Results for "Jason Roebke"

Tomeka Reid Quartet: 3+3

by Chris May
May 6, 2024

Jazz cello has come a long way since Fred Katz's pioneering work with Chico Hamilton in the 1950s. Back then, the instrument was looked on as a novelty turn. In 2024, while still relatively avant-garde, its presence in a lineup is less exceptional. A pivotal point was American cellist Adbul Wadud's By Myself (Bishara, 1977), an ...

Elastic

By Urs Leimgruber

Label: Creative Works Records
Released: 2022

Re-Collect

By Jeb Bishop

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Exordium / Salt; Sweat The Grub / On The Floor; Razorlip; Lungfish; Sometimes; Backfire.

Jeb Bishop Flex Quartet: Re-Collect

by John Sharpe
July 30, 2020

Trombonist Jeb Bishop doesn't have a whole slew of leadership dates to his credit in spite of being active on the scene since the early 1990s. His most high profile gigs have been as part of the Vandermark 5, and also Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, though he also has Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra and the ...

Tomeka Reid Quartet: Old New

by Ian Patterson
April 19, 2020

Tomeka Reid cut her teeth in Chicago, recording with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell and Nicole Mitchell, but the cellist's 2016 move to New York seems to have fired her creative juices even more. The prolific Reid has appeared on nearly twenty recordings in that time, notably including the Art Ensemble of Chicago's We Are On The ...

Juan Vinuesa Jazz Quartet: Blue Shots From Chicago

by Mark Corroto
March 10, 2020

Chicago, a city of big shoulders, continues to present proof of poet Carl Sandburg's words from the poem of the same name... “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning." Why is this? Because Chicago in 2020 remains the same as evoked in ...

Jason Roebke

Blue Shots From Chicago

By Juan Vinuesa

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Ghost Town Studio; Red Line Ballad; The Alibi; La Lola; Afro Asiatic Beat Poem; In Paul’s Mirror; Luther’s Mood; I Børneteater.

Old New

By Tomeka Reid

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Old New; Wabash Blues; Niki’s Bop; Aug 6; Ballad; Sadie; Edelin; Peripatetic; RN.

Reid, Halvorson, Roebke and Fujiwara

by Bob Osborne
December 26, 2019

On this show a focus on the outstanding 2019 album from Tomeka Reid, Mary Halvorson, Jason Roebke and Tomas Fujiwara called Old New. To compliment those selections there are also tracks from each of the band members in various other units demonstrating the excellent music that each of these musicians create. There are also other fantastic ...