Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Richard Koloda - Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler (Jawbone Press, 2022)

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Who was Albert Ayler? That is a question that fans and musicians have struggled with for years, through generations of CDs falling in and ou...
Monday, December 05, 2022

Whit Dickey Quartet - Root Perspectives (TAO Forms, 2022)

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Pianist Matthew Shipp and drummer Whit Dickey have been recording and performing together in a wide variety of contexts since the early nine...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse! Records, 2022)

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The excellent British reed player and musical conceptualist Shabaka Hutchings plays as King Shabaka alongside keyboardist Danalogue (Dan Lea...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Miles Davis Quintet - 2nd Session 1956 Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2022)

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By 1956, trumpeter Miles Davis was in ascendence, having just signed a lucrative contract with Columbia Records. He led one of the finest ba...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

OXBOW and Peter Brotzmann - An Eternal Reminder of Not Today / Live at Moers (Trost Records, 2022)

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An inspired meeting of the minds, OXBOW is a band that plays plays a blend of noise rock, improvised music and blues while tenor saxophonist...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Jakob Bro / Joe Lovano – Once Around The Room: A Tribute To Paul Motian (ECM Records, 2022)

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Joe Lovano and Jakob Bro lead a dynamic nod to the master drummer and bandleader Paul Motian, which features compositions by the leaders and...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Thelonious Monk - Celebrating 75 Years Of His First Recordings, Revisited (ezz-thetics records, 2022)

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Brought to the attention of the jazz public in the postwar years by Blue Note Records when the label was looking to update its sound from Ne...