Results for "Joe McPhee"

Wadada Leo Smith / Vijay Iyer, Perelman / McPhee / Vandermark & Michael Gregory Jackson

by Maurice Hogue
April 7, 2025

This episode of One Man's Jazz is loaded with introductions to new albums by a remarkable group of musicians. Heading the list is the duet of Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer. Their new Defiant Life, not their first time playing together, speaks to the current state of the world and finding possible paths to liberation. ...

New Music From Arbenz, Olivier, Shorter & More

by Bob Osborne
April 3, 2025

This time around a fascinating selection of recent releases including a sublime performance from the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald from a previously unreleased live recording. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Florian Arbenz, Michael Arbenz, Ron Carter “Old Shaman" from The Alpine Session (Self Produced) 00:27 Isabelle Olivier “Impressions" from Impressions (Rewound Echoes) 10:36 Eric Shorter “Our ...

Stephen Davis: Leaving It All Out There

by Ian Patterson
February 27, 2025

"How come I haven't heard of you before?" a surprised Anthony Braxton asked Northern Irish drummer/percussionist Stephen Davis. The venerable American saxophonist and composer was bowled over after playing with Davis for the first time. Most musicians are. It is no secret in Ireland, or indeed Europe at large, that Belfast-born Davis is ...

Remembering Susan Alcorn: Bucking The Trends

by Ian Patterson
February 5, 2025

All About Jazz is saddened to learn of the passing of Susan Alcorn--pedal steel guitarist extraordinaire. She died on January 31st of natural causes. Perhaps more than any other pedal steel guitarist before her, Alcorn took her instrument into musical terrain not usually associated with it. She played country music for twenty years, but ...

Brûlez les meubles: The Guitar and Bass Duo Who Threw Away the Script

by Lawrence Peryer
January 7, 2025

The name Brûlez les meubles carries a wry irony. While it literally means “burn the furniture" in English, the Québec duo playfully inverts the common French phrase “sauver les meubles" (preserve the essential). This tension between preservation and reinvention defines their artistic approach, especially on their latest album Folio #5 (Tour de Bras/Circum-Disc, 2024).

Tribute To Peter Brotzmann at Pardon To Tu

by Ziga Koritnik
January 6, 2025

A collection of musicians portraits from the 3 Nights In Tribute To Peter Brötzmann at Pardon, To Tu in Warsaw, Poland, from May 27 to May 29, 2024; featuring Caspar Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson, John Corbett, Joe McPhee, Hamid Drake, Paal Nilssen-Love, Keiji Haino, Jason Adasiewicz, Mette Rasmussen, Virgina Genta, Marino Pliakas, Michael Wertmuller, Jan St. Werner, ...

Music Unlimited 38

by Luciano Rossetti
December 16, 2024

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr: Breezy

by Rob Garratt
December 7, 2024

When news of Jaimie Branch's passing broke in 2022, there was an understandably huge outpouring of tributes from different corners of the jazz community. While an eternal punk rocker at heart, Branch was also a distinctly millennial musician, and a fitting figurehead for the recent wave of borderless improvised music that came out of Chicago's International ...

David Maranha / Rodrigo Amado: Wrecks

by Mark Corroto
December 5, 2024

There was a children's television show that aired every Saturday morning in the 1960s where the host faced the camera while holding up a looking glass. He would say something to this effect: “Hello friends, today I see Billy, Allison, Teddy, etc." Those watching thrilled to hear their name or the name of a sibling or ...

Alexander Hawkins: Music as a Generous Space

by Giuseppe Segala
December 3, 2024

Born in Oxford in 1981, Alexander Hawkins is one of the leading musicians of his generation and a significant figure on the contemporary international scene. Personable and approachable, he is one of the few musicians of his age who engage meaningfully with the pioneering spirit of the African-American music tradition from the 1960s onward. His stylistic ...