Saturday, September 15, 2018

Listen now: "There's No Such Thing As Live Music - Free Jazz Festivals" on SWR2

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Listen to Martin and host Julia Neupert on SWR2 for another excellent hour of Free Jazz talk and music, this time on festivals. It'...

Kidd Jordan, Joel Futterman, Alvin Fielder, Steve Swell – Masters of Improvisation (Valid Records, 2018) ****

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By Nick Ostrum I know of Kidd Jordan because of his work with musicians from Chicago and New York (at whose Vision Festival he made...
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Friday, September 14, 2018

Solo bass - Celebrating 50 years of "Journal Violone"

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By Stef Gijssels In 1968, American bassist Barre Phillips recorded a solo bass performance as the basis for further compositions for Max...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

VWCR (Ken Vandermark - Nate Wooley - Sylvie Courvoisier - Tom Rainey) - Noise Of Our Time (Intakt Records, 2018) ****

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By Gustav Lindqvist Ken Vandermark: Saxophone, Clarinet Nate Wooley: Trumpet Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano Tom Rainey: Drums The membe...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Latest Releases of Israeli Saxophonist Albert Beger and Double Bass Player Shay Hazan

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By Eyal Hareuveni Israeli sax hero Albert Beger and double bass player Shay Hazan are soul mates. The 30 years age difference between Be...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Ben Hall’s Racehorse Names – The New Favourite Thing Called Breathing (Relative Pitch, 2018) ***½

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By Chris Haines To be honest, the first thing that drew me to this album was the cover. To be precise it was the cover of Ornette C...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Free Jazz Blog on Air: Festivals!

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Free Jazz Blog on Air: There's No Such Thing As Live Music - Free Jazz Festivals On Friday the 14th, Martin Schray will be joinin...

Improv 2014 (Peitz)

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Wurzburg, Germany based Stefan Hetzel is an art music composer, jazz piano player, cultural commentary blogger, and the creative force behi...
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BROM - Cardboard Sea (Tiger Moon Records, 2018) ***½

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By Martin Schray When you write about music you might know this: You’ve purchased an album and lis...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

J@K@L (Keefe Jackson, Julian Kirshner, Fred Lonberg-Holm) - After A Few Days (Jaki Records, 2018) ****

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By Nick Metzger After issuing a pair of outstanding tapes in 2015 and 2016 the sax/cello/drums power trio of Keefe Jackson, Fred Lonbe...