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Chicago master drummer / percussionist AVREEAYL RA was born in Chicago on May 21st, 1947 and still lives there today. He is a renowned musician always in demand among visiting jazz artists in Chicago. Avreeayl’s father, Arthur "Swinglee" O’Neil, was a tenor saxophonist who was mentor to many young Chicago musicians, including John Gilmore, later the mainstay of Sun Ra’s Arkestra. (Avreeayl reports that John Gilmore had a crush on Avreeayl’s sister and so spent as much time as he could at the family house.) Swinglee O’Neil played in one of Sun Ra’s early Chicago bands, and Sun Ra played in one of Swinglee’s groups as well. Avreeayl is a long-term member of the Chicago AACM, his relationship with the seminal music organization having begun with early studies with AACM co-founder Kelan Philip Cohran

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Dan Phillips Trio - Array in Brown

By Dan Phillips

Label: Lizard Breath Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1 - Nebulous 1 4:48 2 - The Dissentient 1 3:21 3 - Array In Brown 1 5:36 4 - Actualization 4:46 5 - Dialectics 7:44 6 - Demiurge 3:02 7 - Unresolved Discourse 6:51 8 - Nebulous 2 4:33 9 - The Dissentient 2 3:19 10 - Language Games 9:23 11 - Array In Brown 2 5:16 12 - Damage Assessment 4:12 13 - Exoplanet 4:16

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Paradoxes In Freedom

By Chicago Edge Ensemble

Label: Lizard Breath Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Paradoxes In Freedom; Neo Tribalism; Disguised By Language; Ascetic Aesthetic; Pitchfork Rebellion; Semi Monistic Views; Loose in the Nous; Invasive Species.

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Chicago Edge Ensemble - Paradoxes in freedom

By Dan Phillips

Label: Lizard Breath Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. Paradoxes In Freedom 10:07 2.Neo Tribalism 08:48 3.Disguised By Language 14:22 4.Ascetic Aesthetic 09:30 5.Pitchfork Rebellion 07:51 6.Semi Monistic Views 09:23 7.Loose in the Nous 07:16 8.Invasive Species 07:12

Article: Album Review

Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes In Freedom

Read "Paradoxes In Freedom" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 23, 2025

Listening to guitarist and bandleader Dan Phillips' music can feel like trying to keep a scorecard to track all the musical lines he weaves together. Fortunately, despite his wide-ranging influences and concepts, he structures his compositions in a way that remains accessible, always grounded in the rich jazz traditions of Chicago. Paradoxes In Freedom ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Myra Melford Splash, Thomas Heberer's Remedy & Ra Bishop

by Maurice Hogue
March 31, 2025

It's early in the year to be thinking “best-of" albums, but I'm definitely noting these for December: pianist Myra Melford's Splash Trio with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Ches Smith and Remedy, the trio of Thomas Heberer trumpet, Joe Fonda bass & Joe Hertenstein drums. These are two recordings that present the kind of free expression ...

Article: Live Review

Fonterossa Day #7

by Neri Pollastri
May 3, 2023

Fonterossa Day #7 Teatro Sant'Andrea Pisa 16.4.2023 Settima edizione della rassegna dedicata da Pisa Jazz ai musicisti che ruotano attorno all'etichetta indipendente Fonterossa, creatura di Silvia Bolognesi, come sempre tenutasi nella suggestiva cornice del Teatro Sant'Andrea, chiesetta sconsacrata nel centro della città toscana ai bordi del Lungarno. La ...

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Duration Show - Joshua Abrams, The Necks, Made to Break, etc.

by David Brown
April 18, 2023

This week, I'm interested in exploring duration. 100 years ago this month, Louis Armstrong made his first recordings with King Joe Oliver. Those tracks were all 3 minutes or less--not a great vehicle for improvisation--but they made it work. Over time our ability to capture longer artistic expression increased, but attention spans vary. Tonight, we'll be ...

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Scylla

By Dave Rempis

Label: Aerophonic Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Survivors; Between A Rock; Viscosity.

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Rempis / Abrams / Ra + Jim Baker: Scylla

by Mark Corroto
October 13, 2022

Avreeayl Ra sets the tone for this entire live set as his voice and mbira open Scylla, “this is for all the survivors." According to Greek mythology Scylla was a beautiful woman who turned into a monster with four eyes and six long snaky necks with heads, each containing three rows of shark's teeth and 12 ...