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Nate Wooley, UMO, Alban Darche & Chick Corea
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. ...
Cry of the East
Album: Da Fé
By Dan Blake
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 7:19
Gard Nilssen, Sam Rivers, Laura Toxvaerd & Dan Blake
by Maurice Hogue
Drummers sparkle in the first hour of this edition of OMJ--Norway's Gard Nilssen with his Supersonic Orchestra, free jazz veteran Abbey Rader, and the iconoclastic RaKalam Bob Moses--plus a long track from some newly released music from the private stash of Sam Rivers. The second hour is a mix of styles, even including some blues from ...
Dan Blake: Da Fé
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist-composer Dan Blake's Da Fé ("of faith"), a meditation on our world in crisis, may have taken, as a starting point, the lyrics to Lou Reed's “Busload Of Faith" from the über-cynical New York (Sire, 1989) recording, “You can depend on cruelty / crudity of thought and sound / You can depend on the worst always ...
Ray Russell Plus New Releases From Ears&Eyes
by Bob Osborne
This week we feature a selection of mostly new releases including the recent one from guitar legend Ray Russell who has enjoyed two distinct careers: one as an esteemed session player and award-winning film and television composer, another as an ingenious guitar experimentalist and free-thinking collaborator. There are also some new albums from the ears&eyes label ...
Spring Roll: Episodes
by John Sharpe
French flautist Sylvaine Hélary's Spring Roll follow up their ambitious debut Printemps (Ayler, 2015) with another adventurous outing on Episodes. While the first disc incorporated words and voices, the twist this time is that Hélary commissioned works from three of New York City's finest composer-improvisers, pianists Matt Mitchell and Kris Davis, and saxophonist Dan Blake, to ...
Dan Blake: The Digging
by Neri Pollastri
Album interessante per trasversalità stilistica e uno spirito di ricerca che emerge fin dal titolo, questo The Digging è opera del sassofonista Dan Blake, accompagnato in trio senza pianoforte dal contrabbassista Dmitry Ishenko, con il quale ha una lunga collaborazione, e dall'ottima batterista Eric Harland. Blake è autore di tutte le composizioni e vi ...
Dan Blake: The Digging
by Budd Kopman
Saxophonist Dan Blake is one of those musicians who are always on a quest to expand their musical horizons, to assimilate into his music any and all of his life experiences, musical or not. As both a player and a composer, Blake demonstrates an intensity coupled with a very fertile and searching mind. Aside from his ...
Colonic Youth, Andy Farber, Tal Ronen & Paquito D'Rivera
by Martin Longley
Colonic Youth Trans-Pecos December 22, 2014 In the wintry wasteland, the new-ish Trans-Pecos venue did not seem to boast a particularly peachy set-up. It may or may not still be operated by Todd P, normally known as a promoter of slightly swerved rock outfits, and there were tales of this ...
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