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Matt Mitchell is a pianist and composer interested in the intersections of various strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music. He currently composes for and leads several ensembles featuring many of the current foremost musicians and improvisers, including Tim Berne, Kim Cass, Kate Gentile, Ben Gerstein, Jon Irabagon, Travis Laplante, Ava Mendoza, Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Chris Speed, Tyshawn Sorey, Chris Tordini, Anna Webber, Dan Weiss. He is an anchor member of several significant creative music ensembles which integrate composed and improvised music, including Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, the Dave Douglas Quintet, John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble, Dan Weiss’s Starebaby, Jonathan Finlayson’s Sicilian Defense, Steve Coleman’s Natal Eclipse, Kate Gentile’s Mannequins, Mario Pavone’s Blue Dialect Trio, Anna Webber’s Simple Trio, Ches Smith’s We All Break, the Dave King Trio, and Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux

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Purposing the Air

By Ingrid Laubrock

Label: Pyrolastic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:

CD 1:

Fay Victor & Mariel Roberts: Koan 28; Koan 13; Koan 55; Koan 15; Koan 47; Koan 11; Koan 18; Koan 37; Koan 12; Koan 38; Koan 46; Koan 39; Koan 43; Koan 35; Koan 58.

Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell: Koan 5; Koan 3; Koan 7; Koan 48; Koan 29; Koan 42; Koan 31; Koan 36; Koan 49; Koan 25; Koan 56; Koan 17; Koan 6; Koan 20; Koan 9.

CD 2:

Koan 8.

Theo Bleckmann & Ben Monder: Koan 23; Koan 10; Koan 24; Koan 30; Koan 32; Koan 33; Koan 45; Koan 40; Koan 14; Koan 59; Koan 60; Koan 53; Koan 51; Koan 54.

Rachel Calloway & Ari Streisfeld: Koan 1; Koan 34; Koan 22; Koan 19; Koan 26; Koan 21; Koan 57; Koan 27; Koan 41; Koan 50; Koan 52; Koan 44; Koan 2; Koan 16; Koan 4.

Album

Focus Out

By Jon Irabagon

Label: Irabbagast
Released: 2026
Track listing: Morning Star; Focus Out; Paper Planes; Evening Star; Indigo Stains; Prayer (for Reomi); Center Post.

Album

A Sun That Never Sets

By Ralph Alessi

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: A Sun That Never Sets; Nothing is Dead; Relaxed Misery; Sweet Spot; Ether; Twichild; Transitional Imagery; Slow Dancing Bear; Of Trees (Variations on a Theme by TB; Duck Face; Behind Clouds.

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Patterns from Nature

By Quinsin Nachoff

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Patterns from Nature: I. Branches; Patterns from Nature: II. Flow; Patterns from Nature: III. Cracks; Patterns from Nature: IV. Ripples; Winding Tessellations: I. Winding Paths; Winding Tessellations: II. Convergence; Winding Tessellations: III. Tessellations.

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Sweet Spot

August 23, 2026

Album: A Sun That Never Sets
By Ralph Alessi
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 03:11

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Paper Planes

July 31, 2026

Album: Focus Out
By Jon Irabagon
Label: Irabbagast
Released: 2026
Duration: 4:51

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Patterns From Nature 4: Ripples

July 30, 2026

Album: Patterns from Nature
By Quinsin Nachoff
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2026
Duration: 10:48

Article: Album Review

Quinsin Nachoff: Patterns from Nature

Read "Patterns from Nature" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 14, 2026

Quinsin Nachoff, a Canadian-born saxophonist and composer now based in New York, has long pursued deep connections between music, science, and visual form. Patterns from Nature grew from an extended collaboration with physicist Dr. Stephen Morris of the University of Toronto, drawing on concepts of emergent order in natural systems. The project spread itself across several ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Irabagon: Focus Out

Read "Focus Out" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 1, 2026

Focus Out è la seconda uscita discografica di Rising Sun, ennesima formazione partorita dalla mente vulcanica del sassofonista Jon Irabagon, da diversi anni figura centrale nella scena più vivace, creativa e imprevedibile del jazz statunitense. Un quartetto acustico/elettrico con i fiocchi che si avvale dell'apporto di musicisti altrettanto creativi e già coinvolti in passati progetti del ...