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Got My Wings

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Red Tara; Got My Wings; Heart Connection; Pema; Just Because You're Out; Doesn't Mean You're Free

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Kevin Miller and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen: Primordial

Read "Primordial" reviewed by Troy Dostert


For jazz musicians and listeners alike, the Covid years were challenging, significantly limiting possibilities for both studio recordings and live performances. One of the often-used solutions to this dilemma was virtual encounters--either in real-time or, on occasion, asynchronously, as musicians sent files to each other and layered their own contributions accordingly. Although no longer operating under ...

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At First Light

Label: Creative Sources Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Heliacal; Sharp Eye; Mystic Will; Infested; Perilous Sun.

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Kevin Miller and Dan Blake: At First Light

Read "At First Light" reviewed by Troy Dostert


A serendipitous pairing that first took shape in the early 2020s, guitarist Kevin Miller began meeting regularly with saxophonist Dan Blake for freely improvised sessions that resulted in the tandem developing a highly simpatico vocabulary. At First Light reflects the workings of the duo's distinctive dialogic approach through five spontaneously crafted musical discourses. Many ...

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Most Don't Have Enough

Label: ears&eyes Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Leonard Nimoy Method; Your Dark Shadow Arrives at the Door; Homage to Elijah Cummings; Thread Your Grandmother's Needles; Really Ok; Thumbelina; Organized Religion; Humpty Dumpty; Akira; Sun and Moon.

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Da Fé

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Prologue—A New Normal; Cry Of The East; Like Fish In Puddles; Pain; The Grifter; The Cliff; Doctor Armchair; Da Fé; Epilogue: It Heals Itself.

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Article: Album Review

Dan Blake: Da Fé

Read "Da Fé" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


A lot of personal factors go into saxophonist Dan Blake's music on this CD, such as his concerns about the environment, his Buddhist teachings and his social activism. What comes out of this is a style of electro-acoustic jazz which is alternately meditative and fiery. The basic music here was performed in the studio ...

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Article: Album Review

Dan Blake: Da Fé

Read "Da Fé" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


It's comforting to know that saxophonist Dan Blake hasn't taken Thoreau's inconvenient truth that “most men lead lives of quiet desperation" to heart. Instead, as his Da Fé (translated: of faith) and his apprenticeships with Anthony Braxton} and {{Julian Lage prove succinctly, Blake intends to bring the music, and the consciousness of our fragility within it, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nate Wooley, UMO, Alban Darche & Chick Corea

Read "Nate Wooley, UMO, Alban Darche & Chick Corea" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


This show has a tribute to the great Chick Corea and new releases from here and there: Finland's UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, France's Le Gros Cube led by saxophonist Alban Darche, Australian's Alister Spence Trio augmented by guitarist Ed Kuepper, Canada's See Through 4, another guitarist Jörg Schippa from Germany, and Nate Wooley's Mutual Aid Music. ...

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Cry of the East

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Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 7:19


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