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Andy Laster

Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions Of Julius Hemphill

By Marty Ehrlich

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Open Air (for Tommy); Revue; R & B; My First Winter (#1); Orator; Touchic’; Hearts; Another Feeling; Funny Paper; New Prayers; Untitled; Stick; What I Know Now; Pillars Latino; Bayou Sketches; Dar El Sudan; Cool Red; Affairs of the Heart; Steppin’; Plain Song; Sweet D (for David Murray); Children’s Song; Romance in Time; Slide; Functions; Ink; One/Waltz/Time; Bumpkin; Border Town (San Antonio, TX); Big Foot; Flair; Georgia Blue (for Joanne Robinson-Hill); Little Samba; Dream/Scheme; Ji Ji Tune; Choo Choo; Fixed Signs; Impulse; Connections; Loopology; My First Winter (#2); Void.

4 Horns & What? – The Complete American Recordings

By Phillip Haynes

Label: Corner Store Jazz
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:
A'lil Iowa Get-Down; El-Smoke; Ballad For Heike; Point Period; Atmospheres; Corner Store Strut; Alone; Blues for Israel.
CD 2:
Holler 4 Horns; Out of the Bowels; Sweep; Goofus' Step; Some Sick Slick; Where Now; Adrienne's Jazzmarchrag; Phantoms; Eclipse.
CD 3:
Don Byron intro; Holler4Horns; A Little Iowa Get-Down; Phil Speaks 1; Goofus' Step; Saeta; Phil Speaks 2; West Virginian Blues; Waltz for Gerry (Last Dance); Phil Speaks 3; Eclipse.

Entity

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Entity; Flashback; Gounkaiku; Elementary Particle; Everlasting.

JC Sanford's Triocracy: Pyramid Scheme

by Mark Sullivan
May 26, 2019

Trombonist / composer JC Sanford leads an unconventional chamber trio with Andy Laster and Chris Bacas on saxophones and clarinets. As the group name implies, it is a remarkably flexible and democratic small ensemble. Sanford is the main composer, but there are also collective improvisations, guided improvisations, and a few surprising covers. “Rip Tide" ...

Fukushima

By Ellery Eskelin

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Fukushima 1; Fukushima 2; Fukushima 3; Fukushima 4; Fukushima 5; Fukushima 2 (vocal).

Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Fukushima

by Karl Ackermann
December 1, 2017

Satoko Fujii's Orchestra New York has been together since their 1997 debut South Wind (Leo Lab/Libra). A “super group" by any standards, it has remained largely intact over the course of twenty years, bringing the ensemble to its latest release, Fukushima, a memorial suite. The Fukushima nuclear accident was caused by a major earthquake and a ...

Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra: Hot Town

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 28, 2015

Brian Carpenter e la sua Ghost Train Orchestra proseguono la meritevole opera di recupero e talvolta di riscoperta della musica americana della prima metà del secolo scorso. Se nel precedente Book of Rhapsody l'attenzione era rivolta a quegli autori -Alec Wilder, John Kirby tra gli altri -alla ricerca di una via che apparentasse il jazz tradizionale ...

Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra: Book of Rhapsodies

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 11, 2014

Prendete la musica di quattro formazioni operanti nella fervida scena musicale americana degli anni Trenta e Quaranta, un ensemble di undici musicisti tra cui spiccano i nomi del leader Brian Carpenter, del sassofonista Andy Laster, del trombonista Curtis Hasselbring, un gruppo vocale di sei elementi, prestate attenzione al titolo e avrete un'idea della musica contenuta in ...

Tom Rainey: Obbligato

by Troy Collins
January 16, 2014

Tom Rainey has been a fixture in New York's Downtown scene since the early '90s. The stalwart drummer's current efforts have found him expanding his purview, collaborating with a new generation of creative improvisers. Working on original material with young Brooklyn-based artists like Ingrid Laubrock and Mary Halvorson, Rainey continues experiments in form and structure that ...