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Lisa Mezzacappa

Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area-based composer, bassist, bandleader, and producer. Called “one of the most imaginative figures on the Bay Area creative jazz scene” by The Mercury News and “a Bay Area treasure” by KQED public radio, she has been an active part of California’s vibrant music community for more than 18 years. Mezzacappa’s activities as a composer and bandleader include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, dance and visual art. Recent projects include avantNOIR, a suite for sextet inspired by noir fiction; Organelle, a chamber suite for improvisers grounded in scientific processes on micro and cosmic scales; Glorious Ravage, an evening-length song cycle for large ensemble and films drawn from the writings of Victorian lady adventurers; and Touch Bass, a collaboration with choreographer Risa Jaroslow for three dancers and three bassists

Incandescence

By Sarah Wilson

Label: Brass Tonic
Released: 2025
Track listing: Architecture in Space; Incandescence; Hopeful Sorrow; Music Appears to Stand Still; Epilogue; Jubilant; Dancing with Cierra; Fully Unfolding; Lullaby; Trifecta; Echoes Refrain

backwardsupwardsky

By Chris Jonas

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Josh Tune; Granite; Queen Canyon; Melodica 6; KOFA; Nature Trail; Melodica 1; Teabag; Rump Most; Ocotillo & Sunbeam; Melodica 4; Duff; Green; Windy Josh.

Citta Di Vitti

By Phillip Greenlief

Label: Roust Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Medley: #1 La Notte Theme; #30 On the Train; #2 Piazza Siciliana; #6 Promenade; #11 Stock Market Express; #3 Monica A Go-Go; #5 Dove; Anna?; #33 Parque; #36 Cane.

Chris Jonas: backwardsupwardsky

by Glenn Astarita
October 19, 2025

Few artists can translate geography into sound with the spatial clarity that Chris Jonas achieves on backwardsupwardsky. A saxophonist, composer and multimedia artist whose résumé includes collaborations with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and William Parker, Jonas has always favored creative risk. This two-LP set on Edgetone Records transforms desert solitude--specifically his winters camping on Arizona's Barry ...

Sarah Wilson: Incandescence

by Angelo Leonardi
October 14, 2025

Dopo l'eclettico e multiforme Kaleidoscope, la trombettista e compositrice californiana presenta un nuovo progetto privilegiando alcuni elementi di quel lavoro, in particolare la dimensione della brass band. Il nuovo organico--Brass Tonic--vede una front line tutta femminile con l'aggiunta di Kasey Knudsen al sax contralto e Mara Fox al trombone, mentre la sezione ritmica comprende il chitarrista ...

Architecture in Space

September 21, 2025

Album: Incandescence
By Sarah Wilson
Label: Brass Tonic
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:52

Angelini/Niescier/Abdou, Wojciech Jachna, Johnny Dyani & Amalie Dahl

by Maurice Hogue
August 25, 2025

French pianist Bruno Angelini found much inspiration in a quote from his favourite musician Wayne Shorter's graphic novel, “Emanon": “The lotus exists only in the swamp, in our world of turmoil, and the blooming flower purifies the water around it." It led him to make a recording called Lotus Flowers where he and saxophonists Angelika Niescier ...

Ches Smith, Ivo Perelman, Leif Berger & Dan Phillips

by Maurice Hogue
June 10, 2025

Music coming from all directions in this edition of One Man's Jazz. Drummer Ches Smith is a true chameleon these days; every album has a different theme or direction or a different band. On his new Clone Row he turns to the twin guitars of Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman to stir the pot. Saxophonist Ivo ...

Myra Melford Splash, Thomas Heberer's Remedy & Ra Bishop

by Maurice Hogue
March 31, 2025

It's early in the year to be thinking “best-of" albums, but I'm definitely noting these for December: pianist Myra Melford's Splash Trio with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Ches Smith and Remedy, the trio of Thomas Heberer trumpet, Joe Fonda bass & Joe Hertenstein drums. These are two recordings that present the kind of free expression ...