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Calligram Records: Chicago Meets the World
by Mark McKergow
Chicago-based Calligram Records was founded in 2023 by trumpeter Chad McCullough and saxophonist Geof Bradfield. Three years and 34 albums later, they have emerged as an authoritative and varied voice for creative jazz from the Windy City and around the world. Their output ranges from small groups to chamber jazz to lively, horn-driven soul outings. With third ...
Jun Iida: Bellflower
by Paul Rauch
Jun Iida is a stylish trumpeter who has moved around a bit, in the process taking interpretive fragments of the jazz culture in each city he has inhabited. From his native Pittsburgh, to stops in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City, he has remained connected to each through personal relationships with the local jazz communities ...
Collin Walcott, Yussef Kamaal, Max Roach, Bobby Previte And More.
by Lawrence Peryer
This episode of Rotations uses jazz as a spine but refuses to stay on it. We start with Collin Walcott's sitar-laced ECM reverie and Max Roach's 1968 post-bop intensity, move on to Bobby Previte's long-awaited return to small band writing and Randy Weston's luminous live performance at Montreux. Then it's the Belgian absurdism of Flat Earth ...
Patricia Brennan, Sylvie Courvoisier, Janek van Laak, Jeff Parker and more
by Lawrence Peryer
This hour or Rotations opens with the Oscillating Revenge of the Background Instruments, a/k/a ORBI, making their case to have the supporting players take the leads. They do it with a chamber ensemble take on a classic rock epic. From there, the episode is loaded with music from The Tonearm podcast alumni, including new work from ...
Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp, Cyro Baptista, Steve Reich and more
by Lawrence Peryer
This episode of Rotations moves across a wide stretch of creative music. It includes the interlocking bronze tones of Balinese gamelan, the fierce freedom of Ivo Perelman's latest trio, Steve Reich's hypnotic percussion cycles and the ambient sorrow of Stars of the Lid.Playlist Gamelan Yowana Sari “aERIFoRm kITE" from Gamelan Yowana Sari (Cantaloupe Music) ...
Refractions Of Miles Davis At 100
by Lawrence Peryer
This episode pays tribute to Miles Davis on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Our tribute focuses on musicians who live with the repercussions of and were in dialogue with Miles and his work.Playlist John Coltrane Quartet “Miles' Mode (Live At The Village Vanguard, November 3, 1961)" from The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings ...
Mal Wadron, Sam Rivers, Nick Fraser, Meredith Bates, and much more
by Lawrence Peryer
An hour of creative music where archival recordings and new releases share equal footing. Irreversible Entanglements and a newly surfaced 1984 Mal Waldron-Sam Rivers improvisation open the show; Alabaster DePlume, a Daunik Lazro-Joëlle Léandre-Paul Lovens trio, Work Money Death, and Nick Fraser carry the middle sets; and Vancouver composer Meredith Bates closes it out with music ...
The Bad Plus, James Falzone, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith And Many Others
by Lawrence Peryer
This hour moves through four decades of creative music, 1979 to 2026, with a Pacific Northwest thread running quietly underneath. The Bad Plus reimagine Nirvana, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith summons majestic Mt Baker, and James Falzone brings his mystical clarinet all alongside downtown New York no-wave (Material, Curlew, Laurie Anderson), a rare Palle Mikkelborg suite, and ECM ...
Jah Wobble & Evan Parker, Maria Schneider, Nils Petter Molvaer And More
by Lawrence Peryer
This week's Rotations opens with JOEYKEYSADE, whose Afro-jazz fuses Beninese-Nigerian tradition with modern composition, then moves through Jah Wobble & Evan Parker's dub-meets-free-jazz collision, Cochemea's Yaqui and Apache-rooted explorations, and Maria Schneider's American Crow. Toronto drummer Nick Fraser anchors the third set alongside Nils Petter Molvaer, and Kamasi Washington. New releases and deep cuts, connected across ...
Don Slepian, AEOLUS, Les Paul, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Chick Corea and more
by Lawrence Peryer
This episode originates from Kona, on Hawaii's Big Island, and the music follows suit. Every track this hour has some connection to the region: made in Hawaii, recorded in Hawaii, or inspired by Hawaii.We move through mid-century exotica and lounge, contemporary slack-key and ukulele, as well as a few surprises. It's a portrait of ...
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