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Pulse

Label: New Focus Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Pulse (Quartet); Chronomentrophobia; Wheeler Musings; Revisited; Confluence; Instead Of Words; Spring Awaits You; A Year Has Passed; Pulse (Duo)

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Pulse - Anthony Fuoco, Dustin May, Aidan Plank, Brad Wagner

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Pulse. The beat of the heart, a sense of vitality and continuity, often serving as a metaphor for the way music flows in time. When four musicians gathered to explore what might emerge from their collective artistic curiosities, a new Pulse was born. The Cleveland-based group, Pulse, features Anthony Fuoco on piano, Dustin May on drums, Aidan Plank on acoustic bass, and Brad Wagner on tenor and soprano saxophones. Established in early 2018, their approach celebrates melodic shape, harmonic subtlety, improvisation, and the wide-open soundscapes of the Midwest. Blending elements of jazz, classical, popular, and world music, Pulse invites the listener to explore the depths of emotion and imagination

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Subtractions

Label: New Focus Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Border Loss; Side by Side: Part I; Side by Side: Part II.

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Greg Stuart: Subtractions

Read "Subtractions" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Percussionist Greg Stuart is afflicted with focal dystonia, a neurological disorder which limits the motor function of one hand. Despite that physical challenge, Stuart has undertaken a sweeping and ambitious percussion album which goes beyond the traditional drum kit. He has co-led more than a dozen recordings including an impressive debut with bassist Barre Phillips. Subtractions ...

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Off Brand

Label: New Focus Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: For Manny; Free #2; Inner Androids; Free #5; Adaptation Dance; Free #8; Open Glimpse; Hard Boiled Donut; Quartet for Bela (I-IV).

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Collage Project: Off Brand

Read "Off Brand" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Listeners who crave a bit of classical rigor with their jazz--or, conversely, those who enjoy improvisational freedom within a classical chamber setting--should investigate the work of the Collage Project. Built around the trio of guitarists Dan Bruce and Daniel Lippel and bassist Aidan Plank, and complemented by drummer Nathan Douds, saxophonist Noa Even and trombonist Chris ...

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Sextet

Label: New Focus Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1. Gyorgy Ligeti: Passacaglia Ungherese (5:21); 2. Misery Is The New Hope (5:48); 3. Icebreaker (7:33); 4. Resolve (10:26); 5. Helpless (7:36); 6. Turn Around (8:29); 7. Phantom Vibration Syndrome (9:25)

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The Tenth Muse

Label: New Focus Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Fragment 104b; Fragment 147; Fragment 24a,c,d; Fragment 120; Fragment 36; Fragment 29a; Fragment 67a; Fragment 168b; Fragment 4; Fragment 34; Fragment 38; Fragment 32; Fragment 18; Fragment 26; Fragment 63; Fragment 88a,b.

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Imaginist

Label: New Focus Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Prologue; Alkaline; Pretenders; A Dream (Introduction; Grave Mound; An Artist; Here Lies...; He Began to Cry; At Long Last); Exquisite Corpse (Foreshadow; Flashback); Epilogue.

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Matt Holman: The Tenth Muse

Read "The Tenth Muse" reviewed by Matthew Aquiline


New York City-based trumpeter and composer Matt Holman cut his teeth performing and recording with distinguished musicians such as Fred Hersch, John Hollenbeck, and Darcy James Argue's Secret Society before displaying his personal aesthetic of atmospheric chamber jazz with his debut album When Flooded in 2013. More recently, Holman found inspiration scouring the annals of history, ...


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