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Michael Bates

As a composer and musician, Michael Bates "serves up melodic modernism and contrapuntal elegance" ("Time Out, New York") and his influences range from Shostakovich, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman to Bad Brains, Wayne Shorter and Joni Mitchell. Known as a both a leader and double bassist in several collectives, he has performed with Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Michael Blake, Gerald Cleaver, Dan Weiss, Tyshawn Sorey, Greg Osby, Jeff Davis, Peter Van Huffel, Scott Dubois, Ohad Talmor, Michael Attias, Mike Murley, Shane Endsley, Michael Sarin, Reuben Radding and several others. His debut CD Outside Sources was called one of the best albums of 2004 by Cadence Magazine editor Bob Rusch

Places, Real and Imagined

By Aaron Bahr

Label: AaronBahr Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: A Gathering Storm; Golden Hills; Lennie's Pennies (Tristano L.); Places (Real and Imagined); Fire Breather; Never Let Me Go (Evans and Livingston); The Quiet Part Out Loud; Ice Palace; Downtown.

A Gathering Storm

July 21, 2021

Album: Places, Real and Imagined
By Aaron Bahr
Label: AaronBahr Music
Released: 2021
Duration: 6:53

Dan McCarthy: A Place Where We Once Lived

by Dan Bilawsky
May 20, 2021

By February of 2019, Dan McCarthy had reached the end of his time in New York. “The movers had come and packed everything up, and my wife and son were already in Toronto at my parents' house. I was at our apartment in Crown Heights and I only had a few things, including my vibes," he ...

Jazz on the Moon

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 1, 2019

On 20 July 1969, while Herbie Mann was over the figurative moon, because his Memphis Underground was the best selling jazz album in the country, the man was landing on the actual moon (apologies for the gender insensitivity here but otherwise the pun won't work...). What a day! 50 years later we celebrate the ...

Gary Lucas' "Fleischerei": Music From Max Fleischer Cartoons

by Mark Corroto
March 14, 2016

The hip kids knew what to look for in those Saturday morning cartoons. It was the early Warner Brothers' animations and the black-and-white Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons. Insider jokes, stabs at the government and popular figures, and sexual innuendo were commonplace, even if we didn't quite get the meanings. Each were politically incorrect, before there ...

Northern Spy

By Michael Bates

Label: Stereoscopic
Released: 2015
Track listing: Theme For A Blind Man; Essex House; Roxy; An Otis theme On Curtis Changes; Bean; Wingnut; End Of History; The Days Of Wine And Roses; Northern Spy; Neptune.

Yoshie Fruchter: Schizophonia: Cantorial Recordings Reimagined

by Dave Wayne
September 18, 2015

A stalwart of New York City's astoundingly creative Judaic music scene, multi-instrumentalist and composer Yoshie Fruchter specializes in one thing: moving on from what he's already accomplished. Though he has two genre-smashing albums of edgy, Judaic jazz- rock-prog fusion on John Zorn's Tzadik label under his belt (Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes, Tzadik Records, 2011, and ...

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Samuel Blaser

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 22, 2015

01. Clifford Jordan plays Leadbelly -These Are My Roots (Atlantic Records -1965). Ho condiviso l'ascolto di questo fantastico disco durante una session a Brooklyn circa due anni fa con il sassofonista Michael Blake e il bassista Michael Bates. 02. Michael Blake -Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside Records -2014). Con Michael, che è uno ...

Michael Bates: Northern Spy

by Mark Corroto
June 24, 2015

Did you ever get a bit envious listening to a recording and thinking the band is having way too much fun making music? I'm not saying Northern Spy stirs up jealousy, but damn the trio of bassist Michael Bates, saxophonist Michael Blake and drummer Jeremy “Bean" Clemons are up to some serious jollification here.This, ...