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Chad Fowler
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Chad Fowler is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, author, and label owner. He co-leads the avant-garde group Dopolarians, whose first record featured Kidd Jordan, Alvin Fielder, and William Parker. He has played and recorded with artists such as William Parker, Brian Blade, Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman, Rufus Reid, Reggie Workman, and Andrew Cyrille.
Steve Hirsh: Root Causes
by Mark Corroto
Although Steve Hirsh's name appears on the masthead of Root Causes, you might not immediately recognize it as a drummer-led recording. Unlike the unmistakable leadership of Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, and Tony Williams, Hirsh leads with subtlety, functioning more as a selfless, responsive collaborator than a dominant force. The album features a classic piano ...
Embracing the Unknown
By Ivo Perelman
Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Embracing the Unknown; Soul Searching; Self-Reflection; Introspection; Self-Analysis; Self-
Fulfillment; Self-Contemplation.
Ivo Perelman: What A Year In Music
by Mark Corroto
There is an adage in the music world that one is damned to be a completist. Ever since performances have been captured on cylinders, records, and now digitally, music devotees have endeavored to collect entire catalogs of their favorite musicians or ensembles. Think about the obsessive hunters of 78 rpm blues records from backwoods artists of ...
Hirsh / Swell / Clouse / Parker: Out On A Limb
by Mark Corroto
Can déjà vu be contagious? Or at least a particular quality or disposition that is communicable? This might be the question to ask after sitting down with Out On A Limb by the improvising quartet of Steve Hirsh, Steve Swell, Jim Clouse, and William Parker. The music this unit created spontaneously in April 2024 does not ...
John Lurie, Isaiah Collier, Dan Weiss & Steph Richards
by Maurice Hogue
John Lurie hasn't recorded any music since contracting Lyme disease several years ago; in fact he couldn't even listen to music because of the neurological effects of the disease. He retreated to someplace in the Caribbean then finally improved enough to come back to the US and made Painting With John for HBO. Lurie's music which ...
Ivo Perelman, Chad Fowler, Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown
by Troy Dostert
Since founding Mahakala Music in 2019, saxophonist Chad Fowler has done as much as anyone to continue the spirit of unfettered free jazz, drawing on an illustrious roster which includes veterans such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Joe McPhee, Ivo Perelman and many others, with Fowler himself frequently appearing alongside them. The label is also doing ...
Ivo Perelman / Chad Fowler / Reggie Workman / Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown
by Mark Corroto
Let's explore the title of saxophonist Ivo Perelman's latest release, Embracing the Unknown. His quartet with fellow saxophonist Chad Fowler, plus jazz legends Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille embrace, or welcome, adopt, and maybe better stated, champion the unknown. This exercise in instant composing guides listeners through the mysterious, the new, the novel, the undiscovered, i.e. ...
Jonas Cambien, Satoko Fujii & Ivo Perelman Jonas Cambien
by Maurice Hogue
The opening set recognizes Black History Month with poetry and spoken word from Shirley LeFlore, Kamau Daood & Langston Hughes. New releases sampled come from albums by Belgian/Nowegian pianist Jonas Cambien, the great Satoko Fujii with her Tokyo Trio, two by prolific saxophonist Ivo Perelman, guitarist Dave Harrington, the Chicago explorative piano trio of Jim Baker, ...
Discovered Early Jazz Fusion From Pat Smythe Plus Other New Releases
by Bob Osborne
On this show we focus on a previously unreleased album from Pat Smythe recorded in France in 1973. In addition we have recent and forthcoming releases from Ernesto Cervini, The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis, Pat Bianchi, Yosef Gutman Levitt, Smelloship, Albare, George Cartwright, Echoes of Zoo, Chad Fowler, Muriel Grossman, Roby Glod Christian Ramond & ...
