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Marilyn Crispell

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Marilyn Crispell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied classical piano and composition, and has been a resident of Woodstock, New York since 1977 when she came to study and teach at the Creative Music Studio. She discovered jazz through the music of John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and other contemporary jazz players and composers. For ten years she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble and has been a member of the Barry Guy New Orchestra and guest with his London Jazz Composers Orchestra, as well as a member of the Henry Grimes Trio, Quartet Noir (with Urs Leimgruber, Fritz Hauser and Joelle Leandre), and Anders Jormin's Bortom Quintet. In 2005 she performed and recorded with the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada and in 2006 she was co-director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute and a faculty member at the Banff Centre International Workshop in Jazz. In 2014 she led a three-week music residency at the Atlantic Center For the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and in 2016 led a one-week residency at the Conservatory Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires. In 2019 she will be a guiding artist at the Jazzdanmark Summer Session in Denmark. Currently she is touring and recording with two different trios: Joe Lovano's Trio Tapestry (with Carmen Castaldi) and a trio with Harvey Sorgen and Joe Fonda, as well as collaborating with Angelica Sanchez, Tanya Kalmanovitch, Gunhild Seim, Tyshawn Sorey, David Rothenberg and others.

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Memento

By Marilyn Crispell Anders Jormin

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: For the Children; Dialogue; Embracing The Otherness; Contemplation In D; Three Shades of a House - Morning; Three Shades of a House - Evening; Song; Memento; Beach at Newquay; The Dark Light; Dragonfly.

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A Reflection Distorts Over Water

By Camila Nebbia

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Driving Through Flood Water; Transitoriness; There Is No Land; Suspended Time; Longing; Spirals; A Room Is Being Erased; Streamside.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases and Avant Classics

Read "New Releases and Avant Classics" reviewed by Jon Greenbaum

by Jon Greenbaum

How many new releases are highlighted? Eight. What else? Jazz from the past century--stuff that pushed the tradition a bit and stuff that pushed the tradition a lot.Playlist Cassandra Wilson “Electromagnolia" from Days Aweigh (JMT) 0h 0m 0s Lester Bowie “Sardegna Amore" from The 5th Power (Black Saint) 0h 4m 40s Ishamel Reed “Rhythm ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

An outstanding new release from Emma Dayhuff featuring Isaiah Collier and Paul Cornish, Kevin Sun's latest, Jane Ira Bloom and Caleb Wheeler Curtis with Jason Moran

Read "An outstanding new release from Emma Dayhuff featuring Isaiah Collier and Paul Cornish, Kevin Sun's latest, Jane Ira Bloom and Caleb Wheeler Curtis with Jason Moran" reviewed by Hobart Taylor

by Hobart Taylor

Music from Anna Webber's latest projects, her nonet and Shimmer and Wince, saxophonist Alain Bradette and a classic cut from Frank Wess. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Jane Ira Bloom “ White Tower" from Light from a Person (Outline) 00:07 Alain Bradette"Lunatic" from For My Loved Ones (Quantum Gravity) 06:24 Host Speaks 13:10 Anna Webber ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Henry Threadgill, Shipp/Parker, Glass Triangle & Rich Halley

Read "Henry Threadgill, Shipp/Parker, Glass Triangle & Rich Halley" reviewed by Maurice Hogue

by Maurice Hogue

Congratulations to saxophonist / composer / innovator Henry Threadgill & his Zooid band on their 25th anniversary, well-celebrated with the releases of Cut You Where You Was. This is one of Zooid's best. Props also to the tied-at-the-improvisational--hip duo, pianist Matthew Shipp & bassist William Parker for the re-release of Zo, on vinyl for the first ...

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Article: Album Review

Patricia Brennan and Sylvie Courvoisier: Talamanti

Read "Talamanti" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

It is more than fair to say--right from the start of their kinship in early 2023, in the Sylvie Courvoisier 4 with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Dan Weiss--that there was something innate, and perhaps more importantly, intimate, between road-clearing pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and rascally vibraphonist Patricia Brennan. Talamanti proves that big time.

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Article: Live Review

Moldejazz 2026

Read "Moldejazz 2026" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège

Located at 62°7 North, Moldejazz (the Molde International Jazz Festival) is the ideal place for a festival in week 29, in early summer. A floral scent drifts through The Town of Roses, a ribbon less than a kilometer wide wedged into a peninsula between fjord and mountains. Even once it has set, the sun is never far ...

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Article: Album Review

Camila Nebbia: A Reflection Distorts Over Water

Read "A Reflection Distorts Over Water" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

From her base in Berlin, Argentine tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia continues to impress, extending her increasingly international reputation across the Atlantic on A Reflection Distorts Over Water. For a session recorded in the studio in Woodstock, NY, she enlists talent both established and lately emerged. Even after a storied career, most famously as part of Anthony ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Lovano: Paramount Quartet

Read "Paramount Quartet" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Saxophonist Joe Lovano built a formidable recorded legacy on Blue Note Records, beginning with 1990s Landmarks, running through 1999's 57th Street Themes and 2013's Soundprints --among many other albums on the famed label. But a side outlet for his artistry emerged on ECM Records, beginning with his side man slot on drummer Paul Motian's Psalm (1982). ...


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