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Ches Smith

Ches Smith is an American musician whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He writes and performs music in a wide variety of contexts, including solo percussion, experimental rock bands, and small and large jazz ensembles. Smith has performed with Good For Cows, Marc Ribot, Theory of Ruin, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Xiu Xiu, Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant, Carla Bozulich, Beat Circus, Sean Hayes, Ben Goldberg, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Ara Anderson and Fred Frith. He has also recorded and performed a full-length album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled Congs For Brums (2006)

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Ancestral Numbers

Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ancestral Numbers I: Second House; Malachi; Potenziality; Remembering Water; Roots and Routes; Wattensaw; Vestibule; Ancestral Numbers.

Ancestral Numbers II: Sweet Tooth; The Return; Ruby; Enos; Deployment; Arrival; Grayscale; Ancestral Numbers.

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Splash

Label: Intakt
Released: 2025
Track listing: Drift; The Wayward Line; Interlude I; Freewheeler; Interlude II; Streaming; A Line With A Mind Of Its Own; Interlude III; Dryprint; Chalk.

Album

Clone Row

Label: Otherly Love Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ready Beat; Abrade With Me; Clone Row; Town Down; Heart Breakthrough; Sustained Nightmare; Play Bell (For Nick).

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Article: Album Review

Ches Smith: Clone Row

Read "Clone Row" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Ches Smith, the San Diego-born Sacramento-raised drummer who studied philosophy at the University of Oregon before diving headfirst into the Bay Area's experimental music scene, has long been one of modern jazz's most restless spirits. His deep resume includes work with Marc Ribot, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Mary Halvorson and Nels Cline, cementing his reputation as ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025

Read "Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Jazzfestival SaalfeldenVarious venues Land Salzburg, Austria August 21-24, 2025 One hundred and ninety artists from twenty-six countries, nearly thirty thousand attendees, eight different venues, more than sixty concerts, and a record number of tickets sold. These are just numbers, but they confirm how the Saalfelden Jazz Festival--now in its forty-fifth ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025

Read "Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025 Varie location 21--24 agosto 2025 Centonovanta artisti, provenienti da ventisei paesi, quasi trentamila presenze, otto location differenti, più di sessanta concerti, record di biglietti venduti. Sono solo numeri ma testimoniano come il Saalfelden Jazz Festival--giunto alla quarantacinquesima edizione--sia una rassegna che richiama spettatori da tutta Europa, sia profondamente ...

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Article: Album Review

Myra Melford: Splash

Read "Splash" reviewed by John Sharpe


Pianist Myra Melford returns to the classic piano trio format for the first time since The Guest House (Enja, 2011), her acclaimed outing with Trio M with Mark Dresser and Matt Wilson. This time, the lineup is no less formidable: bassist Michael Formanek and drummer/vibraphonist Ches Smith--both commanding improvisers and bandleaders--join her for a set that ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Andrea Motis, Ches Smith, and Noah Haidu

Read "Andrea Motis, Ches Smith, and Noah Haidu" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This program features modern jazz from Spain and Japan as well as older and newer music from the U. S. Musicians heard on the show include Andrea Motis, Ches Smith, Satoko Fujii, Keith Oxman, Milt Jackson, and Noah Haidu. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nicole Glover, James Brandon Lewis, Sarah Wilson and Myra Melford with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith

Read "Nicole Glover, James Brandon Lewis, Sarah Wilson and Myra Melford with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith" reviewed by Hobart Taylor


Nicole Glover's “Memories, Dreams, Reflections" James Brandon Lewis's “Abstraction is Deliverance" and Myra Melford with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith make a “Splash." Playlist Angelika Niescier Tomeka Reid Savannah Harris “Hic Svnt Dracones" from Beyond Dragons (Intakt) 00:00 Host Speaks 11:12 Akira Kosemura “ The Walking Man" from Mirai (Schole) 12:15 Nicole Glover “No. ...


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