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Darren Johnston
Canada-born trumpeter/composer/educator Darren Johnston’s interests rotate primarily between performing all styles of jazz, purely improvised music, new music, and various other traditional musics, especially that of the Balkans, Greece, and Macedonia. He is especially drawn to music that tends to defy categorization, and is also generally open to further suggestions. After twenty one years in the Bay Area, Johnston recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY in 2019. In the time since moving there, he has played and/or recorded withChes Smith, Dayna Stephens, Carmen Staaf, Michael Formanek, Tony Malaby, Michael Attias, Slavic Soul Party!, Raya Brass Band, The Peter Hess Quartet, Michael Vatcher, and many more. As a composer he has written for ensembles ranging from small jazz groups, to big-bands, brass bands, string quartets, choirs, rock bands, and countless combinations thereof
Wheat Fields of Kleylehof
By Marco Eneidi
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Prelude; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 1; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 2; Wheat Fields of
Kleylehof Part 3; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 4; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 5; Wheat
Fields of Kleylehof Part 6.
Sounding Line
By Carmen Staaf
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Scorpio; Bye-Ya; Libra; Monk's Mood; Koolbonga; Boiling Point; The Water Wheel.
Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line
by Vic Albani
Carmen Staaf è una forza emergente della scena musicale di New York e, più in generale, del panorama jazz internazionale. Pianista originaria di Seattle--allieva di Danilo Perez--ha suonato e registrato con alcuni dei musicisti più influenti della nostra epoca. È stata ascoltata al Village Vanguard, al Blue Note, allo SFJAZZ e in numerosi festival di primo ...
Marco Eneidi Quintet: Wheat Fields of Kleylehof
by Mark Corroto
To borrow a phrase once associated with Charlie Parker after his death: “Marco Eneidi lives!" Though less widely known in the mainstream jazz world, alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi (1956--2016) was a towering figure in free jazz and creative music. A West Coast native, he moved to New York in the 1980s and, following the passing of ...
Jeff Parker, Pascal Le Boeuf, and Franz Koglmann
by Jerome Wilson
This show features newer music from musicians such as Pascal Le Boeuf, Billy Mohler, and Gabriel Espinosa and older music from the likes of Jeff Parker, Andrew Hill and Franz Koglmann. Playlist The Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023
by Ludovico Granvassu
If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...
Kenneth Jimenez, Jure Pukl, Pyramid Trio & Taiko Saito
by Maurice Hogue
A pair of excellent quartet releases jump off the page in this edition of One Man's Jazz. Bassist Kenneth Jimenez, with Angelica Sanchez, Hery Paz and Gerald Cleaver, and saxophonist Jure Pukl with Joe Sanders, Peter Evans and Nasheet Waits, create some wonderful contemporary improvisation on their latest projects. NoBusiness Records has a winner in Visitation ...
Vinny Golia, James Brandon Lewis & Eric Plaks
by Maurice Hogue
The full title to veteran California free jazz saxophonist and icon Vinny Golia's latest recording is very long (Even to This Day... Music for Orchestra and Soloists Movement Two: Syncretism: For The Draw but it pales in comparison to the length of the recording: 13.5 hours plus. Golia began he project before Covid. It features solo, ...
Jorma Tapio, Jose Lencastre & Roberto Ottaviano
by Maurice Hogue
This episode is a little sax-heavy, highlighted by Finnish reed master Jorma Tapio. He continues to keep the music of the late Finnish drumming icon, Edward Vesala, front and centre. Tapio leads his Bread For Soul on his most recent release. Other saxophonists with new albums to sample are Roberto Ottaviano from Italy, Portugal's Jose Lencastre, ...
