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Paul Flaherty

Born: November 6, 1948

Paul Flaherty (born November 6, 1948, Hartford, Connecticut) is a legendary American saxophonist who plays primarily in free improvisational idioms.

Alto and tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty is New England's purveyor of the ecstatic jazz pulse. Even before his 1978 debut Flaherty remained unshakable in the pursuit of soul healing and demon dashing through freedom music. That first record, In the Midst of Chaos was cut with his local clan, under the banner Orange. For the next 20 years Flaherty remained exclusively in the great North East and recording over a dozen blasting, freely improvised albums with drummer Randall Colbourne, and others, for Cadence and their own Zaabway imprint. Since 2001 Flaherty's notoriety has risen in tandem with his hyper-acclaimed duo with drummer Chris Corsano and collaborations Dream/Aktion Unit (with Jim O'Rourke and Thurston Moore), Cold Bleak Heat, Dredd Foole, Joe McPhee, Steve Baczkowski, Marc Edwards, and many others.

Moers Festival Interviews: Virginia Genta

by Martin Longley
March 29, 2024

There is a tradition in the small German city of Moers, although its aims are far from traditional in orientation. Unless we consider the already sixty-year history (at least) of jazz-derived free improvisation. The Moers Festival has run since 1972, originally bent on exploring the vitality of free jazz, and still resolved towards that direction today, ...

Brand New Releases from Engin Özşahin And More

by Bob Osborne
June 29, 2023

On this edition of the show a selection of new releases including Engin Özşahin, Location Location Location (Anthony Pirog, Michael Formanek, and, Mike Pride), Henry Threadgill, The Jazz Warriors, Paul Flaherty with Jim Matus & Larry Derdeyn, Tania Giannouli, Kaisa's Machine (Kaisa Mäensivu) , Will Bonness, No Fast Food (Phil Haynes, Dave Liebman and Drew Gress) ...

Rasmussen, Flaherty, Rowden, Corsano: Crying in Space

by Mark Corroto
March 18, 2023

The question to be answered during this live performance was, “Will there be enough space for all the musicians' voices to be heard?" Recorded at Firehouse 12, in June 2019, this new ensemble is an adaptation of various duos and familiar trios. Saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano have performed and recorded numerous discs together ...

Crying in Space

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Hesitant Nature of Doubt (Shadow Chase); What to Expect When Faking Your Own Death; Industrial Sabotage Friday.

Chad Fowler: Alien Skin

by Mark Corroto
November 9, 2022

Freely improvised music, saxophonist Paul Flaherty dubbed it “the hated music." Experiencing Alien Skin brings to mind another quote, this one from a shampoo commercial from the late 1980s: “Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." A beautiful alchemy is this session captured in the fall of 2021. It contains a three-horn front line of Chad Fowler, ...

Albert Ayler: At Slugs’ Saloon 1966 Revisited

by Mark Corroto
August 28, 2022

With Albert Ayler it has seemingly always been “what If." What if he had survived that plunge to his death in the East River in 1970? Setting aside the question of whether he was murdered or committed suicide, how would he have altered the course of music if he lived beyond those 34 years? At the ...

Paul Flaherty / Mike Roberson / Randall Colbourne / James Chumley Hunt: Borrowed From Children

by John Sharpe
January 17, 2021

Four determinedly free players, who have existed outside of the big city bubbles for some 40 years, now unite for the first time on Borrowed From Children. Out of sight maybe, but not out of mind, as a voluminous discography on a multitude of independent labels attests. Perhaps most comprehensively documented is reedman Paul Flaherty, who ...

Borrowed From Children

By Paul Flaherty

Label: 577 Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Crude Gray Sky; Dark Leaves Linger; Brazen Eyes; An Old Man Gone.

Paul Flaherty / Randall Colbourne / James Chumley Hunt / Mike Roberson: Borrowed From Children

by Mark Corroto
June 25, 2020

Let's misquote a Rolling Stones' lyric here, with the music of Paul Flaherty “you can always get what you want," and maybe to a greater extent, “you get what you need." For more decades than he might want to count, the saxophonist has been making his self-described 'hated music.' We're talking hate as in a bugaboo, ...