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Yamabiko Quintet

Label: NEMU Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bow; Sandrinella; Layered History; A Glimpse Of Its Destination; Curled Up; Yamabiko; Cloudscape; Beautiful Flowers.

Album

Label: NEMU Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Unconscious Superglitzer; Carol’s Dream; Se Chussa De Re; Solution After The Storm; Hot Rot Hi-Beck; Bottlefish; Unconscious Second Turn; Basalte; Subconscious Triptychon; Freggs!; Forgotten Dream; No ToXiC; Vortex Hunter; Jour Fruit.

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Yamabiko Quintet: Yamabiko Quintet

Read "Yamabiko Quintet" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 18, 2024

Yamabiko Quintet, the group's self-titled album, is a sonic adventure through the labyrinth of free jazz, where improvisation is the guiding star and the unexpected lurks around every corner. This quintet, featuring Frank Paul Schubert on saxophones, Michel Pilz on bass clarinet, Reiner Winterschladen on trumpet, Christian Ramond on bass and Klaus Kugel on drums, delivers ...

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Bassdrumbone, Kim Cass & Ivo Perelman

by Maurice Hogue
July 29, 2024

Ever heard of “fartlek"? It's a method of training for runners where they can play around with their speeds, very unstructured. That's sort of what this episode of One Man's Jazz turned out to be--all over the place in terms of style, tempos, musical variations and origins in the albums debuting. For instance, the Southeast Asian ...

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America in Miniatures And More

by Bob Osborne
July 25, 2024

The featured album on this edition is from guitarist Miles Okazaki who gathers an extraordinary cast of ten musicians to create Miniature America, a collection of 22 vignettes exploring the wonder of chance encounters and “found" compositions. I am featuring four of these pieces. The rest of the show includes brand new releases of both studio ...

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Glod / Ramond / Kugel: No ToXiC

Read "No ToXiC" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 9, 2024

The collaborative marvel that is No ToXiC, hatched in the fertile grounds of NEMU Records, is less an album and more of a dare--a sonic gauntlet thrown at the feet of free jazz and improvisation. Roby Glod (who flirts with both alto and soprano saxophones), double bassist Christian Ramond and drummer Klaus Kugel take us on ...

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Louis Sclavis, David León, Roby Glod & Joy Guidry

by Maurice Hogue
March 28, 2024

Reed players have taken over the house this week. The eminent clarinetist Louis Sclavis stars in an excellent quartet using music, text and spoken word to create a moody sonic landscape out of short stories, poems and aphorisms by French and African authors. Other European saxophonists heard are Luxembourg's Roby Glod in a familiar setting with ...

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Alice Coltrane, Kaze, Michael Attias & The Fully Celebrated Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
March 26, 2024

Did you know 2024 has been designated as the Year Of Alice? Impulse Records and the John and Alice Coltrane Home are celebrating Alice this year through special events and new releases. The first album to appear is Alice Coltrane--The Carnegie Hall Concert with all unreleased tracks from a terrific band. This concert in 1971 was ...

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Discovered Early Jazz Fusion From Pat Smythe Plus Other New Releases

by Bob Osborne
March 14, 2024

On this show we focus on a previously unreleased album from Pat Smythe recorded in France in 1973. In addition we have recent and forthcoming releases from Ernesto Cervini, The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis, Pat Bianchi, Yosef Gutman Levitt, Smelloship, Albare, George Cartwright, Echoes of Zoo, Chad Fowler, Muriel Grossman, Roby Glod Christian Ramond & ...

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New Releases From Ernesto Cervini, Gary Urwin, Charles Pillow, And More

by Bob Osborne
February 29, 2024

On this show we present new releases from Ernesto Cervini, Gary Urwin, Charles Pillow, Last Oak Out, Ayumi Ishito, Doug MacDonald, Joe Webb, Gui Duvignau, Ivo Perelman with Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez, Jason Stein with Marilyn Crispell Damon Smith & Adam Shead, Klaus Kugel & Pavel Hruby, Recabarren Menares Vazquez, Bobby Wellins, and, Yes! Trio. ...