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The Cave of Winds

By Tony Malaby
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Corinthian Leather; Recrudescence; Scratch the Horse; Insect Ward; The Cave of Winds; Life Coach (for Helias); Just Me, Just Me.
Dyads

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Two, Not One; Wandering, Searching, Digging, Uncovering; After You; The Woods; Push Comes To Shove; How Was The Drive?; There's No There There; Hoarse Syrinx; Wavy Lines; Hurricane; Ballad Of The Weak; DNA; That Was Then.
Everything Happens To Be.

By Ben Goldberg
Label: BAG Production
Released: 2021
Track listing: What About; 21; Fred Hampton; Everything Happens To Be.; Cold Weather; Chorale Type; Tomas Plays the Drums; Long Last Moment; To-Ron-To; Abide With Me
Ben Goldberg: Everything Happens To Be.

by Jerome Wilson
If you do not listen too closely, there are parts of this download-only release that sound soothing and gentle. That is not really the case and that is the fun part of this music. When the reed players play a pretty or swinging melody line, there is always some irritant factor elsewhere in the band to ...
Frank Kimbrough: Un Ciclopico Omaggio

by Angelo Leonardi
Kimbrough è l'ambizioso e ciclopico progetto discografico dedicato a Frank Kimbrough, il grande pianista e compositore scomparso il 30 dicembre 2020 a 64 anni. Prodotto da Elan Mehler della Newvelle Records, è stato realizzato da 67 musicisti che hanno inciso 61 composizioni di Kimbrough in differenti ensemble, dal piano solo al settetto. Molti dei protagonisti sono ...
Kaja Draksler, Frank Kimbrough, Berta Moreno, Julien Lourau & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
This week's exploration of new and upcoming releases continues with a special focus on the late Frank Kimbrough through a preview of his posthumous CD Ancestors and some of the best renditions that appear on the monumental tribute conceived by pianist and producer Elan Mehler, Kimbrough, one of the best releases of the year. Punkt vs. ...
Size Matters: (Mostly New) Jazz for Big Bands and Orchestras, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
As we continue our journey in the recent work of some of the most compelling jazz orchestras and big bands of today, and a few from the past that were so ahead of their time that their music still sounds fresh. [Click here to listen to the part 1]. Happy listening! PlaylistBen ...
Unconventional Instruments

by Karl Ackermann
ECM regularly tops lists of the best jazz labels though their full name--Edition of Contemporary Music--would argue for a broader scope of content. A substantial number of their most popular albums, such as Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill (1974), Egberto Gismonti: Dança Dos Escravos (1989), Nils Petter Molvær's Khmer (1997), and many more, are not ...
Costanza Alegiani, Charlie Hunter, Christian McBride, Nicole Johänntgen & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
In the two weeks since our last new releases special, so much great music came to our attention that today we have one of those shows that some define as all killer, no filler..." except that I don't like to think of music as killing," but you catch my drift. A special focus on ...
Ben Goldberg: Everything Happens To Be.

by John Chacona
The music of Ben Goldberg seems to come from a place outside of time--or maybe it comes from several times simultaneously. Maybe it's the instruments he chooses; while the clarinet family has been on the comeback trail in jazz for a quarter century, it's a sound that invariably invokes the New Orleans of a century ago. ...