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Album Review

Malaby Reed Smiley Coulter: Continental Divide

Read "Continental Divide" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 4, 2025

A crackling energy permeates Continental Divide, as if the album itself straddles tectonic plates, with the music shifting and erupting underfoot like a geological tempest in full bloom. Saxophonist Tony Malaby and trumpeter Josh D. Reed, masters of controlled chaos, lead this exploratory quartet with raw yet precise lines amid urgent, reflective, and occasionally transcendent musings. The ensemble plunges headfirst into free jazz, crafting spontaneous yet cohesive sonic landscapes that feel as vast and unpredictable as the geographical feature the ...

Album Review

SeFa LoCo: Creosote

by Ian Gwin
November 10, 2021

A distant train whistle blows through a broad and ominous unknown. Something scratches the walls, scraping the ramshackle boundaries around hearing. Over the loose floorboards, a plucked bass sings, while something thuds down below the floor. Noise sets in gradually on the opening track of SeFa LoCo's release Creosote—and from here, there is no escape. An environment that steadily becomes more uncertain, “All Nervous" is just as the title diagnoses: both a mind mid-immolation, and a summing totality of dislocated ...

Album Review

SN Trio: Free Wyoming

Read "Free Wyoming" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 2, 2020

There is a lot of movie going on: The night boatman at the moors, fifty foot ants, a crisis in chaos, gulls, babies, dark climes, eccentric mimes . . . Whatever you can fancy while listening to the unruly codes of saxophonist Sam Newsome and his equally idiosyncratic, first-time rhythm section of bassist Matt Smiley and drummer/percussionist Ron Coulter is happening, whether you can follow it or not, within the challenging realm of Free Wyoming. Recorded live in ...