Articles by Maurice Hogue

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Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp, Simon Nabatov, Jason Robinson & Max Light

by Maurice Hogue
October 26, 2026

This episode of One Man's Jazz has the appearance of a tasting menu; a variety of styles and tastes. On the avant-garde side you can select from the eternally favourite duo of saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp, the powerful pianist from Berlin, Simon Nabatov, leading a band of New York heavies, or the German exploratory quartet Neon Dilemma. Previews of coming attractions include L.A. trumpeter Dan Rosenboom's electric trio and one from saxophonist Jason Robinson's upcoming Blue Salience ...

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Camila Nebbia/Exhaust, Michael Moss & Trio Imagination

by Maurice Hogue
October 19, 2026

Trio 3 received much praise in its 35 years of creating great music, but when saxophonist Oliver Lake decided to retire from performing due to health reasons, bassist Reggie Workman & drummer Andrew Cyrille needed to find a third member. They had asked pianist David Virelles to join them at one point, magic happened, and so the two masters decided to make it permanent. The debut of the new Trio Imagination on their new Creative Inspiration is filled with brilliant ...

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Joe Hertenstein, Alexander Von Schlippenbach & John Coltrane

by Maurice Hogue
October 12, 2026

New releases from Germany this week should attract interest--drummer Joe Hertenstein (often seen in New York) debuts the second release of his Future Drone trio, this time with Anthony Coleman on Hammond B3!!; pianist and father of the European avant-garde Alexander Von Schlippenbach rips it up with a much younger quartet; and the Blumer-Morgenthaler Quartet debuts. Satoko Fujii's Korekara displays the talents of her rowdy Orchestra Nagoya, while for a completely contrasting mood, listen to the music on saxophonist David ...

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Camila Nebbia, Satoko Fujii & Cassandra Wilson

by Maurice Hogue
October 5, 2026

This episode is a mixed bag of new and almost new music from new releases. There's a definite Berlin, Germany connection to two of the featured albums--that city is now home base for Argentinian saxophonist Camila Nebbia who continues to march through the free jazz world with abandon. Her newest release, Limbo , introduces her new group, The Hanged Ones, and they match Nebbia note for note, raunch for raunch. Berlin is also one of the locations in the world ...

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Stephan Crump, Amalie Dahl & Wadada Leo Smith

by Maurice Hogue
September 28, 2026

After considering whether or not he was now an empty-nesters--his two boys were not at home--bassist Stephan Crump started investigating the nesting practice of birds and eventually that began to inform his composing. His new striking album, Passerine, is the result. Master trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith's inspiration for his new Constellations And Hemispheres was the movement of light. Four different ensembles appear with Wadada on another piece of musical poetry. Danish saxophonist and now Oslo resident Amalie Dahl has ...

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Myra Melford, Threadgill/Iyer/Prieto & Jonathan Delazer

by Maurice Hogue
September 22, 2026

Two of the creative scene's most heralded artists are back with exciting new music: pianist Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet have released their third album Sure Grand Out with Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, Tomeka Reid & Lesley Mok and the master, Henry Threadgill's parallel release to Cut Your Where You Was--Fifteen--which celebrates the fifteenth year of existence of the trio with Threadgill, Vijay Iyer & Dafnis Prieto. Swiss drummer Jonathan Delazer's Gottliche Skizzen, Argentinean guitarist Gon Muruaga and the ...

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Henry Threadgill, Shipp/Parker, Glass Triangle & Rich Halley

by Maurice Hogue
September 14, 2026

Congratulations to saxophonist / composer / innovator Henry Threadgill & his Zooid band on their 25th anniversary, well-celebrated with the releases of Cut You Where You Was. This is one of Zooid's best. Props also to the tied-at-the-improvisational--hip duo, pianist Matthew Shipp & bassist William Parker for the re-release of Zo, on vinyl for the first time. Oregon saxophonist Rich Halley is back with a new album, A Distant Land; as always, Halley's bands are eminently listenable. Speaking of distant ...

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Luis Vicente, Martin Kuchen, Ayumi Tanaka & Mali Obomsawin

by Maurice Hogue
September 7, 2026

Europe's still Europe on maps so far, and that's where this episode of One Man's Jazz is centered and sampling new albums by Portugal's free--blowing trumpeter Luis Vicente & his 4tet (Spirits Moving) and guitarist Marcelo Dos Reis; saxophonist Martin Kuchen's Angles 4 from Sweden; the Scottish duo of saxophonist Zack Moir & bassist Roberto Cassani's Anaglyph; more from Dave Holland's box set, Freedom Call; and trios aplenty led by pianists Gisela Horat and Malcolm Braff from Switzerland, Italian bassist ...

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Franklin Kiermyer, Pascal Niggenkemper & Lao Dan

by Maurice Hogue
August 31, 2026

Follow the bouncing geographic ball in this episode as it lands on disparate places in the jazz universe, starting with ferocious yet spiritual drummer Franklin Kiermyer and his startling new release Scatter The Atoms That Remain. Kiermyer has long been associated with the spiritualism of the Coltranes, Pharoah Sanders, etc. and he's been spending much time living and studying under the guidance of a Tibetan master. Despite the thunderous drums, Kiermyer's spirit is front and center like a ride cymbal. ...

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Ben Goldberg, Dave Holland & Lily Finnegan

by Maurice Hogue
August 24, 2026

Two big projects are on the bill in this episode. Clarinetist Ben Goldberg's fascination with the number 8 (his birthday is August 8th and there are eight letters in his names) drives his new 8 X 8 Collection, eight albums created with different ensembles. You'll hear music from three of those new recordings. You'll also hear music from bassist Dave Holland's first box set, Freedom Call; it's out on Edition Records and features unreleased material from performances by his quartet, ...