Fieldwork, Matthieu Mazué, Aga Derlak & The Monkious

New releases are always about, but the new ones featured in this episode of OMJ are very, very special. First off, Fieldwork! Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman & Tyshawn Sorey are all formidable musicians in their own right and as the trio Fieldwork the critical acclaim was huge, the potential endless. But it's taken 17 years for the jazz world to hear a Fieldwork recording again. Cue the release of Thereupon with those 17 years of individual experiences combined into this trio again. Speaking of experience, the album simply named Seven Tracks reflects years of acclaimed playing by three of the free jazz world's finest practitioners—Frode Gjerstad, Alexander von Schlippenbach & Dag Magnus Narvesen. If you like pianist-led groups you should enjoy the complex music of Matthieu Mazué's trio enhanced by the alto sax of Michael Attias, or the sprightly attack of Poland's Aga Derlak & Neurodivergent or Argentina's Santiago Leibson. Or some Thelonious Monk perhaps, shaken and stirred by the European trio The Monkious featuring bassist Gonçalo Almeida, while fellow bassist Dr. Emma Dayhuff leads a four-generational tribute to Chicago on her Innovations & Lineage: The Chicago Project. There's even some very experimental big band coming soon from Anna Webber & Angela Morris and there's a preview of that too. So much excellent stuff to listen to!

Playlist

• Steve Coleman & The Metrics}} "Bebop" from Tale Of 3 Cities (RCA-Novus) 00:00
• Host speaks 07:53
• Matthieu Mazue Quartet "Screen: My Ghosts Are Underground" from Monoliths And Screens For Quartet (Self-released) 10:47
• Lina Allemano Four "Positive" from The Diptychs (Lumo) 18:49
• Lina Allemano Four "Negative" from The Diptychs (Lumo) 25:09
• Host speaks 32:19
• Frode Gjerstad, Alexander Von Schlippenbach & Dag Magnus Narvesen "00:06:28:947" from Seven Tracks (Relative Pitch) 33:39
• Linda May Han Oh "Noise Machinery" from Strange Heavens (Biophilia) 40:07
• Santiago Leibson "Love Story At The Federal Circle" from Analogue Fictions (Bocha) 45:31
• Host speaks 54:11
• Dr. Emma Dayhuff "Jaribu" from Innovations & Lineage: The Chicago Project (Division 81) 57:27
• Tom Weeks Trio "A New American Promise" from Paranoid II (Wolfsblood) 1:10:29
• Host speaks 1:15:41
• The Monkious "Blue Monk" from No Straight With Chaser (JACC) 1:16:55
• Matthew Shipp "Blues Orgasm" from The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe) 1:25:00
• Webber-Morris Big Band "Spur 7: Metamorphosis" from Unseparate (Out Of Your Head) 1:30:03
• Host speaks 1:39:34
• Fieldwork "Embracing Difference" from Thereupon (Pi) 1:42:29
• Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith "Floating River Requiem" from Defiant Life (ECM) 1:47:40
• The Return Of Knut Thompson "Ich Will Mehr Licht Im Gesicht" from Just That We Have Something, So That We Have Something When We Have Nothing (Trouble In The East) 1:53:52
• Host speaks 1:59:28
• Aga Derlak & Neurodivergent "Is It" from Neurodivergent (Polskie Radio) 2:01:29
• Tom Skinner "Margaret Anne" from Kaleidoscope Visions (International Anthem) 2:10:47
• Host speaks 2:15:36
• Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra "You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me" from And It's Yours Forever (Action Jazz) 2:16:46