Results for "Lao Dan"

Lao Dan

New Species

By Lao Dan

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: You Are You; New Species 1; New Species 2; Tea Horse Road; Old Heaven Books; Fire Boy; Nobodies Are Going to Sleep.

Franklin Kiermyer, Pascal Niggenkemper & Lao Dan

by Maurice Hogue
August 31, 2026

Follow the bouncing geographic ball in this episode as it lands on disparate places in the jazz universe, starting with ferocious yet spiritual drummer Franklin Kiermyer and his startling new release Scatter The Atoms That Remain. Kiermyer has long been associated with the spiritualism of the Coltranes, Pharoah Sanders, etc. and he's been spending much time ...

Lao Dan / Vasco Trilla: New Species

by Glenn Astarita
June 3, 2026

There is a moment on “Tea Horse Road," the album's fourth track, where the saxophone drops to a near whisper and the percussion seems to breathe rather than strike. You realize you are not listening to two musicians from opposite sides of the world so much as two people who have agreed, without a word, on ...

Lao Dan / Deng Boyu: TuTu Duo

by John Sharpe
January 11, 2022

The profile of jazz and improvisation from China rates roughly the same as the chances of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, or an anti-vaxxer's feel for community (if neither of those comparisons sits comfortably, just make up your own)—vanishingly small. So the release of TuTu Duo by reedman Lao Dan and percussionist Deng Boyu, ...

TuTu Duo

By Lao Dan

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Prophecy; Tournament Of Chopsticks; Waltzing On The Square; Supranatural Suite: 1st Movement: The Wordless Ocean; 2nd Movement: Grass Against Wind; 3rd Movement: Cloud Above My Head, Will You Float Me To Chicago?

New sounds from Postma, Gould and Shaw

by Bob Osborne
April 16, 2020

On this show new releases including: The seventh album from Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma. Her first since 2014,  a come-back album as a leader. Together with trumpeter Ralph Alessi, bassist Matt Brewer, drummer Dan Weiss and featuring pianist Kris Davis she has delivered an excellent set. A remarkable live album from Bill ...