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Album

This Irish Jazz

By Adam Nolan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1: There's always something more in you

Album

Prim and Primal

By Adam Nolan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Expand the Tempo; The Modern Jazz Trio; Latin Jazz?; Ancient Mayan Jungle; The Magic Carpet; Kung Fu Master Vs The Ape (in a smoking area).

Album

The Great Conjunction

By Adam Nolan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Planet 5 Planet 6

Article: Radio & Podcasts

On this show music from trios lead by Adam Nolan, Gerry Eastman and Fran Nava. There's another track from the newly released live version of John Coltrane with A Love Supreme Live in Seattle as well as further exploration of Ivo Perelman's Brass and Ivory Tales Box Set. Portland, Oregon also features, a city that inspires ...

Article: Album Review

Adam Nolan: Prim and Primal

Read "Prim and Primal" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 23, 2021

Whether stalking the perimeters or cutting to the bone, Irish alto saxophonist Adam Nolan's full throated assault on alternative facts takes you by storm on his fourth (and hopefully breakthrough) disc, Prim and Primal. Like Ornette Coleman, like Anthony Braxton, Nolan and his fellow non-shy improvisors—bassist Derek Whyte and drummer Dominic Mullan—keep the music ...

Article: Album Review

Adam Nolan: Prim and Primal

Read "Prim and Primal" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
October 1, 2021

Tell you what. A lot of listeners have never been particularly big fans of free jazz. “It is difficult to understand." Really? “Formalism," said Sergei Prokofiev, “is the name given to music not understood on first hearing." This, recall, was a statement made in defense of Dmitri Shostakovich and his Fourth Symphony. This is not to ...

Article: Album Review

Adam Nolan Trio: Prim and Primal

Read "Prim and Primal" reviewed by Jim Worsley

by Jim Worsley
September 29, 2021

Prim and Primal is a cool name for a record. It does, however, take some balls to put out a record with such a title. It leaves listeners with deep expectations. To paraphrase the old saying, though, “It's okay to talk the talk if you can walk the walk." Alto saxophonist Adam Nolan has a pair ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Devin Gray, Benoit Delbecq and Oh! Canada

by Maurice Hogue
July 21, 2021

With this show's air date falling on July 1st, Canada Day, I decided I best get all patriotic, eh, and program a wide variety of Canadian artists in the second half to celebrate Canadian jazz. In the first part there are tunes from new releases by Benoit Delbecq, the trio of Devin Gray, Ralph Alessi and ...

News: Recording

Ireland's Adam Nolan Trio To Release 'Prim And Primal' On August 19, 2021

July 8, 2021

Prolific saxophonist Adam Nolan will soon release his latest trio album featuring Irish jazz musicians Derek Whyte (double bass) and Dominic Mullan (drums). The concept is of two jazz personalities, the polite humble sweet sounding, and the aggressive wild punk rebel. Each track is a visceral experience combining fantastical imagery and unique scenarios. Before each piece ...