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Trios, Duos and Solos
by Jerome Wilson
This show focuses mainly on the smallest units of jazz interaction, trios and duos, with a couple of solo performances thrown in along the way. Artists heard on the program include Matthew Shipp, the collective trio Air, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Adam Larson and Bill Frisell. There is also a special mention of bassist Charnett Moffett, who passed ...
David Virelles, Kirk Knuffke, Nicolas Chientraroli & Nduduzo Makhathini
by Maurice Hogue
Excellent new keyboard releases highlight this edition of OMJ, ranging from musical neo-archaeologist David Virelles, George Burton, Argentina's Nicolás Chientaroli, South African Nduduzo Makhathini to the Italian trio Katharsis. Debuts from a couple of drummers are also featured--Anthony Fung and Swizerland's Florian Arbenz. Cornetist Kirk Knuffke's new Gravity Without Airs should be headed for much praise. ...
Kirk Knuffke Trio: Gravity without Airs
by Angelo Leonardi
«Mi interessa fare della bella musica--dice il cornettista Kirk Knuffke--Anche se questa è in forma libera e d'avanguardia voglio che arrivi al cuore delle persone. Mi piace suonare veloce, forte e alto ma la bellezza è sempre al primo posto, anche se non in forme preziose. Può esserlo anche in modo ruvido». Sono ...
Jazz and the Spoken Word
by Jerome Wilson
This show examines the intersection of jazz and various forms of the spoken word, including rap, beat-era jive and classic poets like Langston Hughes, W. B. Yeats, and Walt Whitman. The musicians interpreting these works include Babs Gonzales, David Murray, Christine Tobin, and Deborah Harry & the Jazz Passengers. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I ...
Daniel Rorke, Hello Cacus & Previews
by Maurice Hogue
Saxophonist Daniel Rorke, originally from Australia, then NYC, Scandinavia and now in Dublin Ireland, dropped some music on OMJ recently and tracks from different trios plus a stint in a crazy Icelandic big band are featured. Two very important alto saxophonists have new recordings on the way and those are previewed--Ornette Coleman's first two releases for ...
Michael Bisio: In His Own Words
by Mark Corroto
If you happen to be a liner note geek you probably have noticed the name Michael Bisio mentioned frequently on album sleeves. Whether the author is the session leader or analyst, the general consensus is the bassist is the cornerstone upon which great music is built. His playing allows a fellow musician to access not only ...
Bill Goodwin: Not Less Than Everything
by Victor L. Schermer
Bill Goodwin is like a breath of fresh air blowing through jazz. From the time around 1954 when he was in Los Angeles and just learning the drums, and inspired by Shelly Manne, to today, around his 80th birthday, he has loved jazz and the musicians unconditionally. He has befriended and worked with so many of ...
Rich Halley: Boomslang
by Mark Corroto
Jazz has, to some extent, always been about making connections and pointing out interrelations. Ever since Buddy Bolden blew his cornet in New Orleans around the start of the twentieth century, listeners have been playing connect the dots, linking Bolden's innovations to King Oliver and Oliver's to Louis Armstrong, likewise Buck Clayton to Dizzy Gillespie and ...
The Invisible Landscape
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Permanent Vacation; Another World Is Possible; Spinning the Clouds; Nova Express; A Time;
Monolith; Fused Take Over; The Invisible Landscape; Colors of Light.
The Song Is You
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW (T. Dameron/C. Sigman) 2. UP JUMPED SPRING (F. Hubbard/A. Lincoln)
3. MY FOOLISH HEART (V. Young/N. Washington)
4. FIVE WILD GEESE (Lilly/Lilly)
5. PRELUDE TO A KISS (D. Ellington)
6. IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING (R.Rodgers/O. Hammerstein)
7. SCARBOROUGH FAIR (trad.)
8.LONELY WOMAN (H. Silver/L. Feather)
9. THAT OLD FEELING (S. Fain/L. Brown)
10. THE SONG IS YOU (J. Kern/O. Hammerstein)
