Jason Robinson, Sanchez / Guy / Lopez, Vehicle / Passenger & Jeff Lederer

Multi-reedist Jason Robinson's second volume of music composed in honor of his ancestors maintains the same power and emotion as the first and both albums are among the best releases of 2024. Fellow saxophonist Jeff Lederer's new Guilty! has a political slant, and it delivers a message that many of us are waiting to hear, while several releases out of Europe convey the message that there is some amazing music being made there—like the first time meeting of the brilliant pianist Angelica Sanchez, master bassist Barry Guy and first-choice free jazz drummer Ramón López at a Jazzdor concert in Strasbourg, or Vehicle/Passenger, a unique trio that builds improvisatory soundscapes around the queer black anarchist poetry of saxophonist Marc Alberto supported by Florian Herzog bass and Lesley Mok drums, or the return of the popular Italian band Pericopes + 1, or the sublime music on Aurora Borealis created by guitarist Jonas Stuppin and bassist Stefan Berger. There's plenty more great music in this highly packed edition of One Man's Jazz.

Playlist

• Eri Yamamoto & Quadraphonic "Let's Do It" from Fly With The Wings (Mahakala Music) 00:00
• Host speaks 05:19
• Vehicle/Passenger "The Ballad Of A Never-Ending Elevator Accident" from Live In Amsterdam (Vrijetijdsbesteding) 08:21
• Matt SlocumTrio "Consolation Prize" from Lion Dance (Sunnyside) 16:50
• Thumbscrew "Orange Was The Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk" from Wingbeats (Cuneiform) 22:03
• Host speaks 27:45
• Angelica Sanchez, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez "Jazzdor II" from Live At Jazzdor (Maya Recordings) 29:33
• Kubri "Bolsa De Gatos" from Due (Aut Records) 38:32
• Flut "Glimmung" from Stones That I Have Chiseled (Aut Records) 45:32
• Ohad Talmor "New York" from Back To The Land (Intakt) 52:03
• Ohad Talmor}} "Accords Quintet Variations on Tune 12" from Back To The Land (Intakt) 56:39
• Host speaks 1:00:39
• Pericopes + 1 "Good Morning World" from Good Morning World (Losen) 1:03:45
• Robert Landfermann "Cato" from Rhenus (Klaeng) 1:11:59
• Archie Shepp "Song For Mozambique/Sea Of Faces" from Sea Of Faces (Black Saint) 1:16:44
• Host speaks 1:24:52
• Jeff Lederer "We The People" from Guilty! (Little I Music) 1:27:24
• Jeff Lederer "Guilty" from Guilty! (Little I Music) 1:32:24
• NEXUS feat "Potsa Lotsa" from Nexus Plays Dolphy (Red Records) 1:34:51
• Isaiah Collier "Retreat" from Parallel Universe (Night Dreamer) 1:41:46
• Host speaks 1:49:44
• Jason Robinson "Deployment" from Ancestral Numbers Vol. 2 (Playscape) 1:51:17
• Works "Something That You Can Do" from Scouring For The Elements (Connection Works) 1:58:53
• Julia Kriegsmann Quartet "Space Jam" from Dark Days & White Nights (Jazzhausmusik) 2:05:54
• Host speaks 2:10:38
• Jonas Stuppin & Stefan Berger "Aurora Borealis" from Aurora Borealis (Jazzhausmusik) 2:13:17