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Marshall Allen, Leiba Trio & Gold Mother
by Maurice Hogue
Lights On A Satellite is a fitting title for an album celebrating the 100-year-old miracle, saxophonist Marshall Allen, the mainstay of Sun Ra's legacy. His continuing direction of the Sun Ra Arkestra puts him right up there beside Planet Ra. Other new releases sampled in this episode come from a very worthy Leiba Trio from Argentina ...
New Music From Feifke, Angelis, Ishito And More
by Bob Osborne
It's all new releases on this edition of the show. There are a couple of releases each from the excellent Gauci Music and Giant Step Arts labels. There is an abundance of fresh talent on display coupled with some more established players working in new combinations. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Steven Feifke Invitation" from ...
Shabaka, Satoko Fujii, John Nau and Catherine Sikora
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Shabaka, Satoko Fujii, John Patitucci as well as a meditation from soprano saxophonist Catherine Sikora. For jazz adjacent music we feature composers Julia Wolfe and Joseph Daley. Playlist Satoko Fujii Natsuki Tamura Ramon Lopez" Yama Kawa Umi" from Yama Kawa Umi (Not Two) 0:00 Sun Ra" Lights on a Satellite" from ...
Marilyn Crispell/Harvey Sorgen, The Young Mothers & B.B. King
by Maurice Hogue
If you haven't heard the piano trio, Dreamstruck (Marilyn Crispell, Joe Fonda & Harvey Sorgen), put them on your must-listen list. Highly original and free wheeling playing make their two releases much appreciated. Crispell and Sorgen decided to continue making magic as a duo on the new Forest, now available, and it's one of the feature ...
Ivo Perelman / Aruán Ortiz / Ramón López: Ephemeral Shapes
by Hrayr Attarian
For over three decades innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman has been a stalwart of the creative music scene. Each addition to his impressive, and uniformly superb, discography is a unique expression of spontaneity that bears his indelible stylistic mark. One of the reasons for Perelman's success is his uncanny ability to find like-minded collaborators. The introspective Ephemeral ...
Joe Fonda, Jesper Zeuthen, Jose Lencastre & Rodrigo Amado
by Maurice Hogue
Bassist Joe Fonda's new Eyes On The Horizon is a must listen. He turned to musicians he has great familiarity with--pianist Satoko Fujii, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Tiziano Tononi--to create a tribute to Wadada, his former teacher and mentor. This is uncompromising music. There are several new albums by saxophonists in this edition that ...
Jason Robinson, Sanchez / Guy / Lopez, Vehicle / Passenger & Jeff Lederer
by Maurice Hogue
Multi-reedist Jason Robinson's second volume of music composed in honor of his ancestors maintains the same power and emotion as the first and both albums are among the best releases of 2024. Fellow saxophonist Jeff Lederer's new Guilty! has a political slant, and it delivers a message that many of us are waiting to hear, while ...
Ivo Perelman: What A Year In Music
by Mark Corroto
There is an adage in the music world that one is damned to be a completist. Ever since performances have been captured on cylinders, records, and now digitally, music devotees have endeavored to collect entire catalogs of their favorite musicians or ensembles. Think about the obsessive hunters of 78 rpm blues records from backwoods artists of ...
Bassdrumbone, Kim Cass & Ivo Perelman
by Maurice Hogue
Ever heard of fartlek"? It's a method of training for runners where they can play around with their speeds, very unstructured. That's sort of what this episode of One Man's Jazz turned out to be--all over the place in terms of style, tempos, musical variations and origins in the albums debuting. For instance, the Southeast Asian ...
Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii: Aloft
by Dan McClenaghan
A lot of ink has poured from the pens of jazz writers in ruminations on the art of Satoko Fujii. With over a hundred album releases under her name and under the names of various groups she has led, she has given the scribes plenty to listen to and write about. Solo albums, big band albums ...


