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Friends & Neighbors: Circles

by John Sharpe
May 26, 2024

Even some 60 years after its birth, the free jazz of the American New Thing remains a fertile source of inspiration in 2024. On its sixth album, Circles, Norwegian quintet Friends & Neighbors continues to find rich avenues to explore in its updated repurposing of the naked expressionism of the 1960's avant-garde. An unchanged line up ...

Article: Live Review

Banshee di Signe Emmeluth a Bologna

by Libero Farnè
May 10, 2024

Signe Emmeluth: Banshee Centro di Ricerca Musicale, Teatro San Leonardo Bologna 6.5.2024 Tre giorni dopo l'apparizione del duo Mitchell-Rabbia, AngelicA 34 ha presentato in prima italiana un progetto recentissimo, che costituisce una delle espressioni più valide della vitalità dell'attuale scena nord-europea: Banshee della trentaduenne danese Signe Emmeluth, formatasi a Trondheim poi ...

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Giuseppe Doronzo: Futuro Ancestrale

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by Mark Corroto
April 3, 2024

A mesmerizing approach to an improvising trio yields Futuro Ancestrale, which was recorded during a performance at Amsterdam's Bimhuis in June of 2022. This trio brings together Italian baritone saxophonist Giuseppe Doronzo, guitarist Andy Moor and American drummer Frank Rosaly. Doronzo (Aterraterr and AVA Trio) and Rosaly (Rempis Percussion Quartet and ¡Todos de Pie!) have relocated ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Alice Coltrane, Kaze, Michael Attias & The Fully Celebrated Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
March 26, 2024

Did you know 2024 has been designated as the Year Of Alice? Impulse Records and the John and Alice Coltrane Home are celebrating Alice this year through special events and new releases. The first album to appear is Alice Coltrane--The Carnegie Hall Concert with all unreleased tracks from a terrific band. This concert in 1971 was ...

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Brötzmann / Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo

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by Mark Corroto
February 22, 2024

We lost Peter Brotzmann in the summer of 2023. The saxophonist and champion of free jazz passed at the age of 82. There may be no more live appearances from the great man, but there will be posthumous releases. Hopefully, all will be as spirited and compelling as Chicken Shit Bingo, a duo with Norwegian drummer ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Frank Carlberg, Karl Evangelista & Benoit Delbecq

by Maurice Hogue
February 13, 2024

Thelonious Monk has always been a magnet for jazz pianists. Frank Carlberg's fascination with the mysterious Monk has led to a second recording with his large ensemble. It's called Elegy For Thelonious. San Francisco guitarist Karl Evangelista is one who tends to fly under the radar, but his recent What Else Is There?, recorded in Chicago, ...

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Steve Swell: Dances With Questions

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by John Sharpe
January 11, 2024

American trombonist Steve Swell plays to the strengths of his talented cast of improvisers on the sprawling multifaceted Dances With Questions, a three-CD box set which documents his three day residency at the 2019 Krakow Jazz Autumn. The center piece is the 70-minute title cut for a dozen musicians, but the album also includes two discs ...

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Rodrigo Amado The Bridge: Beyond The Margins

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by John Sharpe
January 1, 2024

The Bridge may be one of the most potent all round units assembled by Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado. That is saying something considering his previous alliances with collaborators as varied as multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, trumpeter Peter Evans, trombonist Jeb Bishop and drummer Chris Corsano. This time out his partners read like an extract from an ...

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Dances With Questions

By Steve Swell

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Ullmann Harnik Swell Strom; Brano Zingaro Holmlander Nilssen-Love; Emmeluth Ullmann Swell Nilssen-Love; Trzaska De Backer Holmlander Strom; Zingaro Brano Coudoux Harnik; CD2: Holmlander Harnik Trzaska Ullmann; Brano Swell Coudoux Emmeluth; De Backer Zingaro Strom Nilssen-Love; Ullmann Swell Coudoux Holmlander; Trzaska De Backer Harnik Nilssen-Love; Zingaro Emmeluth Brano Strom; Finale Everyone; CD3: Dances With Questions.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy, Clemens Kuratle & Francois Bourassa

by Maurice Hogue
July 24, 2023

The original broadcasts of One Man's Jazz on Taint Radio happen about a month before they are posted on AAJ, so back in June I was excited as many others to play the only track we could from the new Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy. I suspect by now, that album ...