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Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet, Illegal Crowns, and Iyer / Aftab / Ismaily
by Maurice Hogue
Debuting this episode are new albums from bassist Michael Formanek and his Elusion Quartet (Tony Malaby, Kris Davis & Ches Smith), Illegal Crowns (Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum, Benoit Delbecq & Tomas Fujiwara, and the trio of {m: Vijay Iyer}}, Arooj Aftab & Shahzad Ismaily with their Love In Exile. I expect to see all of ...
Samuel Blaser: As the Sea
by John Kelman
Plenty has been written about musical camaraderie--the building of long-term musical relationships and their unmistakable impact on the evolution of a group. Few, however, discuss the inevitable impact of personal relationships behind the music. Times have changed, and few jazz groups tour for more than a couple of consecutive weeks; still, hitting the road for even ...
Francois Houle, Sei Miguel & other new Clean Feed Releases
by Maurice Hogue
There's plenty of great new music to get excited about in this edition of OMJ. Clean Feed Records, that wonderful label in Portugal, just dropped a whole bunch of new albums and I'm happy to dig into these--the Italian band {m: Roots Magic}} that digs into blues and avant-garde, the unique trumpeter Sei Miguel , Canadian ...
François Houle, Marco von Orelli: Make That Flight
by Alberto Bazzurro
Sessantun anni, canadese del Québec l'uno, cinquantadue anni, svizzero di Basilea l'altro, François Houle e Marco von Orelli sono musicisti appartenenti a un'area di sperimentazione jazzistica sicuramente influenzata da una visione che definiremmo “europea" della contemporaneità in fatto di suono, ormai noti agli ascoltatori più attenti da un bel po' di tempo. Questo loro tête-à-tête ne ...
Night's Quietest Hour
Label: Attaboygirl Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Longa Nahawand; Sala Min Shaaraha A-Thahab (Gold Streamed Down From Her Hair); Dulab
Bayati; Lamma Bada Yatathanna (When She Begins To Sway); Hawj Erreeh (Violent Wind).
Make That Flight
Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2022
Track listing: Fake News; For F.; Strada Monte Verità; Essay; Tandem; Zipline; Mr. B.; The Changeable Triptych; Soliloquy; Make That Flight; Morning Song 1.
Sleep Inertia
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Knecht; Converging Diverging Part I; Converging Diverging Part II; Pagan Rainmaker; Sleep Inertia; Narcissus; Teslin Lake; Goldmund's Chatauqua.
Human Feel: Speak To It
by Mark Werlin
What is chamber jazz? The emergence of chamber jazz as a genre can be traced to the innovative sextet sides recorded in the mid-1930s by bandleader John Kirby, and to the trio and small-ensemble post-war recordings of Benny Goodman. By the late 1940s, the term 'chamber jazz' was widely used in industry publications such ...
Matt Choboter's Hypnopompia: Sleep Inertia
by Doug Collette
In keeping with its title, these eight tracks of just over fifty-minutes comprise a waking/sleeping dreamscape where conscious thoughts crystallize. then turn amorphous in an engrossing cyclical pattern. The fourteen or so minutes of the two-part “Converging Diverging" elucidate the most literal instrumental explication of the concept: replete with far too much ornate detail to fit ...
ITACA: Vortex
by Neri Pollastri
Il quartetto ITACA, protagonista di questa diciassettesima uscita di nusica.org, deve il proprio nome all'incontro dei due paesi d'origine dei suoi componenti. La sua denominazione è infatti l'acronimo di Italia --da cui provengono Nicola Fazzini e Alessandro Fedrigo, le due anime di nusica.org -e Canada--paese degli altri due musicisti, il clarinettista Francois Houle e il batterista ...
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