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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Ivo Perelman / Aruán Ortiz / Ramón López: Ephemeral Shapes

Read "Ephemeral Shapes" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 3, 2024

For over three decades innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman has been a stalwart of the creative music scene. Each addition to his impressive, and uniformly superb, discography is a unique expression of spontaneity that bears his indelible stylistic mark. One of the reasons for Perelman's success is his uncanny ability to find like-minded collaborators. The introspective Ephemeral ...

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Joe Fonda, Jesper Zeuthen, Jose Lencastre & Rodrigo Amado

by Maurice Hogue
November 11, 2024

Bassist Joe Fonda's new Eyes On The Horizon is a must listen. He turned to musicians he has great familiarity with--pianist Satoko Fujii, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Tiziano Tononi--to create a tribute to Wadada, his former teacher and mentor. This is uncompromising music. There are several new albums by saxophonists in this edition that ...

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Jason Robinson, Sanchez / Guy / Lopez, Vehicle / Passenger & Jeff Lederer

by Maurice Hogue
October 29, 2024

Multi-reedist Jason Robinson's second volume of music composed in honor of his ancestors maintains the same power and emotion as the first and both albums are among the best releases of 2024. Fellow saxophonist Jeff Lederer's new Guilty! has a political slant, and it delivers a message that many of us are waiting to hear, while ...

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Ivo Perelman: What A Year In Music

by Mark Corroto
September 29, 2024

There is an adage in the music world that one is damned to be a completist. Ever since performances have been captured on cylinders, records, and now digitally, music devotees have endeavored to collect entire catalogs of their favorite musicians or ensembles. Think about the obsessive hunters of 78 rpm blues records from backwoods artists of ...

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Bassdrumbone, Kim Cass & Ivo Perelman

by Maurice Hogue
July 29, 2024

Ever heard of “fartlek"? It's a method of training for runners where they can play around with their speeds, very unstructured. That's sort of what this episode of One Man's Jazz turned out to be--all over the place in terms of style, tempos, musical variations and origins in the albums debuting. For instance, the Southeast Asian ...

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Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii: Aloft

Read "Aloft" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 13, 2024

A lot of ink has poured from the pens of jazz writers in ruminations on the art of Satoko Fujii. With over a hundred album releases under her name and under the names of various groups she has led, she has given the scribes plenty to listen to and write about. Solo albums, big band albums ...

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Ivo Perelman's Two Stimulating Albums from January of 2024: Interaction and Truth Seeker

by Hrayr Attarian
April 7, 2024

Innovative Brazilian saxophonist and master improviser Ivo Perelman is as prolific as he is imaginative. With close to 100 recordings under his belt Perelman is always pushing the proverbial envelope looking for fresh ways to express himself. Having lived in various cities around the world--and currently splitting his time between Fortaleza Brazil and New York City--Perelman ...