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Francois Houle

Clarinetist François Houle has established himself as one of today’s most inventive musicians, in all of the diverse musical spheres he embraces: classical, jazz, new music, improvised music, and world music. Whether he’s performing works by Mozart or Messiaen, appearing as a featured soloist with orchestra, or improvising and embracing live, interactive electronics, François demystifies music for audiences everywhere. Inspired by collaborations with the world’s top musical innovators, François has developed a unique improvisational language, virtuosic and rich with sonic embellishment and technical extensions

Patterns from Nature

By Quinsin Nachoff

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Patterns from Nature: I. Branches; Patterns from Nature: II. Flow; Patterns from Nature: III. Cracks; Patterns from Nature: IV. Ripples; Winding Tessellations: I. Winding Paths; Winding Tessellations: II. Convergence; Winding Tessellations: III. Tessellations.

Patterns From Nature 4: Ripples

July 30, 2026

Album: Patterns from Nature
By Quinsin Nachoff
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2026
Duration: 10:48

Emad Armoush's Rayhan: Distilled Extractions

by Mark Corroto
January 26, 2025

Jazz and creative music have always resisted assimilation. By that, I mean jazz draws upon--or perhaps more accurately, appropriates--sounds, traditions and styles to create something entirely new. This has been true since New Orleans musicians blended Caribbean, French, African and Sicilian influences while performing on traditional marching band instruments. Over the century-plus since its inception, improvising ...

Distilled Extractions

By Emad Armoush

Label: Afterday
Released: 2024
Track listing: El Helwa Di; Amenti; Lahza; Efragohome; Marriage Party; Ya Hilu; Trance; Zourouni.

Kathrine Windfeld, Wolfgang Muthspiel, François Houle, Benoît Delbecq & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 29, 2024

A call and response between the North American and European scenes, covering anything from solo Etudes to Hammond trios, Zappa to Yoruba roots and modern day master arrangers.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Parlor Greens “Parlor Strut" In Green We Dream (Colemine) 0:16 Host ...

Novara Jazz Festival 2024

by Luciano Rossetti
September 3, 2024

Karen Borca, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, & Albert Beger

by Maurice Hogue
July 8, 2024

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 ...

François Houle: Insider Listening that Makes You Clever

by Kerilie McDowall
September 20, 2023

Canadians and local Vancouverites have been in awe at BC, Canada's prestigious regular rising star clarinetist François Houle's international ranking status. Houle creates brilliantly fascinating compositions and such clever, innovative work. He has released seven albums as a leader from 2022-2023 and has four more plus on the way. Incredibly he will have released 11 albums ...

John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy, Clemens Kuratle & Francois Bourassa

by Maurice Hogue
July 24, 2023

The original broadcasts of One Man's Jazz on Taint Radio happen about a month before they are posted on AAJ, so back in June I was excited as many others to play the only track we could from the new Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy. I suspect by now, that album ...