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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)

A Sun That Never Sets

By Ralph Alessi

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: A Sun That Never Sets; Nothing is Dead; Relaxed Misery; Sweet Spot; Ether; Twichild; Transitional Imagery; Slow Dancing Bear; Of Trees (Variations on a Theme by TB; Duck Face; Behind Clouds.

Dream Archives

By Craig Taborn

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. "Coordinates for the Absent" 2. "Feeding Maps to the Fire" 3. "When Kabuya Dances" 4. "Mumbo Jumbo" 5. "Dream Archive" 6. "Enchant"

Ancestral Numbers

By Jason Robinson

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.

Passerine

By Stephan Crump

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Stuck; Glide; Weavers; Twenty-Five; Scrapes; Bryn; Fly

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 2

by Petra Cvelbar
September 6, 2026

The sixth day of the 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto continued with a performance by The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, featuring Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone, Mariam Rezaei on turntables, Gabriele Mitelli on piccolo trumpet, electronics, and vocals, and Lukas König on drums, electric cymbals, and synthesizer. On the seventh day, we ...

Sweet Spot

August 23, 2026

Album: A Sun That Never Sets
By Ralph Alessi
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 03:11

Jazz em Agosto 2026

by Stefano Merighi
August 11, 2026

Jazz Em Agosto 2026 Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona 31 luglio-9 agosto 2026 È arrivata all'edizione 42 “Jazz Em Agosto," di scena negli spazi sontuosi della Fondazione Gulbenkian a Lisbona, sempre con la direzione artistica di Rui Neves. Ed è stata un'edizione all'insegna dell'eclettismo stilistico, dove il jazz continua ...

Bill Dixon, Fay Victor, Szilárd Mezei Octet, Horace Tapscott and More

by Jon Greenbaum
June 7, 2026

In this archived radio transmission we get down with a variety of tasty post bop, free improvisation, experimental sound and through composed beauties. You're right! Here it is corrected:Playlist Luis Gasca “Street Dude" from For Those Who Chant (Blue Thumb Records) 00:00:00 Marty Ehrlich “The Folksinger" from Cartographies of Flight (Corbett vs. Dempsey) 00:11:44 ...

GEORGE... John Hollenbeck + Anna Webber... Craig Taborn, Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith Archive Dreams and Helen Sung debuts her Big Band

by Hobart Taylor
May 13, 2026

Homage to Wayne Shorter from GEORGE (John Hollenbeck/Anna Webber), early Wayne Shorter with Lee Morgan (The Young Lions re-mastered) and Helen Sung premieres her new big band! Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Emmet Cohen/Jeremy Pelt “Compassion" from Universal Truth (Mack Avenue) 00:08 The Young Lions /Bobby Timmons/Lee Morgan/Wayne Shorter"Scourn'" from Seeds of Sin (Craft) 05:35 ...