Joe Hertenstein, Mikko Pettinen, Igor Lumpert & Abbey Rader

If you like quartets, there's some great music from these foursomes: German & NYC drummer Joe Hertenstein with trombonist Ray Anderson, saxophonist Michael Moore & bassist Michael Formanek documented a European tour last year and set a high bar on The 7th Dinner Live. Also recorded live, French drummer Raphaël Pannier fulfilled a dream of playing with Senegalese "sabar" musicians when he and his quartet joined N'Diaye Rose's group at the Saint Louis International Jazz Festival. It's a percussion feast! Saxophonist Igor Lumpert did some catching up, when he formed a quartet to record music that was originally part of an earlier project called "Prayer For The Earth." Belgian drummer Gert Jan Dreesen's debut Angle Of Incidence gets a feature, and saxophonist Muriel Grossmann takes her quartet down a spiritual path drawn on the Dzogchen principle of non-meditation. Finally, Finnish trumpeter Mikko Pettinen & his band Why Not tell the tale of Mikko's journey through the ultra rare disease, superficial siderosis. You'll also hear the splendid trio of pianist John Taylor, bassist Marc Johnson & drummer Joey Baron on Tramonto, a newly unreleased 2002 album from ECM. This episode closes with a sincere memoriam to free jazz drummer, Abbey Rader who died in September.

Playlist

• Revolutionary Snake Ensemble "Strange Cults" from Serpentine (Cuneiform) 00:00
• Host speaks 05:11
• Joe Hertenstein & Ray Anderson "The 7th Dinner" from The 7th Dinner Live (Fundacja Sluchaj) 06:57
• Zack Lober's NoFill3r "Joe Type Tune" from So We Could Live (Zennez) 15:46
• Trio Of Bloom "Bend It" from Trio Of Bloom (Pyroclastic) 19:46
• Host speaks 26:30
• John Taylor Trio "Up Too Late" from Tramonto (ECM) 28:43
• Andy Lawrenson "Crayola" from Half Of What You See (Out Of Your Head) 40:51
• Wadada Leo Smith, Jakob Bro & Marcus Gilmore "Heart Language" from Murasaki (Loveland) 47:12
• Host speaks 55:19
• Muriel Grossmann "Already Here" fromBreakthrough (RRGEMS) 56:44
• Russ Lossing Trio "Emphasis My Own" from Proximity Alert (Blaser Music) 1:06:11
• Raphael Pannier Quartet "Lonely Woman" from Take Five—Live In Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel) 1:12:49
• Host speaks 1:25:15
• Igor Lumpert Quartet "Resistance Of The Earth" from Resistance Of The Earth (Ears & Eyes) 1:28:06
• Sam Weinberg Trio "Freda" from Of Peeling Passage: Live at Sisters (Self-released) 1:35:24
• Joe Hertenstein & Ray Anderson "Fourdance" from The 7th Dinner Live (Fundacja Sluchaj) 1:41:57
• Host speaks 1:49:02
• Gert Jan Dreesen "Dreamteam" from Angle Of Incidence (Hypnote) 1:50:37
• Otherlands Trio "Lateral Line" from Star Mountain (Intakt) 1:57:19
• Mikko Pettinen Why Not "Iron Head" from Patient Patient (Eclipse Music) 2:01:41
• Host speaks 2:08:33
• Abbey Rader Trio "Celestial Call" from To Ignite The Fire (Abray) 2:13:33