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The Long Table
By Jon Raskin
Label: Temescal
Released: 2021
Track listing: Amuse-bouche; Frisk Baglaens; The Long Table Sound Platter 1; The Long Table Sound Platter
2; The Long Table Sound Platter 3; The Long Table Sound Platter 4; Dashed Hopes and Long
Goodbyes; First Time Shapeshifter
Space and Time Blues
By Jon Raskin
Label: Gold Lion Arts
Released: 2021
Track listing: Amongst The Reeds; Delta Pathways In Early Morning Light; Delta Pathways In The Noon Sun;
Fast Moving Water; Floating At Dusk; Insects on Calm Water; Space And Time Blues.
Singing Songs As One
By Jon Raskin
Label: Temescal
Released: 2021
Track listing: sing call chatter and screech; the ubiquitous nature of sound; interspecific communication; configuration and
positioning; singing songs as one; interspecific communication 2; variation and specification; transferal of
memes; membrana tympaniformis interna.
Synergy Signals
By Jon Raskin
Label: Artifact Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: Gateway; Foldover; Inch by Inch; Magnetic Fields; Open Passage; Emergent.
Jon Raskin Quartet: Singing Songs As One
by Hrayr Attarian
In 2021, innovative saxophonist Jon Raskin released a number of stimulating concerts which were initially streamed live on Oakland's NIR radio station in 2009. The last of the series is the intriguing and unique celebration of sound called Singing Songs As One. On it Raskin leads a like-minded quartet for a superbly cohesive performance. In addition, ...
Attarian's Dozen: Twelve Superb Releases That Made 2021 Tolerable
by Hrayr Attarian
The year 2021 started full of hope yet it did not live up to its promises. Musically, however, it saw the release of several outstanding recordings. Below are a dozen that helped kept me sane and grounded throughout the year. Featured are the two mammoth and stimulating boxsets from saxophonist and improviser par excellence ...
Jon Raskin, Ross Hammond, Clifford Childers, Dana Wendel: Space and Time Blues
by Hrayr Attarian
On the captivating Space and Time Blues saxophonist Jon Raskin, with three equally adventurous colleagues, puts a uniquely intriguing twist on country blues. The heavily improvised release is made up of seven interconnected parts each with a picturesque title. The result is a cinematic and evocative suite filled with warmth and spontaneity. Opening the ...
Jon Raskin: The Long Table
by Hrayr Attarian
Intrepid improviser and saxophonist Jon Raskin has kept busy during the covid-19 pandemic by releasing, for the first time, several of his past recordings. Of the many exciting albums he put out in 2021 on his own Temescal label, The Long Table stands out for a few reasons. As superb as the rest of his catalogue, ...
Jon Raskin Quartet: Up & Down, Sideways
by Hrayr Attarian
Innovative saxophone improviser Jon Raskin continues to put out, on his own label Temescal, never before released sessions from his catalogue. The intriguing Up & Down, Sideways finds him in a quartet with long standing associates, a group that Raskin himself calls the most significant in his career outside of Rova. This short album consists of ...
Jon Raskin: Book 'P' of Practitioners
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist Steve Lacy was famous for writing music dedicated to artists who inspired him. Some of his rarely heard etudes for solo saxophone are divided equally into three books, each named by a letter. Of these, he only recorded one set in his lifetime, Hocus PocusBook 'H' of Practitioners" (Crépuscule, 1986). Equally idiosyncratic saxophonist Jon Raskin, ...