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Byron Asher

Byron Asher is a saxophonist and clarinetist and composer based in New Orleans and working at the intersection of broadly experimental composition and jazz and improvised music. 

His practice is dedicated to exploring new sounds across genre, and he is committed to building community through assembling and participating in ensembles that bring together musicians from a diversity of training and aesthetic backgrounds.

Raised in Maryland, he has performed across Europe and the US at major art centers and festivals as well as at dive bars and DIY spaces. Festivals include the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and French Quarter Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, Jazz a Vienne, France, and the Karlovy Vary Jazz Festival, Czech Republic. He has also played shows and festivals in Germany, Poland, and Slovakia and has had his compositions featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Album

Good Hang

Label: 1718 Records LLC
Released: 2025
Track listing: Syeeda's Song Flute; Libertango; Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most; Happy People; Lover, You Should've Come Over; Cold Train Funk;Monkey Puzzle; Temporary Blindness; Dear Prudence / Don't Let Me Down

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Lover, You Should Have Come Over

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Label: 1718 Records LLC
Released: 2025
Duration: 09:44

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Music From Jarrett, Perelman, Bloom, Salles, & More

Read "Music From Jarrett, Perelman, Bloom, Salles, & More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


On this show live music from Keith Jarrett, who recently reached his 80th year, plus a treasure trove of Ivo Perelman, both old and new recordings, also a selection of brand new releases.Playlist Keith Jarrett “New Vienna Part IV" from New Vienna (ECM) 00:00 Shamek Farrah “Umoja Suite" from First Impressions (Strata East/Mack Avenue) ...

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Lord, when you send the rain

Label: Sinking City Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Problem With Mississippi; New Louisiana Hoodoo Blues; The Break; Re: Backwater Blues; Duet; Threads; Ma Rainey's Barrelhouse Blues; Papa likes his outside women, Mama likes her outside men.

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The Jazz Worlds of James Baldwin - Part 2

Read "The Jazz Worlds of James Baldwin - Part 2" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Here is the second part of an edition of Mondo Jazz celebrating the birth of James Baldwin, 100 years ago in Harlem, through the countless connections between his life and work, the music he loved and the music he inspired.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Byron Asher, New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Taylor Eigsti, Mike Holober & More

Read "Byron Asher, New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Taylor Eigsti, Mike Holober & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Taylor Eigsti opens the set with his exciting new album, Plot Armor, and then a focus on large and medium ensembles from New York and New Orleans.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Taylor Eigsti “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" Plot Armor (Ground Up!) 0:16 Host ...

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Article: Album Review

Byron Asher's Skrontch Music: Lord, when you send the rain

Read "Lord, when you send the rain" reviewed by Gareth Thompson


The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive one in American history. Seven states were affected and the political fallout saw Herbert Hoover reach the White House by 1929. The saxophonist Byron Asher believes another political action was the development of New Orleans jazz, early in the twentieth century, in direct resistance to the ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Matt Lavelle, Jonathan Backstrom, Rob Mazurek & Helveticus

Read "Matt Lavelle, Jonathan Backstrom, Rob Mazurek & Helveticus" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


NYC multi-instrumentalist Matt Lavelle finally gets to see a dream fulfilled with the release of Crop Circles Suite Vol .1 by his 12 Houses Orchestra. Lavelle has been carefully crafting this very interesting album with its references to numerology and metaphysics for years. Finnish bassist Jonathan Backstrom has probably been carrying around his own dream: his ...

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New Live And Studio Records Plus Classic Mingus

Read "New Live And Studio Records Plus Classic Mingus" reviewed by Bob Osborne


On this week's show we present new live albums from Steve Coleman and Enrico Rava. There are also new studio based releases from Adán Mizrahi, Byron Asher & Brad Webb, Brian Molloy Quartet, John Zorn, and Bruce Forman, John Clayton & Jeff Hamilton. We also dip into the archive for some classic Charles Mingus.Playlist ...


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