Results for "Joanna Mattrey"

Joanna Mattrey

New Releases From Sam Blakeslee And More

by Bob Osborne
August 20, 2026

Music has always been a reflection of the moment--an ever evolving landscape shaped by innovation, tradition, and reinvention. This selection of new releases and re-releases brings together a fascinating cross-section of sounds, moving from expansive large-ensemble arrangements and intricate modern jazz compositions to free improvisation and avant--garde exploration. Whether driven by deep grooves, striking dynamic contrasts, ...

Brilliant Corners 2026

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2026

Brilliant Corners 2026Black Box/Various VenuesBelfast, N. IrelandFebruary 27-March 7, 2026 Few events signpost the time of year quite like a city's flagship contemporary music festival. For one week every March, as winter gradually recedes, Belfast's aptly named Brilliant Corners illuminates jazz--and jazz-adjacent music--in many of its myriad forms. Inevitably, some of the more outré ...

Ascending Primes

By Joshua Modney

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ascender; Lynx; Everything Around It Moves; Fragmentation and the Single Form 1. Source; Fragmentation and the Single Form 2. Vox; Fragmentation and the Single Form 3. Song; Fragmentation and the Single Form 4. Call; Event Horizon 1. Serrated Scream; Event Horizon 2. Passacaglias; Event Horizon 3. Ascenders.

Slow Water

By Stephan Crump

Label: Papillon Sounds
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sound (Brackish); Bogged; Strata; Eager; Hyporheic; Dusk Critters; Accrete; Mire; Pneumatophore; Euphotic; Fen; Pooling; Sediment and Flow; Outflow; Meiofauna.

Ascender

August 11, 2024

Album: Ascending Primes
By Joshua Modney
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 7:49

Eager

June 1, 2024

Album: Slow Water
By Stephan Crump
Label: Papillon Sounds
Released: 2024
Duration: 05:58

Stephan Crump: Slow Water

by Glenn Astarita
May 4, 2024

Bassist-composer Stephan Crump's sonic odyssey Slow Water is a profound exploration of the essence and myriad forms of water. It goes beyond merely depicting its physical flow; rather, it delves into the symbolic and existential significances that water holds. This project emerges as a creative masterwork, reflecting Crump's deep contemplation of humanity's intricate relationship with this ...

The Living Collection

By Lesley Mok

Label: American Dreams
Released: 2023
Track listing: It Wants; Its Furious Place; Again, All; Floral And Full; Of Appearance; Full Of Its Fourth Wall; Its Silvery After-Tomorrow; And Ramping-Up Now; Quite A Spectacular Dusk.

Lesley Mok: The Living Collection

by Hrayr Attarian
May 20, 2023

Percussionist and composer Lesley Mok is a restless explorer who has also been called a sound artist. However, that designation does not give a full picture of her creative vision. Mok deftly maintains the singular balance between the notated and the improvised as well as abstraction and accessibility, thus breaking out of narrow genreist designations, to ...