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Moten/López/Cleaver

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Abolition Of Art, The Abolition Of Freedom, The Abolition Of You And Me; B Jenkins; B Jenkins 2; The Faerie Ornithologie; A Poem For Black Art; James Baldwin; Laura Harris; JohnThompson; Surfacing.

Album

No Es La Playa

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: No es la Playa; When the Island Is a Shipwreck; Saturnian Staring; Camposanto Chachacha; Little Distance Before; The Black Bag of Want.

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Article: Album Review

Satoko Fujii: Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams

Read "Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Country music artist Merle Haggard (1937 -2016) released 66 studio albums in his day, along with five instrumental recordings and several live and compilation discs. When asked in a late-career interview if his upcoming album was a good one, he answered (paraphrasing). “I don't know. I've made so many I don't know if the next one's ...

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Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Top Jazz Recordings of 2022

Read "Dan McClenaghan's Top Jazz Recordings of 2022" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The top jazz recordings of 2022, in no particular order. Justin MorellExit Music For Intelligent Life On Earth Sonic Frenzy Records A provocative and beautiful guitar and drums album. Guitarist Justin Morell has teamed with drummer Mark Ferber (see postscript concerning Ferber at the end of this article) to construct ...

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Article: Album Review

Fred Moten, Brandon López, Gerald Cleaver: Moten/López/Cleaver

Read "Moten/López/Cleaver" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Chuck D of Public Enemy fame once said, “rap music is the CNN of the ghetto." His words, coupled with samples and the scratching of turntables, were revelatory in their day, very much like a five-minute news update. Poet and cultural critic Fred Moten's words are more like a deep dive graduate colloquy. He presents his ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Steve Tintweiss, Chad Taylor Trio & Dan Rosenboom

Read "Steve Tintweiss, Chad Taylor Trio & Dan Rosenboom" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


This episode touches on current releases from artists like Chad Taylor, Dan Rosenboom, English drummer Tom Skinner, French free jazz saxophonist Roland Devocelle, Swiss saxophonist Christoph Irniger with the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and Germany's AAAPUZ, but it also takes a look back to the earlier free jazz scene of the 70s in New York with music ...

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Whit Dickey Quartet: Root Perspectives

Read "Root Perspectives" reviewed by Mark Corroto


If it were possible to inhale an entire recording, Root Perspectives by drummer Whit Dickey's quartet might be the perfect delivery system. The music Dickey has put together comes as currents of wind, both a breeze and a gale. It is a drummer-led recording, but with any session this drummer leads (or plays in as sideman) ...

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Colin Fisher / Mike Gennaro: Tactile Stories

Read "Tactile Stories" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Does the world need another free jazz duo recording? Absolutely not, unless (dammit) it is as intoxicating as Tactile Stories by the Canadian duo of Colin Fisher and Mike Gennaro. Fisher's talents are spread across both the saxophone, which he hoists for three tracks, and electric guitar heard on the final “Epinoia." Elsewhere, he can be ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Zoh Amba, Janel Leppin, & Roberto Ottaviano and Alexander Hawkins

Read "Zoh Amba, Janel Leppin, & Roberto Ottaviano and Alexander Hawkins" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Free jazz saxophonist Zoh Amba has had much attention focused on her in a fairly short time, and a new album with drummer Francisco Mela will keep those spotlights firmly in place. There's also a track from her debut, Oh Sun!. Cellist Janel Leppin leads a great band on her new Ensemble Volcanic Ash, while Chicago ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Space Station Jazz Program

Read "The Space Station Jazz Program" reviewed by David Brown


In a time before astronauts and cosmonauts explored the space beyond our planet, jazz musicians were already there. In the '50s reference to space in album titles, graphics and song titles equated the music with the modern. This is still true today as space is a place for exploration in jazz. This week, let's jump around ...


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