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November 17, 2022

Album: 4 Freedoms
By Josh Sinton
Label: Form Is Possibility
Released: 2022
Duration: 5:47

Noah Garabedian: The Power of Patience

by John Chacona
November 2, 2022

Patience might be not the first word that you'd expect to find on the job description for a professional jazz musician, but it has been crucial to the career of bassist Noah Garabedian's career. Growing up in Berkeley, a hothouse of young jazz talent, Garabedian never intended to become a working musician. “I definitely ...

Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: Xaybu: The Unseen

by Karl Ackermann
September 28, 2022

Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman debuted his Sélébéyone project in 2016 with a self-titled release on the Pi Recordings label. It was nothing short of revolutionary; an amalgamation of jazz improvisation and globalized hip-hop, it was an intrepid declaration. Originally a septet, Sélébéyone returns as a quintet on Xaybu: The Unseen. The five current members are from ...

Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR)

by Vincenzo Roggero
January 17, 2022

Circa un anno dopo i due set incendiari confluiti nel meraviglioso Live at Village Vanguard Vol. I (PI Recordings, 2018), Steve Coleman e i suoi fidi Five Elements ritornano sul luogo del delitto e danno vita ad un doppio set, se possibile, ancora più entusiasmante. L'ennesimo aggiustamento di formazione, al chitarrista Miles Okazaki succede il fuoriclasse ...

Steve Coleman a Imola e Crag Taborn a Ferrara

by Libero Farnè
November 9, 2021

Steve Coleman & Five Elements Teatro Ebe Stignani, Imola 9.10.2021 Craig Taborn Trio Torrione Jazz Club, Ferrara 5.10.2021 È davvero interminabile e ubiqua la programmazione del festival Crossroads, giunto alla ventiduesima edizione, coinvolgendo tutto il territorio dell'Emilia-Romagna. Iniziata a Correggio il 17 maggio con Little Italy, il ...

Steve Coleman Five Elements at the Crossroad Festival in Imola

by Roberto Cifarelli
October 15, 2021

Jacob Garchik: Clear Line

by Dan Bilawsky
January 14, 2021

As strange as it may sound, sometimes the best way to break free is to simply box yourself in. Limitations obviously cut off certain possibilities entirely, but they open the mind to so many others in the process. Composer (and trombonist) Jacob Garchik has long subscribed to that line of thinking and he takes it to ...

Clear Line

By Jacob Garchik

Label: Yestereve Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Visualization of Interior Spaces; Ligne Claire; Stacked Volumes; Sixth Intro; Sixth; Hergé: Vision and Blindness; Moebius and Mucha; Line Drawings of Paul Rudolph; Clear Line.

Last Desert

By Liberty Ellman

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Sip; Last Desert I; Last Desert II; Rubber Flowers; Portals; Doppler; Liquid.

Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling

by Vic Albani
October 26, 2020

Esistono due donne nel mondo del jazz moderno che hanno mostrato di conoscere e capire in toto il genio musicale di Robert Wyatt. La prima, molto tempo fa e quindi in tempi non sospetti, è stata Carla Bley e non c'è altro da aggiungere. La seconda, che è invece colei di cui vogliamo scrivere, è Mary ...