Marty Ehrlich's Trio Exaltation, Loot, Enemy & Cosmic Ear

The much respected woodwind master, Marty Ehrlich, has a thing about trios—he feels a trio is a perfect vehicle to get to the essential core of music. Ehrlich has fronted several great trios with the most recent being Trio Exaltation. The 2018 debut of that band with bassist John Hébert and drummer Nasheet Waits was met with much acclaim and now they're back with This Time. It's terrific and it's the feature in this episode of One Man's Jazz. Actually, there are several feature releases from across the spectrum of improvised music. Cosmic Ear is a Swedish quintet that jumps into Don Cherry's music with gusto on their new Traces for We Jazz Records. Dutch saxophone legend Ab Baars stands out in the new Netherlands band, Loot. Drummer Teun Verbruggen from Belgium takes his Blind IO quartet down a path referencing the works of Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe, Sanskrit rasa's and astronomical phenomen in his new Pillars Of Creation Part 1, while Enemy, the European trio of Kit Downes, Peter Eldh and James Maddren (piano/bass/drums) should make plenty of friends on their latest, Fiend. There's plenty more. Have a listen.

Playlist

• Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" from The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (BMG) 00:00
• Archie Shepp "Things Have Got To Change" from Things Have Got To Change (Impulse) 03:02
• Host speaks 19:46
• Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation "Dusk" from This Time (Sunnyside) 22:05
• Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez "#11" from Revision (AUM Fidelity) 30:23
• Stéphane Galland "Ipseity" from Stéphane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters (Challenge) 36:32
• Host speaks 44:39
• Teun Verbruggen & Blind IO "Lockman Hole" from Pillars Of Creation Part 1 (Rat Records) 46:57
• Nels Cline's Concentrik Quartet "Surplus" from Nels Cline's Concentrik Quartet (Blue Note) 54:37
• Felix Henkelhausen Quintet "Particle IV: The Place Was A Waiting Room" from Deranged Particles (Fun In The Church) 59:48
• Host speaks 1:08:33
• Tony Jones,Charlie Burnham & Charles Downs "Prepare A Refuge" from Sextet (Reva Records) 1:10:16
• Kadawa "Sophianic Mess" from Post Graduation Fees (Self-released) 1:18:22
• Enemy "Faster Than Light" from Fiend (Edition) 1:23:58
• Host speaks 1:29:46
• Loot "Upperclass Upperground" from Loot (ICP) 1:31:20
• Loot "Impala" from Loot (ICP) 1:35:02
• Mathias Landaeus Trio "The Gift" from Dissolving Patterns (Self-released) 1:39:51
• Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation "Sometimes This Time" from This Time (Sunnyside) 1:46:18
• Host speaks 1:52:52
• Cosmic Ear "Right Here Right Now" from Traces (We Jazz) 1:55:58