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Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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Micromotives

By Moss Freed
Label: Discus Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Union of Egoists, for Anthony Braxton; Unprecedented Times, for Pauline Oliveros; Left-Leaning, for Louis Andriessen; Kilter, for John Zorn; Starlings, for Christian Wolff; Hidden Hand, for Terry Riley; Hung Parliament, for Barry Guy.
Music Farther Outside by Bill Shoemaker

by Jeff Schwartz
Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic Bill Shoemaker 213 Pages ISBN: #9781538178775 Rowman & Littlefield 2023 Music Farther Outside is a sequel to two books. First, it is Bill Shoemaker's follow-up to his excellent Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Both ...
Moss Freed / Union Division: Micromotives

by John Sharpe
A question any composer for improvisers must face is whether they can create something more worthwhile than what they might come up with if left to themselves. It can be a tough call. For some, such as Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra or Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, the ultimate conclusion was no, while for others ...
The Flame: Towards The Flame Vol 1

by Mike Jurkovic
Three of Europe's most acclimated and proven improvisers--pianist Robert Mitchell (Steve Coleman, Greg Osby), bassist Neil Charles, and drummer/percussionist Mark Sanders (Jah Wobble, Rachel Musson)--band together as The Flame for the first time and emerge from pandemic isolation, and the forever wars and broken civics that accompanied it, with a hypnotic performance captured absolutely live on ...
Paul G. Smyth & John Wiese: The Outlier

by Mark Corroto
The Outlier! by Paul G. Smyth and John Wiese is an ambient recording. No, it's a free improvisation set, or could it be industrial sound or noise? Yes, and yes again. Recorded before an audience in The National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland, this duo brings together pianist and Weekertoft Records label chief Smyth with the ...
Cath Roberts & Olie Brice: Conduits

by John Sharpe
In some ways one could liken Conduits to a telephone call between two friends, given that it was recorded simultaneously over the internet at the homes of baritone saxophonist Cath Roberts and bassist Olie Brice who live some 60 miles apart in England. But, while the vibe is conversational, this being an instrumental exchange, it is ...
Dreamsing

Label: 577 Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Reeling; Peurgh; For Pauline; Slip; Trollo; Meloose; Twelveses; Leavenses; Slimpets; Parakeet Pete; Syncope; Lighthousing; Percy Patsy; Dotses; Slinks; Goodbyesing.
Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians)

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Indistinguishable from Magic; Sea No Shore; Ensemble Equals Together; Leaving the Classroom of a Beloved Teacher; Ecstatic Baobabs; Optimism of the Will.
John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2021

by John Sharpe
Whether due to pent up creative energy or release schedules making up for lost time, more terrific music has come my way than for several years, in spite of the last twelve months. From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2021, here are ten new issues (in the order I came across them), ...