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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Interpreting the music of Carla Bley, Part 3

Read "Interpreting the music of Carla Bley, Part 3" reviewed by Larry Slater


Carla Bley always considered herself a primarily a composer She said “I would rather write music than perform it. I'm not an improviser, basically, because I'm not quick enough. I'm a composer because I'm so slow... my writing is just like playing very slowly and my playing is like writing..."Carla's legacy, like all composers, ...

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Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells

Read "Bone Bells" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Guitarist and sound-chaser Mary Halvorsonnever fails to hypnotize. Add the equally hypnotic pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and beauties like Bone Bells materialize to shift your news-exhausted consciousness to greater possibilities. Bone Bells does that. Bone Bells does it often. Once again each woman is determined to investigate every tangent of the sonic atmosphere. Willfully and ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells

Read "Bone Bells" reviewed by John Ephland


Tonally, these two artists offer what feels and sounds like an ideal fit. Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson are in no hurry with , their third collaboration as a duo, the title coming from a passage in the novel Trust, by Herman Diaz. There is gentleness mixed with a kind of dreaminess, interspersed with ...

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Article: Live Review

Big Ears Festival 2025

Read "Big Ears Festival 2025" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 27-30, 2025 This year's festival again featured several spotlighted events (but none of them required special ticketing, as was tried last year). “Across the Horizon" was a series of concerts combining Americana and ambient music, curated by Bob Holmes and the band SUSS. “Age ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Roberto Magris, Claire Ritter, and Jessica Jones

Read "Roberto Magris, Claire Ritter, and Jessica Jones" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show features recent music from Roberto Magris. Claire Ritter, and Jessica Jones. It also contains older work from Yusef Lateef, Tomasz Stanko, and Dizzy Gillespie. It also has a tribute to the late Jesse Colin Young. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Azmeh, Imboden, Lehman & More

Read "New Music from Azmeh, Imboden, Lehman & More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


This edition of the show features twelve brand new album releases with a broad variety of jazz, varied line-ups and disparate subject matter. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Kinan Azmeh And City Band “Dance" from Live In Berlin (Dreyer Gaido) 00:28 Sean Imboden Large Ensemble “Someone To Watch Over Us" from Communal Heart (Self Released) ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Steve Lehman, Nels Cline, Satoko Fujii & Hobbs/Shanko

Read "Steve Lehman, Nels Cline, Satoko Fujii & Hobbs/Shanko" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


It's not easy to find a more accomplished figure in creative music than Anthony Braxton. Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman knows that, and he honours his one-time mentor with a bristling new live album, The Music Of Anthony Braxton, destined for 2025 best-of lists. This recording is a reminder of Lehman's fearlessness. There are other excellent new ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Empress, 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine

Read "The Empress, 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from The Empress (Pureum Jin, Lauren Sevian, Erena Terakubo, Chelsea Baratz), 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine, with birthday shoutouts to Shirley Scott, Carol Sloane, Jeanie Bryson, Anne Mette Iversen, Mark Murphy, Tomoko Ohno, Arooj Aftab and Bobby McFerrin. Happy listening and please support the ...

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Article: Album Review

Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells

Read "Bone Bells" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson! The combination of two such unconventional musicians is both rewarding, challenging and unnerving. The two women are radical disruptors. Their visions and their ambitions are vast. Their range of influences is dizzying. Their creativity seems limitless; their refusal to be conventional is absolute. Even the mechanics of their instruments are subject ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells

Read "Bone Bells" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Given that Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson are two of the most distinctive instrumentalists in the world of jazz and improvised music, it is a particular treat to hear them together in a duo configuration, where the intimacy of the setting allows for a fuller appreciation of their virtuosity and empathetic sensibilities than is sometimes possible ...


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