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Album

Ways

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Passageway; Breezeway; Causeway; Archway; Skyway; Byway; Away; Way.

Album

Motian Music

By Russ Lossing

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Asia; Abacus; Fiasco; Introduction; Boomerang; Dance; Etude; Mumbo Jumbo; Jack Of Clubs; Psalm.

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Steve Swell, Ziv Taubenfeld & Ivo Perelman

by Maurice Hogue
December 25, 2019

This episode carries on from the previous, playing music from a some of the important independent labels that keep creative music alive. ESP-Disk has been around, survived one crash in the 80s, and is still releasing great music. Son Of Local Colour is a 50-year-later follow up to English pianist Peter Lemer's original Local Colour album ...

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Russ Lossing Trio: The Ways

Read "The Ways" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 1, 2019

The Russ Lossing Trio should record more. Ways, which follows the excellent Oracle (hatOLOGY, 2011), is just the second recording this longstanding trio has released. More music from them would allow fans to study the development of the chemistry between Lossing, bassist Masa Kamaguchi, and drummer Billy Mintz. The instantaneous telepathy between piano, bass, ...

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Gordon Grdina, Karl Berger & Jason Kao Hwang, Byron Asher & Colin Hinton

by Maurice Hogue
October 23, 2019

Vancouver's Gordon Grdina is masterfully adept at guitar and oud, so that flexibility leads to many possibilities for playing opportunities, from jazz and improv settings to his world music group, Haram. This episode finds Grdina opening things up with music from two very recent recordings: Skin and Bones (with Matthew Shipp and Mark Helias) and Cooper's ...

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Gordon Grdina Quartet: Cooper's Park

Read "Cooper's Park" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
September 5, 2019

Since the release of his first album in 2006, Think Like the Waves (Songlines), Gordon Grdina has sought a musical language that would allow him to incorporate his dual interests in the electric guitar and the oud. It is tempting to view this as an “East meets West" process, wherein Grdina's jazz and rock-infused guitar playing ...

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Russ Lossing: Motian Music

Read "Motian Music" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
September 3, 2019

Nato a Columbus, Ohio, nel 1960, Russ Lossing è un pianista che, anche proprio per anzianità di servizio, meriterebbe certo maggior fama di quella di cui gode. Influenzato dal lessico jazzistico come dai vari Bartok, Schönberg e John Cage (col quale ha anche intrattenuto un sia pur fugace rapporto personale), Lossing ha suonato con gente importante, ...

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Quantum Trio, Baba Andrew Lamb & More

by Maurice Hogue
May 8, 2019

My music GPS keeps pointing to bassist Carlos Bica for riveting music. His new release I Am the Escaped One finds him heading in a different direction than the usual guitar trio. This time he's working with German saxophonist Daniel Erdmann and turntablist DJ Illvibe. The result is captivating. Bica is now living in Germany but ...

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Wójciński-Szmańda Quartet, Dustin Laurenzi and More

by Maurice Hogue
April 17, 2019

The underlying theme in this episode appears to be ensembles of varying sizes and styles. From Sweden, trumpeter Goran Kajfeš' quartet Tropique blends elements of groove, trance, improv, African with a Don Cherry on top in the new Into The Wild, while another quartet, the Wójciński/Szmańda Quartet from Poland, knocks down the walls of same-same with ...

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Russ Lossing, Adam Kolker and Paul Motian's "Jack of Clubs"

by Bob Osborne
April 11, 2019

This time around we focus on Russ Lossing and Adam Kolker, and feature tracks from Paul Motian's seminal album Jack of Clubs, with some fellow travellers in between, Playlist Russ Lossing “Jack of Clubs" from Motian Music (Sunnyside) 00:00 Paul Motian Quintet “Hide and Go Seek" from Jack of Clubs (Soul Note) 07:16 Gordon ...