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Xavier Charles

New Music From Felipe Salles, Robin Nitram, Rudy Royston And More

by Bob Osborne
June 1, 2023

Featured on this week's show are new releases from Felipe Salles, Robin Nitram, Rudy Royston, Duncan Hopkins, Soft Machine, Mark Dresser, Xavier Charles & Eric Normand, Michael Formanek, Marc Ducret, and Pat Thomas with Chris Sharkey & Luke Reddin-Williams.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Robin Nitram “African Birds" from Sugar Free (Ramble Records) 00:47 Rudy Royston ...

Avis Aux Réacteurs

By Xavier Charles

Label: Inexhaustible Editions
Released: 2018
Track listing: Entrée............. Compresseur............. Combustion............. Turbine............. Réducteur............. Tuyère............. Poussée.

John Butcher

by John Eyles
November 9, 2018

In the Building a Jazz Library article on Evan Parker, it says that seasoned Parker followers would describe him as the finest improvising saxophonist of his generation. Curiously, many of those same people would use exactly that phrase about John Butcher. The simple explanation for this apparent contradiction is that we are talking about two generations; ...

Flux Reflux

By Xavier Charles

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Début; Flux; Reflux; Interlude; Ce que le vent d'ouest n'a pas vu; Fin

Platform: Flux Reflux

by Glenn Astarita
October 19, 2017

French clarinetist Xavier Charles along with three inventive Norwegian instrumentalists acutely align their imaginative powers amid a curiously interesting soundstage, steeped in free-form minimalism, ambience, layered tonal shadings and so on. Fractured storylines, along with oddball tunings and Charles' multidimensional phrasings and acoustic effects may fake the listener into thinking the program contains electronics ...

Hamid Drake Carte Blanche at Bimhuis Amsterdam: PUNKT+ICP

by Henning Bolte
February 4, 2016

Hamid Drake, Punkt + ICP Bimhuis Carte Blanche Amsterdam January 23, 2016 World-renowned Amsterdam Bimhuis invited illustrious Chicagoan drummer/percussionist Hamid Drake for a carte blanche night on January 23rd. This article covers the event and adds some background notes. Hamid Drake frequently performs at this venue. To date he played ...

Take Five With Eric Normand

by AAJ Staff
July 25, 2013

Meet Eric Normand:Eric Normand is a composer, improviser, bassist, instrument designer, singer-songwriter, and a record and concert producer. He defines himself as an inter-disciplinary musician--a free electron driven by its yearning for meetings. In his book, composition cannot exist without exchange since composition consists of setting up a territory that will facilitate improvisation.

Gaycre (2)

By Xavier Charles

Label: Metropolitan
Released: 2012

Tsstt!

By Xavier Charles

Label: Metropolitan
Released: 2012