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Energy Center: A History Of Studio Rivbea
by John Sharpe
Energy Center: A History Of Studio Rivbea Ed Hazell 324 Pages ISBN: 978-5-415-02882-5 NoBusiness Records 2026 Multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers helped reshape New York's jazz landscape not only through his music but by creating Studio Rivbea, an independent space for rehearsal, education and performance that gave adventurous musicians room to ...
Lao Dan / Vasco Trilla: New Species
by John Sharpe
A fortuitous meeting between Spanish drummer Vasco Trilla and Chinese reed player Lao Dan at a festival in the latter's homeland led to a concert and subsequent studio session. Yet it is that first encounter, recorded at Old Heaven Books in Shenzhen, a hub of the country's improvised-music scene, that New Species preserves. Both musicians share ...
Satoko Fujii - Myra Melford: Katarahi
by John Sharpe
On Katarahi, pianists Satoko Fujii and Myra Melford revel not in contrasts but in empathy. Although no longer the novelty they once were, piano duets exist in a rarefied plain. For a start, few venues or studios possess two high-quality grand pianos. Then the widescreen potential of the piano, with its possibilities for voices in each ...
Daniel Carter / Sabir Mateen / William Parker / Lou Grassi: Keeping It In Context
by John Sharpe
This resounding blast from the past affirms drummer Lou Grassi's decision to flip from mainly commercial music to the adventurous end of the spectrum. He recorded Keeping It In Context in a 1996 session with some of New York City's finest avant practitioners following PoGressions (CJR, 1996), the date that led to him first dipping his ...
Trevor Watts / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: The First Touch
by John Sharpe
Trevor Watts and Barry Guy's near 60-year musical acquaintance yields an immediacy that continues undiminished on The First Touch. Recorded live in Poland in 2025 with drummer Ramon Lopez, a frequent cohort of the bassist, the seven tracks capture a trio whose empathy is matched by its appetite for risk. Although Watts' saxophones and Guy's bass ...
Summer Bummer 2026
by John Sharpe
Summer Bummer 2026 Trix, Antwerp Belgium August 28-29, 2026 Intro The 11th edition of the Summer Bummer festival more than lived up to the promise of the mouth-watering bill, presenting a wide variety of experimental music without fealty to any particular genre. While Summer Bummer inevitably tips its hat to the ...
1984: The Forward Process
by John Sharpe
Straight from the first notes, reality blurs and form becomes fluid. On The Forward Process Belgian guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe turns a literary notion of time into a working musical system. He sets his guitar alongside French saxophonist Sakina Abdou and English turntablist Mariam Rezaei on cycles that rarely resolve in the conventional sense. Under the ...
Peter Evans, Mike Pride: A Window, Basically
by John Sharpe
Trumpet meets drums in a series of superbly balanced exchanges on A Window, Basically. When the trumpet belongs to Peter Evans then not only virtuosity is guaranteed, but also an acute musicality. Nothing exists purely for effect. And double down on that when Mike Pride helms the trapset. Long-time colleagues, the pair recorded the seven cuts ...
Fjall: Helt
by John Sharpe
Helt finds Fjall refining its communal language into long-form sonic terrains shaped by timbre, patience and mutual purpose. The double album documents complete performances from December 2023 and April 2025, preserving the quartet unchanged from its debut, From the Rough Hill (Discus, 2023). Reed player and keyboardist Martin Archer joins percussionists Richard Jackson and Fran Comyn ...
حمد [Ahmed]: Play Monk
by John Sharpe
Few contemporary bands dismantle Thelonious Monk's charts with either the conviction or the discipline displayed by حمد [Ahmed] on Play Monk. This double CD veers between primal throb and cerebral cool. Pianist Pat Thomas, alto saxophonist Seymour Wright, bassist Joel Grip and drummer Antonin Gerbal united around a shared affection for the work of pioneering bassist ...
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