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Gnosis
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Boot; What Love; Sheep Shank; Nostalgia; Comment Section; Gnosis.
Reveal
By Russ Johnson
Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Skips; The Slow Reveal; Long Branch; REM Unit; Agnomen; Veiled Invitation; TRM; Dog Gone It; Coda.
Live at the Uptowner
By Dave Bayles
Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Fitzroy; Third Birthday (this many); Sundogs; The Illusionist's Sister; Shuffle Boil; Comanche; Quirks; Waking Hour; Horizontal Heartburn.
Quaver
Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dave’s Intro; Deep Ellum; Quaver; Nao Faz Mal; Plucky; 5 in 3; Solid Jackson.
Dave Bayles Trio: Live at the Uptowner
by Jack Bowers
Here's a rather unusual lineup for a trio: trumpet, bass and drums. Russ Johnson is the trumpeter, Clay Schaub the bassist, Dave Bayles the drummer and leader. That is rather like assembling the Gerry Mulligan quartet without inviting Mulligan. Bayles' trio was recorded live in February 2023 at the Uptowner nightclub in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it ...
Ethan Philion: Gnosis
by John Chacona
When it comes to making memorable entrances, Ethan Philion is on a par with Seinfeld's Kramer. The Chicago bassist burst into the scene with Meditations on Mingus (Sunnyside Records, 2022), an audacious debut recording on which he arranged familiar selections and deep cuts from the towering jazz bassist Charles Mingus. On Gnosis, the forces are smaller ...
Geof Bradfield Quintet: Quaver
by Jack Bowers
While tenor saxophonist Geof Bradfield's versatile Chicago-based quintet does not play “free jazz" on Quaver-- customary rhythmic and harmonic precepts underline every number--the music is explicitly adventurous and forward-looking, as Bradfield and his mates seize every chance to take flight within prescribed boundaries. All the compositions are Bradfield's, and they range from powerful ...
Russ Johnson Quartet: Reveal
by Troy Dostert
While he has appeared on seemingly countless releases as a sideman, trumpeter Russ Johnson remains chronically under-recorded as a leader. It thus comes as a cause for rejoicing whenever one sees his name at the top of a release. Thankfully, Calligram Records has helped redress that problem with Reveal, Johnson's latest offering featuring a quartet with ...
Darius Jones, Lakecia Benjamin, Teddy Edwards and More
by Jerome Wilson
This show features saxophonists such as Darius Jones, Teddy Edwards, and Lakecia Benjamin, the big band music of Horace Tapscott, and a lot more. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Henriette Muller “Memories of a ...
Meditations On Mingus
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America; Haitian Fight Song; Self-
Portrait in Three Colors; Pithecanthropus Erectus; Prayer for Passive; Resistance; Meditations on a Pair
of Wirecutters; Remember Rockefeller at Attica; Better Git It In Your Soul.
