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Server Farm
By Jon Irabagon
Label: Irrabagast
Released: 2025
Track listing: Colocation; Routers; Singularities; Graceful Exit; Spy.
Splash
By Myra Melford
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Drift; The Wayward Line; Interlude I; Freewheeler; Interlude II; Streaming; A Line with a Mind of Its Own; Interlude III; Dryprint; Chalk.
The 7th Dinner LIVE
Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2025
Track listing: The 7th Dinner; Alles Jutta (for Jutta Hipp); Ballad for Paul & Poo; Bottle Opener;
Fourdance; Providence
Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums of 2025
by Troy Dostert
We were treated to another superb year of creative jazz and improvised music in 2025, with a broad range of projects seeking to extend the boundaries of jazz into and beyond other idioms. Chamber-adjacent outfits such as the Hemphill Stringtet and Patricia Brennan's latest ensemble blurred the border between jazz and contemporary classical music, while Miguel ...
New Music From Brennan, Borgatti, Hilton, Threadgill & More
by Bob Osborne
This episode features music from Latin America, North America, Europe, and the Mediterranean region. It begins with rhythmically driven Latin jazz and piano-led ensemble work, followed by experimental compositions using layered electronics, extended techniques, and non-standard forms. Midway, the programme includes modal structures, bowed string textures, and vibraphone-led chamber jazz. The final third presents free improvisation, ...
Presenting Great Music: Adam Hopkins and Scott Clark of Out of Your Head Records
by Don Ball
It is difficult to make a living as a musician, especially as a jazz musician, and even more so as an avant-garde/free jazz musician. Venues are hard to come by, especially outside of major cities. The COVID pandemic made things worse, closing many of the few places that were available for live jazz. Even putting out ...
Joe Hertenstein, Mikko Pettinen, Igor Lumpert & Abbey Rader
by Maurice Hogue
If you like quartets, there's some great music from these foursomes: German & NYC drummer Joe Hertenstein with trombonist Ray Anderson, saxophonist Michael Moore & bassist Michael Formanek documented a European tour last year and set a high bar on The 7th Dinner Live. Also recorded live, French drummer Raphael Pannier fulfilled a dream of playing ...
Myra Melford: Splash
by John Sharpe
Pianist Myra Melford returns to the classic piano trio format for the first time since The Guest House (Enja, 2011), her acclaimed outing with Trio M with Mark Dresser and Matt Wilson. This time, the lineup is no less formidable: bassist Michael Formanek and drummer/vibraphonist Ches Smith--both commanding improvisers and bandleaders--join her for a set that ...
Jazz em Agosto 2025
by Stefano Merighi
Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the “onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also ...
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