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Described as “an intrepid composer, architect of sound and beast of the bass...” (Brad Cohan, NYC Jazz Record) composer-bassist Max Johnson creates complex worlds of sound, challenging his listeners to engage deeply and be rewarded with an experience always crafted with love, care, and clarity. With seventeen albums as a leader and more than two thousand concerts internationally with artists like Anthony Braxton, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, John Zorn, and Mivos Quartet, Johnson brings a wild energy and excitement. Johnson currently teaches music theory at Brooklyn College and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Trumpet Trios: Bass, Drums and Trumpet

by Jon Greenbaum
September 13, 2026

On this special edition of North Star Sounds we focus on trumpet trios (trumpet, bass, drums). Check out the vibrant variety of approaches and moods created with just these three instruments. Playlist Steven Bernstein “Mammoth" from Resonation Trio (Royal Potato Family) 00:00 Ramon Lopez / Percy Pursglove / Rafal Mazur"au lapin agile" from Threefold ...

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Max Johnson 3

by Daniel Peck
June 26, 2026

Described as “an intrepid composer, architect of sound and beast of the bass..." composer, bassist, and improviser Max Johnson is one of the most prolific music makers in the jazz, bluegrass, improvised music, and contemporary classical worlds. Max has released 20 albums, and performed over three thousand concerts internationally with artists like Anthony Braxton, Geri Allen ...

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Eva Novoa: Solo (I)

Read "Solo (I)" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 15, 2026

Pianist-composer Eva Novoa can be a difficult listen from time to time. Her modulations. Her incantations. Her dynamic agility to take any moment behind her instrument can be disconcerting to an audience that has not learned to think or imagine broader horizons for themselves. So let us be thankful Novoa took to Manhattan's Sear Sound Studios ...

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Marshall Allen, Tom Weeks & David Murray

by Maurice Hogue
May 20, 2025

Live In Philadelphia, the new release by the miracle-man, saxophonist Marshall Allen, celebrates his 101st birthday on May 25. Recorded live at Solar Myth in Philadelphia, the album features Allen with Ghost Horizons, and it's one of the features by saxophonists in this episode of One Man's Jazz: David Murray's quartet goes to the birds on ...

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Tubes

By Sam Newsome

Label: Unbroken Sounds
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dust; Strangled Duck; Grizzly Bear; Four Portraits; Blue Monk; Tubes & Keys; Helicopter Exit.

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Sam Newsome: Tubes

by Mike Jurkovic
February 25, 2024

Tubes, a riotous investigation into the sonic by outlaw soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and provocateur bassist Max Johnson, burps to life with “Dust" and proceeds assuredly down its own peculiar byways and highways. It is a real treat. The track closes with Newsome's prepared horn pondering like a bluesman on his lone, lonely harp. It is ...

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Ohad Talmor, Myra Melford, Roy Nathanson & I.P.A.

by Maurice Hogue
November 20, 2023

Load 'em up and play 'em. That's kind of how it's going these days, with so many interesting new recordings making their way to the show. Ohad Talmor's Ornette Coleman-inspired Back To The Land is already showing up on best-of-lists. He came across some unreleased rehearsal recordings by Ornette & Lee Konitz in Konitz's apartment after ...

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Clara Lai Trio, Sam Weinberg and Interstellar Nao

by Maurice Hogue
June 12, 2023

A healthy dose of edgy new releases in this episode, featuring Spanish pianist Clara Lai and trio, saxophonist Sam Weinberg and trio, Bobo Stenson and several from the European hotbed of avant-garde--Netherlands (saxophonist Frans Vermeerssen, Cocktail Party Attack, saxophonist Bo Van De Graaf, & Mixing Memory and Desire), plus a freewheeling session from Mexico City featuring ...

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Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet, Illegal Crowns, and Iyer / Aftab / Ismaily

by Maurice Hogue
May 29, 2023

Debuting this episode are new albums from bassist Michael Formanek and his Elusion Quartet (Tony Malaby, Kris Davis & Ches Smith), Illegal Crowns (Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum, Benoit Delbecq & Tomas Fujiwara, and the trio of {m: Vijay Iyer}}, Arooj Aftab & Shahzad Ismaily with their Love In Exile. I expect to see all of ...