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Harvey Sorgen

Harvey Sorgen, Hot Tuna's sizzling drummer, started playing drums and percussion instruments in 1964. His mastery of many styles-jazz, rock, funk and pop-is evident on recordings and gigs with Ahmad Jamal, Robbie Dupree, Roswell Rudd, Dry Jack, Bill Frisell, NRBQ, The Mallards (his own group) and many others, including Hot Tuna. Harvey's taught, performed his own compositions, traveled all over the world (including a two-year stint in Holland) and served as a sound engineer and producer. He has also written and performed pieces for film and the stage, including a solo percussion piece for the New Day Repetoire Theater’s version of “Antigone”

Forest

By Marilyn Crispell

Label: FSR Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Forest; Overtones; Woolf Moon; Sandscape; Garden; Dulcimer; Borders; Air Dissolves; Rememberance; Green.

Marilyn Crispell/Harvey Sorgen, The Young Mothers & B.B. King

by Maurice Hogue
December 9, 2024

If you haven't heard the piano trio, Dreamstruck (Marilyn Crispell, Joe Fonda & Harvey Sorgen), put them on your must-listen list. Highly original and free wheeling playing make their two releases much appreciated. Crispell and Sorgen decided to continue making magic as a duo on the new Forest, now available, and it's one of the feature ...

Marilyn Crispell & Harvey Sorgen: Forest

by Mike Jurkovic
November 4, 2024

In whatever stage, studio or musical environment these two supremely gifted improvisors find themselves, their talk is never anything other than bone-set honest. And as clarifying and compelling as so much of the duo's previous decades of recordings have been--preternatural recordings that include Anthony Braxton, Ahmad Jamal, Paul Simon, Cecil Taylor, Karl Berger and Joe Fonda--Forest, the ...

Live At Sweetwater / Live At Sweetwater Two / Live In Japan

By Hot Tuna

Label: Mercury Studios
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: January 27, 1992: Whinin’ Boy Blues; Great Change; Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out; I Know You Rider; Embryonic Journey; Trouble In Mind; Bank Robber; I See The Light; I’ll Be There For You; True Religion; I Belong To The Band; Maggie’s Farm; That’s All Right Mama; Been So Long; Genesis; Ice Age; Praise The Lord And Pass The Snake. CD 2: January 28, 1992: Hesitation Blues; Dime For Beer; Trial By Fire; Death Don’t Have No Mercy; 99 Year Blues; San Francisco Bay Blues; Too Many Years; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Ain’t Got No Home; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl; Walkin’ Blues; Third Week In The Chelsea; My AK-47; Parchman Farm; Folsom Prison Blues. CD 3: Walkin’ Blues; Parchman Farm; True Religion; Been So Long; Uncle Sam Blues; Vampire Woman; Follow The Drinking Gourd; Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning; Let Us Get Together; Third Week In The Chelsea; 99 Year Blues; Ice Age; San Francisco Bay Blues; Folsom Prison Blues; Mann’s Fate.

With Grace In Mind

By Marilyn Crispell

Label: FSR
Released: 2022
Track listing: A Moment in the Shade; For Ornette; MGJ; We All Make Mistakes; Drum(s); With Grace In Mind; Transits; Midnight; GS#2; Speak Up; Gary's Tune.

Dreamstruck, Jon Irabagon, Jesse Morrow & Clean Feed Releases

by Maurice Hogue
November 28, 2022

One of the memorable piano trio releases of 2022 should be With Grace In Mind from the trio Dreamstruck. Marilyn Crispell, Joe Fonda & Harvey Sorgen are among the finest at their craft and together they create original music from original ideas. Also on the playlist this week, Jon Irabagon's steamin' quartet, several albums from Italy ...

Steve Tintweiss, Chad Taylor Trio & Dan Rosenboom

by Maurice Hogue
November 7, 2022

This episode touches on current releases from artists like Chad Taylor, Dan Rosenboom, English drummer Tom Skinner, French free jazz saxophonist Roland Devocelle, Swiss saxophonist Christoph Irniger with the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and Germany's AAAPUZ, but it also takes a look back to the earlier free jazz scene of the 70s in New York with music ...

Dreamstruck: With Grace In Mind

by Mike Jurkovic
September 25, 2022

With over one hundred and twenty-five years of gigging and recording between them, one might rightfully argue that pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Joe Fonda, and drummer Harvey Sorgen have said, played, performed, and heard everything that needs be said, played, performed, and heard. The argument could continue that the trio-- Dreamstruck-- have individually and collectively contributed ...

First Mile

By Chuck Lamb

Label: I Am Them Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Pumpkin Eater; Song For You; Embryonic Journey . . .For Frank KImbrough; Codivity; Borealis; Street Fair: Then Step In.