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David Bixler, Milosz Pieczonka, Reza Askari, Marilyn Crispell & Jason Stein

by Maurice Hogue
April 29, 2024

This edition of One Man's Jazz is the 600th done for Taint Radio, and to mark the occasion two albums that would have fit in perfectly with Black History Month in February, but good music has no timetable. Saxophonist David Bixler drew upon not on the jazz poetry of the great Black Poet, Langston Hughes, but ...

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Luis Perdomo: El Arte Del Grammy

by David Bixler
April 2, 2024

This month we join in congratulating pianist Luis Perdomo for his recent GRAMMY award for El Arte del Bolero vol 2 in the category of best Latin jazz album. In this episode of LINER NOTES, Luis recounts the musical journey from his native Venezuela and then coming to New York initially to study before transitioning into ...

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A Conversation with Peter Bernstein

by David Bixler
March 2, 2024

The week of March 5 guitarist Peter Bernstein brings a quartet to the Village Vanguard in New York City that includes pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Doug Weiss, and the iconic drummer Al Foster. In this episode of LINER NOTES Peter expresses a genuine gratitude for being able to play music. He also offers insights on how ...

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Joe Fiedler: Will Be Fire

by David Bixler
February 2, 2024

As an improviser, trombonist Joe Fiedler describes himself as living half in the inside world and half in the outside world. This is evident in his new recording Will Be Fire. For this project, Fiedler collaborates with guitarist Pete McCann, tuba virtuoso Marcus Rojas, and percussionist Jeff Davis, in an elegant instrumentation that pays homage to ...

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Time and Time Again with Loren Stillman

by David Bixler
January 3, 2024

The last several years have brought about significant change for saxophonist Loren Stillman. A lifelong New Yorker, Loren and his family did a 180, and moved to Montana several years ago. With the time afforded to him by the pandemic, Loren, having made a name for himself as an alto saxophonist focused his energies on the ...

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Ron Blake: No Mistaking His Identity

by David Bixler
December 6, 2023

Holding down the bari chair at Saturday Night Live, performing with musicians like Christian McBride, and teaching at Julliard have saxophonist Ron Blake at full capacity. These time constraints left little time for him to focus on his own music, but fortunately he enlisted the help of his long time-friend guitarist Bobby Broom and has recently ...

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Christian Dillingham: Checking in from the Third Coast

by David Bixler
November 1, 2023

Bassist Christian Dillingham's debut release as a leader, Cascades on Greenleaf Music features ten original compositions written for his Chicago-based quartet. In this episode of LINER NOTES he speaks of his desire to capture the moment with this recording both in the recording process and in music that pushes the boundaries of the tradition that he ...

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Rez Abbasi: Charm

by David Bixler
October 11, 2023

Guitarist Rez Abbasi's recordings illustrate an artist that is pressing on, going for something new, rather than making alterations to what he has already done. So when sitarist Josh Feinberg approached him about a possible Indian-jazz collaboration he initially declined, as he already had several successful recordings of this nature with pianist Vijay Iyer and saxophonist ...

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Linda May Han Oh: Navigating the Glass Hours

by David Bixler
October 5, 2023

Bassist Linda May Han Oh's recording The Glass Hours features the front line of vocalist Sara Serpa and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, while pianist Fabian Almazan and drummer Obed Calvaire join her in the rhythm section. Being a new parent has caused her to reflect on what she does as a musician and in this episode ...

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Derrick Gardner: African Explorations

by David Bixler
August 2, 2023

Trumpet player Derrick Gardener recently retired from his position at the University of Manitoba in order to move back to Chicago and focus on playing, but instead he found himself as the head of Jazz Studies at Northwestern University. In this episode of LINER NOTES Derrick explains how that happened as well as sharing some of ...