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Good Company

by Bob Osborne
The title of Art Hirahara's new release embraces the spirit of jazz. Music made in good company with musicians interacting to create something special. Two new albums from ground-breaking saxophonist Ivo Perelman reflect this approach as well with the creation of music which pushes at boundaries. Other brand new releases from 2024 make up the rest ...
Fingers Remembers Mingus And More

by Bob Osborne
The excellent Jazz In Britain label continues to unearth nuggets from UK jazz history--May of this year saw the release of an album collecting for the first time ever, the complete recording sessions for the Spotlite vinyl album 'Fingers Remember Mingus' expanded with bonus tracks. The original album sessions, and the extra tracks, were all recorded ...
Karen Borca, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, & Albert Beger

by Maurice Hogue
This episode finds itself in a lot of different nooks and crannies of creative improvised music; there's the bassoon of Karen Borca, often considered the pioneer of that instrument in jazz, on a never-heard-before album, there's meditative yet free collaboration between two long time friends and members the AACM, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and pianist Amina ...
Gilmore Piano Festival 2024

by John Ephland
Irving S. Gilmore International Piano FestivalKalamazoo, MIApril 24 to May 12, 2024 Thelonious Monk ends his 1967 album Straight, No Chaser with the song We See." This Monk classic quartet remake from the 1950s was also the last piece of jazz music performed at this year's Irving S. Gilmore International Piano Festival. ...
Nduduzo Makhathini: uNomkhubulwane

by Mike Jurkovic
Abundantly, beatifically, and beautifully ebullient, uNomkhubulwane, Nduduzo Makhathini's eleventh overall effort but third masterwork for Blue Note (his 2020 Blue Note first, Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds and 2022's In the Spirit of Ntu still shimmer and transcend) is, as is the South African pianist's quickly evolving tradition, radiant and revelatory. Emerging ...
New Releases From Diana Arias, Aleksi Glick, Francisco Mela & Shinya Lin, And More

by Bob Osborne
On this show we have all new releases from Diana Arias, Aleksi Glick, Francisco Mela & Shinya Lin, Jon Gordon, Modney, Louise van den Heuvel, Dave Douglas, Fay Victor, Samuel Torres, Owen Broder, and Jamie Baum Septet+. Playlist Intro Theme 00:00 Diana Arias Pacifico" from Viaje del Pez (ears&eyes) 00:35 Aleksi Glick She Told ...
Peter Van Huffel, Mary Halvorson & Liba Villavechia

by Maurice Hogue
Canadian expat-saxophonist Peter Van Huffel has found a place amidst that hotbed of free-wheeling music in Berlin, and his latest release with his band Callisto reinforces his position as one of the exciting voices working today. Meandering Demons out on Clean Feed introduces a newer band with (Clean Feed) with another Canadian who spends a lot ...
John Lurie, Isaiah Collier, Dan Weiss & Steph Richards

by Maurice Hogue
John Lurie hasn't recorded any music since contracting Lyme disease several years ago; in fact he couldn't even listen to music because of the neurological effects of the disease. He retreated to someplace in the Caribbean then finally improved enough to come back to the US and made Painting With John for HBO. Lurie's music which ...
All New Releases From Ephemeris, Science Friction, Toine Thys Orlando, And More

by Bob Osborne
All new releases from Ephemeris, Tim Berne Science Friction, Toine Thys Orlando, Dun-Dun Band, Ellie Lee, Håkon Skogstad, Francisco Mela featuring Leo Genovese and William Parker, Dan Weiss, Sam Wilson, and, Paul Dunmall with Paul Rogers and Mark Sanders.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Ephemeris Gnomon" from Ephemeris (Marsken Records) 00:53 Tim Berne Science Friction Deadbeat ...
Joseph Daley, Michal Aftyka, Les McCann & Larry Roland

by Maurice Hogue
The tuba is not a horn that you'll hear that often in a typical jazz ensemble, but when you do, it's memorable. Joseph Daley is one of the noted masters of that instruments, with a career that has seen him playing with artists from Anthony Braxton to Carla Bley to Jane Cortez to the Liberation Music ...