Fabian Dudek, Dan Weiss, Jasper Hoiby & Mazam

German alto player Fabian Dudek's new This Every Place is an indication that Dudek's forming his own improvisational language, and his album is graced with the presence of Ingrid Laubrock. A definite must listen. There's a similar path followed by the Portuguese quartet, Mazam, on their new Pilgrimage Vol. 2. Drummer Dan Weiss' latest features a killer quartet with Patricia Brennan, Peter Evans & Miles Okazaki, while bassist Jasper Hoiby and an internationally flavoured band challenge us all with his new We Must Fight!. There's some revived material for you too: more from saxophonist Ivo Perelman's Leo Records Archives and a track from Danish saxophonist Benjamin Koppel's The Art Of The Quartet Volume 1 with Jack DeJohnette, Scott Colley & Kenny Werner from 2015. The closer features pianist Dave Burrell & drummer Sam Woodyard from the somewhat legendary, but heretofore never released, The Lost Sessions -Paris 1979. (Fabian Dudek photo by Stefanie Marcus).

Playlist

• Benjamin Koppel Quartet "Free 1" from The Art Of The Quartet Volume 1 (Kowbell) 00:00
• Host speaks 09:35
• Fabian Dudek "Streetlight Dawn" from This Every Place (Traumton) 13:24
• Marshall Allen & Ghost Horizon "Seductive Fantasy" from Live In Philadelphia (Otherly Love) 22:31
• Marshall Allen & Ghost Horizon "Tachyons Flux From The Cosmic Blueprints" from Live In Philadelphia (Otherly Love) 26:59
• Host speaks 32:28
• Alan Niblock, John Butcher & Mark Sanders "Fault Line" from Tectonic Plates (577 Records) 33:42
• Alexander Hawkins "Crinkle Crinkle" from Song Unconditional (Intakt) 42:29
• Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph &Billy Hart "Transparent To Transcendance" from Beingness (Meta/Defkaz) 46:52
• Host speaks 53:28
• Mazam "Let's Go" from Pilgrimage Vol. 2 (Timbuktu) 55:32
• Maxine Troglauer "Theme From As The Night Let Down Its Curtain" from Hymn (Fun In The Church) 1:04:20
• Ivo Perelman "Adde Parvum Parvo Magnus Acervus Erit" from Book Of Sound (Leo Records) 1:12:35
• Host speaks 1:20:41
• Jasper Hoiby & Fellow Creatures "Stillness" from We Must Fight! (Edition) 1:23:13
• Jonathan Reisin "Walk And Talk" from Too Good X Reality (Boomslang) 1:20:41
• Polar Bear "New Dark Park" from Dim Lit (Edition) 1:23:13
• Host speaks 1:29:33
• Dan Weiss "Holotype" from Unclassified Affections (Pi Recordings) 1:06:23
• Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway "This Waiting Place" from How The Dust Falls (Auricle) 1:53:47
• Shrunk}} "Is What?" from Pixie People (577 Records) 1:58:33
• Host speaks 2:03:58
• Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard "On A Saturday Night" from The Lost Sessions -Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) 2:08:02