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John Chiodini

Feels So Good

By Jim Self

Label: Bassett Hound Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To; I Forget; Fanciful Dream; Cinema Paradiso; Feels So Good; Isfahan; Super Mario; Midsummer; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Sidewinder; Riddle of the Mode; Little Beauty; Blues Connotation.

Jim Self & John Chiodini: Back into the Future

by Doug Collette
December 9, 2024

The instrumental pairing of tuba master Jim Self and guitarist John Chiodini is an unlikely one to be sure, but the two veteran musicians have nurtured an equally uncommon chemistry. It is a musicianly dynamic so striking, in fact, that the two inspire not just each other, but the various other players to whom they extend ...

The Jim Self-John Chiodini Duo: Feels So Good

by Jack Bowers
November 21, 2024

Tuba maestro Jim Self and gregarious guitarist John Chiodini unite for the fifth time on Feels So Good, a studio date whose title neatly encapsulates its upbeat vibe. Even though it seems at first blush that the tuba and guitar should be playing in different leagues, Self and Chiodini somehow make the odd mixture work. Self ...

My America 2: Destinations

By Jim Self

Label: Bassett Hound Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Chicago; By the Time I Get to Phoenix; Kansas City; New York State of Mind; King of Route 66; Blue Bayou Bossa; I Love L.A.; Back Home in Indiana; Chattanooga Choo Choo; I Left My Heart in San Francisco; Washington Postmodern; Georgia on My Mind; S.L.O. Blues.

Touch and Go

By Jim Self

Label: Basset Hound Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Touch and Go; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Only Trust Your Heart; Amber; Ornathardy; Lament; Susanne; Prolepsis; Triangles; Whisper Not; Restless; Dig.

Daniel Hersog, Jaimie Branch, Tyshawn Sorey and Others

by Jerome Wilson
December 13, 2023

This show features 2023 releases from the Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra, Jaimie Branch, and Tyshawn Sorey as well as older music from Herbie Nichols, Chet Baker, and others. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Claudia ...

The Jim Self & John Chiodini Quintet: Touch and Go

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2023

A quintet whose front line consists of tuba, guitar and trumpet. How does that work? Quite well, actually--at least when that front line includes tuba master Jim Self, guitarist John Chiodini and trumpeter Ron Stout, ably supported by bassist Ken Wild and drummer Kendall Kay, on the Jim Self and John Chiodini Quintet's album, Touch and ...

Alex Norris, Sheila Jordan and More

by Jerome Wilson
March 29, 2023

This eclectic episode features celebrated jazz musicians such as Stan Getz and Sheila Jordan as well as lesser-known but equally strong players such as Alex Norris and Adam Larson. Playlist The Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

Jim Self: My America 2: Destinations

by Jack Bowers
January 15, 2023

Tuba maestro Jim Self's My America 2: Destinations is a successor of sorts to the album My America, recorded and released some twenty years before, also on Self's Basset Hound label. While personnel has inevitably changed (only trombonist Bill Booth returns from that earlier album), Self has employed the services of the same arranger, Kim Scharnberg—and ...