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Anna Webber, Steve Lehman, & Silvia Bolognesi
by Maurice Hogue
Digging into the music on new releases from saxophonists this week from rising-star Anna Webber's new Shimmer Wince, the highly-praised Steve Lehman with the Orchestre National De Jazz from France, Pasquale Calo from Italy and his quartet, and Chicago powerhouse Dave Rempis with Belgian bassist Farida Amadou, plus Italian bassist Silvia Bolognesi on her new world-music ...
Daniel Carter, Chicago Edge Ensemble, & Charlotte Keeffe
by Maurice Hogue
Music on the edge prevails in this episode, highlighted by the ubiquitous multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, Chicago guitarist Dan Phillips and his Chicago Edge Ensemble, and a Polish/Spanish quintet that features guitarist Grzegorz Lesiak, trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz and the members of the Liba Villavecchia Trio. James Baldwin's works are the subject of a baldwin en transit, French ...
Caroline Davis, Hery Paz & Niescier/Reid/Harris
by Maurice Hogue
Highlights: Captivity, the new recording by saxophonist Caroline Davis is a pointedly social justice album focused on creating reflection, interrogation and amplification of the essential conversation around incarceration, the prison industrial complex & abolition. It's a very powerful project. Another excellent alto player, Germany's Angelika Niescier hooked up with premier cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Savannah ...
Vijay Anderson, Mike Reed, Francisco Mela & Irreversible Entanglements
by Maurice Hogue
Some drummers in the spotlight in this episode: LA/New York's Vijay Anderson and his Silver Screen Quintet tackle an city problem on the new Urban Jungle Los Angeles , while Chicago's Mike Reed explores loneliness and isolation on his new The Separatist Party. Francisco Mela teams up with one of his students at Berklee, saxophonist Jonathan ...
JD Parran and Mark Deutsch, Daniel Carter, & Irreversible Entanglements
by Maurice Hogue
California Street Sessions, a new duo recording by reed master JD Parran and bassist Mark Deutsch, is intriguing, particularly when consider the instrumentation: Parran plays a seldom-heard contralto clarinet while Deutsch plays the bazantar, a hybrid bass that he invented himself. The music's excellent too. Other new albums sampled this week come from Daniel Carter and ...
Andy Emler, Cécile Broché, Ember Trio & Maurice Louca
by Maurice Hogue
No visa or passports required for this edition of One Man's Jazz as the music is on a bit of European jaunt with artists from France: pianist Andy Emler, pianist Bruno Angelini & Papanosh; Belgium: violinist Cécile Broché & saxophonist Jordi Grognard; Norway: drummer Gard Nilssen; Switzerland: drummer Gerry Hemingway & saxophonist Christoph Irniger; Germany: drummer ...
Vinny Golia, James Brandon Lewis & Eric Plaks
by Maurice Hogue
The full title to veteran California free jazz saxophonist and icon Vinny Golia's latest recording is very long (Even to This Day... Music for Orchestra and Soloists Movement Two: Syncretism: For The Draw but it pales in comparison to the length of the recording: 13.5 hours plus. Golia began he project before Covid. It features solo, ...
Gard Nilssen, Damon Locks, Alberto Dipace & HIIT
by Maurice Hogue
Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen has packed his Supersonic Orchestra with 17 of the top players from Scandinavia and Northern Europe and the result has been acclaimed. If you missed the band's debut “If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours," you can hear a track from Nilssen and the ensemble's latest Family. After sitting on a ...
Carlos Bica, Coltrane/Dolphy & James Brandon Lewis
by Maurice Hogue
This show is highlighted by Portuguese bassist Carlos Bica's latest release on Clean Feed--Playing With Beethoven. Bica creates some very unexpected music. No one expected to hear em>Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy; the original recording sat undiscovered for many years. But it's now available and there's a great deal of buzz ...
Jorma Tapio, Jose Lencastre & Roberto Ottaviano
by Maurice Hogue
This episode is a little sax-heavy, highlighted by Finnish reed master Jorma Tapio. He continues to keep the music of the late Finnish drumming icon, Edward Vesala, front and centre. Tapio leads his Bread For Soul on his most recent release. Other saxophonists with new albums to sample are Roberto Ottaviano from Italy, Portugal's Jose Lencastre, ...
