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Anti-Rubber Brain Factory & Sameer Gupta

by Maurice Hogue
This episode features two extremely original albums from France, and they couldn't be more different. Guitarist Marc Ducret tackles Shakespeare on his Lady M. He's not the first to look to the Bard of Avon for inspiration (Duke Ellington and Cleo Laine come to mind immediately), but he may be the first one to frame one ...
Mark Dresser Seven, Georg Ruby Trio & Matthias Spillmann

by Maurice Hogue
A desire to play together more often led Chicago horn men Jason Stein and Greg Ward to ask bassist Eric Revis and drummer Jim Black to join them in making some music. Great idea, and great results. Nature Work, their new album on Sunnyside, is a winner. So is Ain't Nothing But A Cyber Coup & ...
A Focus on Paul Bley

by Bob Osborne
This week we focus on the work of master pianist Paul Bley, including examples of the ground-breaking music he created with Jimmy Giuffre and Steve Swallow. During the rest of the show we feature some fascinating recent releases and some other classic cuts. Playlist James Brandon Lewis Sir Real Denard" from An Unruly ...
Joseph Benzola, Liebman/Rudolph/Drake, Tom Kessler and More

by Maurice Hogue
Canadian saxophonist and flautist Anna Webber has seen her star rising since settling in New York. She's become a highly regarded member of the creative improvisation scene there, and each recording of her own compositions becomes more impressive. With her septet she tackles a number of homages to some of her favourite 20th century composers' percussion ...
Russ Lossing, Jasper Blom and More

by Maurice Hogue
Sometimes a recording catches you by surprise. Such is the case with Swedish bassist Thomas Markusson's Open. Only one of the musicians was familiar, the pianist Naoko Sakata who moved from Japan to Sweden where she could play the kind of music that wasn't popular in Japan. Sakata definitely found the right company. Markusson is a ...
Favourite Releases of 2018

by Maurice Hogue
This episode (and the next) features music from some of the great albums released and played on One Man's Jazz in 2018. You'll hear tracks from recordings by Sean Conly, Quin Kirchner, Mario Costa, Benoit Delbecq, Cene Resnik, First Gig Never Happened, Sound & Fury, Samuel Blaser, Albert Beger & Shay Hazan, Michael Formanek, Devin Gray, ...
Falling

By Peter Hess
Label: Diskonife
Released: 2018
Track listing: Bluebells; Move to Mars; Falling; Subduction; Earlier; Gone Lights; Call Ahead; Follower;
Everything Goes
Philip Glass Ensemble Performs Music In Twelve Parts At Town Hall

by Peter Jurew
Philip Glass Ensemble Town Hall New York, NY October 27, 2018 Philip Glass's monumental Music in Twelve Parts was originally intended to be performed over three nights. It's a marathon," Lisa Bielawa, the Ensemble's singer, has said. The way people train for a marathon is the way we ...
Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tourist Point of View; Bluebird of Delhi; Isfahan; Depk; Mount Harissa; Blue
Pepper; Agra; Amad; Ad Lib on Nippon.
Slavic Soul Party: Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite

by Angelo Leonardi
Nel jazz contemporaneo la reinterpretazione delle opere passate avviene in due modi diversi. Da un lato c'è chi privilegia la riproposizione fedele dell'originale, partendo da una prospettiva a grandi linee accademica (Wynton Marsalis) fino alla riproduzione letterale di ogni aspetto melodico, timbrico e ritmico (come ha fatto il gruppo Mostly Other People Do The Killing con ...