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Wadada Leo Smith: Fire Illuminations
by Mike Jurkovic
Eighty-one year old trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith comes out flaring like Bitches Brew era Miles Davis, as Fire Illuminations jumps the funk rock from the break of the muscular conflagration “Ntozake." And the grunge jazz clips along as guitarists Nels Cline, Brandon Ross, and Lamar Smith vie, bite, sting, and quarrel over an insistent bass drum ...
James Brandon Lewis, Clean Feed, and Tomasz Stanko
by Maurice Hogue
This episode is packed with interesting new releases, starting with James Brandon Lewis and a new trio and a new label. You'll get a taste of several new albums from the latest batch from Clean Feed Records, as well as Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, Aussies Alister Spence at the piano with drummer Tony Buck (The ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Fire Illuminations
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith fronts lots of different bands and puts out lots of albums. After a busy period when he released five boxed sets, totaling 27 CDs, here he debuts his new all-star ensemble Orange Wave Electric, with the download-only offering, Fire Illuminations. As the band name implies, the sound is electric, featuring three electric ...
Favourite Recordings of 2022
by Maurice Hogue
From an extended all-ECM special last show to close 2022 to this week's favourite shows of 2022 to open a new year. And let me wish you a healthy and productive 2023 while I have the floor. I've picked out music from a goodly number of my favourite releases out of an awful lot of great ...
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris
by Giuseppe Segala
Parigi è città fatale per l'Art Ensemble of Chicago: nel 1969 fu traguardo del prodigio artistico e umano preparato negli anni precedenti da Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors e Joseph Jarman, che avevano incrociato le proprie esperienze dapprima al Wilson Junior College di Chicago, nel 1961, poi nel lavoro con la Experimental Band di Muhal Richard Abrams, ...
One Hundred Dreams Part 1
Album: Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 15:42
The Emerald Duets
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Disc 1: Litanies, Prayers and Meditations: The Prayer (For Keith Jarrett); First
Meditation from the Heart; the Beauty and the Beloved; The Uyghur in Xinjiang, China;
Rumi’s Masnavi: A Sonic Expression, Parts I - IV; A Sound Litany on Peace; The Patriot Act:
Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy; A Sonic Litany on Justice; Second
Meditation from the Heart: the Beloved, The Beauty.
Disc 2: Havana: The Patriot Act: Unconstitutional and a Force that Destroys
Democracy; Havana, the Maghrib Prayer and Reflections;United States Representative Ilhan
Omar; Jeanne Lee: In a Jupiter Mood; Donald Ayer: The Master of Sound and Energy Forms; A
Rainbow Sonic Ark for Tomasz Ludwik Stanko (1942 - 2018); Haitian Independent Nation in
1804 But Not Recognized by Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Others: A
Designed Tragedy; Mongeze Fezi.
Disc 3: Mysterious Sonic Fields: Chrysanthemum F On a Moutaintop (for
Katherein Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson; Largo: a Mysterious Love Sonic
(forShana, Robson andSarah); Louis Armstrong in New York City and Accra, ghana; Ornette
Coleman at the World’s Fair of Science and Art in Fort Worth, Texas; The Call—A Duet
Between Joseph “King” Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton; Light Garden in a Dream Space, A
Remembrance of Shaba of Ethiopia; Han Bennink on Fifth Avenue, NYC; Johnny Dyani: the
Artist who Imagined a New South Africa—a Celebration.
Disc 4: Freedom Summer: The Legacy:Sandalwood and Sage; Freedom Summer;
Meditation: A Sonic Circle of Double Piano Resonance; The Patriot Act: Unconstitutional and
a Force that Destroys Democracy; Silence, Quietness and Very Still.
Disc 5: Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains: Part I: The River of Abundance;
Part II: The Fountain of Tasnim; Part III: The Supreme Fountain; Part IV: Exaltation and Musk;
Part V: Pomegranate and Herbal Teas.
String Quartets Nos. 1-12
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Disc 1: String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982) Movements 1 - 4, String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980) 16:52; Disc 2: String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995) Movements 1 & 2, String Quartet No. 4 (1987-2001) Movements 1 – 5; Disc 3: String Quartet No. 5 "In the Diaspora - Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions" (2005), String Quartet No. 6 "Taif: Prayer in the Garden of the Hijaz" (2007), String Quartet No. 7 "Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical" (2011); Disc 4: String Quartet No. 8 "Opuntia Humifusa" (2011), String Quartet No. 9 (2001-2015) Movements 1 & 2, String Quartet No. 10 "Angela Davis: Into the Morning Sunlight" (2007-2016); Disc 5: String Quartet No. 11 (1975-2019) Movements 1 – 5; Disc 6: String Quartet No. 11 (1975-2019) Movements 6 – 9; Disc 7: String Quartet No. 12 (2016-2018) Movements 1 & 2.
Two Centuries
Label: Red Hook
Released: 2022
Track listing: For D.F.; The Curve; Spiritual Is 150; Organum; Tympanic; Bypass Decay; Palaver; Sadden Upbeat; Wraith; Halide; Orion Arm.
Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: One Hundred Dreams: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5.
