jazzer, Kaisa Mäensivu and her on-all-cylinders Machine to the list. Moving Parts hits the sweet spot. Centering around Mäensivu's ...