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Melvin Gibbs

Melvin Gibbs has been called "the best bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine. A well- respected veteran of the New York music scene, he has contributed his singular talents to major artists in many diverse genres of music, appearing on close to 200 albums. Born in Brooklyn N.Y. his first musical studies were on the congas and Latin percussion, focused on the Afro-Diasporatic rhythms of Puerto Rico, Cuba and Brazil. He studied with Papo Dadiego, later to become known as the maker of Jopa Percussion instruments, who was his next-door neighbor. After deciding to switch to bass he studied acoustic bass at The Muse is Brooklyn under former John Coltrane bassist Reggie Workman and electric bass privately with Vic Collucci. The first band he joined featured the late Alphonia Tims (Future Funk Now!, ROIR) on guitar, who would later become a formative influence in his musical life

Constellations and Hemispheres

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Burning Ambulance Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dark Energy; Lake Tanganyika; Dark Matter, Particles of Light, Mirror of the Unseen; Deep Canyons On Mars; Meditation On Love.

Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy

By Tomos Williams

Label: Tŷ Cerdd
Released: 2026
Track listing: Welsh Not; Streic y Glowyr 1984 / Miners' Strike 1984; Beth yw maddau? / What is forgiving?; Aberfan 1966; Paul Robeson yn canu yn Aberpennar 1938 / Paul Robeson sings in Mountain Ash 1938; Mynydd Epynt 1940; Cymru Cenedl Noddfa / Wales: A Nation of Sanctuary.

Electrical Field of Love

By Harriet Tubman

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Flowers; Anatomical Fable of the Elements; Isom Dart Was; Insisting; When You Rise; Is No Match for You; A Black Song; Assata; Up from the Gum; Birth Order (5of9); Don't Stand a Chance, After the Boom; Hands.

Wadada Leo Smith: Constellations and Hemispheres

by Mike Jurkovic
September 18, 2026

The listener is easily startled by Wadada Leo Smith. The man has an aura about him that emanates from some other place, some other time, when the rule of law was set in stone. A time not too long ago when collective aspiration held us all enthralled. And the man who carried that stone is none ...

Tomos Williams: Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy

by Ian Patterson
July 19, 2026

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. So it has proven for Welsh trumpeter-composer Tomos Williams, whose intended one-off album Cwmwl Tystion / Witness (Tŷ Cerdd, 2019) unwittingly became the first installment of a trilogy charting Welsh identity, history and internationalism. Realizing there were still important stories to tell, Cwmwl Tystion II: Riot! (Tŷ Cerdd, 2021) picked ...

Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2

By Melvin Gibbs

Label: Hausu Mountain
Released: 2025
Track listing: Felonious Monk; Gullah Jack Style; The Very First Flower; 16 Dimensions of Underwater Light; Luigi Takes a Walk; O.G. Dreams of Lost Love

Nels Cline: Trio Of Bloom

by Vic Albani
September 22, 2025

La straordinaria etichetta Pyroclastic Records, guidata da Kris Davis, aggiunge un altro gioiello alla sua collezione di incisioni di questo primo decennio di attività. Protagonista questa volta è un trio d'eccezione: Craig Taborn, Nels Cline e Marcus Gilmore. L'idea nasce dal produttore e poeta David Breskin, mente creativa dietro l'etichetta e collaboratore di lunga ...

Craig Taborn / Nels Cline / Marcus Gilmore: Trio Of Bloom

by Mike Jurkovic
September 15, 2025

Maelstroms come and maelstroms go, but the maelstrom generated by a pumped-up Marcus Gilmore on Ronald Shannon Jackson's  “Nightwhistlers," the concussive kicker that jump-starts Trio of  Bloom, holds its storm-warning, jazz-rocking, course. That guitarist Nels Cline--cranked by the spirit of Jimi Hendrix via Bill Frisell circa late '87; and keyboardist Craig Taborn (himself a modern acolyte ...

Big Ears Festival 2025

by Mark Sullivan
April 8, 2025

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 ...