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Angelica Sanchez: Jazz Keys and Nighttime Creatures
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On pianist and composer Angelica Sanchez, who joined us late last year to discuss her latest record, Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic Records).Since moving to New York from Arizona in 1994, Angelica has collaborated with artists including Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Richard Davis, Tim Berne, Ben Monder, and many others.
Tomos Williams: An Absolute Riot! Risings, Race And Identity In Wales
by Ian Patterson
Threads. They wind their way through history, overlapping, interconnecting and sometimes weaving strange and powerful narratives that never really end, but simply grow and evolve. In 2020, half a millennium after the first transatlantic slave ships set sail from Europe to Africa, cheering protesters in Bristol, England, dumped the statue of slave trader Edward ...
Tomos Williams: Cwmwl Tystion II: Riot!
by Ian Patterson
Billowing clouds of black smoke dominate a blood-red backdrop. From the cover alone, it is clear that trumpeter/composer Tomos Williams has something extra-musical to say. The Welsh language project name--Cwmwl Tystion means 'witness'--and the English title-- Riot!--writ large, expel any doubt. Inspired by events both famous and infamous in Welsh history--workers revolts, pogroms and race riots--this ...
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music
by Eric Gudas
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards403 pagesISBN: #9781524749071Alfred A. Knopf 2023 In the early 1970s, Henry Threadgill--composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, inventor of the hubkaphone, Vietnam veteran, and all-around Proteus (in Ovid, the god “who always changes") of Black music and ...
A Compilation Of New Releases From 2023 Including Cory Wong, Jizue And Matteo Mancusco
by Len Davis
Continuing our wrap of 2023 new releases including Wadada Leo Smith, Jizue, Cory Wong, Funky Knuckles and Marriage Material.Playlist Echoes of Zoo “Lizard Dance" from Speech of Species (W.E.R.E) 00:00 Wadada Leo Smith “Muhammad Ali and George Forman Rumble in Zaire" from Fire Illuminations (Kabel) 05:52 Cory Wong “Stomping Grounds" from The Power Station ...
Fire Illuminations
Label: Kabell Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Ntozake; Muhammed Ali's Spiritual Horizon; Fire Illuminations Inside Light Particles; Tony
Williams; Muhammed Ali and George Foreman's Rumble in Zaire Africa.
Free Acoustic Supergroup
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Im Strahlen der Trabanten; Spridriger Feuertunkel, Taffft!; Globalhirtenrider: Eyes & Gliss;
Streichprafater, Zug von Zungenstuhl; Graben jetzt!, alle auf nach Stoirihondur, neun kleine
Feten geh’n…; Versandete Trompeten; Zarte Klaster drüber Winde ’steh’n (Quintett No. 1);
Conference At Olli’s (Black Music GDR); Am Baustrand; Briedwaht, Kleiheuer, Stuff
(Zeitungszeugen lesen heuer Körner); 2 Trios In The Street (Microphistical Klee der Raben);
Throughout The New Mississippi Freedom Train, Mister Borgenthal Jumps Into The Rhythm Of
Tastoraster In Gloria, Calms Down And Finally Vanishes; Chiclin Berago (von Axelleo da
Schmidt-Wödarner); Garten Rüben oben, Stoirihondurando zehn; Langer Brueder Feitendarm?
(American Successfully Amplified); Klonkern, wieder Ulmanach; Morning Hours Without Rice,
But Rice (Haschbender Russenkatze); End Of the Night, Enlighted Days Beyond (The Golden
Trio’s Todeshymne); Orgel-Laib am Bein.
Chimaera
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Le pavot rouge; La joubarbe aragnaineuse; Partout des prunelles flambolent; La Chimère aux yeux verts; Annâo; Le
sabot de Venus.
Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by Dan McClenaghan
The top jazz recordings of the year in the order (more or less) that they came in the door. Concerning the recorded jazz offerings in in 2023, we could quote Frank Sinatra singing Ervin Drake's lyrics in the 1966 Grammy winner: “It was a very good year." It is difficult to pick a favorite. These are ...
Troy Dostert's Best Releases of 2023
by Troy Dostert
With a steady supply of fantastic music, 2023 offered an abundance of riches to fans of creative jazz. With groups spanning the gamut from small combos to large ensembles, there is a good deal of diversity on offer here, but what these artists all have in common is an uncompromising commitment to making music that transcends ...
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