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Jimmy Lyons

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Imagine what Sonny Stitt might have sounded like had he embraced free jazz after mastering bebop, and one can probably conjure a pretty good mental impression of Jimmy Lyons. Like Stitt, Lyons was enamoured of Charlie Parker's style, particularly in terms of phrasing. Lyons' slippery, bop-derived rhythms and melodic contours lent his improvisations a Charlie "Bird" Parker-like cast, even as his performance contexts were more harmonically free. Lyons made his reputation playing with pianist Cecil Taylor, with whom he became inextricably linked. He was a near-constant presence in Taylor's bands from 1960 until the saxophonist's death in 1986

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Live From Studio Rivbea (Jimmy Lyons)

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: After You Left; Diads.

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Karen Borca / Paul Murphy: Entwined

Read "Entwined" reviewed by John Sharpe


Entwined pairs pioneering bassoonist Karen Borca with drummer Paul Murphy in an unadorned duet setting. It arrives hot on the heels of her leadership debut Good News Blues (NoBusiness, 2024). While the latter comprised archival concert tapes of sets from the 1998 and 2005 Vision Festivals, the former is an undated studio session which presents both ...

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Olie Brice Quartet: All It Was

Read "All It Was" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Bassist Olie Brice wears the title of Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside with remarkable ease. Equally adept in free improvisation and structured composition, Brice moves fluidly between extremes. His work with improvisers such as Tobias Delius and Mark Sanders on Somersaults (Two Rivers, 2015), or with Paul Dunmall on The Laughing Stone (Confront, 2023), exemplifie his outside approach. ...

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Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea (Jimmy Lyons)

Read "Live From Studio Rivbea (Jimmy Lyons)" reviewed by John Sharpe


Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons was underappreciated even at the height of his powers, but to those with ears attuned to the radical innovations of the loft jazz era, he was a galvanizing presence. That his legacy remains under-lit is due in part to his long-standing tenure in Cecil Taylor's incandescent orbit. Lyons was more than a ...

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Cecil Taylor: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980

Read "Live at Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Nella collana First Visit di ezz-thetics, dedicata a registrazioni storiche rimaste inedite fino a ora, l'etichetta svizzera Hat Hut Records pubblica il terzo CD di Live at Fat Tuesday's, completando così la documentazione degli straordinari concerti che videro impegnato il sestetto Unit di Cecil Taylor a New York dall'8 al 10 febbraio 1980. Come ...

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Karen Borca, Paul Murphy: Entwined

Read "Entwined" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Bassoonist Karen Borca has impeccable credentials, both as an improviser and performer. She was one of the groundbreaking pianist Cecil Taylor's students, and a large part of her recorded output has been in collaborative settings with other Taylor disciples. Most notably, Borca has appeared on four superb discs by her late husband, and Taylor's side man, ...

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Live at Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2024
Track listing: February 10, 1980 I; February 10, 1980 II; February 10, 1980, III, February 10,1980 IV; February 10, 1980 V.

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Live At Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 First Visit

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2024
Track listing: February 9, 1980 I; February 9, 1980 II; February 9, 1980 III.

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Joel Futterman: Innervoice

Read "Innervoice" reviewed by Mark Corroto


On each of the three tracks that comprise Innervoice, pianist Joel Futterman begins with just two notes. Each note resounds in the listener's ear long after the auditory perception has faded. These two notes act as Futterman's conjuring device for what is to come. The pianist, now in his eighth decade, is playing as strong as ...


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