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Michael and Peter Formanek: Dyads
by John Sharpe
There can be few instances where a parent-offspring hook-up has proved as potent as Dyads by bassist Michael Formanek and his reedman son Peter. With not a hint of featherbedding, the pair interact as equals on a 72-minute program which alternates six charts penned by both with seven collective inventions. While the bassist has amassed a ...
Pedernal
Album: Pedernal
By Susan Alcorn
Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 5:47
Wadada Leo Smith / Douglas R. Ewart / Mike Reed & Benoit Delbecq
by Maurice Hogue
The lineup for this edition of OMJ is like a menu in an ice cream shop: so many flavours to choose from. The AACM is alive and well in the excellent new release for Astral Spirits by Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas R. Ewart & Mike Reed, power guitar from Slovenia's Samo Salamon with a French quartet, ...
Monder-Malaby-Rainey and Mario Rom's Interzone
by Maurice Hogue
There are more 2020 favourites scattered throughout this playlist (my choices at the One Man's Jazz website), but some excellent new trio and duo releases are highlights. Ben Monder, Tony Malaby and Tom Rainey gathered at one of Monder's residency-sessions at the 55 Bar and the three-part album is split over this show and the next ...
Tony Malaby: Turnpike Diaries
by Dave Kaufman
COVID-19 has decimated the live music business and left many jazz musicians without the much-needed income from gigs. The absence of live music has been partially compensated for by livestream performances and a small number of outdoor gigs, including those supported by the Arts for Arts group. Nevertheless, feel-good stories have been few and far between ...
Walls and Roses
Album: Artlessly Falling
By Mary Halvorson
Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 3:34
Soundpath
by Victor L. Schermer
Muhal Richard Abrams (1930-2017) was a revered pianist, composer and teacher of great capability and range who, in addition to his own achievements, inspired and influenced many jazz musicians in both the mainstream and avant-garde categories. Largely self-taught as a result of a personal decision to follow his own path, and early on pursuing church music, ...
Soundpath
By Warriors of the Wonderful Sound
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Soundpath: One track for entire composition.
Artlessly Falling
Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Lemon Trees; Last-Minute Smears; Walls and Roses; Muzzling Unwashed; Bigger Flames; Mexican War Streets
(Pittsburgh); A Nearing; Artlessly Falling.
Pedernal
By Susan Alcorn
Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Pedernal; Circular Ruins; R.U.R.; A Night in Gdansk; Northeast Rising Sun.
