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Article: Album Review

Thomas Borgmann Trio: One For Cisco

Read "One For Cisco" reviewed by John Sharpe


This limited edition LP documents a collectively birthed exploration spread across the two sides by the visiting German pair of reedman Thomas Borgmann and long time associate drummer Willi Kellers, who team up with NYC bassist Max Johnson. The concert took place as part of the New York Tenor Saxophone Festival at Ibeam in 2015 organized ...

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The Prisoner

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: No. 6 Arrival / No. 58 Orange Alert; X04; No. 12 Schitzoid Man (Gemini); No. 24 Hammetr into Anvil; No. 48 Living in Harmony; The New Number 2; No. 2 Once Upon a Time / No. 1 Fallout.

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Something Familiar

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Cindoze; Blips and Bloops; Cold Blooded; Little Arnie; Les Vague; Hammer Song; Something Familiar; Wind Song.

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Max Johnson, Kirk Knuffke, Ziv Ravitz: Something Familiar

Read "Something Familiar" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


New York native Max Johnson does not appear to require sleep. The bassist/composer, whose career spans the wide terrain from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Lollapalooza to Anthony Braxton consistently delivers fresh, adventurous, high-quality music against an ambitious output. With his now-regular working trio of Kirk Knuffke on cornet and drummer Ziv Ravitz, the group has released ...

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Mikko Innanen with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille: Song for a New Decade

Read "Song for a New Decade" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Song for a New Decade joins relative newcomer, Finnish saxophonist/composer Mikko Innanen with veteran drummer Andrew Cyrille and bassist William Parker, the latter appearing on the first of the two-disc set. Innanen has won numerous European music awards and though much of his playing and recording has been regional, he has performed with drummer Han Bennink, ...

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Max Johnson: The Prisoner

Read "The Prisoner" reviewed by Libero Farnè


L'emergente Max Johnson, cresciuto nel New Jersey e stabilitosi a New York, dopo una seria formazione e una gavetta al fianco di alcuni dei più bei nomi dell'avanguardia s'inserisce di diritto nell'ormai vasta schiera di validi contrabbassisti-leader dell'attuale scena jazzistica internazionale. Questa sua suite s'ispira ad un serial programmato dalla televisione britannica nel 1968 e rivisto ...

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The Prisoner

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: No.6 Arrival / No.58 Orange Alert; X04; No.12 Schitzoid Man (Gemini); No.24 Hammer into Anvil; No.48 Living in Harmony; The New Number 2; No.2 Once Upon a Time / No.1 Fallout.

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The Invisible Trio

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: The Pretzel; Bizza; Held for Questioning; Don Wrinkles; The Invisible Trio; Moving Vehicle; A Pair of Glasses; The Golem.

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Max Johnson: Big Eyed Rabbit

Label: NotTwo Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Cluck Old Hen; Mr. Sherbert; Poughkeepsie Ridge; Brown County Breakdown; One of my Happiness; Fisherman's Footlocker; My Last Days on Earth.

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Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2014

Read "John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2014" reviewed by John Sharpe


Here are eleven new releases, reviewed at All About Jazz, which stood out from those I heard this year, in no special order. Nicole Mitchell The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (Rogue Art Records) Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. On their second outing she ...


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