Jazz Articles about Michael Bisio

About Michael Bisio

Album Review

Bob Nell & Michael Bisio Trios: Trios: We Are Here

Read "Trios: We Are Here" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 2, 2026

Don't be misled by the adjective naïve when describing the collaboration between pianist Bob Nell and bassist Michael Bisio. Their recording We Are Here is hardly “naïve" in the sense of being inexperienced or unsophisticated. Rather, it embodies the word's more generous meaning: music that is natural, unforced and free of affectation. There is no posturing here, only two veteran musicians trusting decades of experience and each other. New York-born Bisio and Montana pianist Bob Nell first met ...

Album Review

Joe McPhee & Strings: We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Read "We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 16, 2026

Un camerismo scuro, a tratti persino torvo, arcigno, non privo di asperità, contrassegna questo album, inciso a Brooklyn nell'ottobre 2021. Il primo nome in ditta è quello dell'oggi ottantaseienne polistrumentista (in realtà qui impegnato unicamente al sax tenore, oltre che alla voce, detta) di Miami Joe McPhee, gloriosa figura di riferimento delle avanguardie post e para-free, pur da posizioni sempre piuttosto appartate. In realtà, appare subito evidente che si tratta di un lavoro corale, a cominciare dalle firme ...

Album Review

Michael Bisio: NuMBq

by Mark Corroto
March 26, 2025

Michael Bisio borrows the phrase “and now for something completely different" from Monty Python's Flying Circus to describe his new quartet, NuMBq. Joining the bassist is longtime collaborator Jay Rosen on drums, along with two musicians traditionally rooted in classical music: violist Melanie Dyer and English horn player Marianne Osiel. With NuMBq, Bisio blurs the line between chamber music and jazz--but let's not confine this session to the Third Stream category. Early jazz-classical hybrids, such as Charlie Parker ...

Radio & Podcasts

Michael Bisio, Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez & Rainer Brüninghausen

by Maurice Hogue
February 24, 2025

There seems to be a bit of growing trend to exploring the confluence of poetry and jazz, and this is right down my alley. New York poet Fred Moten and bassist Brandon Lopez have released two albums with Gerald Cleaver that feature stirring free improvisation in lockstep with Moten's political and questioning words. Now Moten and Lopez have combined to release Revision. It's a very worthy addition to the category. Highly respected bassist Michael Bisio leads an off-the-path quartet on ...

Album Review

Matthew Shipp: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

Read "New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 4, 2024

Jazz fans are much like baseball geeks; they collect facts and statistics. The baseball fan will know a player's numbers such as on base percentage, at bats, home runs and stolen bases, whereas the jazz fan, maybe better said the jazz fanatic, will note recording dates and lineups, titles, releases and recording engineers. The baseball fan will utilize those statistics to predict what a player will do in a clutch situation as in the bottom of the ninth with two ...

Album Review

Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

Read "New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
March 25, 2024

Matthew Shipp with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker, issue their fifth album as the most enduring of Shipp's various trios. New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz is another vehicle for the pianist/composer in which to express his singular, intricate vision. The perpetual sea-change artist believes that this album is a substantial leap ahead of the highly regarded World Construct (ESP Disk, 2022). At the very least, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz allows Shipp to move his ...

Album Review

Paul R. Harding / Michael Bisio / Juma Sultan: They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday

Read "They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 4, 2024

When we speak of poetry and music, should we ask the chicken and the egg question? As in, which came first? Certainly there was music before spoken word, for imitations of bird calls and other nature sounds will have predated language. So, it's settled, right? Maybe, but not so fast. They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday raises an even more complex inquiry that goes beyond the avian and the ovum. Enter poet Paul R. Harding. His early years ...