Jazz Articles about Michael Bisio

About Michael Bisio

Album Review

Kirk Knuffke Trio: Gravity without Airs

Read "Gravity without Airs" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 20, 2022

«Mi interessa fare della bella musica--dice il cornettista Kirk Knuffke--Anche se questa è in forma libera e d'avanguardia voglio che arrivi al cuore delle persone. Mi piace suonare veloce, forte e alto ma la bellezza è sempre al primo posto, anche se non in forme preziose. Può esserlo anche in modo ruvido». Sono parole che illustrano bene questo doppio album inciso col pianista Matthew Shipp e il contrabbassista Michael Bisio. Anche se Knuffke ha collaborato più volte ...

Album Review

Matthew Shipp Trio: World Construct

Read "World Construct" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
June 1, 2022

Throughout his long and prolific career, Matthew Shipp has presented several different and impressive trio formations. Among the featured members have been bassists William Parker, and Joe Morris, and drummers Guillermo E. Brown, Whit Dickey, and Susie Ibarra. In 2015, two other premier players, bassist Michael Bisio, and drummer Newman Taylor Baker stepped in as the rhythm section on The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear). Their fourth album as a unit, World Construct makes the group the most enduring of ...

Album Review

Michael Bisio: Inimitable

Read "Inimitable" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 19, 2022

Although unaccompanied recordings certainly had a moment during the pandemic, bassist Michael Bisio's Inimitable was actually recorded a few weeks before Covid upended the world. While he is a bandleader of some accomplishment, with a string of excellent albums from his quartet in the mid-2000s, and recent dates which include Row For William O (Relative Pitch, 2016) and Requiem For A New York Slice (Iluso, 2019), he may be best known for his association with two free music stalwarts, pianist ...

Album Review

Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp: The Flow of Everything

Read "The Flow of Everything" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 9, 2022

Bassist Michael Bisio and pianist Matthew Shipp have enjoyed a near symbiotic relationship, ever since the former joined the latter's trio in 2009. The Flow Of Everything constitutes their third recording as a duet, following on from Floating Ice (Relative Pitch, 2012) and Live In Seattle (Arena Music Promotion, 2016), and maintains the preternaturally high standards they have set in the interim. Unsurprising as the pair represent two of the supreme stylists on their respective instruments, united by a go-anywhere ...

Album Review

Joe McPhee, Michael Bisio, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Juma Sultan: The Sweet Spot

Read "The Sweet Spot" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 27, 2022

Making music with one's neighbors was one way of getting by during the pandemic. Of course, it helps if your colleagues are all of the caliber of the foursome assembled on The Sweet Spot, all of whom reside in the Hudson Valley, a couple of hours north of NYC. But it is not just geographic proximity which promotes the special chemistry in evidence on the set. Saxophonist Joe McPhee and bassist Michael Bisio go back to the mid-'90s, and have ...

Album Review

Michael Bisio Quartet: MBefore

Read "MBefore" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 26, 2022

In the dark days of Covid and the lingering return to normality, only a handful of musicians managed to be prolific. Fewer remained relevant. Bassist & composer Michael Bisio is among the more productive artists, with half a dozen releases during the pandemic. Add to that collection MBefore, with the bassist's new namesake quartet. The album was recorded at Clubhouse Studio in Rhinebeck, New York, in March 2021, and includes liner notes by Matthew Shipp. The group comprised some top—if ...

Radio & Podcasts

Michael Bisio, Erik Fratzke, Lisa Ullen & Barber Mouse

by Maurice Hogue
March 30, 2022

This episode is packed with music from some terrific new releases you should check out— St. Paul guitarist/bassist Erik Fratzke's Fake Accent, Gordon Grdina's Arabic-flavoured Haram, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, bassist Michael Bisio's excellent Mbefore , and European trios led by Sweden's Lisa Ullén, Germany's Felix Hauptmann, and Italy's Barber Mouse with a novel take on Thelonious Monk. Playlist Fear Of Faces “The Mismeasure of Man Part I" from The Mismeasure Of Man (SATA) 00:00 Fear ...