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Asher Gamedze

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 ...

Turbulence And Pulse

By Asher Gamedze

Label: International Anthem / Mushroom Hour
Released: 2023
Track listing: Turbulence's Pulse; Wynter Time; Locomotion; If It Rains To Pursue The Truth; Melancholia; Alibama; Can't See The Sun; Sometimes I Think Of Myself; Out Stepped Zim; Underground Formation; Melancholia (Live In Cairo); If It Rains To Pursue The Sun (Live In Cairo); Out Stepped Zim (Live In Cairo).

New Music From Alan Ferber And More Plus A Look Back At Carter And Ughi

by Bob Osborne
August 24, 2023

On this show we feature an eclectic mix of forthcoming and recent releases including Alan Ferber, Bellbird, Kavita Shah, Marcos Fernandez & Arturo O'Farrill, Eduardo Elia, Naya Baaz, Asher Gamedze, Matt Ulery, Liv Andrea Hauge, Knut Kvitfe Nesheim, and Manuel Gamez. There is also a look back at two great albums from Daniel Carter and Federico ...

Fay Victor, Tyshawn Sorey, Matthew Shipp & Jaimie Branch

by Maurice Hogue
August 7, 2023

Vocalist Fay Victor's new solo album, Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful, is one of the featured new recordings in this episode of One Man's Jazz. She plays everything on the album. The much-respected drummer Tyshawn Sorey continues to explore the traditional piano trio with the release of Continuing, while Matthew Shipp takes the solo route for ...

A Few of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things (so far) - Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 25, 2023

Last week we focused our playlist on some of our favorite tracks from the first six months of 2023. Evidently two hours were not enough and we could not play them all... so here we are going through the rest of the best.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash ...

Lina Allemano Four, Matthew Shipp Trio & Maneri/Leandre/Taborn

by Maurice Hogue
June 26, 2023

What's new? Lots of recent releases to dig into--from Toronto trumpeter Lina Allemano, Daniel Carter / William Parker / Leo Genovese / Francisco Mela for the first time, Matthew Shipp's re-release of em>Circular Temple, the trio of Mat Maneri, Joelle Leandre & Craig Taborn, Argentinean duo of bassist Nicolas Ojeda and pianist German Lema, Swedish quartet ...

Magos Herrera, Karl Berger, Asher Gamedze, Gretchen Parlato & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 17, 2023

A remembrance of Karl Berger, the stunning new album by Magos Herrera, and a whole bunch of projects you can find along the Johannesburg-New York-Chicago expressway. Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sam Butler “Storybook" Folklore (Shifting Paradigm) 0:16 Host talks 5:30 Karl Berger, Kirk Knuffke, ...

I Heart The Jazz With Strings Genre + Porgy & Bess

by David Brown
June 6, 2023

I heart the jazz with strings genre. Tonight, the most bizarre of these records, the great Johnny Hodges with Lawrence Welk's Orchestra. We then check our coats at the famed Chicago supper club Mr. Kelly's for some vocals from Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'Day. Then, after a set of new releases including Chicago's Natural Information Society ...

Asher Gamedze: Turbulence And Pulse

by Chris May
May 24, 2023

South African drummer Asher Gamedze's Turbulence And Pulse is a magnificent, gutsy, stirring piece of work, authentic to its core. It resonates, almost without mediation, with Black American jazz as played by bands led by Charles Mingus and Art Blakey circa 1960. And therein lies a story, for Black South African jazz has seen its compass ...