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Karen Borca

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Live From Studio Rivbea (Jimmy Lyons)

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: After You Left; Diads.

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Article: Album Review

Karen Borca / Paul Murphy: Entwined

Read "Entwined" reviewed by John Sharpe


Entwined pairs pioneering bassoonist Karen Borca with drummer Paul Murphy in an unadorned duet setting. It arrives hot on the heels of her leadership debut Good News Blues (NoBusiness, 2024). While the latter comprised archival concert tapes of sets from the 1998 and 2005 Vision Festivals, the former is an undated studio session which presents both ...

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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea (Jimmy Lyons)

Read "Live From Studio Rivbea (Jimmy Lyons)" reviewed by John Sharpe


Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons was underappreciated even at the height of his powers, but to those with ears attuned to the radical innovations of the loft jazz era, he was a galvanizing presence. That his legacy remains under-lit is due in part to his long-standing tenure in Cecil Taylor's incandescent orbit. Lyons was more than a ...

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Article: Album Review

Karen Borca, Paul Murphy: Entwined

Read "Entwined" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Bassoonist Karen Borca has impeccable credentials, both as an improviser and performer. She was one of the groundbreaking pianist Cecil Taylor's students, and a large part of her recorded output has been in collaborative settings with other Taylor disciples. Most notably, Borca has appeared on four superb discs by her late husband, and Taylor's side man, ...

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Entwined

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Good News Blues; Snapping Turtle; Free; Space; Cambiar; Something; New Piece.

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Good News Blues

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Good News Blues; Something; Cambiar; 45 Hours / New Piece.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Marshall Allen, Leiba Trio & Gold Mother

Read "Marshall Allen, Leiba Trio & Gold Mother" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Lights On A Satellite is a fitting title for an album celebrating the 100-year-old miracle, saxophonist Marshall Allen, the mainstay of Sun Ra's legacy. His continuing direction of the Sun Ra Arkestra puts him right up there beside Planet Ra. Other new releases sampled in this episode come from a very worthy Leiba Trio from Argentina ...

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Article: Album Review

Karen Borca: Good News Blues

Read "Good News Blues" reviewed by John Sharpe


Pioneering jazz bassoonist Karen Borca has had to wait a long time for her leadership debut. It arrives courtesy of the adventurous Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint, compiled from archival recordings of two appearances at New York City's fabled Vision Festival. But that is not to say that she does not have a weighty resume. An acolyte of ...

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Article: Book Review

In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor

Read "In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor" reviewed by Ian Patterson


In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil TaylorPhilip Freeman 344 Pages ISBN: # ISBN 978-3-9553-261-9 Wolke Verlag 2024 “The thing that makes jazz so interesting is that each man is his own academy," Cecil Taylor once said, (quoted by Val Wilmer in Jazz People, Da Capo, ...


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