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Tom Weeks
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Tom Weeks is a composer, improviser, and saxophonist from Oakland, CA. He has received a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, and a Master's degree in Composition from Mills College, Oakland, CA. He has studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Adams, Richard Evans, and Phil Wilson, among others. His music is influenced by various African-American musical traditions, the historical avant-garde, and the heavy metal and hardcore traditions; utilizing improvisation, extended techniques, and traditional and experimental notational practices
Paranoid II
By Tom Weeks
Label: Wolfsblood
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Hate You With a Passion (for Andre Nickatina); Dummy Data; Kulture Krusaders; A New American Promise; Eleven Rings (for Phil Jackson); A Fire Upon The Deep; Gaye Sex.
Armageddon Flower, Felix Henkelhausen Quintet & Darrifourcq/Hermia/Ceccaldi
by Maurice Hogue
It seems like everyone is talking or writing about Armageddon Flower, the excellent new album by Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp's String Trio. It may well be the pinnacle of the Perelman/Shipp musical relationship, and it will no doubt be one of the more highly regarded albums of 2025. But can I throw a little light ...
Ches Smith, Ivo Perelman, Leif Berger & Dan Phillips
by Maurice Hogue
Music coming from all directions in this edition of One Man's Jazz. Drummer Ches Smith is a true chameleon these days; every album has a different theme or direction or a different band. On his new Clone Row he turns to the twin guitars of Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman to stir the pot. Saxophonist Ivo ...
Darrifourcq/Hermia/Ceccaldi, Evans/Eldh & Irène Schweizer
by Maurice Hogue
There are two mini themes running through this edition of One Man's Jazz: one is musical partners, as in the trio of Sylvain Darrifourcq, saxophonist Manuel Hermia and cellist Valentin Ceccaldi who have released but three recordings in their 13 years of trio-hood yet believe their time spent together has let them develop into one of ...
Andy Bey, Potsa Lotsa XL, Jonathan Reisin & Mary Halvorson
by Maurice Hogue
Music from several new albums is on the menu this week, including Silke Eberhard's Potsa Lotsa XL, alto saxophonist Jonathan Reisin, German bass trombonist Maxine Troglauer, This Is It! (Satoko Fujii's trio), Scottish drummer Seb Rochford's Polar Bear, bassist Andrew Schiller's solo Rumble Rubble Ripple, and a peek at Mary Halvorson's newest About Ghosts. There's more ...
Marshall Allen, Tom Weeks & David Murray
by Maurice Hogue
Live In Philadelphia, the new release by the miracle-man, saxophonist Marshall Allen, celebrates his 101st birthday on May 25. Recorded live at Solar Myth in Philadelphia, the album features Allen with Ghost Horizons, and it's one of the features by saxophonists in this episode of One Man's Jazz: David Murray's quartet goes to the birds on ...
Manala
By Rent Romus
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Maahinen (Gnome);
Loitsun lukema (Casting the Spell);
Tavoittelu (Quest);
Pohjoisen asukas (Hyperborean);
Journey to Manala part I;
Journey to Manala part II;
Journey to Manala part III;
True Finders;
Vipusen kurimus (Vipunen's Vortex);
Ilman lintu (The Bee);
