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Article: Year in Review

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 ...

Album

Weave4

By Weave4

Label: Parco Della Musica
Released: 2023
Track listing: No for Me; One-Cross Spoke; Neither and Both; 3-4-5; Blomme; Le costume; Snap; Chemin sur le crest; Landscape; Offline; Messina; Ristretto.

Album

Unclosing

By Tomas Fujiwara

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Crooked Frame; Unclosing; Triple Fever; Fading Wave; Osmosis Crown; Freud and Jung Go Cycling; G. Ocean; Les Mots et les Choses; Soul of the Grey.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Trespass Trio, Mikko Innanen, Mark Solborg & Noa Fort

by Maurice Hogue
December 18, 2023

If you like your music on the edge, this episode of OMJ has plenty, starting with Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen and his Trespass Trio, Live In Oslo, ably abetted by the dynamic trumpet of Susana Santos Silva. Danish guitarist Mark Solborg's Babel draws upon language for his latest, while saxophonist Ivo Perelman continues his regime of ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Hiromi, Mike Reed, Weave4, Astghik Martirosyan, Todd Clouser & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 18, 2023

Putting together an episode of Mondo Jazz feels like an experiment, requiring research and analysis leading to a synthesis of the most interesting specimens from the current world jazz flora. Here some of the most significant discoveries of the last week.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng ...

Article: Six Picks

October 2023: An Improvised Paradise

by Pat Youngspiel
October 11, 2023

The Angelica Sanchez Nonet Nighttime Creatures Pyroclastic Records 2023 One rarely gets to hear the contra-alto clarinet--an instrument mainly developed in the 20th century with a range extending downwards to the lower E-flat (concert G-flat), sometimes even a D or a C. On the introductory title cut of Nighttime Creatures, however, ...

Article: Interview

François Houle: Insider Listening that Makes You Clever

by Kerilie McDowall
September 20, 2023

Canadians and local Vancouverites have been in awe at BC, Canada's prestigious regular rising star clarinetist François Houle's international ranking status. Houle creates brilliantly fascinating compositions and such clever, innovative work. He has released seven albums as a leader from 2022-2023 and has four more plus on the way. Incredibly he will have released 11 albums ...

Article: Album Review

Illegal Crowns: Unclosing

Read "Unclosing" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
August 25, 2023

When a band of four leaders in their own right still exists over ten years after its inception, then something worthwhile is afoot. Illegal Crowns comprises the familiar American triumvirate of guitarist Mary Halvorson, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, who first crossed paths with French pianist Benoît Delbecq in 2012. Their third album ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

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 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Illegal Crowns, Idle Hands, Freddie Bryant And More

by Bob Osborne
July 6, 2023

On this show new music from Illegal Crowns (Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum & Benoit Delbecq), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Paal Nilssen-Love, Freddie Bryant, La Disidencia de las Máquinas, James McGowan, Voodoo Drummer, Sana Nagano and Leonor Falcón, Idle Hands, and a never before heard recording of John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy.Playlist ...