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PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone

Read "Someone to Someone" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Jon Irabagon's PlainsPeak delivers a soulful homecoming via a love letter to Chicago with its debut, Someone to Someone. Ditching the tech-heavy sprawl of his earlier work like Server Farm (Irabbagast, 2025), the leader returns to Chicago's gritty roots with a lean acoustic quartet that is all heart and sly wit. Irabagon, a Chicago-born ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Angelini/Niescier/Abdou, Wojciech Jachna, Johnny Dyani & Amalie Dahl

Read "Angelini/Niescier/Abdou, Wojciech Jachna, Johnny Dyani & Amalie Dahl" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


French pianist Bruno Angelini found much inspiration in a quote from his favourite musician Wayne Shorter's graphic novel, “Emanon": “The lotus exists only in the swamp, in our world of turmoil, and the blooming flower purifies the water around it." It led him to make a recording called Lotus Flowers where he and saxophonists Angelika Niescier ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Irabagon, Atzmon, Farnsworth & More

Read "New Music From Irabagon, Atzmon, Farnsworth & More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


A varied selection of new releases interspersed with tracks from Ivo Perelman's six volume set The Art of Improv focuses on the importance of improvisation in jazz. Playlist Jon Irabagon's PlainsPeak “Tiny Miracles (at a Funeral for a Friend)" from Someone to Someone (Irabbagast Records) 00:00 Ivo Perelman, Karl Berger, Gerald Cleaver “Part 1" ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New from Known

Read "New from Known" reviewed by Patrick Burnette


For this particular fortnightly excursion, Mike suggested we look at four newish recordings by artists we've covered--or at least listened to a bit--before. The fresh from the familiar as it were. The results leave Pat speechless. Playlist Discussion of podcast's raison d'etre 0:30 Discussion of Jon Irabagon's album Server Farm (Irrabagast) 10:13 Discussion of ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

John O’Gallagher, Ivo Perelman, Jon Irabagon & Tomas Fujiwara

Read "John O’Gallagher, Ivo Perelman, Jon Irabagon & Tomas Fujiwara" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Three of today's premier saxophonists share this edition's spotlight, as all have new releases--John O'Gallagher, Ivo Perelman & Jon Irabagon. O'Gallagher, now living in Portugal, reunites with guitarist Ben Monder on his new Ancestral and pulls off a first for master drummers Billy Hart and {{m: Andrew Cyrille who had never played together. Perelman, on the ...

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Jazz em Agosto 2025

Read "Jazz em Agosto 2025" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the “onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also ...

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Jon Irabagon / PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone

Read "Someone to Someone" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Jon Irabagon is a musician whose complexity is both exhilarating and daunting. His restless energy, deep self-reflection, remarkable achievements and sharp intellect combine to create a figure who constantly provokes questions--about music, originality and the very nature of artistic expression. In 2011, Irabagon undertook a bold experiment: With Mostly Other People Do The Killing, ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz em Agosto 2025

Read "Jazz em Agosto 2025" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Jazz em Agosto Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona, Portogallo 1-10 agosto 2025 Malgrado la “onda de calor" portoghese stia sfiorando la capitale, Lisbona è al solito pacifica nel suo tran tran saturnino, anche se il turismo invadente della Baixa ha già trasformato certo non in meglio la sua fisionomia. Ma ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Several Silent Ways & More

Read "Several Silent Ways & More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


The arrival of a new Anthony Wilson album with his interpretation of Joe Zawinul's “In A Silent Way" lead me to dig out other versions--a live rendition by Weather Report plus the two versions from the The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions box set release by Miles Davis. Zawinul's haunting melody is the centrepiece of ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Theo Croker, Sarah Buechi, Jon Irabagon, Nicholas Payton and Anais Reno

Read "Theo Croker, Sarah Buechi, Jon Irabagon, Nicholas Payton and Anais Reno" reviewed by Hobart Taylor


New releases from Theo Croker, Jon Irabagon, Anais Reno and Nicholas Payton.Playlist Yuko Mabuchi “Tribute to my Homeland" from Quantum (SRG Jazz/Universal) 00:00 Satoko Fujii “ Aruku" from Dream a Dream (Libra) 9:08 Host Speaks 19:47 Jon Irabagon “At What Price Garlic" from Someone to Someone (Irabbagast) 21:09 James Brandon Lewis “Left Alone" from ...


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