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Joe Fonda

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Joe Fonda is a composer, bassist, recording artist, interdisciplinary performer, and producer. An accomplished international Jazz artist, Fonda has performed with his own ensembles throughout the United States and Europe, and as a side man with Archie Shepp, Ken McIntyre, Lou Donaldson, Bill and Kenny Barron, Leo Smith, Perry Robinson, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Mark Whitecage, Marion Brown, and Bill Dixon. Fonda was the bassist with the renowned Anthony Braxton sextet, octet, tentet, from 1984 through 1999. Fonda also sat on the Board of Directors from 1994 to 1999, and was the President from 1997 to 1999 of the newly formed Tri-Centric Foundation

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Inspiration Opus #1

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Label: Long Song Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 6:13

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Eyes On The Horizon

Label: Long Song Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Inspiration Opus #1 (For Wadada Leo Smith); My Song Opus #2; We Need Members Opus #4 (For Wadada leo Smith); Like No Other (For Bobby Naughton); Listen To Dr. Cornell West; Bright Light Opus #5 (For Wadada Leo Smith); Eyes On The Horizon Opus #3 (For Wadada Leo Smith).

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

Read "Marilyn Crispell/Harvey Sorgen, The Young Mothers & B.B. King" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


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 ...

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Article: Year in Review

Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

Read "Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Ahh, the “Best Of" lists, when I get the privilege to tell you “what is what." For me, the releases below are not the best discs of 2024 but the ones I kept coming back to most often this past year. I certainly missed a few, as I will discover reading other AAJ contributor's best-of lists. ...

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Lawrence Peryer's Jazz & Beyond for 2024

Read "Lawrence Peryer's Jazz & Beyond for 2024" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


I very much enjoy the moment we are in for improvisatory and creative music. So many traditions are coming into contact and interacting with each other: jazz cats, indigenous practitioners, electronic music experimenters, modern composers and many others. The breakdown and blurring of genre divides and dogma is something I revel in. “Collision Music," to quote ...

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Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

Read "Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


It has been, to say the least, one hell of fright night year. But here is the music that stayed with me, through thick and thin, and all manner of human foible and political upheaval. Vijay IyerCompassion ECM Records Kris Davis

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Floros Floridis, Tyshawn Sorey & Phil Haynes’ Daydream Trio

Read "Floros Floridis, Tyshawn Sorey & Phil Haynes’ Daydream Trio" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


This episode is a truly mixed bag featuring drummer-led piano trios, the saxophone playing of a true jazz legend in Greece, live recordings from New York, and the usual music from faraway lands. Drummer Tyshawn Sorey has been hailed as one of the most important creators of our time, and his recent The Susceptible Now continues ...

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Joe Fonda: Eyes On The Horizon

Read "Eyes On The Horizon" reviewed by Mark Corroto


When a musician who is a legend himself, herein bassist Joe Fonda, creates an album of tribute music to his mentor and teacher, it is rare that that person also performs on the recording. Fonda wrote the seven compositions heard here, with five dedicated to the master musician Wadada Leo Smith. On Eyes on The Horizon, ...

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New Releases from John Donegan, The Noonan Trio & More

Read "New Releases from John Donegan, The Noonan Trio & More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


A double dozen of brand new releases which covers the wide world of jazz. North and South America, Canada, and Europe are represented. From well established musicians, through emerging stars, and recent graduates this selection effectively demonstrates the ongoing health of the jazz world. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 John Donegan Irish Sextet with special ...


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