Friday, December 26, 2025

Serious Series 2025

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By Paul Acquaro FRIDAY It's a full house at the Exploratorium, a performance space tucked away in Berlin's bu...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Free Jazz Collective's Top Albums of 2025

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  Jazz (c)  David Monaghan Compiling top 10 lists is a nerve...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Two Trios

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By Paul Acquaro    Two trios - both drums, bass and saxophone but taking their own distinct approaches to making creative, inqu...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Phil Haynes & Free Country - Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz, 2025)

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by Gary Chapin Free Country is a Phil Haynes (drums) project, with Drew Gress (bass), Jim Yanda (guitar), and Hank Roberts (c...

Almufaraka – Master of Disorder (Circum-Disc, 2024)

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By  Fotis Nikolakopoulos Using the voice as a main instrument is not something new obviously. Using three voices (here by G...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Camila Nebbia ft. Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok - A reflection distorts over water (Relative Pitch Records, 2025)

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By Ferruccio Martinotti Five minutes to midnight but thanks to a record like this, the game of the 2025 Top Ten is still up, clear ...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Jim Hobbs and Timo Shanko - The Depression Tapes (Relative Pitch Records, 2025) *****

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By Don Phipps When one thinks of great sax-bass collaborations, a few albums stand out: 1977’s Soapsuds, Soapsud...
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Christer Bothen - L'INVISIBLE (Thanatosis Produktion, 2025)

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By Don Phipps Clarinetist and composer Christer Bothen’s L’INVISIBLE (in English - the hidden, unseen, or invisible) is a fascina...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Lingyuan Yang – Cursed Month (Chaospace Records, 2025)

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By Nick Ostrum Cursed Month  is the first release by guitarist Lingyuan Yang’s trio with pianist Shinya Lin and drummer Asher Herz...

Anna Högberg Attack - Ensamseglaren (Fonstret, 2025)

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By  Ferruccio Martinotti Emerged from the Viking Cauldron of the Fire! Orchestra, Anna Högberg was one the most exhilarating potio...