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Meet John O'Gallagher
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with saxophonist, composer, and educator John O'Gallagher. His release Ancestral on Whirlwind Recordings is with drummers Andrew Cyrille and Billy Hart and guitar Ben Monder. Plus, selections from new releases by pianist Pat Thomas and the Brooklyn, NY-based trio Prawntail.Playlist Louis Stewart-Brian Dunning “West Coast Blues" from Alone Together ...
Pat Thomas: HIKMAH
by Mark Corroto
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery--except, perhaps, when pianist Pat Thomas takes on the music of jazz legends. In those cases, what emerges is not imitation at all, but transformation. On albums such as Plays the Music of Derek Bailey & Thelonious Monk (FMR, 2008) and Pat Thomas Plays The Duke (New Jazz and ...
Pat Thomas: Sufi Women
by Fran Kursztejn
Virtuoso pianist Pat Thomas released one of the finest (and most frustrating) solo performances of this decade with 2024's The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku), and follows with a no-less important, intimate coda in Sufi Women. “Dedicated," as Thomas proclaims, “to the remarkable contribution of Sufi women in the spiritual science...known as Sufism (Islamic mysticism) ...
Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025
by Vincenzo Roggero
Jazzfestival SaalfeldenVarious venues Land Salzburg, Austria August 21-24, 2025 One hundred and ninety artists from twenty-six countries, nearly thirty thousand attendees, eight different venues, more than sixty concerts, and a record number of tickets sold. These are just numbers, but they confirm how the Saalfelden Jazz Festival--now in its forty-fifth ...
Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025
by Vincenzo Roggero
Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2025 Varie location 21--24 agosto 2025 Centonovanta artisti, provenienti da ventisei paesi, quasi trentamila presenze, otto location differenti, più di sessanta concerti, record di biglietti venduti. Sono solo numeri ma testimoniano come il Saalfelden Jazz Festival--giunto alla quarantacinquesima edizione--sia una rassegna che richiama spettatori da tutta Europa, sia profondamente ...
Neil Charles Quartet: Dark Days
by Mark Corroto
In 2025, amid global unrest and political fracture, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom can feel like a distant dream, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech like a myth from a gentler past. Has social media, with all its noise and manipulations, induced a kind of societal amnesia? ...
Jazz em Agosto 2025
by Petra Cvelbar
A collection of photos from the Jazz em Agosto, in Lisbon from August 1-10, 2025 featuring William Parker, Cooper-Moore , Hamid Drake, Kris Davis, Robert Hurst, Johnathan Blake, Mariam Rezaei, Julien Desprez, Lukas König, Darius Jones, Chris Lightcap Gerald Cleaver, Luís Vicente Trio, João Próspero--Sopros, MOPCUT, Moor Mother, MC Dälek, Crystal Riley, X-Ray Hex Tet, Pat ...
Jazz em Agosto 2025
by Stefano Merighi
Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the “onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also ...
Shifa شفاء - Rachel Musson, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders: Ecliptic
by Mark Corroto
Some books are divided into chapters--numbered, titled, and carefully structured. The musical equivalent is the tracklist: segmented, labeled pieces presented in order. But Ecliptic by the trio Shifa (شفاء, Arabic for “healing") rejects that format entirely. This 46-minute set of improvised music by saxophonist Rachel Musson, pianist Pat Thomas and drummer Mark Sanders unfolds without titles, ...
Jazz em Agosto 2025
by Stefano Merighi
Jazz em Agosto Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona, Portogallo 1-10 agosto 2025 Malgrado la “onda de calor" portoghese stia sfiorando la capitale, Lisbona è al solito pacifica nel suo tran tran saturnino, anche se il turismo invadente della Baixa ha già trasformato certo non in meglio la sua fisionomia. Ma ...
