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Raymond MacDonald

Raymond MacDonald is a saxophonist, composer and academic whose work explores the boundaries and ambiguities between what is conventionally seen as improvisation and composition. Much of his recent performing work has been in collaborative free improvisation contexts, however his roots in jazz and pop music are always evident in his playing and writing. MacDonald collaborates widely and has worked with visual artists, dancers, writers and filmmakers and has produced music for film, television, theatre and the concert hall. MacDonald has worked internationally with many of the current pioneers in avant-garde music including the sublime US pianist Marilyn Crispell, German drummer Günter ‘Baby’ Sommer, David Byrne, Damo Suzuki from Can, Nurse with Wound, German trumpeter Axel Dorner, US trombonist and educator George Lewis, Japanese Percussionsist Tatsuya Nakatani, US percussionist Michael Zerang, US cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm

Dreamtime

By Andy Alston

Label: Velvet Coast Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: In With a Chance; In for the Kill; It Shouldn't Take so Long; In the Web; Just in Time; What's Right Is Right; Get It!; Peaceland; Jeanette; The Love Inside; No Show; Right Time; Narsicuss; Hanky Panky; Bye Bye Blackbird

Arun Ghosh, John Pope Quintet, Manon McCoy, And More

by Colin Muirhead
September 5, 2026

Colin Muirhead previews the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music with festival producer and artistic director Wesley Stephenson. Featuring music by festival acts Arun Ghosh, Get The Blessing, John Pope Quintet, Alex Hitchcock, Manon McCoy, Zoe Rahman, and more. Playlist Arun Ghosh “Hanji!" from Seclused in Light (camoci records) 0:00 Wesley Stephenson “Interview, ...

Marilyn Crispell: Fearless, Deeply Sensitive and Shaping the Moment

by Dean Nardi
April 30, 2025

As Marilyn Crispell talked about her multitude of recent recordings, either solo or with this trio or that quartet, she mentioned needing to pack her bags before going out on tour. She has lived in Woodstock, New York since 1977 and is comfortable there. “When I'm at home, not out recording, I look out in the ...

Alister Spence: Whirlpool

by Karl Ackermann
July 24, 2020

Australian jazz pianist and composer Alister Spence has led his own trio for twenty years, picking up regional ARIA best jazz album nominations for Flux (2003), and Mercury (2006), both on the Rufus label. Spence has led the ensembles Clarion Fracture Zone and Wanderlust and was an early member of the Australian Art Orchestra. He is ...

Paul Plimley, Evan Parker & Denis Fournier

by Maurice Hogue
August 21, 2019

This show marks the one-year anniversary of publishing One Man's Jazz on All About Jazz's radio section, and we're taking a decided dip into the “deep end" of the improvisation pool. There's lots of avant-garde, experimental, free form, free improv on the bill. Is it “noise," is it the future? That's for the listener to decide, ...

Sensaround: Heart/Noise

by Karl Ackermann
August 6, 2019

Sensaround is an electro-acoustic trio of Australian and Scottish lineage, co-led by the familiar names of Alister Spence and Raymond MacDonald and the less recognized Shoeb Ahmed. Heart/Noise is the group's third release following the 2014 Isotropes (hellosQuare recordings). The music defies categorization, combining--as the musicians describe it--"jazz ambience, ghostly dub, and post-punk experiments...." It is ...

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra featuring Marilyn Crispell and Evan Parker: Parallel Moments Unbroken

by Matt Parker
May 4, 2019

For this album, living legends in the world of improvised music Marilyn Crispell and Evan Parker joined the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra as featured soloists in these recordings of two separate live performances of the same composition (hence the duplication of some track titles). Parallel Moments Unbroken was written by GIO founding member Raymond MacDonald, and commissioned ...

Alister Spence / Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe: Imagine Meeting You Here

by Karl Ackermann
January 10, 2019

On the heels of a monthly release year, celebrating her sixtieth birthday, Satoko Fujii takes no break as she dives into a new year. Imagine Meeting You Here is a five-part suite for Fujii's improvising Orchestra Kobe. The compositions are by pianist Alister Spence, who acts as producer and conductor of the fifteen-member ensemble. The suite ...

Parallel Moments Unbroken

By Raymond MacDonald

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Parallel Signs (e); Parallel Signs (f); Interlude; Parallel Loops; Parallel Melbourne; Parallel Moments; Parallel Songs; Parallel Signs (a); Parallel Signs (b); Parallel Signs (c); Parallel Signs (d); Parallel Signs (e); Parallel Signs (f); Interlude; Parallel Loops; Parallel Melbourne; Parallel Moments; Parallel Songs