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Miles Okazaki, Fred Moten, Billy Mohler & We Free Strings

Read "Miles Okazaki, Fred Moten, Billy Mohler & We Free Strings" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


New releases sampled come from guitarist Miles Okazaki & Trickster with the final piece of a trilogy, the unique ensemble We Free Strings, a powerful big band from Austria led by Barbara Bruckmüller, pianist Elias Stemeseder, bassist Billy Mohler's quartet, Swiss saxophonist Fabian Willmann, and poetry and free jazz from the trio of Fred Moten, Brandon ...

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New Music From Okazaki, Slepoy, Reisin & Oxman And More

Read "New Music From Okazaki, Slepoy, Reisin & Oxman And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


This show features all new releases from across the World of Jazz with albums from Francisco Slepoy, Johnathan Reisin, Keith Oxman, Manongo Mujica, Mike Allemana, Steve Boudreau, Miles Okazaki and Trish Clowes.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Francisco Slepoy “Chicharra" from Retratos (ears&eyes) 00:49 Johnathan Reisin “Option B" from Option B (Habitable) 06:58 Keith Oxman “The ...

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Miles Okazaki: Thisness

Read "Thisness" reviewed by Troy Dostert


A guitarist as freakishly talented as Miles Okazaki demands a listener's full attention. This is the case whether one is parsing his fiendishly complex compositions, or beholding his astonishing technique, or simply taking in all the shifting meters and grooves that permeate his music. From the remarkably ambitious Work (Volumes 1-6), his self-released solo document in ...

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Old Jazz, New Jazz, Obscure Jazz

Read "Old Jazz, New Jazz, Obscure Jazz" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show features a combination of newer jazz releases, older classic artists and a few obscurities. Music is heard from, among others, Julie Driscoll (Tippetts), Arturo O'Farrill, Eric Alexander, Joe Rosenberg, Betty Carter and the Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The ...

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Samo Salamon: Dolphyology: Complete Eric Dolphy For Solo Guitar

Read "Dolphyology: Complete Eric Dolphy For Solo Guitar" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


As the clock ticked toward 2020, jazz guitarists began recording tributes to jazz giants of yesterday who were not guitarists: Dom Minasi offered up a compelling and beautiful salute to pianist Cecil Taylor with Remembering Cecil (Unseen Rain Records, 2019), and Miles Okazaki gave us Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk (Self Produced, 2018). In ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR)

Read "Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR)" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Circa un anno dopo i due set incendiari confluiti nel meraviglioso Live at Village Vanguard Vol. I (PI Recordings, 2018), Steve Coleman e i suoi fidi Five Elements ritornano sul luogo del delitto e danno vita ad un doppio set, se possibile, ancora più entusiasmante. L'ennesimo aggiustamento di formazione, al chitarrista Miles Okazaki succede il fuoriclasse ...

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Label: Meta Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 4:12

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Come What May

Label: Club44
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Believe in You; When A Woman Loves A Man; Let's Take A Walk Around The Block; Lush Life; Let's Face the Music And Dance; Samba de Aviao; The Nearness of You; On The Sunny Side of the Street/Get Happy;The Man That Got Away; My Funny Valentine

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Mise En Place

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Kamali; Mixo Mode 19; Shymal Bose Chakradar; Pairs; Theme and Variations; Wise One; Rupak Tukra; Back of the Plane; After the Rain.

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Resonant Bodies

Label: Meta Records
Released: 2021


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