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Paradoxes In Freedom

Label: Lizard Breath Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Paradoxes In Freedom; Neo Tribalism; Disguised By Language; Ascetic Aesthetic; Pitchfork Rebellion; Semi Monistic Views; Loose in the Nous; Invasive Species.

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Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes In Freedom

Read "Paradoxes In Freedom" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Listening to guitarist and bandleader Dan Phillips' music can feel like trying to keep a scorecard to track all the musical lines he weaves together. Fortunately, despite his wide-ranging influences and concepts, he structures his compositions in a way that remains accessible, always grounded in the rich jazz traditions of Chicago. Paradoxes In Freedom ...

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Wadada Leo Smith / Vijay Iyer, Perelman / McPhee / Vandermark & Michael Gregory Jackson

Read "Wadada Leo Smith / Vijay Iyer, Perelman / McPhee / Vandermark & Michael Gregory Jackson" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


This episode of One Man's Jazz is loaded with introductions to new albums by a remarkable group of musicians. Heading the list is the duet of Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer. Their new Defiant Life, not their first time playing together, speaks to the current state of the world and finding possible paths to liberation. ...

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Michael Bisio, Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez & Rainer Brüninghausen

Read "Michael Bisio, Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez & Rainer Brüninghausen" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


There seems to be a bit of growing trend to exploring the confluence of poetry and jazz, and this is right down my alley. New York poet Fred Moten and bassist Brandon Lopez have released two albums with Gerald Cleaver that feature stirring free improvisation in lockstep with Moten's political and questioning words. Now Moten and ...

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Chicago Edge Ensemble, The Exu, Laihonen/Innanen & Don Paul

Read "Chicago Edge Ensemble, The Exu, Laihonen/Innanen & Don Paul" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


This episode is a great example of the wide range of improvised music, ranging from the free jazz of the new European trio, The Exu, the Finnish pair of drummer Simo Laihonen and saxophonist Mikko Innanen and the Chicago Edge Ensemble, to solo piano by Joachim Kuhn, to NY underground legend Booker T (Not the Booker ...

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John Lurie, Isaiah Collier, Dan Weiss & Steph Richards

Read "John Lurie, Isaiah Collier, Dan Weiss & Steph Richards" reviewed 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 ...

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Chicago Edge Ensemble: The Individualists

Read "The Individualists" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Let's trot out the old New York versus Chicago rivalry. Just like with their sports teams (Jets vs. Bears, Knicks vs. Bulls, etc.) music fans feel a need to chose sides. It has been like that since Louis Armstrong left the Windy City for the Big Apple in 1924 and Sun Ra in 1961. Sure NYC ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Daniel Carter, Chicago Edge Ensemble, & Charlotte Keeffe

Read "Daniel Carter, Chicago Edge Ensemble, & Charlotte Keeffe" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Music on the edge prevails in this episode, highlighted by the ubiquitous multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, Chicago guitarist Dan Phillips and his Chicago Edge Ensemble, and a Polish/Spanish quintet that features guitarist Grzegorz Lesiak, trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz and the members of the Liba Villavecchia Trio. James Baldwin's works are the subject of a baldwin en transit, French ...

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Matana Roberts, the Organ in Jazz, and New Releases

Read "Matana Roberts, the Organ in Jazz, and New Releases" reviewed by Bob Osborne


This week a focus on Matana Roberts, a preview of the new album from Dave Douglas, other new releases and a focus on the organ, Hammond and otherwise, in jazz. Playlist Dave Douglas “Showing Up" from Engage (Greenleaf) 00:00 Chicago Edge Ensemble “A Pontificators Tale" from Insidious Anthem (Trost) 08:31 Matana Roberts, Josh Abrams, ...


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