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Album Review

Michael Marcus Quartet: Next Stop Down!

Read "Next Stop Down!" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert

A fixture in the avant-garde jazz community since the early 1990s, multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus has done notable work with his own ensembles and alongside other prominent improvisers such as William Parker, Sonny Simmons, Andrew Cyrille and Joe McPhee. His first release with ESP-Disk in 2022, Abstractions in Lime Caverns, featured the leader on no fewer than five separate horns, including the tarogato, an instrument which takes center stage on Next Stop Down!, Marcus' first effort with a top-shelf quartet which ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Michael Marcus, Forest Chorus, Joao Lencastre & Perelman/Shipp

Read "Michael Marcus, Forest Chorus, Joao Lencastre & Perelman/Shipp" reviewed by Maurice Hogue

by Maurice Hogue

Europe's improvised scene is well-represented in this edition of One Man's Jazz with samplings of new releases by Forest Chorus which feature the great multi-reedist from Finland, Mikko Innanen, Portguese drummer Joao Lencastre & Communion, and three women artists making lots of waves: bassist Silvia Bolognesi from Italy, French pianist Cécille Cappozzo and German drummer Eva Klesse. Three veteran saxophonists also have interesting new releases: Michael Marcus, Daniel Carter (with Green Soul) and Ivo Perelman with Matthew Shipp. And some ...

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Album Review

Blue Reality Quartet: Blue Reality Quartet!

Read "Blue Reality Quartet!" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Back in 2001 when reedman Michael Marcus' trio waxed a disc under the title Blue Reality (Soulnote, 2002), he could scarcely have imagined the circumstances under which he might resurrect the name. As the four masked faces on the cover of Blue Reality Quartet! show, times are sadly very different. Joining Marcus in the studio in November 2020 are and drummer Jay Rosen from the original date, multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and percussionist Warren Smith. A plethora of connections informs the ...

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Album Review

Michael Marcus: For Yes!

Read "For Yes!" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Michael Marcus è un multi-strumentista specialista del clarinetto e dei sassofoni, oltre che di una serie di particolari strumenti ad ancia. Ha iniziato a suonare professionalmente in importanti blues band (Albert King, Bobby Blue Band, etc) per poi diventare negli anni novanta una figura importante della scena free, senza mai dimenticare la tradizione e la forza del bop più sofisticato (Jaki Byard, ad esempio). Con Sonny Simmons fonda i Cosmosamatics, entusiasmante formazione che sforna otto album e che in maggio ...

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Album Review

Duology: Golden Atoms

Read "Golden Atoms" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Dietro alla formazione che si dà il nome di Duology troviamo Michael Marcus e Ted Daniel, impegnati rispettivamente a clarinetto e tromba. Golden Atoms (che fa seguito al disco d'esordio omonimo pubblicato nel 2007 dalla Boxholder) ci offre una musica ben ponderata, frutto di una una collaborazione che dura da tempo. L'intesa tra i due musicisti è perfetta, cosí come il modo in cui si esprimono ai loro strumenti: squillante Ted Daniel, lirico e meditabondo, spesso sulle note più scure ...

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Album Review

Michael Marcus: Lotus Symphony

Read "Lotus Symphony" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Dagli inizi al sax baritono in gruppi di rhythm n' blues all'esperienza con Jaky Byard, di tempo ne è passato, ma Michael Marcus continua ancora a sorprederci. Cambia strumento (in questo disco si dedica solo al clarinetto), ma la sua statura artistica resta invariata, con un ampia possibilità espressiva che prende a prestito da tutta la storia del jazz. Il brano d'apertura del disco “As Always, Our Blessings" è un esempio di jazz coltraniano, mistico, poetico, ma anche insolito per ...

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Live Review

Duology + 2 at the London Jazz Festival

Read "Duology + 2 at the London Jazz Festival" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Duology + 2 Cafe OtoLondonNovember, 13, 2009

The opening night of the London Jazz Festival provided a rare opportunity to hear clarinetist Michael Marcus and trumpeter Ted Daniel--two seasoned, but unsung denizens of the New York scene--in the intimate surroundings of Dalston's Cafe Oto.

Marcus made his debut with the blues bands of Albert King and Bobby “Blue" Bland, before becoming a prominent figure in the free jazz scene from the 1980s onward ...

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