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Album

Exude

Label: HANJI
Released: 2022
Track listing: Apollo Tokyo; Sage Advice; Arirang; Camargue; Humdrum; They Agree; Throwing Like a Girl; Diagonal Lady; Present (Improvisation); Chrysanthemum (For Kikuchi); Pannonica.

Album

March

By Tomas Fujiwara

Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Pack Up, Coming For You; Life Only Gets More; Wave Shake and Angle Bounce; The March and the Storm Before the Quiet of the Dance; Docile Fury Ballad; Silhouettes in Smoke; For Alan, Part II.

News: Event

jazzahead in New York during APAP and Winter Jazz – Meet us!

December 16, 2022

Germany as a partner country, this is a unique opportunity to promote jazz from Germany worldwide. True to the motto “Building Bridges", the pre-premier of the commissioned work around Ingrid Laubrock in New York is the perfect opportunity to build a bridge from Germany to the motherland of jazz. A delegation from Bremen will be travelling ...

Article: Year in Review

Troy Dostert's Best Releases of 2022

by Troy Dostert
December 12, 2022

Did 2022 represent a return to “normal" in the jazz world? Perhaps, although it might be more valuable to keep our eyes focused on the shifting trajectories and stylistic heterodoxies that make this music as unpredictable and surprising as ever. Releases from Steve Lehman and Eve Risser were especially noteworthy, involving pan-continental strivings that are always ...

Article: Album Review

Marc Copland Quartet: Someday

Read "Someday" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 9, 2022

Marc Copland is a former saxophonist who found his instrument artistically confining for the purposes of expressing his vision. So he called on his childhood piano training (synaptic memories intact) to make the switch to the keyboard. The results have been magic. His artistry with the 88s is second only to the late Bill Evans, and ...

Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Top Jazz Recordings of 2022

by Dan McClenaghan
December 5, 2022

The top jazz recordings of 2022, in no particular order. Justin MorellExit Music For Intelligent Life On Earth Sonic Frenzy Records A provocative and beautiful guitar and drums album. Guitarist Justin Morell has teamed with drummer Mark Ferber (see postscript concerning Ferber at the end of this article) to construct ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Irabagon: Rising Sun

Read "Rising Sun" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 14, 2022

Since his days with bassist Moppa Elliot's maddeningly inventive Mostly Other People Do the Killing, first-generation Filipino-American saxophonist Jon Irabagon has seemed to be on the periphery of the larger jazz world looking in. His big surging tone instantly and reverently recalls late era John Coltrane and has been associated with fellow adventurers Dave Douglas, Ralph ...

Article: Album Review

Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March

by Jerome Wilson
April 4, 2022

This is the second release by drummer and vibraphonist Tomas Fujiwara's unique double trio with himself and Gerald Cleaver on drums, Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook on guitar and Taylor Ho Bynum and Ralph Alessi on brass, a group that can be configured as two trios, three pairs of instruments or something in between. The sound ...

Article: Album Review

Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March

by Mark Corroto
March 16, 2022

Drummer, composer and vibraphonist Tomas Fujiwara did not set out to rebut the saying “familiarity breeds contempt," but March from his sextet Triple Double does just that. His combination of three pairs of double instruments—guitarists Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook, cornet/trumpets Taylor Ho Bynum and Ralph Alessi, plus double drummers Gerald Cleaver and Tomas Fujiwara himself—creates ...