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Andrew Hill, Luke Stewart, Ivo Perelman, and more
by David Brown
This week, pianoless trios from U.S.E. Trio, Julieta Eugenio and Sonny Rollins; Andrew Hill works from Chad Taylor, Alex Harding and Lucian Ban; a piano battle: Johnny Costa vs. Art Tatum; albums recorded on this day in history: Davis's On the Corner and Coltrane's Crescent; A fine set of works featuring bassist Luke Stewart; and toping things off with new works from Ivo Perlman. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes ...
Continue ReadingNew Music From Luke Stewart, Ben Sidran, Dan Loomis, Tomeka Reid, And More
by Bob Osborne
On this edition all new releases from Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Ben Sidran, Dan Loomis, Tomeka Reid, Ray Obeido, Wes or No Trio, Manos Loutas Quartet, two albums from Phil Bancroft, Natsuki Tamura & Jim Black, Andy Milne and Unison, Foreign Affair Trio feat. Hector Martignon, Chris Zuar Orchestra, Countermeasure and The Burlington New Millennium Orchestra, Halie Loren, Brian Eaton, William Soovik Grand Finale, Isrea Butler, and Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Luke Stewart ...
Continue ReadingDavid Murray Quartet with Marta Sanchez, Luke Stewart and Russell Carter: Francesca
by Mike Jurkovic
A jazz classicist since his heady and historic days founding The World Saxophone Quartet, David Murray takes to a studio just outside Zurich with a rhythm section of the next generation and emerges triumphant with the standout Francesca. With an average age of, give or take, thirty-six years between them, Murray, the veteran nearing seventy, brings the music and the fire to the young ones and “Francesca" waltzes into life with a bluesy cool all its own. Pianist ...
Continue ReadingLuke Stewart Silt Trio, John Escreet, Natsuki Tamura/Jim Black & Matt Pavolka
by Maurice Hogue
Bassist Luke Stewart has become rather indispensable to the creative music scene in the past few years. That big unmistakable sound drives important bands like Irreversible Entanglements, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, his own Exposure Quintet and his Silt Trio. That trio is the setting for his new Unknown Rivers. It's a don't-miss-this-one recording. Other features in this episode: Matt Pavolka who has reassembled his band which featured--and still does--guitarist Ben Monder. Disciplinary Architecture is classic Pavolka; freest of the free ...
Continue ReadingLuke Stewart Silt Trio: Unknown Rivers
by Troy Dostert
Bassists in the jazz world frequently have to toil in the trenches for years, building their resumes in fits and starts as they gradually establish themselves, commonly hidden (figuratively and literally) behind the players up front who get most of the attention and credit. Luke Stewart is an undeniable exception, having enjoyed a mercurial rise to prominence since 2017 in outfits like Irreversible Entanglements, Heroes Are Gang Leaders and his own ensembles, not to mention a host of other projects ...
Continue ReadingIrreversible Entanglements: Protect Your Light
by Chris May
If ever there was a band which screamed to be taken up by Impulse! (or Strata-East back in the day), it is the semi-free agit-jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements. Now, after three albums with the on-song but tiny International Anthem label, it has happened and, hopefully, greater exposure and recognition will follow. IE came together in 2015 when poet Camae Ayewa (a.k.a. Moor Mother), saxophonist Keir Neuringer and bassist Luke Stewart took part in a Musicians Against Police ...
Continue ReadingLuis Vicente 4tet: House In The Valley
by John Sharpe
Portuguese trumpeter Luis Vicente wrote the four compositions which make up House In The Valley during lockdown. His intention was to evoke childhood memories of times at his grandparents' rural house. Judging from the outcomes there must have been a lot of '60s American New Thing on the turntable at the time. In particular the way the group realizes Vicente's melodies recalls Don Cherry's outings from that period such as Complete Communion (Blue Note, 1966) and Symphony For Improvisers (Blue ...
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