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Tim Berne & Greg Belisle-Chi, Marta Sanchez and Matthew Shipp/Whit Dickey
by Maurice Hogue
A very mixed bag this time out with samplings from new releases by pianists Matthew Shipp (with drummer Whit Dickey), Australian Alister Spence with some European mates and Marta Sanchez; also new are releases from Tim Berne with guitarist Greg Belisle-Chi and Irish alto player Adam Nolan. You'll also hear music from some very interesting musicians ...
Tubby Hayes At The Hopbine And More
by Bob Osborne
The featured album is a classic recording of Tubby Hayes, in blistering form, live at the Hopbine in London in 1969. Alongside this there are new releases from across the jazz world from Samuel Mosching, Chris Morrisey, Mario Laginha, Martin Freiberg, Jazz Station Big Band, John Hébert, Roddy Elias, Julieta Eugenio, and Bernie Senensky. Stunning improvisation ...
Spinifex: Beats The Plague
by Mark Corroto
Finally, a band of brothers retaliates against the coronavirus. The scientists and the anti-vax antipodes have had their day. Time for some partisan guerrilla action. Okay, maybe just a pipe dream, but these nine tracks by the Amsterdam based Spinifex deliver a much needed counterattack to this diabolical infective agent. Recorded in June of ...
Rodrigo Amado Northern Liberties: We Are Electric
by Mark Corroto
The predicament with modern albums is that an album is often more than just one album. With the advent of streaming music, and compact discs before it, music expands beyond the unit we traditionally designated as side one or side two of an LP. A perfect example of this concept is We Are Electric by the ...
Rodrigo Amado Northern Liberties: We Are Electric
by Troy Dostert
By all accounts, 2021 was a very good year for Rodrigo Amado. One of the leading lights of the Portuguese avant-garde, the indefatigable tenor saxophonist first released The Field (NoBusiness), featuring his Motion Trio (with cellist Miguel Mira and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini) alongside guest pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, and Let the Free Be Men (Trost), with ...
Rodrigo Amado, Pepa Paivinen & Luca Perciballi
by Maurice Hogue
There's a distinct European flavour to this episode of One Man's Jazz. Powerhouse Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado snagged three of Norway's top improvisers Thomas Johansson, Jon Rune Strøm and Gard Nilssen) to form a new band he calls Northern Liberties, and the quartet does exactly that on the new We Are Electric. Also in this playlist ...
We Are Electric
Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Spark; Ignition; Activity; Response.
Let The Free Be Men
Label: Trost Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Resist!; Let The Free Be Men; Men Is Woman Is Man; Never Surrender.
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), ...
Hernâni Faustino: Twelve Bass Tunes
by Mark Corroto
It may come as a bit of surprise to learn Twelve Bass Tunes is the first solo recording by Portuguese musician Hernâni Faustino. Having already been heard as the anchor in the stellar RED Trio, Rodrigo Amado's Wire Quartet, José Lencastre's Nau Quartet and with musicians such as Lotte Anker, Jon Irabagon and Ernesto Rodrigues, to name ...
