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Radio & Podcasts

Dreamstruck, Jon Irabagon, Jesse Morrow & Clean Feed Releases

Read "Dreamstruck, Jon Irabagon, Jesse Morrow & Clean Feed Releases" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


One of the memorable piano trio releases of 2022 should be With Grace In Mind from the trio Dreamstruck. Marilyn Crispell, Joe Fonda & Harvey Sorgen are among the finest at their craft and together they create original music from original ideas. Also on the playlist this week, Jon Irabagon's steamin' quartet, several albums from Italy by pianist Alberto Braida, guitarist Nicolo Francesca Faraglia and vocalist Monica Nica Agosti, three new releases from Clean Feed (Red Desert Orchestra, Marek Pospiezalski, ...

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Album Review

Marilyn Crispell - Tanya Kalmanovitch - Richard Teitelbaum: Dream Libretto

Read "Dream Libretto" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


World-class pianist, Marilyn Crispell crafts an endearing musical statement, where she and her cohorts execute a requiem framed on improvisations and succinct melodies based on the pianist's close friends and family who have passed on. Consequently, the first part of this set features Crispell, violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch and legendary electronics ace, Richard Teitelbaum, while the second part is a series of duets by the pianist and violinist. An eerie calm cloaks “I" propelled by Teitelbaum's ultra-low register and ...

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Live Review

Crispell-Fonda-Sorgen Trio Live at The Falcon

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Crispell-Fonda-Sorgen Trio The Falcon Marlboro, New York November 26, 2017 From a furious flurry of dissonance, Paul Motian's energetic “Cosmology" emerged as the declarative opening salvo for this intuitive and adventurous set by pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Joe Fonda, and drummer Harvey Sorgen. Crispell, long a Hudson Valley treasure, freely incorporated her challenging harmonics, piercing runs, phrases, and melodic cluster bursts into the spacious and often acrobatic rhythmic inventions of ...

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Album Review

Marilyn Crispell / Gerry Hemingway: Table Of Changes

Read "Table Of Changes" reviewed by John Sharpe


Although Table of Changes is only the third release from the pairing of pianist Marilyn Crispell and percussionist Gerry Hemingway, it comes relatively hot on the heels of Affinities (Intakt, 2011) which broke a long silence since Duo (Knitting Factory, 1989). The paucity of these occurrences belies an extensive shared tenure, both as part of reedman Anthony Braxton's classic quartet from 1984 through until 1992, and in regular hook ups thereafter. In tandem they plumb the extremes of intent exhibited ...

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Album Review

Marilyn Crispell -- Gerry Hemingway: Table Of Changes

Read "Table Of Changes" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


These distinguished artists performed together with pioneering saxophonist, composer Anthony Braxton's epic 80s ensembles amid other ensuing collaborations. Over time, drummer Gerry Hemingway and pianist Marilyn Crispell have gravitated towards the upper echelon of the so-called 'new jazz' outlook, as Table of Changes provides a glowing snapshot of their Europe 2013 tour. Moreover, the album extends various persuasions evidenced on their previous duo album Affinities (Intakt, 2011). Their nonpareil kinship is an underlying factor via spontaneous improvisation, structure ...

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Album Review

Raymond MacDonald & Marilyn Crispell: Parallel Moments

Read "Parallel Moments" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Philadelphia, PA, reared pianist Marilyn Crispell looms as one of the more prolific artisans of progressive jazz and avant-garde forums amid her affiliations with saxophonist, composer Anthony Braxton and bassist Gary Peacock, among others of note. Here, she aligns with highly respected Scottish saxophonist Raymond MacDonald, who is the co-founder of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and also composes for film, theater and TV. Therefore, many of these improvisation-based duets tend to bridge various perspectives and thought processes, and such is ...

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Live Review

Marilyn Crispell / Harrison Smith / Eddie Prevost: London, UK, November 7, 2012

Read "Marilyn Crispell / Harrison Smith / Eddie Prevost: London, UK, November 7, 2012" reviewed by John Sharpe


Marilyn Crispell / Harrison Smith / Eddie PrévostCafé OtoLondon, UKNovember 7, 2012It was almost as if no-one wanted to break the perfection of the anticipatory hush at north London's Café Oto. Eventually, Harrison Smith ventured a quizzical phrase on tenor saxophone, which inaugurated an unostentatious exchange of ideas and viewpoints. Pianist Marilyn Crispell, hair draped forward shielding her face like a veil, imparted her pronouncements with gradually increasing density, while drummer Eddie Prévost's brushes danced ...


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