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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Gabrielle Cavassa, Joe Lovano, Phillip Golub, Amrita, James Wengrow

by Cheryl K.
May 31, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--vocalists Eartha Kitt, Gabrielle Cavassa and Stella Heath; saxophonist Joe Lovano and his Paramount Quartet; pianists Phillip Golub and Emmet Cohen; the ensemble Tumbao Bravo with bandleader and reedman Paul Vornhagen; the ensemble Ancient Future; the duo Amrita; and guitarists Vladimir Redzic, Tomas Janzon, and James Wengrow ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Meredith Bates, Vesna Duo, Soft Machine, Oná Ensemble

by Cheryl K.
March 16, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, selections from new releases by saxophonist Ben Wendel; string experimentalist Meredith Bates; Vesna Duo (pianist Liana Pailodze Harron and percussionist Ksenija Komljenović); Soft Machine; pianist Yelena Eckemoff; the Oná Ensemble; and the Mark Wade Trio.Playlist Shirley Scott “What Makes Harold Sing?/" from One for ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New releases with Mathias Heise, Fat Master, Evan Marien, Bass Extremes and Yellowjackets

by Len Davis
July 22, 2022

New releases with Danish harmonica player Mathias Heise Quadrillion, from France fusion band Fat Master, German composer J Peter Schwalm with Swiss guitarist Stephan Thelen, New York bassist Evan Marien, from Pennsylvania, bassist Gabriel Severn with his band Teen Town, Jimmy Branly from his latest The Meeting Bobby Previte and Charlie Hunter, Bass Extremes and Yellow ...

Article: Album Review

Sonar with David Torn: Vortex

by John Kelman
May 12, 2018

It might be all too simple to explain away Sonar, the Swiss twin-guitar/bass/drums quartet now in its eighth year together, through a series of touchstones. King Crimson, by way of that band's co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft? Check. The influence of Nik Bartsch and Don Li's innovative meshing of Steve Reich-ian minimalism with deceptively complicated polyrhythmic ...