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Matt Moran

Vibraphonist and tunesmith Matt Moran "plays the vibraphone like a speed-chess master, always darting off into flurries of ingenious, unexpected activity" (Village Voice). He has performed and recorded with artists as diverse as Mat Maneri, Lionel Hampton, Combustible Edison, Ellery Eskelin, and Saban Bajramovic. Moran's sound is integral to an innovative group of New York musicians who blur the boundaries of composition, improvisation, and folk traditions. Moran received a Master's degree in jazz composition from New England Conservatory in 1995. At NEC he studied with the visionary composer and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Maneri, and has continued to learn from Maneri through performances with him

Seven Skies Orchestra

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD1:Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six. CD2: Part Seven; Part Eight; Part Nine; Part Ten.

Ivo Perelman, Nate Wooley, Mat Maneri, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joe Morris, Matt Moran: Seven Skies Orchestra

by Hrayr Attarian
January 14, 2024

Ever the intrepid innovator, saxophonist Ivo Perelman takes his music in a new direction on the double-disc set, Seven Skies Orchestra. After a long series, primarily of duets, Perelman returns to a larger ensemble setting, a sextet in this case. That is not the only difference between this release and his previous output; the music here, ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Audible Spirits

By Matt Moran

Label: Diskonife
Released: 2023
Track listing: Stolen Moments; Moment's Notice; The Girl From Ipanema; Misty; Like Someone In Love; Satin Doll; All The Things You Are; Peace.

Tuning Forks

By Ivo Perelman

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Gregorian; Pythagorean; Tesla; Schumann; Fibonacci; Rife.

Seven Skies Orchestra

By Ivo Perelman

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six. Disc 2: Part Seven; Part Eight; Part Nine; Part Ten.

Notable Releases from Christian Dillingham and Others

by Jerome Wilson
December 10, 2023

Here is a look at some notable albums released in the latter half of 2023. Ilya Dynov Bridges Self-Produced 2023 Drummer Ilya Dynov leads a small group session of straight-ahead jazz played with an edge and swinging deftness. The music runs the gamut from the rolling urgency ...

Brubeck In '59 And Some Brand New Jazz Releases

by Bob Osborne
November 23, 2023

On this show we feature new new releases from Dave Brubeck, Voodoo Drummer, Matías Formica, Art Hirahara, John Herberman, Ivo Perelman, Susan Alcorn, Afro Peruvian New Trends Orchestra, Barry Deister, Constantine Alexander, and, Laurent Estoppey with Daniel Levin.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Basin Street Blues" from Live from the Northwest, 1959 ...

Kenneth Jimenez, Jure Pukl, Pyramid Trio & Taiko Saito

by Maurice Hogue
November 10, 2023

A pair of excellent quartet releases jump off the page in this edition of One Man's Jazz. Bassist Kenneth Jimenez, with Angelica Sanchez, Hery Paz and Gerald Cleaver, and saxophonist Jure Pukl with Joe Sanders, Peter Evans and Nasheet Waits, create some wonderful contemporary improvisation on their latest projects. NoBusiness Records has a winner in Visitation ...