Diana Arias

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New Releases From Diana Arias, Aleksi Glick, Francisco Mela & Shinya Lin, And More

by Bob Osborne
May 23, 2024

On this show we have all new releases from Diana Arias, Aleksi Glick, Francisco Mela & Shinya Lin, Jon Gordon, Modney, Louise van den Heuvel, Dave Douglas, Fay Victor, Samuel Torres, Owen Broder, and Jamie Baum Septet+. Playlist Intro Theme 00:00 Diana Arias “Pacifico" from Viaje del Pez (ears&eyes) 00:35 Aleksi Glick “She Told Me" from World Traveller (Pinch Records) 06:29 Francisco Mela, Shinya Lin “Motions, Vol. 2--Part III" from Motions Vol. 2 (577 Records) 10:43 Jon Gordon ...

Album Review

Joaquin Muro: Contracara

Read "Contracara" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
January 7, 2022

Recorded in the same sessions and presented (digitally only) as the B-side to his first album--the fully careening Oxymoron (ears&eyes, 2021)--Brazilian trumpeter Joaquin Muro, with his high powered, firebrand peer, tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia wailing bravely at his side, sets Contracara ablaze. The music is at its overheating core is a fiery, free jazz rave-up that gleefully and unerringly provides an undisputed respite from the relentless information of our long, recent days. Be the musicians structured as a ...