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Sam Gill

Born: May 29

Sam Gill is a saxophonist, improviser & composer based in Sydney, Australia. He leads the groups Coursed Waters & Scattered, is a member of the composer-performer collectives Mind on Fire & Microfiche, and has duo projects with electric bassist Joseph Franklin and drummer Simon Barker.

Sam has performed with a number of Australia's most acclaimed improvisers including Chris Abrahams, Chris Hale, Marc Hannaford, Matt McMahon and Scott Tinkler. He has also worked with the Australian Art Orchestra and world-music ensemble Mara!, and is a member of Yutaro Okuda Quintet and Nick Calligeros' Soft Spot.

Music From Favourite Recordings of 2025

by Maurice Hogue
January 12, 2026

Aside from the two opening tracks from South African drummer Asher Gamedze's upcoming release, A Semblance Of Return, the rest of this show features a track from each of the 25 favourite recordings played on One Man's Jazz in 2025. These were chosen from recordings released by artists from almost 40 different countries. It was a ...

Sensemaker

By Sam Gill

Label: Earshift Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Scree; Imminent Liminal; Abundance; Warp Thread; Sensemaker; Double Down

Elysian Fields, Zeitgeber, Kate Wyatt, Rin Seo Collective & more

by Marek J. Śmietański
December 13, 2025

Episode 119th of Jazz Crumbs wraps up the October releases. After the European chapter in episode 118th, we travel to the rest of the world. The sound is calmer and less experimental this time, with clear nods to tradition. There are plenty of albums by artists from outside the American mainstream--Canada, Cuba, South Africa, and several ...

Amirtha Kidambi, L.A.S. Collective, Waldron/Rivers & Pat Thomas

by Maurice Hogue
December 1, 2025

I haven't done a three-hour show for a while, but with all the new stuff coming in, it was an easy task. Several live recordings highlight this one: vocalist and provocateuse Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones are live in Vilnius Lithuania; the Polish L.A.S. Collective featuring trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz are live at Café Oto in London ...

Peter Evans, Shawn Lovato, Flyways & Mali Obonsawin

by Maurice Hogue
November 12, 2025

Peter Evans' new Ars Ludicra with his quartet Being & Becoming is a perfect example of how Evans has become one of the creative world's most captivating trumpeters. His music is filled with “unexpectations" and surprises. Don't pass up this recording. Preview tracks from upcoming albums should entice you too--bassist Shawn Lovato's Biotic & Flyways' Mutualism ...

Sam Gill, Federico Calcagno, Scofield/Holland & Perelman/Anderson

by Maurice Hogue
November 5, 2025

Sydney Australia saxophonist Sam Gill's new Sensemaker with his band Coursed Waters is one of the best things I've heard this year, and there are a hell of a lot of excellent recordings, so definitely colour me impressed. Sam's music sounds like it's coming out of the Berlin-New York free jazz axis. Right there also is ...

Afterimage

By Sam Gill

Label: Radial Sounds
Released: 2020
Track listing: A Shimmering (Airborne); Sometimes They Rest On The Riverbed; Silent Centre; Afterimage

Still, Vol. 1: duo & trio music

By Sam Gill

Label: Radial Sounds
Released: 2020
Track listing: Drawn Towards the Light; Harmatia I. Lectio; Harmatia II. Meditatio; Harmatia III. Oratio; Harmatia IV. Contemplatio; Still II: Mei; Deloomed; Fields of Stone

Perspectival

By Sam Gill

Label: Radial Sounds
Released: 2020
Track listing: Now, the Dancing Coins; Linger; De Chirico & Lygra; A Thought that Permeates; Scattered & Room to Move.