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Next Stop Down!
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2026
Track listing: Mr. Monk Time; That Far is NOW; Cafe in Tehachapi; Zephyr Dialogues; Next Stop Down!; Mindfields in Opulence;
Frequency Bliss; That Far is NOW (reprise).
Charles Downs: Inner
by Don Ball
It has been a long time coming for Charles Downs' debut recording as a leader. He began his career in the 1970s playing as Rashid Bakr with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker and others before reverting to his birth name in the new century. Since then, he has performed as part of ...
Michael Marcus Quartet: Next Stop Down!
by Troy Dostert
A fixture in the avant-garde jazz community since the early 1990s, multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus has done notable work with his own ensembles and alongside other prominent improvisers such as William Parker, Sonny Simmons, Andrew Cyrille and Joe McPhee. His first release with ESP-Disk in 2022, Abstractions in Lime Caverns, featured the leader on no fewer than ...
David Ambrosio Honors The Spirit of the '60s With Civil Disobedience
by John Chacona
Social activism and jazz have a long mutual history that arguably reached an apex with the resistance music of the '60s. On record, that music found a home at labels such as Impulse! and ESP-Disk. At the same time, artists in the Blue Note Records stable were assembling a body of work that was inspired by ...
The Creative Convergence Of R*Time And Doug Hammond
by Lawrence Peryer
A metal sculpture, a borrowed ladder, and Doug Hammond's unexpected presence transformed a routine tour stop into the genesis of It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk, 2024). During R*Time's performance at a gallery in Linz, Austria, drummer Igal Foni spotted a metal sculpture he wanted to incorporate. When the venue declined permission, he found a ...
Spirit Stronger Than Blood
By Frank London
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2024
Track listing: Let There Be Peace; Resilience; Spirit Stronger Than Blood; Poem for a Blue Voice; Abundant Love; Resistance/Healing.
Breakdown Lane: Free Solos & Duos 1976-1998
By Duck Baker
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2024
Track listing: Allah, Perhaps; Peace; No Family Planning 1; Klee; Like Flies (Requiem for Bobby Fussell); Breakdown
Lane; Yewatta; Buffalo Fire; No Family Planning 2; Eusebia’s Lament; 47 East Houston St.; 2:29 in
Unleavenworth; Sonadem Sol; Breakdown Lane (duo version); Take the ‘A’ Train; Straight, No Chaser
(bonus track).
New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2024
Track listing: Primal Poem; Sea Song; The Function; Non Circle; Tone IQ; Brain System; Brain Work; Coherent System.
Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Mark Corroto
Ahh, the “Best Of" lists, when I get the privilege to tell you “what is what." For me, the releases below are not the best discs of 2024 but the ones I kept coming back to most often this past year. I certainly missed a few, as I will discover reading other AAJ contributor's best-of lists. ...
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