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Live at LunÀtico

By Arthur Kell
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Speculation (Intro); Haflat Zifaf; The Djado; Lullaby/Omi; Pisciotta Blue; Dry Delta; Dark Green No.15; Regatta;
Polyamorphous; Speculation.
Adoration of the Earth

Album: Jubilee
By Tima Volozh
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 2:46
Tima Volozh: Jubilee

by Katchie Cartwright
Jubilee is the excellent debut release of Russian-born New York-based drummer Tima Volozh. The group was formed in March 2022, assembled for a benefit performance in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The rhythm section features bassist Jerome Harris and guitarist Brad Shepik, both of whom are known for their work with drummer Paul Motian, among ...
The Most Exciting Jazz Albums since 1969: 2001-2005

by Robert Middleton
These six jazz thrillers from the first years of the 21st-century journey to wonderful and exotic locations with music that moves and grooves. All six albums feature influences from Middle Eastern, African, and Asian traditional music. They are all very visual in that they conjure up exotic vistas and locations, such as caravans and oases in ...
Haflat Zifaf

Album: Live at LunÀtico
By Arthur Kell
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 09:59
Peter Epstein, Brad Shepik, Matt Kilmer: Temoin

by Mike Jacobs
The nimble Temoin" is one of the many piquant delights this unusually formatted trio (sax, guitar, frame drum) puts forth on Lingua Franca (Songlines, 2005), The absence of upright or electric bass creates a tangibly wider sonic space for their ethnically-tinged, odd-metered romps and highlights their wonderfully telepathic interplay. At times subtle, at others spicy, the ...
Believers

By Brad Shepik
Label: Orenda Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Seven Crotales; Baraye Shoma; Nomadic Days; The Sigh; Waterwheel; Rêve Pour Louis; Fractured Water; Mona Mona.
Brad Shepik, Carles Benavent, New York Gypsy All Stars, Herbie Hancock, Soft Machine, Larry Coryell

by Len Davis
Part 2 of our special segment featuring Ethnic Embraces taken from a series of articles from Mike Jacobs on all About Jazz called Backtracks featuring New York Gypsies, Carles Benavent and Brad Shepik. We then visit the seventies with music from Herbie Hancock, Brand X, Soft Machine, and Larry Coryel. Playlist New York Gypsy ...
Ethnic Embraces

by Mike Jacobs
For the fourth installment in the continuing BackTracks series, we take a look at some notable releases that infuse their jazz with stylistic spice indigenous to different regions of the worldnamely North Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Balkans. As BackTracks was on a hiatus of sorts (and because these recordings seemed to emerge in matched ...
Believers: Believers

by Friedrich Kunzmann
The three individuals making up Believers are each highly respected musical voices in their own right. Percussionist John Hadfield has performed and recorded with the likes of Nguyen Le and released an inspired duo EP with woodwind autodidact Lenny Pickett, called Heard by Others (Orenda Records, 2020). Sam Minaie, on the other hand, has played bass ...