Felix Henkelhausen, Ochs / Morris / Downs & German Jazz Prize Nominees

Listening to a tune by German bassist Felix Henkelhausen while traveling in the car led me to check out what he was up to; I discovered he's been nominated for a 2025 German Jazz Prize in the Album of the Year category for Deranged Particles. Soon I was exploring other nominees and that led to incorporating a few other nominees into this playlist. Besides Henkelhausen's quintet, you'll hear the international quartet Økse (International Album of the Year), clarinetist Federico Calcagno Octet (International Large Ensemble), Bastian Stein (Brass Player of the Year), and Training with Ruth Goller (Album Of The Year). Other new albums sampled in this edition come from drummer Jordi Cassagne & Barbastelle from Belgium, the The Esthesis Quartet with guest Bill Frisell, Finland saxophonist Jussi Kannaste's debut as a leader, the first meeting of the power trio of Larry Ochs, Joe Morris & Charles Downs, woodwind master Vinny Golia's 2024 Quintet, and The Gathering -Roots And Branches of Los Angeles Jazz.

Playlist

• Kannaste4 "Different Worlds" from Out Of Self and Into Others (We Jazz) 00:00
• Host speaks 06:58
• Larry Ochs, Joe Morris & Charles Downs "Yoh-Yonk-Yonk-Hiddee-Yay" from Every Day, All The Way (ESP Disk) 09:16
• Myra Melford Splash "Chalk" from Myra Melford Splash (Intakt) 18:01
• Vinny Golia Quintet 2024 " Crocodylomorphs & Theropods" from Almasty (Nine Winds) 22:48
• Host speaks 31:12
• Felix Henkelhausen Quintet "Particle 1 For Emac" from Deranged Particles (Fun In The Church) 34:41
• Felix Henkelhausen Quintet "Particle 2 Relapse Between" from Deranged Particles (Fun In The Church) 40:46
• Jim Hobbs & Timo Shanko "Presumption Punished" from The Depression Tapes (Relative Pitch) 49:34
• Host speaks 56:28
• Federico Calcagno Octet "Liquid War" from Mundus Inversus (Habitable) 57:41
• Silke Eberhard Trio "Golden Fish" from Being A Ning (Intakt) 1:06:44
• Bastian Stein "Allright" from Song Atlas (Klaeng) 1:12:03
• Host speaks 1:19:36
• The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz "Role Call" from Warriors All 2025 (Village) 1:22:44
• Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio "Second Step" from Dream A Dream (Libra) 1:30:02
• Training with Ruth Goller "Longingly" from Threads To Knot (Squama) 1:41:30
• Host speaks 1:49:25
• Esthesis Quartet "Fit Of Fury" from Sound And Fury (Sunnyside) 1:52:48
• Green Mitchell Trio} "Nature Channel" from Nature Channel (Queen Bee) 2:01:43
• Steve Lehman "34a" from The Music Of Anthony Braxton (Pi Recordings) 2:07:00
• Host speaks 2:15:19
• Jordi Cassagne & Barbastelle "Limon D'Eclat" from Vestiges Étésien (Aut Records) 2:16:36
• Økse "Onwards (Keep Going)" from Økse (Backwoodz Studioz) 2:27:03
• Host speaks 2:34:04
• Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer "Procession-Defiant Life" from Defiant Life (ECM) 2:35:23