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PNY Quintet: Over the Wall

Read "Over the Wall" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


PNY è l'acronimo che unisce Parigi e New York. All'insegna di tale tracciato avviene l'incontro che sta all'origine di questo CD, sfociato nella registrazione di Over the Wall. Anche se l'album è a nome collettivo, e se nell'ordine dei musicisti elencati in copertina sono in prima fila i ben noti Steve Swell e Rob Brown, una ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Saxophones: Warne Marsh, Sonny Rollins, and the Microscopic Septet

Read "Saxophones: Warne Marsh, Sonny Rollins, and the Microscopic Septet" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show, from June 15, 2021, is an all saxophone (plus flute and clarinet) program. Players featured include Warne Marsh, Sonny Rollins, Frank Wright, Joe Henderson, and The Microscopic Septet. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

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Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024

Read "John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024" reviewed by John Sharpe


From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2024, here are the ten new issues and three gems saved from obscurity, which gave me the most pleasure. As always these selections are entirely subjective, and take no account of the many other albums which I would no doubt have loved if I had heard ...

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Oblongata

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2024
Track listing: 501 Memo; Who Goes There; Roxanne; Steepening Curve; Waving Around The Corner; Oblongata; Interjection; Stills; Piling On.

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Over the Wall

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dances with Questions; Hop, Skip and Jump; Dawn; Chance Upon; Nexus; Fauns and Wizards; New Orleans; Over the Wall; Round Trip; Prévert Is Now; For Frank Lowe; Dusk.

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Good News Blues

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Good News Blues; Something; Cambiar; 45 Hours / New Piece.

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Article: Album Review

Karen Borca: Good News Blues

Read "Good News Blues" reviewed by John Sharpe


Pioneering jazz bassoonist Karen Borca has had to wait a long time for her leadership debut. It arrives courtesy of the adventurous Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint, compiled from archival recordings of two appearances at New York City's fabled Vision Festival. But that is not to say that she does not have a weighty resume. An acolyte of ...

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Article: In Pictures

Vision Festival 2024

Read "Vision Festival 2024" reviewed by Luciano Rossetti


A collection of photos from the Vision Festival 2024 in Brooklyn at the Roulette Theatre, from June 18 to June 23, 2024 featuring William Parker, James Brandon Lewis, Dave Burrell, Matthew Shipp, Orrin Evans, Darius Jones, Ingrid Laubrock, Jen Shyu, Ava Mendoza, James Blood Ulmer, Amina Claudine Myers, Isaiah Collier, Marshall Allen Sun Ra Arkestra, Rob ...

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Article: Album Review

Rob Brown Quartet: Oblongata

Read "Oblongata" reviewed by John Sharpe


Although reedman Rob Brown has a string of small group leadership outings to his name, dating back to his first, Breath Rhyme (Silkheart) in 1990, Oblongata may be one of his finest. The 2022 studio session reunites him with some of his most enduring collaborators, the same crew responsible for From Here To Hear (Rogue Art, ...

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Article: Album Review

Rob Brown: Oceanic

Read "Oceanic" reviewed by John Sharpe


Solo albums for single-line instruments such as the saxophone always present a challenge. One that many but not all rise to meet. For New York City reedman Rob Brown, Oceanic is only the second such document in a career stretching back some 35 years, following an obscure CDR-only release, Silver Sun Afternoon (Nolabel, 2003). Over that ...


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