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Jon Irabagon: Server Farm

by Mike Jurkovic
Warning! Warning! Heads up! Spoiler alert! Server Farm has the potential to take your head to some random places. Some alarming (as all artists should be these days), Some cacophonous. Some claustrophobic. Others freeing, fleeting, fervent. Server Farm, saxophonist/composer Jon Irabagon's heatedly precise and prescient head-on clash with the threat of AI blisters the ...
John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024

by John Sharpe
From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2024, here are the ten new issues and three gems saved from obscurity, which gave me the most pleasure. As always these selections are entirely subjective, and take no account of the many other albums which I would no doubt have loved if I had heard ...
Recharge the Blade

By Jon Irabagon
Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Kilgrave Part 1; Blood Eagle; Keelhauling; Nightshade; Kilgrave Part 2; Recharge the Blade;
Trés Bechet; Tsar; Kilgrave Part 3; Quorum Call; We'll Meet Again; Welcome Parade.
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)

By Darius Jones
Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2024
Track listing: Affirmation Needed; Another Kind of Forever; No More My Lord; We Outside; We Inside Now;
Motherfuckin Roosevelt.
Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)

by Jerome Wilson
As Darius Jones' new album shows, even the most harrowing music can serve as a form of healing, The alto saxophonist has released a trio album that draws from his attempts to deal with personal mental trauma via a daunting musical journey that begins in screams and ends with serenity. This album is the ...
Gerald Cleaver: The Process

by Mark Corroto
Will the latest offering by Gerald Cleaver quiet the haters and jackals? Listeners accustomed to his drum work with Craig Taborn, William Parker, Daniel Carter, JD Allen, etc. etc., might believe they have to make a choice, one similar to the historic divide Miles Davis created when he went electric. Starting with Cleaver's recordings for Positive ...
Rob Brown Quartet: Oblongata

by John Sharpe
Although reedman Rob Brown has a string of small group leadership outings to his name, dating back to his first, Breath Rhyme (Silkheart) in 1990, Oblongata may be one of his finest. The 2022 studio session reunites him with some of his most enduring collaborators, the same crew responsible for From Here To Hear (Rogue Art, ...
Jon Irabagon's Outright!: Recharge the Blade

by Mark Corroto
As with nearly all of saxophonist Jon Irabagon's music, the matter for debate is whether the listener needs to be as caffeinated as the musician. His brand of performance, going back two decades, has been one of constant motion and a bottomless cup of ideas. We heard this in Irabagon's contribution to the band Mostly Other ...
String Players: Steve Swallow, Charles Mingus and More

by Jerome Wilson
This program showcases string players, mostly guitarists and bassists, as bandleaders, composers, and soloists. The featured players include Steve Swallow, Charles Mingus, Avishai Cohen, Joe Venuti, and Chris Lightcap. (Please excuse the brief pause after the first track.) Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & ...