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Phill Musra: Solo Performance as Spiritual Healing 6 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
There is a term among record collectors that I’ve never really felt an alliance with, though I enjoy the music: “spiritual jazz.” I suppose it defines the music made in the wake of John Coltrane’s dea...
Ivo Perelman: The Indisputable Truth of Process (An Interview) 28 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman (b. 12 January 1961, São Paulo) is one of the busiest improvisers on the modern creative music scene. He has recorded dozens of albums as a leader, often with collaborat...
Live in Brooklyn: Ethiopian Pianist Girma Yifrashewa 11 Jun 2013 | 09:19 am
New Yorkers got a rare treat on Saturday, June 8, 2013 when Ethiopian pianist-composer Girma Yifrashewa presented two sets of music at Issue Project Room’s downtown Brooklyn performance space. Curated...
A Long Chat with Drummer, Composer and Bandleader Mike Pride 8 Jun 2013 | 02:05 am
The landscape of improvised music is nothing if not a celebration of diversity. With the most engaging musicians, it’s not so much of a “look and see all the things I do” approach but a natural inclin...
Vinyl Spring: Recent Releases and Reissues 7 May 2013 | 02:12 am
JOACHIM BADENHORST The Jungle He Told Me (Smeraldina-Rima) While Belgian reedman Joachim Badenhorst might not be mentioned often in avant-garde circles, that should soon change. He’s already impresse...
Joe Morris Curates Two Weeks at New York's The Stone (January 2013) 18 Apr 2013 | 10:36 am
This text had a few lives and was slated for a couple of different publication possibilities that, in the end, didn't work out. Coupled with some time-quotient issues, it is belatedly seeing its first...
An Interview with Drummer Clifford Barbaro 29 Jan 2013 | 11:18 am
You may have witnessed drummer Clifford Barbaro playing at Smalls Jazz Club in pianist Kyoko Oyobe's trio or, alternatively, BopJuice co-led by tenorman Ralph Lalama. But Barbaro is infrequently spotl...
Music Briefly Reviewed: 2012 Fin 1 Jan 2013 | 05:23 am
AYCH As the Crow Flies (Relative Pitch) Aych is an extraordinary trio comprised of altoist Jim Hobbs, brass multi-instrumentalist Taylor Ho Bynum, and guitarist Mary Halvorson, all of whom comprise...
Things We Like #3 - (Some of) The Best of 2012 12 Dec 2012 | 11:47 pm
It’s getting a little tougher each year to pick favorites, because of the sheer amount of excellent music that’s available, both new and reissued. Below you’ll find my non-hierarchical, alphabetized l...
Huseyin Ertunç Trio performing Phill Musra's "The Cretor Spaces" (Musiki - Intex, 1974) 30 Nov 2012 | 11:51 pm
A new world of improvisational freedom opened up for me when I first heard drummer Huseyin Ertunç's 1974 LP Musiki (Intex), with reedmen/multi-instrumentalists/brothers Phill Musra and Michael Cosmic....
