Results for "Otoroku"

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Play Monk

Label: Otoroku
Released: 2026
Track listing: Bye-Ya/Epistrophy; Friday The Thirteenth; Round Midnight; Epistrophy; Evidence; Oska T.

Article: Album Review

Few contemporary bands dismantle Thelonious Monk's charts with either the conviction or the discipline displayed by حمد [Ahmed] on Play Monk. This double CD veers between primal throb and cerebral cool. Pianist Pat Thomas, alto saxophonist Seymour Wright, bassist Joel Grip and drummer Antonin Gerbal united around a shared affection for the work of pioneering bassist ...

Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2026

Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2026

Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

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The Quartet

By Peter Brötzmann

Label: Otoroku
Released: 2025

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Two Days at Cafe OTO

By Sven-Åke Johansson

Label: Otoroku
Released: 2025
Track listing: Wright, Johannson, Grip; Borel, Wright, Johannson, Grip; Borel, Wright, Johannson, Grip; Borel, Johannson, Grip; Borel, Wright, Johannson, Grip.

Article: Album Review

Sven Åke-Johansson: Two Days at Cafe OTO

Read "Two Days at Cafe OTO" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn

by Fran Kursztejn
August 28, 2025

Sven Åke-Johansson's death in 2025 felt distinctly like a chapter closed. There is a cliche in Jazz to characterize players of a certain class and longstanding influence as “youthful" or otherwise endlessly inventive despite multi-decade, multidisciplinary careers. Its excessive use is justified by elements of the medium's own construction and history. Jazz itself appears to be ...

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The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir

By Pat Thomas

Label: Otoroku
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Solar Model; The Laws of Motion; For George Saliba; The Oud of Ziryab; For Ibn Al Nafis; For Mansa Musa; The Birds are Singing.

Article: Album Review

[Ahmed]: Super Majnoon (East Meets West)

Read "Super Majnoon (East Meets West)" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
March 21, 2020

It's well known that artistic constraints can in fact aid creativity, but few have put the theory into such good practice as [Ahmed]. The international co-operative of improvisers, comprising the British pair of pianist Pat Thomas and saxophonist Seymour Wright, Berlin-based Swedish bassist Joel Grip and French drummer Antonin Gerbal, takes as its unlikely premise the ...

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Super Majnoon (East Meets West)

By Antonin Gerbal

Label: Otoroku
Released: 2019
Track listing: E-Lail (The Night) East; Farah ‘Alaiyna (Joy Upon Us); E-Lail (The Night) West Part I; E-Lail (The Night) West Part II.